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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...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two.  In the first of what is going to be a series of guest mixes, I'm happy to introduce Rick Pike from the amazing band PVT. There are big things coming your way both from PVT and from Rick's mysterious new solo project so keep your ear to the ground.... Weekly Report: Your playlist is called Hyper/Real. Tell us about...

It’s a little hard to explain .... but we’ll get there in the end. Time’s what we’ve got plenty of you see. Those noises from next door? Just to wet the whistle, in a manner of speaking. Gets the old adrenalin flowing. It’s Masher. We call him that but he’s getting pretensions, wants to style himself Olaf the Great. Not that he’s Scandinavian or anything – in fact he comes from Wales – but Welsh is torture to pronounce –if...

The West End is full of timeless shows, but very few can claim to get more relevant. George Orwell’s 1984 stands alone in that regard, foretelling geo-political events and socio-economic attitudes towards them with increasing accuracy as the years pass. The last time I saw the show it was Edward Snowden’s surveillance disclosures and the obvious Big Brother implications of NSA and GCHQ data leaks, but this time my mind just unravelled with current connotational events. The aftermath of the...

An astonishing video has been released that features an orangutan who can talk! Rocky has somehow managed to learn to talk like a human being. The eight-year-old primate has copied words and reproduced them to scientists in a "conversational context". Rocky mimicked the tone and pitch of human vowel sounds. He was able to learn new sounds and control the action of his voice in the way humans do when they conduct a conversation, the scientists concluded. Researchers think this clever...

The Secret Garden Party, a music festival in Cambridgeshire, was the first in the UK to use illegal drug testing, last weekend. It is thought around two hundred people used the service, so they could ensure that their illegal drugs did not contain any additional harmful substances, reports the Guardian. The charity, The Loop, offered the tests which was allowed by the police and council. The possession of drugs was still be illegal but an amnesty was offered to people...

Buckingham Palace Rideout 1st May The weather was on my side and what a day it was. Just seeing Carnaby Street rammed with Mods and their trusted Vespas and Lambrettas was a cracking sight and every tourist’s dream! What I’ve learnt in the short time I’ve been documenting the Mods is when they say they’re arriving at a certain time, they really mean it. So it was an early start from North London to make sure I didn’t miss a thing....