Jury sworn in for former JLS star rape trial A jury of eight women and four men have been sworn in to try Ortise Williams on a rape charge. Today is the […]
Former JLS star rape trial and other stories
London residents face council tax hikes and other stories
London locals face council tax hikes from April According to an investigation conducted by the Evening Standard, Londoners will face average council tax increases of up to £100 from April onwards. The […]
Tory Eurosceptics battle PM, and other stories
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 […]
Wife of Terror Victim Chris Bevington Testifies in Court: ‘He was my everything’
The wife of Chris Bevington, the British victim of the Stockholm lorry attack last April, has testified in Swedish court as the trial against driver Rahkmat Akilov comes to an end. Her husband […]
Whitewashing West Side
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 […]
Music Review: Bad Honey EP Launch
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 […]
Happy Vaisakhi in Gravesend
The annual Sikh festival of Vaisakhi commenced in Gravesend today with dancing, prayers and the raising of the ceremonial flag. The organisers said everyone is invited to join in singing, martial arts, […]
Royal Academy of Arts set to re-open after £60m redevelopment
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 […]
Sensory Deprivation: Scary or Soothing?
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 […]
Everything is politics: Dave Randall launches new book ‘Sound System’
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 […]
The Political Power of Music- a new book by Dave Randall
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 […]
Relive The Caravan club on the 50th Anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act of 1967
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 given restraining order because he ‘threatened to kill’ his ex-girlfriend
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 Brit Awards 2017
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… […]
Glastonbury organisers announce new festival and other music stories
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 […]
David Bowie – A Year On
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 […]
Brighton Festival 2016 with Guest Director Laurie Anderson
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, […]
The jukebox – anything but outdated
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 […]
NME apologise to grime artist Stormzy for using him on their latest cover without permission
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 […]
Rare Beatles record found
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 […]
John in and out of the Cage
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 […]
Life Beyond the Groove
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 […]
Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey dies at 67
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 […]
David Bowie – A close friend of Beckenham
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 […]
Remembering Bowie
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 […]
Song of the Week: Charles Mingus’ ‘Goodbye Pork Pie Hat’
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 […]
Sound feature: An ‘Animated’ Life
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 […]
3,000 Miles – Jela and Richard
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 […]
A New Wave: A Sound Feature
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 […]
BPI reports Pop Music still tops the charts in the UK
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 […]
We All Belong Here: Sound feature
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 […]
Pop-up arts exhibition, Refuse Reuse, now open in South Kensington
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’ […]
Women of the World Festival celebrates women and girls at Southbank Centre
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 […]
Kanye West surprises fans in Greenwich Nando’s
Annie the Owl bar comes to London
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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