Just in case you are not all partied out from the weekend and you want to celebrate Halloween in style check out the downtheditch.com guide to Halloween in Shoreditch.

First up we have Man Flu, Advert, Sulk and Zoetrope with their night entitled ‘Popular’.  Billed as the best Halloween party ever you can head down the Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen tonight for Rock, Punk, Electro and Dance music.  It’s £5 on the door and according to them “GETTING DRUNK ON A SCHOOL NIGHT! MONDAY IS THE NEW FUNDAY”.  There will be prizes for the best dressed on the night, so it may just be worth staying out late and getting in trouble for! You can find more details here

Alternatively you can head down to the Courtyard Theatre on Pitfield Road for “The Night of the Damned”.  It kicks off from 7.30pm as part of the London Horror festival and entry is £10.  Expect to hear the sounds of gothic rockers and electro carnage featuring ‘Release of the Bats’ ‘Corpse Lights’ and lots more horrific stuff i’m sure! You can find out more information here

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Old Street’s Thai Thai restaurant is the one of the East End’s little gems with far ranging appeal to hipster socialites and East End locals.  If you are a Thai Green Curry or Pad Thai chicken connoisseur look no further than Thai Thai.  With beautiful ambience for a relaxed atmosphere and charming wood furnishings Thai Thai is a great place for a meal with friends and colleagues.  A special mention for the pumpkin curry must be made as we quickly approach Halloween, a item on the menu that provides a genuinely unique offering.  Staff are friendly, courteous and polite  so you can rest assured that you will receive service with a smile.

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Village Underground have set up an innovative new project aiming to raise £20,000 to install metal and glass screens at the site on Great Eastern Street.  Village Underground is a not-for-profit studio and warehouse which showcases artwork from some of the brightest emerging street artists.  Installation of the screens will enable canvases, prints and digital works to be exhibited along the street and keep it safe from vandalism  The idea behind the open air exhibition is that the artists will be able to keep their work and sell it at a later date after the exhibition has finished.

The Village Underground needs to raise £20,000 to complete this project are looking for donations from the public which can be made here

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Since Andrew Spraggon’s first formative releases as Sola Rosa at the turn of the 21st century, he’s steadily built a reputation for his deft synthesis of styles and quiet disregard for the niceties of genre boundaries. With a catch-all sound encompassing the best of hip hop, reggae, jazz, latin, soul and funk, all six of Sola Rosa’s criticallyacclaimed albums are a potent distillation of the music that’s influenced Spraggon over the course of his decade long career as a musician and producer.

Live - Sola Rosa Soundsystem featuring Spikey Tee (Bomb the Bass/Mr Scruff) and Lisa Tomlins (Fat Freddy’s Drop/Trinity Roots) - International Observer

7.30+ Tickets: £9+b/f from here

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November 14th sees the launch of the new single from Clement Marfo and The Frontline “Overtime” and to showcase their work they have laid down cracking visuals to their video for the Royal T Remix.   Set mostly around Shoreditch’s 24 hour beigel strip, this video is especially cracking as it features me in my JDilla t-shirt for literally a couple of seconds around the 1.52 mark.  You can send my royalty cheque in the post guys, thanks!

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Topman General Store is located on Commercial Street in Shoreditch and represents somewhat of a departure from the usual Topman fanfare.  The store features a carefully selected core range of Topman design pieces as well some key branded items.  In the store you will also find a nice selection of books, photography and artwork, exclusive to the store.  Branding has been kept to a minimum, in keeping with the areas reputation for being the contemporary and fashionable place to be.

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Shoreditch looks all set to become a mini Bond Street as luxury fashion stores considering locating to the East End.  Vivienne Westwood, Ralph Lauren, Prada and Christian Louboutin are amongst those who are reportedly targeting retail space in the local area.  To large brands like these, Shoreditch still represents a significant value for money in comparison to other popular parts of the city as you move West.  The area is increasingly housing creative, media types who continue to move into warehouse style renovations, prime for investment.

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Boxpark London’s and indeed the world’s first pop-up mall which comes to Shoreditch the home of London’s creativity, innovation and talent.  The mall will be showcasing a number of fashion and sports brands in the refitted shipping container retail outlets known as ‘Box Shops’.

Opening in November the brands to fill Box Park have been unveiled and they include Abuze, Boxfresh, House of Billiam, Luke, One True Saxon, One Piece, Palladium and Smile.  World renowned brands such as Lacoste Live, Levi’s, Puma, Gola, Nike and Oakley will also house themselves in Boxpark with some interesting new concept stores.

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It is widely being reported that Beats By Dre is to open it’s first UK store in Shoreditch following on from the company announcing that it will be opening it’s first retail outlet in New York over the Christmas period.   The popularity of the iconic, but expensive headphones continues to increase rapidly and shows no signs of slowing down.  Omar Johnson, the Vice President of Marketing for Beats by Dre is reported to have said “ ”We’ve been looking at the Shoreditch area of London,” he said. “We’re very excited about how much the UK has embraced Beats.”  This is further exciting news for the area which continues the to be at the heartbeat of London’s technological revolution.  With the ‘Silicon Roundabout’ being home to many of the UK’s most innovative tech start-up companies.

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