Exploring London Since 2007
For some years I used to look forward to the regular arrival of a small A5 magazine on my doorstep – through short stories, poetry, photography, illustrations and more, Smoke: A London Peculiar used to tell strange and tall tales about this wonderful city of ours. Although editor Matt Haynes no longer produces the magazine, […]
Lucy Kirkwood’s feted new play Chimerica is currently running at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre, and I went along last weekend to see what all the fuss is about… Sensitively directed by Lyndsey Turner, the play centres around Joe (Stephen Campbell Moore), the American photographer who captured the image that shocked the world in 1989 – […]
City Cruises, the guys who run most of the tourist boats that travel up and down the Thames in London, have come up with a new concept that’s rather less sedate – the new Thamesjet service, which rockets you up and down the river at speeds of up to 40 knots… The first in what […]
Life can be so difficult sometimes – take this week for example, when I was asked to join in with a brewery tour at the Meantime Brewing Company in North Greenwich hosted by another Greenwich-based company, Black Vanilla. It was such a difficult decision… I’ve visited the folks at Meantime before, so I won’t recount […]
After penning a succesful adaptation of Machiaevelli’s play The Mandrake, which took the stage of South London’s Jack Studio Theatre by storm back in June, playwright Howard Colyer is returning to the venue with a playbill of three short plays – Never Have I Seen Mount Fuji, Conference Call and Nothing Else Ever. Opening tonight and […]
Last weekend saw the very welcome return of Hackney WickED, the annual weekend long arts festival that turns the normally quiet streets of the Wick and Fish Island into bustling thoroughfares, worthy of Oxford Street on a Saturday afternoon! Although the major draw to the area for most visitors was the opportunity to visit the […]
For their late summer production, Walthamstow’s professional theatre company All Star Productions have dusted off yet another classic musical – running at the Olde Rose & Crown pub theatre until 31 August is Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh’s 1962 tale of rags to riches, ‘Little Me‘. The story deals with Belle, a girl from the […]
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