Kings Place
R.U.T.A.: Polish punks with fiddlesThursday, 31 May 2012![]() With the yelling and posturing, R.U.T.A. are clearly a punk band, but it’s like no punk band you’ve ever heard before. The lyrics are in Polish, for one thing, and there are no guitars, but Middle Eastern lutes, archaic fiddles and a battery of... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Conductor Ilan VolkovSaturday, 28 April 2012Relentlessly energetic, opinionated, and never less than passionate about music-making, Ilan Volkov is a close as you get to a prodigy in the world of conducting. Appointed as Young Conductor in association with the Northern Sinfonia at just 19, at... Read more... |
Soweto Kinch, Kings PlaceSaturday, 28 January 2012![]() Soweto Kinch's set last night as part of the eXplorations mini-series featured gluttony, envy and a host of other vices. No, not A Life in the Day of an Investment Banker, but a tantalising glimpse of Kinch's take on the Seven Deadly Sins.... Read more... |
The Boxettes, Kings PlaceFriday, 13 January 2012![]() The band's Facebook page states “Dirty Soulful Groovin Dancey Sweet” under genre. To which I'd add “Dramatic Playful Intense Voluptuous Transporting”. Performing last night as part of the London A Cappella Festival, The Boxettes swept away any... Read more... |
Manhattan Minimalism and Rock'n'RollSaturday, 26 November 2011![]() This weekend’s three-day Minimalism festival at Kings Place comes to an end tonight looking at the cross-over between rock and new music in New York in the Seventies. It seems to me that the collision between popular and high-art music produced some... Read more... |
Robert Glasper, London Jazz Festival, Kings PlaceFriday, 18 November 2011![]() There aren't too many pianists who excite jazz aficionados and hip-hop fans in equal measure. But then no other artist has been inspired equally by hip-hop beats on the one hand and Thelonious Monk on the other. And while it appears increasingly... Read more... |
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