please empty your brain below
You can't leave us hanging like that. WHEN IS THE RELENTLESS ENERGY DRINK FREEZE FESTIVAL?!?!

Scott | Homepage | 10.10.12 - 8:43 a.m. | #

The answer, of course, is to subscribe to the weekly email from Ian Visits (fourth one down on the blog roll).

Marc | 10.10.12 - 9:19 a.m. | #

Fifth one down: and the third one down is dg - oh, hang on, are you predicting the near future when Ian Visits w i l l be fourth?

Gordon | 10.10.12 - 9:28 a.m. | #

I get IanVisits delivered to me regularly and, together with what DG comes out with, I have enough ideas for my irregular visits into other bits of town without the need to visit London with the aid (or hindrance) of Visit London.

If I need my memory jogging for odd ideas, then I refer to my odd lot of London books - and there are a few pages of useful lists on 'about.com' London travel pages, such as 'Free London Small Museums'.

Interesting to see the site of Barking Power Station on Monday DG, my brother worked there when it was at its most-chimneyed smokiness.

Herb of Romford | 10.10.12 - 9:42 a.m. | #

DG, have you seen the daily posts on Londonist rounding up the day's events and things to do? http://londonist.com/2012/10/wordofthedayisruncible.php

We're also looking at doing it in email form if people are interested.

BethPH | Homepage | 10.10.12 - 10:28 a.m. | #

I am interested.

Herb of Romford | 10.10.12 - 10:48 a.m. | #

Even tourists might like to find a genuinely useful what's on events finder, surely. I'm visiting Paris next month and have had similar problems trying to find an interesting event for that particular weekend.

As for the Brighton events page . . . it invariably crashes internet explorer!

Ian Brooker | 10.10.12 - 11:19 a.m. | #

We run a general UK travel site, and Visit Britain are a waste of space for UK residents and most of the overseas countries. They spend millions ( yes millions ) on web site designs yet produce useless web sites. Its all political, grab as much Goverment money as you can, expand your empire, do some unreliable surveys, and set yourself targets that can't be measured.

There's no good listings as the local quangos have their own websites, as you note, and VB don't want to spend the money to collect the data themselves and there is no national integration.

Oh and they closed down the Regent Street TIC, well EVERYONE uses the WWW these days, don't they.. um NO

splashy | 10.10.12 - 12:48 p.m. | #

I find that http://planvine.com can be good for finding things to do.

Adam | 10.10.12 - 2:57 p.m. | #

Hi all,

I'm from Culture24, a charity funded to collect and share data from UK arts and heritage venues. This includes an event listings service - http://www.culture24.org.uk.

It's never going to be completely exhaustive, as venues add their own events listings, but it is searchable in various different ways - you can view the results on a map or in a list, by place, subject, target audience, and definitely by date, using the "Refine your search" options at the right hand side of the results screen.

Hope this is useful!

Rosie | Homepage | 11.10.12 - 5:35 p.m. | #

Hi Rosie

Thanks for that! It's always useful to know about another comprehensive listing of very interesting events.

But I tried searching for "What's on this weekend in London?" and the best I could get was a long list of 242 different events. Many of these take place every weekend, not just this weekend, so it's incredibly hard to spot the one-off "go now or miss it" specials. And some events aren't on this weekend at all (one event on the first page doesn't take place until July 2013).

So thanks, but there's still too much to search through for this to be truly useful.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 11.10.12 - 6:58 p.m. | #

Thanks for taking a look! Ours certainly isn't perfect either: we have similar issues to Visit London in this respect. However, this is useful feedback as we're working on trying to make our search facility better.

All the best, and have a good weekend.

Rosie | Homepage | 12.10.12 - 9:56 a.m. | #











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