Olympic Venue Naming Rights Up For Sale
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Venues
Olympic Nations Earmark Landmark Party Venues
As well as competing at the Olympic Park and other 2012 venues around London, the Olympic nations will be vying for attention on the hospitality front. High profile London venues are being snapped up by competing countries for party hosting and national shopfronting.
100 Club To Close?
One of London’s most famous music venues could close amid financial problems. The 100 Club, at 100 Oxford Street, claims to be the capital’s oldest live music venue, starting life as a jazz club in 1942 and playing host to a who’s who of rock …
Phototour of Kings Place
Kings Place is all but finished, and ready to receive visitors from 1 October. This apostrophe-shy centre of arts on York Way will also be home to two orchestras and the Guardian from the end of the year. We got a sneak peek of the …
Save Our Pits And Pickle Factories, Finally The Government Steps In
The Rainbow is long gone, the Hammersmith Palais now lingers only in the memory and even that good old grubby beer stained shit-hole that is the loveable Astoria is under threat. Gigs are selling out in minutes, replacing restaurants and cinemas as the preferred venue …
Santa’s Lap: Arty Memberships
Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …
London For Free…Mapped
You want entertainment in London, you say? And you want it for free? Well, good sir or madam, you’ve come to the right place. Anyone who’s lived in this fair city for a while knows that free entertainment is actually all around us. From our …
London Design Festival
The London Design Festival is back next month, running 15 -30 September and if you’re that way inclined, take out your Philip Starcke pen and put it in your Moleskine diary now. Established in 2003 to celebrate and promote London and the UK’s design creativity, …
Portobello Film Festival
The Portobello Film Festival started in 1996 and it has grown and expanded to become the UK’s biggest independent film festival, going from 1,000 visitors back then to over 15,000 last year. Every film submitted is screened, entry is free to all events and there …
The Londonist Literary List
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Among the treats available to lit lovers this week are a reading in a cemetery, a reading in Shakespeare’s Globe, and if you’re willing to …
