[214.1] THESE ARE THE DAYS THAT WE TALK ABOUT...

NFE is pleased to announce, courtesy of Adey Grummet, the Winter 2003 coming of 'Deep Blue: Sea Songs, Love Songs' (music by Orlando Gough, Richard Chew and The Shout). The Shout is an extraordinary phenomenon. A choir of diverse voices and fantastically talented individuals, it has been called a 'vocal big band', a 'club choir', a 'vocal Stomp', a 'dangerous choir', a 'choir of Babel', a ‘choral phenomenon’. It is all of these things.

'Deep Blue' is a semi-staged concert of songs about the sea and about love. Love songs with a difference: about falling in love in a sweetshop, about an old man caring for his wife after she has had a stroke, about housework, about electricity, algebra, obsessive work and desire….. The lyrics come from, among other sources, the Song of Solomon and a packet of Love Hearts.

11 November: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton 8.00pm Tickets £13/ £12 / £11.70 / £8 023 8059 5151; University of Southampton, Highfield Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ.

12 November: Komedia, Brighton 8.30pm (Doors 7pm) Tickets £10/ £5 01273 647100 , Gardner Street, Brighton, BN1 1UM.

17 November: Cambridge Music Festival, The Cambridge Corn Exchange, 7.30pm Tickets £9.50/£5 01223 357851; 3 Parsons Court, Wheeler Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QE.

18 November: The Spitz, London 9.00pm (doors 8.00pm) Tickets £10 020 7392 9032; The Spitz, 109 Commercial Street, Old Spitalfields Market, London, E1 6BG.

19 November: The Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University College 7.30pm Tickets £12/ £8/ £2 01225 463362; Newton St Loe, Bath, BA2 9BN.

28 November: National Portrait Gallery, London 6.30pm free event, St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE.

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