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Get ready for next month’s Anti-Jubilee Punk Party in London, hosted by Sailor Jerry rum and music magazine Clash. The nation has been handed a right royal day off on 3 June to mark the queen’s 60 years on the British throne, and appropriate Anti-Jubilee music festivities will take place in London at Sailor Jerry’s recently opened Charing Cross Street venue Hotel Street.

C&A Brazil is giving consumers a little social media help when it comes to clothes shopping. The retailer has put clothes from its new collection on Facebook so that brand fans can ‘like’ the garments they, erm, like.

Noodle eatery wagamama is prepping the wagamama lounge for its tour of UK festivals. The food-music destination features dishes served by the restaurant’s chefs, resident DJs playing summer soundtracks, plus a digital graffiti wall for budding artists looking to win prizes (such as wagamama gift vouchers).

Burberry has premiered Burberry World Live in Taipei. What is it? The fashion retailer says it’s the brand concept embodied in a single sensory experience. Cue a 360-degree cylinder featuring film and music and a simulation of British weather (falling leaves, golden rain).

BMW will show off a series of sound works presented during the inaugural programme for Frieze New York in May. Frieze Sounds will feature three audio works from commissioned artists Martin Creed, Rick Moody and Frances Stark. For Frieze Sounds, Creed will compose a short song that doubles as a hypnotic lullaby. Moody will produce a sound version of The Undependable Global Positioning System, a literary composition that will function as an ‘anti-destination device’.

Bombay Sapphire deployed an interactive map at the Tribeca Film Festival using Google Maps to help consumers navigate the festival by providing venue information, show times, plus select restaurant and bar locations. Using a new Foursquare application for the first time during the Festival, consumers were also able to check in to specific events, letting their friends know exactly which films they were attending.

A Canadian pastor has taken Coldplay lyrics to heart and soul, dedicating his Sunday sermon to the British band. John Van Sloten of the New Hope Church in West Hillhurst, Calgary, drew on a number of Coldplay songs to demonstrate the music’s link to the Bible – Us Against The World, for one, uses the word ‘Amen’, writes Maria Stadmueller.

Sailor Jerry rum is opening a new London music venue on Charing Cross Street. Hotel Street – the name comes from Honululu’s Chinatown where Norman ‘Sailor Jerry’ Collins made a name for himself through his tattooing skills – will act as a shop and gallery during the day, but will aim to become something of a dive bar in evening, with rum cocktails and live music, writes Maria Stadtmueller.