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...Ute Lemper’s UK tour begins on April 24 at Bristol St George’s. ‘Time Traveller’ is out now, utelemper.com...
...How fitting for a show named after a Tom Waits record. ★★★★☆ On BBC1 from April 4 at 10.40pm and on iPlayer thereafter; on HBO Max in the US Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend...
...I saw Billy Connolly six times in a row on one of his Australian tours, and it was the location of the first of about 30 Elvis Costello concerts that I’ve since attended....
...Girls Girls Girls runs from 2 April to 30 October...
...The company’s trouble with the programme surfaced in April when it announced it had cancelled its contract with supplier GDC Technics, which installs aircraft interiors, after it failed “to meet contractual...
...“I used to love the job,” said Jose Queiros, a Portuguese national who came to Britain in 1990 but left the trucking industry in April after 12 years. He now works in a quarry....
...Nonsupervisory workers’ wages rose by 0.55 per cent between April and May, an annualised rate of just under 7 per cent. That’s high....
...To meet the team behind Europe Express, register for our live event on April 29. Do tell us what you think, we love to hear from you: europe.express@ft.com....
...Raised in Seattle, he started a career programming state-of-the-art synthesisers for stars such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Costello and Patti LaBelle....
...This week it has reached about 6,500 a day and officials said it would not reach 25,000 until the middle of April....
...Jes Staley, Barclays’ chief executive, said in April that the talks with its African offshoot were constructive and progressing well....
...Only after that decision is made — probably by early April — can the submarine contractor be selected....
...That was a rough précis of my views on the subject in April when I got a message asking if I’d like to judge a prize, modelled on the Booker, for video games. Surely some mistake, I thought....
...That’s why the Brodskys have titled their complete Shostakovich cycle in London in April “The Musical Diaries of Shostakovich”....
...It is indeed remarkable that 21 still held the Number One slot in April 2012, more than a year after its release....
...The quotation – which has been variously attributed to Elvis Costello, Frank Zappa and Clara Schumann among others – stands as a warning to writers who might want to use musicians as their central characters...
...Gross domestic product grew a seasonally adjusted 0.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter in the April-June period....
...Overall employment in the minerals industry increased by 19 per cent between April 2005 and May 2006, according to the industry’s most recent survey, published in December....
...On Wednesday, the bidders said they would be extending the bid’s closing date to April 3, which they described as a normal step in this kind of deal....
...There is Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne”, an Appalachian-tinged reading of Elvis Costello’s “Scarlet Tide”, even a sweet version of Sam Cooke’s “Wonderful World”....
...Peter Costello, the treasurer, has spoken out in the past about his preference for a move to an ‘open skies’ policy, allowing greater competition in the sector....
...Rather, there is Miguel Adrover, Maggie Norris, Costello Tagliepietra and Duckie Brown. Yes, I know who they are, but it’s my job - I’m a fashion editor....
...But after a string of disappointing data, there was also good news with credit figures for April showing a 1.2 per cent upturn in business credit, the fastest pace of growth since October....
...But this had been offset by strength in February and April, she said....
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