You might have already heard by now but last week Alex Turner popped into the Lexington to make an appearance with Mini Mansions on the second night of their sold out Lexington double header. The band, founded by QOTSA bassist Michael Shuman were met with critical applaud for the shows which saw them play new […]
That Sunday night where you stay up all night downing your favourite American craft beers, eating hot dogs, sippin’ on one of our fifty bourbons
2014 saw the closure of many of our favourite venues but none hit us harder than the closures of the Buffalo Bar, our late sister venue, and Madame Jojo’s, causing a forced hiatus of legendary Tuesday clubnight White Heat. You can read about the closure of White Heat on Time Out and Noisey but we’re […]
From Monday 12 – Friday 16 January, we’re putting our good friends, The Line Of Best Fit, in charge of The Lexington to showcase the very best in new music. Their week long residency will help music fans start the new year off with a bang as they bring some of the most exciting […]
We all know how Christmas goes, you gorge yourself on Chocolate Oranges, mince pies and inexplicably large non-flying birds, you spend between two and three days with a bunch of people you love but otherwise wouldn’t really have anything in common with, you drink and you sleep and when you wake up you drink some […]
November is the best time of year what with the dark and cold nights giving you even more of an excuse to sit and drink bourbon all day long. But in recent years there has been an even better reason to get excited about November and that is for all the cool guys and dolls […]
As many of you probably know by now the Buffalo Bar, our sister venue, is to open it’s doors for the last time on New Year’s Eve 2014 after 14 years of seminal live shows and clubnights. Over the years we’ve been lucky enough to have hosted shows with the likes of Hot Chip, The National, […]
There is no better way to start an early inter-continental journey than with a Wetherspoon’s airport breakfast. We were heading to Frankfort and Lexington, Kentucky to visit The Buffalo Trace Distillery. The motley crew of near on 30 made up of Bar Managers, Cocktail Competition Winners, Journalists and representatives from the hosts High Spirits had […]
Nottingham’s Sleaford Mods are quite possibly the most lethal voice of a generation of disenfranchised young Brits, rivalling anything spat out by the punk explosion of the late 70’s. For that reason we’re taking them across the pond to give those artisan Brooklynites a cathartic shock of working class wit to crack the utopia (or […]
Nathan Perrin has been the head chef in The Lexington’s kitchen for the last six months. You might recognise him as one of our faithful bar staff because that’s where we found him, pouring drinks whilst quietly harbouring his culinary aspirations. When the time came to revitalise the menu the search didn’t even get out […]