93 Feet East is a bar, club, and live-music venue at 150 Brick Lane in Shoreditch, East London, set within the Old Truman Brewery in the heart of one of the capital's most fashionable districts. Established in 1999, the Grade II-listed venue has long been an institution on the East London scene and is noted for its high-quality Funktion-One sound systems. The venue comprises several distinct spaces, including a Live Room with a capacity of around 410, a main room holding roughly 375, a members'.....

ABBA Arena is a purpose-built concert venue in the Stratford district of east London, constructed specifically to host ABBA Voyage, a groundbreaking show in which the Swedish pop group appear as digital avatars, affectionately nicknamed ABBA-tars, performing alongside a live band. Opened in 2022, the demountable structure was designed to be the largest of its kind, seating several thousand spectators, and represents one of the most ambitious uses of motion-capture and projection technology in l.....

At 114.5 metres, the ArcelorMittal Orbit is the tallest sculpture in Britain, a looping lattice of red steel rising above the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, east London. It was created for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games as a permanent landmark for the new park. The work was designed by the artist Anish Kapoor with the structural engineer Cecil Balmond, and largely funded by the steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, whose company gave the tower its name and supplied much of the.....

Founded by the comedian Lee Hurst in 1998, the Backyard Comedy Club is a purpose-built comedy venue in Bethnal Green, in London's East End. It moved to its current site at 231 Cambridge Heath Road in 2013, a couple of minutes' walk from Bethnal Green tube and overground stations. Billed as one of the largest dedicated comedy clubs in the capital, it programmes professional stand-up featuring television names and circuit regulars, with the founder himself appearing from time to time. Since the m.....

Tracing the story of the Fab Four, the Beatles Explorer is an open-top bus tour of Liverpool that departs from the Royal Albert Dock on Gower Street. Run by City Explorer Liverpool, the tour gathers fans for a guided loop around the locations tied to the band's early life and music. Departing daily, usually at midday with extra services in the summer, the route lasts around ninety minutes to two hours with live commentary throughout. After leaving the dock and a second stop at the Pier Head, .....

Set on Dray Walk in the heart of the Old Truman Brewery complex just off Brick Lane, the Brick Lane Tap Room is an independent East London bar built around a regularly rotating range of draught beer. It began life as a temporary pop-up and proved popular enough to become a permanent fixture of the area's drinking scene, typically pouring more than ten lagers, ales and stouts at any one time. The address places it among the cobbled walkways and converted industrial buildings of the brewery site i.....

Opened in 2017 beside Tower Bridge, the Bridge Theatre was the first major commercial theatre built in London for decades, set in the Potters Fields Park development on the south bank of the Thames. It was founded by Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr, the pair who had previously led the National Theatre, under their new London Theatre Company. The auditorium seats around 900 and was designed to be highly adaptable, able to switch between traditional end-on staging and full in-the-round configurat.....

Metal pilgrims from around the world make their way to a street corner by Maryland station in Stratford, east London, because this is where Iron Maiden began. The Cart and Horses - a pub trading since the 18th century, on its current corner at 1 Maryland Point since around 1805 and rebuilt around 1880 - was the band's first residential venue: Steve Harris's young group played weekly gigs here from 1976 to 1978, with Dave Murray making his debut on the pub's stage on 21 December 1976. By 1977 the.....

Blending storytelling, theatrical design and immersive technology, this experience invites visitors to step into the world of Cleopatra, the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt and one of the most famous women of the ancient world. Staged in the exhibition halls beside the river in east London, the attraction uses recreated settings, projections, soundscapes and interactive elements to evoke the splendour of Alexandria and the dramatic events of Cleopatra's reign, from her relati.....

Spotlighting female, non-binary and queer artists across a programme that runs from jazz to techno, Colour Factory is a Black-owned nightclub, live-music venue and multi-functional events space in the heart of Hackney Wick. Open since 2018, it advocates cultural diversity and an all-inclusive environment, building a reputation as one of east London's most distinctive grassroots venues. The venue is made up of several connected areas, including the main Factory room, a three-hundred-capacity out.....