Surrey Jazz Orchestra - Last Tuesday of the month at Jacobs Well Village Hall, Guildford (unless stated as elsewhere), plus other gigs in between 28 January 2025 - With Lana 25 February 2025 - With Nate Rogers 25 March 2025 - With Paul Hudson 29 April 2025 - With young tale...
Classical music: Let the music soothe you MEDICI STRING QUARTET UNIVERSITY OF SURREY GUILDFORDUNTIL TEN years or so ago, Nigel Osborne was at the forefront of Britain's avant-garde. Then his name suddenly seemed to vanish from the concert programmes. But this was no Sibelian silence: Osborne...
In my case, my first live gig was in the Summer of 1980, aged 12, at a village hall in deepest rural Surrey. I already knew my way around the new wave jungle at that point, thanks to an older brother and his mates, and the band I saw that night – Blank Expression, schoolboys ...