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New Moon is nothing if not an international advertisement for the hungry virtues of virginity and young people can’t get enough of it
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Theatre
A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
Cock
Restaurants
Kitchen W8 is a bargain for this area, if such sophistication is what you crave
Kitchen W8
Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
This is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flaws
Alex has a strong powerful voice and was faultless, she is far better now than she was on the X-Factor
London,
John Aizlewood's rating
Reader rating
Chaos: Hard-Fi's new album is an almighty leap forward
"We played here over two years ago," remembered Hard-Fi singer Richard Archer. "It was chaos then. Now we've just got more stuff that can go wrong."
So they have. Last night's sweat-stained, eyeball-to-eyeball with a frankly fervid fan-club crowd, staged to road-test new material and re-ignite old, did indeed see "stuff" go wrong, from guitarist Ross Phillips's guitar lead being pulled out by an audience member who was named and shamed by Archer, to instruments slipping out of tune in the heat and a distinctly wobbly sound.
Much more went right. The hits from the melodica-led Cash Machine, to the M25 underclass anthem of Living For The Weekend, via the elegiac Stars Of CCTV, sped by in a joyous blur of handclapping, air-punching and audience bellowing.
More intriguing was the new material. The forthcoming Once Upon A Time In The West (that's as in west London) is an almighty leap forwards for sole-songwriter Archer and from it Television, Suburban Knights and I Shall Overcome were richer in tone, sharper in vision and sound of a band whose time is patently about to come. "You've been f***ing great," concluded Archer after another frenzied reception to another new song. The feeling was mutual.
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