Archive for December, 2008
We Chat to Stereo MCs as They Prepare to Play O2
A few frosty days before their O2 Arena gig I meet up with Stereo MCs Rob Birch and Nick Hallam at their Brixton studio to right the wrongs of the world over a piping hot cup of builders. We muse on muddy festivals and Simon Cowell, applaud the credit-crunch (‘people are suddenly changing their take [...]
The Underground Rebel Bingo Club
We had some trouble finding the Underground Rebel Bingo Club. ‘What the bejesus is Rebel Underground Bingo?’ I hear you squawk. Well read on my friends, and prepare to discover one of London’s best kept secrets.
Hansel & Gretel’s Royal Opera House Screening
It took me a few moments to stop sniggering at composer Engelbert Humperdinck’s name (I’ve never been able to see past Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride), but once I was over it I was surprised how much I really enjoyed this screening of Hänsel und Gretel live from the Royal Opera House.
Brighton Beach Scumbags Come to Islington
Over the years I have seen both great (French and Saunders) and terrible (a drunken Molly Parkin) shows at The King’s Head in Islington. This revival of 1994′s Brighton Beach Scumbags by East End playwright Steven Berkoff definitely resides towards the good end of the spectrum.
Alex at Leicester Square Theatre
Under any other circumstances, the concept of producing a one-man stage play based on a comic strip is the kind of pitch that will get you thrown out of the boardroom for being stupid.
Madame Zingara’s at Battersea Power Station
Madame Zingara’s is, according to the press release, a fusion of cirque, burlesque and fine dining ‘specifically designed to mesmerise, thrill and enthrall’.
London: Like it Or Leave it
What gets me is the people who move to London and live an existence you could live on a trading estate in Devon. Why move to London, rent a mouldy room and suffer relentless damp if you aren’t going to embrace its social(ising) superiority?
Avalon in Clapham South
The Avalon is exactly what Clapham South has been waiting for: a huge, sprawling gastropub with unabashedly bourgeois intentions. A place where afternoon and evening drinking in the pub’s sizeable, Victorian-styled bar will undoubtedly spill over into the Bibendum-esque dining room for food. Step inside the new venture from Renaissance pubs, and you enter a [...]
The Kensington Creperie
The Kensington Creperie is set in the heart of South Kensington, amidst some of London’s most famous landmarks, including Harrods, the Royal Albert Hall and the Natural History Museum.
Cathi Unsworth on London’s Dark Past
Author Cathi Unsworth is a mine of surreal and fantastic London folklore gems. She’s lived in Ladbroke Grove for more than 20 years, and has penned three novels set in and around this shifting, sprawling city. So when Cathi kindly conceded to confide some of these secrets, I was keen to discover which London-based beasts, ghosts, [...]
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