TUESDAY 2 MAR, 2010

GET A ROOM
Stay in the world’s smallest pop-up hotel.

Hotels are good for two things; illicit affairs which depend on anonymous bed-linen and room-service strawberries, and the more holiday-centric concern of being close to your host-city’s big attractions. But they tend to make our own homes feel a tad – well - mundane (plus who’s getting hotel-style nookie when the cat needs feeding and the washing machine’s making a funny sound, hmm?)

So, if you’re in the mood for either a) headboard banging, or b) waking up and rediscovering your own city through a visitor’s eyes, all without committing to a night in a bricks and mortar establishment (thus cementing your guilty secrets) we may have the temporary answer.

Visit London and the Radisson Edwardian have pimped out an American Airstream caravan and turned it into the world’s smallest pop-up hotel, touring the city from the 13th – 19th March and parking outside the likes of Alexandra Palace, the South Bank and Covent Garden. The mini-boutique hotel includes a double bedroom with en-suite facilities, dining area, mini-bar and TV, as well as a concierge, room service and breakfast.

The only way you can check in is by entering the online competition, which closes on the 7th March and could win you a night’s stay at any of the various stopping points, as well as tickets to top London attractions which you might have otherwise ignored. What you get up to on your night out/in is entirely up to you.

As they say, if the caravan’s a’rockin, don’t come a’knockin.

Info
The World’s Smallest Pop-Up Hotel
15th-19th March, Various London locations
Competition closes 7th March
Enter here.

Queen of Hoxton’s First Birthday

Innovative East End nightspot, The Queen of Hoxton, is celebrating her first birthday – and she’d love you to come and help blow out the candles with a week-long line up of events. Kick it off tonight with disco punk sensation WhoMadeWho, and find out what else she has in store (including a brass band, bingo, and an extra special Cover to Cover) here.

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DAILY NOTE

It's hard to believe that one state-run comprehensive in the capital is producing genre busting, award nominated artists year after year, but there's clearly something in the core curriculum at the Elliott School in Putney that's helping foster musical geniuses. Four Tet, Hot Chip, Burial, Adem and most recently The xx - they've all passed through the Elliott's south London music room. In Tuesday's Daily Note, we head down to the original school of rock to talk to former pupils and teachers. Just remember to bring money for the tuck shop.

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ART – Find out how rivers combine in Epoh Beech's ethereal sketches.
10am-6pm, The Gallery on Redchurch Street, 50 Redchurch Street, E2 7DP. £3-5.

PARTY – Kick of the QOH's birthday celebrations with WhoMadeWho. 8pm-late, Queen of Hoxton, 1 Curtain Road, EC2A 3JX. £10.

SHOP – Snap up some cosy cashmere at Tse's Sample Sale. 10am-8pm, Camden Centre, Bidborough Street, WC1H 9AU. Free.

MUSIC – Red Bull Music Academy alumni take to the decks tonight. 7pm - midnight. Book Club, 106 Leonard Street, EC2A 4RH. Free.