14 h. ago Review: British Airways Club Lounge North – London (LHR – T5)

Review: British Airways Club Lounge North – London (LHR – T5)  Live and Let's Fly

Society

23 h. ago Josh Barrie On the Sauce at the Dukes of Highgate: Full of smoky barbecue, silly cocktails and big hats

Here is a place to enjoy the plucky brashness of Tennessee and beyond, says Josh Barrie

Politics

59 h. ago Review: American Airlines' New "78P" Business Class (Chicago

Review: American Airlines' New "78P" Business Class (Chicago - London)  Live and Let's Fly

Politics

64 h. ago Sigur Rós and the London Contemporary Orchestra review – crashing waves of refined harmony

Royal Albert Hall, LondonPerhaps the band that can best justify a mid-career gig with classical backing, the extra heft of the orchestra adds power to the Icelanders’ beautiful crescendosOn Sigur Rós’s most recent album Átta, their first in a decade, the group reversed course from the intriguing industrial experiment of its predecessor Kveikur and returned to safe ground – leaning back into the grand orchestral crescendos that defined their best-loved work, as glacial in pace as they are in beauty. It makes sense, then, that the USP of their current tour is a collaboration with a different set of classical musicians in every city.Though mid-career-band-joined-by-orchestra sets so often enlist classical musicians to fill the holes left by fading creativity, leaving awkward blends between the two parties, that’s not the case tonight. The Icelanders meld seamlessly with the London Contemporary Orchestra, musically and visually, with both camps all in monochrome, mingled together under ...

Events

3 d. ago Lee Miller review – a dazzling, daring career from war photographer to surrealist pioneer via Hitler’s bathtub

Tate Britain, LondonAn overdue showcase of Miller’s remarkable work follows its many frenzied twists – from her unrecognised work with Man Ray to unseen gems of the Egyptian desert and unflinching glimpses of DachauUnapologetically ambitious and voraciously inventive, this vast new Lee Miller exhibition is the most comprehensive display of the late American photographer’s work ever held in the UK. It’s an overdue account of a remarkable artist whose dazzling, daring career had more than a few twists: from Vogue cover girl to Vogue photographer; from surrealists’ muse to pioneer of the movement; from commercial portraitist to war photographer.Some of Miller’s fabled work is here, including her famous self-portrait in Hitler’s bathtub, her boots – dirtied with mud from Dachau concentration camp – strewn symbolically on the floor. The exhibition builds a sense of the dizzying, sometimes frenzied energy of Miller, who could photograph fashionable hats as well as Nazis who died by suicid...

Events

3 d. ago Lady Gaga review – from skeletons to sexy plague doctors, this is a glorious, ridiculous spectacle

O2 Arena, LondonMove over Chappell Roan – Gaga’s eighth world tour is a full-blooded return to OTT camp, with a Nietzschean nemesis and a zombified crowd of fans driven berserk with gleeLady Gaga’s eighth world tour, The Mayhem Ball, does not lack ambition. It lasts two hours and features 30 songs. It comes divided into five acts, each with a deeply portentous title that glows from the big screens in blood-red gothic script: Of Velvet and Vice; The Beautiful Nightmare That Knows Her Name; Every Chessboard Has Two Queens. It arrives preceded by a lengthy film in which next to nothing happens: resplendent in a ruff and leg of mutton sleeves, Lady Gaga looks pensive and occasionally writes on a scroll with an absolutely enormous feathered quill, while opera booms in the background.Perhaps she’s paying tribute once more to her avowed influence Andy Warhol, in this case his notorious always-leave-them-wanting-less approach to cinema. When it becomes apparent that looking pensive and writ...

Events

3 d. ago Lady Gaga: The Mayhem Ball at the O2 review — put your paws up for the stadium show of the century

If we could give this show six stars we would

Politics

3 d. ago Lady Gaga review, O2 Arena London: Pop star’s Mayhem Ball is the concert of the year

No set piece is too elaborate, no framing device too ludicrous, for this show of wall-to-wall bangers that suggests Gaga isn’t ready to give up her pop crown just yet

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4 d. ago Cinderella at London Coliseum: 'Hugely enjoyable contemporary spin'

The ENO have brought the classic story up-to-date while still keeping its heart and soul

Politics

5 d. ago Basement and Friends Cause a Right Ruckus at London’s Kentish Town Forum [Show Review]

Basement and Friends Cause a Right Ruckus at London’s Kentish Town Forum [Show Review]  V13.net

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5 d. ago London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Gardner review – muscular Emperor sets up edge

London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Gardner review – muscular Emperor sets up edge-of-the-seat finale  The Guardian

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5 d. ago Philharmonia/ Rouvali/ Ólafsson review – orchestra opens 80th celebrations with sparkle and style

Royal Festival Hall, LondonVíkingur Ólafsson’s Beethoven was clear, contemplative and witty, in a concert that also featured Olivier Latry at the mighty RFH organ and a UK premiere from Gabriela OrtizLegions of keyboard fans know that Víkingur Ólafsson does reflective like few others. Calmness, softness of touch and introspection are among the Icelandic pianist’s widely admired trademarks. It helps make him a perfect performer for the AirPod age.But how does Ólafsson respond to a full orchestra in a large-scale work such as Beethoven’s third piano concerto? The answer, in this opening concert of the Philharmonia’s season, is that he does it with enviable ease. It assured a distinguished start to the 80th birthday year of an orchestra whose founder, Walter Legge, had shamefully tried to kill it off when it had not even reached two decades old. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Legendary London restaurant St John is opening a new café at the London Review Bookshop in Bloomsbury

Legendary London restaurant St John is opening a new café at the London Review Bookshop in Bloomsbury  Time Out Worldwide

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9 d. ago Live Review: Hannah White, 100 Club, London – 19th September 2025

Live Review: Hannah White, 100 Club, London – 19th September 2025  Americana UK

Society

9 d. ago London will suffer unless ministers rethink their 'unfair' funding review

The capital’s already stretched local authorities will be £700m worse off under the proposed changes

Politics

1 week ago Dirty Looks review – room after room of utterly filthy fashion

Barbican, London From Balenciaga’s £1,400 faux-filthy trainers to JordanLuca’s urine-stained jeans, designers can’t get enough grimy stuff on the catwalk and this seamy exhibition of it all is a mucky joy to beholdDon’t be deceived by Kate Moss’s Hunter wellies at the entrance. Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion showcases clothes that are deliberately distressed and filthy, and will come as a shock to anyone whose idea of a fashion exhibition involves glass vitrines and slick, ambient glamour, or the sort of wildly popular blockbusters put on (and paid for) by brands such as Dior and Chanel.Perhaps because gloss is regarded as an integral element of luxury fashion, objects such as designer dirty trainers tend to infuriate people. There is only one pair at the Barbican’s first fashion exhibition in almost a decade. But the way Balenciaga’s £1,400 faux-filthy high tops came to be not just widely coveted, but objects that seemed to express the disconnect between high fashion and ...

Politics

1 week ago London will suffer unless minister rethink their "unfair" funding review

The capital’s already stretched local authorities will be £700m worse off under the proposed changes

Politics

1 week ago Live Review: Jolie Holland + Annie Dressner, Neon 194, London – 18th September 2025

Live Review: Jolie Holland + Annie Dressner, Neon 194, London – 18th September 2025  Americana UK

Culture

1 week ago A Night Like This review – two strangers roam the London nighttime on Christmas eve

A Night Like This review – two strangers roam the London nighttime on Christmas eve  The Guardian

Politics

1 week ago Advant Beiten targets tax enforcement work with London debut

Advant Beiten targets tax enforcement work with London debut  International Tax Review

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