Raucous pogo-ing, stage-diving and three-chord anthems from California’s Bad Religion are a typical evening’s entertainment at Vienna’s cradle of punk, Arena. The band will be playing songs from their latest Todd Rundgren-produced album ‘The New America’, their 14th to date. Singer-songwriter Greg Graffin sees the album as a new awakening for the band, taking the [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Bad Religion
December 16, 2009Prague Symphony Orchestra
December 13, 2009The city’s finest municipal orchestra perform in one of its finest municipal spaces, the 1906 monument to Art Nouveau that houses the magnificent Smetana Hall. Conducted by Tadeusz Strugala, the Prague Symphony Orchestra offers up a programme of little-known Czech music, paired with a classic that comes complete with shimmering climax. Petr Pokorny’s Two songs [...]
Bruno Lazzari
December 11, 2009The perfect way to slacken the waistline after another monster portion of Tiramisu is to head to the Lido where Bruno Lazzari rents bikes from his shop, a two-minute walk from the Vaporetto stop. You can take a classic two-wheeler, a tandem, a tandem with sunshade – for those with sunburn from the day before [...]
Black Comedy + The Real Inspector Hound
December 10, 2009Peter Shaffer’s ‘Black Comedy’ takes the audience on a journey right into the centre of a blackout in London. Brindsley ‘borrows’ some priceless antique furniture to impress his girlfriend’s father and the crusade to return it plunges his life into utterly hilarious disintegration. In Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Real Inspector Hound’ (book at London Theatre Breaks) [...]
