SUMMER is the perfect time to enjoy live music in Los Angeles and with British artists continuing to be a global force in popular music there’s plenty for expats to choose from during the coming months. Here’s our selection of some of the best concerts between now and September:
Nightmare and the Cat, the Los Angeles-based indie rock band founded by brothers Samuel Stewart and Django Stewart, sons of musician/producer Dave Stewart and Bananarama’s Siobhan Fahey, play at the Wiltern Theatre, this weekend (Sat. June 14th).
Also this weekend the electronic music pioneers Marc and Allister Blackham better known as the EC Twins, will play at Create, the nightclub located at 6021 Hollywood Boulevard.
Globe-trotting British DJ Paul Oakenfold is also in town this weekend, playing from 5-10pm on Sunday June 15th, as part of XIV’s outrageous bacchanal, the Summer Sessions, located at 1743 N. Cahuenga in Hollywood. The event bills itself as Los Angeles’ leading day club (modeled on the Las Vegas originals) so expect expensive table service and lots of beautiful bodies.
English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran from Suffolk, will be appearing on Monday, June 16th at the Hollywood Bowl with Demi Lovato, while Devon’s own electronic music pioneers Metronomy will be at the Henry Fonda theatre on June 17th.
Five days later leading electronic DJ and composer George Evelyne – better known as Nightmare on Wax – will also headline at the Fonda.
Waterboys alumnus Kurt Wallinger and World Party will play the Troubadour on June 27th, while American Idol winner Adam Lambert will appear with the surviving members of Queen for a night of classic rock at the Forum in Inglewood on July 3rd.
Pete Murphy, late of Bauhaus, brings his high cheekbones to the Fonda Theatre on July 3rd and 5th, while lovers of harder rock will want to grab tickets to see Sheffield’s favorite sons, Def Leppard, in concert with Kiss, also at the Forum on July 8th.
In keeping with the nostalgia theme, 1980s cult band Echo & the Bunnymen bring their American tour to the venerable Orpheum Theatre, located at 842 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, on August 1st.
Ageless (well almost) rockers Deep Purple are playing the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa on August 6th, while musical theatre stalwart and former Mrs. Andrew Lloyd Webber Sarah Brightman will bring her wonderful pipes to the Greek Theater on August 6th.
The Arctic Monkeys are booked into the Staples Center downtown on August 7th, and the daddy of them all, Paul McCartney, will hope to hit a home run in the wide open spaces of Dodger Stadium on Saturday, August 10th
And finally, the busy summer season rounds off with what will probably be the best ticket of them all, the prolific and endlessly talented Elvis Costello, playing the Hollywood Bowl on September 5th and 6th.
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