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ever tried pushing a trolley full of watermelons through the middle of notting hill carnival? mark leckey has and it scarred him for life. #nottinghill #nottinghillcarnival #london #carnival #londontown

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tired of losing your friends at notting hill carnival? trippin’s map is back. comment ‘map’ on our latest instagram post to get your offline guide to finding over 30 sound systems, stages, key cultural spots, welfare points and toilets, usable across all devices and browsers. just open the map while you have signal and hit ‘save offline’. then you’re good to go, even when the signal drops out in the middle of aba shanti-i. the 2026 map comes with improved usability and new features, including th

mark leckey doesn’t have time for nostalgia: even though much of his works incorporates archival tapes and material from the past, leckey sees hankering to return there as something fruitless. the wirral-born artist lives for the now and enjoys the textured sounds he hears that define local spaces, concentrated in south london venues like ormside projects, spanners and venue mot. after all, there’s no point in going back to the northern soul days if we’re currently living in the age of scouse ra

is fabric the most overrated club in london? alice bloomfield thinks so, and she reckons the city's best nights are south of the river. on a weekend you'll most likely find the director and illustrator in the bermondsey triangle: avalon cafe, venue mot and ormside. hopefully she won't unwittingly be snogging someone with a cold sore, though. alice's work is shaped by the weird, the unruly. her figurative illustrations often drip with distortion, what she has described as 'sleazy, perturbing and

are the uk's cities becoming suburban? one in every hundred pubs or venues in london is unable to open late or has faced closure due to noise complaints. as people increasingly move to areas known for nightlife and complain about the noise, late-night culture is coming under pressure across the uk. #london🇬🇧 #londontown #london #nightlife

can you feel drawn to a place you’ve never been? swedish-ugandan singer namasenda was dreaming of miami when she wrote her debut album ‘limbo’, even though it's a city she’s never visited. she has been to la though - and moved there to pursue music when she was a teenager, then signing to pc music before arriving her current home at cult swedish label year0001. but despite the glamour and industry hype of the west coast, she’s realised we can pursue our dreams from home. besides, who needs la wh

was indie sleaze the last cultural bastion of the human-driven internet? like many teenagers at the time, dorian electra first got into bands like horrors and klaxons through platforms like myspace and music blogs - when online culture was shaped by human thought over automated algorithm. indie sleaze has since evolved into an umbrella term for an aesthetic born in the early 2000s characterised by messy vintage looks, amateur flash photography and hedonism. #indiesleaze #indiemusic #indie #nosta

can you be proud of being british while also being ashamed of it? sheffield artist corbin shaw navigates the contradictions of englishness. his work interrogates the many facets of british culture, from folk art traditions to st george’s flags. working across a range of disciplines - installation, fashion design, performance - he explores the complexities of national identity and how symbols of exclusionary nationalism can be re-contextualised to critique the ideas of englishness they represent.

is everyone leaving berlin? around ten years ago, it seemed like the german capital was a cultural epicentre for independent and diy art, music and nightlife movement. but has the moment soured? juliana huxtable sees it more as a wave, rather than an end. that cities inevitably change, with their next chapters defined by influxes of new people, new ideas and new music. #berlin #berliner #electronicmusic #dancemusic #techno