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The Rubens’ Gig at The Coogee Bay Hotel

Last night Aussie alt-rock band The Rubens gave the Coogee crowd a refreshing and feel-good performance at The Coogee Bay Hotel‘s historic music venue Selina. If like me before I set foot in Oz you don’t know who The Rubens are,…

Interview with Giacomo Smith from Kansas Smitty’s, the jazz man from London’s hottest jazz bar yet

If you read this blog you’ve probably already heard about my passion for Kansas Smitty’s crazy-fun jazz raves, discovered first at the Dead Dolls Club in Bethnal Green and then brought to one of East London’s greatest jazz bars, the band’s own Kansas Smitty’s bar.…

Summer Tales & Kansas Smitty’s opening weekend

I like to show my couchsurfers a good time, so this weekend I took advantage the most talked-about new openings – Summer Tales in Old Street and the coolest new speakeasy in town, Kansas Smitty’s Bar on Broadway Market –…

First impressions: jet-lagged in Brooklyn

Read about a nine-hour flight, a yellow taxi, a sleepless day, my first couchsurfing host and my first tour of New York’s version of Shoreditch: Brooklyn.

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