The Standard 100: People shaping London in Music, Culture, Art, Stage, Screen and Podcasts

This week, The London Standard is unveiling The Standard 100, a database of the apical 100 radical shaping the superior successful 2024

The database contains aggregate categories including politics, media, art, music, food, concern and overmuch more.

Today the Standard tin uncover those named among the categories for Music, Culture, Art, Stage, Screen and Podcasts.

London is known passim the satellite for its bonzer civilization and each subordinate of this database has contributed to making the metropolis a much exciting, absorbing and enticing spot to be.

For music, there’s Charli XCX who dominated a full play erstwhile she turned the summertime Brat, to Glastonbury headliner Dua Lipa and London icon Stormzy, and not forgetting the rocket antheral himself, Sir Elton John.

We observe the figures starring immoderate of our biggest, world-renowned taste institutions including the Royal Academy of Arts archetypal ever pistillate president.

In the creation world, determination are the gallerists that proceed to signifier taste tastes to artists that person gone from enfant terribles to nationalist treasures specified arsenic Tracey Emin.

On surface we are fortunate to beryllium blessed with acting, and so campaigning talents of stars including Riz Ahmed and Idris Elba and galore of the movie stars person headed to London’s biggest stages from Spider-Man himself, Tom Holland, to Daisy Edgar-Jones.

And of people determination are those reshaping broadcasting successful the podcast world. Truly London stands unsocial successful the breadth, extent and prime of its culture.

Charli XCX, Singer-songwriter

No 1 has had much interaction connected London, oregon so anyplace successful the Western satellite successful 2024. She is the conversational talking point; what you deliberation of Brat wholly determines wherever you acceptable successful the societal order. Although Charli lives successful LA for astir of the year, London is location to her largest and astir loyal fanbase (read: party-loving gays).

Sir Elton John, Singer-songwriter

At 77, helium continues to animate and captivate. A mentor sans parallel, helium helped kickstart the careers of Ed Sheeran and SG Lewis — redefining the London scenery successful the process. He is besides 1 of the world’s starring philanthropists, raising much than £500 cardinal via his instauration to assistance combat Aids.

Dua Lipa, Singer-songwriter

With her newsletter Service95, this year’s Glastonbury headliner is spinning plates not conscionable successful euphony but successful media: telling america what to work and wherever to get the champion olive lipid sorbet (Folderol successful Paris). We whitethorn person fixed her latest medium 3 stars, but everything astir her is simply a five-star act.

Elliot Grainge, CEO of Atlantic Music Group

The caller brag of Atlantic presides implicit arguably the astir covetable euphony empire of the moment, with artists similar Charli XCX and Fred Again signed to the label. Grainge’s begetter is Sir Lucian Grainge, the brag of deadly rival Universal Music.

Noel Gallagher, Singer-songwriter

He whitethorn hail from Manchester, but NG has swaggered successful and retired of NW postcodes for 30 years. Once a centrepiece of the Primrose Hill acceptable (his house, Supernova Heights, was reportedly the tract of personage orgies), Gallagher’s sanction is synonymous with Britpop, the Nineties, and present Ticketmaster. A boon to euphony and to the economy. Take a bow, chief!

From Glastonbury to Hay festivals, the lad from Croydon is the peerless look of modern London. As the benefactor down the Stormzy Scholarship for achromatic students astatine the University of Cambridge, launched successful 2018, he’s been an instrumental portion of the speech astir radical inequalities arsenic good arsenic an inspiration to young achromatic Britons crossed the country.

George Osborne, Chair of the British Museum

The erstwhile chancellor and exertion of the Evening Standard is present the figurehead of our foremost taste instauration — and astatine the precise bosom of immoderate of the apical debates of our clip astir colonialism, creator ownership and what it means to accidental thing is “British”.

Tristram Hunt, Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum

Former person Tristram Hunt has transformed the V&A into a planetary hub renowned for its exhibitions, which observe London’s relation successful the histories of manner and the decorative arts. From Naomi Campbell to Fashioning Masculinities, the museum’s Hunt-era shows person been peerless successful their seizure of the zeitgeist.

Rebecca Salter, President of the Royal Academy

Abstract, intriguing and emotional, you cognize a Rebecca Salter portion erstwhile you spot one. In 2019, she was awarded the honour of becoming the RA’s archetypal pistillate president successful its 256-year history.

Robin Birley is simply a maestro of London’s nightlife and hospitality scenes. The antheral down immoderate of the city’s astir elite clubs, he’s the go-to for those who privation to hitch shoulders with celebs portion sipping an aged fashioned — if you’re connected the list, that is.

The laminitis of White Cube assemblage has been making and breaking artists’ careers since 1993. He is besides liable for unleashing Inigo Philbrick onto the satellite — who would spell connected to orchestrate the biggest creation fraud successful US history.

Phoebe Saatchi and Arthur Yates, Gallerists

They big the coolest after-parties successful the concern — Frieze, Serpentine, you sanction it. The powerhouse duo of Phoebe Saatchi (daughter of Charles) and her hubby Arthur Yates whitethorn hitch shoulders with the St James’s establishment, but perfectly everything astir them is fresh, chill and swashbuckling.

The creator who became a origin célèbre is inactive challenging our ideas astir creation 4 decades into her career. She is, par excellence, the blueprint for the modern creation schoolhouse girlie — arsenic good arsenic a instrumentality weapon of headlines and simply the astir breathtaking idiosyncratic successful her field.

“I conscionable person nary involvement successful my art. I marque it truthful I tin f*** about”. Olaolu Slawn, the latest enfant unspeakable of the London creation country is notorious for his satirical spray-paints. The Nigerian-British creator besides became the youngest ever decorator of the Britannia statuette past year.

Never has a archetypal sanction been much fitting for an artist, whose floral motifs and arresting palette are connected show astatine the Wallace Collection until November 3. At property 34, Yukhnovich — who makes playful updates connected the rococo benignant — has go 1 of the astir recognisable young painters of her day; and proves the 18th period is intelligibly en vogue.

Riz Ahmed, Actor, director, rapper and activist

As Riz MC (one fractional of hep hop duo Swet Shop Boys) helium is astir apt the lone critically and commercially acclaimed rapper who has a PPE grade from Oxford. Ahmed is besides an Oscar and Emmy-winning actor. He is simply a highly influential activistic arsenic well, campaigning to rise funds for Rohingya and Syrian exile children.

Idris Elba, Actor and campaigner

When he’s not DJing arsenic Big Driis, the histrion (one of the world’s 20 highest grossing) is simply a absorption of London’s societal country — a fixture of immoderate enactment involving the large and good. He’s the antheral who brought to beingness John Luther and Stringer Bell, and he’s the look of Calvin Klein on with his wife, Sabrina. He besides campaigns against weapon transgression and is spearheading an eco metropolis disconnected the seashore of Sierra Leone. Is determination thing helium can’t do?

Anne Mensah, UK Content VP of Netflix

Netflix has upended the tv manufacture since it launched successful 2007. With much than £10 cardinal being spent wide connected programming past twelvemonth — including shows similar Bridgerton and Baby Reindeer — you tin spot wherefore Anne Mensah, who grew up successful south-east London, mightiness person an power connected your evening.

Graham holds the West End successful the thenar of his inky hand. He’s written 30 plays successful 18 years, meaning not a time has gone by without 1 of his shows being connected successful theatreland. These see 2023’s Dear England (nominated for 2 Evening Standard Theatre Awards) and this year’s Boys from the Blackstuff, an adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s unemployment drama.

Sonia Friedman, Theatre and movie producer

Friedman is the astir influential theatre shaper successful the city. From Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to a critically acclaimed adaptation of Stranger Things, her institution has enactment connected much than 200 shows since 2002. These person won much than 300 large awards — including the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play connected 5 occasions.

Last year’s victor of the Evening Standard Lifetime Achievement Award needs nary introduction. Mendes has directed everything from the champion James Bond films to immoderate of the astir singular theatre the West End has ever seen. If we had a lb for each clip idiosyncratic told america “you MUST spot The Hills of California”, we’d beryllium capable to bargain the movie rights.

Cush Jumbo, Actress and writer

We archetypal spotted Jumbo’s endowment 11 years agone with her bonzer show, Josephine and I — which won her the Emerging Talent trophy astatine the 2013 Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Since then, she’s starred successful the pb relation of US TV bid The Good Wife and The Good Fight, distinguished herself arsenic a superb Hamlet astatine the Young Vic, and Lady Macbeth astatine the Donmar, which transferred to the West End this autumn.

Zendaya’s husband-to-be is much than conscionable a beauteous look (and Spider-Man). The West End whitethorn person been thriving already, but his sell-out tally arsenic Romeo successful Jamie Lloyd’s minimalist adaptation of Shakespeare’s play astatine the Duke of York’s was a crowning infinitesimal for commercialized theatre this year. He’s 1 of the galore slebs who’s acceptable up store successful Richmond.

Indhu Rubasingham, Director

The existent creator manager of the Kiln successful Kilburn volition ascend to the apical occupation successful theatre, manager of the National Theatre, adjacent spring. A champion of young, disenfranchised voices, she volition beryllium the archetypal pistillate to clasp the presumption and travel successful the footsteps of Laurence Olivier, Nicholas Hytner and Rufus Norris.

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Screen prima transferring to the stage

Normal People catapulted her to fame; Where The Crawdads Sing cemented her presumption arsenic 1 of the brightest stars of our generation. Now she’s coming to the London signifier successful December for a caller adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s classic, Cat connected a Hot Tin Roof, astatine the Almeida — pursuing successful the footsteps of her Normal People co-star, Paul Mescal, who drew unprecedented crowds to the Islington playhouse for his show successful Streetcar past year.

Lily Collins, Screen prima present taking connected the West End

Emily successful … London? Yes. The prima of 1 of Netflix’s biggest hits/hate watches is presently taking the West End by tempest successful Bess Wohl’s Barcelona astatine the Duke of York’s Theatre.

Gary Lineker, Co-founder of Goalhanger

The Beeb’s director-general Tim Davie whitethorn person begged Gary Lineker to enactment connected arsenic Match of the Day presenter, but wherefore should he? Lineker’s precise ain Goalhanger — which produces The Rest is Politics, The Rest is History and The Rest is Money — is the fig 1 autarkic podcast institution successful the state and an agenda-setting powerhouse.

Louis Theroux, Host of The Louis Theroux Podcast

Still the champion interviewer of his procreation — subtle, gentle, astute — Theroux has reinvented himself arsenic thing of an armchair scientist connected his self-titled podcast, wherever helium gets to the bosom of precise idiosyncratic matters with Tracey Emin, Mia Khalifa and Katie Price.