My Cultural Life - London

The award-winning chamber choir will perform as part of a lively and entertaining mix of music ranging from pastiche and parody, to the remarkable and the erotic.

What price Radiohead's latest offering?

It was the music and media event of 2007. Having reached the end of their six-album contract with EMI, corporate rock behemoth turned avant-garde obscurantists Radiohead announced they would be releasing their seventh LP, In Rainbows, online. The price? Whatever the listener was prepared to pay. As the band’s website patiently explained to the incredulous buyer: “No really, it’s up to you.”

Whether the move was a revolutionary gesture by a band long guilt-ridden by their complicity in the commercialised dystopia their songs bemoan, or a gimmicky marketing ploy by an act past their creative prime, it caused a sensation, generating febrile speculation about the ‘death of the music industry’ and even at the most conservative estimate, millions of pounds in revenue for the band (without any of it having to go to that pesky middleman, the record label)...

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With the launch of their 14th album on Monday, the time has finally come for Marillion to take us 'Somewhere Else'.

For those who still think of Marillion as an 80s progressive rock outfit fronted by the outlandishly dressed Fish, it's time to cast aside your prejudice and give them another listen. With Steve Hogarth as their front man since 1989, Marillion now have nine post-Fish albums under their belt, and 'Marbles' is a perfect opportunity to see just how far the band have come since their Kayleigh days.

Their name may have given off negative vibes in the days of avian flu, but after years on the circuit the highly-rated Chicken Legs Weaver are tipped to fly. And so it proved the first time Nick Cooke caught them at the 100 Club.