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The Kerrang! Relentless Energy Tour 2010 is back for another year and this time will play a very special date at the Roundhouse. As always Kerrang! bring you some of the hottest bands in rock. General booking opens Friday 9 October.

Headlining the tour is All Time Low, who will be coming back to the UK after a two month... long US tour. Gaining exposure through MTV and TRL, this band has fast become one of the hottest pop punk bands in the US and the UK. They worked alongside Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus on their album Nothing Personal, which went into the Billboard charts at number 4 – selling over 63,000 copies.

The Blackout are one of the most hardworking home-grown bands out there - this Welsh six-piece have toured relentlessly around the world, with stints on Warped Tour and Taste of Chaos as well as selling out venues across the UK. They released their storming second album The Best In Town in May 2009 and have been non-stop since. These lads from the valleys are stepping out of the mould and are giving even the most successful rock acts a run for their money!

Young Guns have begun to make quite the impact in rock circles over the last year – since the release of their EP Mirrors this London based quintet have been taking the rock world by storm, winning them various fans amongst the media. They have toured alongside the likes of Taking Back Sunday, The Used and Lostprophets as well as their very first appearance at Download Festival. They are fast becoming one of the most talked about and exciting unsigned UK bands around.

My Passion are four young men with a fearless, rebellious intention, DIY ethics and a genre-smashing electronic induced metallic punk sound. Word quickly spread as they took their energetic show on the road, racking up almost 500 shows at the last count. Crowds swelled due to word of mouth, as well as those who discovered My Passion online via their MySpace page, which now has over 1 million plays. Things are only going from strength to strength for My Passion.

For tickets and more information: http://roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/productions/kerrang-relentless-tour-2010-4152Read More

Rolf Hind with Moritz Eggert, Antoine Francoise, Zubin Kanga, Eliza McCarthy, Leon Michener, Sarah Nicolls, Noriko Ogawa (pianos), Joby Burgess (percussion), James Crabb (accordion) and dancer Jonathan Goddard.

An incredible evening of new music for up to seven pianos – Poul Ruders’ dramatic De Profundis, Jeremy Thurlow...’s Prelude, Charlie Piper’s new acoustic arrangements of John Adams’ electronic classic Hoodoo Zephyr, Rolf Hind’s Sunnata, for five pianos and honky tonk, Claudia Molitor’s Tango Two with Rolf Hind and award-winning dancer Jonathan Goddard (with the collaboration of Mark Baldwin from Rambert Dance), and James Crabb performing music for accordion by Piazzolla.

The performance begins and ends with the premiere of a new work by Oscar Bettison which involves all the performers and volunteers from the audience (on whatever you can bring along to hit, bang, scrape or shake) in music for many, many hands…

Tickets £12.50 - £20
Performance ends at approx. 9.45pm

After the final performance all the artists from Many Pianos will join the audience in the Roundhouse café and foyers.

For tickets and more information: http://roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/productions/many-hands-4129Read More

Six men, six mics, infectious tunes, slick moves and a tight rhythm section … but no instruments.

The Magnets have taken acappella music to a whole new audience. Combining harmony vocals and beat box drumming they have created a sound to rival any other band, with songs by artists as diverse as Joy Divison, Bon Jovi and... the Beatles.

‘Slick, entertaining, with infectious groove’ Time Out

Tickets £12.50 - £20

After the performance the artists will join the audience in the Roundhouse café and foyers.

For tickets and more information: http://roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/productions/the-magnets-4121Read More

Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment and Vladimir Jurowski with the Roundhouse Music Collective

The Roundhouse plays host to the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s revolutionary Night Shift performances for the first time – performing classical music in a relaxed and contemporary environment. This event explor...es the music of Beethoven, one of classical music’s great mavericks, through his majestic Coriolan Overture and fiery Seventh Symphony.

The OAE are joined by the newly formed Roundhouse Music Collective – a group of diverse musicians aged 16-25, directed by vibesman Orphy Robinson and improviser Leon Michener – for two eclectic sets mixing electronica, alternative classical, folk and funk at 8-8.45pm and 10.15-11.30pm in the Roundhouse café.

‘The OAE has created a winner with the Night Shift - that rarest of classical music-birds: a newfangled concert format that lives up to the hype.’ The Guardian

Tickets: £7.50 - £15

After the performance the artists will join the audience in the Roundhouse café and foyers.

For tickets and more information: http://roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/productions/oae---the-night-shift-4117Read More

Roundhouse Radio this weekend:

Tonight we've got Dave Gamble going live at 6pm featuring an interview with minimal techno DJ Magda.

Then from 7pm, Kate and the Arts Attack team check out the latest in arts and culture, and look at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which this week had the highest-earning entertainment laun...ch ever.

Tomorrow from 8pm, Fresh Cuts is back, playing the best in new and exclusive urban music.Read More

Hammers, nails, drainpipes, axle grinders, power drills, frying pans, bottles, bricks, explosions, chair legs and the occasional trumpet – Zic Zazou’s Mechaniciens workshop is a place where objects unusual, strange and at times downright dangerous are all turned to musical use.

Part music, part theatre, part comedy and ...part engineering, Zic Zazou’s nine ‘Mechaniciens’ bring their unique and highly entertaining performance to the Roundhouse, following their critically acclaimed run in the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Tickets: £17.50 - £25

For tickets and more information: http://roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/productions/zic-zazou-s-brocante-sonore--4111Read More

Charles Hazlewood presents an All Star line up including Rachel and Becky Unthank, Adrian Utley (Portishead), Charlie Jones (Goldfrapp), and members of his period instrument orchestra Army of Generals.

Original opera of folk tunes with lyrics by John Gay, additional music by Handel & Purcell

The Beggar’s Opera changed Lo...ndon’s theatrical landscape overnight when it was first performed in 1728: using the music of London’s streets and a villainous cast of gangsters, gamblers, whores, highwaymen and assorted libertines in an explosive and derisive tirade against the class system, political corruption and the musical establishment.

But The Beggar's Opera lost its teeth over the years as the great British folk tunes Gay employed disappeared from our culture. Charles Hazlewood's reimagining of these songs injects some 21st century fire into muscular old tunes, as well as the music by Handel and Purcell that Gay so savagely satirised. From songs recreated exactly as they would have sounded to groove-laden walls of psychedelia, this workshop performance reclaims our musical heritage for now. The audience should come expecting to sing!

For tickets and more information: http://roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/productions/charles-hazlewood-s-4107Read More

Young firebrand New Yorker Nico Muhly is one of the most exciting and diverse composers around today. Equally at home on the concert platform or in the recording studio, he has written and performed with major American symphony orchestras and artists including Björk and Sigur Rós.

Muhly will direct and perform Britten S...infonia in a programme exploring his own compositions alongside works by his musical mentors Steve Reich and Philip Glass, and new songs and arrangements with his latest collaborator, the young American roots singer Sam Amidon.

PHILIP GLASS
Mad Rush

NICO MUHLY
Step Team (conducted by Nicholas Collon)

NICO MUHLY
The Only Tune

NICO MUHLY
By All Means (conducted by Nicholas Collon)

SAM ADION
Two Old American Songs

STEVE REICH
City Life

Tickets: £15 - £30

Performance ends at approx. 9.30pm

After the performance the artists will join the audience in the Roundhouse café and foyers.

For more tickets and more information: http://roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/productions/nico-muhly-4103Read More

London Contemporary Orchestra, one of the UK’s youngest and most adventurous ensembles, make their Roundhouse debut.

Biosphere, aka Norwegian musician Geir Jenssen, has attracted a cult following for his ambient electronica – Shhoctavoski, his first piece for orchestra, is given its UK premiere with the Roundhouse Exper...imental Choir. Shiva Feshareki’s unconventional and often outrageous music has been performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and at the BBC Proms – she performs the world premiere of her concerto for turntables and orchestra.

Steve Reich’s Different Trains is one of the composer’s most evocative works – this event sees it performed in a venue originally built as a train engine shed, with live film created by young people from Roundhouse Studios. The performance finishes with the UK premiere of one of John Cage’s Seventy Four, his swan song, composed months before his death in 1992.

Biosphere aka Geir Jenssen (b. 1962)
Shhoctavoski (UK Premiere)

Steve Reich (b. 1936)
Different Trains

Shiva Feshareki (b. 1987)
TTKonzert (World Premiere)

John Cage (1912 – 1992)
Seventy-Four (UK Premiere)

Shiva Feshareki (turntables)
Hugh Brunt (conductor)

Tickets: £7.50 - £15
Pre-concert talk in association with Young People in the Arts: Studio Theatre 8.30pm
Performance ends at approx. 11.10pm
After the performance the artists will join the audience in the Roundhouse café and foyers.

For tickets and more information: http://roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/productions/london-contemporary-orchestra-4099Read More