ADPONTES-STAINES
5 THINGS TO DO THIS WEEK
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1.
Impressive Guitar with Big Jim Sullivan, Staines
Duncan McKenzie & Big Jim Sullivan at STAINES RIVERSIDE CLUB
Thu Aug 21 2008 9PM £3 on door Non-Members welcome
We saw this duo at the convivial Staines Riverside Club, Laleham Road,
Staines last April. Their set was split into two, with part one being
acoustic and ‘jazzy’ and the second part being electric and ‘rocky’.
The jazz standards in the first half were perfect and there was plenty
to be amazed at. But the second half, the rock half, was when the fire
really started and the earth really began to move. The pair sound a lot
like 1970’s Dire Straits but the playing fluctuates between raw blues
to flamenco style - always bold - always confident- using the body of
the guitar percussively, and employing some sumptuous finger-style
technique.
See The AdPontes FULL REVIEW here
Links:
http://www.bigjimsullivan.com/
http://www.duncanmckenzie.com/
2.
London Soul and Funk, Ascot
The Unikque Aug 25 2008 7:30P The Jagz Club & Restaurant, Ascot
The finest Soul and Disco classics from a superb band with 3 sensational singers up front.
This is a London band which has been around since the eighties. They
concentrate on Soul, Funk and R&B and perform a lot of commercial
classic soul and funk covers that everyone knows and have danced too.
Some of the classic covers they perform are:
Can you handle it - Sharon Redd
We’ve got the funk - Positive force
Got to be Real - Cheryl Lynn
Good times - Chic
We are family - Sister Sledge
Behind the Groove - Tina Marie
And lots more……….
All tracks are not rewrites, but complete copies of the original track.
You will probably never hear theses tunes performed again, unless you come to one of their gigs
The Show:
Saturday, 23rd August
Show will start at 8.00
Ticket cost: £8.00
Doors open from 7.30pm. £26 for 2 courses and entrance (£30
for 3 courses). Entrance for the bands is £8 but is strictly
limited and on a first come first served basis. Entrance for dining or
just the band INCLUDES free entrance to the nightclub
http://www.unikque.co.uk/
http://www.jagz.co.uk/
Station Hill, Ascot
3.
Enjoy FREE lunchtime Jazz at The Rose Kingston
Free Lunchtime Jazz at THE ROSE THEATRE Kingston August 20 1:00P
The event will be taking place in the Rose Theatre Cafe bar, and is free, and no ticket is required.
Rosabella Gregory
WEDNESDAY 20 AUGUST: 1-2PM.
Rosabella and her band have been making waves in jazz and songwriting
circles, with the likes of Grammy winner Bob James picking up on their
talent via myspace and collaborating with them on a song from
Rosabella's forthcoming debut album. A born composer, Rosabella
graduated from the Royal Academy of Music where she met her
musicians-guitarist Tommy Caris, percussionist Jez Wiles and bassist
Oli Hayhurst.
Together the band focus on creating delicately crafted soundscapes and
much like characters in a film, they offer their individual voices to
the songs.
Rosabella was invited to perform her song "Better love next time" in an
interview with Richard Niles for his program "What is melody?" on BBC
radio 2. This song also won her the "International Prize" at the 2007
New York Songwriters Circle Songwriting Contest. Rosabella will perform
her winning song at the finals in New York City's legendary "Bitter
End" this November. Don't miss this opportunity to see Rosabella live
in the cafe at the Rose Theatre on Wednesday 30 July at 1pm.
http://www.rosabellagregory.co.uk/index.php
The above events are free, and no ticket is required.
4.
Jolly Hockey Sticks at Windsor
Daisy Pulls It Off Theatre Royal, Windsor 18 Aug to 23 Aug
Show Times
Mon - Sat 8pm, Thurs 2.30pm & Sat 4.45pm
This affectionate and keenly observed parody of English boarding school life will appeal to the whole family.
Plucky school girl Daisy Meredith is forced to overcome snobbish
prejudice after receiving a scholarship to attend Grangewood School.
She forms a secret society to find the missing treasure that would save
the school’s debts – but still finds time for a cliff top
rescue and a jolly good game of hockey!
Featuring Kim Hartman (who starred as Helga in the in all ninety-six
episodes of the BBC comedy ‘Allo ‘Allo), Ben Robert’s
(who played Chief Inspector Conway on Thames TV’s The Bill for
fourteen years), Julia Mallam (Emmerdale’s Dawm Hope) and Carly
Hillman (Nicki di Marco from Eastenders) as Daisy.
This nostalgic production brims full of old fashion values, midnight feasts and jolly good adventure stories.
"Perfectly Ripping, Absolutely Spiffing not to mention Scrummy Entertainment" Sunday Times
Box Office 01753 853 888
http://www.theatreroyalwindsor.co.uk/
Lots of Fun !!
5.
Prog Rock Maestros from Spain at Kingston
KOTEBEL Aug 23 2008 7:30P @ THE PEEL House of Progression
Influenced by Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Antony Banks,
Messiaen, Poulenc, Keith Emerson, Robert Fripp, Chopin, Yes, PFM,
Jethro Tull, Beethoven, Finnegans Wake, After Crying, Bartok, Deus Ex
Machina, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Mussorgsky, Gentle Giant, Discipline
(Mathew Parmenter), Anglagard, Porcupine Tree, Isildurs Bane, Universal
Totem Orquestra, Univers Zero
Kotebel are prog rock maestros.
Kotebel, founded in 1999, was conceived as a long-term project with the
aim to serve as a vehicle for the development of a musical proposal
that could be described as Art Music:
* An artistic expression not subject to commercial considerations
* A structured approach to the development of thematic material
* An eclectic language with a strive to integrate different musical genres, resources, instruments
In short, elaborate music that appeals to the mind and the spirit.
Kotebel’s music also shares a number of characteristics with
other contemporary artistical expressions currently labelled as
Neo-Barroque:
* A highly creative, hybrid cultural expression
* An aesthetics and ideology of inclusion
* A tendency towards expansion, creating ambiguity in the frontier between pieces
* A desire to evoke states of transcendence
Carlos Franco - Drums and Percussion .... cfranco@kotebel.com
César Garcia Forero - Guitars ................... cgarcia@kotebel.com
Jaime Pascual - Bass ................................. jpascual@kotebel.com
Adriana Plaza - Keyboards ....................... aplaza@kotebel.com
Carlos Plaza - Keyboards .......................... cplaza@kotebel.com
http://www.myspace.com/kotebel
This is a very rare UK performance at THE PEEL, KINGSTON this week!
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Get Your Tickets for Beck Theatre, Hayes
The Beck
Theatre
Grange Road
Hayes
Middlesex
UB3 2UE
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