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The Book Club‘s “Last Night a Speed Date Changed My Life” may not have radically transformed this lovelorn Londonista’s world – there were a few sparks but no earth-shattering moments of romantic revelation – but it successfully Changed My Attitude to speed dating. It was …

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 …

Fans of The Wire, forget the rainy day and and gird your loins: Stringer Bell is appearing tonight at the Big Chill Bar off Brick Lane. In real life, he’s Hackney born Idris Elba, AKA DJ Driss with a record box full of hip hop …

When an event is portrayed as a night of “unbridled hedonism,” it behooves us to sit up and take note. Tomorrow’s Nightclub event will bear witness to the ICA being overrun by a DJ roundup so impressive, it’s enough to make any electro enthusiast salivating …

After the (non-)scandal of (un-)banned Tube posters, the works of Lucas Cranach the Elder are now well and truly on show at the Royal Academy. Painter, print-maker, illustrator, businessman, propagandist, and huge fan of the female nude, this is Cranach’s first major exhibition in Britain. …

It’s been a strange ol’ week for Londonist music-wise. On Monday we got worried about a rise in nightclub violence, on Tuesday caught Goldfrapp at Union Chapel, on Wednesday caught Nick Cave at HMV and on Thursday got excited about a new-ish club night at …

This Sunday, rap fans will pay their respect to late hip-hop producer J-Dilla at Cargo in Shoreditch. DJs including Shortee Blitz, Marc Mac and DJ Spin Doctor will be bumping favourites from Dilla’s back catalogue in an event held to honour his life and legacy. …

“Y’all are making Brighton seem like where the party’s at”, yells DJ Big Whiz from behind the decks. The roar of protest from the crowd, packed tightly underneath Cargo’s Victorian arches so movement is reduced to peristalsis-like shuffles, is the desired response: Londoners don’t take …

Strictly Come Dancing may be but a glitzy, Christmas twinkle in the memory banks but for all of you that fell in love once more with the heat and hustle of the latin section, Samba Dance Club night at Sadlers Wells is something you need …

We’ve not done very well on the virtuous January front and seem to have spent all our money and most of our nights out on the lash with a flagrant disregard for propriety and our bank account. We don’t mind though because, as usual, there …