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Remembering Angela McCluskey: Live on MBE (1995-2010)

Angela McCluskey, formerly of Wild Colonials. Photo credit: KCRW.

KCRW remembers Angela McCluskey, the Scottish-born singer-songwriter who first rose to prominence with her group Wild Colonials, but went on to achieve global recognition as the voice of Télépopmusik ’s “Breathe” in 2003. She was 64. 

Wild Colonials formed in 1992 as a quartet including her husband, Paul Cantelon; guitarist Shark; and multi-instrumentalist Scott Roewe. They appeared for the first time on MBE that same year, and subsequently became a regular fixture on the program. The group appeared twice each in 1993 and 1994 before their final appearance in December of 1995.

The group emerged out of a jam session at Hollywood’s Café Beckett and gigged regularly at Molly Malone’s. A Tuesday-night residency at Café Largo helped secure the band a contract with DGC/Geffen (which also followed the group’s first appearance on MBE). After two well-regarded albums, Fruit of Life (1994) and This Can’t Be Life (1996), the group fizzled out in the process of extricating themselves from their record contract.

McCluskey ended up in Paris, where she connected with trio Télépopmusik in 2001. Although initially reluctant, McCluskey warmed to the idea of having a Massive Attack-style guest vocalist role. The runaway success of their 2003 song “ Breathe ” culminated in a dual UK/US chart hit, a Grammy nomination, and a memorable television ad for Mitsubishi.

McCluskey’s solo career began in 2004 with The Things We Do , for which she appeared on MBE with Nic Harcourt that year. She returned to MBE with Jason Bentley in 2010 . McCluskey continued releasing her own music alongside a long and fruitful career as a vocalist/collaborator with artists ranging from Kendrick Lamar to Paul Oakenfold . Her final release was the 2021 EP, Between Ourselves .

Angela McCluskey on Morning Becomes Eclectic, 2/19/2010 Angela McCluskey returns to KCRW to chat with host Jason Bentley and perform songs from her 2009 album, You Could Start A Fight In An Empty House.

Angela McCluskey on Morning Becomes Eclectic, 7/14/2004 Angela McCluskey makes her KCRW debut as a solo artist (with band) live in the studio with host Nic Harcourt, playing songs from her album, The Things We Do.

Wild Colonials on Morning Becomes Eclectic, 12/7/1995 For their sixth and final KCRW on-air session, Wild Colonials perform live in the studio with host Chris Douridas.

Robbie Robertson on Morning Becomes Eclectic, 5/6/2011 In conversation with Jason Bentley, Robbie Robertson discusses working with Angela McCluskey on his 2011 solo album, How To Become Clairvoyant.

Rockstar Dies Following Emergency Surgery: Angela McCluskey Was 64

In addition to her own work, Angela McCluskey collaborated with Kendrick Lamar, Robbie Robertson​ and more.

By John Connor Coulston - March 16, 2024 01:25 pm EDT

Beloved rock vocalist Angela McCluskey has died, according to a statement on her social media accounts. She was 64. Per Variety , the Wild Colonials member's death on Thursday came "after being in a coma following emergency surgery for an arterial tear."

"We are devastated to tell you that our beloved Angela McCluskey has left us to be with her fellow angels," the death announcement read. "Never did anyone live life more fully, love more generously, sing more….well, just….more. Angela sang just as she breathed. Her life was a song, and she was music. She will be missed more than any of us can say, but our love for her and her love for her beloved Paul, her siblings Gerard, Alan and Muriel, and all her family and friends will live forever. Please light a candle for our darling."

The statement also included a quote from the Wild Colonials song " Spark ": "The spark has gone but the love lives on."

McCluskey's loved ones have launched a GoFundMe to benefit her widower/Wild Colonials bandmate, Paul Cantelon. Friends and fans have raised $29,520 as of press time.

Among those who paid tribute to McCluskey was Shirley Manson , according to The Daily Mail .  Via an Instagram Story post, the Garbage frontwoman wrote, "Darling....I'm brokenhearted. A Scottish treasure. A world class talent. A wildly irreverent, generous loving soul who practiced kindness at all times in all the dark places. I love you. My sincere condolences to everyone who loves you. Especially to your handsome prince Paul."

In addition to her solo work and material recorded with Wild Colonials, the late rockstar was also known for her collaborations with Télépopmusik, Kendrick Lamar , Robbie Robertson , Big Gigantic, Paul Oakenfold and Azealia Banks . 

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Angela McCluskey, Co-Founder of Beloved ‘90s Band Wild Colonials, Dies at 64

S inger/songwriter Angela McCluskey, best known for her work with L.A.-based Wild Colonials passed away on Thursday. She was 64. Cause of death was an arterial tear, according to her friend of 25 years, Julie Panebianco.

“She was a singer’s singer,” said Panebianco. “Her versions of ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’ and ‘My Funny Valentine’ are the only versions, She didn’t just cover songs, she stole them.”

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, on Feb. 28, 1960, McCluskey formed Wild Colonials in early 1992 after assembling a band for a jam night at Cafe Beckett, an Irish pub in Los Angeles. In addition to McCluskey, the band featured Angela’s husband, Paul Cantelon. The couple met in 1989 at an Indian restaurant in London where he was playing piano. Wild Colonials original members also include guitarist Shark and multi-instrumentalist Scott Roewe. Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith is counted among Wild Colonials’ past members.

“Anyone who ever heard Angela’s voice would recognize and remember it,” offered her friend, musician David Poe, who knew her for decades and sang with her many times. “She was a soulful, intuitive singer and songwriter with a personality as vivid as anyone I’ve known — a cocktail of joy, grit, sass and panache.”

After amassing a following in L.A. by performing regularly at Molly Malones and Cafe Largo, Wild Colonials released two critically-acclaimed albums on DGC/Geffen: Fruit of Life (1994) and This Can’t Be Life (1996) followed by Reel Life Volume 1 (2000) on Chromatic Records. The band headlined the second stage on the Lilith Fair tour in 1997.

“She sang credibly of joy and pain and everything in between,” said Poe. “Her spirit was wild and creative. Her taste in fashion, literature, film, music, and visual art was wide-ranging, hungry, impeccable.”

Post Wild Colonials’ breakup, McCluskey moved to Paris where she enjoyed further success, collaborating with French dance pop trio, Telepopmusik. Their 2002 song “Breathe,” from the debut album Genetic World, was nominated for a GRAMMY in the Dance Music category. McCluskey co-wrote the track and contributed guest vocals throughout the album. The track peaked at #9 in the U.S. on Billboard ’s Dance charts and was featured on a 2003 Mitsubishi Outlander television commercial. She also appears on Telepopmusik’s sophomore release, Angel Milk.

In addition to her formidable vocal and writing talent, McCluskey had a knack for whimsical interior design. In May 2013, the one bedroom Greenwich Village rental home she shared with Cantelon was the subject of a New York Magazine home decor style article, displaying her penchant for quirky and colorful vintage furnishings. “It’s a close shave between this and an old-lady’s apartment,” she explained. “People make that silly mistake of doing things right. I like to do things wrong.” Her eclectic backyard was featured in Curbed magazine in 2015.

“She made every room she was in come alive with her impromptu decorations and lighting adjustments and laughter,” said Panebianco.

“And her wit was legendary. It spoke as much to her astute sense of contemporary culture as to her rugged Scottish roots,” Poe said. “Angela was someone who came from nowhere and got somewhere, anchored by a down-to-earth dignity.”

McCluskey’s first solo album, The Things We Do  was released in 2004 on Manhattan/Blue Note Records. It was followed in 2009 by You Could Start a Fight in an Empty House , Lambeth Place  on Bernadette in 2012, Here Comes the Sun , also on Bernadette in 2011, and The Roxy Sessions  on Bernadette in 2016. Her final solo album, Between Ourselves , was released early in 2021.

McCluskey’s voice can be heard in numerous commercials (Schick Quattro, Coca Cola, American Express), television shows ( Boardwalk Empire , Grey’s Anatomy ) and films ( Rachel Getting Married , Sherrybaby , Begin Again ). And she and Cantelon were the subject of a short 2007 film called Wine and Cupcakes .

Her musical collaborators span a wide swath of genres: Lisa Marie Presley, Dr. John, Cyndi Lauper, Kendrick Lamar, Paul Oakenfold, Robbie Robertson and more.

British film producer Allison Owen and McCluskey were friends for more than four decades. “When I was moving to Dublin to produce my first movie in 1989, taking three small kids in the same week my husband left me, Angela who came to the rescue.” Owen explains. “She stayed four months with me in Castletown House, stapling swathes of velvet and silk to transform a dusty old wing into a cross between a bordello and a palace and holding soirées in the ballroom with Marianne Faithfull who lived in a cottage at the end of the drive.” McCluskey was godmother to Owen’s daughter, singer/songwriter/actress Lily Allen.

“It was such an honor to be her friend,” said Panebianco. “She was the most fiercely loyal and loving woman I have ever known.”

A GoFundMe page has been established to assist Cantelon with related expenses. 

Martin Scorsese Hosts Robbie Robertson Tribute Concert, With Jackson Browne and Others Paying Musical Homage

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In honor of the late Robbie Robertson , whose “ Killers of the Flower Moon ” score was his final work, Martin Scorsese hosted a private tribute concert Wednesday in Los Angeles that had guests including Joni Mitchell, Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone watching Jackson Browne and other musicians perform Robertson’s songs as well as score excerpts.

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Speaking about the final score composed by Robertson, whose mother was Mohawk and Cayuga and raised on the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve, Scorsese said, “I think that for Robbie this was a pinnacle in our collaboration, on this picture, which is dedicated to him. In a way, I think he was destined to score ‘Killers,’ which unfolded in the world of the Native American community, in this case the Osage Nation. It was almost as if Robbie had come home. I think he created one of the most beautiful scores ever written for a film. His music is the beating heart of the picture.” 

“Robbie Robertson has been an occupant of the Village and a large part of the magic of the Village for the last 50 years,” Greenberg, who purchased the studio in 1995, said. “I had the privilege of being with Robbie Robertson almost every day in the last 27 or 28 years. Every time I’ve started to write something about Robbie, I can’t stop from tearing up. I had the privilege and the pleasure of knowing a humble and shy and brilliant magician and musician, because he truly did make magic.” 

Becoming choked up for a moment, Greenberg breathed out heavily and lowered his face, before continuing to speak through tears to thank the audience for coming to the studio and being a part of the celebration. 

The approximately 70-minute concert opened with a stripped-down, stirring rendition of the Band’s “Twilight,” composed by Robertson and performed by Rocco DeLuca and Johnny Shepherd as a vocal duet, with DeLuca on guitar. The pair then delivered a haunting rendition of “They Don’t Live Long” from the “Killers of the Flower Moon” soundtrack. DeLuca appeared on Robertson’s fifth solo record, 2011’s “How To Become Clairvoyant,” and contributed to the “Killers” score.  

The always colorful Angela McCluskey, wearing pink flowers in her hair, took the stage next and relayed an anecdote about how she initially met Robertson over a decade ago when, out of the blue, he suddenly phoned her while she was overseas in Paris. Having never met Robertson before, she couldn’t believe that he was actually calling her. Incredulous, she said to him, “Why? What? I don’t know Robbie Robertson.” But Robertson told her that he was making a new album and that he casts musicians like actors for his records, as he invited her to Los Angeles to sing on his record. McCluskey said she immediately sat down on the sidewalk after the phone call, thinking, “Did that just fucking happen?” McCluskey added when she went to Los Angeles to sing on “How to Become Clairvoyant,” she absolutely adored Robertson. 

With her husband   and Wild Colonials bandmate, film composer Paul Cantelon, on piano, McCluskey sat down to perform the Band’s “Whispering Pines,” co-written by Robertson and Richard Manuel, from the Band’s 1969 self-titled album. With her powerhouse vocals filling the room, McCluskey gave an impassioned, goosebump-inducing performance. Overcome with emotion, McCluskey hung her head forward for a few moments at the end of the song, honoring Robertson.

Up next was the tribute from Scorsese. Wearing a royal blue suit and dark red tie, the legendary filmmaker smiled and waved at the crowd in response to the applause and whistles as he walked on stage. With a black-and-white photo of him and Robertson displayed on the screen behind him, for more than 15 minutes Scorsese spoke with reverence about Robertson and their longstanding friendship and collaboration.

Scorsese said that during the two-year period in which they worked on the film, the pair lived together and educated one another about their respective art forms. “We had informal classes,” he said. “Music class for me, film class for him… we really shared what we loved and we learned from each other.” Scorsese said Robertson introduced him to obscure blues, gospel and sacred harp, and Scorsese showed Robertson films by Samuel Fuller, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Luchino Visconti.

Talking about Robertson’s contributions to his films, Scorsese recounted several of Robertson’s musical suggestions, including Glenn Miller’s “Moonlight Serenade” in “The Aviator,” Etta James’ “At Last” for the end credits of “Raging Bull” (Scorsese noted that he used a piano version of the song), and “Cry” by Johnny Ray in “Shutter Island.” Scorsese said Robertson also introduced him to more contemporary songs, including the Dropkick Murphys’ “I’m Shipping Up to Boston,” which he used in “The Departed.” 

Illustrating Robertson’s ingenuity, Scorsese said when he was looking to find “the sound of silence” for his 2016 film “Silence,” Robertson collected the sounds of cicadas from various places at different times of year, which he mixed together, stretched out and slowed down, creating “something really special, almost like a choir. He got the sound of silence. But it was the sound of the inner silence that he got,” Scorsese noted.

Speaking about Robertson’s gift for storytelling, Scorsese said, “What Robbie said and the way he said it, his voice, the sound of Robbie’s voice — Leo DiCaprio was saying only a couple of weeks ago about it — (it was) a mellifluous sound, the spell it cast, the stories he told that flowed like music. They always had to pay off on a punchline, a great conclusion. He was a storyteller — not a great raconteur, but a real storyteller, much deeper than a raconteur. He held you, for me, with the rhythm of his words and his pauses, and it all became music.”

As to their almost 50-year close friendship, Scorsese said, “We were friends. We were more than that. Confidantes… someone you can confide in. Friendship is private, it’s trust, sometimes it’s forgiveness, and it’s love, but sometimes silence suffices. Silence can be enough.” 

Scorsese wrapped up his tribute to Robertson with an anecdote about his plan to use the Ink Spots’ song “We Three” in “Raging Bull,” until Robertson encouraged him to replace it with “Whispering Grass (Don’t Tell The Trees)” instead. Scorsese then said some of the song’s lyrics aloud: “Why do you whisper green grass? Why tell the trees what ain’t so? Whispering grass the trees don’t have to know. Why tell them all the old things? They’re buried under the snow. Whispering grass, don’t tell the trees ’cause the trees don’t need to know.” 

Met with a standing ovation, Scorsese’s speech set the stage beautifully for conductor Mark Graham to lead the Killers Score Orchestra through a captivating medley of Robertson’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” score, as scenes from the film played on screens at the side of the stage.

Citizen Cope took the stage next for a beautiful delivery of the Robertson-penned “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” from the Band’s 1969 self-titled album. He was joined on stage by soulful vocalist Angelyna Martinez, ebullient bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, renowned guitarist Blake Mills and legendary drummer Jim Keltner, plus Fred Yonnet (who played on the “Killers” and “The Irishman” soundtracks) gorgeously wailing away on harmonica. 

Jackson Browne next performed a stunning version of “Caledonia Mission,” written by Robertson for the Band’s 1968 debut record “Music From Big Pink,” with Wilkenfeld, Mills and Keltner. He then invited Jason Isbell, McCluskey and Martinez on stage for a rousing rendition of the evening’s last song, “The Weight,” also written by Robertson for the Band’s debut record.

“This is a song that everybody gets to play one time or another because everybody knows it and no one has to sing it exactly like the record. This is one of those songs that play themselves,” Browne said, before launching into a version of the song in which the vocalists traded off verses, with Isbell being met with screams and cheers as soon as he started to sing. 

With the entire audience singing along, DiCaprio bobbing his head back and forth in his seat and a smiling Mitchell tapping her cane on the floor to the beat, the life-affirming performance proved a perfect cap for a magical and befitting tribute to the life and music of a musician and composer whose loss still registers as not quite real to many of the friends and cohorts who filled the studio.

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• Departure Time : 10:00 AM
• Departure Details : Karl Marks Monument on Revolution Square, metro stop: Square of Revolution
• Return Details : Metro Smolenskaya
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Go beneath the streets on this tour of the spectacular, mind-bending Moscow Metro! Be awed by architecture and spot the Propaganda , then hear soviet stories from a local in the know. Finish it all up above ground, looking up to Stalins skyscrapers, and get the inside scoop on whats gone on behind those walls.

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We begin our Moscow tour beneath the city, exploring the underground palace of the Moscow Metro. From the Square of Revolution station, famous for its huge statues of soviet people (an armed soldier, a farmer with a rooster, a warrior, and more), we’ll move onto some of the most significant stations, where impressive mosaics, columns, and chandeliers will boggle your eyes! Moreover, these stations reveal a big part of soviet reality — the walls depict plenty of Propaganda , with party leaders looking down from images on the walls. Your local guide will share personal stories of his/her family from USSR times, giving you insight into Russia’s complicated past and present. Then we’re coming back up to street level, where we’ll take a break and refuel with some Russian fast food: traditional pancakes, called bliny. And then, stomachs satiated, we are ready to move forward! We’ll take the eco-friendly electric trolleybus, with a route along the Moscow Garden Ring. Used mainly by Russian babushkas(grannies) during the day, the trolleybus hits peak hours in the mornings and evenings, when many locals use it going to and from their days. Our first stop will be the Aviator’s House, one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters, followed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — and you’ll hear the legends of what has gone on inside the walls. Throughout your Moscow tour, you’ll learn curious facts from soviet history while seeing how Russia exists now, 25 years after the USSR.

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This tour exceeded our expectations. Nikolai (Nick), our tour guide, was very knowledgeable, thorough, and has a great personality. He didn't take shortcuts and really covered everything that was on the agenda in great detail. We saw beautiful metro stations and learned the history behind them, including many of the murals and designs.

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Anna was a great tour guide. She gave us heaps of interesting information, was very friendly, and very kindly showed us how to get to our next tour.

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The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

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• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

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Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

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Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

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• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

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From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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