About Talia

Whether you’re aware of Gustave Doré or not, we’ll bet you a shining new guinea that you’ve seen his etchings. Doré’s evocotive depictions of the Victorian metropolis bedeck almost every treatment of the era. Most famously, his masterful images brought to life the otherwise bromidic …

We love a good idea for a club night, and The Record Player has ticked all our boxes. Launching this Saturday night at Concrete on Shoreditch High Street, the night promises to take you on a journey back in time, this time round to 1979. …

The older we get the more we think that Ikea just won’t do for anything except meatballs. We want to go to Heal’s and splurge every penny we’ve ever saved. That still would probably only buy us half a chair. Alarms are thus set for …

We like music. We like boats. When we found out that we would be able to spend every Wednesday this summer, watching some of the hottest alt-folk acts on a boat, we fished our boat shoes out and did a little jig. Starting now and …

W1′s The Social is one of our favourite central London venues but for one reason or another we don’t go enough. Tonight though we’re almost thinking about dragging our tired midweek clubbing heels down there for the launch of new night ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’. …

The dominion of Dalston came alive on Friday evening. For one night only, thirteen venues and over fifty artists joined forces to transform Kingsland High Street into a right royal party.  It’s almost impossible to enjoy a music festival without the delightfully persistent feeling of …

Victoria Park is fast becoming the park of choice to hold new music events in London. Far from Lovebox being its only event of the summer, it’s now home to the new Led Festival and a return visit from Tiësto who has announced he’ll revisit …

With his opera Prima Donna set to open at Sadler’s Wells, an appearance at the Lesbian & Gay Film Festival last week and a solo UK tour about to kick off, 2010 is a great year for London based fans of Rufus Wainwright. Tomorrow it’s …

Last year we took a leisurely debut trip to Suffolk’s Latitude festival, listened to Stuart Maconie interview lots of people, watched the Pet Shop Boys throw colourful boxes around, and stared open mouthed as the rain vanished into the peat rather than building a fountain …

There are few club nights that have allowed us to dance to the extended 8 minute version of Diana Ross’ ‘Love Hangover’ so when we find one that does we become a firm fan. Now on Thursday, two of them – Vauxhall’s Horse Meat Disco …