Greenwich Summer Sessions 2011
8 March 2011
Summertime Blues
Hoorah! The line up for this year's Greenwich Summer Sessions was announced today and includes Mark Ronson and The Business Intl, The Pogues, The Divine Comedy, local heroes Squeeze and cartoon rockers Status Quo. Fab and groovy stuff, I think you'll agree...
The series of concerts, which take place in the fabulous outdoor setting of the Old Royal Naval College, kick off on July 26 with Neil Hannon's The Divine Comedy taking the National Express to Greenwich and sharing the bill with neo-classical Swedish singer-songwriter Jose Gonzales.
The biggest draw of the concert series could well be Mark Ronson and The Business Intl. who come Bang, Bang, Banging onto the stage on July 27, but the most rock and roll has got to be Status Quo and Nine below Zero who appear on July 28. And if that's not Whatever You Want then I don't know what is. Both bands have local connections - Status Quo got together in South London during the 1960s and Nine Below Zero also have roots in the Charlton area, just down the road.
Squeeze, who debuted in 1974, with their first gig in Greenwich Borough Halls, have always had strong connections with Greenwich and are looking forward to a bit of Slap and Tickle on a, hopefully, warm and balmy summer's evening on July 29.
The weekend gets under way with punk-folk survivors The Pogues, always a fantastic live act, on July 30 giving all of us the chance to try and figure out how, HOW is Shane McGowan still alive. It must be magic. A special, as yet unannounced, act will close the week on Sunday July 31.
The concerts take place exactly a year before the start of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and are part of The Greenwich Festivals, a series of high quality events, organised and supported by Greenwich Council to celebrate the cultural vibrancy of Greenwich, which run from April to November.
Tickets go on sale on Thursday March 10 from Seetickets and there's more information about the whole shebang at the Greenwich Summer Sessions website.
It's going to be a great week - see you there.
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