Music & Gigs
10:07 - 17 July 2008
HIP-SHAKING rock and roll, compliments of Elvis Shmelvis, is guaranteed to get the audience going in Clarence Park on Sunday. The St Albans-based Elvis tribute performer will be strutting his stuff in the bandstand of the St Albans park as part of the Mus... Full Story »
10:16 - 17 July 2008
THERE can be little left to prove for the St Albans Bach Choir and its conductor Andrew Lucas after their performance of Mozart s Requiem on Saturday. The event showed British music-making at its very best and also demonstrated the importance of St Albans... Read More »
10:10 - 17 July 2008
ST ALBANS band Faultline is hosting a jazz jam at The Goat in Sopwell Lane, St Albans, on Sunday. It will run from 4pm to 6.30pm.... Read More »
Comedy & The Arts
10:15 - 17 July 2008
THREE sell-out performances of the site-specific production Spit and Polish at St Albans Town Hall last week are being followed by an exhibition which runs until Monday. (21) Promenade performances of Spit and Polish, a show designed to bring the stories,... Read More »
10:17 - 17 July 2008
HAYSEED Dixie, hot from the Pyramid stage of the Glastonbury Festival, are heading for the Alban Arena next Friday, July 25, for a one-off gig. A bunch of redneck moonshiners influenced by songs about drinking, cheating and hell and originally described a... Read More »
At The Movies
10:52 - 21 July 2008
ANGUS, Thongs and Perfect Snogging is a British twist on the coming-of-age classics such as Clueless and Mean Girls. This comedy is based on a novel by Louise Rennison and follows an eccentric, but irresistible, teenager Georgia Nicolson (Georgia Groome)... Read More »
10:49 - 21 July 2008
THE Dark Knight is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Batman Begins (2005). Christopher Nolan directs this fantasy film which sees Christian Bale return as Batman/Bruce Wayne. Michael Caine stars as Alfred Pennyworth, Wayne s trusted butler and father... Read More »
10:09 - 17 July 2008
PIXAR S latest production WALL-E is already being talked about as the Citizen Kane of animated features and it s easy to see why. Set in a future world where the Earth has been abandoned by humanity, it tells the story of a nearly mute but awfully cute ro... Read More »
10:59 - 11 July 2008
SCI-FI comedy Meet Dave is the latest Eddie Murphy movie to hit the big screen. Directed by the producer of Smallville, Brian Robbins, Meet Dave sees a massive fireball land in New York s Central Park. One man emerges unhurt – Dave (Murphy). However, he... Read More »
10:56 - 11 July 2008
THIS family animation looks at what happens when mankind leaves earth, but someone has forgotten to turn off the last robot. WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) lives a lonely existence after the humans leave the planet and leave... Read More »
16:27 - 09 July 2008
MAMMA Mia! is a British and American film adaptation of the famous West End musical based on the songs of pop group ABBA. This rom-com musical stars Meryl Streep, Julie Walters, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth. It follows the story of 21-year-old Sophie... Read More »