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A Week in the Shard
The Shard, London ©Robert Kronenburg I recently found out that I am one of six winners of an RIBA competition in which entrants were asked to reflect on the impact of the pandemic on their lives, practice and the general world … Continue reading
Unlocking Live Music
Back in July 2020 the UK’s first official post-pandemic indoor live music performance took place in London when Beverley Knight performed live at the London Palladium in a pilot that would ostensibly show how music and theatrical events might be … Continue reading
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Tagged grass-roots music, live music, lock-down, outdoor gigs
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This Must Be The Place: CBGB and OMFUG
My book This Must Be The Place: An Architectural History of Popular Music Performance Venues (Bloomsbury, New York) is published today 7th March 2019. It tells the story of the places and spaces where popular music has been performed and … Continue reading
What Makes a Music City?
‘Music City’ is a term that seems to be coming more and more common. Once it might have been used to loosely describe a place that has a good vibe for popular music activity – fun venues, a lively local … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Melbourne, music performance, popular music, temporary stages, venues
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Armchair or Being There
I’m just recovering from an extended period of slouching around watching TV and streams via BBC’s extended broadcast of the Glastonbury Festival. It was for the most part an easy listening experience, sitting there with a drink (and toilets) close … Continue reading
Shows, People and Architecture in Las Vegas
A couple of years ago when I was working on my book Live Architecture, I spent a week in Las Vegas looking at new performance buildings designed by the Canadian company Scéno Plus. Vegas (why is the ‘Las’ left off … Continue reading
Staging the Spectacular – music and festival scenography at the V&A
‘Good design happens when you are happy’ – with this simple but uplifting message Es Devlin, designer of the Olympic Closing Ceremony and creative director for numerous high profile pop music artists such as Kanye West and the Pet Shop … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, festivals, stage sets
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Three gigs in six days (episode 1: The Kazimier)
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to experience three great gigs a few days apart, each in a completely different type of venue, in a very different type of architecture. The venue size increased as the days passed … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, lambchop, popular music, venues
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A Great Adventure – starting a new project
Everyone remembers going to their first big gig. For me that memory is from 1973 when I saw Led Zeppelin at the Liverpool Empire, a £1 ticket earned by queuing up most of the night to be one of the … Continue reading
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Robert Kronenburg 