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Hamish Stuart And The Tomorrow Band – Live Music Review
WHAT a joy to watch a relatively new band enjoying themselves under the watchful eye of one of Scotland’s funk legends. That is exactly what happened on Monday night at Pizza Express Live (Holborn) when The Tomorrow Band put together a thrilling set comprising an intoxicating mix of saxophones, booming guitars and super backing vocals.…
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Tony Kofi At The Pizza Express Jazz Club – Live Music Review
TONY Kofi is one of the country’s most loved saxophonists. Watching him play live is like enjoying an out of body experience. Your body might remain part of the audience, but your heart and soul are firmly with him on stage as he temporarily transports you to a better world. It’s as close to ecstasy…
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Beverley Skeete – Live Music Review
FEW things are guaranteed in life. But when Beverley Skeete gets on stage, one thing is for sure. Bums get off seats and hips sway like branches in a gale force wind. At The Pheasantry on King’s Road in swanky Chelsea on Thursday night (Pizza Express Live), it might have taken a while for the Skeete…
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Curtis Stigers At Ronnie Scott’s – Live Music Review
IT is nearly 30 years since American jazz singer Curtis Stigers first enjoyed chart success in the UK with the release of single I Wonder Why – followed shortly afterwards by You’re All That Matters To Me. Although much time has since rolled by, Stigers’ love affair with the UK – and with Ronnie Scott’s…
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Crowd Company – Live Music Review
IT’S BEEN a frustrating time for London soul funk band Crowd Company. Their latest album, Lowdown, was released just prior to lockdown and although it was successfully launched at a sold out Pizza Express Live in London (Soho) in February 2020, the band were then knocked sideways (like all musicians) as a result of lockdown.…
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Tertia May – Live Music Review
LIVE music – thankfully – is back with a panache. And if you want it delivered by the bucketload, Pizza Express Live Holborn (London) was the place to be on Tuesday September 21 as Tertia May confirmed her right to be considered one of Britain’s brightest musical talents. A rising star. May, who hails from…
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Sarah Jane Morris At Ronnie Scott’s – Live Music Review
THIRTY five long years have passed since the Communards had chart success with ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’. It was the best-selling single of 1986 by a country mile (one of my all-time favourites) and rightly so. Thankfully, both Jimmy Somerville and Sarah Jane Morris, comrades in arms at the Communards, have continued to enjoy…
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Be More Chill – Musical Review
Bright and fun, this incredible musical feels like a combination of films like Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Scott Pilgrim Vs the World to bring a new edge to the high school comedy. With original music and lyrics written by Joe Iconis, the show is based on a 2004 novel of the same name…
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Sarah Gillespie – Live Music Review
IN these desperately difficult times for music venues and musicians, it’s heartening to see that there are some hardy souls that are determined to keep battling on – and keep live music alive and very much kicking. One such venue is The 606 Club in London’s Chelsea, run by the wonderful Steve Rubie (an accomplished…
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Sarah Gillespie, Saint John The Baptist Church – Live Music Review
WHAT a delight on so many levels. Live music from a musician born to perform live (Sarah Gillespie). A mind boggling venue – a tiny church buried away in the Chilterns combining Norman and Anglo Saxon architecture and some jaw dropping medieval wall paintings dating back to the 12th century. And marvellous support from the fingers…
