Blockheads take the party out on tour

4:40pm Thursday 17th April 2008

When Ian Dury died of liver cancer in 2000, the music world lost one of its most charismatic and unique frontmen.

Many strings to his Boe

8:35am Thursday 3rd April 2008

Alfie Boe has had a very busy schedule for the past year - and it's about to get even busier.

	Lake's Heaven
	5:14pm Wed 2 Apr 08
	Plenty has happened since the last time local-boy-done-good Benjamin Lake made a local appearance at the Adrian Mann Theatre.

	A Wizz with the guitar
	5:11pm Wed 2 Apr 08
	Fame has never been something that is reserved in a tin under the counter for the most talented people. Instead of being a meritocracy, the world of fame is littered with near misses, governed by serendipity and populated by the bloody-minded and handsome.

	Smoke signals
	4:52pm Wed 2 Apr 08
	When Reading-based indie rockers Does It Offend You, Yeah? chose We Smoke Fags as support for their 2007 tour, they must have known what they were doing.

	Feel the fource
	4:35pm Thu 27 Mar 08
	There is nothing the music Press likes more than rumours of disputes between band members, threats of break-ups or on-stage dust-ups.

	Tango siempre! (For one night only)
	10:33am Fri 14 Mar 08
	"Poor old Dot. Well, East-Enders returns tomorrow at 8pm," says the BBC announcer but you are not really listening. Instead, you're ogling the sinewy tango dancers on the screen, looking immaculate in scarlet, "and now, it is time for Celebrity Badger Baiting and will Sally Gunnell survive another week in the sett?"

	Bowing places - Epsom Symphony Orchestra welcomes back young violinist
	10:29am Fri 14 Mar 08
	Precocious young talent makes first public appearance aged six, gets first whiff of alcohol at eight, is honking on a crack pipe at 10 and in rehab by 12, primed for an adolescence of redemption and a my wild years are behind me' autobiography. Then they spawn and away we go again.

	Antony sings the Blues
	10:27am Fri 14 Mar 08
	As a member of one of the biggest boy bands of the early Naughties, Antony Costa was known throughout the world. He helped Blue clock up more than seven million record sales, three chart-topping albums, three UK number one singles, and two Brit Awards. The band even dueted with Stevie Wonder and Elton John.

	East of Ealing join Jay-Z at Glastonbury
	12:43pm Thu 6 Mar 08
	Jay-Z might be making his Glastonbury debut this summer, but when Twickenham-based East of Ealing take to the Somerset stage, it will be as festival favourites.
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