What’s your vibe? Here’s our pick of what’s coming up this coming week
Baroque love songs
BURGHCLERE Baroque presents Voices of Longing, love songs by the 17th century Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi at the Church of the Ascension, Burghclere tomorrow night (Friday). The recital will be given by the Ceruleo ensemble, who are Jenni Harper, Emily Owen - sopranos, Toby Carr - theorbo, Kate Conway - viola da gamba and Satoko Doi-Luck - harpsichord. Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Ticket price £10-£25 at your discretion (Under-18s free but also need a ticket). Includes a glass of wine or soft drink after the concert. Seating will not be allocated in advance and will be unreserved so please arrive in good time to secure the best seats. You may order tickets by email to theresa@burghclerebaroque.com or by telephone: 01635 276009.
Elles Bailey
AWARD-winning singer songwriter and Planet Rock presenter Elles Bailey is playing Arlington Arts on Saturday (7.30pm). The inspirational smokey voiced chanteuse has powered her way to the forefront of the British Americana and Roots scenes in recent years, has released her fourth studio album Beneath the Neon Glow, the first under the Cooking Vinyl label and is on her largest UK tour to date. Booking details at https://arlington-arts.com/
Ian Hislop & Nick Newman satire
THE Autobiography of a Cad by Ian Hislop & Nick Newman, adapted from the satirical novel by AG Macdonell continues at The Watermill, Bagnor, until March 22. Chronicling the rise of self-proclaimed political titan Edward Percival Fox-Ingleby from Eton to Oxford and then on to Parliament, the Cad’s story contains all the hallmarks of success: university escapades with friends taking the blame, courageously signing up to be on the administrative frontline of the First World War effort and doing the decent thing and joining the Tory party in the 1920s. Committed to ploughing his own way through life, righting the wrongs of his unforgivably liberal parents and armed with a universal disregard for the rules, the truth, and the women in his life, this is Edward Fox-Ingleby, a man who no-one loves as much as himself. This happily fictitious memoir about serving the nation bears absolutely no relation to any politicians past, present or future. https://www.watermill.org.uk/cad
Bass collective at O2 Academy
LEGENDARY UK label and bass collective CruCast is hitting the road with its most essential artists and a line-up you really won’t want to miss when they play O2 Academy Oxford tomorrow night (Friday, 11pm): CruCast Oxford: Basslayerz, Slipz X Spyda X Blu Bomma, Window Kid, KMS, MC AD. Curfew 4am. Over 18s only. The venue, at 190 Cowley Road, does not have parking facilities, but there are bays reserved around the local streets. Union Street car park has 74 spaces. It offers Blue Badge holders concessions and and two disabled bays. Booking: https://tinyurl.com/24sdpdmw
Greenham Tower Theatre Co radio play
ANDY Kempe’s play, A Sign of the Times, which was recorded in a new venture for Kennet Radio by Greenham Tower Theatre Co will be broadcast at 7pm tomorrow (Friday). A wartime pilot’s memorial in Portishead and intruiguing circumstances surrounding his crash close to the radio station there which later played an important role in the Battle of the Atlantic, led the Newbury playwright to speculate what if it had happened in Greenham…
Sunday night jazz
PANGBOURNE Jazz Club welcomes back one of the best musicians in the UK on Sunday (7.30 pm). Trombonist Mark Nightingale is one of its firm favourites. He began on trombone at age nine and played in the Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in his teens. His first band as leader was trombone quintet Bonestructure and he has gone on to front various sized groups from quartets and quintets to a Big Band, featuring his own compositions and arrangements. Mark toured and recorded with James Morrison in Europe from 1994 to 1997. He has had longstanding musical relationships with John Dankworth, Stan Tracey, Alan Barnes and Andy Panayi and has composed for trombone and other brass instruments. He played trombone on the album Ten Summoner’s Tales by Sting and has worked or recorded with Louie Bellson, Ray Brown, Carl Fontana, Urbie Green, Scott Hamilton, Slide Hampton, Bill Holman, Lee Konitz, Cleo Laine, Claire Martin, Clark Terry, and Kenny Wheeler; Steely Dan, Kylie Minogue, Tom Jones, Madonna, Robbie Williams, Henry Mancini, McFly, Frank Sinatra, John Wilson, and Michel Legrand. He occasionally directs the BBC Big Band. He will be backed by the club’s Terry Hutchins Quartet. £12.50. No need to book just go along. The club meets at Rosewood Hall @ The Pangbourne Working Men’s Club in Whitchurch Road.
