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Qiev Dance is an annual dance music festival, taking place for the seventh time.

Highlights include Fatboy Slim, the famous English DJ and pioneer of electronic dance, German Dash Berlin and Cosmic Gate from Denmark on Oct.2.

International Exhibition Center at 9 p.m.,15 Brovarsky Prospekt, tel. 502-3464. http://qievdance.ua (in Russian). Tickets: Hr 200-400
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Joe Cocker is a legendary English singer, known for his bluesy soul voice.

During his career, which spans over four decades, he has released 21 studio and four live albums.

Cocker sang at Nelson Mandela’s birthday, the fall of the Berlin Wall concert and George H.W. Bush’s inauguration.

He was ranked 97th on U.S. magazine Rolling Stone’s 100 greatest singers of all time list in 2008.

He will perform on Oct.3 at Palace Ukraina at 7 p.m., 103 Velyka Vasylkivska. Tickets: Hr 100-5000.

Morcheeba is a cocktail of trip hop, R&B, rock and pop locked in one British band.

Fans and critics attribute the band’s success to its female lead singer Skye Edwards.

When she left Morcheeba after four albums together, the guys had no luck whatsoever.

But now Edwards is back and will sing with the lads again their new album “Blood Like Lemonade”, their seventh baby in 15 years.

Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.,Zhovtnevyi Palats, 1 Instytutska. Tickets: Hr 250-1000

 

Limp Bizkit is a hugely successful rock-rap band from the USA.

These guys are infamous for their sexist remarks and arrogant attitude, but it never seemed to bother their fans.

The band was nominated for Grammy Awards three times and won a few other cool prizes from MTV Music Video and Blockbuster Awards.

Limp Bizkit is coming to Kyiv for the second time to perform on Oct. 7 at Kyiv Expo Plaza, 2B Salutna near metro Nyvky. Tickets: Hr 290-450

Gary Moore is the man you need for quality blues-rock.

Born in Ireland, Moore started playing a guitar at the age of seven.

Despite being left-handed, he learned how to play a standard right handed guitar.

His career took off in the ‘60s, introducing the audience to the “white male” blues.

He played together with great many artists, including with B.B. King, Ozzy Osborne and George Harrison among others.

Oct.7 at 7 p.m. in Palats Ukraina, 103 Velyka Vasylkivska, metro Palats Ukraina, tel. 247-2316. Tickets: Hr 250-1800