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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,
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Whiff of everyman: Bryan Adams has ditched the lumberjack look
Bryan Adams's career has collapsed Stateside, so he's joined us in London. The Canadian no longer dresses like a lumberjack, preferring designer threads topped by one of David Beckham's better haircuts but his music is impervious to change: that appealingly raspy voice; those appalling lyrics and the wearying whiff of everyman.
To celebrate his latest album 11, Adams is playing, 11 solo, 11-song (plus encore) dates in 11 European cities over 11 consecutive nights.
All very conceptual and only a pedant would point out that 11 is actually Adams's tenth album, excluding compilations, a co-written soundtrack and live collections.
Last night, Adams was on typically affable form, admitting to nerves, apologising for swearing in church and leavening new tracks (Tonight We Have The Stars was endearingly noble; Oxygen was annoyingly banal) with hits, although not (Everything I Do) I Do It For You.
Summer Of 69 and When You're Gone rocked merrily; Run To You and Cuts Like A Knife struggled without a band but Heaven remains cornier than a wheatfield.
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