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Black Country Cover - Nov_Layout 1 28/10/2013 19:19 Page 1 BLACK COUNTRY WHAT’S ON WHAT’S COUNTRY BLACK THE MIDLANDS ESSENTIAL ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE BLACK COUNTRY ISSUE 335 NOVEMBER 2013 NOVEMBER ’ Whatwww.whatsonlive.co.uk sOnISSUE 335 NOVEMBER 2013 WILL YOUNG INTERVIEW INSIDE... RUSSELL BRAND ★★★★★ brings the Messiah ‘WILL YOUNG’S Complex to the Midlands TRIUMPH. PART OF MIDLANDS WHAT’S ON MAGAZINE GROUP PUBLICATIONS GROUP MAGAZINE ON WHAT’S MIDLANDS OF PART TOMORROW DOES INDEED BELONG TO HIM’ TIM WALKER · SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BILL KENWRIGHT PRESENTS WILL YOUNG AS EMCEE SIOBHAN MATT LYN LINAL BEADY EYE DILLON RAWLE PAUL HAFT AS AS AS AS SALLY BOWLES CLIFF FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER HERR SCHULTZ happy to BE in Wolves SHAKTI: NIKHIL CHOPRA contemporary art exploring India’s past... @WHATSONWOLVES WWW.WHATSONLIVE.CO.UK @WHATSONWOLVES TUES 26 - SAT 30 NOVEMBER Box Office 01902 42 92 12 BOOK ONLINE AT grandtheatre.co.uk XFACTOR FP NOV_Layout 1 28/10/2013 19:22 Page 1 SAT 9 NOV EVERY SATURDAY FINALISTS LIVE As each X Factor finalist leaves the show they will appear LIVE at The Buttermarket two weeks later! SAT 2 NOV DOORS OPEN AT 7.30PM GIG FROM 8PM NO AGE RESTRICTIONS GIGS TICKETS: THE BUTTERMARKET.CO.UK CHECK OUT OUR FACEBOOK & TWITTER TO WIN TICKETS! Contents- Region Two - Nov_Layout 1 28/10/2013 19:38 Page 1 November 2013 Editor: Davina Evans INSIDE: [email protected] 01743 281708 Editorial Assistants: West Side Story Brian O’Faolain [email protected] on tour in the region p23 01743 281701 Lauren Foster [email protected] 01743 281707 Adrian Parker [email protected] 01743 281714 Sales & Marketing: Jon Cartwright [email protected] 01743 281703 Chris Horton [email protected] 01743 281704 Subscriptions: Adrian Parker Katie Hall [email protected] 01743 281714 interview inside p8 Managing Director: Paul Oliver [email protected] 01743 281711 Publisher and CEO: Martin Monahan [email protected] 01743 281710 Graphic Designers: Lisa Wassell Chris Atherton Accounts Administrator Julia Perry Will Young exclusive - read the interview on page 6 [email protected] 01743 281717 Vampire Weekend Website Development: Jim Pallett New York City rockers arrive in the Midlands p11 Contributors: TO GET THE VERY p4 Graham Bostock: Theatre LATEST LISTING News James Cameron-Wilson: Film; Anita Champaneri: INFORMATION, Eating Out; Music p11 Alev Dervish: Music VISIT: Eva Easthope, Kate whatsonlive.co.uk Evans, Jessica Aston, Comedy p20 Patsy Moss, Jack Rolfe, INCLUDING Jan Watts, Reggie White BOOKING ONLINE Theatre p23 Head Office: 13-14 Abbey Foregate, The Midlands’ most Shrewsbury, SY2 6AE comprehensive p32 Tel: 01743 281777 entertainment website Dance e-mail: [email protected] Follow us on... 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News November region two_Layout 1 28/10/2013 16:54 Page 1 News A ROUND-UP OF LOCAL AND NATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS BRB awarded Arts Council England funding Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) has announced that it’s secured £1.85million as part of Arts Council England’s Capital Investment Programme. The grant will allow the Hippodrome-based company to under- take major improvements to its Thorpe Street rehearsal base. By developing its cur- rent site into a multi-purpose building able to accommodate both a large workforce and visiting personnel, BRB believes it will be able to ‘build on the delivery of a wide range of activities expected of a modern and out- ward-facing world-class ballet company’. It’s anticipated that the total cost of the refur- bishment will be £2.7million, the remainder of which will be raised via funding from pri- vate sources, as part of BRB’s Campaign For The Future. David Essex to open REP new season Birmingham Repertory Theatre has announced its programme of shows for the first half of 2014. The recently refurbished Centenary Square venue was visited by one hundred-and-seventy thou- sand people during the month following its 3 September reopening, and is determined to build on its autumn success. Opening the 2014 season in the main auditorium is David Essex starring in BRB’s current rehearsal space the European premiere of The Dishwashers, Canadian writer Morris Panych’s play about the Zen of dishwashing. Other 2014 REP highlights include a revival of Roxana Silbert’s critically acclaimed Spooky tales sought by RSC production, A Life Of Galileo; the premiere of Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s latest play, Khandan; the National Trust premiere of Birmingham-born Rachel De-lahay’s Circles, set on the city’s outer-circle bus route; and a revival of Bryony Lavery’s award-winning 1998 play, Frozen. For further information, ring The Midlands branch of the National Trust 0121 236 4455 or visit birmingham-rep.co.uk. has launched a storywriting competition for children. The Halloween-themed initiative is asking youngsters aged twelve and under to be even more popular. TeenStar auditions put pen to paper and create a ghoulish tale Chinese artwork to show at will take place at venues across the UK, inspired by one of the Trust's West Midlands including Birmingham’s NEC, with a £5,000 Millennium Point venues. The winning entry will then be made cash prize being awarded to the overall A huge inflatable suckling pig is set to be into an illustrated book. The closing date for national winner at a prestigious event at installed inside Birmingham Millennium entries is 15 November. More information London’s O2. If you think you’ve got what it Point’s vast indoor space, as part of a new can be found at takes, then log on to www.teenstarcompeti- arts strategy. Chinese artist Cao Fei’s House www.nationaltrust.org.uk/spookystories tion.co.uk to find out more about auditions in Of Treasures - described as a reflection on your area. contemporary prosperity and abundance - is the first exhibit in an ongoing Millennium Point initiative which aims to place contem- Great British Baker bringing porary art at the centre of its public program- his cakes and bakes to the ming. Members of the general public will be able to step inside the pig to watch video region footage made by Cao Fei. The exhibit’s 5 to One of the biggest names in TV baking is set 15 November stay at Millennium Point marks to take audiences on a journey through his the first time the work has been presented gourmet life in a brand new stage show. Paul outside China. Hollywood Live - Get Your Bake On! stops off at Wolverhampton’s Civic Hall on 2 May next year. Providing an insight into Paul’s On the hunt for singing time at some of the world’s most exclusive teenagers... hotels, the show fea- TeenStar - the first and only singing competi- tures the man himself tion exclusively for teenagers - is on a UK- not only sharing anec- wide search for talent. The competition, dotes from his time on which is split into three categories, attracted the Bake Off but also over nine thousand entrants last year, and demonstrating a number it’s hoped that the 2014 event will prove to of his favourite recipes. 4 www.whatsonlive.co.uk News November region two_Layout 1 28/10/2013 16:54 Page 2 Denise Van Outen to present Image from the recent Squash & Squeeze exhibition new one-woman show at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Following acclaimed Broadway and West End performances in Chicago, Legally Blonde and Tell Me On A Sunday, former Big Breakfast presenter Denise van Outen is hitting the road with a new one-woman show that she’s co-written with Terry Ronald. Some Girl I Used To Know tells the story of media darling Stephanie Canworth, who, when poked by a former love on Facebook, takes a trip down memory lane and questions whether the life she’s living is the one that she really wants. Some Girl I Used To Know shows at Birmingham's New Alexandra Theatre from Mon 10 to Wed 12 February, and Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre from 20 to 22 February. New festival on the Frontier A new city-wide festival celebrating the Rowland Emett exhibition coming to Brum music of Downtown New York - from John A series of sculptures and artworks by the legendary Rowland Emett will be on show at Cage and Philip Glass to post-punk and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG) next year. Well known as the man behind the fly- jazz - is to take place in Birmingham next ing car which appeared in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Emett was also an eminent car- March. Featuring many leading artists from toonist, regularly contributing to Punch magazine.