Sausages aside; as part of their World Record London campaign running until July 2012, London & Partners are attempting to break over 20 Guinness World Records around the capital, showcasing what amazing city we’re all lucky enough to live in.

To celebrate Mr. Punch’s 350th anniversary, London & Partners announced that a new Guinness World Record title for the world’s first recorded Mr. Punch puppet show has been awarded as part of World Record London. The certificate was awarded in time to commemorate 350 years since the first show was recorded in a theatre booth in Covent Garden.

Robert Styles, Associate Festival Director for The Big Grin, says, “We are delighted that Mr. Punch remains a record breaker in the 21st Century and is able to celebrate in style thanks to a community education project made possible by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The award is accepted on behalf of Punch performers past and present who have all played their parts in keeping the tradition alive.”

The festivities kicked off at the Little Angel Theatre, Islington where participants were awarded the prestigious Guinness World Records certificate. There are many more exciting records to be broken over the next few months so Who’s Jack will keep you posted along the way!

For more information about World Record London, go to visitlondon.com

Find more Covent Garden news here

Susan Beattie, a talented puppeteer based in North London, has brought to life such well-known characters as MONKEY of PG Tips fame and BBC3′s Mongrels.

Now, she is re-showing her excellent puppet show “Spirit”, an hour long performance about other-worldly experiences and how they consequently affect people’s perspective on life.

An exploration of the extraordinary in everyday life, “Spirit” is constructed around the words of real people, creating a humorous and yet profoundly affective and dream-like experience.

Who’s Jack recommend going to see something different this week. Showing on  Thursday 19th-Friday 20th April 2012, at THE LITTLE ANGEL THEATRE in Islington, London. (Upper Street)

Tickets are available here.

You can find more information on “Spirit” HERE.

They will step out for their first show of 2012 headlining Camden’s Barfly on Saturday Jan 14th with special guests and musical compadres. Get hold of tickets here (cheaper than on the door!):

Self contained, mysterious – they add an elegance and restraint to an aesthetic touched upon by bands like My Morning Jacket and Calexico, while their forceful melodies and controlled feedback bears witness to the likes of PJ Harvey and even Grinderman at times. Their debut album ‘Entertainment On Foreign Grounds’ is out on March 5th so for a sneak preview head to Camden this Saturday night for your live music fix!

The controversial Hole singer and Kurt Cobain ex rummages through her wardrobe for Scott Lipps whilst dragging on her fag and pulling out all sorts of amazing items from dresses from the 1800′s to dresses by Nicole Richie.

See inside Chloe Sevigny’s wardrobe here.

The band are hitting the studio in the new year with one of the words most nimble fingered producers Pedro Firerria (The Darkness, Fightstar, Enter Shikari) and will release the follow up to their debut Superchild.

Joining GHG for a night of festivities will be Resando, Co Supreme and Eric Unseen, tickets are available for £5 here or £6 on the door. For more details check out the Guitars Have Ghosts site and Facebook.

Photo by Matt Perkins

Tuesday 13^th September marks the final of the smart urban stage; a series of exhibitions that has been making its way through Europe visiting the likes of Amsterdam, London, Barcelona and Milan. The aim is to bring together the most creative and innovative people in major International cities to discuss the future of the city.

In Frankfurt an International team of jurors will decide which of the eleven projects from the previous stages are the most innovative, groundbreaking and sustainable project and the most worthy of the smart future minds award.

Smart urban stage London winner is Bloomsbury based project, The People’s Supermarket, a totally unique, innovative and sustainable shopping experience providing good food, for, and by the people (you may remember it from the Channel 4 TV show about it earlier in the year). Co founders Kate Bull and Arthur Potts describe the People’s Supermarket as ‘a sustainable food co-operative responding to the needs of the community, providing healthy local food at reasonable prices.’ How does it work? I hear you cry. Well in order to get the cheap food, you have to become a member and pledge to work at The People’s Supermarket for a few hours a month. With no staff costs this saving is passed on to the consumer, your food is cheaper, and any profits they make go back into making the food even more affordable, meaning, unlike bigger supermarkets, there’s no big bonuses for bosses at the end of it all. Their refreshing philosophy and management approach is to buy from trusted suppliers order to give their members the choice and information they need to make informed healthy decisions about what they eat. Anyone can become a member of the People’s Supermarket, located on Lamb’s Conduit Street, Bloomsbury, and can join online at www.thepeoplessupermarket.org.

Check out the teaser video for the event in Frankfurt below and you can see all the other projects from around Europe on the smart urban stage Facebook page. We’ll be down at the final next week so keep an eye on www.whosjack.org to find out who is crowned the winner.

Words: James Adams

We have all heard by now that David Walliams is swimming the Channel. But did you know where to sponsor him? Well you do now. Not only that see a lovely picture of him looking a bit odd in his swimming hat (here)

As of this week things are getting bad for avid Twitter users with #whyimsingle trending in London. Our reply – Is it coz you iz on that Twitter too much?

Ducks like to drink too, after we told you about the drunken mouse now it seems that ducks like to drink too (here) – image Metro

For the second time, PJ Harvey has won the Mercury Music Prize this time for Let England Shake  (here)

The young blogger  to start up all young blogging trends, Tavi (Style Rookie) has moved form blog to website and you can see it (here).

Smoke weed, stay thin (here)

Twitter is getting more boring : Trending topics today are ‘Goodbye August’ and ‘Hello September’. Either no one give a shit about much any more or all those dull people that were never on Twitter before? They certainly are now. (here)

Eminem likes fish : At a recent Irish festival he asked for a wooden pond of Koi Carp to be added to a private garden he had backstage. Now for the general conversation, if you could have anything on a rider what would it be? (here)

You need a National Lottery ticket this weekend. The estimated amount is 100 million. Que second, hugely satisfying and depressing in equal measures conversation about what you would do with 100 ml. (here)

The likes of New Young Pony Club, Matt Walsh and The Duke Spirit will be taking to the decks at The Hewett Street Gallery in Shoreditch in order to raise money for the growing famine crisis in East Africa. As well as each of the DJs playing a 20 minute set of ‘songs that shaped them’ there will also be prizes donated from local business such as Mason & Tyler, Rio Cinema, Wilton’s Way Cafe for a raffle and food from The Meatwagon. All proceeds will be going straight to the relief fund for Somalia with the event kicking off at 7.3o this evening at 18 Hewett Street, EC2A 3NN.