Liz Crosthwaite
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LOSE yourself in movement as ground-breaking choreographer Hofesh Shechter brings two of his classic pieces to Bracknell's South Hill Park. Hofesh has been pushing the boundaries of dance ever since he graduated from the Jerusalem Academy for Dance and Music, and this special tour will be revisiting two of his landmark pieces, 2006's Uprising and 2009's The Art Of Not Looking Back.
Club Velocity, the bandnight run by Velocity Records founder and Guide columnist Steve Siddle, turns nine tomorrow (Friday). We caught up with Steve to find out what's in store for the birthday bash - and to discover some of his favourite memories of running the popular Rising Sun Arts Centre-based club.
WHEN a director waits 10 years to stage a play, you know it has to be something quite special. London Classic Theatre's Michael Cabot has been keen to direct Peter Shaffer's psycholigcal thriller, Equus, for a decade, and now - finally - he is taking it on tour, with dates at Bracknell's South Hill Park and Maidenhead's Norden Farm.
Some bands get a few Top Ten hits and fizzle away, and some help define a genre and resonate
The Loose Salute are playing at The Oakford
Big Potato Records are bringing their bandnight back to The Oakford Social Club, with a stellar line-up of musical gems.
Terry Alderton is coming to South Street Arts Centre
A conversation with Terry Alderton involves a lot of laughter.
Bells and Blues - Vienna Ditto
THINGS are getting buzzy again in the voodoo sci-fi blues camp of Vienna Ditto. Perhaps understandably, for a band who performed their second-ever live gig on Glastonbury's BBC Introducing Stage back in 2009, and were hyped by Radio One at lightning speed, the Reading band felt the need to take some down time and catch their breath.
KAISER Chiefs made something of comeback in 2011. After a three-year hiatus, they returned with a new album, The Future Is Medieval, and a new concept - that fans would be able to use a special website to choose from 20 complete tracks and build their very own, personalised 13-track album. Innovative indeed.
The Rare, The Neon Mile, The Papers, Primate at Play
A TRIP out to the gig and studio, Play, nestled in the dark recesses of Milford Road, Reading, often yields musical rewards, but last Saturday was a bit of a mixed bag.
Southern Tenant Folk Union get up close and musical
Mumford And Sons, Laura Marling Noah And The Whale... nu-folk was the buzzword of last year.
ALL The Young, one of the most tipped bands of 2012, are coming to Reading with Kaiser Chiefs next month - and they're a band on a mission, as frontman Ryan explained.
SUMMER lovin' might seem a long way away in the frosty chill of January, but if Grease is the one that you want, this sing-a-long extravaganza is for you.
Ben Marwood's Non-Christmas Party reviewed
IT'S been some year for Club Velocity gigs at Rising Sun Arts Centre.
The seemingly ubiquitous red kite, often seen circling on the thermals above Reading, was once a rare sight in England, having been hunted almost to extinction on these shores.
Frank Turner: Never A Man To Mince His Words
Having become something of a Reading Festival fixture over the years, in 2011 Frank Turner only had one stage left to conquer - the big 'un, the Main Stage. Liz Crosthwaite caught up with the friendly folk-punk troubadour after his triumphant set with band The Sleeping Souls…
