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NOW BOOKING RIVERDANCE 25TH ANNIVERSARY 27-29 MAR, CORN EX, FROM £40.50 Dance spectacular with four shows in three days. Tickets have sold well, so be quick! JOHN SHUTTLEWORTH’S BACK! 28 MAR, JUNCTION, £22.50 His back is giving him trouble. You’ll certainly hear about it. NEON MOON: GALACTICA 25 APRIL, JUNCTION, FROM £18 Venture into outer space for burlesque Barbarellas, twisted aliens and hunky spacemen. THE BOOMTOWN RATS 24 APRIL, CORN EX, £33 Bob Geldof-led group return, with big hits and new tracks.
Since John Peel opened the doors on Valentine’s Day in 1990, Cambridge Junction has established itself as a leading arts hub for the region. Thirty years on from its launch night, the venue is hosting a birthday party to celebrate the more than three million uniquely entertaining moments that audiences have experienced at the venue over the last three decades. The Junction is currently running a reminiscence project, Lost Night & Love Songs, pulling together oral and written histories and ephemera to commemorate the rich history of the venue and the impact it’s had on the lives of the people of Cambridge. If you have memories of events that you’d like to share, you can email the venue, join the Facebook group or go along to one of the memory cafe events; details are on the website. The bash on 14 February features DJs, bands and more, and tickets are priced at £19.90. junction.co.uk JUNCTION 30TH BIRTHDAY PARTY
Watch a video or old programme on YouTube or Vimeo and chances are you’ll start reading the comments underneath. It can be enriching, but more often downright annoying, as comments full of vile invective fill the screen. One person who’s taken a stand against internet trolls is David Baddiel. He hasn’t followed standard advice – to not get involved – as he sees them as akin to hecklers at a comedy show. So he answers them, tries to reason with them and the exchanges that follow, the strange, surreal online paths he’s led down, are the framework for his new show, Trolls: Not the Dolls : a comedy journey into culture’s most dank virtual underground. He’s at Cambridge Corn Exchange on 5 February, with tickets at £30. cambridgelive.org.uk DAVID BADDIEL
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