London agenda for Friday 16 December
1. Enjoy hula-hooping, rockabilly bands, swing dance classes and the Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes’ usual combination of cheap booze, bowling and karaoke at Rock A Hula [Le Cool]
2. Visit a roller disco, a 5m high medieval street scene, an 80ft banqueting table piled with a whole wild boar, gourmet street food and a cutting edge exhibition at Once upon a wintertime [Run Riot]
3. Return To The Future featuring Art Department at the Print Room [Flavorpill]
4. Listen to a vinyl-only night in the heart of Brixton at Extra Classic [Don’t Panic]
5. Find out about the relationship between medieval English monarchs and wild beasts [Ian Visits]
6. Drink at the Coach & Horses [Tired of London]
And something for the weekend
7. Sat Spend the afternoon on an East London treasure hunt [Run Riot]
8. Sat View Bill Hicks: American with his brother Steve, then Skype with his family back in Texas, then eat some birthday cake at the Roxy [Roxy]
9.All Weekend Go look at the advent calendar of windows in Willsden Green [Londonist]
10. Sun Visit an alternative market of clothes, housewares, entertainments and live performances, all of which are delightfully eccentric the Secret Emporium Christmas Market [London Confidential]
16 Dec 2011
London agenda for Thursday 15 December
1. Listen to Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler, for free, at Rough Trade East [Le Cool]
2. The kids at Line Of Best Fit have a showcase tonight [Run Riot]
3. Listen to Matthew De Abaitua, editor-at-large of The Idler and camping fanatic discuss camping [Flavorpill]
4. Fly through the air with the greatest of ease in Deptford [Don’t Panic]
5. Walk around Shoreditch with historic maps [Ian Visits]
6. Celebrate Christmas at the Royal Albert Hall [Tired of London]
15 Dec 2011
London agenda for Wednesday 14 December
1. Go to the most bizarre Christmas party that anyone will ever attend. In Soho, natch. [Le Cool]
2. Visit Lena Weber, editor of Vintage Guide to London, to get that Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany’s look [Run Riot]
3. Explore the incredible art of composition and making music from scratch at Open Ears [Don’t Panic]
4. Watch Kasabian and Miles Kane at the O2 [Time Out]
5. Tell JJ Charlesworth, editor of Art Review, Adrian Searle and Tom Morton why art criticism is ridiculous [Ian Visits]
6. Find Andrew Burton’s Chimney [Tired of London]
14 Dec 2011
London agenda for Tuesday 13 December
1. Watch the saucy 70s flick the Night Porter at the Bethnal Green Town Hall Hotel, then listen to designer Roksanda Ilincic discuss the film [Le Cool]
2. Find out if our Christmas traditions are really traditional at The Idler Academy’s History of Christmas [Run Riot]
3. Hear the Kolacny Brothers and the Scala all-girl choir at the HMV Forum [Flavorpill]
4. Watch the Christmas Bboy jam of the year at Floor Rippers [Don’t Panic]
5. Listen to a small, up and coming choir at Westminster Abbey [Time Out]
6. Even though we don’t have flying cars, listen to some people discuss How the Space Age has Changed our View of the Universe [Ian Visits]
7. Sing carols at Christ Church, Southwark [Tired of London]
13 Dec 2011
London agenda for Monday 12 December
1. Visit the ICA for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 [Le Cool]
2.See the new restoration of the hand-tinted full-colour Le Voyage Dans la Lune (1902) with its new soundtrack by Air [Run Riot]
3. Watch The Rapture play a special show at Rowans Tenpin Bowl in Finsbury Park [Don’t Panic]
4. The Michael McIntyre Christmas Show? Burn it! Burn it with fire! [Time Out]
5. Listen to international authority on the Titanic and the White Star Line, Paul Louden-Brown [Ian Visits]
6. See the lego tree at St Pancras [Tired of London]
12 Dec 2011
London agenda for Friday 9 December
1. Watch a guy try to avoid CCTV for a month and become invisible at Erasing David [Le Cool]
2. Stay up after late at the Hackney Picturehouse for Midnight Movies Messy Christmas [Run Riot]
3. Look at the photos of a British teacher in Rome, Emma Stibbon, that interplay between the sites of ancient Rome and Benito Mussolini at Falls to the Shadow [Flavorpill]
4. Have a discussion with director Nick Broomfield over his documentary on Sarah Palin, You Betcha [Don’t Panic]
5. Recall that Onion headline – ‘I’m like a chocoholic, only with alcohol’ – at the Christmas Chocolate Festival [Ian Visits]
6. See the Dickens Exhibition [Tired of London]
And something for the weekend…
1. Sat Dress up as Santa and celebrate on the streets of London at Santacon [London Confidential]
2. Sun Party at Peckham’s Sister Sledge Christmas Fete [Londonist]
09 Dec 2011
London agenda for Thursday 8 December
1. View the amazing inner-city estates of Berlin-based artist Evol at A Sight For Sore Eyes [Le Cool]
2. Walk the lost rivers of London from the safety of an Islington pub [Run Riot]
3. Discuss the life of Aung San Suu Kyi at the Ritzy’s ‘Lady of No Fear [Don’t Panic]
4. Discover why dismissing art and design leads to bad science [Ian Visits]
5. See the Clerk’s Well [Tired of London]
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08 Dec 2011
London agenda for Wednesday 7 December
1. Listen to an exclusive vinyl-only in-store set by DJ Shadow at Rough Trade East [Le Cool]
2. Wear an ugly Christmas jumper for a live alt-folk music, contemporary dance, spoken word, mulled wine and open fire party [Run Riot]
3. Watch a live performance of the Canterbury Tales [Flavorpill]
4. See an amazing variation on the usual set with Caribou’s Vibration Ensemble [Don’t Panic]
5. What this is who knows. Frisky and Mannish [Time Out]
6. Ensure table dominance after attending the Science of the Christmas Dinner
7. Learn magick at Wicca Moon [Tired of London]
07 Dec 2011
London agenda for Tuesday 6 December
1. Have a holly, jolly, schmaltzy Christmas at Hyde Park [Le Cool]
2. Listen to some jokes at Mitch Benn and The Distractions [Run Riot]
3. Mix the future past at Non-classical at Troy Bar [Don’t Panic]
4. Go somewhere and watch something unknown at Secret Cinema [Time Out]
5. Look at photos by Red Saunders in which he recreates the ‘hidden’ neglected scenes of working class history [Ian Visits]
6. Buy books at Daunt Books, Hampstead [Tired of London]
06 Dec 2011
London agenda for Monday 5 December
1. Listen to Jarvis Crocker not sing at Rough Trade East [Le Cool]
2. Hear political speakers, comedians and musicians create a unique night of entertainment & European economic solidarity at It’s All Greek To Me [Run Riot]
3. Dance to Spector and Theme Park at the Working Man’s [Flavorpill]
4. Same excellent new band I Break Horses at Cargo [Don’t Panic]
5. Hail the dark lord Cthulhu. Whoops, make that look at a nice exhibition by glass artist Dale Chihuly [Time Out]
6. Discuss A Christmas Carol at Foyles [Ian Visits]
7. Attend the annual Christmas Fair at Drapers’ Hall [Tired of London]
05 Dec 2011
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