London agenda for Friday 15 June 2012
1. Spend the evening in a massive three-room indie disco at Subsonic Live [Le Cool]
2.Go down the rabbit hole for some storytelling with cucumber sandwiches, cakes, treats, literary competitions and beautiful music and images at Are you sitting comfortably? [Run Riot]
3. Discuss Egyptian politics with Katia Jarjoura, director of Goodbye Mubarak [Don’t Panic]
4. Gawk at a huge mass of human bones discovered in UCL during construction work in 2010 at Buried on Campus [Ian Visits]
5. Visit the St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum [Tired of London]
15 Jun 2012
London agenda for Thursday 14 June 2012
1. Discuss mistreated, malnourished, sleep-deprived child camel-racing jockeys after watching Desert Riders [Le Cool]
2. Listen to Oliver Burkeman give the potion for happiness for only £15 at The Antidote [Run Riot]
3. Agenda doesn’t know anything about Joe Gideon And The Shark, but they are at Sailor Jerry’s Hotel and who has been there yet? [Don’t Panic]
4. Pub crawl around Little Venice [Ian Visits]
5. Walk in Six Brothers Field [Tired of London]
14 Jun 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 13 June 2012
1. Welcome the Photographer’s Gallery back to the scene with Burtynsky: Oil [Le Cool]
2. Hear Gabby Young and Other Animals at Scala [Run Riot]
3. Discuss the heroin doc Opium Brides with the film makers and journalist Najibullah Quraishi at The Mosaic Rooms [Don’t Panic]
4. Talk about why paranormal phenomena should be taken serious at Weird Science [Ian Visits]
5. Drink at the Cask Pub & Kitchen [Tired of London]
13 Jun 2012
London agenda for Tuesday 12 June 2012
1. Watch a ‘new film programme of provocative and beautiful films made by animation artists from the last 20 years’ in Canary Wharf station [Le Cool]
2. Listen to Pia Juul, Denmark’s foremost literary author, and Ali Smith, award-winning author, for an evening of literature and conversation on the Thames [Run Riot]
3. Hear Sunn O))) with very special guests Nurse With Wound at Koko [Don’t Panic]
4. Listen to Time Out fawn over Martin Amis at Foyles [Time Out]
5. Tour the church of godless heathen journalists, St Bride’s [Ian Visits]
6. See the Ode to the West Wind mural [Tired of London]
12 Jun 2012
London agenda for Monday 11 June 2012
1. Watch a play on the rooftop of a Peckham cricket bat factory at Belong [Le Cool]
2. Watch a history of London on film at the Southbank Centre [Run Riot]
3. See Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, and Émilien Néron in Monsieur Lazhar [Don’t Panic]
4. Discuss Rousseau and Modern Democracy at the British Academy [Ian Visits]
5. Drink at the Harrow [Tired of London]
11 Jun 2012
London agenda for Friday 8 June 2012
1. Watch the biennial anime festival at the BFI [Le Cool]
2. See over 30 circus, cabaret, and other weirdo act acts at this year’s Postcards Festival [Run Riot]
3. Discuss the film Mission to Lars, in which the family of an autistic guy tries to get Metallica’s Lars Ulrich to drop by. At the RItzy [Don’t Panic]
4. Time Out says that the Spitalfields Summer Festival begins today. So there’s that. [Time Out]
5. Dress for the pleasure gardens of the 18th Century [Ian Visits]
6. Embrace the London Festival of Photography [Tired of London]
08 Jun 2012
London agenda for Thursday 7 June 2012
1. Discuss dystopian futures with Julianna Baggott, Martine McDonagh, and David Wingrove at the Post-Apocalyptic Book Club [Le Cool]
2. Listen to an Occupy Movement lawyer, Paul Randle-Jolliffe, introduce concepts of law at Passing Clouds [Run Riot]
3. Watch a ‘ white-hot band of ex-military blowers and Gypsy musicians from Bucharest kick serious brass’ at Mahala Rai Banda [Don’t Panic]
4. Talk to the Limehouse canal lockkeeper about the Olympics and East End Waterways [Ian Visits]
5. Visit the Garden of Disorientation [Tired of London]
07 Jun 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 6 June 2012
1. Listen to with author and pub connoisseur Robin Turner discuss pub documentary Roll out the barrel at Rough Trade [Le Cool]
2. Be one of us, one of us, one of us at a showing of Freaks at the Book Club [Run Riot]
3. Eh, Tenacious D is amusing enough for a mention. Brixton Academy [Don’t Panic]
4. Watch Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit in the outdoor concrete splendour of Broadgate Circle [Time Out]
5. Ask what if ‘artists and designers redesigned economics? Presumably it would be the world’s first alcohol-backed currency. At RCA. [Ian Visits]
6. Buy books at Watermark [Tired of London]
06 Jun 2012
London agenda for Friday 1 July 2012
1. Visit the old BBC studios on Marylebone High Street to see the incredible new production of Henry V by Theatre Delicatessen [Le Cool]
2. Kick off the jubilee festivities Fanny-style at the Waiting Room [Run Riot[
3. Listen to downtempo and garage-influenced grooves by Bonobo at the Waiting Room [Flavorpill]
4. View a bunch of Brightoner’s efforts to take ‘photography off the internet and back to print’ at the Photography Club [Don’t Panic]
5. Listen to Margaret Drabble, Jay Griffiths, Hanif Kureishi and Iain Sinclair discuss how literature conditions our geographical imagination [Ian Visits]
6. Attend Stoke Newington Literary Festival [Tired of London]
01 Jun 2012
London agenda for Thursday 31 May 2012
1. Listen to the deranged Alt-J at Corsica Studios [Le Cool]
2. Hear the ‘charismatic, idiosyncratic brand of modern folk music’ of Moulettes at Bush Hall [Run Riot]
3. Watch a preview of Chris Dangerfield’s new show Sex Tourist at the Hanbury Arms [Don’t Panic]
4. ‘Think fin de siècle finery and steampunk chic’ and attend Poplar’s Alternative Diamond Jubilee [Ian Visits]
5. See Sir John Soane’s Hogarth collection [Tired of London]
31 May 2012
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