100 Club is a night club that offers a lively atmosphere with different sounds such as Jazz, Blues, R 'n' B and Pop in a smoke-filled, steamy basement. There is a restaurant serving Caribbean food.
100 Club
Night Club in Marylebone
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All In London Review
London’s only classical club night
With tables and chairs arranged around the stage, the 100 Club feels part Ronnie Scott’s part community centre, and there’s a diverse crowd of classical aficionados, dressed up 20-somethings and their parents. As with a conventional gig, each night has a headline act preceded by supporting artists, and on this occasion it’s members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Foyle Future Firsts, who perform six short pieces with an interval in between, explaining the story of each composition beforehand and adding little titbits of trivia about the composer. Most of the pieces featured tonight are from the late 19th or 20th century (Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel) with the exception of a Mozart composition.
Limelight’s £10 entry fee makes classical music accessible to a new public that ordinarily may not be able to afford the £25+ for a concert ticket; additionally, the headline acts are of a high calibre - tonight we see guitar virtuoso and Prince’s Prize recipient Miloš Karadaglić, who delves straight into ‘Asturias’ as soon as he takes to the stage, a piece which requires great accomplishment and evidently hours of bleeding fingers. Given that Limelight has been running since July 2009 and tonight’s show is sold-out, London’s only classical club night can be considered a storming success.
Reviewed by Leila
Published on Apr 26, 2011
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