“Tickets please, tickets please” Appleton Estate Jamaican Rum announces the first stop of the #DiscoverRum journey beginning with the official launch of the Appleton Estate Rum Bus at the Red Gallery Market, Shoreditch on Thursday 1st August 2013, where it will stay for two nights until Saturday 3rd August. As part of the #DiscoverRum campaign […]
Cocktails and Parcels of Heaven at the court of the Courtesan, Brixton
July 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Many years ago there was a nascent cocktail scene in Brixton, south London. One of my ill-advised favourites was ‘riot in glass’, think tequila sunrise with added fire, followed years later by Sunday nights spent at Dogstar, the punters helping load up the tables to clear the floor for eclectic dancing. Since then, bustling Brixton […]
EE Customers Can Now Call, Text & Tweet Inflight
July 25, 2013 by 1 Comment
EE’s 26 million customers across the UK now have the option to use their own mobile phones inflight, thanks to AeroMobile. Passengers using all of the UK’s major mobile phone networks can now talk, text or browse online at 30,000ft, simply by connecting to the AeroMobile network. AeroMobile has over 220 agreements with mobile phone […]
Join the O2 Campus Party & win 12 month paid innovation internship at The Lab
July 25, 2013 by 2 Comments
O2 is running an innovative hiring process this summer for fresh tech talent. For the winner: A 12 month paid internship with O2’s flagship innovation team – The Lab. The Lab is an innovation team powered by O2, set up in 2011 to rapidly test new ideas and concepts in a completely open environment. Projects […]
Rarely Seen Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton Photograph in New National Portrait Gallery Exhibition
July 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A behind-the-scenes and previously unexhibited photograph of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton at the beginning of their love affair is to be included in a new display of ten photographs by Michael Peto at the National Portrait Gallery, London in September, 2013. The photograph shows Elizabeth Taylor in a hat and necklace passing Burton a […]
Sud de France Joie de Vivre Festival at South Bank London
July 17, 2013 by 3 Comments
The first large-scale Sud de France Festival will recreate a perfect day in the South of France. The adventurous gastronomy and wines of the sun-kissed Languedoc-Roussillon are brought to London with an authentic food market and music curated by DJ Gilles Peterson. The vibrant event will be free to enter and take place on Saturday 31 […]
BluesFest 2013 Line Up at Royal Albert Hall with Robert Plant, Bobby Womack & Van Morrison
July 17, 2013 by 1 Comment
BluesFest 2013 announces that Robert Plant, Bobby Womack, Van Morrison, Gregory Porter, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Mavis Staples, Chris Rea are all confirmed for a celebration of music inspired by the Blues. BluesFest takes place at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday 29 October – Friday 1 November. This is the first full scale music […]
Serpentine Gallery’s Park Nights 2013
July 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Serpentine Gallery presents Park Nights, a series of performances, film screenings and talks which take place on selected Friday evenings this summer in the acclaimed Serpentine Pavilion 2013, designed by architect Sou Fujimoto. Park Nights 2013 is sponsored by COS. Adam Phillips in conversation with Paul Holdengräber Friday 26 July, 8pm, Serpentine Pavilion A conversation […]
Hiscox Launches London Market Online Magazine App
July 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Specialist insurer Hiscox has launched a new web app, Hiscox Global Insight which provides news, views and practical advice to London Market brokers in a new convenient online format. Hiscox Global Insight follows a magazine format and each edition will offer an in-depth look at a specific subject, starting with terrorism, and update people in […]
