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One of my favourite things about London in the summer is all the festivals that spring up. Come rain or shine, Londoners love nothing more than getting outside to hear some great music and eat some delicious food whether we’re in our wellies or flip flops. So one of the…
Fresh off a wonderful weekend of celebrations to honour our beloved Queen comes the next major event to put our loyalties to GB to the test – Euro 2012. But with most sporting events, there’s no harm in showing love to another worthy team (cough, Spain) – while this particular fest is…
The Diamond Jubilee is almost upon us and with it, that rare beast – the four day weekend. So how best to use these four glorious days of freedom? Street party? Could be great but it could also mean spending the day with your neighbour (who you’ve never met) bending…
Organiser Sean Flowerdrew might just be realising his dream – making The London International Ska Festival an annual affair. Now in its 3rd year and picking up momentum as it goes, the event has outgrown its Clapham venue and moved to pastures new, north of the river, perfectly filling the…
We may be slowly entering yet another noisy blockbuster season but it is fair to say that these last couple of weeks have been extremely generous to the tastes of indie film lovers in London. First, at the London Independent Film Festival, they got the chance to discover the raw talents…
In case you hadn’t noticed, films are sort of a big thing in London right now. Pop-up mania spread from clothes to food to film sometime in late 2010, and came to a head last year, with fly-by-night cinemas popping up wherever they liked – in cemeteries, under flyovers, amongst…