The Night Shift at the Amersham Arms: in pictures
Mon 29 Apr 2013
It’s been just under a week since our mini Night Shift at The Amersham Arms so we thought we’d share some pics from the night with you to refresh your memories. We returned to the cosy pub on a warm spring evening for an ice-cold beer and some brilliant music, courtesy of our OAE trio:…
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The Night Shift returns to The Amersham Arms
Mon 15 Apr 2013
On 23 April, the OAE return to the warm ambience of The Amersham Arms for another pub edition of The Night Shift. We’ll be crushing the rules of classical music like a handful of crisps for a classical event where audiences can drink, chat and clap when they want. Featuring baroque A-Listers Handel, Purcell and…
Read MorePub tour update…
Mon 28 Nov 2011
We know its been a bit quiet on the Night Shift front of late, so we thought we’d give you a quick update on pub tour progress. We know it sounds easy to put on a few gigs in pubs but there’s a fair amount of organising that has to go on. First thing is…
Read MoreWe did it!
Wed 26 Oct 2011
As you may have seen, over the past month we have been busy raising funds to put on a whole tour of Night Shift’s in pubs, following on from the success of our initial event in September. Well, we had a flood of donations in the closing days of the campaign and were thrilled not…
Read MoreSeptember 2011 podcast
Wed 5 Oct 2011
Our September podcast is a packed edition – we look back at the hot, sweaty and beery pub gig back in September, talking to punters, musicians and staff and asking how the experience was for them. We fill you in on how YOU can help more pub gigs happen and we also talk to pianist…
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Corelli + Bach + Purcell + Pub = The ‘mini’ Night Shift
Thu 25 Aug 2011
There are two weeks to go until our first ever Night-Shift-in-a-pub on 8 September. Here’s a little video preview. If you watch it and are subsequently desperate to buy tickets you can do that here. By the way, does anyone know what the background music is? It’s insanely catchy…
Read MorePurcell in a pub: wretched ribaldry or beneficial to the publick?
Tue 16 Aug 2011
Next month we’re trying something a little different and taking our late-night series, The Night Shift to everyone’s favourite place – the pub. It’s an idea we’ve bandied around for a little while here in the OAE office, but recently we decided to JFDI, as we say in our strange office lingo. (Just Flipping…
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