The Brickhouse on Brick Lane in Shoreditch is a newish London venue (opened 2007) that hosts a range of comedy, cabaret and club nights. Inside, it’s a cool, three-tier space with dining tables and a cocktail bar on the ground …
Read more...On Saturday night I dipped my Victorian lace-up booted toe into the waters of steampunk at White Mischief’s Third Birthday Party. Steampunk is a fantasy genre that imagines a world in which we’d gone down the steam-powered route instead of …
Read more...Proud Cabaret is one of the City’s newest nightspots. Located in the curvy shadow of The Gherkin, this seductive underground space is decked out to evoke the glamour of yesteryear. A restaurant, bar and entertainment venue, it’s owned by Alex …
Read more...I wasn’t sure quite what to expect from Soap, billed as an acrobatic extravaganza in bathtubs. Why bathtubs? But it worked so well. Soap is a well-crafted show featuring eight incredibly talented performers, which manages to be in turns breathtaking, …
Read more...We’ve spotted lots of celebrities recently (including Boy George, Paloma Faith and Frank Skinner) but it’s not every day you get to dine with a member of the Royal family. When I visited glamorous new restaurant Circus in Covent Garden, …
Read more...Wednesday night saw the final Jonny Awsum Show of the year and as with all good TV shows it was a jam-packed Christmas special. The best acts from the year – The Misers, Jem Cooke, The Amateurs and Alfie Palmer – …
Read more...If you’re after some festive season panto-style entertainment with a bit of a twist, you could do a lot worse than come out for Frank’s Closet at Hoxton Hall Theatre, as a colleague and I did last night… We were …
Read more...La Clique London started its Christmas/New Year residency at Camden’s Roundhouse a couple of weeks ago. The show got rave reviews for its original London season earlier this year at the Hippodrome. Some of this season’s performers are the same, …
Read more...I’ve got a confession to make, after nearly three years in London, I’d never been to the British Library until last Friday. I picked a good night to initiate myself though, as it was Late at the Library’s Victorian Values …
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