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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Huge winter TV reveal as Michaela Coel announces I May Destroy You follow up for BBC

August 19, 2024

First Day on Earth will be programmed on the BBC I May Destroy You was an era defining lockdown drama alongside Sally Rooney’s Normal People, and four years on, writer Michaela Coel has revealed details of her new BBC show. It had been rumoured Coel, one of Britain’s most celebrated Black writer-performers, was putting together [...]
Please stop saying the UK summer is over. It makes no sense

August 19, 2024

On 12 August, when the UK summer was giving us a balmy 22 degree day, Barack Obama said that summer was “winding down.” It’s been a common pronouncement on social media throughout August that inevitably makes you feel melancholic. But more importantly, it’s also wrong. The UK Summer isn’t over, it’s defiantly striding on. Here’s [...]
This stunning London rooftop pool could be in Los Angeles

August 16, 2024

If you’re looking for London rooftop bars or outdoor swimming pools in the capital, both combine at the art’otel, the new Battersea Power Station opening with a hot tub overlooking the iconic chimneys that featured on the cover of Pink Floyd’s 1977 album Animals. A room costs £250 and gets you access to what we would [...]
Legendary London crazy golf bar launches new attraction

August 14, 2024

Bowls, darts, paddle, and crazy golf: Londoners long ago decided that pints weren’t enough and that they wanted to be doing something sporty at the same time, and Swingers — one of the leading crazy golf spots — has now launched new attractions. It’s perfect if you’ve exhausted their crazy golf offerings on your past [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
‘Utter madness!’: 7 of the best Edinburgh Fringe shows to book now

August 9, 2024

“Spectacular and unhinged” are two words rarely seen together in theatre reviews, except for at the Edinburgh Fringe, where the most brilliantly eccentric ideas get space to breathe. Here are the best shows to catch at the Edinburgh Fringe, and helpfully, we’ve only reviewed performances with London transfers so if you aren’t going to Scotland [...]

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