Albany

We caught up John Finnemore and asked about sketch nights, the creative process and what the big deal is with radio.

This week’s cabaret and burlesque recommendations include vegetable puppet theatre, a surly sorcerer, a Prince spectacular, a DIY arts and craft birthday party and a new circus night.

Whether it was faking parents’ signatures on sick notes or choosing Hallowe’en costumes, Londonist has never been very good at pretending to be someone else which is why we’re glad we came across comedy night The Forgery Club and its collection of quality acts, each …

Poetry and football might not seem the easiest of bedfellows, but The Albany in Deptford and ARC in Stockton commissioned four poets to make short spoken word films for the World Cup. Scroobius Pip made an elegy for Millwall’s Old Den, Polarbear honoured Maradona, Charlie …

Once again the artists are out in front of the eggheads and politicians. Earlier we covered tonight’s experiment in direct economic democracy at The Albany – effectively, attendees pay a £10 tax to join The Albany’s mini-society, and they all get a say on how …

Who wants to be in the office today? Who wants to be told to take alternative routes because there aren’t enough drivers on the Circle Line? Who wants to choose the outcomes of something you have a direct investment in? If you do, head down …

We first heard of Uptight earlier this week when the great Retro To Go blog mentioned it. Checking it out, the music policy sounded great, and the clubnight is celebrating it’s 7th birthday this weekend so if there’s ever a time to try it out, …

If you’re sick of reading free papers on the tube and fancy a different take on what’s going on in the world, then we’ve found just the thing for you. Now, it’s not often you get theatre in a tent in London, but from Thursday …

These four-day (working) weeks are great but they do wreak havoc with the body clock. Still, we’d rather Friday crept up on us too quickly than too slowly. So, it’s the weekend and you forgot to arrange anything to do. That’s ok, we’re here to …

This Friday, 18th March, sees the inaugural session of The Breadcrumb Trail, a club night hosted by The Colonies. The Colonies are one of Londonist’s favourite unsigned bands (click here to read the interview we published in January), and this is the perfect opportunity for …