Time and Date: 2pm - 12am, April 24, 2011

Cost: £6 advance and on the door before 7pm / £10 o

Location: The Queen Of Hoxton, 1 - 5 Curtain Road, EC2A 3JX London, United Kingdom Tower Hamlets

Artists: Uneven Stephen, El Nino, Lady Kamikaze, DJ Switch, Nick Hollywood, Chris Tofu, The World's Tallest DJ, The Twilight Players, Swing Patrol, Marawa, Freakeasy Circus Revue, Fat 45, Algorythmik

Info: The two biggest names on the electro swing scene come together to celebrate the sounds and styles of the swing era in a 21st century all-day, multi-media celebration...

We are hoping for a laid-back, sunny, fun day. Nothing too hip or cool, just a whole lot of alternative FUN on a swing tip. Daddy-o

Forget the boring stuff. Sneak out after lunch and come join us...

We will have an exceptional 3-floor, all-day friendly line up that includes:

? A 78's Disco on the roof from UNEVEN STEPHEN (where the bar-b-que will be going all day) - check the pictures - http://www.thequeenofhoxton.co.uk/home/

DJs including:

? Vintage legends EL NINO (from Lady Luck and Black Cotton clubs) and LADY KAMIKAZE
? 3 times world DMC champion DJ SWITCH with his incredible Electro Swing set (we also hope to coax him into offering informal scratch DJ lessons during the afternoon!)
? Black and white movie mash ups and more from NICK HOLLYWOOD (of White Mink compilation fame)
? CHRIS TOFU, festival veteran and all round king of the ding
? THE WORLDS TALLEST DJ, the nicest guy we know and also the tallest

Plus

? Dance from the astonishingly cool TWILIGHT PLAYERS
? Swing dance lessons from SWING PATROL come learn the new and old steps of swing before the party goes into the night .
? MARAWA - Russian Queen of the Hoop from 'La Clique'
? FREAKEASY CIRCUS REVUE - Tall Will and more of his Invisible circus chums...

Live Music from:

? Jive and jump blues specialists, the incredible, good-times 11 piece FAT 45
? The splendid French swing-hop trio ALGORYTHMIK

Plus

? COMPLIMENTARY COURVOISIER PUNCH
? Vintage movie screenings

and much, much more...

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Those that feel so inclined can dress in contemporised 1920s and 30s style - but think more juke joint than speakeasy; gatsby caps, braces, swinging styles - we are going for the comfortable all-day dressed down Shoreditch ting innit!

Time and Date: 8pm, April 15, 2011

Cost: £6 advance / £8 door

Location: Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London, E1 6LA Tower Hamlets

Artists: Bug Prentice, Marlo Donato, Mike Oliver, Calm of Zero, Captain Angelo

Info: Global Local returns in April at Rich Mix and continues it's journey of London's global music. This month we've partnered with Attitude is Everything to bring you a great spread of music:

Captain Angelo formed amid the Tuition fees riots and snowstorms of late 2010. Front man and songwriter Miles-Alex Peckover, decided to craft an organic sound that brought lyrical content and story telling to the fore. In the lyrics there is a distinct voice in the form of the “Guitar Boy” - torn between a love of natural beauty and the antics of his London at night. His brother, Jonathan Peckover, weaves smokey trumpet melodies around the finger picked guitar while the lilting, angelic voice of Rose Betts duels with the husky, weather beaten lyrics. To add to the textures on display they recruited the quixotic multi instrumentalist Thomas Bush to tangle it all in autoharp and drizzled clarinet. Providing the foundation of this beautiful mess are Geoffrey Threadgold and Nigel Bancroft, providing bass and percussion - always driving and building underneath with a thudding blend of jazz and blues. The hub of the band is Miles-Alex’s South East London bedroom, filled with home-adapted guitars, scribbly notebooks and a piano found on the street.

Bug Prentice - Bug Prentice is a three-piece band formed by guitarist and songwriter Ally Craig, bassist Ruth Goller and drummer Stephen Gilchrist. Our influences range from Deerhoof to Thelonious Monk, via Orson Welles.

Special Guests: Calm of Zero (ex Echobelly) - Sonya Aurora Madan and Glenn Johansson are Calm of Zero. Acoustic Sessions 1 is the title of their first musical outing, a 'mini' album of six songs, recorded in London with a six string guitar, a twelve string guitar and the barest of embellishments. A chance to hear the Calm before the Storm: Calm of Zero.

Marlo Donato - Mid-tempo pop. That's the quick categorization, but Marlo's vocals have an edgy quaver that simultaneoulsy hints at coffee shop and alt-pop. Supremely balladic to energetically with a melancholy edge. My favourite cut is 'Breathe Life Into Me,' the most energetic track which will have you smiling and dancing around before it's through.

Mike Oliver - After playing their first gig at a Christmas church concert, The P.I.'s went on to play at several local venues including Riffs and 12 bar. They had been in formation for about a year when they achieved recognition with an article in the national press. After the break up of the band in mid-2008, Mike began to build on the writing skills he had already acquired as the main sonwriter and lyricist for the P.I.'s by writing his own solo material. Which over the period of about a year developed into a more melodic style, as opposed to the more gutsy rock sound of the P.I.'s.

Attitude is Everything improves Deaf and disabled people's access to live music by working in partnership with audiences, artists and the music industry to implement a Charter of Best Practice across the UK.

Time and Date: 6:30pm, March 31, 2011

Cost: Free

Location: Baden-Powell House, 67 Queen's Gate Mews, London SW7 5JS Kensington

Artists: Katy Carr

Info: Kazimierz ‘Kazik’ Piechowski, now 91, one of the few Auschwitz prisoners to escape, is visiting Britain for the first time, to share his story through an evening of film and music.

Featuring:

Film screening of short documentary 'Kazik and the Kommander’s Car' directed by Hannah Lovell and produced by Katy Carr.

Live concert by Katy Carr, including song 'Kommander's Car,' alongside British, Polish and international scouts.

Preview screening of Katy Carr’s ‘Kommander’s Car’ music video, directed by Hannah Lovell.

A letter of commendation written by Chief Scout Bear Grylls presented to Kazik by the Scout Association.

Exhibition by Galen Wainwright of drawings in charcoal featured in 'Kazik and the Kommander’s Car'

Kazimierz Piechowski was transported to Auschwitz on the 20th June 1940 for being a Polish scout, then considered part of the Polish Intelligentsia. Exactly two years later, at midday on Saturday June 20th 1942, Kazik escaped from the Nazi concentration camp. He masterminded his way out with three other political prisoners, disguised in SS uniforms, and by appropriating a Steyr 220 car belonging to Rudolf Höss, the then
Commandant of the death camp. Kazik is the only one now left from the four friends who made the escape, who can tell us first hand what happened.

Upon discovering Kazik’s story, songwriter Katy Carr wrote a tribute song,
‘Kommander’s Car,’ from the point of view of Kazik, narrating the last do-or-die 80 metres of his break for freedom. Katy felt compelled to share this song with Kazik, and her meeting with Kazik in Poland has been captured in a short documentary, 'Kazik and the Kommander’s Car', directed by Hannah Lovell.

Kazik’s life is an inspiring and enduring story of our age. It needs to never be forgotten. We are very honoured to have Kazik attending this event, and talking to us in person.

Public event, free admission. Café on site.

Donations to the Museum of Auschwitz.

In association with Kinoteka film festival and the Polish Cultural Institute.

Time and Date: 7:30pm, March 11, 2011

Cost: £6 advance / £8 door

Location: Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London, E1 6LA City of London

Artists: Sam and the Womp, Chancery Blame and the Gadjo Club, Trans-Siberian March Band, DJ Penny Metal, DJ Tofu

Info: Festival Whirlwind of Gypsy Mayhem!
Exploding gypsy craziness from the champions of festival frenzies:

Sam and the Womp - Sam and his band of Wompers perform original high energy balkan, ska, dub and rave out material with a huge WOMP of gypsy dubstep for pudding…WOMP WOMP
WOMP WOMP....

Chancery Blame and the Gadjo Club - Blame and the band soar into fiendish infectious, fresh, fun-fuelled gypsy rock - with their trademark traditional, yet uniquely modern sound and a superb cover of The Pixies’ Where is My Mind.

Trans-Siberian March Band – Roaring in from the steppes, the taiga and the tundra of Siberia, by way of the Caucusus, Persia, Turkey, the Middle East and The Balkans, playing music of the people for the people, loudly, come - The Trans-Siberian March Band - a 13 peice Balkan Brass Band

DJ Penny Metal - mad tunes, mad styles, mad hats! A truly anarchic, Russian loving, record spinning party queen.

Time and Date: December 21, 2010

Location: Stoke Newington Assembly Rooms Hackney

Artists: Far From Kansas