The British Music Experience

Leggi e ascolta. The British Music Experience

What do The Beatles, Elton John, Queen, Oasis, Coldplay, the Arctic Monkeys and Adele have in common? They all come from Britain! British pop music has a fantastic history and, today, you can learn about it at the British Music Experience in London.

The British Music Experience is an interactive museum of popular music. It’s in Greenwich, in south-east London, and it’s part of an enormous entertainment complex, the O2. At the museum you can read about British music stars, watch music videos, listen to songs and albums, look at famous musical instruments and even become a star in your own music video!

Do you play a musical instrument? Then go to the Gibson Interactive Studio in the museum. In the studio you can sing karaoke and you can play the guitar, drums, bass and piano!

High Five Level 2 . Unit 1, Culture club p. 19 © Oxford University Press PHOTOCOPIABLE Do you prefer to dance to music? No problem! In the Dance the Decades section of the museum, virtual dance instructors teach you famous dances from the past 70 years! You can learn the Twist, the Locomotion and Disco dancing! It’s great fun!

Finally, before you go home, don’t forget to visit the rest of the O2. It’s got a concert arena with space for 23,000 people. There’s also a multiscreen cinema, a music club and a lot of bars, restaurants and shops! Are you coming to London this year? Then the British Music Experience and the O2 is a date for your diary!