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The Prime Minister is facing a backlash from Tory Eurosceptics over the Government’s proposed customs partnership with the EU. Influential Eurosceptic Jacob Rees Mogg spoke to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this […]
Sierra Boggess has announced that she will be stepping down from the role of Maria in a concert performance of West Side Story after international backlash and accusations of whitewashing. The performance […]
Teresa Origone and Lydia Clowes, the duo from South East London formerly known as LVNA, have moved on to bigger things as Bad Honey. Above the crepe dresses and silk shirts of […]
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is set to re-open to the public next month having undergone a £60 million refurbishment in celebration of its 250th birthday. The project has seen the […]
This is a five minute feature exploring the salty, dark world of flotation tanks. It features the stories of three people. The first is Kit, a poet who has never experienced anything like […]
Pluto Press will this month release a new book which explores the relationship between music and politics. Sound-System: The Political Power of Music is written by Dave Randall – a musician best-known for his […]
Sound System: The Political Power of Music written by musician, writer and activist Dave Randall is published this month by Pluto Press. Dave Randall explores the role of music in creating social change from […]
The National Trust in collaboration with the National Archives have re-created 1930s gay venue The Caravan club in Freud’s bar, Covent Garden. The project is part of Queer City: London club culture 1918-1967 that marks the […]
Chris Brown has been ordered to stay away from his model ex-girlfriend following claims he punched her in the stomach and threatened to kill her. A court in LA granted a restraining […]
The 2017 Brit Awards will take place this evening at the 02 arena in London. This year’s hosts will be Dermot O’Leary and Emma Willis. 😆 We’re just a *tiny* bit hyped… […]
The organisers of the Glastonbury Festival have announced plans for a new festival, called Variety Bazaar. Variety Bazaar will be separate from Glastonbury and be held at a different location. Some festival-goers […]
2016 has been regarded as a devastating year for celebrity deaths. These have included Muhammad Ali, Alan Rickman, Terry Wogan, Harper Lee and Carrie Fisher. Deaths also hit the music industry. For […]
This year the Brighton Festival is in its fiftieth year. And it has invited Laurie Anderson to be its guest director. The Festival is an annual celebration of music, theatre, dance, circus, […]
On the outside the houses on Colebrook Row in Islington look fairly similar – only the house numbers and the colour of the front door seem to differ. However, walking past the window of […]
This week the NME’s front cover features a picture of Stormzy with the headline: ‘Depression: it’s time to talk.’ The magazine used the image and story without permission from the musician who […]
Beatles fans rejoice, as a rare recording of one of their first hits has been found after fifty years. It had been left in a loft of all places. Les Maguire made […]
Imagine that you’re among the audience to a classical concert. You are to experience a composition and expect the musicians to start playing. But they don’t. Instead you sit there for four […]
Jason Leach has an extraordinary job. After coming to terms with his own mortality following reflection on his hedonistic lifestyle, Jason realised that death doesn’t have to be the end- he can live […]
David Bowie, Alan Rickman and now Glenn Frey. In the past two weeks the world of entertainment has lost three of its most established and acknowledged artists. All three died of cancer in […]
The sad news of David Bowie’s death yesterday morning has travelled around the world, as people mourn the loss of an artist regarded by many as one of the biggest musical geniuses […]
Where it all began: the Three Tuns plaque on Beckenham High Street Brixton – David Bowie’s birth place – might be drawing a bigger crowd this week, but the South-east London suburb […]
Charlie Mingus composed this iconic jazz track in an emotional state of mourning. It was effectively an elegy for the legendary saxophonist Lester Young. He’d died only two months before the recording […]
Japanese anime is becoming more and more popular, does name like ‘Spirited away’ or ‘princess Mononoke’ sounds familiar ? What is ‘anime’ about? Is it a culture, an art form, a world […]
A brief portrait of Jela and Richard Webb, ex-bankers from West Sussex who now spend their free time pursuing their passion — American singer-songwriter music. Featuring Richard and Jela’s favorite songs from Ellis […]
Born out of the feminist punk movement of the Great Pacific Northwest, seminal 90s band Sleater-Kinney have returned after a ten year hiatus. A New Wave focuses on this return, on the fans who […]
The music organisation, BPI, has revealed that pop music is still the most listened to genre in the United Kingdom. The London based British Phonographic Industry’s latest survey shows that pop music […]
Sam Garrett is an up-and-coming musician in London. He’s originally from the countryside in Staffordshire, but moved down to London a few years ago in pursuit of a new life and musical […]
Community arts organisation, Pocket, has opened a pop-up exhibition just around the corner from South Kensington station. Starting today the exhibition features a number of pieces produced by artists who are ‘repurposing with purpose’ […]
All this week Women of the World Festival (aka WOW) has put on talks, workshops and performances to celebrate women and girls from around the world. This festival comes as a lead […]
An owl themed bar will open in Soho for a week next month. The pop up bar will enable customers to sip on cocktails whilst petting owls. The menu includes a variation […]
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