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Bands, concerts, festivals.

Musicians : wake up!

I left this as a comment somewhere else, in response to someone complaining about how: “…musicians are asked to just get over the fact that no one pays for music… [it is] my hope that someday more people make the same realization that unless people to help finance records, you’ll never get that fantastic song [...]

Latitude

It’s summertime again, even in sodden old England, and that means it’s festival season. True to its image as one of the newer and smaller festivals in the UK, Latitude had a good-natured crowd, diverse music – albeit without many big-name bands, was laid-back and eclectic, and not too muddy. The defining highlight for me [...]

London Symphony Orchestra’s Brass Ensemble

The LSO is enjoying a sustained peak of success, and is apparently well-known for the talented and distinctive timbre of their brass section, so it was with some interest that I found myself ushered along to this opportunity to hear them strut their stuff from centre stage, unencumbered by the rest of the orchestra. It [...]