London music

London music

Back in July Scottish singer/songwriter Lewis Capaldi announced a grand return to touring after a two-year break. The 'Someone You Loved' and 'Before You Go' singer revealed a bunch of UK tour dates, and he's currently working his way through several of Britain's biggest indoor arenas. Now Capaldi has announced an extension of that tour with several equally massive (if not bigger) outdoor shows in the UK next summer. And, excitingly, one of them is here in London at BST Hyde Park.

BST has had quite the run of huge-name country headliners over the last few years. Zach Bryan, Shania Twain and Morgan Wallen have all headlined the Great Oak Stage in recent editions. Brooks' concert next June will be his first appearance in the UK in nearly 30 years. That's right, three decades. That's a hell of a long time for the best-selling solo artist in US history to have not played the UK. He last performed here in 1998.

Radiohead have always strived to protect their audience from exploitative ticket touts which, in the absence of robust government legislation, becomes increasingly challenging, said the band's manager, Julie Calland. Fans will be encouraged to stay away from secondary sites and we will work alongside venues, promoters and organisations like FanFair Alliance and FEAT [Face-value European Alliance for Ticketing], to shut down unauthorised sales at inflated prices tickets that for the most part, don't actually exist.

A teenage Marty McFly races to fix his parents' past and save his future in this thrilling, high-energy stage musical adaptation of Back to the Future. Winner of Best New Musical 2022, Back To The Future The Musical is a trip back to 1955. Normally at 2025 prices, there's a sale on at the moment, which means some performances are nearly half-price.

Waiting at a stoplight, there's sometimes a brief instant when all the turn signals of the cars in front of you sync together. Maybe you were zoning out, watching your windshield wipers, listening to the soft murmur of the radio, but in that moment, you snap to attention. What might be even more satisfying is when they begin to pull apart from each other again, creating an increasingly complex sequence.

Reid, born in Cambridgeshire, England, had a uniquely resonant and soulful voice with an enormous range that earned him the nickname "Superlungs." He was a coveted figure among the arena-rock titans of the era - even vocal powerhouse Aretha Franklin once claimed in 1968 that "There are only three things happening in England: the Rolling Stones, the Beatles and Terry Reid." Reid first found local success in the teen rock group the Redbeats, and soon joined the band Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers.

Alder looks faintly amused, then reminds me she's been at Glyndebourne doing three performances of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro every week since the end of June. In fact, she was on stage as the Countess barely 12 hours earlier. It's never-ending, she says. I don't want this to come across negatively it's been the most amazing contract but an extremely long run.

Rick Davies, the co-founder, singer and songwriter of British band Supertramp, has died after a long battle with cancer, the band said Monday. He was 81. Davies, who co-wrote the band's music with Roger Hodgson, was the voice and pianist behind Supertramp's most iconic songs, leaving an indelible mark on rock music history, the band said in a statement on its website.

Don't listen to anyone who tells you summer's over. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life. And pay no mind to your post-August bank balance, either, even if it's making you wonder if you should stay indoors all weekend batch-cooking cheap-and-nourishing lentil soup. Because although we're technically in meteorological autumn, the weather's still warm, the days are long(ish) and London's full of fun outdoor events to enjoy that are totally free.

When Guy Fawkes was preparing to blow up the Houses of Parliament all those centuries ago, he probably didn't foresee that 420 years later, thousands of Londoners would gather on a hill, serenaded by a Dolly Parton tribute act, watching hundreds of drones make cool neon shapes in the air to celebrate the failure of his plot. That's exactly what'll be happening in a few months time, though.

Following a five-star sold-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, The Producers, directed by Tony Award-winner Patrick Marber and starring Andy Nyman, Marc Antolin, Trevor Ashley, Raj Ghatak, Harry Morrison and Joanna Woodward, has transferred to the Garrick Theatre.

The Beatles and the Stones kicked things off in the '60s, but the Clash renounced both bands in '77. Duran Duran and Culture Club softened the edges with new pop in the '80s, which gave way to the Britpop moment and the Spice Girls' rewriting of the female pop handbook in the '90s. Amy Winehouse kicked off another wave in the 2000s, which Adele rode en route to becoming one of the best-selling artists of all time.

'a missing piece of the jigsaw in the heart of Camden Town - full of potential and something that could be really special'

The harp is having a resurgence in jazz. Instrumentalists such as Nala Sinephro, Alina Bzhezhinska, Marysia Osu and Brandee Younger have recently released records that reference the decades-old legacies of harp pioneers Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby while creating new fusions of ambient electronics, soul and free jazz. The latest entry into this burgeoning genre is London-based trio Flur. Comprised of harpist Miriam Adefris, saxophonist Isaac Robertson and drummer Dillon Harrison,

Thurston Moore has released a cover of The Velvet Underground song, "Temptation Inside Your Heart." The cover is in celebration of VU member Sterling Morrison's birthday, which is today (August 29th). Listen to it below. Accompanying Moore on the track are Deb Googe ( My Bloody Valentine), James Sedwards, and Jem Doulton. Per the press release, the cover "channels The Velvet Underground's wry cool while pushing it into his own territory, with layers of electro-clatter and distortion."

Please don't disturb others with loud music or calls when travelling on the network,

Now mayor Sadiq Khan is finally waking up to nuisance caused by people playing music and have noisy conversations on speaker mode on the Transport for London travel network. In a new campaign, posters are appearing on the Elizabeth line urging travellers not to annoy fellow passengers by blaring out tunes or forcing them to hear two-way phone chats. The scheme, the latest part of Transport for London's (TfL) wider Travel Kind campaign, will then be rolled out on London's buses, the Docklands Light Railway, and Overground and Underground networks.

The south London five-piece reformed after eight years to play in Victoria Park, with a rapturously received career-spanning set. From opener Latchmere, about a Battersea leisure centre with the crowd chanting that it's got a wave machine, they were clearly enjoying themselves. They overcame sound problems during First Love and again in Can You Give It, with their fans singing until it was fixed. Old friend Jamie T joined them for Marks To Prove It and his own Sticks N Stones.

One of London's reggae pioneers is due to receive a blue heritage plaque ahead of this weekend's Notting Hill Carnival. Barrington Von Adams, better known as Daddy Vego, founded his People's Sound System and People's Sound Record Shop in Notting Hill after arriving in the UK from Jamaica in 1956. After playing for seven years at the Roaring Twenties Club in London's West End, he became a central force in the country's emerging reggae scene.

Everywhere in the world - whether you're white, Black, Indian, Chinese - a sound system is being built, and they want Channel One to play on it, to endorse it. That keeps me going. I didn't think I would ever reach places like Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Argentina. Channel One has now visited about 36 countries, playing songs that we love.

The August bank holiday is without a doubt one of the liveliest weekends of the year in London. Not only do around two million people take to the streets to celebrate Notting Hill Carnival, there's also a plethora of late-summer music festivals - All Points East, Rally and Body Movements to name a few - plus plenty of outdoor cinema and open-air theatre.