James Hall
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- Aug 28, 2026
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- Jul 17, 2026
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Ezra Collective: The astonishing rise of Londonâs most important band (opens the original)
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This content is provided by Exco Player and may use cookies or similar technologies. Please click 'Allow and Continue' below to load the content. Ezra Collective are celebrating 10 years since their first release â and Londonâs most exciting band are still on a (jazz) mission to unite, inspire and rethink the world The phenomenal Ezra Collective have just announced a one-night-only show at KOKO on 24 September, to celebrate 25 years of British Airway and American Express being in partnership
Jalen Ngonda is bringing the music of love, from Maryland to Streatham (opens the original)
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As culture shocks go, they were pretty seismic. When rising US soul sensation Jalen Ngonda first left his Maryland home to study music in Liverpool in 2014, he flew via Dublin, where he required a 24-hour stopover. “I’d never seen vast amounts of Irish people, going from, like, a black and Latino neighbourhood in Maryland to seeing just white people. That’s a shock but in a very inviting way,” the 32-year-old explains. “I just felt so enamoured. I was, like, ‘Oh man, I’m in a different part of t
Yard Act on telling Elton John what to do: 'His piano playing wasn't the right vibe' (opens the original)
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This content is provided by Exco Player and may use cookies or similar technologies. Please click 'Allow and Continue' below to load the content. Sir Elton John has always championed up-and-coming artists. The music legendâs patronage of stars including Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa is well known. But socially conscious, bitingly witty, Leeds-based indie sprechgesang (spoken singing) band Yard Act? Well, it turns out Elton loves them too, to the extent that he offered his services to the group as a
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