By: Adam Bloodworth

Features Journalist Adam Bloodworth is the Deputy Life&Style Editor at City AM. He has served in the role since 2022, writing and commissioning culture and lifestyle features for the newspaper and website. The Life&Style section covers film, TV, music, theatre, things to do in London and features that examine the ways Londoners live their lives. He also serves as Deputy Editor for City AM The Magazine, writing and commissioning for the quarterly luxury lifestyle product distributed by hand around the capital. He has been interviewed by the BBC News at 10, BBC Scotland, BBC Three Counties Radio and can be found on X and LinkedIn.

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ABBA star shares ‘strange and emotional’ feeling when watching ABBA Voyage

June 4, 2025

ABBA legend Björn Ulvaeus has shared how he finds the experience of watching the ABBA Voyage live show he helped create. Speaking at the SXSW London event in Shoreditch, Ulvaeus described watching a hologram of his younger self performing as “almost a spiritual feeling, there’s something strange in the room which is amazing.” “It’s kind [...]
ABBA legend reveals his one rule for making AI music at SXSW London event

June 4, 2025

ABBA star Björn Ulvaeus, who has leaned into music’s technological revolution through his ABBA Voyage hologram show and his campaigning work around music and AI, has said that while he uses AI to make music, it’s essential to rely on a sense of “inner direction” to make sure the music is high quality. It comes [...]
This new London rooftop bar offers incredible views of the city

June 4, 2025

A new London rooftop bar located in Holborn is the latest way to indulge in some sky-high drinking and dining. La-Yam is open now and offers views of St Paul’s, the Shard and the City. The 200-person capacity space is eight floors above Holborn Tube. The rooftop will offer Sunday roasts, DJs on Friday nights [...]
Canva boss warns Gen Z about future of the workplace at SXSW London

June 4, 2025

A senior leader at Canva, the world’s most-used design platform, has used an appearance at the SXSW London event to warn Gen Z about Gen Alpha and the future of the workplace. Canva’s Head of Europe Duncan Clark suggested that current Millennial and Gen Z workers should already be thinking about how to work effectively [...]
SXSW London: Man hoping to bring dodo and mammoth back to life teases Jurassic Park collaboration

June 3, 2025

The man working on bringing the dodo and woolly mammoth back to Earth has hinted at the SXSW London event at a collaboration between his bioscience lab Colossal and the Jurassic Park films. The entrepreneur Ben Lamm, founder of Colossal Biosciences, has long been asked about the parallels between his work and the films of [...]
Mighty Hoopla 2025 review: a community event in the truest sense

June 2, 2025

Mighty Hoopla 2025 review ★★★★★: Go for the vibe, which is unmatched It’s ironic that Mighty Hoopla 2025 was almost closed down for being a nuisance to the local area. While it irked some residents, inside the walls it is one of the truest examples of community, and the power of uniting people together at [...]
Toast the City: Galvin La Chapelle brothers on Michelin success and 20 years in business

May 31, 2025

In a new series celebrating the people and places nominated for our Toast the City awards, Adam Bloodworth visits Galvin La Chapelle, a Michelin starred restaurant in a Victorian chapel in the Square Mile Half of all restaurants that open in London close within two years. It’s a bleak truth, and yet the upside is that [...]
Why John Lewis London homes are the death of design

May 28, 2025

I’m worried about what new John Lewis-built homes, soon to be built in Ealing, West London, mean for humanity. Hundreds of flats designed by and decked out like a John Lewis showroom is surely the logical extension of where globalised design is going. The world’s interior decor aesthetic is becoming more and more homogenous, repeated [...]
La Môme at The Berkeley review: a splash of high camp

May 28, 2025

The Berkeley’s newest restaurant, La Môme, is best when it leans into eccentricity, but the food needs work, says Adam Bloodworth The Maybourne Group run the very plushest London hotels. Their newest, The Emory – London’s first and only all-suite hotel – charges north of a grand for an entry-level room. It opened last year [...]
The Emory London review: is this £1k per night hotel more fun than Claridge’s?

May 28, 2025

INTRODUCING THE EMORYAs the hotel beloved by Princess Victoria and the late Queen and Madonna and just about everyone worthy of admiration, Claridge’s is considered by those lucky enough to go as the pinnacle of London luxury. Even if you visit once a year for their afternoon tea or to stare at the Christmas tree, [...]

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