Entertainment

What comes to mind when considering a trip to London? Red phone boxes. Tea. The Queen. Rain. Awkwardly angled selfies in front of Big Ben. All of these may well be true, but London is so much more than its endearing clichés. As one of the most visited cities on the planet, the endlessly enticing attraction of London is certainly no secret. The city is brimming with historic tourist attractions and museums, world-renowned bars and restaurants, as well as parks, sporting...

Is September too early to start buying Christmas presents? The last 30 days has provided us with enough bangers to stuff several festive stockings. After a slow start the month really took off, dropping some of the best releases of the year so far. As you can probably tell we're very excited for Jamie Lenman's Devolver (out 27th October on Big Scary Monsters, be there or be square) and 'Hardbeat' is a total tune. This month's cover star Moses Sumney is a...

This hilarious video has a great message whether you’re a Brexit 52% or a 48%. "We Brits seem to have lost our famous sense of humour over Brexit,” Nick Figgis who made this four minute video told The London Economic. “My mate is hiding facebook posts from his mum and my gran keeps banging the table when the subject comes up. "Could it be we've fallen for a bit of good old fashioned divide and rule? Is it time for...

Jaws Support: Colouring, Fizzy Blood Kamio, London 22.9.17 Tonight's acts offer a real mixed bag of tones. First up are Fizzy Blood, bringing a bag of riffs and a glorious case of guitar-face. New cuts from their Summer of Luv EP sound ace. Colouring are more understated, shooting for synth-edged emo pop. It feels smart but cold. Which can't be said for headliner's JAWS, who warrant emphatic reaction from the crowd but keep things simple with their mix of shoegaze and indie....

A sitar owned and played by George Harrison has sold for £46,581 ($62,500) at an auction in the United States. The Indian string instrument, purchased from a shop in London’s Oxford Street in 1965, was used in the recording of Beatles song Norwegian Wood in 1965. It launched ‘The Great Sitar Explosion’ in rock n roll and marked the beginning of Harrison’s lifelong relationship with Indian music, its culture and Hinduism. Indian musicians were used in two later Harrison songs...

The re-launched Star Trek: Discovery contains scoops of every element that made the previous Trek television series and movies memorable. Now that may or may not be a good thing as not all those memories are fond ones yet this new series is deliberate in re-voicing the sounds of the past; quite literally when it comes to the pinging ambient sound on the bridge of the starship Shenzou which may or may not be destroyed at the end of the...

A long-lost painting by one of history's most influential painters, the Flemish artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens, has gone on public display in Scotland. The portrait, thought to be a copy of a lost original, was previously on show at Pollok House, Glasgow when it was identified by art historian Dr Bendor Grosvenor. The rare 17th-century portrait of the Duke of Buckingham, George Villiers, featured on BBC Four's Britain's Lost Masterpieces. Conservation work carried out on behalf of the programme...

An animal loving photographer has captured a hilarious set of pictures showing dogs leaping for treats with their eyes and mouths wide open. The ingenious snaps were taken using a technique which catches the dogs' faces a split-second before they munch down on tasty biscuits. Paws for the camera - The hilarious expressions on dogs' faces as they try to catch a treat can now be seen in one book. The photos show the dogs being excited, surprised and even...

"Sometimes you get the impression that nobody ever laughed during the period between 1914 and 1918", Ian Hislop said ahead of the opening night of the Wipers Times at Richmond Theatre. To some extent that would be true - the war was no laughing matter, after all. But in other ways it would be very un-British not to laugh in the face of adversity, and in 1916 in a bunker outside Ypres (mispronounced Wipers by British soldiers) that is precisely what...