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Connie Constance - Electric Girl

Connie Constance – Electric Girl

One of the most exciting artists on the planet right now, Connie Constance is almost certainly on the cusp of big things. Blissfully free of record industry pressure thanks to her own label, Jump The ...

Time Out cancels plans for Waterloo food market

Time Out announces cancellation of Waterloo food market

Time Out have announced that they have cancelled plans to open a food market in Waterloo later this year. The venue would have been the seventh Time Out branded market after successful openings in Lis...

Vegan fast food at Bad Vegan restaurant

Tom Kerridge’s Bad Vegan fast food restaurant to open in Camden

If you love vegan fast food then you’ll no doubt be excited to hear that the renowned chef Tom Kerridge is opening a plant based restaurant in Camden later this year. Bad Vegan will open in Buck...

Molly Goddard AW21

Molly Goddard AW21

If Molly Goddard didn’t exist, somebody would have had to invent her. The perfect antidote to our current leggings and puffer jacket led malaise, Goddard offered London Fashion Week a tantalising glim...

Gayeon Lee AW21

Gayeon Lee AW21

South Korean designer Gayeon Lee this week launched her new autumn/winter collection at London Fashion Week. With IRL catwalk shows on hold for the time being, Lee chose to showcase her new collection...

Jamie Wei Huang AW21 image 1

Jamie Wei Huang AW21

Taiwanese fashion designer Jamie Wei Huang premiered her latest collection Detour at London Fashion Week yesterday, with a movie shot on a rock face in her native land. With indie rock band Fei Cheng ...

Simone Rocha AW21

Simone Rocha AW21

Simone Rocha has had a busy 12 months. What with putting together her new collaboration with H&M, completing two new collections for her fashion house, as well as dealing with impending motherhood...

Burberry AW21 Escapes

Burberry AW21 ‘Escapes’

Burberry’s first collection of 2021 takes its inspiration from the creativity of the 19th century Arts & Crafts movement and the freedom of the outdoors.  Riccardo Tisci’s first standal...

Virtual tour of Artemisia Exhibition

Virtual tour of Artemisia Exhibition

The National Gallery have created a virtual version of their blockbuster new Artemisia exhibition which can be viewed on the gallery’s website. The tour, which will be hosted by the show’s curator Let...

Morley's Fried Chicken open two branches in North Lond

Morley’s Fried Chicken to open two branches in North London

A South London institution, Morley’s Fried Chicken is now crossing the Thames to open two venues in North London. The company, which has for many years been seen as the best fried chicken vendor south...

Hidden London Tours to return

Save 50% on a Hidden London Virtual Tour with the London Transport Museum

London Transport Museum’s Hidden London Virtual Tours allow guests to explore a series of fascinating and secret places in the capital from the comfort of their own homes. During the events, participa...

Homestead opens on London City Island

Homestead opens on London City Island

Opening a business in the middle of a pandemic is certainly not a job for the faint hearted, but for Sven-Hanson Britt and his partners Tris Hillier and Scott Ward, it was not quite mission impossible...

The Queen's House Ice Skating Rink

The Queen’s House Ice Skating Rink

Enjoy breathtaking views of the River Thames and Greenwich Royal Park as you glide gracefully (or not) around The Queen’s House Ice Skating Rink this Christmas.  The venue, which is set on ...

The Virtual Car Boot Sale

Virtual Car Boot Sale

Why do car boot sales immediately have me conjuring up images of Del Boy with a car load of hooky gear? Nope? Me neither. The Virtual Car Boot Sale is going to be absolutely nothing like that. An onli...

The Jersey Boys to christen new Trafalgar Theatre

The Jersey Boys

Jukebox musical The Jersey Boys will christen a redesigned Trafalgar Theatre (previously the Trafalgar Studios) when it reopens later this summer. The musical, which tells the story of the rise to fam...

Da Henrietta at the Henrietta Hotel

Da Henrietta at the Henrietta hotel

The Henrietta Hotel have certainly been busy recently. Not only are the Covent Garden based venue hosting an exciting  festive pop up (the Miracle at Henrietta Street) but they have also just ann...

Kerb open Mayfair Market

Kerb to open Mayfair market

If you thought that Kerb were going up in the world with their Covent Garden food market then you will be even more impressed by their latest site on fashionable South Molton Street. That’s right, the...

Arlo Parks Live

Arlo Parks at Village Underground

city:countdown’s Artist to Watch for 2020, Arlo Parks has announced that she is going on tour. The singer, who is set to release her debut album, Collapsed In Sunbeams, in the next few weeks, wi...