Galleries
Most are free, all have cheap cafes, loos and central heating. Oh and some drawings or something too.
Prince Charles Cinema
Yearly membership for £9, which means films for £1.50 – just off Leicester Square. Can’t go wrong.
Boat Bars
Even if you only hop aboard for a lemonade before you go down the road to the much cheaper walkabout. Top novelty action.
Nightlife
Even though it’s the END of January, the bigger clubs and party haunts are still eerily quiet.
Winehouse in Rehab
What are we gonna do for tabloid fodder and Camden sightings now?
Tubes
The cold weather’s making everyone want to skip the walking and pile into them like grumpy sardines.
In recent years the crucible for up-and-coming bands has shifted from Camden in the north to Shoreditch in the east. Brick Lane is home of London's best new record store, Rough Trade East, while just down the road Vice Magazine's Old Blue Last pub has a rep for getting fantasyland secret gigs, with the Arctic Monkeys, Foals and Klaxons all choosing to test new material here - plus a free jukebox of immense proportions.
Alumni: Amy Winehouse, Klaxons, The Libertines, The Clash.
Pub fact: The album cover of David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars' was shot on Heddon St, just off Regent Street. You can still see the phone box.
Korn
Carling Academy
03/03/08
If you missed them in January now's your chance to feel 14 again.
REM
Royal Albert Hall
24/03/08
If your friends included Foals, Duke Spirit and Robyn Hitchcock, you'd probably show off at the RAH too.
Duke Spirit
Koko
25/03/08
Geek chic fronted by a moody platinum blonde? Yes please.
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