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events for 21/05/2008

Journey South - 07:30PM 21/05/2008
location - De Montfort Hall, Leicester
After the phenomenal platinum selling debut album and a series of live performances as part of the X Factor Tour, Andy and Carl return to the road this spring for another set of headlining gigs including their second visit to dmh.


The Zombies and The Yardbirds - 07:30PM 21/05/2008
location - De Montfort Hall , Leicester
Flying Music proudly present rock legends The Zombies (Colin Blunstone, Rod Argent, Keith Airey, Jim Rodford & Steve Rodford) and The Yardbirds (Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Ben King, John Idan & Billy Boy Miskimmin) in concert. As part of "The British Invasion" in the 1960s, following The Beatles in 1964 The Zombies were the second UK group to score an American #1 hit. The Zombies were uniquely different, with a subtler style, often jazzier and more inventive chord structures, the prominent keyboards of Rod Argent, and the distinctive voice of Colin Blunstone. She's Not There and Tell Her No were quick hits, but despite continually stunning musical output that has influenced other artists ever since, another hit record was more than four years away, after they'd broken up! The band went their separate ways and eventually, in pieces, the ex-Zombies generated more U.K. chart action during the 70s than they had as bandmates in the 60s. Since regrouping in 2001 the richness of The Zombies' entire catalog been discovered by a whole new generation of fans. Tickets £20.50 £22.50 24.50


TIM VINE - 08:00PM 21/05/2008
location - The Assembly Rooms - Darwin Suite
£15.00 TIM VINE PUNSLINGER Tim Vine is here partners. Riding in on a sand storm of laughter. All puns blazing. Tell your kinsfolk. You’re about to be captured by a posse of jokes. Star of BBC1 ‘Not Going Out’ comes back to what he does cotton pickin best. “No one else will give you as many gags for your money. Vine is superb, as clever as anything being done today”. Guardian N.B. This is not a show about cowboys; it’s just a bloke doing a lot of jokes.


Adult Learners Week- Road Show - 10:00AM 21/05/2008
location - Old MArket Square, Nottingham
New College Nottingham will host this road show in support of Adult Learners Week. Come along and see what options are open to you and what courses may inspire you to take a new step this year.


Hello Dolly! - 07:30PM 21/05/2008
location - Theatre Royal, Nottingham
Tuesday - Saturday 7:30pm, Wednesday & Thursday 2pm Saturday 2.30pm Winner of 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical, New York Drama Critics Circle Award for a Musical, 2 Outer Critics Circle Awards and a Drama Desk Award, Hello, Dolly! is the biggest show stopper in the history of musical theatre. "And what do you do for a living, Mrs. Levi?" asks Ambrose Kemper in the first scene of this hit musical comedy. "Some people paint, some sew...I meddle," replies Dolly. And we are off on a whirlwind race around New York at the turn of the twentieth century, as we follow the adventures of America's most beloved matchmaker! Anita Dobson stars as the irresistible Dolly Levi, alongside Darren Day, David McAlister and Louise English. Hello, Dolly! is full of memorable songs including Put On Your Sunday Clothes, Ribbons Down My Back, Before the Parade Passes By, Hello, Dolly!, It Only Takes a Moment and So Long, Dearie. Hello, Dolly! stormed the Broadway stage for 2844 performances and played for nearly three years in the West End - now it’s back and, with a company of over forty and live orchestra, Hello, Dolly! is the show-stopping ‘perfect match’ for every musical fan. Captioned Performance - Thursday 22nd May 2pm


Joe Satriani - 07:30PM 21/05/2008
location - Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
Joe Satriani, of rock music’s most renowned electric guitarists, will undertake a nine date UK tour including Nottingham Royal Centre on Wednesday May 21st. Joe Satriani has been a worldwide guitar hero since his 1986 breakthrough album, Surfing With The Alien. Over 10-million albums and CD’s later, in addition to 13 Grammy nominations including this year for his latest studio release Super Colossal, Joe continues to push the envelope of modern rock guitar playing. Although he originally started his career by teaching some of the top rock guitar players of the '80s and '90s, Joe Satriani is universally hailed as the most technically accomplished and respected guitar player in the history rock music. Satriani, who cites Jimi Hendrix as a major influence, quickly established his reputation as one of the most important electric rock guitarists of the decade. Since the release of Surfing With the Alien in ’86, Satriani has continually been voted No.1 best guitarist in leading guitar magazine readers’ polls. After releasing several critically acclaimed albums over ten years, in 1996, Satriani and guitarist Steve Vai, embarked on the G3 guitar showcase tour, which eventually became an annual event. By 2000, Satriani released the electronic album Engines of Creation which earned him a Grammy nomination. Satriani went on to release his most recent live album Satriani Live! A recent poll of the Top 100 Greatest Rock Guitarists ranked Satriani at # 7


Breaking the Silence - 08:00PM 21/05/2008
location - Nottingham Playhouse Theatre
Caught up in the maelstrom of post-revolutionary Russia, the Pesiakoff family lose their palatial Moscow home and are re-accommodated in a dilapidated imperial train, complete with their maid. Assigned the position of telephone inspector, Nikolai, unflappable and immaculate in his elegant English suit, soon neglects his duties for a private ambition: to be the first man in the world to record sound on film. We invite you to join this exuberant family as they clatter across the Soviet Union, striving to succeed and survive in a world with a dangerous and uncertain future. Stephen Poliakoff is widely regarded as one of the finest playwrights of his generation and Britain's foremost screenwriter. Inspired by the true history of his family, and originally commissioned by the RSC, this is the first major staging of the play in over twenty years. "One of the most thrillingly individual works of the last decade." The Sunday Times Director Esther Richardson Designer Jamie Vartan


LeftLion Pub Quiz - 09:00PM 21/05/2008
location - Golden Fleece, 105 Mansfield Road, Nottingham
Like booze? Like quizzes? Like being dead good at quizzes in order to win some free booze? Then peg it over to the Golden Fleece every Wednesday night at for about 9pm (but you might want to get there early - it gets rammed out these days), and get stuck into the best pub quiz in town... £2/team


Tim Vine - Punslinger - 08:00PM 21/05/2008
location - Assembly Rooms, Market Place, Derby, DE1 3AH
Tim Vine is here partners. Riding in on a sand storm of laughter. All puns blazing. Tell your kinsfolk. You’re about to be captured by a posse of jokes. Star of BBC1’s Not Going Out comes back to what he does cotton pickin’ best. N.B. This is not a show about cowboys; it’s just a bloke doing a lot of jokes. “No one else will give you as many gags for your money. Vine is superb, as clever as anything being done today.” Guardian Prices £15


Vision Hear @ Central Library - 10:15AM 21/05/2008
location - Nottingham Central Library, Angel Row
An event for those with a visual impairment, exploring what libraries and partners have to offer: Chat to staff, volunteers and friends over tea/coffee and biscuits; Browse the information stands from Nottingham’s Team for Visual Impairment, Nottingham City Libraries, RNIB, NRSB, and Theatre Royal; Find out about how to join the library’s listening chain and reading groups; Take a library tour and find out how to register, issue a book, where to get help; See a demonstration of the CCTV and how it could help you. All this and more!