Celebrity satirist Alison Jackson: “I hide behind plant pots when celebrities see me at parties”
Adam Bloodworth
FOLD nightclub reflects on game-changing 24-hour license: “The impact has been unreal”
Wilderness festival and Sunday Papers Live’s Ben DeVere: “Building a diverse lineup is easy, building a diverse audience is what’s difficult”
Hackney Arts Centre is turning an abandoned Art Deco cinema into an ‘inclusive and rule breaking’ social hub
London is a lonely city, we’re told repeatedly. Despite many restaurants and bars insisting they’re ‘neighbourhood bars’ and ‘neighbourhood restaurants,’ lots of us still find London a challenging place to simply hang out with others and kick back.
Boiler Room launch pioneering “Netflix of the underground” multi-genre platform and streaming service
FutureFest curator Pat Kane: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it”
We’re increasingly hearing that our futures are uncertain - more so than ever before. Is this true? And if so, what can we do to collectively preserve our futures, and our free and intellectual thinking, for forthcoming generations?
FutureFest lead curator Pat Kane explores the idea of how we as humans can “collectively flourish” in the years to come in our interview ahead of the two-day event.
Secret 7” – music and art for the mind
Image: Kevin King, founder of Secret 7”
These vinyl sleeves have been designed by famous artists to support mental health charity Mind – here’s how you can buy one.
A man named Kevin King has potentially just raised £35,000 for Mind, the mental health charity. How? By celebrating what music does best – bringing communities together.
Meet the DJs remixing your favourite rock groups with infectious dance beats
Photograph: 'DJs Roxanne Roll and Smooth Sailing', LA Launch Party, Sympathy for the Disco. Photo by Mekeal Dawson.
DJ duo Fleetmac Wood will be pleased to meet you at London's Moth Club later this month when they switch up their dance remixes of Fleetwood Mac to offer their own eccentric take on the music of The Rolling Stones.
ADAM BLOODWORTH REVIEWS BASTILLE & TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB AT BRIXTON ACADEMY
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Dan Smith’s heady ascent to the peaks of the A-list blog scene came in late 2012 as his band, Bastille, branding themselves as swarve glitch-pop-ballad boys, gathered pace. They’ve survived an early dose of the critics’ quill, and supported Two Door Cinema Club at Brixton Academy this February 8th.
ADAM BLOODWORTH REVIEWS CLARE DUFFY’S MONEY – THE GAME SHOW AT THE BUSH THEATRE
Clare Duffy’s hyper-symbolic financial offering, MONEY: A Game Show, is an addition to a cult in play-writing which attempts to lay the recent financial crisis against a wider moral awareness.