Archive for May, 2008
Staggerin’ Round the Stag & Dagger
Forget floods, mud, manure, traffic mayhem, toilet queues and pongy portaloos. If you like your creature comforts then English festivals are best monitored from the confines of your cosy living room; snuggled up on the couch, wearing fresh underwear (yes, it’s the simple things); a cuppa tea in one hand and the television remote in [...]
The Road to V Via Islington’s Carling Academy
With the honourable reward of opening this year’s V Festival looming, the bloodthirsty battle between the 14 band finalists at Road to V has begun.
Whittled down from 2500 entrants, the chosen contestants have in recent weeks been clashing, thrashing and bashing away at the Carling Academy (in both London and Liverpool), louder than Amy Winehouse’s cry [...]
Rockin’ with Carl Barat on the Road to V
Since his shambolic, guitar-rock four-piece The Libertines inevitibly self-destructed in 2004 after two poetic/punk albums (a demise mostly thanks to co-crooner Pete Doherty: jailbird junkie and current lead songster of Babyshambles), singer, songwriter and sometime DJ Carl Barat has moved on to pastures cleaner and greener.
Memory: One at the King’s Head
Performers - past and present – at this venerable institution read like a who’s who of the theatre world: Ewan McGregor, Kenneth Branagh, Joanna Lumley, Ben Kingsley, Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, Kathy Burke, Prunella Scales: many of whose familiar, framed, black and white faces hover intently on the wall at The King’s Head in Islington, [...]
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