Shunt Vaults

Shunt Vaults by forzagaribaldi

Final Night At Shunt Lounge

Shunt Vaults by forzagaribaldi If you’re one of those people who’ve always walked past that door in the arches between the Underground and the Overground at London Bridge Station and never ventured into the mysterious hole that is Shunt you have until Saturday to satisfy …

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Shunt To Expand: Going Beyond The Vaults

Image of Shunt Lounge indoor garden shed author’s own Fans of those deliriously oddball performance / art / lounge / bar persons who are Shunt will be pleased to hear that they Shunt are expanding. While their current home in the Shunt Vaults beneath London …

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Preview: Horatio Oratorio at Shunt Vaults

Recorded sound hasn’t existed as a physical object for very long, and no sooner does it arrive than it starts to slip away. One hundred and twenty odd years may seem like a long time when the records you bought last month felt outdated last …

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Home Sweet Home At Shunt Vaults

The Shunt Lounge garden shed, courtesy of the author Londoners can be a playful bunch, going on Flickr Photo Scavenger Hunts, playing Rubbish Games and doing pictures of our favourite landmarks. There’s also a chance all next week to play houses and happy families at …

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A Drama, A Bevvy And Some Nosh

London boasts one of the best cultural scenes in the world while also being generally one of the busiest places on earth. This can make it hard to find the time to sample the best performances on offer at some of our world-leading theatres – …

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A Play, A Pie And A Pint

New writing theatre company Paines Plough are presenting an absolutely cracking new way to see plays this autumn and making us think that there should be more theatre programmed like this. New writing, an exciting theatre space, a sensible time slot, a hot snack and …

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The Gas Organ

Imagine the tall pipes of a church organ. Imagine each pipe is made of glass. Imagine those pipes are not connected to a keyboard but freestanding, attached to slim white metal frames, originally intended for film or theatre lighting rigs. Imagine each of those glass …

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Review: Penthesilea at the Barbican (Spill Festival)

The Spill festival continues to pour out around us with performances in the Barbican, Shunt Vaults, Toynbee Studios and Soho Theatre. We’ve mentioned one piece in the programme so far, Raimond Hoghe’s Sacre – The Rite of Spring and there’s more coverage of the pieces …

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Experiment: Spill Over This Easter!

Fancy entering Spring in weird and strange mode? Looking for a different way to spend the glorious Easter weekend? Like the idea of a browsing round a live tattooing, exploring unseen parts of the London Bridge vaults and witnessing a live video installation unroll on …

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Culture Crawl

It’s a bit of a mixed bag this week, to match the weather and the annual wardrobe meltdown that we are facing as we try to cover all potential weather situations. It’s been a bit of a scramble to bring the Culture Crawl indoors after …

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Amato Saltone

Shunt has been a Londonist favourite for a while now, ever since they put girls in feathers and made them dance on trapezes above a hearse in a vault under London Bridge station and then put everyone to sleep with anaesthetics They’re back with a …