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The cultural pulse of King's Cross 📍 How we use Twitter: https://t.co/9MGEsNlDka
Kings Cross, London
Joined February 2009
We're very pleased to announce that @TheMontyDon 🧑🌾joins the #NatureUnwrapped programme on Thu 21 May for a very special behind-the-scenes look at his private garden, Longmeadow, followed by a Q&A with @GWmag Editor @lucyhall_GW.
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📢 New Announcement Klaxon!! 📢.Kings Place supports #artists, #promoters and #recordlabels. We’re thrilled to announce we WON’T charge commission to artists when they sell their own merchandise (outside of festivals) 🎉🎉🎉.
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🥂We won!! Delighted to announce Kings Place has won Best Concert Series & Events at #RPSAwards for our 2019 series #VenusUnwrapped, which threw a spotlight on the creative power of female composers. Thank you @RoyalPhilSoc! Some words from @HelenRichenda:
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Last night at Kings Place: a glorious and heartwarming evening of carols to bring in the festive season. Thank you @annalapwood and Pembroke College, Cambridge! @pembroke1347
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We are devastated to hear that the @bbcsingers have been axed. Fond memories of Macmillan’s Seven Last Words with @auroraorchestra & Gubaidulina’s Canticle of the Sun & @juliawolfnyc Anthracite Fields Without them, NONE of the above cd even have been programmed
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💥 Breaking news! @rickygervais to join the Pilot TV LIVE podcast 250th episode as special guest next Sat 19 Aug at Kings Place. Snap your tickets up now! 🎟️
EPISODE 250 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨. We are *extremely* excited to share the headline special guest joining us for our LIVE podcast on 19 Aug at @KingsPlace: the star and creator of After Life, The Office and more, the one and only @rickygervais!. TICKETS:
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A message from our Artistic Director. We aim to raise £20,000 by 31 August to help towards re-opening in the autumn with an enhanced programme of live & streamed events. We believe in our future: we hope you do, too. #SaveKingsPlace . Find out more:
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Don't miss @ChrisHewitt's hilarious interview with @TomHolland1996 on the @empiremagazine podcast. How did he keep that spidey-secret?? Find out and stream to your hearts content for the next 7 days! . 📺
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. @HelenRichenda will be leaving Kings Place to become Head of Music at the Barbican. We all wish Helen well in her new role knowing that, with her creativity and experience, she will continue to raise the quality of music in London. Read our statement:
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Isn't this stunning?! British artist Alex Chinneck's Christmas tree installation is over the road from us in Granary Square. #kingscross
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A hint of tonight's #Allt show with @juliefowlis, our #VoicesUnwrapped Artist-in-Focus, @EamonDoorley, @ZoeConwayfiddle & #JohnMcIntyre 😍 Join us and hear stunning new songs inspired by modern and ancient Irish and Scottish Gaelic poems ✨ . Last few 🎟️
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Tomorrow, 11.30am ⏰ Much-loved author @MichaelRosenYes talks to @NicoletteJones about 'On the Move' - his new, deeply personal poetry collection for children exploring migration and displacement. Presented by @JewishBookWeek. Join us & watch on KPlayer:
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At yesterday's #PoliticsFest18, @Keir_Starmer said a Brexit no deal would be 'catastrophic'. Read more:
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We're thrilled to announce that Sam McShane will join the team as our new Artistic Director from 20 May. Sam's rich experience and innovative, risk-taking approach to programming perfectly aligns with the Kings Place ethos. We can't wait to welcome her!.
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We’re 10 years old! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who’s raised a glass with us tonight and to everyone who’s been a part of our first decade. Here’s to the next one. 🥂 #KP10Years
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Just announced! The 'unsurpassable' (★★★★★ @thesundaytimes) @JRhodesPianist is here 25 June! http://t.co/Wnvh6EokHa
http://t.co/pwXJD4ygo8.
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(1/2) Thrilled to announce that Kings Place has been awarded a Culture Recovery Grant from @DCMS @hmtreasury @ace_national. It's a huge vote of confidence in the work we do, recognising the key role the venue plays in the wider community.
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. @ChrisHewitt welcoming @twhiddleston at Saturday's #EmpirePodcastLive 600th episode bash! . Watch the whole show back (also featuring @MiaMBruce & Ray Winstone) on KPlayer until midnight this Saturday ⏳ . 🎟️ @empiremagazine
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⚡️TONIGHT, 1900 BST: Join us for our 1st #WedsWatch outing and see @MagicTavern's '18 #LondonPodFestshow in full, ft. @cariadlloyd, @tombellforever& @misterspidergod . #HFTMT: ‘Basically, it’s ‘Cheers’ in Middle Earth.’ 🧙♂️..👀 here: .📷 @uk_vittorio
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Incredibly powerful sounds, words and music from @chrisrwatson, @GeorgeMonbiot & @ewanmclennan at tonight’s opening #NatureUnwrapped show, presenting an ‘audio manifesto’ for change 🌎. A huge thank you to these three, @guardianlive and all of you who joined us 💚 #SoundsOfLife
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It’s the Hot Fuzz Spoiler Special with @empiremagazine, Simon Pegg and @edgarwright! 👮♂️ 🦢 #Empire500
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We're delighted to have been shortlisted for a 2020 Royal Philharmonic Society Award 🎉🎉 @RoyalPhilSoc #RPSAwards. We're up for the 'Concert Series and Events Award' with our 2019 #VenusUnwrapped programme celebrating the creative firepower of women composers.
Featuring composers from Medieval times to today, @Kingsplace's Venus Unwrapped was a year-long trailblazer celebrating the creative firepower of female artists. #RPSAwards
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@RowanRheingans @Mayaqanun @craigogden @EquatorFestival @sfbeamish @elias_quartet @zoecello @sevwave @Dazed Following a fantastic Kings Place concert with her brother Sheku (@ShekuKM) in 2017, rising star pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason (@IsataKm) returns on 29 Sep to celebrate the music of #ClaraSchumann as part of #VenusUnwrapped. 🎹✨
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We’ve been overwhelmed by your response to #SaveKingsPlace, so we’re doubling our target to £40k. We want to open safely again, but with 70% of seating capacity removed, it’s going to be a challenge. Your donations will be doubled until 31 August. ❤️
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This Saturday 4 May join us for an #Avengers spoilerific special from @EmpireMagazine podcast!.
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#OnThisDay in 2014 the legendary American singer Prince performed an extraordinarily intimate show in Hall One: #ValentinesDay #Prince.
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🏴📢 Today we announce #ScotlandUnwrapped, a year-long series celebrating Scottish music and spoken word culture. Artist in Residence: @IAMKP .Guest curators: @obanfiddle & @JackieKayPoet . Join us for 80+ events from Jan-Dec 2024. 1st wave now on sale🌊
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1/2 🎶Indescribable joy at hearing music in Hall One again as @theoae reconvenes for the first time since the lockdown to film a brand-new episode of #BachtheUniverseandEverything @KingsPlace, ft a fascinating talk by Dr Dickon Bevington @AFNCCF on the importance of human contact
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For #WorldEnvironmentDay & #NatureUnwrapped, we're delighted to premiere @samleesong's new song ‘Heartwood’ – a stunning setting of .@RobGMacfarlane's poem written in homage to the Sheffield street tree scandal 💚🌳💚. 👀 Watch in full & find out more:
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House of Illustration's Quentin Blake Gallery opens 2 weeks today! And the man himself speaks at @KingsPlace 9 May 😄
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. @OvercoatsWooden is a @britpodawards & @audioverseawrds winner and was included in the Telegraph’s 100 Best Cultural Events of 2021 🏆. The show returns for its final season next year and brand new episodes will be performed live at Kings Place 💫
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#OnThisDay in 1978, The Clash headlined a line-up of punk and reggae bands for a #RockAgainstRacism show in Victoria Park. Learn more about the period in 'Punk Meets Reggae', a @ClassicAlbumSun interview with @RebelDread for #LondonUnwrapped. 🎟️👀➡️
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👀 Premiere of the rediscovered madrigals of Maddalena Casulana thanks to the most excellent @LaurieStras @FieriConsort @BBCRadio3 #iwd2022 The Excellence of Women: Casulana & Strozzi
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The power of singing! Thank you @LondonShowChoir for tonight’s free foyer performance ahead of our first Saturday #VoicesUnwrapped concert with @swinglesingers & @vadesings 😍 #VoicesTogetherKP
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We're thrilled to welcome back the inimitable @SonaJobarteh for two unmissable performances on Sat 9 May (6.30pm, 9pm). Sona is Gambia's first female kora virtuoso 'blending traditional music, blues and Afropop to impressive effect' ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (@guardian).
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We are a place where many audiences belong and we proudly continue building relationships with our European artists, audience members and partners. We share our love of music and art with everyone and remain open to all 🇪🇺🌍
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What a show. Thank you again @steverichards14 for working with us to make #RocknRollPolitics possible from home and to you all for joining us!. 👀 Watch here: ❤️ Help to secure the future of our venue and support our performers:
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Friday, celebrated organist and conductor @annalapwood leads the Girls’ Choir and Chapel Choir of Pembroke College in a captivating festive concert.
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Applause, standing ovations & LIVE music, we’ve missed you ❤️. Thank you @auroraorchestra & everyone who joined us for either (or both!) of tonight’s performances.
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One week to go! 🎹@LondonPianoFest returns with @monterogabriela, @sfbeamish, @owenpiano, @MarcusduSautoy and the marvellous Two-Piano Gala. Book now:
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The one and only @eddireader finally on stage in Hall One celebrating her 40th year of performing live… Worth the wait! Thank you everyone for joining us tonight.
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Happy 12th birthday to us! As the pics from the past few weeks tell us, being able to operate as a venue again is the greatest gift we could ever asked for, thanks to the support from our artistic partners & audiences. Come & enjoy more shows this weekend:
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Are you an aspiring podcaster? Do you want to grill some industry experts? Join us for stimulating discussions and intimate Q&As at #LondonPodFest. Diversity: Just Do It (@weareunedited) Podcasters & Characters of @earwolf @StarleeKine @travismcelroy
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And we're off! @DeborahFW and @GuiltFemPod 5th anniversary is everything we dreamed it would be. Here's Deborah killing it in her opening monologue and our sold out Hall One audience. A very happy anniversary! 🥰 Great to have everyone back in the venue. 📼
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We have beaten the £50k target for our #SaveKingsPlace campaign!! . How can we ever thank you? Kings Place still faces so many challenges while social-distancing continues, but thanks to you we can begin to move tentatively forward. Thank you from us ⬇️❤️
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Our #VoicesUnwrapped Artist-in-Focus @juliefowlis with @brichaimbeul & @obanfiddle rehearsing by @PangolinLondon art here at Kings Place 🐦🎶. Don't miss their #SonglinesEncounters show tomorrow! Last few tickets: . @SonglinesMag
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We're so excited to welcome them in autumn, but have you watched @VOCES8 (last wk) and @ifagiolini's all-Monteverdi tonight at #LivefromLondon Festival? Buy a pass and watch all 10 concerts online, incl. @TheSixteen live-streamed from @KingsPlace in Sep. 🎫
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'Indifference might be one of the plagues of modern society' @BHL at @JewishBookWeek. Watch Misery, Hope, and the Humanitarian Crisis on KPlayer:
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'This is probably a first for Kings Place. ' 🐚. One of many in #UnsilentSpring, the launch event for #NatureUnwrapped ft. @GeorgeMonbiot, @chrisrwatson & @ewanmclennan. We're marking #EarthDay this Wed by sharing the show in full at 7pm! 🌎 #WedsWatch
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Happy Hogmanay 🎉🥂🏴 . 🎞️ @TaliskMusic before their sold out show in November 👏. #Hogmanay #Talisk #NYE2021
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🙏🏼SANO Noburo last night at #nohreimagined #wisteria Tonight @thicktightdance join Japanese Noh performers for a unique collaboration
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. @Elif_Safak in conversation with Mark Lawson discussing her new book 'How To Stay Sane', streaming live from Kings Place right now as part of @JewishBookWeek 📚. The talk will be available to watch on demand until 31 March: @Baddiel up next at 8.15pm!
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JUST ANNOUNCED @AmyAnnette_ + guests @tomallencomedy, @lollyadefope & @jessiecave explore #WhatWomenWant on 24 Apr:
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.@Londonist recommends our #LPFAudioDrama day as one of the top things to do in London this week! ⚡🎙️⚡ . Join us this Sat 30 Nov for some of the UK's finest fiction podcasts: . #podcast #podcasting #audiodrama
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for #UnsilentSpring w/ @GeorgeMonbiot, @ewanmclennan & @chrisrwatson . Powerful sounds, words & music encouraging us all to re-engage with our world and defend it 🌍 #EarthDay2020 . 👀 Available for 7 days: . #WedsWatch
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Celebrate 400 episodes of the @empiremagazine podcast on Wed 5 Feb with @ChrisHewitt @Terri_White @jamescdyer @HelenLOHara and some star guests! .
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Saturday we welcome a festival of the supernatural culminating in a very special live episode of Uncanny, the smash hit paranormal podcast from Radio 4 & BBC Sounds and hosted by @danny_robins. Live and streamed online on KPlayer.
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Congratulations to the @EmpireMagazine podcast team for their 350th episode recording last night! Such a fantastic evening with some superb guests - The Kid Who Would be King director Joe Cornish and #VelvetBuzzsaw star @ZaweAshton. #EmpirePodcastLive 📸 by @uk_vittorio.
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And you, dear @juliefowlis, are a very special artist to us. We are SO humbled by your kindness. ❤️ Thank you for your support to our #SaveKingsPlace campaign, and we can't wait to see you back in Hall One!.➡️ All donations will be doubled until 31 Aug
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📣 JUST ANNOUNCED 📣 The award-winning actor and activist @michaelsheen joins Richard Herring (@Herring1967) as a guest for #RHLSTP on Mon 17 Jun 🎉 Tickets:
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Joe Wilkinson @gillinghamjoe has written a brilliantly absurd account of his time on - and briefly off - planet Earth. Join Joe, @HenryPaker (1/3 of @beansaladpod) and @luciecave for conversation, Q&A and a book signing!. Fri 1 Dec 🎟️ @penguinrandom
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Actor @Alex_Macqueen joins @annalapwood and the choirs of Pembroke College on Friday when he’ll read from the festive works of Rowan Williams, T.S. Elliot, Margaret Deland and Paul Laurence Dunbar. A Ceremony of Carols, Fri 9 Dec . ❄️ Find out more & book
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We’ve had an amazing day celebrating all things TV for #PilotTV200. Full of thrills, surprises, laughs and some serious quiz competition! . Still time to join us this evening for a bumper ep 200 feat. @porksmith (Matt Berry) @corinhardy & much more. Happy birthday @PilotTVPod! 🎉
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Truly incredible achievement from @folkonfoot! Huge congratulations to the team and all the artists who performed at #FrontRoomFest ❤️.
After a truly incredible couple of weeks, our fundraising appeal is now closed at a grand total of £103,834. Given our original dream was to raise £5,000, we are truly astounded and so so grateful to everyone who came together to support independent musicians and @HelpMusiciansUK
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Special guest Jordan Gray @Talldarkfriend confirmed to join @DeborahFW and co-host @kemahbob for Monday's @GuiltFemPod show live at Kings Place #kingscross. Last chance for Tickets! 🎟️
Join us Monday next week when comedian @DeborahFW brings her comedy podcast @GuiltFemPod to #KingsPlace with guest co-host @kemahbob. Tickets available 👉 ‘Very funny… pure guilt-free pleasure.’ Guardian
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An @empiremagazine all-dayer in Hall One? It's the multi-verse we've all been asking for!. Join us for a veritable jamboree of film discussion, special guests and EPIC quiz challenges. #Empire500. 🎬
The Empire Podcast is about to reach its 500th episode! 🚨. To celebrate this milestone, we’re putting on an EPIC day of events at @KingsPlace on Saturday 5th February 2022, with three special live sessions taking place throughout the day. Here’s a thread of what’s in store…
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Our Resident @auroraorchestra are on stage performing for an audience again for the first time since lockdown 🎉🎉🎉. A truly special performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major (from memory) in the heart of @kingscrossN1C
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Take a peep at our dreamy new banners 👀✨. 💫 @cassiekinoshi .💫 @declanorourke .💫 @moormother #IrreversibleEntanglements.💫 @robinince
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Welcome back @KefinMahon & @thejoannagraham! They present a romantic episode of @How2Wrestling at #LondonPodFest today (public proposals, break-ups and more in the world of #wrestling). 🌹❤️🤼♀️
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Creator of Mystery Show and hater of small talk, @StarleeKine chats to @c_crampton about all things podcasting next month. #LondonPodFest.
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Here’s to an amazing end to #VenusUnwrapped! Across 12 months, we issued >26k tckts to 117 shows ft 166 female creatives, hosted 30 premieres & involved >1k musicians. The total line-up of artists across our entire 2019 programme has been 60% female. Thank you all! @KeychangeEU
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We're so thrilled to have won the Concert Series & Festivals award at the #RPSMusicAwards! Huge thanks to all.
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. @MagicTavern returns! This time to launch our #WedsWatch series, ft. free full-length shows on our new digital platform, #KPlayer. We chose their sell-out '18 #LondonPodFest show ft. @ladycariad, @tombellforever & @paulfoxcroft. ⏰19:00, Wed 15 Apr:
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Soul-stirring music from Vermont's @samamidon + band & @beth_orton this evening in Hall One, launching his new album out soon on @NonesuchRecords. Thank you everyone who joined us in the hall or online! The stream will be available for the next 7 days:
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Sun 19 Sep, a new show from uniquely creative pianist and composer @bellepianist and visual artist Bobby Williams exploring London as a living entity through performance, field recordings and visuals. #LondonUnwrapped
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“Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five. [. ] If this doesn’t stop, I’ll send a man to Moscow and there’ll be no need to send any more” Tito to Stalin. @simonmontefiore talks to @TanyaGold1 about the letters that changed the world at #JBW2019 @KingsPlace.
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📢 #SoundUnwrapped 2023 📢 . Over 12 months, we’ll shine a light on pioneering artists & composers who play with sound and space. 🔊 ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: @Hanpeel & Space Afrika. 🔊 PARTNER: @dbaudiotechnik . Discover new sonic dimensions:
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Japanese multi-instrumentalist @Eiko_Ishibashi performs Sun 20 Nov, following her critically-acclaimed soundtrack to the 2022 Oscar-winning film, ‘Drive My Car’. Expect music from across her career 🎹🎶. 🎟️ Last few tix:
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The incredible @juliefowlis performed to a sold-out audience in Hall One yesterday evening, performing material from her latest album alterum, The Beatles and much more! Browse our upcoming folk concerts here: 📷 @ProperMusicGrp
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Before Unsilent Spring with @GeorgeMonbiot on Fri 10 Jan, get to know the genius behind Chris Watson’s work with A Life in Sound, a selection of programmes and soundscapes featuring his unique work.
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Delighted to announce the 2nd wave of events in #ScotlandUnwrapped, our 2024 series celebrating Scottish music & spoken word culture. Artist in Residence: @IAMKP.Guest Curators: @obanfiddle & @JackieKayPoet.Supported by @ShowcaseScot. 🎟️ . @CreativeScots
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Political commentator & broadcaster @steverichards14 is once again our behind-the-scenes guide to the epic dramas and the characters shaping seismic events in this #lockdownuk special #KPLive edition of #RocknRollPolitics. 👀 Mon 27 Apr, 19:00 on #KPlayer:
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#TBT to last night and the beginning of #LondonPodFest with the fabulous @dadwroteaporno! @DrRayBakes from @BritishBakeOff baked a cake! 🎂
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🎶Final day of filming by @theoae for new online episodes of #BachtheUniverseandEverything. Energising to see our beautiful hall in use! Next broadcast is Sunday 19 July, 11.30am 👉🏻 �
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Happy New Year to all our audiences, performers, staff and community! 🥂🥂🥂 We will meet again.
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★★★★★ 'Not all musicians can improvise, and few can do it with this degree of control and invention.' .@guardian . Sensational review of @monterogabriela's @LondonPianoFest performance!.
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Miss out on the 600th @empiremagazine Podcast party with special guests @twhiddleston, @MiaMBruce & Ray Winstone?. Watch the whole event back exclusively on KPlayer until midnight on Sat 27 Jan! #EmpirePodcastLive . 📷 Marco Vittur. 👀
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You know him for his BAFTA-winning sound recordings for the nature documentaries with D Attenborough, incl. the Life series. Catch our #NatureUnwrapped 2020 Artist-in-Residence @chrisrwatson @InConservation1 w/.@urbanbirder. 📅 Mon 13 Jul 7pm.📝 Free reg:
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West Handyside Canopy is our Hall One tonight for the performance of Beethoven’s Symphony #7 by @auroraorchestra in @kingscrossN1C. Here’s an excerpt from the much-loved second movement. ✨🎶 #goosebumps
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Celebrate the power and the joy of singing with #VoicesUnwrapped throughout 2022 🗣️. We're delighted to announce our first wave of events ☀️⬇️ . More info & tickets ➡️
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Hundreds are getting ready for the grand finale of @JewishBookWeek @KingsPlace ft. @ZoeWanamaker Emily @maitlis @philippesands @simonmontefiore Brian Leveson @Writerlev @jayrayner1 @jasonsfolly @SaulReichlin Janet Suzman, Henry Goodman + Nicholas Hytner. What a line-up! @WJRelief
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Happy #IWD2020! Having committed to @PRSFoundation's #KeyChange initiative tackling the gender imbalance in music industry, we are proud to provide a platform for women composers & performers to inspire audiences. Here's a selection of those amazing artists⬇️ #EachforEqual
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