To celebrate the season of eating, drinking and being merry, The Book Club held their “Bad Jumper Jingle Bell Rock” on December 9th. Shoreditch hipsters were invited to don their most cringeworthy jumpers and get ready to rock around the Christmas tree. Well, dodgy jumpers were aplenty, while reindeer, snowmen, santas and…
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In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it underground bar on Little Portland Street, is a legendary Hip Hop Karaoke night – the only way to spend your Thursday evenings. The local office boys and girls rush to get the drinks in straight after clocking out and, with free entry for all, the night gets…
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…
There might have been a mild sense of caution surrounding this year’s festivities off the back of the London riots, but a heavy police presence – 5,500 – ensured Notting Hill Carnival 2011 kicked off in the highest of spirits. By 10am, crowds were packing out Tube stations like Notting…
The Queen of Hoxton is offering a free summer extravaganza in the form of HOOLA FEST on Sunday , August 21st. It brings together dance workshops, a carnival procession from Perpetual Odyssey and banging music from DJs such as Kev Beadle (Solar Radio) and Brazilian rapper Mano Lipe – and…
If you wind up on a dance floor nursing broken toes and yearning for a suave, robust dancer by the name of Ramon, then you’ve probably had a fantastic night out at Salsa! on Charing Cross Road. The restaurant, bar and nightclub is a heady Latin-spiced cocktail for the senses – and…