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A Disappearing Number at Novello Theatre

Maths, the most structured thing imaginable, is a convenient subject for Complicite’s Simon McBurney, who wants to tell the stories of two couples: in the recent past, maths lecturer Ruth and h...

The Free Download Corner

The good people over at Dead Oceans were kind enough to send us links to some FREE downloads and we're kind enough to share them with you wonderf...

Editor's Choice - Exhibitions

From Thursday 16th SeptemberHands On @ The Arts GalleryThe recently relocated Arts Gallery reopens in time for the London Design Festival this...

Editor's Choice - Live Music

Tuesday 21st SeptemberMount Kimbie at XOYOA Peckham-based electronica who float through dubstep and hip-hop, jazz, techno and ambient, post-r...

Top 10 London Fashion Blogs

Fashion – turn to the left, etc. Everyone loves a bit of fashion (or at least, they ought to) but the traditional big name glossies c...

Le Gun at Rochelle School

This review comes courtesy of Spoonfed's new culture pal, Art Sleuth. The brilliant art collective 'Le Gun' has opened up their world for on...

25 Brook Street – Interview

It's 250 years since George Frideric Handel's death, but his reputation as one of the finest composers ever to have been adopted by England is...

The Future Can Wait / Kounter Kulture / New Sensations

This review comes courtesy of Spoonfed's London culture pal, Art Sleuth. The Old Truman Brewery's triple art fair extravaganza: Kounter Kulture...

The House of Pain at Vegas Gallery

This review comes courtesy of Spoonfed's new culture pal, Art Sleuth. Ominously called the 'House of Pain', and nothing to do with the Iris...

Littlest Birds at The Poetry Café

Every time I go to a poetry night I can never get anyone to come with me. And yet, apparently, poetry is the new princess of cool. And after...

Scottish Ceilidh Club at Cecil Sharp House

It's not often, not ever even, that Friday night meets ceilidh, meets my mates, meets a town hall in North London. But apparently we're the last...

Hammer and Tongue at Green Note

'I like my woman like I like my furniture, worn out with a blanket thrown over her.'Simon Munnery at the Hammer and Tongue Slam, Green Note....

Frank Turner

Our intrepid Rock Editor joins up with Frank Turner in South London to find out how the former front man of Million Dead is doing now he's gone...

Kanye West

The O2 Arena is a great venue with shops, bars, escalators and staff that actually seem to know what's going on. It is not, however, somewhere...

Tori Amos at Hammersmith Palais

In a world where everything is getting more expensive and massive acts are harder and harder to see there are a few artists left who will never...

A Midsummer Night's Panto at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern

Nathan Evans, the writer, director, and leading fairy of this show at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, has ingeniously adapted Shakespeare’s...

Burlesque Taster at myHotel Bloomsbury

The old-fashioned seductive glamour of burlesque is back - and Polestars are here to show that anyone can give it a go. The ultra-glamorous and...

Alternative Miss World

As I walk into Andrew Logan's studio, I'm greeted by a camera crew (filming for a documentary about Andrew's life and Alternative Miss World)...

Bingo Pub Night at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern

Living the gay life in London isn’t just about clubs, bars, or saunas. What about gay orchestra, gay yoga, or gay bingo!The drag queen ...

Hotel Medea at Arcola Theatre

Hotel Medea, currently playing at the Arcola Theatre, is a six-hour tragedy, consuming itself in the darkest hours of the night, and pushing...

Hustlaball at Area

With regular nights in LA and New York City, London's first gay porn star party arrives at Area, Vauxhall. With a cruisy, up for it crowd o...

SuperMartXe 'Kaos City' at the Coronet Theatre

Spain's hottest export Matinee has a new contender - SuperMartXe. Across Barcelona, Madrid, and Ibiza, SuperMartXe is hosted in huge venues like...

Secret Shows: Soulwax at Electrowerkz

I was slightly worried as I casually strolled to Electrowerkz, that I'd find a long queue of emo scenesters that I'd have to join. It was a MySpace...

Polestars Can-can Taster Session

Already one of the UK's most successful pole dancing schools, Polestars now offer burlesque classes, and most recently, can-can classes. T...

Revolving With The Times - Revolver at Scala

Matinee Group are behind countless parties across Europe, with their winning combination of the hottest go-go dancers, cutting edge music policy...

Sangre Flamenca at Sadler's Wells

A show with a small cast and no glamorous outfits, Sangre Flamenca at Sadler's Wells goes beyond the superficial aspects of dance, instead bringing...

Edward Scissorhands at Sadler's Wells

Thunder claps, an old woman wobbles around stage and a narrative is projected onto the screen, intensifying the atmosphere and gripping the audience...

Win a pair of tickets to Grand Designs Live

Grand Designs is one of the best shows on TV. That is if we are to believe the viewing tastes of Spoonfed's Theatre Editor Joe Harrod. And why...

Win a pair of tickets to Camille O'Sullivan

Camille O'Sullivan at the Soho Theatre Having enthralled audiences all over the world, sexy Irish/French chanteuse Camille O'Sullivan comes t...

Win a pair of Meet and Greet Tickets to I Am... The After Party with Beyonce and Solange Knowles

Following Beyonce at the O2 Arena, the sold-out concert on Monday 25th May, there will be an exclusive I AM…The After Party – presents...

Win a pair of tickets to Turning Point Festival at the Roundhouse

Spoonfed has teamed up with the Roundhouse’s first ever Turning Point festival, to offer 5 lucky winners the chance to win a pair of weekend...

Win a pair of tickets to The Seagull

Factory Theatre are the most innovative, daring team producing regularly in London and this show takes their free-spirited ethos one step further...

Win a pair of tickets to the Spirit of Summer Fair

The Spirit of Summer Fair at Olympia Grand Hall Looking to revamp your home in time for the Summer? Or simply need some good gift ideas? Th...

Dublime at Fabric

Lee Scratch Perry has long had a reputation for being somewhat of an eccentric musical genius bordering on all-out nutcase. You could hear the...

The Energy Industry

We've got to treat Mother Earth like a beautiful woman; appreciate her delicate features, stroke her icy cold exterior now and again and gaze...

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Method Man and Redman Live

After a three week wait to this rescheduled date, a heightened sense of anticipation could be felt at the Shepherds Bush Empire. In true hip...

Raekwon and Ghostface Live at Koko

‘Only Built 4 Cuban Linx’ is about as essential as hip-hop albums get, serving up some of the most vivid stories from the criminal...

Q-Bert and Cash Money at Fabric

The sight of Cash Money and Q-Bert on a bill together at Fabric is probably like some sort of waking wet dream for most hip-hop heads. Both have...

Baby Pigeons?

"Why do you never see a baby pigeon?" I was sitting outside a café with a friend last week when she asked me. I had no answer for h...

Cost of Living in London

I grew up in Derbyshire, in the rural East Midlands. At the age of 19 I decided to move to London to seek my fortune. This elicited two main...

Any Which Way at Only Connect Theatre

The audience were positioning themselves carefully. They had to. The lads bowling through the crowd moved close to the bone. The man next to...

Francis Bacon at Tate Britain

My first awareness of Francis Bacon dates from the early 1960s when his paintings were shown, along with contemporaries, in the galleries of...

Major Barbara at the National Theatre

First performed in November 1905, Major Barbara has a strong period feeling, emphasized in this National Theatre production by excellent sets...

Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of Iran at the British Museum

Through half a dozen rooms at the British Museum are displayed a series of pictures, sculptures and artefects illustrating the taste and culture...

Cornelius at the Shepherds Bush Empire

My life has been a beard-fest recently, what with a new housemate in love with Battles and recent tangles with Sigur Rós and Red Sparrowes...

Creeping Nobodies at The Old Blue Last

If you’ve never heard of Chaos Vs Cosmos, then you've been missing out. Whilst everyone are sitting around at home listening to their new...

Crystal Antlers at the Borderline

I know this is an unconventional way to start a review, but if you're reading this in sunny Southern California, I'd just like to let you know...

Fucked Up at the Monto Water Rats

Have you ever been really, really excited about something and then when the time comes it doesn’t live up to expectation? I have. It use...

Holidays in The Sun

The problem with turning 25 is that you become hopelessly attached to your creature comforts. My shower broke recently and even after a few days...

Indian Jewelry at Barden's Boudoir

When I was a kid there was this cartoon called Dungeons and Dragons, and every episode started with a bunch of normal looking kids getting on...

Japanther at Bardens Boudoir

Remember when punk was fun? No didn't think so. But way, way back, before everybody wanted to resurrect Sunny Day Real Estate and Bauhaus, kids...

July: Do it Yourself

Finding myself uncharacteristically bored recently, I watched The Refused are Fucking Dead, which, if you don't know is a 40-minute documentary...

Keeping It DIY

There has been an outbreak of keeping things DIY recently. In almost every pub you come across some bunch of kids are sticking up flyers and...

Lesser Panda

Why are so many bands named after friggin’ animals? I mean, just glimpsing through this month’s schedule and you’ve got Deerhunter...

Liquid Liquid at the Barbican

Old punk bands reforming seem to have become a bit of theme of recent. I managed to see Gang of Four, Wire and The Buzzcocks this summer without...

Lovvers

Right, first up I would like to point out something to the man in the white shirt, who stood abusing Lovvers all the way through their set on...

London in June

So we're halfway through the year, and it's still not sunny. Never mind, here's our picks of what to get up to this June.The Brandi Borr Comedy ...

Mouse on Mars at The Queen Elizabeth Hall

Lawyers can be such a drag, eh? Thanks to their work, tonight the band I'm seeing are attempting to soundtrack a film without actually having...

No Age / Health at the Scala

Upset the Rhythm must be the most 'on it' promoters working in London. Whilst most of us have just stumbled across LA's new musical renaissance...

Release The Bats

It's not really a case of 'Release The Bats' at the Forum this Halloween eve, more 'Let's do the Time Warp again'. What with the likes of Shellac...

Record of the Year 2008

Everybody knows that the only people that know about music are musicians. Therefore we decided to ask some of our favourite bands to tell you...

Sebastien Graingier and the Mountains

If there is something we here in the media are guilty of, then it's making people famous for one thing and one thing only. I mean did you know...

Ten Kens' Buy British...

As Steve put it a few weeks ago, the problem with British bands is that people don't really care about them. This may be unfortunately true over...

The Faint at Cargo

Let's face it, The Faint are a bit of a guilty pleasure. It's always hard to admit that you like '80s new romantic music to people, and The Faint...

This Is Music

Sunday is without a doubt the crappiest day of the week. Yeah, OK, you don’t have to work or anything, but you have the whole feeling of...

Times New Viking at Beyond Retro

Matador really can't do anything wrong at the moment; they've picked up Fucked Up after their bust up with Vice – a band who have had the...

Trailer Trash Tracys at The Bull and Gate

The back-room of the Bull and Gate is a weird place. You have to pass through two sets of shady looking doors to even get in there, and when...

What We Do Is A Secret

I don't know what's with these fascists who just stick to one type of music when they go out; it’s like going to one of those all-you-can...

Where to Drink in London When You're Dead

Living in England is all about getting shit faced, always has been,always will be. The only problem with the whole drinking thing is it gets...

Breakin The Ice at Favela Chic

Tired of singing into your hairbrush whilst staring at the mirror? Desperate to showcase your vocal talent but too cool for the traditional cheesy...

Shit Magazine

'SHIT MAGAZINE NO ONE ELSE WANTS. It's crap but I need the money'.As far as pitches go, this one isn't bad, beating 'I bet you a pound you don't ...

My Favourite Shop

I fell into London with a sigh as if into a warm bath. Among the gothic council estates and the abattoirs I found my way and I lost it too. I...

Theme Bar

My favourite bar in Soho uses some kind of yogic Dr Gillian McKeith approach to getting wasted. You go in and choose some liquor, but rather...

Ladyhawke and Black Kids at The Astoria

So I am rather looking forward to this evening. Two acts that over the past twelve months have risen from mere buzzwords via toilet circuits...

Mixmag Christmas Party at Egg

It's the self proclaimed 'worlds biggest dance music and clubbing magazine' so when Mixmag decide to throw a Christmas party you can expect a...

Look See Proof Interview

Camden Town: London St Patrick's Day, 10pm. I'm standing in a phone box, trying to ignore the kerfuffle caused by the passing drunken revellers...

Rogues Interview at KOKO

The fast-paced world of media is intrinsically unpredictable, so it's hardly surprising that I only discover I'm to interview Rogues just hours...

The Noisettes at Scala

Oh dear. I don't think I've ever been so nervous about going to a gig in my whole entire life. Ever. As I enter Scala, a sense of impending doom...

Pacha's 7th Birthday

By Filth and Splendour It's 9pm on a cold, frosty, frozen London Saturday night and our usually traffic-filled drive into town takes half th...

Cinematic Orchestra at the Roundhouse

In 1999, former Ninja Tune export coordinator Jason Swinscoe decides to bring together his love of jazz bass players, rhythm sections and film...

Guy Barker at Ronnie Scott's

Guy Barker, an obscure figure unless you're in the jazz-know, is a trumpet player and composer from Chiswick. Since taking up the instrument...

Worldservice Project at Ryan's Bar

With a subtle nod towards the BBC, the Worldservice Project are an experimental London jazz fusion quintet. Music graduates from the University...

Picking Teams - an Aussie Guide

After his last trip to London, I asked an Australian friend who'd spent some time over here if he'd followed the soccer. "Of course, you ha...

Chairlift at 229 The Venue

The originally named 229 The Venue (situated at, you guessed it, number 229 Great Portland Street) has been touting itself as 'the venue' for...

Delays at Koko

Kicking things off with a decibel level that could make your ears bleed and a slightly cringy faux-psychedelic backdrop, I could have been forgiven...

Land of Talk/Tapes n Tapes at ULU

Another day, another fine opportunity for London Transport to prove how much it actually sucks balls. Big, hairy balls riddled with cancerous...

Monday Night Youth Club

In my mind there's definitely a place for going out on a Monday night. It's the place you're at when you went out on Friday night but then for...

Shout Out Louds at Bush Hall

Bush Hall is a fantastic venue. Fancy decor, twinkling chandeliers, civilised staff and even a designated receptacle to put your chewing gu...

Dealer's Choice

To the Menier last Friday for a couple of hours of laughter, tension and heartbreak at the hands of Patrick Marber's poker play, Dealer's Choice...

London Theatre: September

Theatre is the oldest form of pop culture. But it never stands still. London is at the forefront of theatrical evolution as directors and companies...

Priscilla Queen Of The Desert

To the Palace Theatre, a hallowed icon in theatreland and the original home of such all-time classics as Les Mis and The Woman In White, to see...

Sunny Day Sets Fire at Luminaire

It's Monday, it's cold and Kilburn High Road is looking even dodgier than usual. Scarfed and gloved I trudge to the Luminaire to check out what...

Riflemind at the Trafalgar Studios

Pissing in the fridge is pretty rock'n'roll behaviour. But not if you're a forty-something yoga obsessive hammered after a few spritzers and...

Salvamus Balneum! Clubbers turn out to expose latest Olympic Fiasco

We take in a new nightclub on the outskirts of the Olympic project in Deptford – or perhaps I should say, a very old one? Either way, this...

The Brute Chorus at the Rhythm Factory

Whether it be it's rather manky location, an erstwhile association with the Libertines, the dj's ear-bleeding choice of decibel level, or the...

The Alternative Press Fair

London exhibitions Are you a fan of comics or zines? Do you like outsider art or literature? Ever wanted to produce a comic, a magazine or...

X-Box MyGig at Koko

I’ll be brutally honest. Corporate sponsored gigs don't sit well with me. Whilst the premise of this one (competition winner gets to choose...

Theatre: July News

There's plenty exciting in theatreland right now, (and we've got free tickets to the wrestling) but first we want to tell you about someone we...

Mirth Control at The George

For ten years, Mirth Control Comedy has been a major player in bringing live comedy to over 90 venues across the UK. If a club, pub, hotel (or...

Top Ten Plays In July

Hangover SquareFrom 9th - 16th JulyA dramatisation of Patrick Hamilton's brilliant novel about a lovelorn loser.Best For: Closet misogynistsThe...

The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival: Independents and Documentaries

It's not just about Quantum of Solace and Che, and the other gala screenings. The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival is also showing the efforts...

Tim Vine at The Bloomsbury

Many comics have violent aversion to puns, considering them to be one of the simplest forms of humour - best left as the non-plastic filling...

Alex at Leicester Square Theatre

After a successful run last Christmas and a four month worldwide tour Alex, the play based on the popular cartoon strip of the same name, has...

Dickens Unplugged at the Comedy Theatre

This review was going to begin with one of those awful wonk-speak clichés, 'In spite of my misgiving this was quite enjoyable...' an...

Valentine Special 2008

Last year on February 13 I got in a drunken row with the love of my life and said something very, very rude indeed about Valentine's Day. If...

King Lear at the Young Vic

So far as I can tell from Kenneth Tynan's diaries and collected reviews he never saw a performance of King Lear he actually enjoyed. Even Olivier...

Losing Grip: Jingo at the Finborough

Charles Wood's Jingo was last produced in 1975 and for at least the first half of this production it seems to have been somewhat unjustly overlooked...

Best Fringe Theatres in London

Outside the somnolent inner-city circle of theatres — little more than terminals where one may observe a performance of The Sound of Music...

Awards for World Music

Radio 3's 6th Annual World Music Poll Winners' Concert took place over four and a half hours at The Barbican this Bank Holiday, with Verity Sharp...

Ilona Jäntti Triple Bill at Jackson's Lane

Ilona Jäntti is a tremendous aerialist. She's been in circus a long time and has the consequent deep well of physical resources, but it's...

Memory at the Pleasance Theatre

In one of Philip Roth's early Zuckerman novels, there's a kind of repeated joke about a theatrical production of Anne Franks' Diary. Charact...

Puerto Muerto, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - LSO St Luke's

I am at the head of the road which I call the Murder Road, telling myself what a mensch I am for not weeping with fear. In front of me, three...

Mimefest 2008

  Brace yourself, the 30th annual London International Mime Festival has begun. As always the choices are rich. You can go to the show wher...

Mile End at Southwark Playhouse

I don't know what to say about the decision to situate a play about a man being pushed under a train in a theatre under an active railway line...

Moonlight & Magnolias at the Tricycle Theatre

Here's some fun froth. Back at the Tricycle Theatre after a successful run last October Ron Hutchinson's Moonlight and Magnolias succeeds where...

Performance Poetry in Islington and Camden

My last poetry reading before moving to the bright lights was at a Working Men's Club in Preston. It was Sunday morning and my brother and I...

The Anti-Verruca Immersion Footbath

I am busy ramming and screwing the base of my hand into my reopened eye, which is tender and itching. I'm not supposed to scratch, so instea...

Tabu at The Roundhouse

If you're going to NoFit State's latest, Tabu at The Roundhouse, I recommend tanking up beforehand. Not entirely facetiously; when you first...

The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival: Best Foreign Films

As usual many of the best and strangest foreign picks have made it over the Channel to this year's BFI film festival. In fact so many films from...

Cluster at Throwback

Entering Rich Mix to see German electro-psychsters Cluster is an adventure in itself. The event is held on the fourth floor so we are ushered...

Favours For Sailors - Furious Sons

Love at first listen is something of the emperors new clothes in the music industry. What hits you initially with a sugar high, pupil dilating...

Turning Point Festival preview: Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

It's been three years since Dan Le Sac booked Scroobius Pip to play at Reading’s old Fez Club and in that short time they have forged an...

Turning Point Festival preview: The Pipettes

‘I think the biggest part of this (Beth joining) is that from the second she first came in you could tell that she really wants to do this...

Twisted Licks Preview: Son Of Dave at 100 Club

Exemplary purveyors of live music Twisted Licks are taking another brief sojourn away from their regular residency at Hoxton’s hottest...

We Fell To Earth at ICA

It’s commented on that the ICA is a strange choice of venue for We Fell To Earth, that they might be too much of a connoisseur’s...

thecocknbullkid at ICA

It's a big night for thecocknbullkid, for tonight she headlines the ICA in her biggest show to date. 2008 ended on a high with thecocknbullkid...

Guerilla Zoo at Jamm

Millions of years from now, when mankind would have evolved into beings of pure light and we would have found a cure for Monday mornings, I believe...

Tiger Lillies at the New Player Theatre

My internet date canceled at five in the evening. She had just realised the theatre was on Embankment and the terms of her restraining order...

Hooked on Music at The Big Chill Bar

London Live Music Hooked on Music is a night stationed at the Big Chill House up in King's Cross, a lovely bar with some very well hidden toilet...

Joan as Police Woman at The Shepherd's Bush Empire

Gigs are like people. Seriously. That's the first thing that comes to my mind the moment Joan Wesser (Joan As Police Woman) walks on stage, looking...

The Long Lost at Barden's Boudoir

The Long Lost are performing at Barden's Boudoir, and I blackmailed my way out of a work shift to see them. Their self-titled album was one of...

OneTaste at The Bedford

There's a reason you probably haven't been to a OneTaste night before; it's in Balham. That's right – another spoken word/music event happening...

Wildbirds and Peacedrums

So, I'm at The Social on Little Portland Street. Narrow is the prevailing thought; it's like someone took two fairly small corridors, dressed...

Zorro the Musical

The Legend of Zorro: The Musical! has been receiving rapturous plaudits ever since it opened in July. It's not a difficult show to like: the...

50 robots at Exhibit

From Futurama's Bender to Transformers, Cybermen and Wall-E, robots are right up there with zombies, ninjas and pirates as retro memes that are...

Arcade Fire

Sunday night, a wet and windy walk up to the Alexandra Palace to see the most anticipated gig of the year. Arcade Fire, saying goodbye at the...

The Roots at The Forum

It's The Roots, live at The Forum, and excuse me if I'm froth level excited. Ahem. An hour and a half of nostalgia bangers from live hip hop...

Atmosphere at Koko

To the pleasure domes of Koko for a gig by Atmosphere, possibly the most intelligent hip hop outfit available in the English language, and certainly...

Best Galleries in West London

West London's art scene varies from super wealthy Knightsbridge and Chelsea to hip Kentish Town, offering a diverse selection of fine, mode...

Alan Brooks at MOT International

Alan Brooks has taken rubbings of figurative and written graffiti from toilet stalls he frequents and rendered them in oil and copper and watercolo...

Art Below Zero

Art Below Zero at Westbourne Studios, is a monthly showcase for artists who have attended the country's brightest art schools. Group shows like...

Christmas Shows

Getting out to the theatre is a brilliant way to break up the TV, boozing and gluttony of Christmas. Stimulate the mind with some beautiful balletic...

God of Carnage

Opening straight into the action in a crisp Parisian apartment which degenerates into a filth, rum and flower-strewn mess by the time the lights...

Casting a Dark Democracy

Sculptor Tim Shaw's much lauded show Casting a Dark Democracy at Kenneth Armitage Foundation was a traumatic experience for me.  Firstly...

Civilisation at Ferreira Projects

Lynn Wray's first solo show Civilisation at Ferreira Projects is a petite and delicate homage to grandiose ideas and spectacular downfalls. Th...

Brit Art of the Sixties at Mark Barrow Fine Art

The art of the Sixties can polarize opinions. The aesthetics are often brash and bold, they scream and project through the canvas in a throbbin...

Derek Boshier: Chemical Culture at Flowers Central

In an industry where bright new things are arriving and departing like paint splattered mayflies, and the ability to outrage has dissipated in...

Cold War Aesthetics

The bright and airy Louise T Blouin Institute is cashing in on the sizzling hot trend of exhibiting contemporary Chinese art by showing Wang...

House of Pain at Vegas Gallery

Tits, trash and pulp sum up Pascal Rousson's show House of Pain at Vegas Gallery. Whether or not a reference to Irish-themed hip-hop (and wit...

Interview with Samir Ceric, SaLon Gallery

Kate Weir: Could you first please tell us a little bit about your background? Samir Ceric: I officially 'arrived' to the art world 3 years ago...

Herakut at Camp Barbossa Gallery

German design duo, Herakut, have a blink and you'll miss it new show at Covent Garden's Camp Barbossa Gallery this month. It's a dirgy, poetic...

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National Theatre

If it's Friday night, I must be drinking mineral water in the lobby of the National Theatre and preparing to enjoy a one hour multimedia performance...

It's Art...Bitch!

You're a hip new gallery, your graduate show went well and you're cruising nicely along, but now you need to show it wasn't a fluke and wow your...

James R Ford at Ferreira Projects

Traditionally, playing Guitar Hero for three hours is considered at best, unproductive, if not a total waste of time. But after my recent visit...

Pierrick Allemand at ROA Gallery

It's hard to ignore the wild imbalance between male and female objectification in art. Breasts, curvaceous buttocks and muffs litter the halls...

Imagine This at the New London Theatre

Never has a 'half time' audience looked so bemused as the assembled critics and families gathered in the lobby for the opening night of Imagine...

Splatter at The Aquarium L-13

Produced by ex-KLF member James Cauty, (the nihilistic musician/artists who controversially burnt a million pounds) Splatter at Aquarium L-13...

The Alpine Club

The Alpine Club is held in cosy little gastro pub, The Magdala, with an intimate space upstairs that lends itself well to comedy. Unfortunatly...

The Dot Farm

The Invisible Dot is tucked away amongst the tie-dyed blankets and spiky neon trousers of Camden market. Although the venue is in one of the...

The Good, The Bad, The Belle

Alice Hawkins has had her work in some of the most hip and prestigious magazines in the world and has been mentored by Vogue mainstay Nick Knight...

London Theatre: Interview

Wig Out! opens at the Royal Court this week. Set in the New York Headquarters of a drag queen troupe as they prepare to do battle with a rival...

The Mountain Goats at ULU

The Mountain Goats' gig at ULU is a typically raucous and joyful experience. Even with their rapidly swelling audiences, the band still brin...

The Smirking Sequin

With its red curtains and neon stage lighting, the Smirking Sequin at The Phoenix is reminiscent of comedy clubs in their 80s heyday. However...

London Theatre: October

Will Burlesque Eat Itself? Opening minds and raising belly laughs in the capital of the dark arts.October is the month of burlesque. This weekend ...

Tillman Kaiser at Wilkinson

Is it possible that Tillman Kaiser has a Superman complex? The paintings and sculptures in his new show Hallucination Engine, at Wilkinson, all...

UK's Future Greats at SaLon Gallery

SaLon Gallery's window looks like a debauched Ladurée display. Shona Davies' black and white Wedding and Funeral cakes with orgiasti...

Vanessa Winship at HOST Gallery

London exhibitions With snow on the ground and the news full of misery, it's all too tempting to lie slack-jawed on the sofa watching Extrem...

Uzi and Ari at Bardens Boudoir

Thursday night, and I'm off to current den of coolness, Barden's Boudoir in Dalston to check out up-and-coming Utah band Uzi and Ari and a charmingly...

Yanna Soares at Beverley Knowles Fine Art

London Exhibitions South America is the perfect cauldron for great art: a legacy of colour; a fiery, passionate spirit and a turbulent past giv...

What a Wonderful World

As a woman, generally short person and appreciatrice of art, I have to confess a penchant for the cute and delicate over the gritty and message...

Young Contemporaries at Alan Cristea

There was a strange, brisk charge of tension in the air at Alan Cristea during their show Young Contemporaries 2009. I'm pretty sure that if...

Frantic @ Koko, 24 August 2008

Decadence, debauchery and disco dancing are the order of the day as hard house institution Frantic takes over Camden's luxurious Koko for its...

Frantic vs Twist - Hard Nation at The End

Credit crunch, recession, job losses – pah! Clearly not topics to concern oneself with on a Sunday afternoon which is exactly why Spoonfed...

Voodoo Hussies Interview

I'm sure I'd be forgiven for being a little apprehensive at the prospect of meeting the self styled 'Border Ville Punk' band Voodoo Hussy. The...

London Theatre: Review of the Year

It's that time of year when hacks scratch around for an original way to frame up the last year's goings on and the prospects for 2009. Here at...

Saturday Night At Twist, 26 July 2008

If it ain't broke don't fix it, as the saying goes. But rules are clearly meant to be broken in the case of Twist, who have successfully turned...

Insekt

Filthy tunes, an amazing venue and a downright rude soundsystem mean that the lucky thousand clubbers who entered Insekt's cocoon last Saturday...

Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness at Soho Theatre

Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness at the Soho Theatre transports us back to the dying days of vaudeville, to 1881, when companies as...

Interview With The Incredible Rubber Man

London Theatre The Incredible Rubber Man or Captain Frodo as he is (slightly) more conventionally known, is one of the headline acts for th...

La Clique at The Hippodrome

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*Single of the Week* King Khan and the BBQ Show – Animal Party In The Red Yeah! 'Open the door, come on in. Let the animal party begin...

New Releases – 9th March

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New Releases – 26th January

*Single of the Week* Mike Bones – What I Have Left Vice Mike Bones has been fizzling away beneath the surface of Brooklyn's music sc...

New Releases - 1 Sept

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New Releases - 11 May

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New Releases - 10 Nov

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New Releases - 11 Aug

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New Releases - 12th January

*Single of the week* The Hundred In The Hands – Dressed in Dresden/Undressed In Dresden  Pure Groove Records With a name like th...

New Releases - 13 Oct

*Single of the Week*Ra Ra Riot – Ghost Under RocksV2Listen to this song on its own merit and you'll hear a rather nice slice of melodic in...

New Releases - 15 Sept

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New Releases - 13th April

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New Releases - 18th May

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New Releases - 18 Aug

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New Releases - 22 Sept

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New Releases - 1st December

*Single of the week* Mr Oizo – Positif Ed Banger Good old Mr Oizo, he can always be relied on to combine upfront French house and electr...

New Releases - 23 June

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New Releases - 28 July

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New Releases - 27 Oct

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New Releases - 2nd February

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New Releases - 3 Nov

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New Releases - 30th March

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New Releases - 30 June

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New Releases - 20 Oct

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New Releases - 4 Aug

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New Releases - 6 Oct

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New Releases - 9 June

*Single Of The Week*Foals – Red Socks PugieTransgressiveIf it wasn't for the repetitive drum kick at the beginning of 'Red Socks Pugie',...

New Releases - 6th April

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New Releases - 9th February

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New Releases-24 Nov

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*Single of the Week* Esser – Satisfied Transgressive Ooh I feel ropey this morning – it's a tough life going to snazzy fashion ma...

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It was a dark and stormy night. No, this isn't the start to some shaggy dog story involving a hitchhiker and a machete, on the evening of the...

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Vicarious Bliss (Andy Gardiner) is a French electro artist signed to Ed Banger Records owned by Pedro Winters (Busy P). Known primarily for his...

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When most of us think of dance classes, we conjure up images of decrepit seniors prancing around a polished dance floor to the songs of yesteryear...

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With an instructor who's spicier than a vindaloo, this Egyptian-cum-Bollywood aerobics class should be on any fitness fanatics' New Year menu...

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Double Agent at ICA

I could begin this review by berating the winklepickered, be-legginged and asymmetric folk who populate the ICA, but that would render hypocritical...

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It's cold as ice and it's raining (not men) so why not spend a happy hour or so at the Design Museum, basking in some of the hottest designs...

4900 Colours: Version II at the Serpentine

Two kinds of PV happened at the Serpentine Gallery on 22 September (I was going to begin by labelling the first as PVA, but we'd just end up...

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Some years ago, Time Out ran a comprehensive feature listing The Worst Things About Living In London. Amid this list, cruelly succinct: 'West...

Mark Wallinger curates: The Russian Linesman

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Robin Rhode: 'Who Saw Who' at the Hayward Gallery

On my way to the Hayward Gallery to see Robin Rhode's first UK exhibition, Who Saw Who, it occurred to me that Robin Rhode could be described...

William Furlong at Laure Genillard

Down an unexpected little lane – a welcome historic nook at the otherwise vile corner of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road &ndash...

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Is it a painting? Is it a photograph? Is it a sculpture? No! It's a multimedia presentation of the Life Enhancement SolutionsTM created for Rokeby...

Are These Potatoes Runway Ready?

Her shriek was horrendous, somewhere between Janet Leigh in the shower and a train grinding to a halt for the daily suicide. It did nothing to...

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A visual beat for the city? A thing of rareness this summer, a lovely warm weekend, graced the capital a few weeks back and there was plent...

Glastonbury 2007

After a year’s hiatus, The Glastonbury Festival descended on Worthy Farm, in all its grandeur and fury. If Thursday raised hopes of good...

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Download sensations Koopa kicked off the main stage while most of the crowd were queuing up trying to get in, they sounded good, but that's as...

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The final day, and yet more ticket problems and frustration for those who tried to get down and see pre-pubescent 14 and 15 year olds Sinez. ...

The Pro's and Con's of the Fancy Dress Do

I'm a stubborn, anti-social party-goer at heart. Oh I love to party - who doesn't. But I want to party MY way. I'm the guy who won't go to a...

Annie Mac Presents at Koko

Koko has always been one of my favourite venues. I'm not sure why. The sound's average, it gets hotter than the sun and travelling from one f...

Down the Rabbit Hole, Once Again...

One glance at the programme of Pentameter's production of Alice is daunting. The cast are a melting pot of artists, musicians, photographe...

Fightstar Interview

Fightstar may be famous for one reason. When a certain member of your band was in one of the biggest pop acts in England of the new Millenn...

Rosie Oddie and the Odd Squad at The Roundhouse

They've made an effort, that's for sure. Dr. Marten's FREEDM Studio in Camden's Roundhouse is decked out in style. Who Dr. Marten is or why...

The Star of Bethnal Green's Rak Queen...

The Star of Bethnal Green is a scary looking place. Black, gothic and surrounded by a haze of smoke, it definitely isn't somewhere you'd expe...

Gash at The Macbeth

There's something really rather pleasing about seeing the beautiful young things of Shoreditch getting harshly rejected by bouncers who couldn't...

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble at Cargo

Thursday night at Cargo saw the return of Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and the bar being raised in terms of live music performance and what you should...

Go...Look At All The Little Girls

The internet: it's not all about youth culture you know. Sad balding men have just as much right to lie about their identity in chatrooms as...

Go...Monopoly

If you have a penchant for drinking games then you would have attempted the Monopoly board pub crawl at one time or another. The board game version...

Go...Underground In Hackney

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The Month In Clubs: July

Unless you've been living under a giant glitter-ball, you're probably aware that disco is now a basic nightlife staple, like hotdogs, fake cocaine...

Top Ten Unusual Dance Classes

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London Camden

Things to do in Camden About Camden Camden, the informal name for the district Camden Town, is central both physically and culturally in Londo...

London Holborn

Things to do in Holborn About Holborn Tucked in beside the London shopping Meccas of Oxford Circus and Covent Garden where the upbeat atmospher...

London Islington

Things to do in Islington About IslingtonLocated to the north-east of central London, the borough of Islington extends from Farringdon at one...

London Kensington

Things to do in Kensington About KensingtonKensington, located in West London, is renowned for its wealthy neighbourhoods and cultural offerings...

London Kings Cross

Things to do in Kings Cross About Kings Cross Kings Cross has not always been considered a desirable area to visit but with the recent renovatio...

London Oxford Street

Things to do in Oxford Street About Oxford StreetIf London shopping is your favourite past time then Oxford Street is the place for you. Runnin...

London Piccadilly

Things to do in Piccadilly About PiccadillyPiccadilly, located in the heart of London is the perfect place to begin any city adventure. Standing...

London Soho

About Soho Located just west of the London city centre, Soho is one of London’s most popular entertainment districts with a rich and varie...

Bang Face Weekender

When: 14th - 16th September 2012Where: Trevelgue Holiday Park, Newquay, CornwallHow much: Caravan tickets £175, camping tickets £1...

Beach Break Live

Where: Pembrey Country Park When: 14th - 18th June 2012How Much: £109 NUS, £129 non student (plus booking fee)Beach Break Live i...

Beautiful Days

When: 19th-21st August 2011Where: Ottery St MaryHow much: Adult Weekend Camping Ticket - £110. 10-16's Weekend Camping Ticket - £...

Bestival

Robin Hill, the Isle of Wight, 11th-13th September, 2009 Curated by Radio 1 DJ and straight-up nice guy, Rob Da Bank, Bestival is a feel-good...

Big Green Gathering

Cheddar, Somerset July 29th - August 2nd 2009 One of the world's biggest and most successful green festivals, the Big Green is a project in sustainability...

Big Day Out

Whittington Park, London N19, 5th July 2009Part of the 20-day Holloway Arts Festival, the Big Day out in Whittington Park on July 5th is an ...

BLOC

Where: London Pleasure GardensWhen: 6th and 7th July 2012How Much: £99 for both nights, £125 'express tickets'. BLOC is the unparalleled ...

Bloom Festival

Seven Springs, Cheltenham, 14th-16th August, 2009 Bloom started out as a disaster, but a brilliant and memorable one. That year in 2006 they...

Camp Bestival

Where: Lulworth Castle, DorsetWhen: 28th-31st July 2011How much: £170From the team behind Rob da Bank's Bestival comes Camp Bestival,...

City Showcase

When: 4-8 May 2011 Where: Various London venues How much: free! Launched in 2003, City Showcase is a free music festival held over three da...

City of London Festival

Where: various venues, City of LondonWhen: 20th June-8th JulyHow much: various, many events freeFor three weeks every summer, the City of ...

Concrete and Glass

Various Venues – May 2011Launched in 2008 to celebrate East London in all its ostensibly gritty glory, Concrete and Glass is a 16 da...

Creamfields

When: 27 - 28 August 2011Where: Daresbury Estate, Halton, CheshireHow much: weekend tickets £115, hospitality camping £190 Th...

Download

When: 10-12 June 2011Where: Donnington Park, How much: £150 for a full adult ticketThe grand daddy of all rock festivals, Download is a...

Edinburgh Fringe

Where: Edinburgh, ScotlandWhen: 4 - 29th August 2011How much: various, box office opens in June As the biggest arts festival in the world, th...

Ealing Comedy Festival

Where: Walpole Park, LondonWhen: 15th-16th July and 20th-22nd July, 2011How much: TBA. Tickets will go on sale from 1st May 2011.Throughout ...

Escape into the Park

Where: Singleton Park, SwanseaWhen: Saturday 11th June, 2011How much: £41.50Founded in 2005, Escape into the Park is a one-day festival ...

Get Loaded In The Park

When: 12th June 2011Where: Clapham Common, LondonHow much: £35 + BF Summer time means time to Get Loaded In The Park. Judging by the n...

Field Day

  When: 2nd June 2012Where: Victoria Park, LondonHow much: £39.50 + booking fee The East End's coolest festival is back f...

Glade

When: 14 - 17 June 2012Where: Houghton Hall, NorfolkHow much: £135 for a full adult ticket Glade returns this year to their beautifu...

Glastonbury

When: 26-30 June 2013Where: Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, SomersetHow much: £195 for a full adult ticket What can be said about ...

Green Man

Glanusk Park Estate, 19th-21st August 2011The Green Man Festival is situated in the beautiful valleys of South Wales, in the heart of the Brecon ...

Global Gathering

When: 27th - 28th July 2012Where: Long Marston Airfield, nr. Stratford on Avon, WarwickshireHow much: weekend ticket inc camping and parking...

Hard Rock Calling

Hyde Park June 24th - 26th 2011Seriously massive festival which has just kept getting bigger...and better. Although Hard Rock Calling is no...

Innocent Village Fete

Regent's Park, August 2010 Despite being a commercial venture by top-dog smoothie experts, the Innocent Village Fete is a rather lovely affai...

Isle Of Wight Festival

When: 10- 12 June 2011Where: Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of WightHow much: £150 adult weekend no camping, £75 for a child ticket...

Land of Kings

  When Frdiay 4th - Saturday 5th May 2012 Where: Various venues around Dalston How Much: £30 for a two-day wristband Dalston's ...

London Design Festival 2009

London sure is a hotbed of creativity this time of the year. Just as the clotheshorses at London Fashion Week are packing their monogrammed bags...

Leeds/ Reading Festival

Leeds Festival When:  26- 28th August 2011Where: Bramham Park, West YorkshireHow much: £192.50 weekend ticket, £82.50 day...

London International Animation Fest

Various cinemas and screens, 30th August-5th September, 2010Organised by animators with a passion for new, underground cartoons and short animated ...

London Jazz Festival

Venues across London, 11th – 20th November, 2011Every autumn since before we can remember (sometime aroud 1975) the best jazz musician...

Love Music Hate Racism

NORTH: County Way Car Park, Barnsley, South Yorkshire 1st May 2010 SOUTH: East London, 2nd May Atesting to the fact that cultures can and...

Manchester International Festival

When: 30 June - 17 July 2011 Where: Manchester How much: events individually priced Launched in 2007, the Manchester International Festival ...

Mutiny

Bridlington Spa, East Yorkshire, 16th May 2009 Mutiny festival is an independent punk rock event organised by two dedicated newcomers to the...

Notting Hill Carnival

When: 28-29 August 2011 (August Bank Holiday Weekend) Where: Notting Hill to Kensal Rise How much: free! Info | Past Performers | Guide ...

Oxegen

When: 7-10th July 2011Where: Punchestown (Naas, County Kildare)How much: 4 Day Camping- €244.50       ...

Paradise Gardens

Victoria Park, 18th and 19th June 2011Paradise Gardens is a two-day festival that, as the name suggests, turns East London’s Victoria ...

Queer Up North

Manchester, May 18th - 31st<\/strong> 2010<\/strong> 2010 marks Queer Up North’s 18th Birthday. They're taking this opportun...

Rockness

When: 8th -10th June 2012Where: Loch Ness, Dores, nr InvernessHow much: £159 for 3 days with campingScotland's leading festival, Rockness,...

Run To The Sun

When: 27-30th May 2011Where: Trevelgue Holiday Park, Porth, NewquayHow much: £80 camping. Caravans from £420. Run to the Sun festiva...

Sci-Fi London

Various Venues, April 23rd - 2nd May 2011 The London International Festival Of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film is the UK's leading sci-f...

Secret Garden Party

When: 19th - 22nd July 2012Where: A Beautiful Secret Garden, Nr Huntington, Cambridgeshire, PE28 2PHHow much: £137 - £165 adult...

Shambala

When: 25th - 28th August 2011Where: Northamptonshire, location disclosed when purchasing ticket.How much: £119 adult weekend ticket Ooh t...

Southport Weekender

Where: Pontins, Southport, Lancashire When: 6 - 8 May 2011How Much: £165 for a room in a chalet Is it just us that thought the Southp...

Stag and Dagger

When: 19th MayWhere: Various venues about Shoreditch, East LondonHow much: £12.50 Shoreditch’s favourite wreck up Stag and Dagge...

Standon Calling

When: 3-5 August 2012Where: Standon, HertfordshireHow much: £99 for 3-day ticket / £78 for 2-day / Adult Friday: £25 / Adult S...

Sunrise Celebration

When:  2nd - 5th June, 2011Where: South SomersetHow much: £108 adult in advance, £130 on the gate Sunrise are back for another y...

Thames Festival

Various venues, 10 and 11 September 2011 Named after the river and taking place at one of its most famous locations - on the banks and walkways...

The Proms

When: 15 July - 10 September 2011Where: Royal Albert hall, Cadogan Hall, Royal College of Music, Hyde ParkHow much: £7 - £90 per...

The Real Food Festival

Where: Earl's Court, LondonWhen: 5th-8th May 2011How much: £20.50 on the door, £13.50 advance One of many food festivals now cropping...

The Times 53rd BFI Film Festival

BFI Southbank - dates still to be announced.Every October the BFI Southbank hold a film festival showcasing the best contemporary cinema fro...

Truck Festival

Steventon, Oxfordshire, 25th-26th July, 2009Having got its rather unusual name as a result of the main stage originally consisting of two trucks...

Underage Festival

When: Sunday 5 AugustWhere: Victoria Park, LondonHow much: £31.50 plus booking fee Since barelling onto the scene in a fit of mass under...

Waveform

When: 2-4 September 2011Where: location TBC (promises to be 90 miles from Bristol) How much: £69 Early bird tickets (until 31st Marc...

Wireless Festival

When: 1st - 3rd July 2011Where: Hyde Park, LondonHow much: £130 for full 3-day ticket, £92 for 2-day ticket, £48.50 for 1...

Wychwood Music Festival

When: 8-10 June 2012 Where: Cheltenham RacecourseHow much: From £5-£115Described as a 'bijou Glastonbury' by The Independent, Wychwood...

London Art

London Art - What's On London Art History London is the art capital of the world. From Cork Street to East London, from the Royal Academy t...

Christmas Songs

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They might be called the January Sales but as every self respecting shopper knows they actually begin in earnest on Boxing Day, and the buying...

London April Fools

April Fools' Day in London and the rest of the UK has a history of some pretty impressive and funny pranks. Some of the best April Fools' jok...

London Bonfire Night

London Bonfire Night this year marks the 406th anniversary of Guy Fawkes’ historic attempt to blow up Parliament. While we highly discoura...

London Boxing Day

When laden down with gifts and Christmas pudding, Boxing Day seems like a complete afterthought.  What Boxing Day really offers is a chan...

London Christmas

A London Christmas offers a stunning range of events to consider when making holiday plans. As if it weren’t enough to think about buyi...

London New Years

Love it or hate it, New Year's Eve is the biggest night of the clubbing year. The one night of the year where it seems like the whole world has...

London Easter

After a long, dark and glacial winter I think it’s fair to say that everyone is really looking forward to Spring this year, so let&rsquo...

London Mother's Day 2011

In 2011, Mother's Day – or Mothering Sunday as old-fashioned types occasionally like to refer to it – falls on Sunday, 3rd Apri...

London Pantomime

We can feel Christmas creeping into the Spoonfed offices. Mince pies and mulled wine are imminent. Till they arrive we'll busy ourselves in an...

London Valentines Day

Somehow every year Valentine's Day manages to divide the nation. Whether you're 'single', 'in a relationship', 'it's complicated' etc, it's inevitabl...

St Patrick's Day 2010

As always, Spoonfed is THE place to find out about all the Irish-related goings-on in London. Here's a quick round up of our favourite St Patrick...

May Day Bank Holiday

Now that May Day weekend has cruelly passed us by, us Brits have no choice but return to our daily routine; i.e. complaining about our jobs a...

Hercules and Love Affair at Matter

Photographer Alex Simmons popped along to Matter this weekend to check out Hercules and Love Affair.As per usual, the New York retro/future ...

7 Things to do During Earth Hour

7 Things to do During Earth Hour (that don’t involve sitting in a dark room)Since its inception in 2005, Earth Hour has become an annual ...

April: London

April – the month of fools, April showers and Easter. Nights are getting shorter and the weather is flirting with improving. Londone...

April: London Clubbing

8th April Trouble Vision @ Corsica StudiosOh. Yes. Trouble Vision know what a good line-up looks like. Persistently mixing the fresh with th...

April: London Comedy

Friday 1st AprilThe Fix presents The Return of Boothby Graffoe @ Bull and GateBoothby Graffoe's London gigs are so scarce that it’s har...

April: London Exhibitions

From 1st April The Pedestrians @ South London Gallery Weird. A fusion of live art, installation, sculpture, video and music all jumbled up togeth...

April: London Live Music

5th AprilDum Dum Girls @ DingwallsA whirlwind of snarling post-punk basslines, choppy guitars and vocal melodies reminiscent of big-haired...

Best of August: Art

Fashion v Sport at the V&AFrom 5th AugustAn exploration of the interrelationship between the worlds of sport and fashion, with wicked sneakers f...

Best Halloween Parties

 London Halloween Parties 2009 'Tis the time of year again to don your goriest, most terrifying halloween costume, and search out the bes...

Best of August: Clubbing

Club Azuli9th August The Azuli label comes to Pacha, with Raw Club helping out. This one's a bit less like there are 'angels' everywhere dancing...

Best of August: Comedy

Robin Ince Bleeding Heart Liberal Camden Fringe4th - 11th AugustRicky Gervais support acts performs his latest show about the World Bank, media m...

Best of August: Theatre

Grimeborn 4th - 23rd August For the second successive year the Arcola hosts a season of brand new opera for a media savvy, youthful crowd, wit...

Best of August: Out and About

Stella Artois AirshipUntil 21st AugustOnce in a lifetime flight with 11 other guests above London for up to an hour. Best For: Those with the c...

Best of July: Comedy

Russell Kane Fakespeare2nd JulyRussell Kane aims to prove he's not just a pretty face at this year's Edinburgh festival with a blank verse...

Best of July: Dance Classes

African DanceEvery Tuesday at 8pm and Saturday at 3.30pmA class which mixes traditional styles and culture with a full aerobic workout.Best Fo...

Best of November: London Theatre

Imagine This From 5 Nov A daring new venture attempting to lure crowds to a full scale, big budget musical romance set in the Warsaw ghetto as...

Best of October: London Art

Turner Prize 2008From 31st SeptemberThis year the Turner Prize has quietened down a wee bit. Less shouting means there's more thought taking p...

Best of October: London Comedy

The Kransky SistersUntil 12th OctoberWeird but wonderful musicians The Kransky Sisters fly all the way over from Oz to perform some eclectic ...

Best of October: London Leisure

Sci-fi London 3rd-4th of OctoberThe first international festival in London for geeks – filled with free or exclusive film screenings of ...

Best of October: London Theatre

  PaperweightFrom 7th OctoberWe've heard nothing but good things about this Fringe masterpiece charting the descent into madness of two ...

Best of September: Free Stuff in London

Regent Street Festival: A Great British Experience7th SeptemberIt's not all tea and crumpets, Pimms and lemonade or Morris dancers at this c...

Best of October: London Live Music

Friendly Fires 7th OctoberThe best dance-punk band ever to come out of St Albans (and they definitely pip Enter Shikari as the town's best musical ...

Best of September: London Live Music

The Beat4th – 5th SeptemberThe Brummie ska legends of ‘Mirror in the Bathroom’ fame play a pair of dates in Camden with Specials m...

Borough Market

There is a commonly held belief that England is a land of three things: bad teeth, bad food and bad weather. While on any given day in Lond...

Best of September: London Theatre

Twelfth Night1st – 24th SeptemberThe Filter bring their jam-session free-form version of Twelfth Night to the Tricycle after an acclaimed r...

Camden Crawl: Who Are You Seeing?

Camden Town + two days + 40 venues + 150 artists + some of the best London gigs all year = total and utter carnage. We have a feeling we're going...

Cheap London

With sky-rocketing rental prices, a full-to-bursting job market and all that pesky inflation business, London isn’t an easy place to live...

December: London Clubbing

Dreadbass10th DecemberJunglist legend Congo Natty has a big ol' party going on at the CLF Art Cafe in the Bussey Building. Set in two massive w...

December: London Exhibitions

From 2nd December GSK Contemporary - Aware @ Royal Academy The Royal Academy's contemporary art extravaganza in association with GlaxoSmithKli...

December: London Live Music

These are December's top picks for live music London. Monday 6th – Wednesday 8th Interpol @ Brixton Academy A band who seem to be getti...

December: London Theatre

  From 1st DecemberGet Santa! @ Royal CourtThis tops our Christmas list. Of all the shows we want to see, this is the one with the mos...

December London

Ah, December. Not a difficult month to explain – there's Christmas, and New Year's Eve. In other words, an excuse for overeating in fro...

February: London Comedy

Saturday 5th February Live at the Chapel featuring Stephen Merchant @ Union ChapelIt's another top Live At The Chapel line-up this month, h...

February: London Clubbing

S.O.M.E Night Relaunch2nd FebSpoonfed's favourite midweek party moves to one of our favourite East London venues - East Village. Despite the c...

February: London Exhibitions

From 1st February Susan Hiller @ Tate Britain Susan Hiller read anthropology at university before becoming disillusioned and becoming an artis...

February: London Live Music

Junip1st FebruaryThe solo project of one Mr José González, Junip's influences range from Neu! all the way to John Martyn. Not ...

February: London Theatre

From 5th February Frankenstein @ National Theatre Danny Boyle, he of Slumdog and 127 Hours fame directs Frankenstein at National Theatre. His...

Field Day at Victoria Park

When: Sat 09 AugSessions: 12:00 - 23:30 12:00 - 23:30Genres: Indie, Pop, Punk Field Day returns to Victoria Park for another day of awesome...

December: London Comedy

Wednesday 1st-Wednesday 15th December John Shuttleworth: A Man With No More Rolls @ Ambassadors Theatre Sheffiled's finest, the keyboard-both...

Free London theatre tickets

While there may be no such thing as a free lunch, there is the very real possibility of free – or at least very cheap – tickets f...

January: London Comedy

Tuesday 11th-Saturday 22nd JanJonny Sweet @ Soho Theatre One of the best shows at the Fringe this year and almost certainly the best show a...

January: London Exhibitions

From 13th January Future Map @ Zabludowicz Collection University of the Arts London celebrates its new graduating talent with this exhibiti...

January: London Live Music

ShellacSaturday 1st JanuaryStart 2011 as you mean to go on with Steve Albini’s legendary minimal rock act Shellac. Easily one of the b...

January: London Theatre

From 4th January Potting Shed @ Finborough TheatreThis has already been on at Finborough Theatre, and is now back for a longer run. A man search...

January London

January - it's a fresh start. After the extended debauchery of Christmas and New Year, it's time to make (and then most probably ignore) a who...

Lily Allen Secret Gig and Fancy Dress Party

Fancy a fancy dress party with Lily Allen herself followed by secret London gigs by the pop star? Well MySpace and Lily Allen have teamed up...

London Attractions

London has many attractions for tourists to experience and enjoy, as well as plenty of things to do that all London locals should try at least...

London Activities

There is a seemingly endless choice of London activities but there are some activities without which no trip to London would be complete. From...

London Breaks

London breaks are very popular with residents within the UK and from all over the world. Some people visit for the culture or to improve their...

London Live

London has a legendary reputation for live music and some of the greatest bands in the world have started their careers with London gigs. Over...

London Olympics

The London Olympics 2012 will mark the third time the UK has hosted the Olympic Games and Great Britain’s invigorated performance in the...

London Parks

With grace, certainty and a decidedly large amount of foliage, London casts aside the traditional city nickname of concrete jungle with a hu...

London Pubs

Visitors and locals looking for a London pub with character and history are spoilt for choice by the capital’s various watering holes -...

March: London

March is a month that marks the beginning of spring. Sure, it can snow, but the days are getting longer and there's beautiful daylight eith...

London for Kids

Taking the kids out can be a harrowing experience. Short attention spans and cries of 'are we there yet' can render any frazzled parent knackered...

London to Launch Glasgow Comedy Festival 2010

The International Glasgow Comedy Festival is holding a launch event in London this month - on Burns Night. Loads of quality acts appearing ...

March: London Clubbing

5th MarchSuperfreq 9th Anniversary E'specialThe freaks return to the magical skyscraper for an incredibly special birthday edition. They turn ...

March: London Comedy

Thursday 10th-Saturday 12th MarchGolden Lizard @ Soho Theatre A delightfully bonkers action-adventure story, loosely based on a mission to ...

March: London Live Music

5th of MarchFu Manchu @ The O2 Academy IslingtonOne of the most recognisable bands of the stoner-rock era, Fu Manchu play heavy as hell, fuzzed o...

March: London Theatre

From 10th March The Knot of the Heart @ Almeida Theatre When you're battling drug addiction, you don't expect the support of your family to com...

May: London Clubbing

secretsundaze Opening Party @ secret location 1st May secretsundaze are back - and not a moment too soon. Smith and Priestley's summer ins...

May: London Comedy

1st-2nd MayCamden Crawl Comedy @ Abbey Tavern, Camden Head and Bar Fifty Five The Camden Crawl has more comedy on than ever this year, spre...

May: London Exhibitions

From Monday 16th May Planting Paradise @ Garden Museum We frickin' love a good garden here at Spoonfed, and Tom Stuart-Smith has been responsib...

May: London Theatre

From 3rd MayI am the Wind @ The Young VicYes, it's one of those titles but I am the Wind is an intense play about human connection. Two friends r...

Michael Jackson London Tour

As you've probably already heard, Michael Jackson has passed away in his LA home at the age of 50, just two weeks before he was due to begin...

MySpace Secret Gig: Soulwax in London

When: Fri 22 AugWhere: Shhh... it's a Secret!Artists: Soulwax Soulwax to Play at MySpace Secret GigAt Spoonfed we love exclusive events, free...

November London

Get clicking for our guide to the best of the month! Best of November: London Clubbing Best of November: London Live Music Best of November:...

Billy Elliot

As I sit comfortably in my seat about halfway through the first act of Billy Elliot at the Victoria Palace Theatre, I get the sense that despite...

Chessboxing at Boxing London

It's noon on a Saturday and all I can think about is hitting someone. I'm ready to go three brutal minutes in the ring and at the end of those...

London Help

Finding help in London can be a daunting task whether you’re a tourist, newly arrived in the city, or even a long-time local.  But...

The Best Homemade Halloween Costumes (and parties to wear them to)

Old people are always whining on about Halloween. “Waaaah!” they scream. “These young whippersnappers are always egging our...

Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

When most students plan their gap years, preparations usually call for copious spending of their parents money, boozy nights in exotic countries...

The Factory Theatre presents The Seagull at the Pleasance Theatre

The members of the Factory Theatre group face the audience as if facing a firing squad and I wonder what they know that I don't. Apparently not...

The US Presidential Election in London

The entire world seems to have come down with US election fever and London certainly hasn’t been spared. You’re now just as like...

The Waifs at Shepherd Bush Empire

Watching The Waifs play at Shepherd Bush Empire, I realise that the airline industry could learn a thing or two from their performance. Someh...

London Brick Lane

Things to do in Brick Lane About Brick LaneBrick lane may well be famous as the best place in London to find a curry house, but by and large...

London Fashion Week

London Fashion Week is a bi-annual display of the newest and up-and-coming trends. It's one of the best places to discover what clothes, shoes...

London Weekends: Budget in Battersea

We're taking it back to the old school this week with our itinerary. No skydiving, no dead body gimmicks and definitely nothing that costs more...

London Weekends: Cold War

You may not know this, but August 9th sees the anniversary of the dropping of ‘Fat Man’. Although never eulogised in song like its...

London Weekends: Lyrics of London

Good ol' London town – she has inspired some of the world's greatest musicians to put pen to paper, and continues to arouse a feeling of...

London Weekends: Notting Hill Carnival

  Notting Hill Carnival 2011 Notting Hill Carnival 2011 Guide: Basics | Safety | Music | After Parties Notting H...

Weekend Guides: Alternative Glastonbury

Glastonbury is upon us once again, and when I say us, what I really mean is them. I'm not going and for all you other sad sods who aren't going...

Weekend Guides: Father's Day in the West End

This Father's Day, ignore Pops when he claims he just wants to be left alone with a beer and the football. It's a much better idea to drag him...

Weekend Guides: Lea River and environs (Clapton, Hackney, Bethnal Green)

Did you know that in the Spoonfed office we have people from all over the place, even Wimbledon, Chiswick and so on? It that kind of workplace...

Weekend Guides: London Skyline

The city of London is rapidly advancing upwards and soon we will have Europe's tallest building - the Tower Bridge 'Shard of Glass' dominati...

Weekend Guides: Monopoly Tour

If you have a penchant for drinking games then you would have attempted the Monopoly pub crawl at one time or another. The board game was THE...

Weekend Guides: Portobello Road

"Portobello road, Portobello road, street where the riches of ages are stowed/Anything and everything a chap can unload is sold off the barr...

Weekend Guides: Underground in Hackney

This week's itinerary is an irreverent up-yours to the perpetually sickening bastions of authority who claim to represent our interests. The...

Weekend Guides: Vintage in Shoreditch

It's Saturday morning and the weekend stretches gloriously ahead. Silence the gentle lapping of impending doom, distance the idling of the economy...

Weekend Guides: Voyeur's Delight

The internet: it's not all about youth culture you know. Sad balding men have just as much right to lie about their identity in chatrooms as...

Weekend Guides: West End with Bernie

  Rich as the 1980s were in movies exhibiting the kind of glossy fun that characterises knockabout brat-pack classics, few from that er...

Phoebe Killdeer and the Short Straws at Barfly

After establishing with my dumb-ass girlfriend who it was we were actually going to see, “the one from Nouvelle Vague”, “oh...

The Apples at Cargo

It's The Apples at Cargo… They're an Israeli band that fuse together samba, funk, jazz and turntables – and if the Middle East could...

Z-Trip At Cargo

The night begins at eight, with Mr Thing as the hot-pick warm-up DJ. But really it’s clear that Cargo is going crazy for Z-Trip. He's known...

Affordable Art Fair

Am I just totally incompetent? I waited around for ages in the wrong queue at Frieze, walked into the wrong bit of the Royal Academy in sear...

Art Monitor: Hackney Wicked

'Just keep your noses primed. You'll sniff the art a mile off.'That was the extent of the directions I gave my friends. They'd never been to ...

Andrew Rafferty at the Gallery in Redchurch Street

Roland Barthes equated photography with death, and, visiting Andrew Rafferty's exhibition at The Gallery on Redchurch Street, it's not hard ...

Art Monitor: Wolfgang Tillmans at Maureen Paley

East London, I mean, really. It simply is too dreadful sometimes. You head to Maureen Paley to check out the latest show from Wolfgang Tillmans...

Art Monitor: Little Black Dress at the Fashion & Textile Museum

Good old Bermondsey, with its nice gastro pubs and those odd little shops run by the kooky wives of merchant bankers. And, of course, Zandra...

Artist Profile: Pete Nawara

American artist Pete Nawara is fascinated by one thing: beauty. It's possible that he finds other stuff interesting too, but basically, for him...

August in the Arts: Hackney Wicked

August in Art World is not a very exciting month. Most galleries are hosting group shows of assorted work by the artists they represent. Either...

Best Museums in London

London's full of museums. There's big ones and small ones, good ones and ever-so-slightly crap ones. If, due to some rather bizarre set of circumstanc...

Beverley Knowles

Notting Hill: Saturday, 4.30. I'm meeting art gallery owner Beverley Knowles and I'm running rather late. And I haven't slept in 36 hours and...

Francis Bacon at Tate Britain

When I was about sixteen, Francis Bacon was my favourite artist and Thomas Hardy my favourite novelist. I recently returned to Hardy to find...

Byzantium at the Royal Academy

I have to confess I wasn't looking forward to this. Byzantium is the Royal Academy's big new exhibition exploring the wonders of the Byzantine...

Hide and Seek

Ballroom. VIP. Royal. What do these words mean to you? When I received an invite to a VIP opening in The Clore Ballroom of the Royal Festival...

Frieze Art Fair 2008

Click here to read Tom's guide to 2009's London Art Fairs. Roll up! Roll up! It's Frieze Art Fair 2008. And my god, what a sight it is. It's...

Henry VIII: Man & Monarch at the British Library

I'm pretty certain I'm not alone in picturing Henry VIII as a colossally fat and lecherous beast, upholstered in opulent materials, bejewelled...

Jonathan Silverman at Rivington Gallery

Painting huh? People keep trying to write painting off as some kind of outdated artistic relic. 'It's all about installations now, darling, and...

International Buddhist Film Festival 2009

Buddhism has always seemed one of the most fascinating belief systems. Characterised by wisdom, decency and consideration, it seems a far cry...

Hussein Chalayan at the Design Museum

Major. That is the word fashion folk like to bandy around. That is the word that applies to the Hussein Chalayan exhibition at the Design Muse...

Justice at the Astoria

Ahh Valentine's Day: roses and hosiery, tantrums and tablecloths, w(h)ining, dining, candles, spangles... poor old martyred Saint Valentine barely...

Laughing In a Foreign Language

Fat people, falling over - it's funny, obviously, but is it art? Well, yes. Thanks to the Hayward Gallery, it is now. If you ever get irked trailing...

Lecture: 'Violence to Endurance: Extreme Curating' at the ICA

London Exhibitions What would your reaction be if this happened? You go to an art lecture at the ICA, sit down and listen to each member of th...

London Art Fairs: A Useful Guide

Click here to read Tom's guide to 2009's London Art Fairs. OK people, hold onto your paintbrushes, it's Art Fair Week. At least that's what we're...

Life Before Death

Somebody once told me that the only difference between comedy and tragedy is where you choose to end the story. In 'Life Before Death' at the...

Lecture: Luce Irigaray at the ICA

Although Luce Irigaray is one of the big guns of contemporary gender theory, I have to confess that I have never read any of her books. Judith...

London Arts

London Art 2008: The London Art Scene in Review Well, what a year it's been. 2008 is now drawing to a close and I'm doing a little round-u...

London Fashion Week 2008

S/S '09 shows report: b store / Soar London Fashion Week: in the slightly prissy Georgian splendour of Home House, the Spring Summer '09 collections...

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art

It seems of late that the Barbican has gone more than a wee bit nuts. The recent 'Do Something Different Weekend' saw a whole host of bizarre...

Madness & Modernity at the Wellcome Collection

From Thomas Hoccleve to Amy Winehouse via William Blake and Vincent van Gogh, the history of the arts is littered with those whose personalities...

Merman at the Jermyn

Ethel Merman: 'Grande Dame of the Broadway Stage' or nasal-voiced old belter? A bit of both, probably. She had a glittering Broadway career, ...

Miroslaw Balka at White Cube / Carey Young: Mutual Release

I've often thought that, when a character in a novel has fought in World War I or lost relatives in the Holocaust or something, it's simply a...

Morrissey at 02 Festival, Hyde Park

'Morrissey, Morrissey, Morrissey' the terrace chant rings out across Hyde Park. How does this once fey now fattening sexually ambiguous egotist...

November in the Arts: Sarah Maple

October for me has been about three things: art fairs, the new Saatchi Gallery, and (chiefly) Russian performance pooer Alexander Brener. After...

One Alfred Place

Learn more about this area: London Westminster One Alfred Place is a London private members' club that professes to be 'uniquely designed...

On the Edge at ROLLO Contemporary Art

Fertile creative spaces can be tough to locate these days. The ability to be wholly original has perhaps always been illusory, but today at least...

Peter Doig at Tate Britain

Peter Doig is one of those artists about whom it is always hard to know what to say. His work is not obviously politicised or fashionably conceptual...

Recycled Rosettes at the Barbican Centre

Having bigged up the Barbican's 'Do Something Different Weekend' in last week's newsletter, I felt it only right that I put my money where my...

The Whitechapel Gallery Reopens

So after two years and £13.5 million, The Whitechapel Art Gallery finally reopens. Unfortunately for me, they've scheduled the Press View...

The Dark Show at FormContent

White walls. Wood floors. Light, bright, airy and silent. This is the gallery we know. The Foxtons wet-dream. Surely, its time is drawing to...

September in the Arts: Nadine Feinson

Thank God it's September. After the barren month of August, when the London art world went into summer hibernation like some funny little hedgehog...

What Science Can't Tell Us

London Exhibitions 2009 looks set to be an exciting year for science: 12th February sees the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwi...

Turner Prize 2008

Controversy, outrage, ego, ennui: yes, the shortlist for this year's Turner Prize has been announced amid the usual salvo of yawns and scorn...

Turner Prize 2009

Turner Prize shortlist time again. Do people still care? Well, one imagines the artists selected are probably pretty chuffed, and of course the...

Working Space at The Arts Gallery

Whenever I'm wandering round a gallery that's full to the gunwales with complicated conceptual things that I don't really understand, I usually...

YES WAY

Barbour: check. Brogues: check. Checks: check. No it's not a weekend on the farm; it's a trip to South London. Golly, I feel intrepid as I boa...

Introducing Present Endtroducing Live at Peepshow

When I first heard that members of Laroca were putting together a live version of DJ Shadow's amazing 'Endtroducing' album I was intrigued to...

Zoo Art Fair 2008

Click here to read Tom's guide to 2009's London Art Fairs. OK, it's Friday night and I'm at Zoo Art Fair. It's my last art fair this week, an...

Frankenstein at Cochrane Theatre

Last night I found myself sitting in the upstairs bar of the Cochrane Theatre in Holborn, a University of the Arts London showcase theatre for...

Random at the Royal Court

When it comes to Random, less is more. The less you know about it the more likely you're going to go. Ask too many questions or read too many...

Blonde Redhead at Shepherds Bush Empire

Sometimes you go to a show and the openers are painfully bad, you’re wishing for a fast-forward button on the performance. Thankfully going...

Wine of the Week II

Hello, and welcome to the second installment of Wine of the Week, the Spoonfed feature that pits the cream of contemporary music against the...

Spoonfed Radar iPhone Application

The Spoonfed Event Radar for the iPhone answers the question: What’s on near me now? The location-based application puts all of London...

The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival: Big Hitters

This year the London Film Festival has managed to pull off several major coups. The world premier of Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon , European premiers...

Wine of the Week III

Hello, and welcome to another edition of wine of the week, this time chaired by me, Dominic Haley, one of Spoonfed's resident live music editors...

Asmahan Egyptian Dance

Asmahan's entry level Egyptian dance class is a great way to spend any weekday evening.  The inviting atmosphere and laid back, carefree...

Cindy Sherman at Spruth Magers

For her latest batch of new works Cindy Sherman has presented us with quite a dramatic departure from the framed print, almost in a way so distin...

Celebrity Quiz at The Hob

Thursday night quiz at the Hob? Definitely, but don't go expecting your run-of-the-mill quiz night, and watch out for the decidedly odd quizmasters...

Capoeira Angola

The Brazilian martial art Capoeira really lives up to its name: difficult, but so beautiful. Come into the class with an open mind and be pleasantly...

Maggie's End at the Shaw Theatre

'It's a terrible thing to lose one's memory.' So laments Leon Thomas (Mark Wingett) upon discussing his mother's losing battle with dementia...

Chew The Fat! 11th Birthday

Chew The Fat! at The End incorporates electronic music (and its related genres) into an orgy of love for all sounds technological, and for its...

Nocturnal at The Gate Theatre

Shrouded in darkness at the claustrophobic Gate Theatre, there is an overwhelming sense of the surreal as I await the opening curtain call of...

Radiohead at Victoria Park

It's almost impossible for a band as obsessed-over as Radiohead to live up to the anticipation. You imagine it for so long that when they finally...

Joanna Newsom at Somerset House

If ever a venue could upstage an act, Somerset House on a summer evening has to be up there with the best of them. Nu-folk heroine Joanna Newsom...

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer

This article comes courtesy of London-based art dealer and consultant Beverley Knowles. Gorgeous Ellie the Intern from Sweden and Minnesota i...

Videocrash At Koko

For those partial to 'audio-visual' performance with the emphasis on 'visual', this line-up is something to get wet over - Hexstatic are the...

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer

This article comes courtesy of West London gallery-owner Beverley Knowles. I learned something about myself this weekend. Philip Seymour Hoffma...

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer

This article comes courtesy of West London gallery-owner Beverley Knowles. I'm reading Jung at the moment and my current obsession is with striving...

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer

This article comes courtesy of West London gallery-owner Beverley Knowles. However many times I mop the floor I seem only to succeed in redistributing...

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer

This article comes courtesy of West London gallery-owner Beverley Knowles. I heard David Beckham interviewed the other day for the launch o...

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Altermodern

This article comes courtesy of West London gallery-owner Beverley Knowles. Altermodern: aka the Fourth Tate Triennial. It's new alright. Bu...

Jenny Weiner - You Are Here

London Exhibitions This is my first visit to bearspace, on Deptford High Street and I'm here for the opening night of the new Jenny Weiner exhibitio...

Ad Infinitum - Part I at Vegas Gallery

I seem to have a soft spot for Vegas Gallery and its cleverly themed shows; last month the exhibition had an underlying vampire theme; this one...

Matt Small - Youngstarrs

The artwork on display is fantastic and the atmosphere is electric; I am at Black Rat Press, just off Great Eastern Street for Youngstarrs, the...

Matthew Collings at Parasol Unit

I am at Parasol Unit to see an exhibition of work by American minimalist artist, Robert Mangold. I time my visit to coincide with a talk by art...

Regent Street Festival

So what exactly does put the Great into Great Britain? As this year's dismal summer makes its weary transition into the autumn months there doesn't...

Diwali on the Square

Arriving in Trafalgar Square just in time to witness Boris Johnson extolling the virtues of Wikipedia in his quest to derive the true meaning...

A Tribute to Henri Chopin at Cubitt Gallery

Founded as an alternative to the institutional system, a place where dominant curatorial practices are challenged, Cubitt Gallery continues its...

Border Community at The End

The End is one of London's more pleasant nightclubs. It has plenty of space, good air conditioning and a nice sound-system. What's more, on nights...

At The Oscars

Finally there are some good films about at the moment, after an autumn of bad comedy (Tropic Thunder, Four Christmases), bad Bond (Quantum of...

Best London Comedy

It's no secret that London is the comedy capital of the world. There are hundreds of pubs, clubs and theatres here which give regular spots ...

Best European Festivals pt I

DissonanzePalazzo Dei Congressi, ItalyFri 9th- Sat 8th May1 Day- 35€/ 2 day pass – 50 € At the unusually smart festival setting of...

Best European Festivals pt II

ExitPetrovaradin Fortess, SerbiaThur July 10 -Sun July 13Weekend Ticket: £72 / €91Following all the hubbub about Bjork being dropped fro...

Brendon Burns: Comedy Good Yeah Silly Side C**t

"I'm not a bigot in a racist, sexist way; just in a pre-judging way". Indeed Brendon Burns is not a bigot but the man certainly says what he...

Brendon Burns at the Soho Theatre

As this is the very last run of Brendon Burns' if.comedy award-winning show from last year, he starts off by explaining that most of the jokes...

Comedy Nights at The Lyric

Richard Herring has been hosting the Hammersmith Lyric comedy nights since this time last year and they have been a phenomenal success, mainly...

Camden Fringe

Robin Ince: Bleeding Heart Liberal Small hot stuffy rooms are not the best venues to be performing in when you put as much energy and words int...

Camden Fringe: The Intimate Strangers

I get a feeling of foreboding during the Intimate Stranger's opening scene as we are introduced to a rather tried and tested 'posh city boy'...

Ferran Adrià at the Southbank Centre

A gigantic screen looms above us with a picture of a book emblazoned on the screen. On it is the inscription:  Best Chef in The World: Ferran...

Hackney Empire New Act Of The Year 2009

A good indication of what new hot talent the comedy world has in store for us this year was the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year awards which...

Ed Byrne: Different Class

The compere for Ed Byrne's gig at Riverside Studios is himself. "I'm warming up for the warm-up", he explains. This improvisational part of any...

House of Windsor in 'The Meeting'

It must be difficult coming up with an original and fresh show for the Fringe. The old 'here is a list of people and things that annoy me fro...

Jason Byrne at artsdepot

Artsdepot is a surprising haven in the armpit that is North Finchley. Having practically reached the end of the Northern line and walked passe...

Jason Manford Interview

Currently on a huge tour encompassing most of the UK, Mancunian comic Jason Manford comes to London next Friday, performing at the Bloomsbury...

Josie Long Interview

The Battersea Arts Centre really lives up to its name this month, as their annual N20 comedy season kicks off in style.  There will be political...

Journey to... Best of 07 Awards

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Knock2Bag

The first comedian that comes on tonight, Wil Hodgson, is a classic Knock2Bag diverse act.  It's not just the fact he is a pink-haired ex...

London Comedy: October

The Kransky Sisters The Big Joke Festival is now in full swing at the Leicester Square Theatre and has already seen some huge comics fly over...

Knock2Bag Easter Special

It's not often you get searched on the way into a comedy night so I'm mildly surprised when Desperate Dan asks if he can peruse the contents...

Mark Watson at the Bloomsbury Theatre

As the audience begins to settle down and take their coats off in the Bloomsbury auditorium, a man lurking at the back of the theatre suddenly...

London Comedy: September

Hooray! Comedy is back to normal in London this September after the last burning embers of the Fringe died out on Bank Holiday Monday.  ...

Micha Wertheim at the BAC

It's clear from the offset that tonight is not going to be the straightest stand-up gig. I'm not sure what to expect from controversial Dutch...

Oliver Twist at Riverside Studios

As I enter room 3 in Riverside Studios I actually think I might have mistakenly stumbled into some sort of school production. The actors are...

News Revue at the Canal Cafe Theatre

There can’t be a more pleasant way to spend a sunny Friday evening than in Little Venice. Whether it’s a stroll past all the Regency...

Ricky Gervais and Guests at artsdepot

Well it's not every day you get to see a Ricky Gervais set in a venue with a capacity of 50 but yesterday was indeed such a day.  No smug...

Save Ginglik

Poor old Ginglik!  Who'd have thought with all this re-development and money pouring into Shepherd's Bush at the moment that it would lead...

Sabotage at the Andaz Hotel

Sabotage has to have landed itself one of the coolest comedy venues in London. Held in a Masonic temple located in the five-star Andaz Hotel...

Sketchatron

You know it's going to be a good evening of comedy when Stephen Merchant walks in behind you. "He'd better not sit in front of me", my friend...

Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters

Walking into the Hammersmith Apollo, I have mixed feelings of apprehension, excitement and curiosity about Steve Coogan's new tour show. ...

The 29th Task of Corless

People do strange things for charity. Like that Chilean prostitute who raised $4000 by auctioning 24 hours of sex to raise money for the national...

The Comedian's Comedian of 2008

London's comedy scene is positively thriving at the moment with over 100 different clubs a week, not counting solo shows.  The recession...

The Golden Record: Sounds Of The Earth at the BAC

If you were trying to save the planet from alien destruction what case would you make for it?  What images or sounds would you present to...

The Invisible Dot Club at the Proud Gallery

The Invisible Dot is a new concept comedy club that pops up sporadically in random venues and festivals with different themes each time. ...

Trouble in Clown Town

"You walk in there and you think who are these ponces? They look, well you know, and then you come in here and you think 'phew! - a safe place'...

secretsundaze featuring Rhadoo

On receiving an e-mail saying: “Due to bad weather secretsundaze has had to move inside the Ministry of Sound”, I almost considered...

Bloc Party at The Apple Store

It's a confusing scene on Regent Street as smatterings of lost, confused officials amble in small circles by the door of the Apple store, and...

Jesse Malin at ULU

As a nation, we've always had a curious ambivalence to American culture. We like to think that musically, we're a lot older and wiser. Yet under...

Josh Weller at The Macbeth

Revivalism seems to crop up more and more with each passing generation. It's inevitable. We're not allowed to like what our parents liked, that's...

Like A Thief at The Borderline

Sometimes there is more truth to the figurative than to the literal. And sometimes there isn't. This dualistic celebration of the art of flabbergastery...

Late Of The Pier at ULU

It's no secret that art is in a constant state of rebirth, and nowhere is this made more apparent than in the quantum jigsaw of modern music...

Negură Bunget at The Purple Turtle

Consider the metaphor that all music is a community, and that each genre is a family with its own estate and its own customs. Come with me a...

Mano de Dios at Power's Acoustic Room

OK get this... it's indie, but it's not retro. Okay, flamenco's pretty old, but it has never "stopped happening" so to speak, unlike the influences...

Olympus Mons at 93 Feet East

Support act Guardians Of The Ancient Wisdom are interesting. It makes you wonder: Why do you not see many rappers with guitars? Is it because...

The Rrrs at The Fly

Met Sharzilla Moog at the entrance. She's quite the whirling dervish of organisational steam, that one. At any one time she can be seen in several...

Triptych Tour at The New Evaristo Club

The Triptych Tour is the moniker applied to this trilogy of uncannily intertwined acts, Peggy Sue and the Pirates, Alessi's Ark and Derek Meins...

Yeti at The Old Blue Last

For decades our vigilant capital has been searching for the Holy Grail that is the 'Cockney Beatles', and Yeti are one of the many contenders...

General Fiasco at The Borderline

Saturday is not a great day for me: firstly my iPod decides it has had enough and passes on into the Apple afterlife, and then, as I'm about...

Noah and the Whale at Shepherd's Bush Empire

First up at the Shepherd's Bush Empire tonight is Jay Jay Pistolet, and as the opening chords are struck and the images behind him whirr into...

Hexstatic at Cargo

Easter Sunday is traditionally a time of blessing; a time to reflect on the train wreck of our lives and either attempt to recompense by attending...

Aeneas Faversham Forever: Review

The Penny Dreadfuls are on the money and on the rise. The biggest selling sketch act at this year's Edinburgh fringe are pretty much where it's...

Old Rope at The Phoenix

Ever been on a holiday that you initially never wanted to end but ended up counting down the days to the departure lounge crush? Ever had a perfectly...

Rock at Oval House

The appeal of Hollywood is undeniable. The glamour, the possibility of the Hollywood machine all glitter above it's unmistakable corruption and...

Twelfth Night at the Tricycle Theatre

'If music be the food of love, then play on'. And so kicks off Filter's production of Twelfth Night. This isn't exactly a modernised adaptation...

Deerhoof at ULU

2008 has been a bit of a vintage year as far as experimental pop is concerned. Apart from the whole No Age / Mae Shi / Abe Vigoda thing that...

Folk America at The Barbican

I like Billy Bragg. I like him even more now I've just watched him sing a beautiful rendition of an old Woody Guthrie song called 'I Ain't Got...

Buraka Som Sistema Interview

One of the positive effects of globalisation has been the increase in cultural exchange and the rising interest in arts and music from outside...

Always Fridays at Egg

What’s the point in having a venue as good as Egg if you’re going to plonk it in the barren hinterlands behind Kings Cross? Though...

M.A.N.D.Y at Fabric

A night out at Fabric is usually preceded by a sense of gleeful anticipation, as London’s top club can generally be relied upon to deliver...

Honest Jons Presents DJ Pete, Sleeparchive & Mark Ernestus

Dub techno. Not the most glamorous of dance music's many subgenres. What the hell does dub have to do with techno – and vice versa &n...

DMZ at Mass

However holy the converted church now called Mass may have been in the past, the sheer number of stairs you have to climb to reach the main room...

The Good, The Bad, and The Queen

A private jet circles above London. On board are the latest in super group technology, The Good, The Bad, and The Queen. Their pilot &ndash...

The Masque of the Red Death

It is by no means easy writing a comprehensive piece on Punchdrunk Theatre's latest and greatest production, The Masque of the Red Death. I...

Malcolm Middleton at Union Chapel

With songs like 'We’re All Gonna Die', 'A Moaning Shite' and 'Loneliness Shines' you wouldn't be blamed for thinking that an evening in...

Ladyfest London

Oh no! The Zen Pussy Workshop is cancelled! This is my startling realisation upon opening the Ladyfest programme, but browsing through it seems...

Cleo Laine and John Dankworth

Husband and wife team Cleo Laine and John Dankworth bring their special magic to the Barbican, marking their 80th birthdays with a gala concer...

Best Dubstep, Grime and Bassline in London

Over the last few years a disturbing addiction has emerged in the new generation of Britian's ravers – artists such as Skream, Benga, Caspa...

Beside The Seaside

Over what sort of landscape does your mind's eye roam when you think of festivals? There are tents, fields and thousands and thousands of other...

Daniel Bell at Run

The funny thing about really minimalist techno is that sometimes it seems like there’s no difference between a terrible piece of music...

Earth and Sir Richard Bishop at Camden Underworld

Dylan Carlson formed influential band Earth in 1990, and pretty soon Sub Pop agreed to release their first record on the strength of a show. ...

Best London Festivals Part II

O2 Wireless Hyde ParkThu 3 July – Sun 6 JulyThu £40; all other days £45Now in its fourth year, O2 Wireless boasts the pull of...

Easter Clubbing

There are many traditions surrounding Easter, and clubbing is one of them. It might be down to some corrupted folk memory of the ecstatic fert...

London Clubs: September

Using the term 'fidget house' always feels a bit ridiculous – especially since Jesse Rose, one of the style's originators, claims it was...

Metamorphosis at the Lyric Hammersmith

Someone who hasn't seen the Lyric Hammersmith's Metamorphosis, originally a 2006 production but revived this month, might ask: how do you adapt...

Get Familiar at Fabriclive

Fabric is a bit of an odd one, being the huge, famous London club you might actually want to go to. If you don’t have to queue for too...

Moodymann at Jazz Cafe

On Gilles Peterson's Radio 1 show recently, Moodymann (in his first ever interview) said that he likes coming to London because the transport's...

Neurotic at the ICA

As a young man, artist Fiddian Warman tells us, his thing was punk. What with a name straight out of Waugh (or maybe Star Wars), put hand i...

Trouble Vision at Corsica Studios, 19 September 2008

Trouble Vision: the first one ever, about one o'clock, and it's pretty hot and rammed. Not so that you can't get a drink before your soul dies...

Underage

From the perspective of a London boy or girl under 18, clubbing seems to be changing. Maybe the sort of leisure activities demanded by young...

Field Day

Sitting in an east London café filling up on fried food and caffeine, all talk is of the impending afternoon in Victoria Park, put together...

Slayer at the Hammersmith Apollo

The crowd at the Apollo is younger than I would have predicted- teenagers flock through the main foyer, eagerly elbowing each other out of the...

Adventures In Sound

Just like No Music Day on the 21st of November, the London Jazz Festival passed by with, well... silence. Devoted Jazz enthusiasts flocked to...

August: Travelling on a Thames River Cruise

Seen in the opening credits of EastEnders, Bond’s boat chase in The World is Not Enough and home to Britain’s external spy agency...

BattleJam at Cargo

If Fatboy Slim is the 'Brighton Butcher', then surely two times UK Beatbox champion, Beardyman must be the 'Brighton Baker'. The man behind the...

Best Quizzes In London

Ah! The humble pub quiz. As Londoners, we like nothing better than winning a bottle of vino or a few bob on a weeknight or a Sunday.Quizzes ...

Black Ghosts Interview at Glastonbury

Having both been in chart-bothering British electronica bands at the turn of the century, perhaps The Black Ghosts were born for big things. ...

Free Things to Do in London

Of late, we at Spoonfed have been knocking around an idea for a new sit-com. It’s going to be called Shut That Bloody Door (accompanyi...

Dean Haglund: X-Files Improv

Descending the stairs at the Arts Theatre we feel like gate-crashers at an AA meeting, herded into an 'intimate' space below the main theatre...

July: Hitting the Streets

All summer 'Best of...' features seem to start with a soliloquy on how fine the weather has been lately and how we should get out from behi...

London Jazz Festival

Duke Ellington said "By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with", but over the...

London Re-Freshers Festival at Fabric

At the best of times, Fabric resembles a children's amusement park. Full of passages, 'play' areas and nooks and crannies perfect for an adults...

Salsa at Bar Salsa

If salsa is the food of love then the beginners dance classes at Salsa in Leicester Square are a broken marriage. You’d think the format...

Starseed at Clapham Grand

Descending on infamous antipodean haunt Clapham Grand to catch Starseed, the thought of ocker twanging voices all around almost sent us home...

The End of the World on Brick Lane

What would you do if you knew your last breath would leave your well-worn body in eleven or so hours? Contemplating this while procrastinating...

The Underground Rebel Bingo Club at The Mission Room

Unless you have recently been absconded by a friend and taken to one of the many eclectic nights at The Mission Room, the chances of finding...

Colony at The Russian

I have not had a night out like Colony at the Russian Bar for quite a while. If ever. A little bit like an old-school university house p...

Henley Royal Regatta

June 30 – July 4 2010We all know the British summer is very fleeting, so cramming in as many fair weather activities as possible is very ...

Friendship at 229

I don't think it is the credit crunch that has rendered Great Portland Street's 229 venue a bit of a ghost town tonight. Possibly it's the ramshackle...

Let's Wrestle

This was not a show, but a party. It was to be held in a secret warehouse location in Whitechapel, but the day before it became apparent that...

Women at White Heat

It's kind of apt in a way for the band generally regarded as the new Velvet Underground to be playing at Soho's famous White Heat. Probably every...

Line Drawings at the Subway Gallery

The journey to work on the tube is an inevitable, if unpleasant part of daily London life. At best you'll be crammed into a stuffy compartment...

Black Dice at Cargo

"We think they're louder than Sunn O)))" proclaims an asinine boast/health warning by the door. Health & Safety and promotion converge only...

Daniel Kitson at MIND Comedy Night

"If Kitson comes on without a MIND t-shirt he hates people that are mentally ill," Stuart Goldsmith tells the crowd at Monday's inaugural comedy...

Adam Green at Koko

The boy works fast. Notable in the anti-folk canon, but mostly imbued with the divinity of being adored by post-pubescent girls, Adam Green recently...

Dan le Sac v. Scroobius Pip at Koko

The first thing is, I don't really want to write this review. Because if I give any preconceptions about Le Sac and Pip; any impression, be it...

Cherbourg at The Borderline

'Folk' sounds so bluntly pleasant. But it can end up a nefarious, diluted affair. Recently, there've been waves of those toting shy-heartedness...

Hong Kong in the 60s + Centre of the Universe at The Others

In the interest of brevity, I'll save the epic tale of the onerous voyage to The Others for another time. Suffice to say, it took many miles...

Silver Jews/Monotonix at ULU

I hate ULU, it's like a cardboard box that has been pissed on. It doesn't have to be this way. Alright, maybe I said in an earlier review that...

Oxes at the Luminaire

It's all go, go, go tonight at this sold out night at the Lumi.Lords kick off the rockin' with their jambalaya of fat-end blues, dizzy free ...

Songdog at the Roundhouse

Walking into the sparsely populated FREEDM studios in Camden's Roundhouse tonight is like walking into a daytime sound check. Hey, I could've...

Polar Bear at The Vortex

Have you ever heard a balloon play in tune? If the answer is no, I'd advise getting out to see the current line-up of Polar Bear, the Mercury...

Beginner's Parkour at Westminster Academy

As far as casual workouts go, £5 is a pretty good deal. When you consider that most gyms won't let you in the door for under a ten...

Miss Pole Dance UK 2008

I do everything my wife tells me to do. Take out the garbage, wash the dishes, and even go to Miss Pole dance UK. As you can imagine the thought...

Bloc Party at The Apple Store

It's a confusing scene on Regent Street as smatterings of lost, confused officials amble in small circles by the door of the Apple store, and...

Jesse Malin at ULU

As a nation, we've always had a curious ambivalence to American culture. We like to think that musically, we're a lot older and wiser. Yet under...

Josh Weller at The Macbeth

Revivalism seems to crop up more and more with each passing generation. It's inevitable. We're not allowed to like what our parents liked, that's...

Like A Thief at The Borderline

Sometimes there is more truth to the figurative than to the literal. And sometimes there isn't. This dualistic celebration of the art of flabbergastery...

Negură Bunget at The Purple Turtle

Consider the metaphor that all music is a community, and that each genre is a family with its own estate and its own customs. Come with me a...

Mano de Dios at Power's Acoustic Room

OK get this... it's indie, but it's not retro. Okay, flamenco's pretty old, but it has never "stopped happening" so to speak, unlike the influences...

Triptych Tour at The New Evaristo Club

The Triptych Tour is the moniker applied to this trilogy of uncannily intertwined acts, Peggy Sue and the Pirates, Alessi's Ark and Derek Meins...

Yeti at The Old Blue Last

For decades our vigilant capital has been searching for the Holy Grail that is the 'Cockney Beatles', and Yeti are one of the many contenders...

Erdem Moralioglu - Interview

I think the first proper fashion show I ever went to was the second Fashion Fringe initiative back in September 2005. The winner – selected by a panel of judges including Roland Mouret – w...

Rubbish Magazine - Interview with Jenny Dyson

Rubbish! No, I don't mean all that weird stuff gradually piling up in my kitchen, nor even Michael Landy's latest conceptual extravaganza, Art...

Prophetik - Interview with Designer Jeff Garner

Over the past few years, various initiatives have arisen dedicated to championing new and emerging talent at London Fashion Week. With 21 catwa...

London Fashion Week - Ones to Watch

DAKS – 20th February DAKS – the name a conflation of 'Dad' and 'Slacks' – is a quintissentially English label, specialisi...

Burlesque Taster at myHotel Bloomsbury

The old-fashioned seductive glamour of burlesque is back - and Polestars are here to show that anyone can give it a go. The ultra-glamorous and...

Corset and Diamonds Burlesque Party

With publicity full of images of incredibly feminine, flawless, and fun looking women (and a few men) and a door policy of 'respect, glamour...

Eurobeat at the Novello Theatre

Even for those who don't like Eurovision, or musicals, there is something intriguing about Eurobeat. This top-selling show got rave reviews at...

Kill Em All at Fabric

After going to Fabric in March to see Drop the Lime, I'd vowed not to return, due to the relentless harassment that for any girl ruined the whole...

Polestars Can-can Taster Session

Already one of the UK's most successful pole dancing schools, Polestars now offer burlesque classes, and most recently, can-can classes. T...

Hustlaball at Area

With regular nights in LA and New York City, London's first gay porn star party arrives at Area, Vauxhall. With a cruisy, up for it crowd o...

Polestars Pole Dance Taster

Once only seen in seedy strip and lap dance clubs, pole dancing is now a practice enjoyed in gyms, dance studios and at home.  Probab...

SuperMartXe 'Kaos City' at the Coronet Theatre

Spain's hottest export Matinee has a new contender - SuperMartXe. Across Barcelona, Madrid, and Ibiza, SuperMartXe is hosted in huge venues like...

Desi.Licious at Ministry of Sound

Having beeen at university for 4 weeks without a single night out clubbing (shocking for a first year), Desi.licious at Ministry of Sound has...

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

Based on the atypical novel by Toby Young, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People crudely attempts to bridge the gap between American upper...

Edward Scissorhands at Sadler's Wells

Thunder claps, an old woman wobbles around stage and a narrative is projected onto the screen, intensifying the atmosphere and gripping the audience...

Twilight Premiere: Red Carpet Report

The world has officially gone Twilight crazy. Based on the best selling novel by Stephenie Meyer, the new fantasy movie has captured the imagination...

Win a pair of Meet and Greet Tickets to I Am... The After Party with Beyonce and Solange Knowles

Following Beyonce at the O2 Arena, the sold-out concert on Monday 25th May, there will be an exclusive I AM…The After Party – presents...

Win a pair of tickets to Bale de Rua

Bale de Rua is a pulsating dance fusion of hip hop, samba and capoeira from the streets of Brazil, this spectacular show features 15 male dancers...

Win a pair of tickets to Grand Designs Live

Grand Designs is one of the best shows on TV. That is if we are to believe the viewing tastes of Spoonfed's Theatre Editor Joe Harrod. And why...

Win a pair of tickets to The Seagull

Factory Theatre are the most innovative, daring team producing regularly in London and this show takes their free-spirited ethos one step further...

Win a pair of tickets to Turning Point Festival at the Roundhouse

Spoonfed has teamed up with the Roundhouse’s first ever Turning Point festival, to offer 5 lucky winners the chance to win a pair of weekend...

Win a pair of tickets to the Spirit of Summer Fair

The Spirit of Summer Fair at Olympia Grand Hall Looking to revamp your home in time for the Summer? Or simply need some good gift ideas? Th...

Easy Star All Stars at KOKO

The Easy Star All Stars have been well drilled in bringing the uplifting good time reggae/dub vibes to venues and festivals around the world...

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Easy Star All Stars Interview

Having achieved widespread critical acclaim by re-interpreting classic rock albums such as 'Dark Side of the Moon' and 'OK Computer' into epic...

The Energy Industry

We've got to treat Mother Earth like a beautiful woman; appreciate her delicate features, stroke her icy cold exterior now and again and gaze...

Jay-Z at the Wireless Festival

After putting a certain guitarist from Oasis firmly in his place with a show-stealing performance at Glastonbury, it was time for Jay-Z to ma...

Mad Professor's Dub Show at Jazz Cafe

Mad Professor has a track record in reggae/dub production longer than Damien Marley’s dreadlocks and a legacy equalled only by King Tubby...

Raekwon and Ghostface Live at Koko

‘Only Built 4 Cuban Linx’ is about as essential as hip-hop albums get, serving up some of the most vivid stories from the criminal...

Method Man and Redman Live

After a three week wait to this rescheduled date, a heightened sense of anticipation could be felt at the Shepherds Bush Empire. In true hip...

Q-Bert and Cash Money at Fabric

The sight of Cash Money and Q-Bert on a bill together at Fabric is probably like some sort of waking wet dream for most hip-hop heads. Both have...

Roy Ayers at the Jazz Cafe

Pioneering Jazz - Funk maestro Roy Ayers has been on the music scene crafting classic tunes, composing film soundtracks and touring the world...

Any Which Way at Only Connect Theatre

The audience were positioning themselves carefully. They had to. The lads bowling through the crowd moved close to the bone. The man next to...

Baby Pigeons?

"Why do you never see a baby pigeon?" I was sitting outside a café with a friend last week when she asked me. I had no answer for h...

Faust

Faust at London Bridge is a promenade performance by Punchdrunk, taking place in a massive warehouse in the docks round the corner from Wapping...

Francis Bacon at Tate Britain

My first awareness of Francis Bacon dates from the early 1960s when his paintings were shown, along with contemporaries, in the galleries of...

The Trouble with Skinny Jeans

Our student social blogger delves into his hatred (or love?) of skinny jeans. Warning: Utterly worthless ramblings I read a short while ago,...

The Birthday Party at Lyric Hammersmith

This limited season production marks the 50th anniversary of the first production also at the Lyric Hammersmith of Pinter's classic drama. O...

No Man's Land at Duke of York's

In an adroit and beautifully acted play at the Duke of York's what emerges most strongly is the confusion and mutability of the players and the...

Deerhunter at the Dome

There's always a problem if you're a band like Deerhunter when you play in the UK and it's this – people in Britain like to get munted...

Crystal Antlers at the Borderline

I know this is an unconventional way to start a review, but if you're reading this in sunny Southern California, I'd just like to let you know...

Indian Jewelry at Barden's Boudoir

When I was a kid there was this cartoon called Dungeons and Dragons, and every episode started with a bunch of normal looking kids getting on...

Japanther at Bardens Boudoir

Remember when punk was fun? No didn't think so. But way, way back, before everybody wanted to resurrect Sunny Day Real Estate and Bauhaus, kids...

Jay Reatard at the Lexington

The problem with punk rock nowadays is that most of the people playing it aren't really punk rock. Sure, No Age might play a few Urinals covers...

Keeping It DIY

There has been an outbreak of keeping things DIY recently. In almost every pub you come across some bunch of kids are sticking up flyers and...

Lesser Panda

Why are so many bands named after friggin’ animals? I mean, just glimpsing through this month’s schedule and you’ve got Deerhunter...

Liquid Liquid at the Barbican

Old punk bands reforming seem to have become a bit of theme of recent. I managed to see Gang of Four, Wire and The Buzzcocks this summer without...

Lovvers

Right, first up I would like to point out something to the man in the white shirt, who stood abusing Lovvers all the way through their set on...

Oxford Collapse

Cynicism is the greatest excuse for laziness ever. Whilst the rest of the world are watching Jerry Dammers, The Good Bad The Queen, Hard Fi, ...

Parts and Labor at Corsica Studios

It's been all change in Parts and Labor town recently. Hailing from Brooklyn, the band has not only lost their drummer Christopher R. Weingarte...

Release The Bats

It's not really a case of 'Release The Bats' at the Forum this Halloween eve, more 'Let's do the Time Warp again'. What with the likes of Shellac...

Sebastien Graingier and the Mountains

If there is something we here in the media are guilty of, then it's making people famous for one thing and one thing only. I mean did you know...

Seasick Steve at The Astoria

No man is an island, so they say, but go to the Astoria on your own and you'll feel like the Moon rather than a hunk of rock floating off another...

London in June

So we're halfway through the year, and it's still not sunny. Never mind, here's our picks of what to get up to this June.The Brandi Borr Comedy ...

Mouse on Mars at The Queen Elizabeth Hall

Lawyers can be such a drag, eh? Thanks to their work, tonight the band I'm seeing are attempting to soundtrack a film without actually having...

The Shoreditch Shuffle

Guess what happened this weekend in Shoreditch? A festival. Seriously, it's getting to be a bit like a DFS advert down there at the moment; every...

The Mae Shi

LA is going through a funny period right now. It seems that every kid who picks up a guitar or a pair of drum sticks has suddenly become a musical...

Ten Kens' Buy British...

As Steve put it a few weeks ago, the problem with British bands is that people don't really care about them. This may be unfortunately true over...

This Is Music

Sunday is without a doubt the crappiest day of the week. Yeah, OK, you don’t have to work or anything, but you have the whole feeling of...

Times New Viking at Beyond Retro

Matador really can't do anything wrong at the moment; they've picked up Fucked Up after their bust up with Vice – a band who have had the...

Ultra Mega Technobandið Stefán at Punk

Iceland's been having a pretty crap time of it lately. Not only has the country's economy gone to rack and ruin in the recent financial meltdown...

What We Do Is A Secret

I don't know what's with these fascists who just stick to one type of music when they go out; it’s like going to one of those all-you-can...

Breakin The Ice at Favela Chic

Tired of singing into your hairbrush whilst staring at the mirror? Desperate to showcase your vocal talent but too cool for the traditional cheesy...

Shit Magazine

'SHIT MAGAZINE NO ONE ELSE WANTS. It's crap but I need the money'.As far as pitches go, this one isn't bad, beating 'I bet you a pound you don't ...

My Favourite Shop

I fell into London with a sigh as if into a warm bath. Among the gothic council estates and the abattoirs I found my way and I lost it too. I...

Ladyhawke and Black Kids at The Astoria

So I am rather looking forward to this evening. Two acts that over the past twelve months have risen from mere buzzwords via toilet circuits...

The Holloways Interview

I'd like to tell you a little story. A while ago I was feeling a bit sorry for myself, lying on my bed contemplating how much life sucks, when...

Pacha's 7th Birthday

By Filth and Splendour It's 9pm on a cold, frosty, frozen London Saturday night and our usually traffic-filled drive into town takes half th...

Mixmag Christmas Party at Egg

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Eric Clapton at Floridita

I work part-time as a waiter. (Until my music career takes off.) This week I'm asked to pull an extra Tuesday night shift. Disgruntled, I ask...

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Worldservice Project at Ryan's Bar

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Delays at Koko

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Land of Talk/Tapes n Tapes at ULU

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Monday Night Youth Club

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The Brute Chorus at the Rhythm Factory

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Shout Out Louds at Bush Hall

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Alex at Leicester Square Theatre

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Mirth Control at The George

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Dickens Unplugged at the Comedy Theatre

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Brutal Symbolism

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Leaving at the Orange Tree Theatre

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King Lear at the Young Vic

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The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival: Best Foreign Films

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Performance Poetry in Islington and Camden

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Tiger Lillies at the New Player Theatre

My internet date canceled at five in the evening. She had just realised the theatre was on Embankment and the terms of her restraining order...

Arcade Fire

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Zorro the Musical

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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National Theatre

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Contains Violence at Lyric Hammersmith

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Dealer's Choice

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God of Carnage

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Fallujah

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Imagine This at the New London Theatre

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London Theatre: New Musicals

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London Theatre: October

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London Theatre: Two New Musicals

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On The Town

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Paperweight at the Camden People's Theatre

After the show, I get into a debate about nakedness. Paperweight at the Camden People's Theatre is a completely authentic fringe theatre experience...

Priscilla Queen Of The Desert

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Stovepipe at the Bush Theatre

Usually, at the end of an interactive, theatre-in-the-round performance, the cast melts away and the audience are cast out blinking into the...

The Smoking Ban Is Great

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The Alternative Press Fair

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The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival: Talks and Workshops

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The Water's Edge at Arcola Theatre

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Theatre: July News

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Valentine Special 2008

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Top Ten Plays In July

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Awards for World Music

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Hang On at the Lyric Hammersmith

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I don't know what to say about the decision to situate a play about a man being pushed under a train in a theatre under an active railway line...

Mimefest 2007

Here are some things which characterise physical performance: non-narrative work; interdisciplinary approaches; good music with lyrics in other...

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Puerto Muerto, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - LSO St Luke's

I am at the head of the road which I call the Murder Road, telling myself what a mensch I am for not weeping with fear. In front of me, three...

Pierre Rigal: Press at Gate Theatre

Invited to make a dance piece in the extremely small 70-seat Gate Theatre, Pierre Rigal decided, brilliantly, to make it smaller. What starts...

The Anti-Verruca Immersion Footbath

I am busy ramming and screwing the base of my hand into my reopened eye, which is tender and itching. I'm not supposed to scratch, so instea...

Cluster at Throwback

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Another month has flown by and it's time to head north of Hoxton Square again to The Macbeth for the mighty Twisted Licks monthly residency. ...

Patrick Wolf at Koko

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Shield Your Eyes, Pneu, Silent Front at The Old Blue Last

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Turning Point Festival preview: The Pipettes

‘I think the biggest part of this (Beth joining) is that from the second she first came in you could tell that she really wants to do this...

Twisted Licks Preview: Son Of Dave at 100 Club

Exemplary purveyors of live music Twisted Licks are taking another brief sojourn away from their regular residency at Hoxton’s hottest...

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Millions of years from now, when mankind would have evolved into beings of pure light and we would have found a cure for Monday mornings, I believe...

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Hooked on Music at The Big Chill Bar

London Live Music Hooked on Music is a night stationed at the Big Chill House up in King's Cross, a lovely bar with some very well hidden toilet...

Little Dragon at the Jazz Cafe

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OneTaste at The Bedford

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50 robots at Exhibit

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Alan Brooks at MOT International

Alan Brooks has taken rubbings of figurative and written graffiti from toilet stalls he frequents and rendered them in oil and copper and watercolo...

Amy Garner at Flaxon Ptootch

The lure of the garret lifestyle is a quintessentially modern fairytale for torturously creative, nostalgia-seduced desk monkeys; especially...

Art Below Zero

Art Below Zero at Westbourne Studios, is a monthly showcase for artists who have attended the country's brightest art schools. Group shows like...

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Bjorn Dahlem at Alison Jacques

Those perhaps a little daunted by the idea of being an insignificant speck in an infinite and uncertain universe might find some comfort in the...

Brit Art of the Sixties at Mark Barrow Fine Art

The art of the Sixties can polarize opinions. The aesthetics are often brash and bold, they scream and project through the canvas in a throbbin...

CAT HOLIC at Subway Gallery

I blame myself really - my romanticised socialist notions (of the holding hands under rainbows in a dinky kibbutz kind) mean that I love the...

Casting a Dark Democracy

Sculptor Tim Shaw's much lauded show Casting a Dark Democracy at Kenneth Armitage Foundation was a traumatic experience for me.  Firstly...

Chistopher Morris: 'My America' at HOST Gallery

As it becomes increasingly likely that the world will fall into the clutches of creationists, abstainers, religious fanatics and pitbulls in...

Cold War Aesthetics

The bright and airy Louise T Blouin Institute is cashing in on the sizzling hot trend of exhibiting contemporary Chinese art by showing Wang...

Derek Boshier: Chemical Culture at Flowers Central

In an industry where bright new things are arriving and departing like paint splattered mayflies, and the ability to outrage has dissipated in...

Eleanor Wright: Brownfield

Perhaps London in the dead of winter, seized by snow and pelted with rain, is not quite the best timing for an elaborate outdoor installation...

A Londoner's Rant

No eye contact. Maximum penalty £100. So reads the convincingly official blue-and-white sign some genius has stuck on the roof of my tu...

Gosha Ostretsov and Jean-Charles de Castlebajac at Paradise Row

A chair is fingered by a mechanical arm, gas-masked figures lurk in industrial tubes, and old masters are vandalised with brash logos. Is this...

Harry Pye at Sartorial Contemporary Art

I have to admit it. When I first saw Harry Pye's wilfully child-like drawings, I wasn't a fan. The reaction I had upon viewing the ex-Face writer's...

Herakut at Camp Barbossa Gallery

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House of Pain at Vegas Gallery

Tits, trash and pulp sum up Pascal Rousson's show House of Pain at Vegas Gallery. Whether or not a reference to Irish-themed hip-hop (and wit...

Interview with Samir Ceric, SaLon Gallery

Kate Weir: Could you first please tell us a little bit about your background? Samir Ceric: I officially 'arrived' to the art world 3 years ago...

Liz Neal -Some Product

Sigh, I'm so in love with Sartorial Contemporary Art and its increasingly awesome shows that it could be bordering on Objectum Sexuality. The...

Mash Ups at Kowalsky Gallery

Mash Ups, the new show at Kowalsky Gallery, takes as its starting point Stuart Semple's artwork of the same name. It's a neon-flecked assemblage...

Pierrick Allemand at ROA Gallery

It's hard to ignore the wild imbalance between male and female objectification in art. Breasts, curvaceous buttocks and muffs litter the halls...

Pretty Vacant at Transition Gallery

Sometimes modern life is so terribly dull, isn't it? Thank goodness we have artists to remind us of this fact, and thank goodness there's a Se...

Roman Klonek at Kemistry Gallery

What is it about those foreign cartoons from your childhood that came on at erratic times in the afternoon on ye olde Channel 4? From Sylvain...

Silo and Flux at Beverley Knowles

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Rachel Unthank and the Winterset at The Union Chapel

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The Dot Farm

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The Alpine Club

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Splatter at The Aquarium L-13

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The Good, The Bad, The Belle

Alice Hawkins has had her work in some of the most hip and prestigious magazines in the world and has been mentored by Vogue mainstay Nick Knight...

The Mountain Goats at ULU

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Tierney Gearon at Phillips de Pury

London exhibitions Double exposure photography, once the mainstay of ghostly hoaxes, seems to be getting a lot of press recently. Perhaps it'...

Twee as Fuck at The Buffalo Bar

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Uzi and Ari at Bardens Boudoir

Thursday night, and I'm off to current den of coolness, Barden's Boudoir in Dalston to check out up-and-coming Utah band Uzi and Ari and a charmingly...

UK's Future Greats at SaLon Gallery

SaLon Gallery's window looks like a debauched Ladurée display. Shona Davies' black and white Wedding and Funeral cakes with orgiasti...

Xhibit 2008 at The Arts Gallery

Student art shows are occasionally defined simply by the proliferation of skinny jeans, asymmetric haircuts and enthusiasm around the free bar...

Vic Reeves at Mews of Mayfair

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Vanessa Winship at HOST Gallery

London exhibitions With snow on the ground and the news full of misery, it's all too tempting to lie slack-jawed on the sofa watching Extrem...

Young Contemporaries at Alan Cristea

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Not Waving but Drowning

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Tonico Lemos Auad

Conceptual art is a funny old thing. It's the most radical and modern method of expression and simultaneously the most divisive medium in the...

Yanna Soares at Beverley Knowles Fine Art

London Exhibitions South America is the perfect cauldron for great art: a legacy of colour; a fiery, passionate spirit and a turbulent past giv...

Frantic @ Koko, 24 August 2008

Decadence, debauchery and disco dancing are the order of the day as hard house institution Frantic takes over Camden's luxurious Koko for its...

DJ Yoda at Fabriclive

I was a late starter where DJ Yoda is concerned. In fact, I didn’t see him live until January 2006 , when he was played alongside Prototyp...

Frantic vs Twist - Hard Nation at The End

Credit crunch, recession, job losses – pah! Clearly not topics to concern oneself with on a Sunday afternoon which is exactly why Spoonfed...

Saturday Night At Twist, 26 July 2008

If it ain't broke don't fix it, as the saying goes. But rules are clearly meant to be broken in the case of Twist, who have successfully turned...

Synergy Project

It was with trepidation and a weird sort of curiosity that I decided to unleash my inner party kid at the renowned indoor festival ‘Synergy&rsquo...

Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness at Soho Theatre

Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness at the Soho Theatre transports us back to the dying days of vaudeville, to 1881, when companies as...

Bestival 2008

Peering out through the small, grey porthole on the ferry from Portsmouth and resonant chords of regret are striking deep in my heart beneath...

Victory at the Arcola Theatre

Victory, Howard Barker's surreal Restoration masterpiece revived at the Arcola, weighs the importance of personal victories against wider public...

Interview With The Incredible Rubber Man

London Theatre The Incredible Rubber Man or Captain Frodo as he is (slightly) more conventionally known, is one of the headline acts for th...

Clubbed To Death

2008 has been one of the most tumultuous years to date for the indomitable world of London club culture. Things have been shaken up, spun around...

Carl Cox and Friends at Heaven

Carl Cox at Heaven. The union of two of the most seminal brands in London clubbing. Tensions are running appropriately high. Coxy’s PR...

Don't Techno Sh!t at Bar 54

I must confess to having slight misgivings about attending a night called Don't Techno Sh!t. Idiotically, it takes me a while to get the joke...

Footsbarn A Midsummer Night's Dream

The fact that we are nestled deep inside a mulled wine scented big top in Victoria Park invests even more magic into the experience of attending...

Financial Fool's Day

'Illegal! Delete that image! Now!' The cop screams into my face. I'd be intimidated were it not for his blue lipstick and a tiffany-sized bhindi...

Festival Feature 2008

Three cheers for festival season! We are teetering on the brink of another rip-roaring summer of fancy dressed frolicking to insanely good tunes...

Half Man Half Biscuit at The Forum

Half Man Half Biscuit (HMHB) have achieved almost legendary status for their comedy, classically British lyrics. And looking around the audience...

G20 Summit

Unless you've been hiding in a bunker for the last month, you'll know that the G20 Summit occurs this week at the EXCEL Centre in London. The...

Lot49 at East Village

Lot49 promoter and resident DJ Kid Blue is pretty nervous when I meet him at the label's new Shoreditch home East Village before their first...

London Clubs: October

Doom, gloom and Apocalypse! The end of the summer is nigh. Due to Government cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been extinguished...

Low At The Union Chapel

In case you haven’t heard of them, Low are a band from Minnesota, formed in ‘93 who are often dubbed ‘slowcore’ for their...

Low Christmas Show at Koko

Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker: husband and wife vocal duo, the founding members of Low and both standing before me on the Koko stage. The immense...

Lucky Seven Club

There's something great about putting on clothes that are older than you are and stepping out into a bygone era to listen to golden classics...

Meat Katie and Kid Blue Interview

I'm betting that anyone with more than a vague interest in dance music has heard of Meat Katie. Back in the late '90s, when the breaks explosion...

Mulletover 5th Birthday Easter Special

Techno-sceptic that I am, I must confess to being a bit reluctant to believe the hype about mulletover. And the hype surrounding Geddes' underground...

New Year's Eve Clubbing

Ah, New Year's Eve - the night traditionally shrouded in that nebulous cloud of expectation, extreme inebriation, overspending, sexual tensi...

Richard Dinsdale Interview

Richard Dinsdale - pioneer of delivering driving underground sounds to clubs across the planet - has stepped up to the plate early in 2009 to...

Shambala 2008

Shambala. Even the name is heavenly. According to Tibetan Buddists, it's a mythical kingdom hidden beyond the snowpeaks of the Himalayas. For...

Secret Garden Party Bacchanalia Ball

'I'm getting twatted on Sunday and taking Monday off. I suggest you do the same. Regards, your boss' said the piece of paper which I peeled from...

Valentine's Day Sucks

Valentine's Day morning is one of those bitter-sweet moments which you hate yourself for anticipating, but get excited anyway – despit...

The Old Queen's Head Charity Fundraiser With The Plump DJs

Fair bloody play to the Old Queen's Head. Tonight's event is all for Macmillan Cancer Support. That's everything; both bar proceeds and door...

Traces at The Peacock Theatre

The idea behind Traces, the new show at the Peacock Theatre, can be concisely summarised in two words; urban circus. On the surface, this concept...

Secret Garden Party 2008

The Secret Garden Party was probably one of the most anticipated events of the year. Since the festival doors closed on the resplendently green...

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It was a dark and stormy night. No, this isn't the start to some shaggy dog story involving a hitchhiker and a machete, on the evening of the...

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Well, as far as dance lessons go, this is the most radical I've tried out. When I checked the website beforehand, it had mentioned comfy clothes...

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Bedrock. Let's party like it's approximately ten years ago, and Digweed is a genuine pioneer rather than a slightly rotund, uber-competent and...

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"Found love on the Northern Line" the 90s band, Northern Line sang. Cheesy they may have been, but they almost certainly spake true. Or so ...

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With an instructor who's spicier than a vindaloo, this Egyptian-cum-Bollywood aerobics class should be on any fitness fanatics' New Year menu...

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As a concept speed dating is a daunting event at the best of times.Original Quiz Dating sells itself as the 'the perfect icebreaker' and it ...

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Having a twirl with twenty different men in one evening is contrary to how it sounds; all in the best possible taste. From city singletons to...

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Speed Hating;{noun} an organized gathering of singles at which the participants meet and discuss their dislikes and gripes with a number of potential...

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BAR INSTALLATION VIDEO THEATRE SCULPTURE MUSIC SOUND PAINTING PERFORMANCE LIVE FILM RESTAURANT. Angular, neon text announces the Royal Academy...

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Part of a series of exhibitions that put artists at their centre, The Russian Linesman at the Hayward Gallery is rather like a tour of Mark Wallinger's...

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On my way to the Hayward Gallery to see Robin Rhode's first UK exhibition, Who Saw Who, it occurred to me that Robin Rhode could be described...

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Is it a painting? Is it a photograph? Is it a sculpture? No! It's a multimedia presentation of the Life Enhancement SolutionsTM created for Rokeby...

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 Bat For Lashes – Daniel Parlophone Did you ever play that game when you were little where you don a velcro-covered hat and try and...

Best Dance Classes In London

When most of us think of dance classes, we conjure up images of decrepit seniors prancing around a polished dance floor to the songs of yesteryear...

Double Agent at ICA

I could begin this review by berating the winklepickered, be-legginged and asymmetric folk who populate the ICA, but that would render hypocritical...

4900 Colours: Version II at the Serpentine

Two kinds of PV happened at the Serpentine Gallery on 22 September (I was going to begin by labelling the first as PVA, but we'd just end up...

Louise Nevelson at Louise T Blouin Institute

Some years ago, Time Out ran a comprehensive feature listing The Worst Things About Living In London. Amid this list, cruelly succinct: 'West...

Root Ginger

What's so bad about being ginger? As a redhead by choice (by bottle) perhaps I am not the best person to ask. But the fact is, as if branding...

William Furlong at Laure Genillard

Down an unexpected little lane – a welcome historic nook at the otherwise vile corner of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road &ndash...

Are These Potatoes Runway Ready?

Her shriek was horrendous, somewhere between Janet Leigh in the shower and a train grinding to a halt for the daily suicide. It did nothing to...

Glastonbury 2007

After a year’s hiatus, The Glastonbury Festival descended on Worthy Farm, in all its grandeur and fury. If Thursday raised hopes of good...

Isle of Wight Festival (pt1)

Download sensations Koopa kicked off the main stage while most of the crowd were queuing up trying to get in, they sounded good, but that's as...

Isle of Wight Festival (pt2)

The final day, and yet more ticket problems and frustration for those who tried to get down and see pre-pubescent 14 and 15 year olds Sinez. ...

The Pro's and Con's of the Fancy Dress Do

I'm a stubborn, anti-social party-goer at heart. Oh I love to party - who doesn't. But I want to party MY way. I'm the guy who won't go to a...

Annie Mac Presents at Koko

Koko has always been one of my favourite venues. I'm not sure why. The sound's average, it gets hotter than the sun and travelling from one f...

Fightstar Interview

Fightstar may be famous for one reason. When a certain member of your band was in one of the biggest pop acts in England of the new Millenn...

Rosie Oddie and the Odd Squad at The Roundhouse

They've made an effort, that's for sure. Dr. Marten's FREEDM Studio in Camden's Roundhouse is decked out in style. Who Dr. Marten is or why...

In Case of Fire Interview

In Case of Fire are Steven and Colin Robinson and Mark Williamson from Northern Ireland. The three of them have been together since 2005 (ex...

DJ Vadim at Old Queen's Head

There are few things more depressing (Pauline Fowler and poverty aside) than seeing a world class DJ like Vadim being reduced to playing crowd...

The Star of Bethnal Green's Rak Queen...

The Star of Bethnal Green is a scary looking place. Black, gothic and surrounded by a haze of smoke, it definitely isn't somewhere you'd expe...

Black Milk and Elzhi at Cargo

'Elzhi will not be performing tonight. We apologise for any inconvenience. Full refunds will be given at the box office.' Can’t say fairer...

Best of August: Art

Publish and be Damned at Rochelle School 3rd August Now in its third year, this independent booksellers fair in Shoreditch offers outsider writers...

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble at Cargo

Thursday night at Cargo saw the return of Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and the bar being raised in terms of live music performance and what you should...

Go...Look At All The Little Girls

The internet: it's not all about youth culture you know. Sad balding men have just as much right to lie about their identity in chatrooms as...

Go...Underground In Hackney

By Lowri Clarke This week's itinerary is an irreverent up-yours to the perpetually sickening bastions of authority who claim to represent ou...

Go... Anywhere But Glastonbury

Yes yes yes, we all know it's Glastonbury this weekend, and if you're reading this then chances are you're not destined for the wilds of Somerset...

London Kings Cross

Things to do in Kings Cross About Kings Cross Kings Cross has not always been considered a desirable area to visit but with the recent renovatio...

Top Ten Unusual Dance Classes

African DanceEvery Tuesday at 8pm and Saturday at 3.30pmA class which mixes traditional styles and culture with a full aerobic workout.Best Fo...

London Piccadilly

Things to do in Piccadilly About PiccadillyPiccadilly, located in the heart of London is the perfect place to begin any city adventure. Standing...

Bang Face Weekender

When: 14th - 16th September 2012Where: Trevelgue Holiday Park, Newquay, CornwallHow much: Caravan tickets £175, camping tickets £1...

London Soho

About Soho Located just west of the London city centre, Soho is one of London’s most popular entertainment districts with a rich and varie...

Beach Break Live

Where: Pembrey Country Park When: 14th - 18th June 2012How Much: £109 NUS, £129 non student (plus booking fee)Beach Break Live i...

Bestival

Robin Hill, the Isle of Wight, 11th-13th September, 2009 Curated by Radio 1 DJ and straight-up nice guy, Rob Da Bank, Bestival is a feel-good...

Big Day Out

Whittington Park, London N19, 5th July 2009Part of the 20-day Holloway Arts Festival, the Big Day out in Whittington Park on July 5th is an ...

BLOC

Where: London Pleasure GardensWhen: 6th and 7th July 2012How Much: £99 for both nights, £125 'express tickets'. BLOC is the unparalleled ...

Camden Crawl

When: Friday 4th May – Sunday 6th MayWhere: A host of venues across Camden TownHow much: £58.35 earlybird weekend ticket, £...

Bloom Festival

Seven Springs, Cheltenham, 14th-16th August, 2009 Bloom started out as a disaster, but a brilliant and memorable one. That year in 2006 they...

City Showcase

When: 4-8 May 2011 Where: Various London venues How much: free! Launched in 2003, City Showcase is a free music festival held over three da...

Camp Bestival

Where: Lulworth Castle, DorsetWhen: 28th-31st July 2011How much: £170From the team behind Rob da Bank's Bestival comes Camp Bestival,...

City of London Festival

Where: various venues, City of LondonWhen: 20th June-8th JulyHow much: various, many events freeFor three weeks every summer, the City of ...

Concrete and Glass

Various Venues – May 2011Launched in 2008 to celebrate East London in all its ostensibly gritty glory, Concrete and Glass is a 16 da...

Creamfields

When: 27 - 28 August 2011Where: Daresbury Estate, Halton, CheshireHow much: weekend tickets £115, hospitality camping £190 Th...

Download

When: 10-12 June 2011Where: Donnington Park, How much: £150 for a full adult ticketThe grand daddy of all rock festivals, Download is a...

Electric Picnic

When: 2 - 4 September 2011Where: Stradbally Hall Estate, Stradbally, Co. Laois, EireHow much: 240 euros for the weekend Ireland's foremost ...

Escape into the Park

Where: Singleton Park, SwanseaWhen: Saturday 11th June, 2011How much: £41.50Founded in 2005, Escape into the Park is a one-day festival ...

Farm Festival

Gilcombe Farm, Bruton, Somerset, 24-25th July 2009 A rustic festival located in the heart of the beautiful Somerset countryside, Farm Festival...

Field Day

  When: 2nd June 2012Where: Victoria Park, LondonHow much: £39.50 + booking fee The East End's coolest festival is back f...

Glade

When: 14 - 17 June 2012Where: Houghton Hall, NorfolkHow much: £135 for a full adult ticket Glade returns this year to their beautifu...

Glastonbury

When: 26-30 June 2013Where: Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, SomersetHow much: £195 for a full adult ticket What can be said about ...

London Kensington

Things to do in Kensington About KensingtonKensington, located in West London, is renowned for its wealthy neighbourhoods and cultural offerings...

Bestival

When: 8 - 11th September 2012Where: Robin Hill Countryside Adventure park, Nr Newport, Isle of Wight.How much: £170 adult weekend ticket...

Hard Rock Calling

Hyde Park June 24th - 26th 2011Seriously massive festival which has just kept getting bigger...and better. Although Hard Rock Calling is no...

Green Man

Glanusk Park Estate, 19th-21st August 2011The Green Man Festival is situated in the beautiful valleys of South Wales, in the heart of the Brecon ...

Innocent Village Fete

Regent's Park, August 2010 Despite being a commercial venture by top-dog smoothie experts, the Innocent Village Fete is a rather lovely affai...

Indietracks

Indietracks, Derbyshire, 29th-31st July, 2011 Occupying a unique place in the festival lineup, Indietracks essentially combines twinkly indiepop...

La Linea - The London Latin Music Festival

Various Venues, April - May 2012La Linea has been re-defining and helping to progress contemporary Latin music in the UK since 2001. Durin...

Latitude

When: 12th - 15th July 2012Where: Henham Park, Southwold, Sunrise Coast, SuffolkHow much: £175 weekend ticket, £70 day ticket The...

London Burlesque Festival

Various venues, 26th-30th April 2011 London’s biggest burlesque event takes place over five nights, sandwiched by magnificently glamorous...

Leeds/ Reading Festival

Leeds Festival When:  26- 28th August 2011Where: Bramham Park, West YorkshireHow much: £192.50 weekend ticket, £82.50 day...

London Design Festival 2009

London sure is a hotbed of creativity this time of the year. Just as the clotheshorses at London Fashion Week are packing their monogrammed bags...

London International Animation Fest

Various cinemas and screens, 30th August-5th September, 2010Organised by animators with a passion for new, underground cartoons and short animated ...

London Jazz Festival

Venues across London, 11th – 20th November, 2011Every autumn since before we can remember (sometime aroud 1975) the best jazz musician...

Love Music Hate Racism

NORTH: County Way Car Park, Barnsley, South Yorkshire 1st May 2010 SOUTH: East London, 2nd May Atesting to the fact that cultures can and...

Lovebox Festival

Where: Victoria Park, East LondonWhen:  15th - 17th June 2012How much: Friday £29, Saturday or Sunday £49.50, Saturday and S...

Notting Hill Carnival

When: 28-29 August 2011 (August Bank Holiday Weekend) Where: Notting Hill to Kensal Rise How much: free! Info | Past Performers | Guide ...

Offset Festival

Hainault Forest Country Park - 3rd-4th September 2011 Set in Hainault Forest, a beautiful woodland area just outside London, Offset Festiv...

Oxegen

When: 7-10th July 2011Where: Punchestown (Naas, County Kildare)How much: 4 Day Camping- €244.50       ...

Pride

When: Pride Parade, 7th July. Festival Fortnight of Pride events, 23 June - 8 JulyWhere: SohoHow much: Parade is free, other events may vary...

Paradise Gardens

Victoria Park, 18th and 19th June 2011Paradise Gardens is a two-day festival that, as the name suggests, turns East London’s Victoria ...

Rockness

When: 8th -10th June 2012Where: Loch Ness, Dores, nr InvernessHow much: £159 for 3 days with campingScotland's leading festival, Rockness,...

Run To The Sun

When: 27-30th May 2011Where: Trevelgue Holiday Park, Porth, NewquayHow much: £80 camping. Caravans from £420. Run to the Sun festiva...

SW4

When: 25th-26th August 2012Where: Clapham CommonHow much: £90 for weekend ticket, £50 for one day ticket plus booking feeSouth ...

Sci-Fi London

Various Venues, April 23rd - 2nd May 2011 The London International Festival Of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film is the UK's leading sci-f...

Secret Garden Party

When: 19th - 22nd July 2012Where: A Beautiful Secret Garden, Nr Huntington, Cambridgeshire, PE28 2PHHow much: £137 - £165 adult...

Shoreditch Festival

When: 15-24 July 2011Where: Shoreditch ParkHow much: Free! The Shoreditch Festival is organised by the Shoreditch Trust as a family-friendl...

Isle Of Wight Festival

When: 10- 12 June 2011Where: Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of WightHow much: £150 adult weekend no camping, £75 for a child ticket...

Meltdown

The Southbank Centre,  June 2011It’s been eighteen years since Meltdown Festival first began, and since then it has seen an all sta...

Queer Up North

Manchester, May 18th - 31st<\/strong> 2010<\/strong> 2010 marks Queer Up North’s 18th Birthday. They're taking this opportun...

Southport Weekender

Where: Pontins, Southport, Lancashire When: 6 - 8 May 2011How Much: £165 for a room in a chalet Is it just us that thought the Southp...

Stag and Dagger

When: 19th MayWhere: Various venues about Shoreditch, East LondonHow much: £12.50 Shoreditch’s favourite wreck up Stag and Dagge...

Thames Festival

Various venues, 10 and 11 September 2011 Named after the river and taking place at one of its most famous locations - on the banks and walkways...

Sunrise Celebration

When:  2nd - 5th June, 2011Where: South SomersetHow much: £108 adult in advance, £130 on the gate Sunrise are back for another y...

Truckfest

When: 1-2 May 2011 Where: Hill Farm, Steventon, Oxon How much: £17 Well, this festival is an unusual one. A festival dedicated to truc...

Truck Festival

Steventon, Oxfordshire, 25th-26th July, 2009Having got its rather unusual name as a result of the main stage originally consisting of two trucks...

London Art

London Art - What's On London Art History London is the art capital of the world. From Cork Street to East London, from the Royal Academy t...

World Creole Festival UK

Trafalgar Square, September 2010 The World Creole Festival UK is a free festival taking place in Trafalgar Square, designed to bring togeth...

Underage Festival

When: Sunday 5 AugustWhere: Victoria Park, LondonHow much: £31.50 plus booking fee Since barelling onto the scene in a fit of mass under...

Waveform

When: 2-4 September 2011Where: location TBC (promises to be 90 miles from Bristol) How much: £69 Early bird tickets (until 31st Marc...

Christmas Songs

'Tis the season to be jolly, listen to the traditional Christmas songs, eat copious amounts of mince-pies, the whole shebang. But for some reason...

London April Fools

April Fools' Day in London and the rest of the UK has a history of some pretty impressive and funny pranks. Some of the best April Fools' jok...

London Bonfire Night

London Bonfire Night this year marks the 406th anniversary of Guy Fawkes’ historic attempt to blow up Parliament. While we highly discoura...

London Christmas Markets

London Christmas markets offer a welcome alternative to the big department stores and high street shops for all of your Christmas shopping nee...

London Mother's Day 2011

In 2011, Mother's Day – or Mothering Sunday as old-fashioned types occasionally like to refer to it – falls on Sunday, 3rd Apri...

London Easter

After a long, dark and glacial winter I think it’s fair to say that everyone is really looking forward to Spring this year, so let&rsquo...

London New Years

Love it or hate it, New Year's Eve is the biggest night of the clubbing year. The one night of the year where it seems like the whole world has...

Oxford Street Christmas Lights

The world-famous Oxford Street Christmas lights bring the spirit of the Christmas season to central London with a stunning array of outdoor Christmas...

St Patrick's Day 2010

As always, Spoonfed is THE place to find out about all the Irish-related goings-on in London. Here's a quick round up of our favourite St Patrick...

The Office Christmas Party

If you’ve ever had a look at our critics page, you’ll know that here at Spoonfed our staff are extremely intelligent, funny, and...

St George's Day

St George’s Day is officially on Friday 23rd April, but that’s no good because everyone’s at work, so a concert in the sty...

7 Things to do During Earth Hour

7 Things to do During Earth Hour (that don’t involve sitting in a dark room)Since its inception in 2005, Earth Hour has become an annual ...

London Pantomime

We can feel Christmas creeping into the Spoonfed offices. Mince pies and mulled wine are imminent. Till they arrive we'll busy ourselves in an...

April: London Comedy

Friday 1st AprilThe Fix presents The Return of Boothby Graffoe @ Bull and GateBoothby Graffoe's London gigs are so scarce that it’s har...

Abbey Road

Abbey Road, most famous for its Abbey Road recording studios where the likes of The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Oasis have made music history, ...

April: London Exhibitions

From 1st April The Pedestrians @ South London Gallery Weird. A fusion of live art, installation, sculpture, video and music all jumbled up togeth...

April: London Live Music

5th AprilDum Dum Girls @ DingwallsA whirlwind of snarling post-punk basslines, choppy guitars and vocal melodies reminiscent of big-haired...

Best Halloween Parties

 London Halloween Parties 2009 'Tis the time of year again to don your goriest, most terrifying halloween costume, and search out the bes...

April: London Theatre

From 12th April Lakeboat and Prairie Du Chien @ Arocola Theatre Two great plays by the fantastic David Mamet performed at Arcola Theatre. ...

Best of August: Clubbing

Club Azuli9th August The Azuli label comes to Pacha, with Raw Club helping out. This one's a bit less like there are 'angels' everywhere dancing...

Best of August: Comedy

Robin Ince Bleeding Heart Liberal Camden Fringe4th - 11th AugustRicky Gervais support acts performs his latest show about the World Bank, media m...

Best of August: Art

Fashion v Sport at the V&AFrom 5th AugustAn exploration of the interrelationship between the worlds of sport and fashion, with wicked sneakers f...

Best of August: Live Gigs

The Dickies7th AugustThe clown princes of punk bring their snotty; internationally offensive humour to some London gigs at ULU. Seriously, th...

Best of August: Out and About

Stella Artois AirshipUntil 21st AugustOnce in a lifetime flight with 11 other guests above London for up to an hour. Best For: Those with the c...

Best of August: Theatre

Grimeborn 4th - 23rd August For the second successive year the Arcola hosts a season of brand new opera for a media savvy, youthful crowd, wit...

Best of July: Clubbing

Tippex Wedding Festival3rd JulyThe lady behind one of London's best booking agencies is getting married, so a rare parade of eccentric experimentalists...

Best of July: Comedy

Russell Kane Fakespeare2nd JulyRussell Kane aims to prove he's not just a pretty face at this year's Edinburgh festival with a blank verse...

Best of July: Exhibitions

Perplexed in Public at various venuesUntil 20th JulyWacky interventions and peculiar goings-on across a slightly bemused capital.Best For: L...

Best of July: Live Gigs

Iron Maiden5th JulyThe living gods of heavy metal (and Eddie) play their first ever UK stadium show at Twickenham Stadium, wheeling out all...

Best of July: Theatre

Hangover SquareFrom 9th - 16th JulyA dramatisation of Patrick Hamilton's brilliant novel about a lovelorn loser.Best For: Closet misogynistsThe...

Best of November: London Art

GSK Contemporary From 1 Nov A massive programme of exhibitions, film screenings, performances and other live events at the Royal Academy, plus...

Best of November: London Theatre

Imagine This From 5 Nov A daring new venture attempting to lure crowds to a full scale, big budget musical romance set in the Warsaw ghetto as...

Best of October: London Clubbing

Chew The Fat's 11th Birthday10th OctoberPaul Arnold's iconic label turns 11 tonight, with the eminently regal Duke Dumont splashing his clever t...

Best of October: London Comedy

The Kransky SistersUntil 12th OctoberWeird but wonderful musicians The Kransky Sisters fly all the way over from Oz to perform some eclectic ...

Best of October: London Leisure

Sci-fi London 3rd-4th of OctoberThe first international festival in London for geeks – filled with free or exclusive film screenings of ...

Best of October: London Live Music

Friendly Fires 7th OctoberThe best dance-punk band ever to come out of St Albans (and they definitely pip Enter Shikari as the town's best musical ...

Best of October: London Theatre

  PaperweightFrom 7th OctoberWe've heard nothing but good things about this Fringe masterpiece charting the descent into madness of two ...

Best of September: Free Stuff in London

Regent Street Festival: A Great British Experience7th SeptemberIt's not all tea and crumpets, Pimms and lemonade or Morris dancers at this c...

Best of September: London Comedy

Tim Minchin Ready For This?6th September Tim Minchin brings his new Edinburgh show to the Bloomsbury packed full of whimsical songs and stand ...

Best of September: London Clubbing

Dam Funk and Rustie 4th SeptemberSoundcrash do it AGAIN with this simply incredible line-up. A handful of the most exciting and innovative act...

Best of September: London Live Music

The Beat4th – 5th SeptemberThe Brummie ska legends of ‘Mirror in the Bathroom’ fame play a pair of dates in Camden with Specials m...

Camden Crawl: Who Are You Seeing?

Camden Town + two days + 40 venues + 150 artists + some of the best London gigs all year = total and utter carnage. We have a feeling we're going...

Camden Market

As much a London institution as bendy buses or overcrowding, Camden Market has survived everything from threats of commercial redevelopment to...

Cheap London

With sky-rocketing rental prices, a full-to-bursting job market and all that pesky inflation business, London isn’t an easy place to live...

December: London Clubbing

Dreadbass10th DecemberJunglist legend Congo Natty has a big ol' party going on at the CLF Art Cafe in the Bussey Building. Set in two massive w...

December: London Comedy

Wednesday 1st-Wednesday 15th December John Shuttleworth: A Man With No More Rolls @ Ambassadors Theatre Sheffiled's finest, the keyboard-both...

December: London Exhibitions

From 2nd December GSK Contemporary - Aware @ Royal Academy The Royal Academy's contemporary art extravaganza in association with GlaxoSmithKli...

December: London Live Music

These are December's top picks for live music London. Monday 6th – Wednesday 8th Interpol @ Brixton Academy A band who seem to be getti...

December: London Theatre

  From 1st DecemberGet Santa! @ Royal CourtThis tops our Christmas list. Of all the shows we want to see, this is the one with the mos...

Emirates Stadium

One of the icons of North London, Emirates has been the home of Arsenal football club since it opened in July 2006. A mammoth complex, Emirates...

February: London

Woo! Cold, miserable, poverty-stricken January is over, which means it's time for cold, miserable, poverty-stricken February. Luckily for yo...

February: London Clubbing

S.O.M.E Night Relaunch2nd FebSpoonfed's favourite midweek party moves to one of our favourite East London venues - East Village. Despite the c...

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