London agenda for Friday 2 Friday
1. After a series of nights in random venues, finally settle down with The Road To Nowhere: Labyrinth [Le Cool]
2. Delve into the hopes and dreams of four outstanding female dancers at Darren Ellis’ Rough Cut [Run Riot]
3. See a rare London gig with the legendary lead guitarist from Bob Marley and the Wailers, Junior Marvin [Don’t Panic]
4. Pretty much finish off the year at the Club Motherfucker Winter Do [Flavorpill]
5. Watch a film about women who marry inanimate objects at Married to the Eiffel Tower [Ian Visits]
6. Go shopping on Deptford High Street [Tired of London]
And something for the weekend?
7. Sat Visit the Craft Guerilla designer maker market in Walthamstow [Londonist]
8. Sat Take a December dip in the Parliament Hill lido [Time Out]
9. Discover tomorrow’s design today tomorrow at the East London Design Show [London Confidential]
02 Dec 2011
London agenda for Thursday 1 December
1. Discover vintage and hear a Summer Camp DJ set at day one (of two) London Loves LA Pop Up [Le Cool]
2. Go to a secret location for a Video Game Art appreciation [Run Riot]
3. Listen to Breakbot at Village Underground [Flavorpill]
4. Watch Das Racist and Blood Orange at Xoyo [Don’t Panic]
5. Discuss when robots will rule the world [Ian Visits]
6. Go for a walk in Ken Wood [Tired of London]
01 Dec 2011
London agenda for Wednesday 30 November
1. Watch Rik Warren, Guy Hescott and Charlotte Gascoyne as a hapless barbershop trio [Le Cool]
2. Watch tiny murders illustrated by dolls [Run Riot]
3. View a group show by Peter Blake and Peter Kennard as well as young talent like Jack Newling at Your Garden is Looking a Mess Could You Please Tidy it Up [Flavorpill]
4. Watch an an intimate warmup show by the Olivia Tremor Control at BAC [Don’t Panic]
5. Stroll along Columbia Road Market for their first night of Winterval shopping [Time Out]
6. Listen to Charlie Beckett discuss the rise and whatever happened next of Wikileaks [Ian Visits]
7. Browse bullion at Gold Coin Exchange [Tired of London]
London Agenda is Snipe’s daily compilation of what to do in London as suggested by everyone else. Send additions to listings@snipelondon.com
30 Nov 2011
London agenda for Tuesday 29 November
1. Get the Merseybeat sound at Cargo with Outfit and Red Kite [Le Cool]
2. Raise some much-needed dosh for Wilton’s Music Hall with Adam Ant [Run Riot]
3. Look at the future from the 50s at Horace Panter: Robots, Saints and (Extra) Ordinary People [Flavorpill]
4. Watch a double-bill from two of the world’s greatest documentary filmmakers, Agnès Varda (The Gleaners and I, Cléo de 5 à 7) and Thom Andersen (Los Angeles Pays Itself), and their filmic portraits of L.A.’s urban mural culture, lost signs, and painted histories at Architecture of Film [Don’t Panic]
5. Western civilisation sure had a good run, now say goodbye to it at The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe [Ian Visits]
6. Eat at Dahlak Eritrean Restaurant [Tired of London]
London Agenda is Snipe’s daily compilation of what to do in London as suggested by everyone else. Send additions to listings@snipelondon.com
29 Nov 2011
London agenda for Monday 28 November
1. Visit the ephemeral, half-remembered and easily lost memories of painter Wilhelm Sasnal at the Whitechapel [Le Cool]
2. Spend some time in a real crap flat at Three Blind Mice [Run Riot]
3. View the last Rotoreliefs short-film night for the year at Rich Mix [Don’t Panic]
4. Listen to the authors of three remarkable new London-based books discuss how and why the city has inspired and driven their work, and the enduring power of this vast, sprawling metropolis at London Unfurled [Ian Visits]
5. Wander in the East Greenwich Pleasuance [Tired of London]
London Agenda is Snipe’s daily compilation of what to do in London as suggested by everyone else. Send additions to listings@snipelondon.com
28 Nov 2011
London agenda for Friday 25 November
1. Eat steamed buns, gourmet hot dogs, burgers and Mediterranean delights set against the back-drop of the mighty fine Abbot Street at the Long Table [Le Cool]
2. View a mix of fine art, vintage costumery, cheeky ceramics, antique furniture and handmade jewellery at Guts for Garters [Run Riot]
3. Visit 80s synth-punk at Chromeo [Flavorpill]
4. Discuss the Deep Blue Sea with director Terence Davies [Don’t Panic]
5. Watch a manga cartoon set in the British Museum at Professor Munakata’s British Museum adventure [Ian Visits]
6. See the Monolith [Tired of London]
London Agenda is Snipe’s daily compilation of what to do in London as suggested by everyone else. Send additions to listings@snipelondon.com
25 Nov 2011
London agenda for Thursday 24 September
1. Join Le Cool to drink some free Palm Beer and hear about walking hidden rivers at Artesian Wanders [Le Cool]
2. Enter the dirtiest recesses of John Waters’ mind at the Working Man’s Club [Run Riot]
3. Be ambient with Oneohtrix at St. Giles in the Field Supported by Snipe’s Backbeat cover boy Babe Rainbow [Flavorpill]
4. Go prehistoric with Stone Cave 3 [Don’t Panic]
5. Go to a sample sale? Whatever [London Confidential]
6. Learn how to build your own Noah’s Ark [Ian Visits]
7. Find the Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings arch [Tired of London]
24 Nov 2011
London agenda for Wednesday 23 November
1. Go to the Star of Kings for an unorthodox variety show [Le Cool]
2. Mike Pollitt alert! View extinct birds as drawn by Peter Blake, Ralph Steadman, Charming Baker, Rob Ryan and Kai & Sunny at Ghosts of Gone Birds [Run Riot]
3. Listen to French/Finnish electro-indie-pop duo The Dø in Hoxton- [Flavorpill]
4. Watch some athletic aerobicists at La Soirée [Time Out]
5. Hear Gang Gang Dance and About Group at the ULU [Don’t Panic]
6. Join the folly cognoscenti for a discussion on Exotic Follies in Georgian England [Ian Visits]
7. See Tacita Dean’s FILM at the Tate [Tired of London]
23 Nov 2011
London agenda for Tuesday 22 November
1. Find out what the catwalk says about contemporary civilisation with design and fashion historian Emmanuelle Dirix at Fashioning the Future in the TFL Museum [Le Cool]
2. Listen to a recovered heroin and crack addict share his story of the highs and the lows, then eat some food at Storythyme [Run Riot]
3. Hear modern strings in the Village Underground at Strings Masterclass [Flavorpill]
4. Finally visit the Shacklewell Arms for Fools Gold [Don’t Panic]
5. Go skating at Somerset House [Time Out] (Starts today – skating is open until 22 Jan)
6. Discover the story of Marie Curie and also why handling radium is a bad idea [Ian Visits]
7. Drink Pigs Ear at the Pig’s Ear [Tired of London]
22 Nov 2011
London agenda for Monday 21 November
1. Watch classic films in the old ash bin of the Roundhouse at the Underground Film Club [Le Cool]
2. Visit the mind of two versions of the same person at Polarbear’s Old Me [Run Riot]
3. See Michael Rapaport’s debut documentary on seminal hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest at Xoyo [Flavorpill]
4. Hear the Battles at Stoke Newington’s ? Bar [Don’t Panic]
5. Look for the Great Lost Library of England’s Kings [Ian Visits]
6. Drop in to Drink, Shop & Do [Tired of London]
London Agenda is Snipe’s daily compilation of what to do in London as suggested by everyone else. Send additions to listings@snipelondon.com
21 Nov 2011
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