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Hot Tickets - Weekend gigs

15.07.11
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Happy birthday Roundhouse

21.06.11
Since it reopened after a £30 million refurbishment in June 2006, Camden's most versatile venue has hosted a vibrant mix of live spectacle. Here we relive the highlights of the past five years…... more

Once in a lifetime V&A show brings back look of 80s

28.02.11
The style of Grace Jones, Talking Heads and New Order will feature in the autumn blockbuster at the Victoria and Albert Museum ... more

Greed? It's still pretty good in Wall Street

08.10.10
Michael Douglas is irresistible as the reptilian Gordon Gekko in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, fresh from prison and just in time for global financial meltdown... more

CDs of the week: the return of Robert Plant

10.09.10
Although he seems to be the last man in town to accept it, Robert Plant will always be defined by his decade with Led Zeppelin... more

City Spy: Bidding hots up for Olympics site post-2012

25.08.10
Forex and equity trader Intermarket is in talks with Vodafone to sponsor London’s Olympic stadium post-2012... more

Apple help us get educated from home

05.07.10
Every student’s dream of being able to attend lectures from the comfort of the sofa is finally here.... more

Sound check: mad about Imelda Marcos

26.03.10
In the strangest pop project of the year, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim have collaborated on a double album of songs about the rise and fall of Mrs Marcos.... more

Fat Boy Slim and Zoe Ball celebrate sobriety with new baby

23.02.10
Reformed drinker Norman Cook told today how he and wife Zoe Ball's new child was "a present of our sobriety".... more

Anvil is the headbanger's fairytale

12.02.10
Sacha Gervasi's hilarious documentary about Anvil's failed comeback tour has won an Evening Standard Award — and revived the band’s fortunes.... more

Sound check: We're going down the pub

22.01.10
The Bedford in Balham is a tiny boozer with an astonishing record of launching careers, from Paolo Nutini to KT Tunstall. Now it's taking its best acts to SXSW... more

West Ham refuse to be rushed in bid battle

13.01.10
West Ham's future is unlikely to be decided before the weekend at the earliest, as Straumur assesses the bids... more

Sound Check: The great myth of Woodstock

07.08.09
It's 40 years since the legendary music festival and we’re about to get a glut of nostalgia – but was it really such fun?... more

David Byrne leaves crowd spilling into the aisles

04.08.09
At 57, three decades since his band Talking Heads were at their peak, David Byrne could hardly be busier.... more

Gigs of the week

31.07.09
Kerrang!'s Week of Rock draws to a close, Field Day Festival comes to to town and Alice in Chains are at The Scala.... more

Talking Heads star turns Roundhouse into musical instrument for all to play

27.07.09
Members of the public are to be given the chance to "play" a Grade II listed building.... more

25 reasons to go to The Edinburgh Festival

01.07.09
After last year's letdown, the world's largest arts festival has got its act together to offer a thrilling array of entertainment next month.... more

CDs of the week

05.06.09
Little Boots arrives fresh out of Blackpool, Kasabian and The Black Eyed Peas return and Diana Krall sounds more fulfilled.... more

Sound check: David Byrne plays a building

15.05.09
A wacky sound installation created by the Talking Heads frontman David Byrne will turn the Roundhouse into an instrument that anyone can play.... more

Once in a lifetime live music from David Byrne

14.04.09
Perhaps it's the realisation that at 56 he still has much to prove, but suddenly David Byrne is bursting through boundaries.... more

CDs of the week

27.02.09
No Line On The Horizon should mark the end of U2's years of consolidation and Courtney Pine is approaching his prime.... more

Off the record

16.01.09
Kanye West's controversial online journal is ruffling so many record industry feathers that it's become a must-read.... more

CDs of the week

05.12.08
Akon's third album drops most of the hip-hop, you can almost smell the dope in Neil Young's 1968 concert and David Byrne is unfussy. ... more

Off the record

25.01.08
David Smyth discusses Juno, the Oscar-nominated comedy that has a soundtrack that deserves an award itself.... more

The kids are all right

28.12.07
Doomed youth is one of director Gus Van Sant's favourite subjects. But, he says, there's hope for the skater boys and girls in his latest film Paranoid Park.... more

Exhibition to make you smile

06.08.07
The latest exhibition from Candice Breitz features 25 John Lennon fans crooning their way through his solo album Plastic Ono Band.... more

Indifferent anarchy from punk posturing Peyroux

18.04.07
Folksy jazz warbler Madeleine Peyroux showed an almost wilful indifference to intonation or melody at her lacklustre Hammersmith Apollo gig.... more


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