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Precious is a new-style weepie but one that is much more bracing than depressing
Precious
Theatre
Ian McKellen is captivating throughout. He delights in the play’s gallows humour, yet is also maudlin and poignant
Waiting for Godot
Theatre
Slight quibbles notwithstanding, this will set the West End’s stock riding high
Enron
Utterly, utterly brilliant. You really are in for a treat
Though 'Trilogy' has won rave reviews, I personally found myself exasperated after about an hour
We went on a quiet sunday evening and the food was excellent, but the experience let down by the service and ambiance
London,
John Aizlewood's rating
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Description: Scottish electropop singer-songwriter.
Phone: 0207845 4600
Website: www.somerset-house.org.uk
Email: info@somerset-house.org.uk
Trains: Tube: Covent Garden/Charing Cross/Embankment/Temple 
, Tube / Bus: 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 77a, 91, 176 
Extra info: Food, Pub
Irresistible as oven chips: Calvin Harris bemuses and charms the Somerset House set
“I have but one question for you tonight, London,” bellowed Calvin Harris midway through his skull-rattling set. We were all ears. “Are you ready to go off?”
To be honest, nobody was entirely sure whether they were “ready to go off” or not, since nobody had the faintest idea what he was talking about. The bewildered response was a collective shoulder shrug.
He may talk gobbledygook but Harris, dressed as a Scottish hoodie, is a formidable live proposition, rediscovering what The KLF christened stadium house, while adding healthy doses of Utah Saints, The Human League and even Jean-Michel Jarre.
Each song, be it relative staples such as that homage to hedonism The Girls (“I like them big girls/I like them skinny girls”) or the more recent Ready For The Weekend began in grandiose, keyboard-heavy fashion, before lurching into a cacophonous, fist-waving frenzy and finally settling down into a pounding groove.
It’s as authentic as nylon but it’s as irresistible as oven chips and his recent Number One, I’m Not Alone, suggested that while Harris is certainly here today, he may not be gone tomorrow.
Strangely, as with the impressively droll support act Mr Hudson, there was no encore, which seemed rather churlish after a brief but rapturously received set.
Then, to everyone’s further bemusement, it really was time to “go off”. That’s “go off” home...
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