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In just two short years, The Book Club in Shoreditch has become one of the best-known alternative nightspots in East London. With a colourful and creative calendar of events incorporating arts and craft, talks, film screenings, DJs and dance classes, its quirky manifesto of ‘drinking and thinking’ has proved a…
After months of partnering with the immensely notable visual label ANTIVJ, Flying Lotus makes his UK debut at London’s creative hub Roundhouse on October 22nd. From being an unfamiliar face within L.A.’s melting pot of music, Lotus (real name Steven Ellison) is now regarded as one of the world’s most innovative…
Ever secretly fancied taking a peek inside a stranger’s home? Well now is your chance. Open House London, the free annual architecture festival that lets you explore inside some of the capital’s most unusual and extravagant properties, is back. Some of 2011’s quirkier examples are an ‘upside down house’ in…
“What started as a ‘walk to the next bus stop’ whim, became some neo urban nomadic journey freestyled from the wind, philosophising on everything, dissing anything, eat-about, portable ho down shindig,” say poet and performer Inua Ellams of The Midnight Run, his annual after-hours jaunt across London. Since 2005, groups of curious Londoners…
Film buffs and cartoon lovers alike will be well up for heading to the London International Animation Festival – the largest of its kind in the UK. Taking place at the Barbican for the first time in its eight year history, there’ll be 250(!) beautifully crafted visuals to feast your…
August bank holiday weekend can mean only one thing in London… it’s carnival time! So don the feathers, loosen those hips, and grab that whistle to enjoy two days of West-Indian style partying in the heart of West London’s Ladbroke Grove! Yes, we know it’s crowded and challenging to get…