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Three Bonzos and a Piano
Posted by Culture Vulture in Events, Live Music on March 8th, 2010
Remember the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band? Check out Three Bonzos and a Piano.
“The undisputed heavyweight champions of ‘comedy pop” (Robert Spellman, Daily Express)
Appearing at Cheltenham’s Bacon Theatre on 7th May, the show features diabolical mayhem from the largest number of Bonzos still playing together anywhere on the surface of the earth. Born in a distant art school past somewhere in the sixties, Three Bonzos And A Piano unleash their Bonzo Dog classics with energetic zip and palaver. Ali Baba’s Camel, Hunting Tigers Out In India, Big Shot, Trouser Press, The Sheik of Araby, Monster Mash, Can Blue Men Sing The Whites?, The Head Ballet and many, many more – including some great new numbers.
Robots, smoke, unsuitable medical technology, ancient theatrical props, the kitchen sink and the audience (you get to join-in!) all combine to re-create the atmosphere of those formative years of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
Book your tickets at the Bacon Theatre.
Blondie at Westonbirt
Posted by Culture Vulture in Live Music on February 8th, 2010
Blondie have announced a West Country date for the summer with an appearance at Westonbirt Arboretum on 20th June, as part of Forestry Commission Live Music, where bands perform in beautiful woodland locations around the country.One of the most significant bands of the popular music era, Blondie emerged from New York’s celebrated new wave scene producing innovative music and scoring major hits worldwide with rock/disco, reggae and hip-hop songs. Fronted by the iconic Debbie Harry, their groundbreaking material brought them a stash of hit singles including ‘Denis’, ‘Picture This’, ‘Rapture’, ‘Sunday Girl’ and ‘Hanging On The Telephone’. Few acts can match their 20 year span of No 1 hits that includes ‘Heart Of Glass’, ‘Atomic’, ‘Call Me’, ‘The Tide Is High’ and ‘Maria’. Classic recordings like ‘Plastic Letters’, ‘Parallel Lines’ and ‘Eat to The Beat’ have contributed to their 40 million + album sales to date. Blondie will release a new album, their first in six years, this spring.
Tickets cost £33.00 (subject to booking fee) go on sale at 9.00am Friday 12th February from the Forestry Commission box office tel 01842 814612 or buy online at www.forestry.gov.uk/music
See in 2010 with The Spiegel Sessions
Posted by Culture Vulture in Live Music on December 15th, 2009
We’re thrilled to announce that UK folk/punk king Frank Turner is to visit Gloucester for an exclusive live show in the Spiegeltent on New Year’s Eve.
The former Million Dead frontman has been amassing an army of dedicated fans since going it alone in 2005, and his brand of honest, from-the-heart songwriting, catchy melodies and punk passion have seen him become one of the UK’s most distinctive musical exports.
Three years of writing and touring and hard work all clicked at Reading and Leeds Festivals 2008, where inside packed out tents, heaving with adoring fans and intrigued passers-by, Frank led a mass sing-a-long with a stirring set that not only sparked the interest of the British mainstream but resonated in the US as a wealth of American punk bands watched approvingly from the sidelines.
The same year came his second album, ‘Love, Ire & Song’, picked up by just about every self-respecting alternative DJ on the music scene, plus a few of the mainstream ones. The gigs got bigger, and Uncle Sam came knocking. Frank performed at the famous SXSW Festival back in March, signed to legendary US punk label Epitaph, and is now doing really rather well over there as well, don’t you know.
His third studio album, ‘Poetry Of The Deed’, was released in September and saw Frank in rockier mode, tearing up the charts and bringing his music to that wider audience he’s deserved for so long. His UK and European tour was a sell out, and we’re thrilled to be welcoming him to perform an intimate show to a packed Spiegeltent on New Year’s Eve 2009, with special guests, surprises and much, much more.
£25 advance + booking fee, doors 8pm, over 14s, tickets from www.bristolticketshop.co.uk.
Stornoway…
Posted by Culture Vulture in Events, Live Music on November 23rd, 2009
If you like good music, you need to be at the Spiegel Sessions on the 16th Decemeber.
The excellent ‘Stornoway‘ will be rocking the tent! Click image for more info.
The Spiegel Sessions
Posted by Culture Vulture in Events, Live Music on November 6th, 2009
Coming to Gloucestershire for the first time ever- and for a limited period only… the stunning Belgian Spiegeltent! The tent is an ornate, early twentieth century travelling venue dressed with wood panelling, mirrors, stained glass and velvet-lined seating booths, and is definitely sure to be the talk of the town this Christmas! The tent will be open for business as a cafe-bar by day, and as Christmas party, show and concert venue by night.
Cotswolds Culture is pleased to announce the following Speigel Sessions:
30th November – The Damned
16th December – Stornoway
17th December – Heart Club Classic presents Abba Party with Abba Gold
18th December – The Wurzels
Full details and tickets for the gigs will be available online at www.christmasingloucester.co.uk from the 11th November.
OperaXposed
Posted by Culture Vulture in Classical Music, Events, Live Music on October 21st, 2009
The Subscription Rooms are delighted to welcome two of the most respected opera performers in the country to Stroud on Friday 23 October at 8.00pm.
Between them, Welsh baritone Mark Evans and soprano Elizabeth Donovan have sung at all the major Opera Houses and concert venues in the UK (including 75,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff), Europe, The Far East and the United States. Having sung with the likes of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Placido Domingo, with the English National Opera, the Welsh National Opera and at the Royal Opera House, the two are firmly established on the international stage.
In this new show ‘OperaXposed’ Welsh baritone Mark Evans and soprano Elizabeth Donovan brings the highest calibre performers in the operatic world into the local community to give you an evening of your favourite operatic and musical moments from Bizet to Andrew Lloyd Webber. Told and performed in a passionate, charming and humorous way that cannot fail to convert anyone to the magical world of opera.
Tickets: £14.00 (£12.00 concessions) on door from the Box Office on 01453 760900 or online from www.stroud.gov.uk/subrooms.
Sleepwalk on the Severn: the book and the performance
Posted by Culture Vulture in Events, Live Music, Theatre on June 1st, 2009
Faber & Faber’s publication of Alice Oswald’s ‘Sleepwalk on the Severn’ adds to the mystery of the River Severn and the Severn Estuary, one of Britain’s most enigmatic places.
To coincide and as part of 2009’s Severn Project, live performances of the poem have been set to voices and music by Stroud-based theatre group Taurus Voice, with music by by Pete Rosser.
An incredible place, the Severn. Britain’s longest river, was named ‘Sabrina’ by the Romans and is home to Britain’s longest tidal wave. Visitors these days head for Gloucester Docks or the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust at Slimbridge to encounter the atmosphere, history or wildlife of the area.
The sounds of the Cotswolds…
Posted by Culture Vulture in Live Music on April 17th, 2009
There’s some amazing music to be heard this summer in the Cotswolds, so we put together this very small selection for you, for more information on the music events, just click on the Live Music link below. The main events include WOMAD, Cornbury , Wychwood and Cheltenham Jazz Festival is coming up soon, covering a brilliant range of artists.
Beatbox!
Posted by Culture Vulture in Events, Live Music on April 14th, 2009
“Beardyman has taken a niche aspect of hip hop culture, human beatboxing, and turned it into a whole new artform. He’ll be combining his amazing vocal abilities with improvisational flair, a deep knowledge of music and a wicked sense of humour in a set especially created for the Jazz Festival”
To see how he does it check this out… then go see him live, Thursday 30 April 2009 at 9:00 pm, University of Gloucestershire.
WOMAD line up annouced
Posted by Culture Vulture in Events, Live Music, Theatre on March 26th, 2009
WOMAD has now announced the first names of the exciting line-up for 2009; Ethiopia’s biggest music names, The Ethiopiques, the funky, hi-Tec septet from New Zealand Fat Freddy’s Drop and US soul legend and Grammy winner Solomon Burke will be joined by his band. Also joining us this year will be Nigeria’s Afro beat singer/songwriter Nneka, another thrilling sound from Ethiopia, Dub Colossus, and two of Mali’s most talented musicians, Oumou Sangare and Rokia Traoré.
WOMAD Charlton Park is so much more than just first class world music festival and returning this year will be the popular ‘Taste the World’ tent where some of the artists will show off their cooking prowess and which, more often than not, turns into a impromptu gig. The Drum and Dance Tent will make a welcome return with early-bird yoga sessions to salsa lessons to night owl happenings. And for those who fancy a luxurious moment to themselves and a scrub up, the WOMAD spa, complete with treatments, spa pools, great showers and a cocktail bar, is the place to go.