!!!!!! One off the bucket list!

Fine night of comedy ahead at @crackcomedyclub in Ram Jam Records. Mitch Benn compering Matt Green Molly McBride and Caroline Mabey.

Inside the new ARC arena at Kensington Olympia. Joni Mitchell on the Pa before the arrival of Van.

The old NFT logo has been lit up here on the side of Waterloo Bridge for as long as I can remember.

The great bridge shut for motor traffic today for maintenance (but open for pedestrians). Nicely calm for strolling along with your hands in your...

Back to The Sound Lounge for some Belfast Soul.

In the Maugham Library of King’s College today - aka the old Public Record Office. One of the repository cells has been maintained in its...

Sparse but enthusiastic crowd gathering for JHJ, Jaki Graham and Ben Boardman at Circuit in Kingston. Back to the 80s everybody!

On the Surrey bank looking towards Brentford, about 3/4 high tide.

Oh, the traffic jams for this event.

Small respectful gathering at King’s Place for an evening of oud and guitar wizardry.

Excitement building at the Royal Festival Hall. Excellent support from George Houston.

Beautifully done without any nails, screws or glue. A very impressive undertaking.

A brood of seven after the punishing heat of last week is quite the achievement. Egyptian Geese often seem quite casual with their young, but...

Rehearsals for the Wolf Hall concert as past of the Proms at St Jude’s season. Not attending, just here.

To tie in with the coming exhibition of documents marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, there’s no a display of costumes...

At the Bowie “You’re Not Alone” event at the Lightroom. For anybody who takes their cultural life from the edges rather than the...

Surprisingly rocky album launch set from Damian Lewis this evening. His voice got a little bit lost in the mix, it’s a difficult space to...

Album launch show at the Rose Theatre, not my usual cup of tea but Mrs Bridgeman requests!

Jones in fine voice this hot summer night. Guitar, violin and accordion accompaniment made for lovely sparse setting. Catch her if you can!

Back at Sutton’s Sound Lounge for an eclectic night with Brighton singer-songwriter Si Connelly, poet Jack Spooner, soul singer Lottie Jade...

Roubiliac’s Shakespeare at the British Library.

Legend coming to the Palladium. Row E seats but a bit to one side. High excitement.

Two gigs in two nights! Looking forward to kora and kalabash intrigue in my best local venue tonight. Not packed but then I’m here for...

Theo Jackson and friends getting ready for a storm in Shaftesbury Avenue.

The Welsh National Theatre’s outstanding production of Thornton Wilder’s play on at The Rose Theatre currently. Well worth going - if...

On Great Queen Street.

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First time in a box. Already bumped my knees.

Exclusive: Underdrawing suggests attempt to debunk myth that former wife of Henry VIII had sixth finger Anne Boleyn’s Hever “Rose” portrait is one of history’s most iconic faces, with her “B” pendant, her French hood, her dark eyes and a red rose in her right hand. Now a secret that has remained hidden for nearly 500 years has been discovered beneath the layers of paint. Scientific analysis of the painting at Hever Castle, her childhood home in Kent, has uncovered evidence that an Elizabethan artist sought to create a “visual rebuttal” to claims that Henry VIII’s ill-fated wife was a witch with a sixth finger on her right hand. Continue reading...

Robb was in reflective, European chanson mode today, rather than iconoclastic anti-fascist mode. Well, mostly.

At the newish V&A Storehouse East for the small but exquisite David Bowie exhibition gallery. Wonderfully curated display of photos, lyric...

Some fierce accents here!

For the Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition. Small but perfectly formed. Here we have The Alchemist, Two Boys Fighting Over A Bladder and The Letter.

Work in progress show at the Museum of Comedy. Featured exhibit, Bill Bailey’s impractical 6-headed guitar.

Excitement building! First time we’ve been to the Union Chapel since Nick Lowe in about 2015.

We’re up very high for this one. Bonus of Anne Dudley conducting the orchestra!