Beijing's Bird's Nest, the wonder of the world in 2008, is underused, goggled at by day-trippers and the odd concert-goer.
There's got to be room over the course of 40-odd concerts for those kind of artists".
I've sung more than 500 songs in 21 different languages and held 800-odd concerts across the globe, including more than 300 in the U.S. alone.
To some extent McKenzie has done that - there's marginally less emphasis on hard-line modernism in the 50-odd concerts than there used to be.
A prelude to the Brighton festival proper, which begins on 7 May, the fringe rounds up the quirkier, less-frills cabaret, theatre, comedy, even magic, and throws in the odd music concert and exhibition at locations across town.
So what to do on a Thursday night, if you're not picking up street-savvy sartorial tips at the Odd Future concert?
The Levys are characters in "Broadway Sings the Odd Potato," a concert musical by the sisters Eileen Bluestone Sherman (book and lyrics) and Gail C. Bluestone (music) at the Peter Norton Symphony Space.
The night before the New York concert, Odd Future was played on the hip-hop radio station Hot 97 (WQHT-FM) for the first time, on the underground show hosted by Peter Rosenberg, who had to do some homemade edits to make the songs radio-ready.
Afterward, Mr. Epstein said, "I took odd jobs promoting concerts and clubs".
The Chicago Symphony, under the direction of Riccardo Muti, opened the Carnegie Hall season with a formidably odd trio of concerts, notable as much for what they left out as for what they included.
