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Enjoy the Night Life in London

Like the night life of many cities, London too has a night life. The night life in London is quite well known all around the world. Not only the residents of London but tourists from all over the world who have come to London, even once, know that. The night life in London is vibrant and active. The city provides party lovers a variety of entertainment avenues at night in the form of theatres, movies, pubs, bars and clubs.

At night London hosts a number of theatricals. The theatricals may vary from comedy, drama to musical and even thriller. London hosts a number of concerts as well and the concerts mostly take place during the night hours. Many famous international artists perform in these concerts and hundreds of fans come to see their performance. The concerts are well organized and top class. Two of the most well known concert halls are the Royal Albert Hall and the O2 Arena.

For the movie lovers London has small independent movie halls as well as large multi screen complexes featuring different movies all throughout the day and night.

Pubs and bars are important parts of London night life. Without them London night life has no life at all. It is as easy to find pubs and bars in London as it is to find sites that sell jewellery online. They not only provide excellent food and drink but also a lot of entertainment in the form of live music. There are also many theme bars in London. Sports bars like The Sports Café which is located in 80 Haymarket in Piccadilly is very popular. It is a two storied sports bar with 4 bar counters and 120 television sets which show global sports all the time.

Night clubs and cabarets are also quite popular in London. They take over when the pubs and bars close down around 11pm. They have excellent restaurants which serve good food and also have many forms of entertainment.

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How the other half live

Some of my friends have amazing, exotic and intriguing jobs. Makes my “cool” job at a design agency seem pretty mundane in comparison, but I wouldn’t swap my crazy workmates for anything. Well, maybe a lottery win!
One of my pals from university is a yacht concierge. No, he doesn’t spend time fixing up yachts with tickets for London events or organising restaurant bookings while they’re in town; he helps yacht owners take care of their boats when they’re too busy to maintain them. He gets to see some really fantastic yachts; he’s even looked after one that belonged to royalty, but he was sworn to secrecy by his boss, so could only give us charades-like clues when we met for a beer in town. I reckon somewhere in the Middle East, but seeing as my geographical knowledge stretches as far south as Brighton and as far north as Sheffield, where we both went to uni, I ran out of ideas after I established that one fact!
The best part of his job is that he has to take the yachts out for a sail regularly, to keep everything ticking over and check there are no problems before Mummy and Daddy arrive to pick up their pride and joy. Occasionally, I’ve been down for a visit in Southampton when he has to to take a boat out for a spin – and guess who gets to tag along? Yes, yours truly. The biggest land lubber on the face of the earth. The whole experience is probably wasted on me, but you get to pretend you’re rich and famous for a couple of hours. Just a shame the booze cabinet is always locked on these voyages. Arrr!

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Nightlife in London: Satiate those taste buds

In London, and confused about where to go for that perfect night out? Worry no more, for here we have the choicest of options for a food lover’s delight!

Situated on 313 Old Street, Shish offers an array of Middle East inspired cuisine with the odd prawn tempura and duck roll thrown in. It prides itself upon being inspired by the Silk Road. The restaurant is bright and roomy, the seating arrangement ample and the overall feel is of being busy without the usual clatter of other peoples’ conversations impeding your own. Not many are aware of the secret little bar a level below and give it a miss, but it’s a quaint little place to enjoy your drinks in peace.

With it’s out of the league menu, outstanding service and its impressive ethnic yet contemporary décor, Patara undoubtedly deserves all the accolades it has received from critics and diners alike. Self-confessedly an “upscale dining concept serving a contemporary Thai cuisine”, Patara is accredited to have brought fine dining in Thai cuisine to another level. The Soho shop is their fourth installment in London and has by far been adjudged the best. It’s open for lunch and dinner all days of the week, though lunch is not served on Sundays.

A neat and petite little shop down the Royal Opera House, Kastner and Ovens is a favourite with locals for a quick bite or two of their freshly cooked meals. Regulars often find succor in its two buffet style tables which offer two hot dishes a day, one meat and the other vegetarian, and an array of tarts, pastries and salads. Of course, it’s really the cakes which K & O is famous for, though prices have gone up in the recent past and there’s a little less to be had for more of your money.

Even, if these restaurants are a bit on the expensive side and may cost as much as a day’s stay in some hotels in Looe, still they are worth every penny spent.

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Offline Promoting for Musicians

The entire world seems to be online twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, for every possible reason, from social networking to study purposes to viewing some Caroline Shotton work . Search Engine Optimisation or SEO is one method of promoting one’s product or service, but not everyone is comfortable or happy to only use the internet for promotional purposes and therefore choose other methods away from the internet as well.

When it comes to musicians, the task of their promotion is not that difficult to achieve without the use of a computer. The musician who wishes to promote his music should cut a demo CD which he can then give to various producers and people involved in the world of music for them to listen to and see if they are worth being promoted.

As it is possible to produce a CD with only one or two cuts on it, this forms a wonderful advertising tool when given away for free at concerts or gigs. If people really like what they hear, they will be willing to buy the complete CD and, by word of mouth, this is a very useful way of advertising away from the internet. Just ensure that you package the CD well, as a cheap-looking disc will undo all the good work you have done in promoting your music.

Any musician who plays gigs or performs should post flyers and advertising banners in strategic positions in the area in where he will be playing, so that he gets the maximum exposure and free advertising. Also, go to music and instrument shops, give them flyers and ask them to distribute them on your behalf, as they will have access to strategic people in the music industry.

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Panache Clubbing!

If you want to go clubbing in London and find yourself in The Roof Gardens in Kensington then you can safely but triumphantly proclaim that you have arrived in the high society London circle!

Owned by the flamboyant and stylish Sir Richard Branson this high profile club is spread over one and half acres of rooftop land and divided into three garden variants. The first garden is in the English woodland style housing a lake filled with flamingos while the second one is a Tudor garden with a fountain, the third one is a Spanish garden consisting of palm trees. The place gives one a feel of the Mediterranean and you don’t have to book holiday villas in Portugal or Spain. A visit to The Roof Garden will magically transport you there! The venue has a capacity for hosting 120 people at any given time.

There are two bars to serve the customers without any waiting (a huge shocker, compared to other clubs) and the restaurants dish out a lavish spread! The view of West London from Babylon, the restaurant is absolutely spellbinding! The perfectly lit club makes for a wonderful clubbing scene and the music is lively and foot tapping!

While the service at the VIP quarters is obviously good, customers are attended to outstandingly good even at the bar! Infact unlike many other clubs, The Roof Garden’s doormen are probably the best in the class and ensure that unwanted guests are kept at bay!

The pricing is just right at The Roof Gardens considering the fun that they provide to an evening. The bar may seem a little pricey though. However, the service and the overall ambience more than make up for every cent spent in The Roof Gardens! Infact the view itself, it worth much more!

The tube that you need to take to visit this great party place is the High Street Kensington while its opening hours are Friday – Saturday 22.00 to 03.00 hours. The entry cost on a Friday night is £ 20 and £ 25 on Saturday.

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X Factor Infection

Staring at my currys.co.uk discount codes on the bus the other day (I have a store card and the codes were printed on the receipt; there, I bet you feel better for knowing that random information, don’t you?), I could overhear a conversation that two teenage girls were having. The generic kind who wear matching black fake suede boots and keep saying “like” before and at the end of every single sentence. The X Factor was the source of their amusement. The girls were discussing who they thought was going to win.

Here’s the really worrying thing: I was actually quite engaged with what they were saying. So engaged, in fact, that every time the lads behind me started laughing at whatever it was on their mobile phones, I had the urge to turn around and tell them to shut up.

Here’s my problem with the X Factor: I don’t even like it, and yet I am forced to watch it. Whenever I am at a friend’s house on a Saturday they have it on, and if you watch it more than about three times then you just naturally start getting attached to one of the acts. You can’t help but follow their journey, and all the little slow motion video edits of them talking to camera about how much they wand and need this to work out only draws you in further. You get totally sucked in by this, so that you can’t hear the letter X and not think about Paige or One Direction or whoever it is. And yeah, I just said One Direction, who are a teen boy band. Yeah, I really need to wean myself steadily off X Factor and do something more healthy with my time.

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Free Schools

While looking for manual handling train the trainer on google yesterday, I somehow stumbled across this article on The Guardian website:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/03/michael-gove-free-schools

There is a big cultural difference between attitudes towards education in the UK and in the USA. I didn’t really understand this until I became a mother and started talking to other mothers about sending my daughter to school. I was raised to love learning and there is a certain American attitude that pervades our education system that is filled with ambition and perseverance. From the elections, to the start of the new con-lib government, I have been interested in the possibility of Free Schools, as a viable option, to create a place where there is a positive attitude towards learning with a creative hands-on approach.
When Michael Gove announced that there was fewer than 20 that were in the pipeline to open, it is not surprising at all. It is a lot of work to set up a school, find a location, gather other parents, teachers, and voluntary institutions to get on board with the project. When does all of this work happen? In the free time that has been created by unemployment? The public sector cuts have stressed out the general population so much that there is no space for the “Big Society”in people’s consciousness. David Cameron might talk about a “Big Society in which power is devolved to the grassroots”but the grass roots as they are struggling to cope with mortgages, unemployment, and debt crisis will have less and less time and energy to improve their lot. It makes me think of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs, which says that human’s instinct is to deal with their survival first, then comfort, and only then they can move on to psychological needs and self-actualization. It seems that setting up a free school is up there with those higher level needs and when the population seems to be struggling with survival, then there are not going to be a lot of people jumping on board.

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Enigin Down Under

Now, as I’m sure has crossed your mind at least once while hearing Kylie sing (or watching her gyrate) or debating with friends how Danni used to be the underdog and is now on top, you can’t really hear the word ’Australia’without imagining how much energy could be acquired from harnessing the power of all those kangaroos and their mighty hind legs, can you? And, while that is indeed a powerful thought (and a disturbing one: imagine being one of the people employed to catch them!) and something that the Australian government would be foolish to not look into at some point in the near future, it isn’t actually the topic of discussion at the following web video.
No, what’s being discussed here is equally important as kangaroo hind leg power; it’s all about how UK energy saving company Enigin have recently been asked to take their wisdom down under. If you haven’t seen the video yet then what are you waiting for? In the video, Enigin’s Commercial Director Tim McMahon talks about how it all came about and the fate of energy saving in the future. With regards to energy, the future, of course, isn’t exactly something that’s been top priority for the human race in the past hundred years. And after discovering how much fun it is to do things which waste energy, who can blame us? But clearly now the joke is over: energy costs are spiralling out of control and we need to start looking at ways to cut them down.

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Joe McElderry is gay?

The latest X-Factor winner, Joe McElderry has announced recently that he is gay. I guess he has always looked a bit too pretty to be straight, but then the quote that was produced by the media in support of Joe’s coming out is a little weird:

“Every time I was asked, I gave honest answers. I wasn’t attracted to anyone anyway, male or female. It never really entered my head I was gay. I’ve had time to think about things. I wasn’t attracted to anyone anyway, male or female. It never really entered my head I was gay. But I just know. It’s how I feel. I’m so happy. It’s all been so recent to be honest. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had time to think and come to realize who I am. I have grown up a lot. I know it sounds crazy but before then, I was so busy. It hadn’t even crossed my mind.

I only told my mum last week, on a train. She was fine, great even. She’d actually asked us in the past, not because she thought I was gay but because she’s a supportive mum. She’d say, ‘I don’t care if you have a girlfriend or boyfriend’. My family have been so supportive.”

So he is 19, never been in a relationship with a girl or a boy, probably never even been on a date, but the poor guy has been pressured into thinking about whether he was gay or not by the media so much that now he thinks that he is gay. Sounds like this thought has been planted in his head instead of him working things out for himself. I won’t be surprised if Joe comes back in and announces that he is straight in a few months and then that news will be splashed all over exhibition stands. How can he know that he is gay if he is not attracted to either girls or boys? He just needs to grow up a bit more as evidently he is just a kid right now, who does not care about being in a relationship.

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The Big Society Swindle

Luckily I didn’t find out until 8 pm last night that David Cameron was in the next room announcing his ’vision’ for the world that he wants us to inherit, Why did Mr Cameron choose Liverpool? the historic heartbeat of radical labour movements, a hundred years of workers revolting. We can all continue to ask this why we ponder what impact more volunteers at Museums will have. For that is what he was there to promote. I found it very odd, that on this particular day, there was actually an absence of staff at the Walker Art Gallery, where normally you would usually find two highly trained education assistants located by the exhibit banner stand that specialize in creative activities and early literacy, there was no one. The dressing up area usually full of costumes, was bare except for a very impressive Henry VIII and a wee worker bee, hmmm. I have worked at one of the largest Science museums in the States, and while it was not free, they had a mandatory amount of free days that they must provide every year in order to justify the public funding they received. In the good old days, this used to mean that every Tuesday or Thursday was free. Unfortunately now, it is a week of free days in the middle of the winter, but, you can check out free passes from the library so it kind of balances out. The point is, the museum provides excellent jobs to people who live in the community, it is a sector of the workforce that can be a wonderful entry for graduates who are interested in pursuing careers in either education, the arts, human resources, marketing, design, management, you name it. Our happy and over qualified team included a part time University Professor, a retired tuba player from the marine corps band, a model, a film maker, a movie critic, and too many out of work actors. Its not that I have anything against volunteers, its just that we can’t let it undermine the opportunities for people to find meaningful work.

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