Electric Moke review: driving a reborn icon of the Swinging Sixties August 14, 2024 Question: what do The Beatles, Madonna, George Russell, Jennifer Lopez, The Beach Boys, Cher, Hunter S Thompson, Brigitte Bardot and Kate Moss all have in common? The answer, obviously, is that they have all been pictured in a Moke. First launched in 1964, the Moke simultaneously stuck two fingers up to fashion while being embraced [...]
5 clever ways to keep rooms cool in this hot London weather August 14, 2024 When it comes to keeping cool in the heat, there are plenty of misconceptions. Opening a window isn’t always a good idea, for instance, and with temperatures staying high and London weather climbing into the mid twenties over the next period, it’s useful to think about cooling down. Here are five ways to keep a [...]
Oktoberfest: This London bar is offering free beer if you wear lederhosen August 13, 2024 Dress in lederhosen or dirndl this Oktoberfest and get a complimentary stein this autumn from King’s Cross purveyors of all that is great about German culture, the German Gymnasium. Opened in 1865 by the German Gymnastics Society as an actual gym, the high-ceilinged building relaunched as a restaurant in 2015. They’ll be throwing Oktoberfest celebrations [...]
Best beer gardens in London from Lock Tavern to The Captain Kidd August 13, 2024 It's almost beer garden season but with the risk of a downpour, it better be a really good one: here are the best London has to offer
18 new London rooftop bars in London to enjoy in the sun August 13, 2024 11 new London rooftop bars for summer, from Shoreditch to the Square Mile and further afield, here's where to raise a glass
Inside the music festival where Kate Middleton partied with underground DJs August 13, 2024 Houghton Festival on the grounds of Houghton Hall returns in August 2025. Adam Bloodworth went to its 2024 edition to follow in the footsteps of unlikely dance music fan, Kate Middleton Alongside ‘Alec Baldwin shoots cinematographer’ and ‘Will Smith punches Chris Rock,’ ‘Kate Middleton goes to underground electronic music festival’ lives high on the list [...]
You can celebrate Team GB Olympics success with actual Olympians. Here’s how August 13, 2024 Clean Bandit, Jess Glynne, Pete Tong and Rag’n’Bone Man are some of the musicians playing a celebratory show this weekend to welcome Team GB Olympics winners and participants back home. The show will take place on Saturday 17 August at the AO Arena in Manchester and will be an opportunity to see the Olympians up [...]
Carmen is a poisoned chalice and Carlos Acosta drinks deeply August 12, 2024 Carmen is a heroine who embodies the mid-nineteenth century bourgeois male idea that, left to their primitive, natural state, untouched by either Church or society’s civilising conventions, women are sexually irrepressible, promiscuous, fickle and dishonourable. The only profession they’d be qualified for, her creator (the French novelist Prosper Mérimée) reckons, is rolling cigars in a [...]
Sh!t Theatre at Edinburgh Fringe review: Raw and uneven comedy about grief August 12, 2024 Sh!t Theatre are the stuff of Fringe folklore – their shows, written and performed by Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit, sell out and often get a near-perfect scorecard from the critics. Or What’s Left of Us is the duo’s latest collaboration with Soho Theatre and is one of the hottest tickets for the Edinburgh Fringe. Prompted by [...]
Can the poshest wellness retreat in Thailand cure me? August 10, 2024 Thailand has kind people and a vast history of traditional wellness. But can it cure a tired Millennial? Adam Bloodworth finds out A textbook Bangkok afternoon: the sun is doing its darnedest to incinerate anyone who dares go outside, but luckily I’m indoors, laying in a bath with a towel covering my modesty. Chernkwan, a [...]