Amy MacDonald Concert - Video

Enjoy the video from last night's Bank Holiday concert featuring Amy MacDonald.
Again its in high definition, so click the little cog on the Youtube window to change the quality.

Bank Holiday Bonus - Amy MacDonald today at 12pm

You will recall that we cancelled Amy recently to pay tribute to Our Cilla.

Well as a special Brucey Bonus, Amy is playing as Part of Substation today at 12pm SL.

Join us for Substation at 11am SL / 7pm UK, with the concert an hour later at 12pm SL.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/London%20City/80/238/24

Last night in London City..

The plonk was flowing and you all showed yourselves up disgracefully.  I on the other hand, was sober as a judge, a gentleman, witty and debonair.  At least, that is how I remember it, and I'll drink to that.

Enjoy the video of the antics and don't forget Substation today at 11am SL time (7pm UK) where we can carry on, thanks to a long weekend here in the UK.


The video is in hi-def, so click the little cog to change settings.

Bank Holiday Weekend

In the UK, the Summer Bank Holiday weekend is upon us and all the supermarkets, are offering cheap grog!

Whilst millions of people will try to leave work as early as possible on Friday to get a head start a on the three day binge of barbies and booze, London City will be setting up for Carnival.

On Friday, from 10am SL (6pm UK), Edge and The Crown in London City West, will all be open for an early Bank Holiday knees-up, followed by Bar Soho and Madame Lalas in London City from 11am SL

On Saturday, we have UB40 in Concert.

UB40 are a British reggae and pop band with more than 50 singles in the UK chart since they began in 1978 and are still performing today.

Selling over 70 million records, the band is best known for songs, Red Red Wine, Kingston Town, Falling in Love With You, Breakfast in Bed, Homely Girl, Don't Break My Heart and many more.

Join us on Saturday at 12pm SL (8pm UK) for London City's tribute to UB40
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/London%20City/101/108/23

Second Life Premium - Equivalent of just 26p a month

It has to be said, the removal of VAT charges for those of us in Europe, is a huge incentive to encourage new Premium Members.

VAT is no longer charged for Premium Membership!

Second Life Monthly Premium Accounts, just got even better with a price reduction from $9.95 to $9.50 per month.

Let us break this down for residents in the UK, although of course it applies to all countries where VAT is charged.

Old Monthly Price $9.95 plus 20% VAT = $11.94   =  £7.74 per month

New Monthly $9.50  = £6.16 per month
Quarterly $22.50  (with VAT £17.50)  now without VAT £14.58
Annually $72.00 (with VAT £55.98) now without VAT £46.65

Also, you receive 300 L$ every week when you are a premium member.  This is the equivalent of £3.35 per month.

You also receive a one off 1000 L$ bonus, applied to your account after 30 days of being a Premium member worth £2.59

This is a total of  16,600 L$ that you will receive credited to your in-world balance over the course of the year, or in real money £43.56.

So if we take off the money you receive back from being a Premium Member, the equivalent monthy payments for a Premium account become:
Monthly   £2.53
Quarterly 97p
Annually 26p

Benefits of Premium Accounts:

A Linden Home -or- a 512 sq meter parcel for you to build on supporting 117 prims.
Expanded Support, now including Live Chat
Exclusive Activities including Dune Buggy Racing in Racer's Gulch
Free Premium member gifts
Access to Premium member only Sandboxes
Increase from 42 to 60 groups!
Increase from 25 to 50 offline messages!
Other offers and incentives offered constantly.

In conclusion,  If you regularly buy Linden Dollars for purchasing goods, it most definitely worth your while in upgrading your account because of all the added extras you get.  If you regularly purchase more than 1200 L$ in any given month, you could be missing out by not having a Premium Account!

You also significantly benefit all of Second Life.  Subscriptions bring in a regular income for Linden Lab and the team of Developers, but also places another 300 L$ into the virtual economy, per premium member, per week, ensuring that there is a healthy influx of new cash entering the grid on a regular basis.

 For more information and to check out the upgrade options, visit https://secondlife.com/premium

Destinations in London City

The destinations tab on this blog has been updated to reflect the new attractions now available throughout the London City estate.   Happy clicking!      Destinations and Landmarks

ABBA in London City - The video

For one night only ABBA returned last night, to London City.

Abba the Movie it 'aint.   Why oh why did I try to be clever and watermark it? :(
Enjoy the video of Saturday night in London City.   Sorry it's a little rough.

London City Weekend

Here is the video of Friday night in London City.  Bar Soho and Madame Lala's are also open throughout the week.  

Today at 11am SL time (7pm UK) join Coffee and Katty in Worlds End Pub, then hop over to Party in The Park at 12pm SL, with ABBA on stage at 1pm SL.    Right afterwards, Bar Soho will be taking us through to the early hours of Sunday morning.

Cilla Black's funeral today

The funeral of Cilla Black will take place today at 1pm at St. Mary's Church in Woolton, Liverpool.

More than 4,000 people have signed a book of condolence, following her abrupt death on 1st August whilst on holiday in Spain, aged 72.

Fans are expected to line the 2-mile cortège route and Liverpool will observe a two minute silence in remembrance of this icon.

So if you are reading this at lunch time.  Spare a thought for Our Cilla.

Firestorm: New Release

The eagerly anticipated update for the popular Third Party viewer, Firestorm is now available.

This is a significant release, bringing the viewer in-line with the latest code available from the Lab and includes numerous fixes and enhancements to Firestorm's previous versions.

The viewer now offers full support for Experience Keys, which means users will now see the full permissions request dialogue instead of the truncated version that non Experience Key viewers currently display.

London City was an early closed-beta tester of Linden Lab's Creator Tools, see our stories for more information about Experience keys:   London City Advanced Creator Tools     Creator Tools Portals and Creator Tools in Singularity

Firstorm also now fully supports Viewer-Managed Marketplace.

Visit the Firestorm Viewer page to download the updated product.

Project Sansar: Closed Alpha now underway

Linden Lab announced via a press release on Tuesday that the next generation of Virtual World reality, known during its development cycle as Project Sansar, is now in the closed alpha testing phase.

Due for release to the public in late 2016, the closed alpha currently has a small number of content creators trying out the platform for the first time, with more being invited later in the year.

The lab is keen to point out that Second Life is not going anywhere and that Sansar will run alongside their existing flagship product.

See the press release here

Last night in the City

Yesterday was our 6th Birthday.  Thank you to everyone who came and partied with us to the sounds of Steps.

Here's a video of the drunken antics at Party in The Park and Bar Soho, Enjoy!

New Schedule: Bar Soho, Madame Lala's and The Worlds End

Bar Soho makes its return on Friday!   The first club London City ever opened is making a welcome return to number 1 Soho Square.

We have taken this opportunity to simplify the club opening times so you never need to miss an event again.

Other regions in the estate with clubs Edge and The Crown are unaffected and will continue with their regular schedules, but in London City(1) you can now enjoy entertainment throughout the evening at these new regular times each day.

This new schedule also increases Madame Lala's trading days from one to three times a week. 

So whenever you logon during the UK evenings from 7pm UK, there is always something happening!

This new schedule begins on Friday!

How it began...

Historians note..
Six years ago on a little 8192 parcel on the mainland, we built this tiny street "Soho Square", with just 8 shops and Bar Soho nightclub.  The buildings have improved somewhat over the years, but they are "of the time".  This road ultimately spread out to become London City.

We hope you will come and celebrate our 6th Birthday with us this coming weekend!

Also, we have a brand new schedule for the clubs starting this weekend  - news on that very soon.

Bar Soho, the first club of London City

Lala's was one of the 8 shops before it became a club.

Last night in London...

An amazing show with Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons.  If you weren't there, you missed some incredible dance choreography.  Completely mesmerizing and bringing an extra element of life to the show. 

 

And we also had a great send off for Juiced!

 

Bon Voyage to JUICED!

Today heralds the end of an era for the chameleon nightclub JUICED!

Juiced first opened its doors in July 2012 and after three years of serving the community it has earned its place in London City history.

With a rapidly changing scenery every week, Juiced is the ultimate in themed parties and tonight for its final outing a jungle theme has been created so we can all be transported on safari in an instant.

Jon and MJ who have been running Juiced for two years are not leaving London City, they will still continue with excellent sets and contests, but feel that Juiced should go out on a high and to that end, have decided to bring the curtain down for this final show.

The club is unique in changing its surroundings each week and was the brainchild of RubyJones, who opened it in London City3 in 2012.    It has had far too many interiors to picture them all, but here are some of the ones we enjoyed.

Visit Juiced! today at 2.30pm SL time (10.30pm UK) to bid a fond and affectionate farewell to a club that has always been at the heart of the community.  

Thanks to everyone who has been a part of Juiced!

Juiced TP:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/London%20City/198/203/24

Vintage ad:




Next week, a new chapter in London City clubbing begins....  stay tuned for news!

EDGE dancebar

Prime Rump for your delight at EDGE

Edge the Gay Dancebar for men has settled in to its new home in London City West.

Being in an adult region, clothing is entirely optional and if you want to have a great night out with some beefy fit guys, look no further than this all male bar, playing club, house and trance music.

Today at 10am SLT (6pm UK) head over to Edge for a great set by our newest DJ on the block, DJ DirtyB

Edge is open at this regular time, Sunday through Friday.

Visit here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/London%20City%20West/107/60/24

Cilla in London City - The Video

By popular request, here is a re-run of Cilla's first outing to London City in February this year.

Cilla died suddenly on Saturday night, whilst on holiday with her family in Spain.
She will be missed.

Celebrating Six Years of London City

London City's 6th Birthday

London City celebrates its 6th birthday! Throughout August enjoy live events, weekend concerts, fun fair, vintage memorabilia hunt and themed collectibles from six years in Second Life. Details at mainlandlondon.blogspot.co.uk

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Six Years of London City

London City began its life on the mainland in a region called Mephilo Tor.   The region is still around but largely vacant.

It all seems like such a long time ago.   Here's an old video of "Mainland London" as we called it back then.   Hopefully my video editing skills have improved slightly since these early videos.

Our Cilla - The Tribute

Thank you for coming to the special Tribute show for Cilla Black.    We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.   Here's to ya chuck!

Our Cilla, went before her time

Cilla Black

Some very sad news today, Cilla Black has died aged just 72.

The iconic star from the 1960's onwards, began as a cloak room girl at the Cavern in Liverpool when The Beatles were first starting out and rapidly rose to fame after being spotted as an emerging talent.

We were due to bring you the second Amy MacDonald concert this evening at 11am SL time (7pm UK) but in tribute, The London City Players will now perform "Our Cilla" in Concert.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/London%20City/90/241/24

Amy MacDonald, Encore at 11am SL

Last night's Amy MacDonald concert was a sell-out.   Some great news if you missed the big band concert,  Amy will return today at 11am SL time (7pm UK) for her second show and her alternative concert.   Don't miss it!