London agenda for Tuesday 24 January
1. Be very, very sad listening to Swedish sister act First Aid Kit [Le Cool]
2. Step back to a time before supermarkets and industrialisation at Théâtre Tête de Pioche [Run Riot]
3. Visit the Old Queen’s head for the amazing Athena Andreadis [Don’t Panic]
4. As ever, Time Out has their finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist. So, today’s it’s Lana del Ray (Even after this.) [Time Out]
5. Find out how some tiny rock in the North Atlantic took over the world. At least for a while. [Ian Visits]
6. Browse the Caird Library [Tired of London]
24 Jan 2012
London agenda for Monday 23 January
1. Get Pulled Apart By Horses at Rough Trade East [Le Cool]
2. Stop What You’re Doing and Read This! Hear authors Mark Haddon and Michael Rosen discuss why reading is good [Run Riot]
3. Discuss the doc Shooting vs. Shooting with director Nikos Megrelis [Don’t Panic]
4. Listen to the heady mix of improvised music, comedy and social insight of Reggie Watts [Time Out]
5. Ponder why those post-Commies in Russia never get rich [Ian Visits]
6. Eat at the Garden Café [Tired of London]
23 Jan 2012
London agenda for Friday 20 January
1. Watch masked wrestlers wrestle Mexican-style in Bethnal Green at Lucha Britannia [Le Cool]
2. Listen to some ‘beautiful chamber pop’ by Catherine AD [Run Riot]
3. Visit the Saatchi gallery’s new screening room for Christopher Baker’s ‘Hello World’ [Flavorpill]
4. Hear everything from vintage pop, hip hop, electro, house at the Old Queen’s Head for January Detox [Don’t Panic]
5. See Chips for the Poor, Chapter 24, and Diaphram Failure at the The Wilmington Arms [London Gigs]
6. Count the stars in the sky [Ian Visits]
7. Admire Dover House [Tired of London]
20 Jan 2012
London agenda for Thursday 19 January
1. Watch the new A Tribe Called Quest documentary, Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of ATCQ [Le Cool]
2. Celebrate the life of Gil Scott-Heron with Kate Tempest, Ben Mellor, Jamie XX and Gilles Peterson the Wilton’s Music Hall Bookslam [Run Riot]
3. Listen to David Rowan, the UK editor of Wired Magazine tell stories at Campfire [Don’t Panic]
4. Hear Sandy Gall tell why it all went wrong in Afghanistan at Asia House [Ian Visits]
5. Browse the bookshop at Morden Hall Park [Tired of London]
19 Jan 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 18 January
1. Get top tips on becoming a drag queen [Le Cool]
2. View Sarah Strang’s collaboration with rough sleepers at Movement in Sleep [Run Riot]
3. See a film for a fiver at The Water Poet [Don’t Panic]
4. Watch the Theatre Royal Bath’s production of the Madness of King George III [Time Out]
5. Spend the day scrubbing out drainage ditches so water voles can live a life of leisure [Ian Visits]
6. Drink at the Gun, E14 [Tired of London]
18 Jan 2012
London agenda for Tuesday 17 January
1. Blend in to the crowd to see Zelig [Le Cool]
2. Watch the best five episodes of AbFab at the Book Club [Run Riot]
3. Look at Catherine Yass’s haunting photographs of the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse [Flavorpill]
4. Prepare to be buried in an avalanche of music, dance and unexpected performances at Punk [Don’t Panic]
5. Respect how Time Out has its fingers on the pulse of comedy by recommending Alexai Sayle [Time Out]
6. Check out the hidden alleys of London with the Matt Brown, editor of the Londonist and author David Long [Ian Visits]
7. Take a walk around Three Mills Island [Tired of London]
17 Jan 2012
London agenda for Monday 16 January
1. Discover the supernatural Charles Dickens [Le Cool]
2. Watch sublime and violent works of Tokyo-based artist Umeda at the London International Mime Festival [Run Riot]
3. Look at twenty life-size female statues in Ambika P3’s subterranean space by Eva Caridi [Flavorpill]
4. Combat ‘Blue Monday’ by visiting the Architecture Foundation, which will reverberate at 111Hz, a frequency known to induce endorphins in human physiology. Sounding Space [Don’t Panic]
5. View a screening of Laurent Pelly’s exquisite interpretation of Jules Massenet’s fairytale opera Cendrillon [Time Out]
6. Look at the Strand from the animals’ points of view [Ian Visits]
7. See the Dudgeons Wharf Memorial [Tired of London]
16 Jan 2012
London agenda for Friday 13 January
1. Glimpse at the ‘computer game fantasies and R ‘n’ B soundtracked dreamscapes’ of Rustie at The Nest [Le Cool]
2. Discover that True Blood fans have a regular Fangtasia night [Run Riot]
3. Talk to the director of The Collaborator and His Family, which follows a Palestinian family whose father collaborated with the Israeli security services for 20 years. At the Frontline [Don’t Panic]
4. Watch professional league ice sculpture [Time Out]
5. Plan to finally build Taitlin’s Tower. [Ian Visits]
6. Visit the Cuming Museum [Tired of London]
13 Jan 2012
London agenda for Thursday 12 January 2012
1. Look at Ewan Spencer’s photos of the White Stripes at KK Outlet [Le Cool]
2. Visit the Foundling Museum for recent work by Quentin Blake [Run Riot]
3. Hey, the Jerk store called. They’re all out of you. Dalston Superstore. [Don’t Panic]
4. Get lectured at by a Brunel house historian [Ian Visits]
5. Admire Saint Paul’s Deptford [Tired of London]
12 Jan 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 11 January 2012
1. View film, theatre, music, illustration and literature from the London Short Film Festival [Run Riot]
2. Look at the paintings of John Keane at Flowers Centra [Flavorpill]
3. Go to to ICA’s cinema to see Sean Conway, A Fucking Genius [Don’t Panic]
4. Walk backwards in the wind to the London Mime Festival [Time Out]
5. Ask the Met Commissioner some questions [Ian Visits]
6. Explore Sailortown [Tired of London]
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11 Jan 2012
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