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Bar Music Hall
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| 134 Curtain Road |
We couldnt help smiling at the idea of Bar Music Hall in Shoreditch, and headed down prepared for a truly soulless night of trendy tapas and posing punters. Instead we discovered a huge bar with a ver...
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Barbican Chimes Music Shop
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| Cromwell Tower, Silk Street |
Tucked away near the Barbican multi-arts centre and the world-renowned Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Chimes Music is in illustrious company. Since opening in 1983 it has successfully fulfilled...
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London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art
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| 155 Talgarth Road |
LAMDA is among the most famous and prestigious acting schools in the world. It is very hard to be selected for a course here, but almost all LAMDA graduates find work, a very rare situation for the ma...
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Music House for Children
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| 310 Uxbridge Road |
Music House for Children at the Bush Hall offers an array of exciting activities for kids where they get to try their hand at a wide range of instruments from guitars to bongo drums. The music and dan...
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Wilton's Music Hall
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| Graces Alley, Off Ensign Street |
In the nineteenth century, Wiltons Music Hall was a great mirrored hall lit by a vast chandelier, with 27,000 crystals and 300 gas jets. Opera, operetta, variety shows and old-style music hall were pl...
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Royal College of Music
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| Prince Consort Road |
The Royal College of Music is the school where Gustav Hoilst, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Benjamin Britten, James Galway, Joan Sutherland and Ralph Vaughan Williams learnt their trades also hosts a regular p...
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Music Everything Ltd
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| Parchmore Place |
This popular, affordable music school delivers short and intensive part time courses in music production/technology, sound engineering, vocal techniques and keyboard/guitar/dj skills. They also have...
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British Music Experience
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| The O2 Bubble, Millennium Way |
Stadium filling rock gods like The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Mick Jagger are among the stars who have loaned memorabilia to the British Music Experience, an exhibition dedicated to 60 years of B...
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Knightsbridge
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| Knightsbridge |
Knightsbrige is one of the most unchanged, attractive areas of central London, with little in the way of offices nearby but plenty of shops and restaurants to serve the needs of local residents. There...
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London Nightlife
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London is world famous for its party vibe and non-stop nightlife. The capital is seething with after-hours drinking and dancing dens of all shapes and sizes. From the pulsating dancefloors of major ni...
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Bars and Live Music
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London's oh-so-credible indie station staged a surprisingly jolly New Year's Eve party last year, with their DJs playing a selection of 2006's best party tunes, and the 'Xfm All-stars' playing cove...
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Musical Museum
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| 368 High Street |
Experience the fascinating world of automatic musical instruments at this unusual, melodious museum. The many instruments housed here were all designed to provide music at the flick of a switch or the...
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James Knight of Mayfair
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| 67 Notting Hill Gate |
Originally Chalmers & Gray, the prices at this well-established west London fishmongers still sit at the high end of the market, but the fish here remains unbeatable in terms of freshness and flavour....
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London Entertainment
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From traditional music halls to state-of-the-art IMAX cinemas, West End theatres to intimate jazz clubs, find out more with our guide to the best entertainment venues in the capital....
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Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
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| 44-46 Pollard Row |
Quirky 70s East End variety club. Until 2002 this Formica-clad, 1970s-style social club was an exclusive retreat for working class Eastenders. While the interior of this one-time dance hall hasnt cha...
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Mahiki
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| 1 Dover Street |
A favourite with young royals - Princes Harry and William, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie have been spotted here... all at the same time. And where the royals go the celebs follow and youre likely...
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MJU Restaurant and Lounge
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| The Millennium Knightsbridge, 17 Sloane Street |
MJU enjoys a good reputation among Londons gastronomes, offering a chic blend of European and Asian styles on a short but perfectly formed tasting menu. A new head chef, Tom Thomsen, has just been app...
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Trinity College of Music
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| King Charles Court, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich |
The many beautiful rooms and halls of Sir Christopher Wrens Old Royal Naval College play host to a regular program of concerts, recitals and masterclasses from the students and staff of Greenwichs cla...
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Borders Books & Music - Charing Cross Road
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| 120 Charing Cross Road |
The first American bookstore to hit the UK, Borders boasts 150,000 books, 3,000 magazines and masses of CDs, tapes and videos. Despite its size it gets very busy, but you can always rest up and read i...
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London College of Fashion Night School
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| 20 John Princes Street |
Competitive and expensive, but probably the most glamorous courses in the capital. Covering all aspects of the fashion industry....
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Royal Academy of Music
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| Marylebone Road |
The Royal Academy of Music, founded in 1822 as a bastion of musical excellence includes a school, library and museum as well as staging live concert performances. The museum houses the academys perman...
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Royal Military School of Music (Kneller Hall)
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| Kneller Road, Twickeham |
Military music museum, including important documents and manuscripts, uniforms, medals and presentation pieces. Included are woodwind, string and brass instruments as well as percussion instruments fr...
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York Gate Collections at the Royal Academy of Music
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| Marylebone Road |
The York Gate building, designed by John Nash in 1822 as part of the main entrance to Regent's Park, hosts the Academy's ‘living museum', open to the public free of charge seven days a week. The Yor...
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