Brendan Quinn
Australian, business/tech guy at BBC R&D, ex-London Business School and UC Berkeley

come join local web & intranet professionals for an informal get-together

The second of Oriana's Christmas concerts this year includes exciting new arrangements of sublime Christmas music.
£20, £18, £15 (concessions £16, £13)
Book now to avoid disappointment!
Email tickets@londonoriana.com or call 07505 025673

Please come to a Ceilidh, hosted by the Oriana Choir, on Friday 18th November in the London Welsh Centre:

London Welsh Centre,157-163 Gray’s Inn Road, WC1X 8UE, 7.30pm (http://www.londonwelsh.org/contact-us)

It should be great fun! The dance starts at 7.30pm and has to finish at the Welsh by 10.30pm when we may go on for some more fun!
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I'm getting ripe and have hit half a century ....

So there should be celebrations

Plus free bar (until the money runs out)

Since it was published in 1611, the King James Version of the Bible has provided inspiration for composers, encouraging them to match the beauty of its language with exquisite musical settings. The London Oriana Choir celebrates this major cultural legacy with a programme of music taken from four centuries, including works by Elgar, Byrd, Gibbons,...

Peace In The City presents a night of rambunctious folky excellence with elements of Celtic, Balkan, and bluegrass. Excitement indeed! Live music from 8 til 1130pm and DJs after til 4am.

The Roving Crows
http://www.rovingcrows.com/
"Innovative, funky and energetic; some of the finest purveyors of Folk Rock and Celtic influenced music...

Buildings, myspace/buildingsofficial
Gypsy Moth, myspace.com/gypsymoththeband
Nasov, myspace/nasov
Alex Lipinski. alexlipinski.com

Wilmington Arms: £5 on the door. FREE SHOT of Jagermeister on the door to the first 25 people in, so tell people to BE EARLY cos it always runs out at some point...
Come.

ProductTank is all about the money this month as we get a look behind the scenes of the VC perspective on product management.

We've decided to try a new venue, and will be at TechHub on Old Street roundabout. Drinks and networking will start at 18.30, with the speakers starting promptly at 19.00. We'll have a few short talks followed by...

Tickets: http://bnds.in/ej0e0P
Track Arcade Fire: http://bnds.in/apAGqL

Hey folks, after 2 years and a bit it's time for me to abandon the city of double decker buses and head back to the low countries.

I'm not one for big goodbyes but I'm always up for a beer, so this will be a small goodbye. Next Tuesday after work I'll be heading to The Bull in Westfield and I'd be delighted if you would...

Come and hear the London Oriana Choir and the London Mozart Players, conducted by David Drummond, perform this English choral classic at the Barbican Hall. With exciting tenor Jaewoo Kim as Gerontius, Rosie Aldridge as the Angel and James Platt as the Priest/Angel of the Agony.

Tickets £10, £14, £18, £25, £30
www.barbican.org.uk
020 7638 8891

Bruckner: Mass in E minor
Hamish MacCunn: The Wreck of the Hesperus (arr. Drummond)
Jonathan Willcocks: Sea Shanties
Judith Bingham: Salt in the Blood
Grainger: We Have Fed Our Sea For A Thousand Years

Devnest is a developer and startup-centric monthly meetup sponsored by The Guardian Open Platform, Amazon Web Services and Multizone.
6pm - 9pm - Tuesday 3rd May 2011
All are welcome. The content is best suited to developers and startups.
If you are interested in public streaming services like Twitter or intend to start building a real-time...

Bank holiday + country pubs = perfick!

Does anyone else fancy rambling through rural Kent? Provided the weather's ok, I'm planning to don my sensible shorts and head out on Easter Monday for a walk

As well as having a funny name, Pluckley is also where 'The Darling Buds of May' was filmed. If it's good enough for...

We're delighted to have Peter Gasston speaking on CSS3 and its future. Peter will speak on some of the lesser known new features that are coming in the next few years, including a re-cap on what has recently been released that you can use in your new projects.

We're pleased to announce our next regular event, taking place on Wednesday 20th April, at our new venue in the Freemasons' Hall (close to Holborn, Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road and Temple stations).

The theme this month will be games, and confirmed speakers include Dan Borthwick from Playfish (Electronic Arts) sharing their...

The April DevTank will be at StartHub, so just around the corner from MOO, with space for 150 people. As well as a bigger venue, we also have another fantastic line-up of speakers in Paolo Perrotta and Jaan Orvet.

Paolo Perrotta is the author of Metaprogramming Ruby and has more than ten years of experience as a developer and writer. These days,...

<p><strong>We're proud to announce the next ProductCamp London!</strong></p><p>ProductCamp will be held on Saturday, February 26th, in the Guardian Building in London (near King's Cross).</p><p>It's a...

I'm leaving DMI and joining OTG. That's got to be worth a party, right?

Upstairs at the Defectors. See you there.

From audio and video production to delivery workflow, BVE 2011 is the event for everyone working in production, post and delivery.