And behind door number 22... a guide to some music of the more traditional kind
Catherine Munn and Jacob Martin list their Top 5 programmes to watch over the festive period.
And behind door number nine... some dazzling musical delights
The complete arts guide, for week 9
What on earth does that spell? Only bloody artsweek! And here it is, back from a brief hiatus to give you the lowdown on what you should be doing with your lives this week (or at least some things you should consider doing. Or things to tell your friends you *might* be doing, when really you have no intention of interrupting the evening you've designated for watching Torchwood on iPlayer. But hey, it's good to keep up appearances).
As far as drama is concerned we're all a bit spoiled for choice this week, with David Hare's Amy's View opening only last week, Theatre Royal has another opening night, this time for Nick Lane's adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 on Thursday. A bit closer to home, both geographically and temporally, is the run of Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus from Thursday to Sunday at the Drama Barn. A sexually-driven farce with Bennett's typical sideways-glance at the class system, it looks to be a titillating treat.
Bosh. And if thoughts of a dystopian future (Orwell, not Bennett) have you yearning for a bit of summery escapism, Rob Da Bank's Bestival Reunion Tour pops over to Leeds Faversham on Friday, with the incredible DJ Yoda in tow. Why not pretend that the sporadic sunshine we've been getting is actually the herald of some warmth, don't wash for a few days, get a brave friend to offer you pills really unsubtly and have an evening inside a preemptive festival bubble? Just make sure you don't have a transcendental epiphany in the middle of the Fav and get chucked out, because it's actually still freezing out.
Promising to deliver as much in the way of cutting edge sounds and exciting visuals as DJ Yoda (there's a tagline for the poster...) Fusion is hitting campus this Friday and Saturday. Aside from giving loads of money to charity each year, the event also offers a unique celebration of urban dance, music and fashion in our quaint rural idyll of a campus, so if you've got some combats and a vest-top underneath your layers of tweed and flat caps dig them out and roll down to central hall (although you could actually get away with a flat cap really easily - you could pull it off, I promise - but let's not let the rural plunderings of the fashion world destroy a perfectly good stereotype).
Gigs:
Duffy at Leeds Brudenell Social Club, Tuesday. Metronomy at Leeds Hifi, Tuesday. Yeti at Leeds Brudenell Social Club, Wednesday. This Ain't Vegas/Catweasels at York Basement Bar, Saturday.
Legends:
Pam Ayres Mothering Sunday poetry reading at City Screen, Sunday.
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