The Night Shift at the Roundhouse: Audience Reaction
Wed 16 May 2012
Wow, it’s hard to believe that our show at the Roundhouse was almost 3 months ago now! We were there to kick off the 2012 Reverb festival, and we did it in style with a massive orchestra and Sir Mark Elder conducting Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet. In this vid we catch up with some punters…
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Sir Simon Rattle makes his Night Shift debut
Fri 11 May 2012
We’re beyond excited to announce that world-famous conductor Sir Simon Rattle will make his very first appearance at The Night Shift on 10 June. Liverpudlian Sir Simon is currently Principal Conductor of the prestigious Berlin Philharmonic, but has been working with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment pretty much since it was founded back…
Read MoreNew summer event announced
Tue 1 May 2012
We’re very excited to be able to reveal details a very special summer event, taking place on 1 August on Blackheath in South East London, as part of the Lewisham Big Screen. This will be an intimate pub-style event, taking place in a beautiful wooden Spiegeltent, and will feature music written in and for London…
Read MoreQueen Elizabeth Hall: Pictures
Tue 17 Apr 2012
Here’s a selection of pictures from our last Night Shift, at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall back on 4 March. We played an all-Bach concert and were supported by the Silvermoths and DJ Bob Stanley. As an added bonus the event was part of the Music Nation weekend and was also broadcast live on…
Read MoreRoundhouse: Pictures
Fri 13 Apr 2012
Here’s a selection of pictures from our event at the Roundhouse back in February, where we kicked off their Reverb Festival. View the full set on Facebook or Flickr. All pics are by Joe Plommer.
Read MorePod Idol. The result.
Thu 12 Apr 2012
Pod Idol kept us guessing right to the end, with the two leading entries, Riccardo and Chloe, neck-a-neck for most of the time.
Read MoreOld Queens Head: Pictures
Wed 4 Apr 2012
The last night of the Pub Tour on 22 February was possibly the most packed and sweaty of the lot! A great crowd and amazing atmosphere, together with a certain celebrity guest rounded off the tour in style. A selection of pics, all by Joe Plommer, is below, or zoom over to Facebook or Flickr…
Read MoreGreen Carnation: Pictures
Wed 4 Apr 2012
The fourth date of our pub tour, on 21 February, saw us at the Green Carnation in the heart of soho. Here’s a selection of pics – to view the full set view them on Facebook or Flickr. All pics by Joe Plommer.
Read MorePod Idol. The Vote.
Tue 27 Mar 2012
Yes, here it is. Pod Idol 2012. Truly a momentous occasion. Pod Idol is our search for a voice for the Night Shift podcast and at our last event on 4 March we invited audience members to audition for it, recording the following lines for us:
Read MorePub Tour: The Debrief
Thu 22 Mar 2012
Well, the pub tour finished about a month ago and this blog should have been written a lot sooner. But we’ve been pretty busy with other Night Shift gigs at the Roundhouse and Southbank and with other OAE events. So it’s a bit late. Sorry. Anyway, I thought it’d be good to just to reflect…
Read MorePanel debate on classical club nights
Fri 16 Mar 2012
On Tuesday 20 March we’re participating in a special panel debate about classical club nights, several of which have sprung up in London in recent years.
Read MoreParadise: Pictures
Thu 15 Mar 2012
It’s been such a busy month here that we are rather behind in getting our pictures uploaded! Anyway, here are a selection of pics from the third date of the pub tour, back on 7 February at what was a very very crowded Paradise in Kensal Rise. You can view the full set over on…
Read MoreThe Night Shift: listen again
Mon 5 Mar 2012
We were VERY excited that last night’s Night Shift was broadcast LIVE by BBC Radio 3, as part of thier Music Nation coverage, the first time that The Night Shift has been broadcast like this. You can listen to the show again on the BBC’s iPlayer – it’s available through until next Sunday, 11 March….
Read MorePhew! (We’re taking a breather)
Mon 5 Mar 2012
It’s been a full on few months for The Night Shift.
Read MoreLisa Beznosiuk: Speed Interview
Sun 4 Mar 2012
We chatted to OAE Principal flautist Lisa Beznosiuk to ask her a few questions, ahead of her Night Shift performance tonight.
Read MoreAnnouncing…The Night Shift cocktail
Fri 2 Mar 2012
We’ve decided to up our game on merchandise here at Night Shift towers. So from Sunday, joining our existing badges, Oyster card holders and so on, the very first Night Shift cocktail will be available.
Read MoreThe mysterious case of the missing brass…
Fri 2 Mar 2012
As any of you who were at our Roundhouse show last week will no doubt be aware, towards the end of the concert we had a rather unusual hiccup.
Read MoreOld Queens Head: Set list
Thu 1 Mar 2012
Better late than never, here’s the set list from last week’s gig at Angel’s Old Queens Head:
Read MoreGreen Carnation: Set list
Thu 1 Mar 2012
Sorry it’s taken so long to get this up, we’ve been a bit overwhelmed with events! Anyway, here’s the set list from last week’s pub gig at the Green Carnation.
Read MorePod Idol. It’s back…
Wed 29 Feb 2012
Two years ago we ran a little competition called Pod Idol as a bit of fun. We needed someone to be the ‘voice’ of the Night Shift podcast, so we asked people to audition by recording a few lines at an event. We then picked our favourite few and put them up on the blog…
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