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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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Description: The Seattle-based quintet play melodic folktronica from their self-titled debut album.
Phone: 0905020 3999
Website: www.shepherds-bush-empire.co.uk
Email: mail@shepherds-bush-empire.co.uk
Trains: Tube: Shepherd's Bush 
, Tube / Bus: 49, 72, 94, 95, 148, 207, 220, 237, 260, 283, 272, 295, 607 
Extra info: Pub
Skyscraping tunes: Fleet Foxes were mesmerising
Most bands are lucky if the bassist can hold some cursory high notes to muster live backing vocals. Four members of Seattle’s Fleet Foxes combined voices with such purity and angel sweetness that I almost felt sorry for the fifth, microphone-less guitarist Skyler Skjelset.
When they sang we were transported. Their hirsute scruffiness and echo-drenched country folk suggested they should have been discovered in lost footage of Woodstock but that’s about as modern as the references get.
Frontman Robin Pecknold’s skyscraping tones sang of forests and rivers, meadowlarks and pines, in elemental songs. Ragged Wood appeared to be a love song for two villagers of the Middle Ages. Pecknold seemed hundreds of years old as he crooned the idyllic simplicity of Tiger Mountain Peasant Song.
Occasionally solo, as on a cover of Judee Sill’s Crayon Angels that melted into original ballad Oliver James, he was mesmerising. With three other falsettos swooning around his own, most notably on innocent reverie White Winter Hymnal and rare moment of raw intensity Your Protector, Fleet Foxes touched perfection.
Roundhouse, 22-23 Feb (0844 482 8008) www.roundhouse.org.uk.
Details are correct at the time of publication - please check with venue before booking.
