London agenda for Friday 24 February
1. View the eclectic schedule of the Reel Islington Film Festival [Le Cool]
2. Delve into the basement of Shoreditch Town Hall for a group exhibition featuring work from British and Chinese artists at Full Rabbit [Run Riot]
3. Listen to the ‘steam-punk-meets-‘60s-flower-power mash-up’ of the Noise of Art [Flavorpill]
4. Watch a full orchestra at the Roundhouse perform Berlioz’s mammoth Romeo and Juliet [Don’t Panic]
5. Spend the weekend in the future at Hyper Japan [Time Out]
6. Grab a slice of the south at the Scramble for Antarctica [Ian Visits]
7. Attend a late opening at the Guildhall Art Gallery [Tired of London]
24 Feb 2012
London agenda for Thursday 23 February
1. See Victorian spiritualist expert Cynthia Beaumaris invoke formidable characters from that era at Hoxton’s Most Haunted. [Le Cool]
2. Listen to two new chamber pieces of writing for solo performance by Melanie Wilson and Gemma Brockis [Run Riot]
3. View a retrospective of works by Lis Rhodes including four decades of her often radical and always experimental video treatment at the ICA [Flavorpill]
4. Find out something about Eats Everything at the Star of Bethnal Green [Don’t Panic]
5. Discuss why life is so dull that we need crap books on vampires, zombies, and werewolves at Fantasy v. Reality [Ian Visits]
6. Eat at Leila’s [Tired of London]
23 Feb 2012
What to do as recommended by everyone else
1. Sit in a Hackney warehouse and figure out that whole Requiem for a Dream thing [Le Cool]
2. Court like its 1939 at the Old Fashioned Dating Company [Run Riot]
3. Watch the contenders of the Oscar’s ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ at the Tricycle [Flavorpill]
4. Listen to classical music at a classic boozer [Don’t Panic]
5. Hear Christian Wolmar discuss How the Tube created London [Ian Visits]
6. See Formula One cars in Westminster [Tired of London]
22 Feb 2012
London agenda for Monday 20 February
1. Watch a free session of Ladyhawk at Rough Trade East [Le Cool]
2. Talk about Bob Dylan at Poet in the City [Flavorpill]
3. Ask director Simon Bright and producer Michael Auret, Robert Mugabe…What Happened? [Don’t Panic]
4. Go to the best named event of the day: The Bats of Epping Forest [Ian Visits]
5. Play crazy golf at Northwick Park [Tired of London]
20 Feb 2012
London agenda for Friday 17 February 2012
1. Go retro-glam and fanciful in one’s finest vintage rags at It’s a Wonderful Vintage Love Boat Ball [Le Cool]
2. Chat with ‘one of fashion’s most stylish women’, Anna dello Russo [Run Riot]
3. Finally get back to Corisca Studios for the shock to the nervous system of Fruit Palace [Don’t Panic]
4. Watch Lawrence of Arabia at the British Museum [Ian Visits]
5. Gaze across Crystal Palace lake [Tired of London]
17 Feb 2012
London agenda for Thursday 16 February
1. See something actually happen at Islington Town Hall with soul/folk musician Michael Kiwanuka
2. Wrestle one’s tongue to the ground at Shoreditch House’s Literary Death Match [Run Riot]
3. Ride around in a double decker of art [Flavorpill]
4. Sit around the Campfire with with rock photographer Ian Tilton [Flavorpill]
5. Consider oneself lucky that one is gawking at the Cleveland Street Workhouse rather than being a resident [Ian Visits]
6. Choose wines at Green & Blue [Tired of London]
16 Feb 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 15 February
1. Listen to the dark, introspective group We Are Band [Le Cool]
2. Go swimming with ‘a playful site specific dance theatre performance based on the much loved outdoor public pool’ by Der Lido [Run Riot]
3. Of all places, see the pop-up graffiti art show at the O2 [Flavorbill]
4. Watch a Film for a FIver at the Water Poet. Tonight, Potiche [Don’t Panic]
5. Walk through scandalous Victorian Barnet [Ian Visits]
6. See David Shrigley’s Brain Activity [Tired of London]
15 Feb 2012
London agenda for Tuesday 14 February
1. FInd your Valentine in a people lottery at the Dolphin’s Slagbox [Le Cool]
2. Visit a symposium of romance with author Roman Krznaric at the Idler’s Art of Love [Run RIot]
3. Listen to a five-piece play the songs of the soundtrack great at Ennio Morricone in Love [Flavorpill]
4. Share resentment with novelist and speaker, Rick James, at I hate V-DAY part-TAY [Don’t Panic]
5. Discuss how neurosciences will change our moral and legal notions of criminality and responsibility at LSE [Ian Visits]
6. Have lunch at Tachbrook Street Market [Tired of Life]
14 Feb 2012
London agenda for Monday 13 February
1. Figure out what the hell is going on in Mulholland Drive [Le Cool]
2. Celebrate the launch of saucy new magazine Love Is the Law [Run Riot]
3. Dots. Dots. Dots. See the Dots of Yayoi Kusama [Flavorpill]
4. Take a A tour of Elizabethan Bankside with the Rose [Ian Visits]
5. Cross Hammersmith Bridge [Tired of London]
13 Feb 2012
London agenda for Friday 10 February
1. Pull out the studded collar, PVC leash, three-line whip and lashings of latex for the Torture Garden’s Valentines Love Boat [Le Cool]
2. View new work by Gavin Turk at Ben Brown Fine Arts [Run Riot]
3. See DJ Pierre at a secret location [Flavorpill]
4. Go to 93 Feet East for the Electronic Rumors Album Launch Party [Don’t Panic]
5. Span 500 years of music with The Sixteen at the British Library [Ian Visits]
6. Eat at Maison Bertaux [Tired of London]
10 Feb 2012
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