Take a bow: the sounds of A Room for London

Picking 12 acts to play A Room for London wasn't the hard part. For starters, how do you get a piano into a boat on a roof?The Roi des Belges began its life last summer in a barn in rural Sussex. A marriage of Plymouth steel and magenta-stained timber, it's a strange little vessel dignified by its nods to Heart of Darkness, Roi des Belges being the name of the boat Joseph Conrad took up the Congo in 1889. It would take five months, a police escort and a crane to bring it to where it stands now: ...

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