London agenda for Thursday 12 April 2012
1. View never-before-seen works by Daniel Johnston [Le Coo]
2. Find out why nobody knows how devastating the financial black holes of the world have been like an Irish comedian. [Run Riot]
3. Look art on bus-tops all over the city. [Flavorpill]
4. Catch a free set of the fabulous Great Lake Swimmers at Cargo [Don’t Panic]
5. Find out about a local building that housed over a thousand London pauper children, including Charlie Chaplin [Ian Visits]
6. Celebrate British design at the V&A [Tired of London]
12 Apr 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 11 April 2012
1. Watch as the students of Pimlico Academy take over three floors of their school to tell Three Stories [Le Cool] Le Cool doesn’t seem to have direct links to their items any longer. Curious.
2. Hear She Makes War launch their new album at the Half Moon Pub [Run Riot]
3. Chat with The Story of Us filmmakers Dave McKean & Michael Sheen at the Curzon [Flavorpill]
4. Finally, something that everyone can agree upon in the affirmative. Has humanity past its sell-by date? [Ian Visits]
5. Visit St Augustine’s Kilburn [Tired of London]
6. Watch the comic misadventures of Adam and Paul at the Homeless Film Festival [Indymedia] (Free!)
11 Apr 2012
London agenda for Tuesday 10 April 2012
1. Hear the Warehouse-era New York voice of Nottingham’s Ronika at the Old Blue Last [Flavorpill]
2. Watch Prinzhorn Dance School at Madame JoJo’s [Don’t Panic]
3. Listen to Jonathan Haidt on why we all find it so hard to get along, at the Royal Institution [Ian Visits]
4. Drink at the Three Stags [Tired of London]
10 Apr 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 4 April 2012
1. Visit XO, XOYO’s contemporary, cultural hub situated on the venue’s upper level, launching with iD Magazine’s Monthly Mixtape Party [Le Cool]
2. Watch a brand new play each night by Cartoon de Salvo and the Brighton band The Adventurists at Made Up [Run Riot]
3. Hear RPHN and MEGO at Power Lunches Dalston [Don’t Panic]
4. Watch a magic show at Wilton’s Music Hall [Ian Visits]
5. See the Arctic Convoys Exhibition [Tired of London]
04 Apr 2012
London agenda for Tuesday 3 April
1. Paint nude models with chocolate, if we’re reading this right [Run Riot]
2. Hear the sublime Low at the Royal Festival Hall [Don’t Panic]
3. Time Out says to see Damien Hirst. But they also say Mad Men is on tonight. This is worth £3? [Time Out]
4. Oh yeah, it’s Trees in the Religions of Early Medieval England [Ian Visits]
5. Book a ticket for the Theatre Royal Stratford East [Tired of London]
03 Apr 2012
London agenda for Monday 2 April 2012
1. Visit the Soho Theatre for Jonny Woo’s Gay Bingo [Le Cool]
2. Solve the mystery of the Murder on the Nile [ Run Riot]
3. Hear the only show worth hearing tonight, When Saints Go Machine w/ Bleeding Heart Narrative + Helium Robots [Flavorpill]
4. Discover why East London councillors are revolting [Ian Visits]
5. Explore the formal gardens of Canons Park [Tired of London]
02 Apr 2012
London agenda for Friday 30 March 2012
1. Listen to Jacqueline Rose take on Marilyn Monroe [Le Cool]
2. Watch a hilarious programme of dramas, animations, mockumentaries and more at the Horse Hospital’s Whirlygig [Run Riot]
3. Start the The Rifles’ London Weekender early at the Troxy [Don’t Panic]
4. Eat chocolate in Southwark [Ian Visits]
30 Mar 2012
London agenda for Thursday 29 March
1. Go early to Rough Trade East for a free wristband to see Field Music [Le Cool]
2. Hear about possibly the most controversial and famous psychical researcher ever to live. Run Riot [Run Riot]
3. Literally pick a brain at Brain Matter [Flavorpill] (May not actually be a literal brain)
4. Discuss the attacks using acid in Pakistan upon hundreds of people, most of them women, with documentary director Daniel Junge & producer Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy [Don’t Panic]
5. Discover the 150 year history of The Royal Agriculture Hall, now the Business Design Centre [Ian Visits]
6. Take a twilight tour of Apsley House by torchlight [Tired of London]
29 Mar 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 28 March
1. Find out why society has cut itself off from sexuality at the Idler Academy [Le Cool]
2. Fly through the air with the Spavaldo brothers, 25 years after their mysterious disappearance [Run Riot]
3. Listen to art-pop melded with electro by Breton at Corsica Studios [Flavorpill]
4. Watch Fernand Melgar’s portrait of the rejected asylum seekers and illegal migrants in the Frambois detention centre in Switzerland [Don’t Panic]
5. Run away with the circus, starting at the Roundhouse [Time Out]
6. Watch an illustrated talk of Gypsies in Barnet [Ian Visits]
7. Eat in the Whitechapel Gallery Library Dining Room [Tired of London]
28 Mar 2012
London agenda for Tuesday 27 March 2012
1. Listen to author Pat Long, Quietus editor John Doran, Pitchfork UK editor (and one-time Snipe writer) Laura Snapes, music prof Stevie Chick, and PA editor Andy Welch discuss the history of the NME at Rough Trade [Le Cool]
2. Discuss ‘Trout Fishing in America’, followed by stephenmcaines, at the Working Man’s [Run Riot]
3. Hear the swooning but raucous take on doo-wop and frazzled, fragile representation of soul inspired rock of Slow Club [Don’t Panic]
4. Really, Time Out? Tonight you recommend Mad Men? [Time Out] Try harder.
5. Put down the brick and contemplate What Are The Legitimate Ends And Means Of Protest? [Ian Visits]
6. Sit in the Channel 4 Garden [Tired of London]
27 Mar 2012
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