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We all know and love the BBC iPlayer function but as with many modern technologies, there has been a loophole in the system that has, up until now, allowed individuals to use the iPlayer without owning a TV license. Most commonly this includes expats living abroad who want to keep up to date with their favourite programmes and under the old rules, you only needed to own a TV license if you watched television live – meaning programmes that were...

Former Saturday Kitchen presenter James Martin is reportedly in talks to replace Chris Evans as the new host of Top Gear. Evans quit Top Gear after the public failed to warm to the new line-up, with the BBC Radio 2 disk jockey backed up by Friend's star Matt Le Blanc and Eddie Jordan amongst others. Now Martin, a self-confessed petrol head, looks to be in talks about taking the reigns. According to the Sunday People, Martin lost out to Evans when...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two.  As Death Waltz are about to release the Twin Peaks soundtrack on vinyl, this week had to start with Laura Palmer’s Theme (famously sampled by Moby in ‘Go’). Moving through a beautiful track by Black Peaches onto the Mali Music project from genius tinkerer Damon Albarn, we then hit The Glimmers, High Mesakela, The Sorcerers and finish strong with...

Twenty years ago to the day Oasis made history by playing sell-out gigs at Knebworth Park in front of a quarter of a million people. The Brit Pop band were supported by The Charlatans, Kula Shaker, Manic Street Preachers, The Bootleg Beatles, The Chemical Brothers, Ocean Colour Scene and The Prodigy over the two nights, playing in front of 125,000 people per night. Over 2.6 million people applied for tickets for the shows, making it the largest ever demand for concert tickets...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two.  Normal service resumes this week after the inaugural Guest List last week with Rick Pike from PVT (check it out here if you missed it). Kicking off with some beautiful soundtrack vibes from legendary film composer John Barry, we follow with a Starkey Remix of Einaudi from the ‘In A Time Lapse’ album, the David McCallum that Dr. Dre...

Music festivals have always been places to pick up various ailments, alcohol poisoning, food poisoning, and possibly the odd STI, but there is now been an outbreak of measles at a lot of UK festivals. Public Health England has said that music festivals this summer have become somewhat of a hotbed for measles this year. They have signalled a “significant number” of cases of people picking up the disease while enjoying their favourite music with thousands of other party go-ers....

Fort Process is an expansive multi ­disciplinary music and arts festival that takes place in the evocative spaces of Newhaven Fort in East Sussex. After an acclaimed, sold­-out debut in 2014 the festival is back for a second edition, with an extensive programme (in excess of 100 artists) featuring site ­specific sound installations, international musicians, talks, films, poetry and workshops. The Fort Process experience is quite unlike any other: half the festival­goers are hidden underground, making their way through a...

Purling London specialises in designing luxury Chess sets and other games. TheLondonEconomic.com was invited to take a look out their critically acclaimed, contemporary Chess boards.  The boards are hand-manufactured against vivid colour, abstract art and theatrical illumination and really wouldn't look out of place in an art gallery. One thing is for sure, the boards are art and would make a wonderful gift for chess enthusiasts and art collectors alike.  Perhaps the type of present for the person who has everything....

By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) Earlier this year I was tasked with breaching the walls of Berlins' most exclusive techno club, the Berghain. Notorious for its secretive door policy, the club turns away thousands of visitors every year for not meeting their stringent and elusive entry criteria. Needless to say, my efforts to get in were in vain. Now, the Netherland's Beyond Festival are saving punters the price of a plane ticket by bringing the authentic Berghain experience to them in their...