Milton Jones
This week’s cover bitch makes some funny in Covent Garden. Razor sharp one liners rain down from left field.
Where: Funny Side, Covent Garden
When: Friday 12th
Price: £10/£7 concessions
Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee performs his new solo show, “What Would Judas Do?” for a month. Iconoclasticism seems likely from the man who wrote Jerry Springer: The Opera and once made Ang Lee very Anglee.
Where: Bush Theatre
From: Tuesday 9th
Price: £15/£10 concessions
Circulus
Medieval prog folk-rock band who use a mix of modern and medieval instruments, such as the lute, bongos and the modern bass and electric guitars. They claim to believe in fairies and pixies. Live shows are legendary, but the music is still a bit rubbish.
Where: The Water Rats
When: Wednesday 10th
Price: £6
Adem, Vashti Bunyen, Vetiver and Juana Molina
Acoustic sets from the folk-blipper extraordinaire Adem and the woman who once went in a horse and cart to visit Donovan, before benefiting from the folk renaissance. Impeccably good neo-folk.
Where: The Roundhouse
When: Saturday 13th
Price: £13.50 - £18.50
I followed a crazy night at the last ‘Crush’ of the year by wining, dining and dancing at the Gallery at Sketch. True, it wasn’t the usual way I spend a Saturday night – I usually recover from my Friday night induced ‘asleep-all-Saturday’ hangover just in time to see the sun rise on Sunday. But when close friends rang on Saturday evening promising a late-night table at Sketch and a VIP tour of the venue, I simply couldn’t resist.
For many people, the beginning of the year means a detox program from their holiday binge, healthy eating and dieting. Gym memberships are probably up by a hundred and fifty percent, the health and fitness craze is definitely on. The craze has not seemed to have affected me however, as I found myself once again this week magnetically pulled towards Little Frankie’s, located just off Trafalgar Square.
It was a pretty yet unremarkable morning. In the distance Mount Everest poked its snow covered peak out from the jagged Himalayas that surrounded it and looked down upon me and the slowly waking village of Tingri.
If it’s Scotland it has to be Glasgow. Against a backdrop of stunning Victorian architecture you will find a lively and stylish city with so much to do that your first trip won’t be your last. The great atmosphere of the city is supported by enormously friendly and accommodating Glaswegians, including around 30,000 students from three universities so you should feel right at home.
The concept behind the Turner Prize Award is to praise and celebrate “British artists or artists working in Britain under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work”. Tomma Abts, Phil Collins, Mark Titchner and Rebecca Warren were this year’s four shortlisted artists: each demonstrating their own personal and unique skill disguised under the shadow of the final piece(s).
After a long and tortuous journey from London we settled into our chalet, eating and opening the first of many beers before heading off to see our first band of the weekend. Upon arriving at the stage where Deerhoof were playing we were confronted with an almighty queue, which bayed and surged for a good 40 minutes before we were allowed in.
The Moore Watch is getting pretty dull. A visit to the website dedicated to “[Presenting] opposing views and facts to Michael Moore’s public assumptions and assertions,” delivers only yet another rebuttal of one of Michael’s angry e-mails and some speculation on John Kerry’s opinion of soldiers. It’s about as dull as watching a Stop the War coalition march.
