Articles tagged ‘O2 Arena’
London News 11.23
By Chris | November 23rd, 2007 |
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* U2 say they’re not playing London’s O2 Arena next year so don’t buy tickets if you see them advertised. BBCNews
* The proportion of 15-34 year old Britons using cocaine is the highest in the developed world for the first time. EveningStandard
* All Britons will have to produce a passport to get a job. DailyMail
World DJ Championships
By Chris | September 28th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The indigO2, the O2 Arena’s state of the art music venue, is hosting the DMC World DJ Championships next weekend 6-7 October when some of the world’s best exponents on the turntable go head to head.
There are solo and team events with eliminations in the solo competition lasting 3 minutes and the final 6. [...]
Led Zeppelin at the O2 Arena
By Chris | September 12th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Legendary rock band Led Zeppelin have announced they’re reforming for a one off concert at London’s O2 Arena as a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records who signed the band in 1968 and who died late last year. (He also co-founded the New York Cosmos football team, see the film Once In [...]
London News 09.12
By Chris | September 12th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Man pleads guilty to punching Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson at Euston Station on Monday afternoon. BBCNews
* Led Zeppelin to reform for one-off gig at London’s O2 Arena. Telegraph
* Demographers say Leicester will become the first city in Britain with a minority white population in 12 years time. TheIndependent
Turbo Tennis at the O2
By Chris | September 11th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Taking a leaf out of cricket’s book and their crash-bang Twenty20 form of the game, this Saturday 15 September the O2 Arena in Greenwich stages the Betfair Turbo Tennis tournament, a souped up version of the game you see at Wimbledon.
This one day event with a $100,000 first prize involves 30 minute matches with strict [...]
Tutankhamun and The Golden Age of the Pharoahs tickets
By Chris | August 31st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This November the O2 Arena hosts a major exhibition called Tutankhamun and The Golden Age of the Pharoahs featuring over 130 spectacular objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings which date back to between 1555BC-1305BC.
The last time a Tutankhamun exhibition was held in London was in 1972 when over 1.8million [...]
Music Legends play London
By Chris | August 16th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Late summer seems to be the time when the older rockers come out to play in London. Prince (49) is working his way through playing his 21 shows at the O2 Arena in London, the same venue where The Rolling Stones will play three gigs starting next Tuesday 21 August.
Mick Jagger (64), Keith Richards [...]
Red Bull Air Race - London
By Chris | July 26th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The next event in the Red Bull Air Race World Series takes place in London this weekend 28-29 July. A course has been set up on a stretch of the River Thames along by the O2 Arena (Millennium Dome) and the race can only be viewed properly from the designated and ticketed areas cordoned off [...]
The beach at the O2
By Chris | July 16th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The O2 Arena is the old Millennium Dome converted into an entertainment complex with bars, restaurants, cinemas, a 27,000 seat indoor sports and music venue, and for the next seven weeks a beach.
The O2 have brought in 1,000 tons of sand to transform its Piazza section into a 20 metre diameter size beach with an [...]
New tennis event for London
By Chris | July 3rd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
With Wimbledon another washout today tennis fans in the UK at least had a little bit of good news when the ATP, the governing body of the men’s professional tennis circuit, announced that the end of season Masters Cup featuring the top 8 singles and doubles players on the men’s tour will be held in [...]
