Live music
Cloud Control at Heaven
The Aussies were out in full force in Embankment last night to support their fellow countrymen Cloud Control.…
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Published articles
Theatre
Romesh Ranganathan: Rom Com at the Soho Theatre
Romesh Ranganathan’s self-styled “rom com” as he likes to call it, is not in the slightest bit romantic,…
By Thoralf Karlsen
Christmas
Must-see concerts in London, Christmas 2013
It sure is the season to be jolly as the festive period gets into full swing over the…
By Thoralf Karlsen
Movie
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Ben Stiller is both director and the main star of this new adaptation of James Thurber’s short story…
By Thoralf Karlsen
Movie
This Ain’t California
This Ain’t California is a curious and compelling retrospective portrait of skateboarding subculture in the German Democratic Republic…
By Thoralf Karlsen
Live music
Lil’ Kim and Eve at the IndigO2
Lil’ Kim and Eve teamed up at IndigO2 at the O2 Arena on Friday night to demonstrate what…
By Thoralf Karlsen
Art
Turner & the Sea at the National Maritime Museum
Cold easterlies pounded the Greenwich docklands on a grey November morning. But refuge from the weather could be…
By Thoralf Karlsen
Live music
Pokey Lafarge at Rough Trade East
Last night’s show at Rough Trade East was a relaxed introduction to what Pokey Lafarge is all about,…
By Thoralf KarlsenLive music
Tomoyasu Hotei at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
If music is meant to move people, Tomoyasu Hotei shifted everyone 6000 miles into orbit. The six-string samurai…
By Thoralf Karlsen
Live music
Mark Lanegan at Union Chapel
Hugging the mic the entire evening, Mark Lanegan cut a lonesome, rugged figure playing to a seated audience…
By Thoralf Karlsen