Bars and Clubs
Madeleine McCann's Father To Speak At Edinburgh TV Festival
The father of missing four year old Madeleine McCann will speak at this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF). Gerry McCann will be interviewed by Kirsty Wark about the use of television in the search for his daughter and the role that the media has played in his family’s tireless campaign to find Madeleine.
Walk This Way For Official UK Air Guitar Championships 2007
The Second Official UK Air Guitar Championships will be held on Friday 3 August 2007 at the Carling Academy, Islington, London with the winner sent on to represent the nation and compete in the annual Air Guitar World Championships in Finland on 7 September 2007.
Wok ‘N’ Roll - T In The Park Launches Healthy T Area
They are not names that you would usually associate with a music festival, but eight top chefs including Michelin star holder Martin Wishart, David Romanos (Head chef, Oloroso) and BBC’s The Hairy Bikers are the latest big additions to this year’s T in the Park line-up as part of the all-new Healthy T Area.
Introducing Keren Ann
EMI Records is proud to announce the first single to be taken from Keren Ann’s hugely acclaimed fifth album, ‘Keren Ann’. The track ‘Lay Your Head Down’ is but one of many gorgeous highlights to be found on the album and is accompanied by a sun-drenched, desert-based video that beautifully showcases Keren Ann’s evocative and atmospheric music. It will be released in mid-September.
Cirque Du Soleil Brings Varekai To London
Cirque du Soleil is thrilled to announce, for the first time ever, the arrival of Varekai in London in January 2008. The incomparable Varekai is completely new to the UK and will be hosted at the Royal Albert Hall for a limited time only. Plus, in another UK first, the wonder of Delirium is set to tour arenas in Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield this autumn.
A-Cig-Nations – Coming To A Pub Near You
Outdoor pub smoking areas are set to become the new hub of gossip and flirting. Smoke may not be in the air but love could be once the English smoking ban comes into force next week, a new study shows. With smokers forced to step outside to light up, smoking shelters across England are set to be the backdrop for flirtatious fellas and gossiping girls, according to research by leading pub group Greene King.
Kylie Fever Arrives At Manchester Art Gallery
The changing image of Kylie Minogue, one of the world’s most popular contemporary style icons, will be the focus of Manchester Art Gallery’s major summer exhibition. Featuring performance costumes, accessories, album covers, photographs, music and video, the exhibition will look at how Kylie, as a performer, has used her wardrobe to create an image that is known worldwide.
27th Cambridge Film Festival
Audiences hungry for engaging, diverse and entertaining cinema need look no further than the 27th Cambridge Film Festival for their summer-time fix. For eleven days in July, from 5-15, the Cambridge Film Festival returns with its audience-pleasing mix of over 200 screenings, including feature-length films and documentaries plus a huge shorts programme, offering genuine opportunities to discover unsung home-grown and international talent.
Crowded House Announce World Tour
After tantalising appearances including performing on a barge in Bristol, preceding Rage Against the Machine on stage at California’s Coachella Festival and being invited to headline the Sydney leg of Live Earth, Crowded House have announced details of their own world tour.
Pride London Returns For 35th Anniversary
35 years after Britain’s first ever Gay Pride march, Pride London has confirmed that the 2007 parade will return to Oxford Street on June 30th, following the success of last year’s event when crowds of over half a million packed the streets of London to watch the spectacular parade of celebrities, floats, and performers celebrating Europe’s largest gay and lesbian festival.
Live Earth Announces Complete London Line-Up
Metallica, Kasabian, Pussycat Dolls, and Terra Naomi are the final acts to be added to the Live Earth London line-up performing at Wembley Stadium as part of the 24-hour, 7-continent Live Earth concert series on 7 July 2007.
Julian Lloyd Webber Set To Make Beautiful Music
Acclaimed cellist, Julian Lloyd Webber, is one of an array of artists who will take to the stage for this year's Scottish celebrations of BBC Proms In The Park in Glasgow Green on Saturday 8 September 2007.
Mark Ronson Announces UK Live Dates
Mark Ronson continues to spin audiences on their axis with his Number 2, smash-hit LP ‘Version’ – one of the definitive albums of 2007. Having spent its first 4 weeks in the Top 10, it was certified Gold with sales of 200,000 in less than one month. Having also launched the Top 2 single ‘Stop Me’ - which won the Nielson award for 10,000 + plays on the BBC – he returns on July 16th with the blistering new single ‘Oh My God’ featuring Lily Allen.
Twelfth Night At Chichester Festival Theatre
From dark and bloody tragedy to love, romance and mistaken identities, the cast of Chichester Festival Theatre’s Macbeth will take to the stage again from 14 July in Twelfth Night.
Christmas parties sealed with an ‘Arctic Kiss’
It’s never too early to be thinking about Christmas and if you are tasked with planning the office party or wish to provide client hospitality with a difference over the festive season, there are still three weeks to take advantage of the London Art House’s early booking incentive – valid until 29 June - saving £15pp*.