In Pictures: Zoo Lates

In Pictures: Zoo Lates

As the weather gets hotter, you may feel the urge to sate those animal instincts. Where better to unleash that inner tiger than London Zoo which has started up again its series of after-work Friday night extravaganzas, Zoo Lates? As wild as anything on display last...
CD Review: The Urban Voodoo Machine’s Rare Gumbo

CD Review: The Urban Voodoo Machine’s Rare Gumbo

To mark their tenth anniversary, gypsy blues bop ‘n’stroll collective The Urban Voodoo Machine release Rare Gumbo through Gypsy Hotel Records/Cadiz Music, in advance of their forthcoming third studio album Love, Drink and Death. Rare Gumbo is a compilation of songs...
Review: The Urban Voodoo Machine

Review: The Urban Voodoo Machine

London’s “Bourbon-soaked Gypsy Blues Bop’n’Stroll” collective The Urban Voodoo Machine celebrated their tenth anniversary with a vaudeville orchestra extravaganza at Leicester Square Theatre. Before the show, the dozen musicians that make up the Machine line up for...
Review: Carousel

Review: Carousel

Go round and round this maze of music, burlesque and dance. Mind the snake. If we were to say we’re about to review Carousel – how many of you would think of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical? None? Excellent. Carousel is a “twisted affair” of all things...