London agenda for Thursday 9 February
1. View a photographer’s take on the Last Days of Mubarak [Le Cool]
2. Climb up to the Book Club and join the Sing-a-long Fiddler on the Roof
3. Chat with John Lahr, the author of “Prick Up Your Ears”, the biography of Joe Orton and the senior drama critic of the New Yorker [Don’t Panic]
4. Watch the 1923 version of Salomé with Charlie Barber’s music live at the Southbank Centre [Ian Visits]
5. See the James Henry Greathead statue [Tired of London]
09 Feb 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 8 February
1. Die with the proper elan at the School of Life [Le Cool]
2. Visit the ‘busy intersection of leftfield but party-hardy musical styles’ of Friends at XOYO [Run Riot]
3. Chat with director Martyn Burke and producer Anthony Feinstein over their doc Under Fire: Journalists in Combat [Don’t Panic]
4. Clear the agenda for the most important event of the day: celebrating the centenary of Britain’s first public automatic telephone exchange [Ian Visits]
5. Eat at Pizza East [Tired of London]
08 Feb 2012
London agenda for Tuesday 7 February
1. Listen to homeless person Vijay Jagun, sex industry worker Madam Becky, and Beefeater and YouTube sensation Bill Callaghan tell stories at All Ears [Le Cool]
2. Celebrate Dicken’s birthday by talking about death [Run Riot]
3 See the only London show of Portland’s Blouse [Flavorpill]
4. Finally, a giant session of Ping Pong [Don’t Panic]
5. Take a look at how TFL is going to solve the Euston Circus mess [Ian Visits]
6. Find a Dickens memorial [Tired of London]
07 Feb 2012
London agenda for Monday 6 February
1. View Stuart Pearson Wright’s tattooed musclemen and gym chicks painted heroically on wonky china cups [Le Cool]
2. Watch ‘actors from the live fiction salon perform stories of desire and conflict from Granta’s latest issue’ at the Betsy Trotwood [Run Riot]
3. See the award-winning doc ‘If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front’ at Foto8 [Don’t Panic]
4. Find a national icon at the LSE [Ian Visits]
5. Water your four legged friend at the Pilot’s Dog Bar [Tired of London]
06 Feb 2012
London agenda for Friday 3 February 2012
1. Discuss the Felt’s new book at Rough Trade East [Le Cool]
2. Club at the Nest with Hervé and Adam F [Run Riot]
3. Eat dinner with comedians Chris Cox, Oliver Meech, Chris Lynam, Myra Dubois, Alex McAleer and MC Neil Henry at Magic Night [Don’t Panic]
4. Chat with Time Out’s Film editor Dave Calhoun about Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [Time Out]
5. Greenwich is now the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Huzzah? [Ian Visits]
6. See the Salamanca Street Ceramics [Tired of London]
03 Feb 2012
London agenda for Thursday 2 February
1. Head to the Garage for the charming Beth Jeans Houghton and the Hooves of Destiny [Le Cool]
2. Join Granta contributors and editors to celebrate the launch of Granta 118: Exit Strategies [Run Riot]
3. Watch some dreamy hip-hop at CAMP by Shlohmo + Salva [Flavorpill]
4. Chat with director Ying Welsh on the ongoing revolution taking place in Bahrain at Shouting in the Dark [Don’t Panic]
5. Listen to Alain de Botton discuss Religion for Atheists. It’s free. [Ian Visits]
6. Shop in the Boxpark [Tired of London]
02 Feb 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 1 February
1. Look at an artist turn ‘extremely ordinary, and a little bit crap, objects into things that are more than a little extraordinary and insightful’ at David Shrigley – Brain Activity [Le Cool]
2. Watch something ‘contemporary, raunchy, political, funny, queer & straight, satirical, stupid, artistic, and sexy’ at Sleaze [Run Riot]
3. Watch Submarine for a fiver at The Water Poet [Don’t Panic]
4. Start celebrating LBGT History Month [Time Out]
5. Listen to David Lammy, MP and Runnymede Trust’s Rob Berkeley on A Tale of Tottenham: race, riots and the future [Ian Visits]
6. See Grayson Perry’s ‘The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman’ [Tired of London]
01 Feb 2012
London agenda for Friday 27 January
1. View how Nick Drake’s Cello Song has affected people the world over at the Strange Face Project [Le Cool]
2. See Rizzle Kicks at XOYO while they are still nobodies [Run Riot]
3. Return to the Future at the Laundry [Flavorpill]
4. Visit the Latin Quarter special at Rich Mix [Don’t Panic]
5. Ponder do we need heroes? [Ian Visits]
6. Eat at the Queensbury Deli [Tired of London]
27 Jan 2012
London agenda for Thursday 26 January
1. Visit the first club night of the fabulous London Fields Radio [Le Cool]
2. Listen to at least one person with hope, namely Simon Deane-Johns, who answers why bailouts fail and people power will succeed [Run Riot]
3. Hear Jazz Morley , Lauren Housley, and Robert Bowers in West London at AAA [Don’t Panic]
4. Go loco at the first London Comedy Film Festival [Time Out]
5. See a discussion on Fortean London and support paranormal places in north, west and south London at The Bell pub [Ian Visits]
6. Take a Meridian Duck Tour [Tired of London]
26 Jan 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 25 January
1. Listen to Craig FInn combine great songwriting with genius storytelling at Rough Trade East [Le Cool]
2. Tell the Evening Standard your idea for London. [Run Riot]
3. See the darker side of Greenwich Hospital (1696 – 1869) [Ian Visits]
4. Walk around the Tarn, Mottingham [Tired of London]
25 Jan 2012
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