Getting to the top of the indie tree is pretty hard these days. Thanks to the endless columns of guitar-toting stick men and warbling poetic waifs, you have to be a bit special to catch the eyes of the legion of floppy haired NME readers out there.
With this in mind, it would seem like Stricken City are already riding the fast elevator to the top, and we don't mean that by the mere fact that they're headlining Huw Stephen's monthly mixer at the Social tonight. Playing effortless cool, breathless electro pop, this 4 piece seem to have discovered the winning formula of how to be adored by the critics and people who actually buy music at the same time.
Weekly Monday night indie/electro/pop shindig hosted by the stylish DJ Haley, with support from Satoko, Zoe Demonettes and Dan Udy.With drinks promos going all night, it's time to muster some resilience ...
Cracking piss-up with slightly less dazzling karaoke at The Social, and one of the friendliest, liveliest crowds in London. We've attended this event a few times and have always been impressed by how awful...
Tobias Rehberger produces incredible sculptural installations that are a riot of colour, incredible gravity-defying form, and conceptual weirdness. All manner of shapes, materials and ideas converge in...
Eight years after Anthony Reynolds invited a host of art world luminaries to select a work of art for exhibition in its Curator's Egg show, the gallery is at it again. 136 (different) people have selected...
This winter Rollo Contemporary Art is playing host to the third and final installment in the critically-acclaimed exhibition series 'The Body in Women's Art Now'. The aim of the series is to review artworks...
After recent exjhibitions at Laura Bartlett and Marlborough Fine Art, contemporary artist Lydia Gifford now has a solo show at David Roberts Art Foundation. Expect work across video, installation and sculpture...
Art gets topical this year, as Woolff Gallery play host to a series of new paintings by Oona Hassim. The works on show depict the various examples of urban disturbance that London witnessed in 2011 - from...
There's a rumour rife in Hollywood: the silent movie is over and a new kind of film is about to sweep the globe. Actors will be able to talk, sing and dance on screen...all at the same time! For Don Lockwood...