Capital FM is one of the stations I stream online during my workday and late night hours back in…read morethe Eastern USA (5 hours lagging behind GMT). Broadcasting from Leicester Square, this station used to be called Capital Radio and very recently, Capital 95.8. Capital FM plays a lot of similar Hit 40 (Top 40) music heard in America as well as some of my favourite British pop/rock musicians and groups such as Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, The Feeling, Scouting For Girls, Girls Aloud, Sugababes, The Saturdays, The Ting Tings, and several others. Last year, my boss and I were really stumped by the London I-Test, which involved 3 mystery celebrities saying "I" really fast, and you needed to guess each celebrity correctly in the correct order to win a big cash prize, which the prize amount declined each time a previous contestant guessed incorrectly. After a few weeks, someone eventually guessed correctly and won. It was fun to play unofficially since we were ineligible to win since we reside in America. As I'm going to bed really late, many people in Greater London are just waking up to start their day to the Capital Breakfast Show, which is more of a morning talk show. It's pretty cool that I can fall asleep to celebrity interviews and the latest gossip, news, weather, and travel and wake up to some good music with less talk and commercials.

The same songs and ads over and over again. And the cash games? Only a way to take your money. If…read moreyou really want to give free cash don't charge £1 for each text message. WhatsApp is free, just saying.

Matt Groening and Thurston Moore have both subscribed to The Wire for more than 15 years. Plus…read morecheck out their blog at http://www.thewire.co.uk/themire for adventures in modern music, with savvy tips on the next big thing. Wentworth Street itself is an important thoroughfare running east-west from the junction of Brick Lane, Osborn Street and Old Montague Street to Middlesex Street, forming part of the boundary between Spitalfields and St Mary's Whitechapel. It's also the alleged site where Emma Elizabeth Smith was attacked (by her own account) near the junction with Brick Lane/Osborn Street. Jack the Ripper fanatics will know this spot well, it's also the heart of the modern day red light district, not fun at 6am when business is booming believe me! Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrZ3opXYpf4&feature=related

Another handy newsagents for topping up your oyster card. Unfortunately, it's placed equidistant…read morebetween bus stops, so if you see a bus go by, you've no chance of catching it. You'll have to keep walking to the stop nearest the corner with Albion Road if you're heading into town on the 73 or catching the 393 towards Highbury, Holloway Road and Camden. The newsagents itself is pretty standard, with all the usual magazines, newspapers, sweets, chocolate, crisps and drinks. And they always seem pretty friendly when they serve you.

Don't use this place as an Amazon delivery point. They haven't a clue what to do and will refuse…read moreto give you the parcels even if you have ID and all of the relevant paperwork. Shop is stocked like it's still the '50's and we're on rations.

All your ex-pat needs in one totally random place!…read more Hot News has shelves full of Australian, New Zealand and US foods and drinks to satisfy your homesick cravings. And I'm not just talking Vegemite. This place has all the obscure cereals, chocolates, beers, spirits and snacks you've been missing, and if it's not on the shelf, you can ask the friendly owner to order it in for you. It is pricey, but no way near as much as the old Australian Shop in Covent Garden. We spent £50 and got: Nutri Grain, 2x Kraft peanut butter, Cherry Ripe, Summer Roll, 3x Twisties, Cheezels, Violet Crumble, Chicken Crimpys, and a 6 pack of VB. If you aren't Australian, that may sound like nonsense, but believe me when I say, finding this place has made me a far happier Aussie in London :)

This is such a tucked away spot, in the basement of a sort of mini-mall, but perfect if you're…read moreheading to the Cineworld opposite and want something a lil more interesting to eat. They have super basic sandwiches and cheap drinks if you're on a budget, but also imported snacks from the US and Australia. These are a little more costly but worth it for the experimental value. Reese's cereal with Hershey's chocolate milk? (Way better than you'd expect!) Even if you just want to browse, you'll find lots of intriguing items to look at. And best of all, the staff are really friendly: not your typical newsagents - and I speak from experience ;)

I'd bought several Insight Guides during the past few years and I receive their periodic e-mails…read more Last week I received notification that they were offering a terrific sale price - a 50% discount on all books from this (extensive) series - so I ordered six books. Initially there were problems with using the discount code and I needed to have multiple e-mail contacts with someone. It was well into the evening in London, but she responded incredibly promptly each time and she was extremely pleasant & helpful. The books arrived today and they were packed exceptionally well, so I'm very pleased. As an aside, the guidebooks from this company are full of many beautiful photos.

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To any commuter, Shortlist, the free paper distributed on Thursdays a welcome distraction from the…read moresame old same old METRO ad filled stuff that we have all become to accustomed to. With interesting features, as well as the shortlists, the magazine normally gets to reside in my briefcase for te week and is read cover to cover over the 7 days .before the next one comes out.

Dreadful from start to finish. Smooth talking salesman with big up pitch. He did say he was in…read morePortugal giving it large. I should have smelt a rat but hey I went for their so called campaign. Nothing happened, not one radio station or YouTube channel got back to us with an news. The owner David gives you the spiel about having been ripped off as an artist himself and yet I feel he's done the same to us. Total waste of 2k. Absolutely gutted and they should feel ashamed of themselves.

For songwriters like myself who are looking for radio promoters for their music, I wanted to share…read moremy experience with one radio promoter that claims to be the 'world's number one' service, Radio Pluggers - radiopluggers.com. (When I asked, they of course provided nothing to back up that claim). Unfortunately it was a very poor experience with radiopluggers.com They charge a very high fee and claim to send your music to thousands of radio stations and media outlets, but they don't tell you that only a very tiny fraction of the recipients are likely to engage with their email. In my case I was told that only 150 recipients clicked to listen to the song I was promoting, from 72,000 emails sent. If they truly sent that many emails, then that is 0.2% actual engagement. Clearly radiopluggers has no credibility with the overwhelming majority of it's recipients. They state on their website that they will 'ensure global radio airplay'. Of course, they cannot and do not. I asked for proof that they sent that many emails and was provided with none. I also asked very reasonably for a refund of some portion of the fee I paid due to the dismal results they produced, but they refused. Additionally I received several spam emails as a result of their mailout, from recipients offering even more shady promotional services. I'm very ashamed to admit that I was fooled by their marketing claims and I wasted a big chunk of a promotion budget that I had worked very hard to put together as a self-funded, independent artist - when it comes time to promote your own music do your research and use a reputable radio promoter, which radiopluggers.com simply is not.

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New Wave Networking…read more When you mention networking to most people, it conjures up visions of rooms of people sipping on coffee, banging on about what business they're in and scrambling around in pockets and handbags in search of business cards to hand out. As a freelance project manager, I have attended quite a few of these bashes, acknowledging that in business today, they are an essential element to securing new contacts and business. The only problem I have is that, when I rummage round in my bag, I'm more likely to find a magazine and some haribos,then those all important business cards! I expected the same old dishwater dull offering and thankfully, it was anything but that. John Turner is a business philosopher who helps businesses think out of the box and beyond traditional business ideals. He led our networking session, taking on a 360 journey,which was fun, challenging and engaging. Looking at networking from a philosophical perspective, John took the group through 3 stages of networking, using questions and challenges to drive our discussion and make us look at new takes on networking and what we wanted to achieve from it. We were encouraged on each rotation to meet more new people, not just people who worked in the same or similar industries,but those people who we might never connect with usually. My final group consisted of a life coach, a music production company owner, a fashion designer, an IT infrastructure guru and moi ! I left the session with all of their cards and a sincere promise from me, that I would follow up with all of them, which I'm actually looking forward to doing. Sometimes the things that we aren't looking forward to doing, turn out to be the very things we were looking for. AND JUST ONE LAST THING : A massive thank you to Juliet C who submitted this event on our Yelp London events calendar - thank you for finding this gem, held at Club Workspace, Clerkenwell.