Line-up Announced for Ether Festival 2010

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Nick Miller

‘The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will be live’ – Gil Scott-Heron Ether, Southbank Centre’s annual music festival of innovation, art, technology and cross-arts experimentation, returns from 16 – 24 April this year with a mix of rock iconoclasts, rap pioneers, audiovisual experimenters and contemporary-classical innovators. This year’s festival features a very special [...]

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Watch the trailer for Shlomo’s Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Sam Dub

Here’s the trailer we’ve just finished for Shlomo and Anna Meredith’s Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra. For this project Southbank Centre Artist in Residence and beatboxer Shlomo is working with one of the UK’s hottest composing talents Anna Meredith and a specially created orchestra made up of players from Southbank Centre’s four Resident Orchestras – [...]

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Upcoming Gig: SHIFT Festival featuring Robyn Hitchcock, Graham Coxon, KT Tunstall and more

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Sam Dub

Southbank Centre Artist in Residence Cape Farewell pioneers a cultural response to climate change. Working internationally, it brings artists, scientists and communicators together to stimulate ideas and the production of art founded in scientific research. SHIFT is a festival with a climate focus inspired by Cape Farewell’s expeditions to the High Arctic and the rainforests [...]

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Post Show: Live Photos Richard Hawley at Royal Festival Hall

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Sam Dub

We’ve a beautiful set of images to share with you from Richard Hawley’s Royal Festival Hall show on Saturday courtesy of photographer Philip Ryalls.

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Final few tickets for Richard Hawley

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Nick Miller

We’ve got a final few tickets left for Richard Hawley this Saturday (23 January). His latest record,Truelove’s Gutter, was hailed by many critics as one of the outstanding albums of last year and this concert at Royal Festival Hall will be a special treat at the start of 2010. Book tickets

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Upcoming Gig: The Story of The Plastic People of The Universe

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Sam Dub

In the early hours of August 21st 1968, Soviet tanks and 175,000 Warsaw pact troops crossed the border into what was then the communist Czechoslovak Socialist Republic to crush the programme of liberal reform instigated by the newly elected President Dubček. In the month that followed, the reformer Dubček was transferred to the Slovak forestry [...]

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