After masquerading as functional, rational, squared-off and decidedly masculine entity for over a century, the London Underground has this week come out as a woman. A new, sweeping, curvaceous tube map has come to light: it rather resembles a multi-coloured Medusa, or perhaps a mad …
Doc Rogers lives and works in the heart of London’s SoHo – he’s currently a creative technologist for an advertising company and a keen blogger. 1/6 – I have to spend a lot of time surfing the world wide web for work, so I often …
Art prizes always create controversy; people seem to love to hate them and the media is so practiced at producing outraged copy about pickled sheep, elephant dung paintings, lights flicking on and off, unmade beds and other shock tactics of the YBA scene that there …
Shadow Homeland Security Minister Patrick Mercer reckons the government have done not a lot to make the tube less vulnerable to attack: “The Government is hugely complacent about Tube safety and security. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, when he was detained by the Americans four years ago, …
‘Guaranteed to get a certain kind of Londoner quivering in anticipation’: Peter Watts, TimeOut. Maybe Pete was thinking of us when he wrote those words. We’ve been quivering, salivating and otherwise resonating with excitement ever since we learnt of this new exhibition at the British …
Last week we went out to watch a man from Beirut with colourful trousers and big hair, sing songs about fat girls, gay affairs, and lollipops. Tonight, we think you should do the same. Mika was born in the middle of a warzone in 1983 …
The fallout from yesterday’s foiled terror attacks continue with various flight cancellations occuring at Heathrow. East Sheen residents are protesting against the planned demolishment of a wartime bunker. Unsurprisingly, the council want to build luxury flats on the site. Beck is going to celebrate his …
A week or so ago, we were trundling down Tottenham Court Road underground station dreading the face-sweating levels of heat that were about to hit us when we heard something we thought was rather wonderful. While buskers have got much better since the Underground introduced …
Harry Beck’s London Underground may have lost out to ‘old big nose’ in the Great British Design Quest but fear not London, for we have the black cab, and the black cab has just become the greatest British automotive design icon as voted for by …
Today’s Guardian contains a brilliant article by their music writer, Dorian Lynskey, who explains how he went about adapting the London Underground in order to plot the history of 20th century music. The idea is simple and ingenious: each line takes on a certain musical …
Now that the Pop Kid, the Noisy one and the Club Londonista have all had their say, it falls to Ricky to throw in his two cents. For want of a better pseudonym, let’s call him RiotRicky. More appropriate job titles on a postcard please, …
