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Saturday 03 May – LIVE MUSIC!
Guanabara: www.guanabara.co.uk
Parker Street, London WC2B 5PW Tel:0207-242-8600
Tickets: £10 after 8pm
See REBECCA VALLIN sing LIVE with her new band BRAZIU while music label producers Franko and Ifan bring the success of their Manchester residency – Blanco – to London.

Barbican : www.barbican.org.uk
Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS Tel:0207-638-0569
At: 19:30 Tickets:£10/15/20
Café Tacuba – one of the best Latin American bands in the last 15 years - will be mixing it with Rock and Hip Hop. Variously described as a dirty, greasy, innocently wild fluid art, this is only the 2n time the band have appeared in the UK. FORRO IN THE DARK will open the night with their traditional Brazilian North Eastern rhythm and NYNY clubby grooves.

Sunday 04 May - LIVE MUSIC!
Barraco: www.brarracocafe.com
10 Kingsgate Place, Kilburn, London NW6 4TA Tel:0207-604-4664
From 14:00 enjoy SAMBA DE MESA while you eat. They make mean Caprianas here.

Made in Brazil: www.made-in-brazil.co.uk
12 Inverness Street, Camden Town, London NW1 TUBE: CAMDEN
BRAZILIAN JAZZ and SAMBA by Ruby Rocha and Gue Tavares.

Monday 05 May – LIVE MUSIC!
Jazz Café: www.jazzcafelive.com
5 Parkway, Camden London NW1 7PG Tel:0207-485-6834 TUBE: CAMDEN
See the iconic MILTON NASCIMENTO – the Grammy award winning singer, song writer and guitarist play LIVE . Beyond Jazz and POP (he worked with British band DURAN DURAN in 1983) the NASCIMENTO sound fuses various diverse cultures with ancient Gregorian chants to African tribal. MILTON NASCIMENTO is profoundly attached to his roots in the interior of Brazil. From 19:00: Tickets:£30

Tuesday 06 May –
Bar Rumba: www.barrumba.co.uk
36 Shaftsbury Avenue, London W1D 7EP Tel:0207-287-6933 TUDE: PICCADILLY CIRCUS
SALSA BOOGIE introduces an explosive new night out featuring a total party mix of the best upfront Salsas, reggaeton and R&B for all aficionados of Salsa and Urban Latin dance music.
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Wednesday 07 May – LIVE MUSIC!
Made in Brazil: www.made-in-brazil.co.uk
12 Inverness Street, Camden Town, London NW1 TUBE: CAMDEN
LIVE BANDS playing everything from Bosa Nova to Musica Popular Brazil (MPB) and Samba.



London Dynamite Top 10 Pick-Up Lines

1) Is that a ladder in your tights or the stairway to heaven?

2) Is there an airport nearby or is that the sound of my heart taking off.

3) My friend wants to know if you were born in those jeans.

4) Now here I am! What were your other 2 wishes?

5) Is your name summer ‘cas you’re HOT!

6) I want to call your mother and thank her.

7) I’ve lost my phone number. Can I have yours?

8) Can I sit with you so I won’t get hit on?

9) I have big feet

10) Hi. You’ll do.


*London Dynamite is a new weekly column from Jonny Oakley. You can check out the latest clubs, the hottest gigs, the occasional interview and the recommended top 5 lists every Thursday

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