Going out Life&Style

48 METRO Thursday, January 10, 2013 Life&Style going out CLUBS THEATRE REVIEW A VERY OLD MAN FABRICLIVE + LFO WITH ENORMOUS WINGS HHHH$ + BLACKOUT + Magic realism and puppetry are tups for the sick and the curious natural bedmates: both come to gawp at the creature she is SOUNDCRASH from the same imaginative convinced must be an angel, space, where the mundane is albeit one now locked up in a transformed into the miraculous chicken coop. Although the Tomorrow night, join Hessle Audio and the extraordinary can production expands on this co-founder Ben UFO for a headline suddenly !t into your hand. moral aspect, the narrative is a slot at Fabric to celebrate the This collaboration between bit saggy. Instead, the glory is in release of his FabricLive Little Angel Theatre and the detail – in the array of rod compilation. The superclub will be Kneehigh is based on the puppet villagers, from the taken over by a powerful Gabriel García Márquez story libidinous priest to the bank combination of electronic music’s about the old man with manager with the expanding key players with Manchester’s wings who falls from stomach and in the outstanding premiere underground night nowhere into the stagecraft played out on Lyndie Hoya:Hoya relocating to room garden of a villager Wright’s perspective-shifting set. two; Ben UFO and the Hessle and instantly Most spellbinding of all is the Audio family, Pangaea and heals the knobbly old man, who here Pearson Sound in room one; and woman’s sick takes on a mysterious, cruci!ed IDM (intelligent dance music) son. The man’s Christ-like aura, and who, with publication and label Sonic Router transformative powers the smallest of gestures, projects in room three. Hoya:Hoya regulars are seized on by the an otherworldly mix of sorrow Illum Sphere, Eclair Fi! and Jon K woman, who, dreaming and wonder. Claire Allfree will join a line up of legendary of swimming pools and Until Jan 19, Battersea Arts Centre. and new talents that includes chau"eurs, charges !ve www.bac.org.uk experimental producer Kuedo – one half of dubstep originals Vex’d – to play a live AV show. Plus there’s emerging talent Call Super, while crazed techno infused selectors and Berghain residents MMM perform live. From new talents at Fabric to one part of a duo who created the blue print for British underground Headline slot: Hessle Audio’s Ben UFO tops the bill at Fabriclive electronica: LFO at XOYO. With more than "# years’ experience in producer Nightwave to play. Listen the night are long-standing the game, this act helped out for performances by heavy- member DJ Hazard and Dutch independent label Warp become a weight techno R&S signing MPIA$ techstep trio Black Sun Empire household name and it’s still (Truss) and dark hip hop beat who will, no doubt, showcase driven by core member Mark Bell. maker Loops Haunt. tracks from their From The His awe-inspiring live LED light On Saturday night, prepare to Shadows LP. Providing the hard- backdrop twinned with hard beats strap yourself in and get ready for hitting neurofunk are Phace, will guarantee a packed show. The some bass care of We Fear Optical and Mindscape, while night is hosted by esteemed Silence Presents: Blackout at Slovenian drumstep duo electronic institution Red Bull Cable. The night caters for those Telekinesis are set to slay the Music Academy who have who like their drum’n’bass with a dance-%oor with their no-messing recruited former Academy backbone: dark and grimy. take on &'$ bpm. member and twisted juke Providing a pumping selection on At KOKO on Saturday, Soundcrash Presents sees the mighty Trojan and Channel One sound systems come together for THEATRE REVIEW THE RIME OF a night of roots, culture and bass. HHH$$ Channel One’s Mikey Dread and THE ANCIENT MARINER Ras Kayleb’s $#-year residency on Fiona Shaw is developing a nice the corner of Westbourne Park sideline giving poetry recitals in Road at Notting Hill Carnival, and evocative settings. She’s countless clash victories, has performed The Waste Land in a cemented them as one of Britain’s staging by Deborah Warner at ultimate sound systems. Channel the crumbling Wilton’s Music One will toast away the winter Hall. Here, she tackles Coleridge’s blues alongside the iconic Trojan great &')* evocation of a system kicking o( the year on a nightmare sea voyage. positive note. As well as a live It’s hard to think of a more performance from Trojan, jazzy perfect venue for a heart-of- dancer Daniel Hay-Gordon drum’n’bass pioneer LTJ Bukem, darkness journey than the dank, (pictured above with Shaw), who who needs no introduction, will be cavernous Old Vic Tunnels, so it’s she manipulates puppet-style so taking to the turntables alongside a pity Phyllida Lloyd’s production that his shadow takes the shape Dynamite MC playing classics such doesn’t always feel an adequate of an albatross. as Atlantis and cuts from his Good response to the space. The poem’s inexorable ballad Looking label. Hayley Joyes In Coleridge’s work, an ancient metre surges like an ocean, sea dog recounts the story of his carrying you along. But Shaw’s Tomorrow, FabricLive, Fabric. ship’s fate after he unthinkingly frequently jocular recital and www.fabriclondon.com shoots down an albatross. The Lloyd’s staging don’t edge into Tomorrow, Red Bull Music narrative poem is given a darker territory. The evening Academy Presents LFO, XOYO. forthright telling by Shaw, achieves an arresting simplicity http://warp.net/records/lfo looking trim in a navy sweater without keenly bringing out the Saturday, We Fear Silence Presents (there’s no attempt to kit her out tale’s contagious note of fright. Blackout, Cable. as the disturbing ‘grey-beard Maxie Szalwinska www.cable-london.com loon’ of the story). Her few props Until Sun, The Old Vic Tunnels. Saturday, Soundcrash Presents, include an unfurled sailcloth and http://oldvictunnels.com/ KOKO. www.soundcrashmusic.com.

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