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JLS to play at Epsom Downs

Chart-toppers: JLS.

4:00am Tuesday 9th February 2010

Boy band JLS will play live after an evening of horse racing at Epsom Downs on Thursday, July 22.

Paramedics by day, rock stars by night

Climbing high: Kobayashi

11:41am Monday 8th February 2010

By day, parademic's Matthew Searles and Mark Durham are busy saving lives across south London, but by night they have a very different past time.

Testing 1,2,3 is back

In with a chance: Oil on Canvas

8:20am Monday 8th February 2010

Oil on Canvas' Tom Chamberlain is hoping to follow in the footsteps of other former Archbishop Tenison pupils and triumph at Testing 1,2,3.

EastEnders' Barry steps into Ronnie Barker's shoes

Close to tears: Shaun Williamson as Fletcher and Daniel West as Godber

7:20am Monday 8th February 2010

As a child, Shaun Williamson used to go to school the day after a Porridge episode and recite the best lines to his friends, so you can understand why it didn't take him long to accept the role of Fletcher in the stage adaption of the classic sitcom.

New Warehouse season set to thrill

Ready for a farce: Action from Richard Farrar's new offering, Relax

8:20am Sunday 7th February 2010

An international playwriting festival, a comedy about a kinky guesthouse owner and an opera group with a difference are all coming to Warehouse Theatre over the next three months.

Led Bib want to go for another Mercury Prize

Big Tweed fans: Led Bib

9:30am Saturday 6th February 2010

Drummer Mark Holub admits Led Bib were probably not ready to win the Mercury Music Prize last year, but haven't ruled out having another shot at the title.

Lizzy Parks to jazz up George IV

Lizzy Parks

5:10pm Friday 5th February 2010

Lizzy Parks escaped rainy London for the far sunnier climes of Cannes but the singer, who specialises in jazzy, soul-tinged tunes, is heading back to England to promote her latest album, This and That, with a gig at Chiswick’s George IV. She spoke to Will Gore.

Album Review: Hair of the Dog, Three Bonzos and a Piano

Three Bonzos and a Piano

1:09pm Friday 5th February 2010

Hair of the Dog, by Three Bonzos and a Piano. (Repeat Performance records) “Who kept the dogs in!” comes the fearsome shout heralding the arrival of Three Bonzos and a Piano, the self-styled villains of vaudeville, and a bite-sized line up of arguably the world’s silliest group – the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

Welcome to the mad world of the Bonzos...

Roger Ruskin Spear (Pic by Nick Booth)

1:03pm Friday 5th February 2010

PAUL ASKEW and NICK BOOTH talk shirts, trousers and ‘mucking about’ with saxophone player Roger Ruskin Spear, ahead of a major London gig with his band Three Bonzos and a Piano.

Peppa Pig has a birthday to celebrate

Happy Birthday: Peppa Pig's in a mood to celebrate

12:24pm Friday 5th February 2010

Not content with dominating children's television ratings, Peppa Pig has taken to the stage in her first live show.







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