It's our weekly London roundup starting with a few headlines that caught the eye in London over the last week or so, click the links for the full stories…
April is Music Month on The Daily Constitutional so this week's headlines have a strong musical flavour…
April is Music Month on The Daily Constitutional so this week's headlines have a strong musical flavour…
Compiled & Edited by Adam Scott-Goulding
DENMARK
STREET: Music Heading Back to Denmark Street? Well, sort of. The loss of both
the 12-Bar Club and the Astoria to the Crossrail project was a great blow to
live music in London. Now a new multi-purpose space – i.e one not just
dedicated to music – is to appear as part of the redevelopment…
Plans for a 280-capacity
venue in London’s Tin Pan Alley have been approved.
Designed by architects Orms,
it will join a larger 800-capacity venue that has already received planning
permission as part of the wider St Giles Circus development, scheduled for
completion in 2018
Full
story in Music Week
THE
STONES: Still Rolling, still getting up people's noses. Now they've been banned
from playing outside their new exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery:
The
band had hoped to perform a few tracks on the lawn outside the gallery, but
residents of the upmarket Chelsea neighbourhood vetoed their proposal,
according to Keith Richards.
“There
was a plan to do four or five numbers on the lawn but the Chelsea Residents’
Association poo-pooed that,” he tells Britain’s The Sun newspaper.
“How generous of them. It would have only been four or five songs.”
Full
story Noise11.
EARLY
MUSIC: Stile Antico in Seattle for Shakespeare 400…
“Emotion”
is a word that figures strongly in the vocabulary of Kate Ashby, co-founder of
the famed English early-music vocal group Stile Antico.
She
used the word at least five times while explaining why the ensemble’s April 9
concert — “The Touches of Sweet Harmony: The Musical World of William
Shakespeare” — is about far more than beguiling melodies and surface sheen.
The
award-winning, Grammy-nominated ensemble designed a Shakespeare tribute for the
400th anniversary of his death. The program marks a departure for the group
that has, up to now, mainly performed sacred music in the “old style” (“stile
antico”) of Renaissance polyphony.
The
full story in The Seattle Times is here: www.seattletimes.com
Keep
up with Stile Antico's movements here: www.stileantico.co.uk/concerts
Listen
to Stile Antico - Why do I use my paper, ink and pen, composed by William Byrd…
HERITAGE:
Sex Pistols Squat Gets Grade II Listing – The Guardian
LONDON
SOUNDTRACK: Mapping London By Sound – City A.M
MUSICAL
THEATRE: Behind the Scenes at Showboat – London Theatre
MUSICAL
THEATRE: Motown the Musical – A Review – The Stage
MUSICAL
THEATRE: 50th Anniversary Production of Hair at The Bridewell – London Theatre
DC
Catch-Up
Stories
you may have missed on The Daily Constitutional this past week…
On Monday - The DC's photoblog day – I posted a Ghosts of the Old City photoblog – shots taken around the route of our Tuesday & Saturday night ghost tour…
On Wednesday I pointed out a couple of good spots for a drink before the Jack the Ripper tour at Tower Hill in our new
I Know A Nice Little Place series. Then on Thursday I looked at tributes to London playwrights …
Friday, in the regular Rock'n'Roll
London slot, in a show of solidarity with our neighbours in Brussels, I encouraged you to check out the many record shops in that great city
Friday was also April Fool's Day – and here's the #plaque366 entry for that day…
… you can read the post HERE.
If You Do One
OTHER Thing In London…
Our weekly slot in which we point you in the direction
of other happenings and events in our great city. A new exhibition, a gig, a
museum, a pop-up-shop – the best of London within a few minutes of a London
Walks walking
tour.
It
has to be Exhibitionism, opening on the 5th April…
Here's how to find the Saatchi Gallery…
Seen in London This Week…
The short promo vid for our forthcoming Rolling Stones London tour…
Heard in London This Week…
This being Music Month on The Daily Constitutional, I've been asking London Walkers to nominate their favourite London songs. Here's the first suggestion, and what a good one it is…
— Mikko Kangasjärvi (@stufflake) April 1, 2016
Thanks Mikko.
Last word, therefore, goes to The Pogues (accompanied by my snap outside the Coach & Horses)…
— Adam Scott (@AdamScottG) December 15, 2015
London Spy will return next Saturday
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