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With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
London,
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Description: Energetic eleven-piece Balkan funk ensemble from Romania's Moldova region.
Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller made a mural called Acid House-Brass, a huge flow chart that connected colliery brass bands to the acid house movement. He needn't have bothered. The Romanian Fanfare Ciocarlia, who scooped a BBC world music award in 2006, embody in their ballsy, brassy oompah sound every kind of party you could ever imagine.
This seductive underground dive, normally a restaurant, was the perfect venue. Tables at the edges for feasting guests gave way to a packed dance floor with hands aloft. The booming sousaphone, which wrapped its wide-girthed player like a wedding band, gave the bass, while flutter-tongued trumpets let out jubilant blasts.
Traditional songs mixed with bastard salsa and, at one point, a raucous James Bond theme. The crowd lapped it up. This music had something of a punk attitude despite the age of the mainly middle-aged, trilby-toting players.
As Deller, no doubt, was trying to point out: trumpets can be subversive. This was, too. Never mind the brass bands, here's the Balkans.
Details are correct at the time of publication - please check with venue before booking.
Wonderful,wonderful,wonderful! I would say 5 star concert as rarely some sort of music put everyone on fire no matter of age differences. And the venue looks great as much worth trying the very tasty food. Brilliant and looking forward for the next gig at the same place on Feb 28. Highly recommended. Just come along and I'm sure you'll enjoy it!
- Constantin, London
