London agenda for 2 January 2012
1. Wring a final laugh from the holidays at Lost Letters to Santa [Run Riot]
2. Visit an art exhibit about art exhibits [Don’t Panic]
3. Discover everything about East London is true, while watching Leyton’s New Year’s Fireworks at 6pm on the 2nd. Really. [Ian Visits]
4. Admire St Michael’s Cornhill [Tired of London]
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02 Jan 2012
Leg Guitar v Tuckshop EP Club (Vol 2)
Our deputy music editor Tom Jenkins has a special Christmas cracker, courtesy of himself and partner Tuckshop with their quarterly EP club. It’s the anything and everything anti-folk folk indie lo-fi rock shoegaze that you were hoping for in your stocking.
23 Dec 2011
London agenda for Friday 23 December
1. Have a cringle mingle with Leo Zero, Pete Herbert, Leftside Wobble
Capita!, Jay Karim, Kev Kev & Joe Lye at Big in Japan [Don’t Panic]
2. Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People at Bloomsbury Theatre [Time Out]
3. Gaze at the stars and moon at the Hampstead Observatory [Ian Visits]
4. Have a tarot reading at Watkin’s [Tired of London]
And something for Christmas…
5. The Londonist did the hard work. What’s open on Christmas Day.
23 Dec 2011
London agenda for Thursday 22 December
1. Watch the Nightmare before Christmas at the Hackney Picturehouse [Le Cool]
2. Visit an Aladdin’s cave of a home for festive culinary delights by Tony Hornecker [Run Riot]
3. Play musical bingo with Jess Indeedy [Don’t Panic]
4. Hear the London Community Gospel Choir at the Jazz Cafe [Time Out]
5. Celebrate the 175th Anniversary of the University of London [Ian Visits]
22 Dec 2011
An awkward thought for liberals: maybe CCTV works
That means almost 7,000 TFL cameras were used in the prosecution of a crime. That’s a lot of prosecutions. The word “just” has no place in the above tweet.
I don’t like the idea of CCTV cameras. No, I’ll rephrase, I hate the idea of CCTV cameras.
But the evidence here, and from the aftermath of the riots, is that CCTV can help in the prosecution of crimes.
So if you want to make the case for a CCTV free city, and do it honestly, you have to accept that crimes might go unsolved as a result. It’s a tough sell.
21 Dec 2011
Little Racer by Little Racer
This Brooklyn trio bring nothing particularly new or Earth shattering to the table – sun-kissed, ramshackle indie-pop, as those from the borough have become accustomed – but they are tremendous fun, as today’s MPFree aptly demonstrates. Debut single Split for the Coast/The Town is out now on Young and Lost Club.
21 Dec 2011
London agenda for Wednesday 21 December
1. Enjoy mulled wine and mince pies while watching the 1947 film at a cute Islington church and all proceeds go to homeless people. It’s Miracle on 34th Street [Le Cool]
2. Skate to a mix of house, disco and boogie, all remixed by Joey Negro at Somerset House [Run Riot]
3. Watch an evening of twisted, vintage-inspired circus-themed Christmas tales and Los Locos’ very special type of ‘dirty jazz’ at A Twisted Christmas Carol [Don’t Panic]
4. Picnic with the teddy bears? WTF, [Time Out]
5. Tour the Sambrook’s brewery in Battersea [Ian Visits]
21 Dec 2011
School of Seven Bells - The Night
School of Seven Bells are back, minus a member, with new album Ghostory, out February 27th on Full Time Hobby. Opening track The Night starts with an intro reminiscent of Disintegration era The Cure, before diving headlong into 80s power-pop heaven. Ahhh…
20 Dec 2011
London agenda for 20 December 2011
1. Have an insight into the sometimes daunting and impenetrable world of high fashion through photography at Catwalk to Cover [Le Cool]
2. Watch the beautiful and thought-provoking theatre/illusion/dance, Murmurs [Run Riot]
3. Learn to draw death good at Art Macabre [Don’t Panic]
4. Join some music guys and some comedians to raise money for homeless helpers, Crisis [Time Out]
5. Walk around St Giles using a historic maps [Ian Visits]
6. See the six dials at Seven Dials [Tired of London]
20 Dec 2011
Benard Hogan-Howe's twitter debut, digested
The Met chief with a flair for PR took to Twitter this evening for a Q&A. He chose which questions to answer, so no surprise he came out looking pretty decent. Here are three of his responses which are worth noting.
How do you plan to restore community confidence?
Saying the Met want to “improve” stop and search is interesting. Does this mean less stop and search? I certainly hope so. There’s plenty of evidence, not least from the Guardian’s Reading the Riots series, that it fuels justified resentment against the police which impinges fatally on their ability to police with consent. I want to know what that “improve” is going to mean in practice.
Was the authorisation to use rubber bullets prior to student demo a deliberate move to frighten folk from protesting?
It was unhelpful at best. Hogan-Howe also identified “public protest” as one of the biggest challenges facing the Met. Protesters are citizens, and so are the police. A culture which pits the two as enemies is not a good place to be.
Do you think the use of tasers will increase the number of complaints against met officers?
The assertion that giving the police more tasers will not lead to more tasers being used is one which needs to be challenged. It’s counter intuitive at best. I’ll see if I can find any relavant data. Anyhoo, on a philosophical level, as I’ve said before, the routine issuing of tasers to police is a bad idea. The police should not be routinely armed against their own employers. That’s not what the police are for.
See the whole exchange on the Met’s twitter feed @metpoliceuk
19 Dec 2011
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