Clowning around: Alexi Duggins tries out a unicycle docking station
Editor-at-large Alexi Duggins at your mercy. So you had him investigate commuting like a clown. Read the full post…
You are the frozen one: the best ice cream parlours in London
Oh, come on sunshine. First you hide away for months, then you unexpectedly pop out and catch us all unawares, before disappearing again. We’ve had just about enough of your shenanigans. Well, when you do decide to come out once and for all, we know where to go: down the ice cream parlour.
Here’s our pick of the capital’s best ice cream in London.
Best foot forward: Adidas get their kicks with new ‘bone structure’ shoe
Behind the dark, ominous double-doors of the Adidas Lab in Bloomsbury, technicians are working on something out of this world. ‘One day,’ they promise, ‘your kit could be more intelligent than you.’ It turns out that day could be as close as next year.
Buy One Direction tickets here!
OMG guys! Guys! *shriek!* We have the most exciting news! The absolute best, fittest, most talented boy band on the planet are touring again, and we can all go, because you can buy tickets tomorrow (Saturday May 25) right here! Harry will probably wink right at us. Zayn will probably invite us backstage. Louis will definitely make a witty comment about how pretty we are and Liam will obviously sing us a special solo. And Niall will, er, be there! Just in case you don’t know how absolutely brilliant they are, here are five reasons you should definitely buy One Direction tickets…
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Put a spring in your step with Walk London’s new interactive maps
Here’s the perfect pre-amble. Funded by Transport for London, Walk London is a new, brightly-coloured network of 30 interactive walking routes around the capital, which you can search by postcode or area, by the types of attractions you want to walk past (rivers, parks, etc) or whether you want to gently wander or test your fitness. This weekend, May 25 and 26, Walk London is offering free guided walks of all of these routes. Read on for four of the best.
Netil House’s rooftop terrace is open for an all-day party tomorrow
Another bank holiday means a second wave of gorgeous rooftop parties. Tomorrow, Saturday May 25, east London creative hub Netil House is throwing its awesome rooftop space open from 2-10pm. Street food vendors (and pun wizards) Original Fry Up Material, Thank Cluck and Fin and Flounder will supply the nibbles, Urban Nerds’ Rattus and Um Bongo will supply the soundtrack and an in-house Pimms and Mojito bar will add to the fun. £10 for non-members and free for members (£35 per year).
Oh, and did we mention the hot tubs?
Full details available at netilhouse.com.
The East End Film Festival Launches in Style
We had a blast at last night’s official launch of the 2013 East End Film Festival. The fest’s twelfth edition boasts a meaty two-week programme heaving with more features than ever. In between ducking a Kalashnikov brandished by a stuffed chimpanzee (no, really – taxidermy is a specialty of the King’s Head Members’ Club on Kingsland Road, where the launch was held), we noted the following highlights…
The opening film is Mark Donne’s doc ‘The UK Gold’, in which a Hackney vicar investigates banking chicanery to a soundtrack by Thom Yorke and Robert Del Naja, while the closer is ‘Lovelace’, a biopic of the 1970s adult actress. The fest’s biggest ever selection of UK films includes Mike Figgis’s new psychosexual thriller ‘Suspension of Disbelief’ and docs about Pussy Riot and post-punker Bruno Wizard.
Other highlights include Cutting-East, a three-day strand programmed by east Londoners aged 16 to 21; East End Live, an all-day mini-music festival; a special edition of BURN, the platform for moving images by cabaret artists produced by TO cabaret editor Ben Walters; and a day of secret-society-themed screenings at a real Masonic temple. EEFF also gives London audiences their first chance to see Noah Baumbach’s ‘Frances Ha’; ‘Any Day Now’, featuring Alan Cumming as a gay parent; and ‘Generation Um’, starring Keanu Reeves as a pervy voyeur. We can’t wait!
The East End Film Festival runs from June 25 – July 10 at various venues in East London.
You can see the full programme at eastendfilmfestival.com, and keep an eye on our film events page for more info and reviews.
Watch this: London busker jams out to Faithless on the spoons
London is a melting pot of culture, taste and creativity and our buskers are no exception. You may be used to seeing the same guitar-strumming singers in the tube or the odd double bass-plucker outside your local bank, but how many of you have seen a spoon-rattling aficionado take to the streets? Well, one documentary film maker – who goes by the name of Pinny Grylls on YouTube – spotted a cutlery virtuoso showcasing his talent at Borough Market six months ago. Pinny uploaded a video of the spoonman playing along to ‘Insomnia’ by Faithless and it has since had close to one million hits. Let’s just take a minute (or two minutes and fifty-one seconds to be exact) to appreciate the fact that London is full of surprises. Carly-Ann Clements
Haunted Room’s five secret haunted London hotspots
Wesley McDermott runs Haunted Rooms, the leading source for haunted accommodation, haunted places to visit and ghost hunts across the UK and Ireland. In his never ending quest to find haunted locations nationwide, he’s come across a lot of haunted London places. So of course, we couldn’t resist asking him for his five secret (and often overlooked) haunted London hotspots. Read the full post…
Get Up All Night To Get Lucky: Daft Punk parties this weekend
The world’s gone Daft Punk potty! And no part of it more so than London, where the nightlife scene’s reaction to new album Random Access Memories has been to put on a shedload of parties in its honour. Head to the Queen of Hoxton on Friday (May 24), where the Wild Life and Love Sick crews are throwing a special Daft Punk tribute stuffed full of the robots’ own disco, funk and house jams. They’re fully encouraging DP-themed costumes, too. Around the corner at Shoreditch’s Catch, meanwhile, they’ve a party with a similar dress-up theme, Human After All: A Celebration of Daft Punk, and plenty of speaker-shaking Daft Punk classics. May the robot helmets be out in force!
For less ravey happenings, Hackney Picturehouse will be screening the anime visualisation of the robots’ 2001 Discover album, Interstella 555, followed by a party in the cinema’s gallery bar on May 24. Over at The Vaults in south London Longplay, the night where classic albums get played in full for the audience, will be blasting out Random Access Memories in full on Sunday (May 26).
Think what you like of Random Access Memories, but there’s still no denying Daft Punk’s all-conquering pulling power.
Or that the hidden treat in the Get Lucky YouTube video, at round-about 2:20, is too awesome:
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