The Late Night Tales series has been running for over five years, during which time it has firmly established itself as the connoisseur’s choice of mix CD. It grants the world’s best musical artists, including Fatboy Slim, Nouvelle Vague, Belle & Sebastian and Air, the opportunity to delve through their music collections to create the ultimate late night soundtrack.
"From my experience, as soon as you say you do soul music and you're from the UK, it's like a dirty word," says the bubbling newcomer Tawiah, with a shrug. Odd, then, that only a few days earlier, the 21-year-old was among hundreds of non-conformists and wacky types at Gilles Peterson's annual Worldwide Awards, where the only thing considered smutty was a reveller's panty-peeking hipsters and
If you’ve hit the dancefloor recently chanting along with the bump n’ grind refrain of “Hit me on my beeper, beeper, beeper, beeper”, then you'll already know the irresistible appeal of the track, a tribute to UK garage.
The Edinburgh Fringe hit Into the Hoods , ZooNation's street dance version of Sondheim's Into the Woods , will hip hop its way into the West End's Novello Theatre.
It's the end of a sell-out tour that began at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow and ended in the basement of a Romanian restaurant on Old Bailey in the City of London. The restaurant's basement had been cleared of tables and chairs, and it's standing room only for the heaving mass of revellers close to the stage.
Iconic British singer Siouxsie Sioux is launching her first solo tour of the U.S. in support of her debut solo album, Mantaray . Siouxsie kicked off the run with a pair of shows February 8-9 at The Fillmore at Irving Plaza in New York City.