So, its Friday night and it is Highbury Corner. After a day thinking about ice cream and the various flavours that it comes in it was down to the Garage for the HMV Next Big Thing show featuring Clock Opera, Fenech Soler and Marina and the Diamonds.

So what do we know about them so far?

A cold night to be out, so it was good to be inside the cavernous space that is Cargo in Shoreditch.

Sadly someone had seen fit to make the inside even cooler by switching the air con to ‘ice age’ setting but fortunately a quiet word from a gentlemen in authority led to a b bit more heat.

So it was that Clock Opera played their first London gig of the year (that I have been to at least). They were just back from Bournemouth and they have been busy.

Tangled Feet have begun work on their latest project which looks to be as innovative and eye opening theatre as ‘Home’.

The project is the Measurement Shop which kicked off in Brixton last week and will build up over the coming months and years.

There is website up and running which you can visit at www.tangledfeet-media.co.uk where the company members will be contemplating measurement in all it’s forms.

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