As of tomorrow lunchtime – an wonderfully apt time to start – London’s first slow food market will be installed outside the Royal Festival Hall and thus commences the Festival of Food long weekend on the South Bank. As well as opportunities to buy fresh, …
The book grocer returns from August hiatus to find all kinds of lovely literary events with which to fill up our diary for September. And having remembered a lesson or two from primary school (beer before liquor, never sicker? No, not that one), we share …
London girl Catherine Anne Davies has had some outstanding press, so with high hopes we attended her gig at Bush Hall on Thursday night. A fair size audience, made up largely of young indie chicks and industry heads, demonstrated Catherine’s growing popularity – a singer …
London based record label Heavenly celebrate 18 years of being in the music biz this Autumn and today they’ve put on sale tickets to some very special gigs in celebration. Set up by Jeff Barrett in 1990, not only did they manage to sign some …
Head to the Southbank Centre for the London Literature Festival Fresh Off the Page series. Tonight’s event, These Streets Sound Like LDN City, showcases the talents of several young spoken word artists and musicians and is put together by young curators from the SOWF Street …
Festival season embeds itself in our social life this week and makes a mockery of our diary – it’s all illegible scribblings, strike-throughs, and exclamation points. Whilst we attempt to sort ourselves out, let’s see what sense we can make of the week ahead in …
“What is house? Technotronic, KLF or something you live in To me house is Phuture, Pierre, Fingers, Adonis The Pioneers of the Hypnotic Groove Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode and The Yellow Magic Orchestra” – LFO, “What Is House?” (Warp Records, 1991) Given …
L-R: Panama Black and Jneiro Jarel of Shape Of Broad Minds; Dälek It is perhaps appropriate that, for a music so feverishly obsessed with being fresh, when forced to actually contemplate its own future hip-hop ends up delving back into the past for answers. On …
Never underestimate the power of bass. This is a lesson that the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall learned as pieces of aluminium cracked and began to break free from the ceiling on Tuesday night as The Dubstep Chronicles rumbled its way through Meltdown 2008. No …
Diaries out, bibliophiles. Festival season is almost upon us. No, not the festival season that will have you rolling around in mud or throwing your pants at the stage (well, you could throw your pants at the stage, and we’d certainly provide moral support for …
The future is still what it used to be. Vangelis’ music for Ridley Scott’s portentous 1982 sci-fi thriller Blade Runner is often held up as an example of an original score that was in perfect harmony with the director’s vision. Tonight it’s taken apart and …
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