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  The Telegraph

  London’s Calling: this week's 12 must-see events, from Picasso to a robot David Hasselhoff

  From major art exhibitions to tiny comedy nights, London culture-hound Tristram Fane Saunders chooses the best the city has to offer for the week of Friday April 28 – Thursday May 4. If you have a recommendation for Tristram, tweet it to him at @TATFS. Art: Grab the bull by its horns

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  Evening Standard

  Room 29: Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales, tour review – Jarvis’ seedy hotel is worth checking in to

  Launching his first album in eight years, Jarvis Cocker invited us to check in at the Chateau Marmont hotel and explore the seedy side of old Hollywood. The audience for this opening show of his sold-out three-night residency were handed keys for room 29 on arrival at the Barbican Theatre, which featured a bed, telephone and baby grand piano, just like the actual hotel room on Sunset Boulevard where Cocker recently stayed. Having trundled on with his suitcase, he was accompanied by Canadian pi

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  The Independent

  Room 29 with Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales at the Barbican, London, review: An elaborate, immersive show

  LA’s legendary Chateau Marmont hotel is the embodiment of Hollywood excess, so it’s easy to understand why Jarvis Cocker, Sheffield’s all seeing eye, would feel compelled to slink around its gothic walls to find the squalor beneath the glamour. On Room 29, a concept album and elaborate, immersive stage show in collaboration with Canadian rapper-turned concert pianist Chilly Gonzales, Cocker inextricably links the rise of Hollywood with the hotel’s construction and its decadent inhabitants that

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