The Bowls Club is the best summer event in the City June 25, 2025 If ramming the car full with tents and wellies and trekking the countryside sounds like too much hard work, stay in the City this summer for a dose of festival spirit – the new Bowls Club in Finsbury Square feels like the City’s own little music festival. There’s a live DJ every night, and some [...]
How to land VIP tickets to the best summer events, from Wimbledon to Oasis and Lords June 24, 2025 Now that the Summer Solistice has passed it is officially summer, and that means one thing: it’s time to book and secure tickets to the most fabulous of this season’s events.But not just tickets — VIP experiences, of course. Get closer than ever to the sporting action and — yes — get access to the [...]
The City of London is hosting an amazing music festival this week June 23, 2025 The Summer Music in City Churches festival is taking place this week across the City of London. There are events taking place every day in some of the Square Mile’s most beautiful churches — a brilliant chance to take a break from the stresses of work life and take a pew in one of these [...]
Glastonbury 2025: do these five things to have the best time June 23, 2025 The gates for Glastonbury 2025 open in 48 hours’ time. If you’re going as a newbie or just need some inspiration for ways to approach the festival differently, here are five ways to get the absolute best out of the UK’s most famous knees-up in a field. Glastonbury 2025: go further than the main stages [...]
4.48 Psychosis review: Sarah Kane’s last play still packs a punch June 23, 2025 When 4.48 Psychosis was first staged in the year 2000, its author Sarah Kane had ended her own life just months earlier. Tackling mental illness and suicide, it seemed to offer a posthumous glimpse into the mind of a troubled genius, laying bare the anguish that led to her death aged just 28. Kane has [...]
Lisa Nandy: AI and cultural exports boost growth – but creators must be paid June 19, 2025 Culture secretary Lisa Nandy has claimed that AI and cultural exports will drive jobs and growth, while insisting creators must be paid in the digital age. At the India Global Forum on Wednesday, Nandy touted the UK and India’s new cultural and tech affiliations for already generating investment – from sport and film, to AI-powered [...]
Elio review: Pixar is back with spectacular space adventure June 17, 2025 Whisper it: Pixar is back. After a disastrous pandemic period, where quality films like Soul and Turning Red were buried on streaming, followed by the epic failure of 2022’s Lightyear, the iconic animation studio has got back to something like its best. After Elemental became a sleeper hit in 2023, the masterful Inside Out 2 [...]
Inside Queen’s Club: Life as a member at exclusive west London institution June 17, 2025 For a fortnight in June, Queen’s Club becomes the centre of the tennis world; a sort of boutique version of Wimbledon as thousands descend on a small corner of west London to catch a glimpse of the world’s best players trying to fine-tune their grass-court games in the lead-up to the Grand Slam. The other [...]
Stereophonic play review: Fleetwood Mac musical is a sensation June 15, 2025 Stereophonic play review and star rating: ★★★★★ Stereophonic is a mighty test of endurance. At three-and-a-half hours, there are points in the Herculean one-hour-fifty-minute first act where the audience unanimously agree to give up and start chatting. I’ve never seen so many people escape to the loo. On this level, Stereophonic is one great meta [...]
Toast the City: Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds Immersive Experience is unmissable June 13, 2025 This autumn City AM will launch Toast the City, an awards celebrating all the places that make the Square Mile the vibrant, exciting location it is – and we need YOUR help. The Toast the City Awards will recognise the institutions old and new – and the men and women behind them – that make our lives that little [...]