Our Patch March 2015 | Page 15

Our Patch april 2015 31 March-1 April Catfish & The Bottlemen are touring their debut album, ‘The Balcony’, the culmination of six years of tenacity and sheer bloodymindedness.7pm. £13.50 www.O2shepherdsbushempire. co.uk 4 April l The Men They Couldn’t Hang, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire W12 Reincarnation of the 30-yearold folk punk band (around long enough to have backed David Bowie), with Stefan Cush still at the microphone. Also on the bill, Merry Hell and The London Sewage Company. 7pm. £20.25 www.O2shepherdsbushempire. co.uk 5-6 April l Easter Trail, Fulham Palace SW6 The museum and the gardens are full of clues on both Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. If you find them all (starting in the Tudor courtyard), you’ll win a chocolate prize. Children must be accompanied. Suitable for anyone over age two, no booking needed. 1-3.30pm £2 www.fulhampalace.org 8 April l Milton’s Big Ego with John Williams, Bush Hall W12 A cohort of the finest guitarists in the UK join forces in support of leukaemia charities. On the 10th anniversary of guitarist Milton Mermikides’ life-saving bone marrow transplant, this is a unique opportunity to experience a diverse ensemble of star guitarists including Craig Ogden, Gary Ryan, Bridget Mermikides, Declan Zapala and internationallyacclaimed classical guitarist John Williams perform a specially-arranged programme of jazz, classical and world music. 7.30pm. £25 www.bushhallmusic.co.uk 11 April l Tribute to JJ Cale, Brooks BLues Bar W6 Steve Morrison leads a band made up of some of London’s finest blues musicians in an evening dedicated to the songwriting of JJ Cale, who died in 2013. 7.30pm. £10 www.incognitodance.com by Ben Smith. 7.30pm. £14.50 www.bushhallmusic.co.uk 20 April-23 April l National Theatre Connections, Bush Theatre W12 Each year the National Theatre invites 10 writers to create new plays for young people to perform. Now 260 youth theatre companies will present the premieres of these plays in venues from Belfast to Norfolk. Each company will also perform at one of 27 Connections festiv