Forbidden London Clubs are pleased to announce our nomination as Best Promoters at the 2010 London Bar & Club Awards.
The London Club & Bar Awards, started 16 years ago in 1994, is comfortably established as the first, largest and definitely most important nightlife industry ceremony in the world.
The entries and winners from the categories are based on decisions made by club goers and a committee panel involving national newspapers & media partners, and key nightlife connoisseurs.
Please show your support for our efforts by voting for us to win the award on Monday 7th June at the Intercontinental Hotel on Park Lane.
If you would like to join us at the awards please contact us.
Jay-Z known for his collaborations when he is performing, decided to recruit Lily Allen for his show after seeing her performance of The Fear during the BRIT Awards. Both artists were recognized at the event, Allen winning the BRIT trophy for British Female Solo Artist and Jay Z taking home trophies for International Album (The Blueprint 3) and for International Male Solo Artist.
After hearing about Jay-Z’s desire to do a collaboration, Allen responded, “I was very flattered to hear that Jay-Z wanted me to support him at Wireless and combined with my dates in March with Dizzee Rascal, I am excited to end my current string of live shows in such prestigious company.”
British supermodel, Naomi Campbell, has travelled from her London home to move to Moscow. She has made the move to be with her Russian billionaire boyfriend, Vladimir Doronin, known as the ‘Donald Trump of Russia.’ The model announced Wednesday,
“I live in Moscow now permanently and I really love life there. I’m really happy and things are just going really well. You know, I just don’t know how many more catwalks I’m going to do from now on. We’ll just see.”
Perhaps if the model is taking a step down from the catwalk, she will continue on with her behind the scenes philanthropy efforts. Opening London Fashion Week, Campbell put together a Fashion for Relief/Haiti fashion show on Monday, February 12, to raise money for the victim’s of the Haiti earthquake. Celebrities, models and designers came out to support the cause; Rachel Zoe styled all of the looks, and Victoria Beckham, Kate Moss and Donna Karen were among the many famous faces in attendance and walking in the show. Coinciding with the event, Campbell also teamed up with famed British designer, Vivienne Westwood, to design a t-shirt with proceeds going to the White Ribbon Alliance. The t-shirt was first unveiled at the Fashion for Relief/Haiti fashion show, and was then showcased again during Westwood’s Red Label catwalk show, Monday, February 22.
Campbell has previously staged her Fashion for Relief/Haiti fashion show in New York City, and has plans to organize another show in Moscow.
Continuing their charity work, after a successful event at London’sLove Ball, Harper’s Bazaar is now teaming up with top British designers to create an 11-piece t-shirt collection to support Women for Women International. The proceeds from the campaign will go to providing financial and emotional support, and job training for women in war-torn countries including, Iraq, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. Designers involved in the collection include Sienna Miller, Jimmy Choo’s Tamara Mellon, and Nicole Farhi.
Lucy Yeoman’s editor for Harper’s Bazaar raves: “There’s something quite powerful and poignant about top British female talent using their creativity to raise money for a charity that helps other women…”
The collection will be launched on Monday, March 8, to correspond with International Women’s Day. The t-shirts will be available online for £30 each at net-a-porter.com.
Singer songwriter Tori Amos has announced that she will play a free music event at top Londonvenue the London Jazz Café in Camden on Wednesday 2nd December to help promote her new album with tickets being given to fans on Oxford Street in Soho on the day of the concert.
The singer will play solo with a piano at the show, which will be open to wristband holders.
Fans can get wristbands from 10.30am (GMT) at the HMV shop at 150 Oxford Street in the UK capital on the morning of the gig. One wristband per fan will be issued.
Tori Amos released her new album, ‘Midwinter Graces’, on Monday November 16.
Albemarle Street is a street in the heart of Mayfair in Central London, off Piccadilly, just five minutes away from Green Park underground station. It was the first one way street in London, aimed at getting traffic flowing better and has historic associations with Lord Byron. Best known for its art galleries, it is a host to such well known galleries like the Albemarle Gallery, which represents contemporary paintings and sculptures from around the world, and has a tradition of supporting controversial artists and create superbly presented exhibitions. The Belgravia Gallery is here too, along with the Marleborough Fine Art Gallery.
One of the best museums in London, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, is on Albemarle Street which runs a variety of exhibitions throughout the year. Club wise, one of the best karaoke bars in London is here: Cousin Jills, which offers an upmarket Mayfair setting to host events for corporate clients and celebrities.
Lovers of shopping will be pleased to find Guinot and London fashion designer Paul Smith’s stores are here, and along with the oldest jeweller in the world - Garrard & Co. Sort out your grooming dilemmas at Guinot, while the don of British fashion Paul Smith can sort out your sartorial ones at number 9.
There are some top London restaurants here too. Chor Bizarre serves top-class Indian cuisine, or go Italian at Ristorante Mosaico. There’s Japanese and Korean food here too from Sumosan and the Korean Kaya restaurants.
If you’re looking for somewhere to stay as well as food, Browns Hotel is here with its in-house restaurant, The Grill. It is London’s oldest operating five-star hotel, opened in 1837 (the year Victoria ascended the throne) by the enterprising James Brown, who was once Lord Byron’s valet.
A new £5m diagonal crossing for pedestrians has been opened at Oxford Circus, Central London - one of the busiest parts of London - in a bid to improve the world famous West End shopping area for the estimated 43,000 shoppers who negotiate the area each hour during peak times.
Based on x-crossings in Tokyo, the new design stops cars, taxis and buses in all directions, allowing shoppers to cross the junction diagonally. The junction - between Oxford Street and Regent Street - will now be able to handle double the number of pedestrians and ease overcrowding at the busy intersection, easing access to Oxford Circus tube station for the estimated 230,000 passengers who use the station each day when visiting the West End to enjoy the capital’s shops and nightlife.
London Mayor Boris Johnson unveiled the crossing by striking a two-metre high cymbal in homage to its Far Eastern inspiration, as Japanese musicians played taiko drums.
A giant X, in the form of 60m (196ft) of red ribbon was also unfurled by devotees of cult Japanese Manga characters dressed in colourful costumes on the day of the unveiling on Monday.
Former Boxer Joe Calzaghe may find himself back in the celebrity gossip columns and with a new fight on his hands when girlfriend, Strictly Come Dancing star dance instructor Kristina Rihanoff finds out the following…
In the early hours of last Monday morning the celeb sports star, 37, was seen sneaking out of top London VIP clubNo 5 Cavendish Square in the London Regent Street after cosying up to a mystery brunette.
He gave a greeting to the waiting photographers that some may think would be rude, and he was even wearing the same clothing he was seen in when he kissed Kristina, 32, on BBC2 spin-off show It Takes Two. The pictures are now all over the London papers… oh dear!
The pair were booted off the dance competition more than a week ago but are thought to be dating.
Last night a spokesman for the - now retired - undefeated World Champion boxer said: “Joe’s a single guy letting his hair down.”
Geordie Pop Princess Cheryl Cole has confessed doubts about her album making the Top 10 of the music charts prior to its release and banned her Girls Aloud from taking in her forthcoming TV performance.
Cheryl’s first solo album, 3 Words, will be released on Monday 26th October - the start of the same week that former pop legend Michael Jackson releases his first posthumous record.
The celeb star will be performing her new single ‘Fight For This Love’ on Saturday night when she appears on the X Factor - a move which is sparking controversy. The Girls Aloud singer is pre-recording her song in front of a studio audience of 800 in preference to performing live.
X Factor’s creative director Brian Freidman claims Cheryl has nothing to prove, “This is not Cheryl’s competition. She’s already competed in one before on TV, she’s proven herself as an artist so I don’t think it would really matter.”
The 26 year old celebrity and wife of Chelsea footballer Ashley Cole, is still very nervous about the performance and has banned all family and friends from watching the show!
Cheryl told GMTV, “The girls are itching to come down to support me when I perform but I kind of don’t want them to - because it is more scary.”
Come on Chezza, show us some of your famous fighting spirit!
The London Evening Standard is to join the ranks of the free newspapers in London.
According to reports 600,000 copies of the paper - which currently costs 50 pence - will be given out in London free from Monday, 12th October which will be a big increase on the current circulation of 250,000.
The newspaper, which was bought by Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev in January, from Associated Newspapers will compete with The London Lite paper which is already freely distributed following the withdrawal of the other free paper, the London Paper which was withdrawn from circulation in September.
