Bedwyr Williams’ The Gulch at The Barbican is brilliantly weird September 29, 2016 You’re greeted at the entrance of the Barbican’s Curve gallery with a polite warning: “If you want to perform – sing, dance, that kind of thing – please be respectful of other visitors”. I wasn’t tempted to burst into song, but it’s a suitably surreal way to enter this brilliantly weird exhibition. This site-specific installation [...]
Property of the Week: Nine Hillgate Street in Notting Hill is an experimental former art gallery on the market for £6.75m September 29, 2016 Nine Hillgate Street looks like a traditional terraced house in Notting Hill, but inside, it looks more like an art gallery. And that’s because it was, at one point, a gallery. Seth Stein Architects created this house as an experiment in design and have been using it to show-off art for the past year. “It [...]
Focus On Camberwell: The area’s cool neighbours and artistic connections make up for the lack of Tube September 29, 2016 Gentrification is taken to be a fairly modern concept; the word conjures up images of property developers covertly following artists home to scout out the area for substantial profit. In fact, the Victorians have been at it ever since the first railways began connecting previously far-flung districts to the capital and Camberwell was one of [...]
The Libertine at Theatre Royal Haymarket starring Dominic Cooper fails to deliver on its salacious promises September 29, 2016 The Libertine begins with a promise. Dominic Cooper, as Restoration rake the Earl of Rochester, delivers a swaggering prologue, directly informing the audience that although they may like some of what he does, they will not like him. This speech is an implicit bargain; that he will behave appallingly, and the audience will be thrilled [...]
Floyd Collins at Wilton’s Music Hall review: clever staging and a strong cast can’t mask this poor musical September 29, 2016 Floyd Collins is a musical about a man stuck in a hole, and there were moments during this production that I felt like I was down there with him, waiting interminably in the darkness for the sweet release of death. Despite a strong cast and clever staging, exceptionally poor pacing makes Adam Guettel’s musical – [...]
Interview: Comedian Peter Serafinowicz on his horrifying, mesmerising Sassy Trump creation September 29, 2016 When Donald Trump kicked a crying baby out of one his rallies, Peter Serafinowicz rubbed his hands together and got to work. The comedian’s latest project, a YouTube series called Sassy Trump, takes the Republican nominee’s actual words and redubs them in a sassy voice that perfectly matches the man’s curiously effete mannerisms – his [...]
Swiss Army Man review: Daniel Radcliffe dumps over his wizard legacy from the greatest possible height September 29, 2016 The first thing Daniel Radcliffe did after he finished being Harry Potter was flash his junk in Equus, and ever since then he’s been upping the ante, scaling ever greater heights from whence he can shit on his wizarding legacy. He played a jerk version of himself in BoJack Horseman, he threw Nazi salutes in [...]
Opinion: The Private Rented Sector needs to be vibrant and consistent enough to cater for a wide range of needs September 28, 2016 There are currently 4.5m privately rented households in the UK – a number which is expected to grow to 6m over the next few years. Popular perception paints this growing band of tenants as millennials finding it difficult to get onto the housing ladder in big cities. But Your Move’s latest research into UK tenants [...]
Holiday Homes: Why the Four Seasons is pouring millions into Hvar, Croatia’s answer to the white island September 28, 2016 Hvar, in Croatia, seems to have it all: great weather, a fabulous coastline and a cool, relaxed ambience. Popular with the island’s young clubbers as well as the high-end sailing set, it’s even being hailed as a potential successor to Ibiza, all of which is attracting increasing numbers of property buyers and investors. It helps [...]
Why more private developers are looking to buy up the air rights above your building and make a fortune September 28, 2016 It isn’t hard to find a property expert claiming the future of the London housing market is up in the air. But there’s a growing band of developers who agree with them, albeit in a more literal sense. Smaller housebuilders have to get creative when looking for viable development opportunities, and for an ambitious few, [...]