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– Simply Red @ The O2 arena

– Natalie Clein @ Indigo2

Shakin' Stevens, famed for 1980s hits like Green Door and This Ole House, will take to the stage on Saturday, December 13, and he promises it will be a party night to remember.

The American singer will play the arena on June 3 and 4, the only European dates on her 2009 world tour.

The British Music Experience, which opens on March 9 next year, will be the only visitor attraction of its type in the country and its ribbon will be cut by a "major British music artist".

The chart-topping band, whose latest album is currently number one, will be packing their fans in to the arena on Saturday, May 23 for the last date of their European tour.

– Katie Melua @ The O2 arena

– Early Music Festival @ Greenwich

WHEN a band’s manager finds himself in a big top with acrobats and a Chinese monkey, it’s normally not too long before he checks into rehab.

But Chris Morrison has probably seen worse in a 36-year career pulling the strings for Thin Lizzy, the Jesus and Mary Chain and Blur.

- Mark E Smith / The Fall @ Hackney Empire

- Infecting The UK 004 @ Indigo2

The cellist will be joined by violinist Chloe Hanslip, conductor Christopher Warren-Green and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for "Phantom Phantasia".

The "Modfather" will play the arena on Saturday, March 21 as part of his UK tour.

The ex-Jam man has been touring heavily this year, including places like Australia, Brazil and Japan, as he promotes his latest album "22 Dreams".

He played a well-received gig at the Indigo2 in June but next March's date will be his first appearance at the arena.

The 24-year-old singer spoke to The Wharf about the November 8 show at the arena, and revealed she, literally, choked on stage during a gig in Sweden last week.

She said: "I swallowed a piece of my hair while I was singing a song called "Scary Films" and couldn't breathe. I had to try and carry on singing while getting the hair out of my mouth without anyone noticing and it wasn't very nice.

The band, famous for tracks like "Highway to Hell" and "Back in Black", will play the arena on April 14. It is their only London date and part of their first world tour in seven years.

Tickets, priced at £45 plus booking fee, go on sale at 10am this Friday. See www.theo2.co.uk for details.

The veteran rockers made a triumphant return to London proving once again there's no substitute for great songs and well-honed stage-craft.

IT'S on every front page, and it's been touted as the bearer of the banking apocalypse.

So is it really surprising that a band has finally written a single about the dreaded credit crunch?

THE folks from the Financial Ombudsman Service may have been brought together by their heads for figures.

But they showed off their fast fingers and versatile voices in their second annual music festival last weekend.

After a successful debut last August, Ombudsfest returned to the Isle of Dogs on Friday, showcasing bands linked to the South Quay Plaza organisation.

LONDON will welcome a new venue on Thursday when the 2,600-capacity Matter nightclub opens at the O2 Arena. The Wharf talks to founder Cameron Leslie about his hopes for the new venture.

It’s the little things that can ruin a night out. Maybe the club is too hot, the queues are too long, or the guy in front of you just ordered cocktails for 70 of his friends.

But just as some of us were thinking of locking ourselves in our homes with a pint of bitter, it seems someone’s finally listening.

Laura MacDonald taps her feet to the latest music videos

Creating music videos that stray away from the slick formula of promos aired on mainstream music channels can be a risk but the artists being showcased at the 2nd Annual Canary Wharf Film Festival are proving that the gamble can be worth it.

HE PERFORMED at gigs across the world – but convinced co-workers he spent his weekends browsing hardware stores.

That’s the strange tale of Honey Ryder guitarist Martyn Shone, who hid his secret life as a touring musician from colleagues at Wharf company Credit Suisse.

The 29-year-old consultant and project manager quit in January to devote himself to the folk-rock two-piece, which has just cracked the Top 40 with first single Numb.

An album is expected by October.

The Welsh rockers will end their greatest hits tour at The O2 arena on Saturday, December 20.

What brings stage and screen legend Sir Ian McKellen to a recording session for garage music?

See next Thursday's Wharf (August 14) for Sir Ian's thoughts on Shakespeare's sense of rhythm and his 30-year love affair with Limehouse.

DRIVE-TIME favourites Blondie kick off just as a lumbering passenger jet thunders imposingly over the stage.

"This is a beautiful spot, but it's a little remote", muses Debbie Harry, in the midst of a car park a little way east of Royal Docks' Excel centre.

Admittedly, we are several stops from the lights of the West End, on the business end of a commercial flight path.

THREE decades after they officially formed, The Neville Brothers will be taking to the Indigo2 stage for what promises to be an overwhelming event.

Charles, Aaron, Art and Cyril, an institution who have made an enormous contribution to rhythm and blues music, will all be on stage to bring their authentic sound to the UK.

THERE was no holding back for Mick Hucknall as he brought his vocal talents to the IndigO2 last night.

The Simply Red singer showcased his "Tribute to Bobby Bland" album to an appreciative audience and they were not disappointed as Hucknall, in fine voice, ripped through Bland's back catalogue.

Rousing versions of "I Wouldn't Treat a Dog", "I Pity the Fool" and "Cry, Cry, Cry" had the audience on its feet well before the end of a rather short set.

A flying pig, covered in 'vote Obama' slogans took to the air as just one of a series of theatrical elements of the ex-Pink Floyd bassist's latest world tour.

Backed by ace session players, including long-time Floyd collaborator Snowy White on guitar, this was a sleek, well-produced set featuring all the band's "greatest hits".

The legendary country-rock band were in cracking form for the last of their five dates at The O2 Arena, delighting fans with a three hour, hit-packed show.

Rolling out tracks from their latest, and possibly last, studio album "Long Road out of Eden", along with a host of classics from their back catalogue, the 60-somethings proved they still had what it takes. Refreshingly the veteran Americans were not content to simply rehash their greatest hits, with the newer material sitting comfortably alongside the old favourites.