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Welcome to the ViewLondon blogs where you can read daily and weekly blogs from the ViewLondon front line. Every opinion of our experts from the worlds of cinema and film, pubs and bars, restaurants and clubs will be etched here. From the groundbreaking to the insignificant, read it here first and then add your own comments.
Latest Clubs Blog
Video Interview: The Guillemots
The British music industry has never been better – you only have to take one look at such awards as the NME and the Brits to see the huge range of talent out there at the moment. And we’re not talking about poxy reality TV shows, either – um, Chanelle what were you thinking?
One of the hottest rated bands to come out of Britain to date is The Guillemots (sorry, I mean gUiLLeMoTs). A personal favourite of mine, they’ve gone from strength to strength since they formed in late 2004. With a plethora of hits, including Trains to Brazil, which was an Itunes Single of the Week, celebrity fans that include Sir Paul McCartney, and a Brit nomination under their belt the future looks very rosy indeed for this talented band.
We at View were lucky …
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Latest Film Blog
RIP Gravelly-Voiced Trailer Guy and Kevin Smith’s New Porn Film
Films seen so far this year: 321
Films seen this week: El Cantante, Disaster Movie, Never Apologise, The Werewolf of London (1935), Bangkok Dangerous, Sweet Land, Outlanders, Gomorrah
RIP Gravelly-Voiced Trailer Guy, Don LaFontaine
If you've ever deepened your voice and started a sentence with the words “IN A WORLD...”, then, like me, you'll be saddened to know that gravelly-voiced voiceover guy Don LaFontaine passed away this …
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Latest Pubs & Bars Blog
Robotic Barman Descends on the UK!
Now I don’t mean to scare you, but I think robots may be trying to take over the world – or the UK at least - I-Robot style. Yes, it’s true. First it was the turn of the ICA in London to introduce robotic punk clubbers (see Neurotic Robots Love to Party), and now the world’s first robotic barman (I swear, it’s true) is making its shiny and new debut at one of my favourite places to spend money – Selfridges Oxford Street - tomorrow.
The robot, lovingly named Mr Asahi (as in the beer) is …
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Latest Restaurants Blog
Jun Tanaka Talks Taste Festivals, Live
Hands up all of you who are gearing up for the Taste of London food festival this year – we said hands, not forks! You’re in luck because one of the chefs taking part in this year’s festival is online and ready to answer your questions about what goes on behind the scenes – and talk about food, too, of course.
Jun Tanaka will be taking part in a live web chat at 3.45pm on Tuesday 10th June, so get your questions ready.
Chef Jun Tanaka knows a thing or two about cooking, thanks to his fabulously successful Pearl restaurant and TV shows like Saturday Kitchen, …
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