It's the big Christmas concert in London City on Saturday 21st December and this year we have a new show featuring smooth voiced crooner, Mr Christmas himself, Michael Bublé!
Mr Bublé has been the other voice of Christmas (be thankful - it could have been Mariah) for many years now, so much so that he is almost a Christmas tradition.
There is a warm up party at World's End from 11am SLT (7pm UK) with DJ Katty and host Coffee. Teleport: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/London%20City/37/15/24
The party in the park starts at noon SLT (8pm UK) with Michael Bublé taking to the stage at 1pm SLT (9pm UK). Teleport: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/London%20City/122/109/24
Lala's is the place to be on a Friday from 1pm SL (9pm UK)
Madame Bailey plays tunes to get everyone hot under the collar. Be thrilled by chatty flirty visitors and get whisked off your SL feet or your RL walking stick.
Join the contest, suggest tunes and enjoy the banter!
Lala's is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 1pm SL time (9pm UK) with themed events for each party.
Glen Campbell's Country Christmas!
Saturday 12pm SL (8pm
UK) in the London City Concert Area.
Glen will be singing his most famous songs and some carols to get you
in the mood for the big day.
Campbell's career spans over 50
years. Not only is he a famous soup, he is perhaps one of the best known
Country singers of all time, with hits, Gentle On My Mind, Galveston,
Wichita Lineman, By The Time I Get to Phoenix and Rhinestone
Cowboy.
Famous for its warm beer and cold food: The Worlds End Pub and Eatery. Established 2009 (at least).
The only pub in the British Isles that still serves Scampi and Chips on a red serviette in a basket. Fried chicken is also available, as well as Betty Turpin's Hot Pot.
The pub features many themed events, including Bingo on Wednesdays from 11am SL (7pm UK), Saturday Night Knees up from 11am SL (7pm UK)
POSH BINGO TODAY at 11AM SL Win $$$
(Posh because the doors have been put back on the toilets since unmentionable vandalism. Please ask at the bar for toilet paper if needed)
All eyes are on the Worlds End Saturday Show this weekend as Katty and CoffeeQueen take to the airwaves to fill your Saturday evening with delightful seasonal tunes, Cash for Questions Quiz and Prize Bingo!
Enjoy delicious cold pies and warm beer at this premiere Public Tavern at the Southern most point of London City.
Merry Cliffmas! We present Cliff Richard in Concert this Saturday.
If you are a Cliff hanger then you will be thrilled that the British answer to Elvis (minus the pelvis) is appearing on stage singing all of his hits.
Cliff who has enjoyed over 200 years at the top will perform his famous songs (and many more) including, Living Doll, Wired for Sound, The Young Ones, Some People, Carrie, Bachelor Boy(!), Tutti Frutti, Devil Woman -- to name but a few!
Stuck for gift ideas this year? How about a Cliff Richard 2024 Calendar? Very reasonably priced at around £5.99, or from 49p for a 2022 one, available in any charity shop.
Kicking off the Christmas Concerts, its The Ronettes!
The Ronettes were an American pop girl group from New York.
The immensely popular Phil Spector sound of the 1960s, had the Ronettes pitched as their primary competition to Motown and the group charted nine times and are best known for Be My Baby, Baby I Love You and Da Doo Ron Ron. Phil Spector had a way of taking songs and renaming the band for each song even though it comprised of the same singers, (such as The Crystals).
Other temporary members who became famous after performing as backing for The Ronettes include Darlene Love and Cher.
Enjoy The Ronettes here in London City. Party starts at 12pm SL (8pm UK) with the show an hour later at 1pm SL.
The Regrettes are a Pop Punk band from LA, California. Fronted by Lydia Night they play a blend of 80's covers to their own pop tune musical arrangements.
A mix between Green Day and Blink 182, with a feminist take. They have has three hugely successful albums and have toured worldwide, supporting bands such as 21 Pilots.
This Los Angeles based teenage garage punk quartet, with a classicist pop bent and boundless energy rock the current pop punk scene and as they grow their music has matured into main stream.
See them this Saturday. The party starts at 12pm SL time (8pm UK) with the band performing at 1pm SL.
Armistice Day is observed every 11th November, to commemorate the signing of the armistice between the Allies and Germany on 11 November 1918. This significant treaty brought an end to World War I.
It is marked by two minutes silence at 11am on the 11th November in respect and remembrance of the 20 million people who died during the conflict.
Sunday is Remembrance Sunday - a day where we gather to commemorate the contribution of the British service men, women and animals during the two world wars and later conflicts.
Remembrance Sunday is always held on the Sunday closest to Armistice Day (11th November). Armistice Day marks the signing of the Armistice between the Allies of World War I and Germany. The Armistice was an agreement to end the fighting on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
Please join us as we gather to pay our respects. We gather from 2:30am SLT/10:30am GMT. The two minute silence will be observed at 3:00am SLT/11:00am GMT.
London City presents the Welsh Sexbomb himself, Sir Tom Jones in Concert.
Singing absolutely everything he ever made famous including, What's New Pussycat, Baby It's Cold Outside, Delilah, Sexbomb, Leave Your Hat On, to his more recent songs, Sir Tom is bound to be a hit at the Party In The Park.
What's more, you can even win 250L (enough for some knickers to throw at Sir Tom)
Back in 1605, Guido Fawkes and his cronies wanted to protest on how Catholics were treated.
So they decided that they would try to blow up the Houses of Parliament, in particular the House of Lords, by smuggling in hundreds of gunpowder kegs into the cellar for a firework display of their own and try detonating them on 5th November as the King (James I) was opening Parliament.
Unfortunately for Guy Fawkes, one of his gang was a lag and would blab when he got smashed and word soon spread all over town about this amazing party they were planning. They were caught in the act without so much as a roman candle going off.
Penny for the Guy?
In those days execution was considered as a fitting punishment for minor crimes like stealing a loaf of bread. So they decided on a more fitting punishment and decided to chop Guy Fawkes into bits, hang him for a couple of minutes, disembowel him and do other unmentionable things to embarrass him whilst he was still alive.
Since petty crime only resulted in the severing of limbs and sometimes being boiled in oil, this gruesome torture of being 'hung drawn and quartered' was reserved exclusively for traitors.
Whilst Guy Fawkes was a bit of a shit, he is also widely regarded as a person who knew how to Party.
This is still observed on 5th November every year, when people of Great Britain, literally burn money they don't have and cheer as they see it go up in flames and whoosh into the air and erupt as fireworks.. whilst those who are more sensible collect old logs, burn and effigy called a Guy and create a massive bonfire to roast their chestnuts.
A popular show making a welcome return to London City on Saturday is the wonderful Amy MacDonald, a Scottish singer, songwriter and composer, who shot to fame in
2008 with her debut album, This Is The Life.
Singing her most famous songs accompanied by a full big band orchestra, this concert is one not to be missed!
Party starts at 12pm SL (8pm UK) and the concert is an hour later at 1pm SL.
Thank you to everyone who either appeared in, or attended, The War Of The Worlds interactive Stage Show in London City.
The cast all died magnificently in the heat ray and resurrected just as quickly for the Tripod invasion. Everyone deserves to win whatever the SL equivalent of the Oscar's is.
Happy Halloween.. and the events continue today at Substation's macabre collection of music from Bailey.
"At midnight, on the 12th of August, a huge mass of luminous green gas erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth. Across two hundred million miles of void, invisibly hurtling towards us, came the first of the missiles that were to bring so much calamity to Earth. As I watched, there was another jet of gas. It was another missile, starting on its way.
And that's how it was for the next ten nights. A flare, spurting out from Mars. Bright green, drawing a green mist behind it; a beautiful, but somehow disturbing sight. Ogilvy, the astronomer, assured me we were in no danger. He was convinced there could be no living thing on that remote, forbidding planet".
Join us for The War of The Worlds interactive stage show, today. London City at 12pm SL time.
Please dress in turn of the century clothing or steampunk if you would like to be with us on the stage for this interactive show.
The War of The Worlds comes to London City on Saturday!
On 30th October 1938 long before television, CBS broadcast a radio version of The
War of The Worlds.
They mentioned several times at the start of the show that
it was a dramatisation.
The format of the show was that of a light music program,
constantly interrupted by reporters giving an account of the aliens progressive
invasion.
What the network had overlooked was that the
average radio listener to jump stations throughout the evening.
As the play continued, more and more people tuned in to the
War of The Worlds broadcast without realising it was a play. Furthermore the
radio broadcast had used real town names instead of fictitious ones, and one by
one each town fell into the hands of the Martians.
Panic ensued as whole towns, swept in waves of hysteria,
packed their possessions and fled to surrounding areas.
A suicide was reported as one woman said she would rather die than be
taken by the Martians. In another town there was a fatal stampede as residents
desperate to leave trampled each other.
The following morning CBS were forced to hold a press
conference to explain themselves and to apologize for the duress they had
subjected their listeners to.
Ultimately with such intense press coverage, this catapulted
the actor who has played the lead reporter, a young and unknown Orson Welles, into
super-stardom. Just three short years
later, he wrote, produced, directed and starred in Citizen Kane.
Join us in LondonCity on Saturday for the interactive stage show version of this most famous of classics.
Our evening begins with a huge mass of luminous gas erupting from Mars and heading towards Earth.
Across two-hundred-million miles
of void, invisibly hurtling towards us, is the first of the missiles that will
bring so much calamity.
Be part of this show.
Come dressed however you like, but to be in the cast and to dance on the
stage, please wear turn of the century or steampunk clothing. Men in cloth caps and working clothes, ladies
in bustles or bonnets, or as maids.
Circa anytime between 1880 to 1940.
London City's tribute to Breaking Glass, with Hazel O'Connor, from the 1980's Punk/New Wave scene.
The hit film starring Hazel O'Connor and Phil Daniels, and broke the UK box office in 1981.
The film was called Breaking Glass and charted the success of a post-Punk/New Wave singer 'Kate' from humble beginnings, singing in rowdy back street bars, to sudden super stardom and her eventual meltdown.
Hazel O'Connor wrote and performed all of songs from the movie and just like her character in the film, experienced a brief superstardom in the early 80s with songs, Black Man, Eighth Day, If Only, Writing on the Wall, D-Days, Who Needs It and her most famous of all, Will You, which remained in the charts for 14 weeks.
In January 2022, Hazel suffered a life changing brain haemorrhage and remains on a very long and challenging road to recovery.
On Saturday 26th October, London City invites you to take part in War Of The Worlds.
Be a member of the cast in this interactive stage show!
As part of the Halloween celebrations, we hope you will join us for some Sci-Fi Horror as we enjoy an interactive interpretation of H.G. Wells' famous classic, The War Of The Worlds.
The story so far...
A huge mass of luminous gas has erupted on Mars and sped towards earth.
Across two-hundred-million miles of void, invisibly hurtling towards us, comes the first of the missiles that is to bring so much calamity to earth.
As we watched, there was another jet of gas, another missile, starting on its way.
The invasion has begun!
Come to the party dressed however you like, but to be part of the Cast (and dance on stage) in this Interactive Show, please dress in turn of the century clothing. Men in cloth caps and working clothes, ladies in bustles and bonnets or dressed as maids - circa anytime from 1880 to 1940.
We do hope you will join us for this production of WOTW at London in Second Life.
Do you remember when SL banned Spinning Wheels throughout the kingdom?
Well the great news is that Gatcha's are now 'legal' again, so long as the content isn't transferable. There is more to it than that, but essentially that is what it boils down to. See the Lab's story here
Back when they were outlawed we had to remove the World's Worst Gatcha from London City to comply with new rules, much to the disappointment of many people who enjoyed playing the machine to see what awful accessory it gave you.
We're really pleased to announce that it is back and in the hub and waiting for you to abuse it.
A brand new show for you this Saturday at Party in the Park: Meatloaf
Meat Loaf was an American singer and actor. He was known for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. His Bat Out of Hell album has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
Party in the Park starts at 12pm SL time (8pm UK) with the Concert at 1pm SL.
It's the return of the Saturday Concerts, starting this Saturday at 12pm SL time (8pn UK)
Forty years ago (at least), waitress Debbie Harry, who had been performing part-time in
a folk band, formed Blondie with her friend Chris Stein.
In 1976 they
released their first album Blondie and from then on became a huge
success in Australia, England and America.
Although the bulk of their
hits were in a relatively short timespan from 1978 to 1981, their most
successful release, Maria was not until the band reformed, many years
later in 1999.
Now regularly touring again, you can enjoy the hits once
more at The Blondie Tribute Concert, this Saturday in London City. The party
begins at 12pm SL (8pm UK) with the show an hour later at 1pm
SL.
It's time to celebrate the jolly music of German Bands (oomph paa paa) as Madame Lala's celebrates Oktoberfest on Friday night from 1pm SL time (9pm UK). Free Beer, Jolly People and no mention of Angela Merkel or Brexit.
As part of the testing for the forthcoming big changeover from Vivox Voice services to WebRTC, London City Gateway region supports WebRTC beta deployment from Linden Lab.
Residents are encouraged to test their voice out with friends, in our Gateway region and check that their viewer is WebRTC compliant.
The UK famously does not acknowledge any storm as a hurricane until it has been and gone, but as storms go, this is a big one and will last until Saturday evening.
Fear not, London City in Second Life is still spring like, with only the odd 100mph winds gusting through.
Our team are mostly in their bunkers with tinned spam left over the from pandemic, a torch and a flask of cocoa.
Rougher than Stormy Daniels
We will see you today at 1pm SL, as Madame Bailey, trooper that she is, will appear on stage at Lala's looking like she has been dragged through a hedge backwards.
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