Saturday Review - 28/08/2010

Tom Sutcliffe and guests AL Kennedy, Jenny McCartney and Misha Glenny review the week's cultural highlights.... HENDRIX IN BRITAIN A new exhibition at Handel House Museum in London marks the fortieth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death... For a few months in 1968 and 1969, Jimi Hendrix lived in a flat at 23 Brook Street in London, next door to the former home of the composer Handel. Handel's house became a museum in 2001, but the connection with Hendrix has always been important - the two musicians' blue plaques are side by side. Hendrix in Britain is at Handel House Museum until November. SURFING THE VOID, THE KLAXONS The controversial winners of the 2007 Mercury Music Prize beat Amy Winehouse and Bat for Lashes to the coveted award, but fans have waited a long time for their second album, Surfing the Void, apparently created under the influence of an Amazonian psychotropic drug and a new age author. Surfing the Void by The Klaxons is out now. HUMAN CHAIN BY SEAMUS HEANEY The Nobel Laureate's new collection of poetry, already nominated for the Forward Prize, is a rumination on illness, mortality and the afterlife. Human Chain is published by Faber on 2nd September HIM & HER / ROGER AND VAL HAVE JUST GOT IN The panel consider two new BBC sitcoms, both based around the relationship between a couple, both very much confined to the domestic sphere. Roger and Val Have Just Got In continues on BBC Two, Him & Her begins on BBC Three on 6th September. SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD Edgar Wright's third feature film is an adaptation of a popular comic book series, in which Scott Pilgrim - played by Michael Cera - must defeat the seven exes of a mysterious roller-blading woman in order to win the right to date her. Scott Pilgrim vs The World, certificate 12A, is on nationwide release now.