Rock and Pop: Latest News > September 16
Published: 16 September 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
SOME of my absolute favourite music events of the year are looming, so save up your pennies. Tim Robbins plays the Union Chapel (September 30), Mencap Little Noise Sessions comes up in November and BBC Electric Proms is next month. The Union Chapel’s Little Noise Sessions are the most memorable I’ve ever been to and always produce unique, unpredictable moments. I can’t wait to see the line-up. Although the Electric Proms will be a smaller affair this year, the calibre of the stars is higher than ever. Pleased to see Elton John and Robert Plant aready lined up to play the Roundhouse, but waiting with bated breath to hear which up-and-comers have been signed up.
• The last Lockstock festival of the year is imminent, so if you don’t want to miss this musical extravagnza, get down to Camden Lock on Thursday (September 23) from 2pm. Six acts, 50 stages and it’s all free.
• Mr Hudson, The Kooks, Man Like Me and Eddy Temple Morris are among the many acts signed up to celebrate the life of the late Charlie Haddon, former frontman of Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, who died last month. Chazzstock takes place at Koko (October 3) – a particularly poignant event for Camden.
• Charlie from The Hamptons called this week to say his band plays The Monarch (September 21). From what I can gather, they’re called The Hamptons although they’ve never been there, and Charlie, who once sailed the Atlantic in a yacht, is from Gainsville, Florida, of Koran-burning preacher fame.