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Critic's choice: Top 5 gigs
By David Smyth, Evening Standard 05.01.07
Tickled pink: Kylie Minogue is back with an over-the-top show
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Kylie is back with an hilariously over-the-top production, Jerky indie pop trio 1990s play the Mean Fiddler and Miles Davis's seminal album Birth of the Cool is given a new lease of life...
Kylie Minogue
Wembley Arena
The showgirl princess has beaten breast cancer and is back with a production so hilariously over-the-top that it demonstrates perfectly why she has been so badly missed. It's got near-nude men, lasers and more feathers than an aviary, not to mention some of the most perfect pop of the past 20 years. What a great start to 2007. (0870 060 0870) Fri 5-Sat 6 Jan, 6.30pm. (Also Mon 9-Tue 9 Jan).
1990s
Frog at the Mean Fiddler, WC2
Jerky indie pop trio from Glasgow who kicked about with Franz Ferdinand before the art rockers were famous and are now being talked up by every indie mover and shaker worth their salt. They play here as part of the Mean Fiddler's Frog club night. (020 7434 9592). Sat 6 Jan, 11pm-4am.
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The Fly, WC1
Showcase for the wares of indie label Fleet Street Records, with a bill topped by this Bethnal Green quartet, whose dramatic, gloomy rock may appeal to fans of their mates Boy Kill Boy, plus Editors and Interpol. (0870 907 0999). Tonight, 7.30pm.
Zoe Rahman
The Front Room at the QEH, SE1
The Chichester pianist should have had her fanbase extensively broadened by being the token jazz woman on last year's Mercury shortlist. Now she's looking to convert the commuters, playing a free show in the Queen Elizabeth Hall's lobby at knocking off time this evening. (0870 3800 400). Tonight, 5.15pm. Free, Fri 5 Jan
Birth of the Cool
St James's Church, W1
The London Philaharmonic Orchestra join forces with the London Jazz Orchestra to recreate Miles Davis's seminal 1957 album Birth of the Cool, which is usually credited with, well, giving birth to the concept of "cool" (writes Richard Godwin). Henry Lowther takes on trumpeting duties. (020 7381 0441). Tonight, 7.30pm.
