Crate Brewery is a craft brewery and pizzeria in the heart of Hackney Wick. Crate is a local business owned and implemented by local members of the Hackney Wick community. Just in time for the Olympics, they’re open and looking …
CRUK: Race for Life Complete!
On the 22nd of June 2012, myself and 5 friends took part in Race for Life for Cancer Research UK. I would like to say a big thank you to everybody who helped contribute to our fundraising total of £1,500! We are …
Style Scrapbook & Wish List
I would never consider myself a fashionable person, but that status doesn’t stop me from adding to my clothes collection whenever I have a spare penny. For that reason, I feel I owe you a post about recent editions to …
Review: London Speakeasy Bars, behind the fridge door…
Back tracking a couple of weeks now (I’ve been busy!) on Wednesday evening I paid my first visit to the Mayor’s house. The Mayor of a very small town called Scaredy Cat….. well, I say town. It’s actually a secret speakeasy beneath …
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The Moroccan city of Marrakesh
Like many Moroccan cities, the city of Marrakesh comprises both an old fortified city, the Medina, and modern neighbourhoods, the largest being the Gueliz. It is served by Ménara International Airport and an impressive train station with rail links to Casablanca …
BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend
#R1Hackney was amazing yesterday! Thank you @BBCR1! Top 3 acts had to be Jay-Z, Ed Sheeran & Swedish House Mafia. twitter.com/EmmaTully/stat… — Emma Rose Tully (@EmmaTully) June 24, 2012 Summarised nicely in 140 characters or less. Watch extended highlights and see …
Countdown to Hackney, Bloc and Global
Field Day and Lovebox have kicked off my summer festival season nicely this year but did I mention what’s still to come? The one and only BBC Radio 1’s “Hackney Weekend“, London Pleasure Garden’s “Bloc.2012 Weekend” and Worldwide Electronic Music Festival …
Saatchi Gallery: Out of Focus
The Saatchi Gallery aims to provide an innovative forum for contemporary art, presenting work by largely unseen young artists or by international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK. The Saatchi Gallery is most commonly known …
Lovebox: Saturday 16th June 2012
Lovebox offers three days of music, cirque, cabaret and entertainment across 10 stages set within 40 acres of London’s Victoria Park. To me this translates as Hot Chip, Friendly Fires and Grace Jones all chilling out and having a sing-song in my …
Jubilee Celebrations: East London
Apologises for the belated post and for how long it’s going to be! Brace yourselves for a Jubilee Overload! Let’s start with a quick debrief… To mark 60 years of the Queen’s reign, the Diamond Jubilee takes place in June, …
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs @ KOKO
Totally Enormous who? His actual name is Orlando Higginbottom and he is professionally known as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs or ‘TEED’ for short. TEED is an English electronic dance music record producer and DJ. He is currently signed to major label …
London Design Museum: Louboutin Retrospective
The London Design Museum presents iconic French shoe designer Christian Louboutin… Louboutin is a French footwear designer whose footwear has incorporated shiny, red-lacquered soles that have become his signature. He helped bring stilettos back into fashion in the 1990s and …
Just another London foodie 