We’ve all seen the adverts featuring a group of guys doing karaoke on the main stage at an unnamed festival. Genius, pure genius; but how could you host your own festival? And even if it is just you and your mates, surely you would need to be top of the bill!
We set our crack team of festival specialists the mission of helping you with some ideas of how to do it.
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With I’d do anything crowning its winner, and big brother unveiling its new selection of overly desperate wannabes, we wondered how and where we can see our previous favourites
after their 5 minutes of fame finish. Many of them have begun to appear in some of our most famous musical productions. The summer months can be the best time of year to get tickets for the top west end musicals so over the next few months we’ll be updating you on their performances in some of the new releases (and long running classics).
We keep hearing about the credit crunch and how no one has any money any more. It seems to be in every paper and on every news show. Enough already, we set out to track down some gold and jewels.
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We all have memories of childhood. Some are good, some are bad; but we definitely all have them. I’m sure that for most of us, many memories feature the school summer holidays. In my memories the colours of green and blue seem strangely vivid and bright and they all seem to feature being outside. It got us all thinking what Queen Liz’s childhood was like. Where did William and Harry play? What did the royals, the rich and famous play with? Did they all have designer toddler specific hummers like Brooklyn Beckham? Or were they (hopefully) a bit more like us?
There is some great free stuff happening all over the country this summer and we thought we would give you some pointers on where to look and what could be on offer where you live:
The James Bond exhibition at the Fleming gallery was surprisingly good. It’s only small but it really gives you an idea of the global reach that the James Bond films have. When we came out of the gallery we came across a newspaper advertising the new James Bond novel “Devil may care”. It featured the new book, in a glass suitcase, being held by a leather clad model, in a speedboat on the Thames. Now any one of these things would peak our interest but together they seemed like a blockbuster idea.
The idea then began to form in our minds, where could you play at being Bond (without getting arrested for stalking). We dragged the dinner jacket out of the wardrobe, gave the cocktail shaker a quick wash and then off went off to play super spy!
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Every year we seem to be greeted by more and more consumer polls each time we open a newspaper. There seem to be endless lists of which is the most famous, most visited, most iconic or tallest building in the UK? Most of the ones that make these lists tend to be ones that you visited with your primary school in the eighties or that you always meant to go and see but never got round to. That got us thinking, which buildings are the most mysterious or least visited? Which ones do you never visit because quite simply you can’t?
A few beers later, and as normal, this discussion was still raging and we boiled it down to two main groups: Those buildings belonging to the Armed Forces and those belonging to Government.
Since the 17th century Britain’s reigning King or Queen has attended the trooping of the colour parade. While today’s festivities are largely ceremonial, they are still one of the highlights of the monarchical calendar with thousands turning out to see Queen Elizabeth and the other senior members of the royal family.
The ceremony takes place on Horse Guard’s Parade and the mall and it’s one of the most popular free events in London so try and arrive early, The main events start at 10:00 with the RAF fly-past scheduled for around 13:00. With London waiting in expectation for the arrival of all the pageantry, it got us here in lastminute.com hq wondering where the bones of the previous monarchs to have the colour trooped for them ended and if you can go and see them. We were particularly interested in the final whereabouts of some of histories most salubrious characters whose fates seemed intertwined with the monarchs of the day.
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The summer clubbing season starts with a bang today as the most famous club night in the world opens it doors to the public. In 2007 Manumission moved over the road from the famous Privilege club that it had occupied since 1993 to it’s San Rafealean neighbour Amnesia.
Like most of the country, we're snowed under with wedding invitations this summer. The big question is what to wear? We've asked our good friends at Look magazine for some help in this most important of matters.
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