London agenda for Wednesday 30 May 2012
1. Soul search one’s reading desires at the School of Life with Bibliotherapy [Le Cool]
2. Listen to live scores of experimental films at Whirlygig [Run Riot]
3. Head to Cargo for Islet [Don’t Panic]
4. Stand proud for geek rights at the Geek Manifesto [Ian Visits]
5. Try star-spotting with the Baker Street Irregular Astronomers [Tired of London]
30 May 2012
London agenda for Tuesday 29 May 2012
1. Be haunted by Kyla la Grange [Run Riot]
2. Get noised by the pride of Vancouver, Japandroids [Don’t Panic]
3. Debate whether to keep the monarchy or send them packing [Ian Visits]
4. Buy wines at Gerry’s [Tired of London]
29 May 2012
London agenda for 28 May 2012
1. Listen to James Sallis, author of ‘Drive’, and music from Milly Blue, singer for Basement Jaxx. Also, drink whiskey. At Whiskey & Words [Le Cool]
2. Take the last change to see Cillian Murphy in Misterman [Run Riot]
3. Get overloaded with Internet cuteness at #Kittencamp [Don’t Panic]
4. Explore the almost lost neighbourhood between Clerkenwell and Shoreditch with St Luke’s Walk with Old Maps [Ian Visits]
5. Find London’s first drinking fountain [Tired of London]
28 May 2012
London agenda for Friday 25 May 2012
1.Eexplore the tastes, textures and smells of a fantastical, three-dimensional mythical landscape by artist Gayle Chong Kwan [Run Riot]
2. Listen to Vinyl Black Stiletto at Cargo [Don’t Panic]
3. The Horrors? We guess so, Time Out [Time Out]
4. Get one’s evil scientist on with free range chemistry [Ian Visits]
5. Attend Speakeasy & Swing at the Half Moon [Tired of London]
25 May 2012
London agenda for Thursday 24 May 2012
1. Spend one’s last shilling on comic books at the French-influenced BD & Comics Passion Festival [Le Cool]
2. Experience a ‘new boutique electronic music festival featuring fun from Bearded Kitten and more’ at Noisily Festival [Run Riot]
3. Head to Hoxton Hall for some ‘raw, forward thinking music by local up-and-coming bands, producers and MCs’ at No Sitting [Don’t Panic]
4. Don’t be one of those people who dismiss the Barbican Centre’s brutality and take a tour [Ian Visits]
5. Wander on Mitcham Common [Tired of London]
24 May 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 23 May 2012
1. Watch insanely brilliant poet Ross Sutherland entertain with a reading and a Q&A after the screening of Every Rendition on a Broken Machine at a Secret Location [Le Cool]
2. Spend an evening on the Queen of Hoxton’s rooftop watching The Troll Hunter [Run Riot]
3. Listen to Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs at Koko [Flavorpill]
4. Hear a chamber orchestra performance based on American neuroscientist David Eagleman’s cult book of short stories Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives [Don’t Panic]
5. Agitate the city with a people’s history of London [Ian Visits]
6. Maintain one’s bike with Islington Cyclists’ Action Group [Tired of London]
23 May 2012
London agenda for Tuesday 22 May 2012
1. Visit the artists and studios of Clerkenwell Design Week [Le Cool]
2. Listen to Egyptian storyteller and performer, Chirine El Ansary, tell some of the most intriguing and deliciously seductive episodes from the Arabian Nights at the Crick Crack Club [Run Riot]
3. Hear jazz-soul singer Krystle Warren [Flavorpill]
4. Give some rare love to Mayfair by advocating debauchery at Love Machine Wrap Party [Don’t Panic]
5. Ask if Wager was an anti-semite or an ANTI-SEMITE at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust
6. Attend London Reads at the Deptford Lounge [Tired of London]
22 May 2012
London agenda for Monday 21 May 2012
1. Hear the guy who does the theme song to The Bridge, Choir Of Young Believers [Le Cool]
2. Watch ‘a troupe of international actors, singers and muso’s recreate Themba’s hauntingly beautiful fable,’ The Suit [Run Riot]
3. Listen to former Arab Strap guitarist Malcolm Middleton at Cargo [Don’t Panic]
4. Quietly talk about The Scream [Ian Visits]
5. Visit Portsoken Street Garden [Tired of London]
21 May 2012
London agenda for Friday 18 May 2012
1. Sit on a Dalston Rooftop and live like it is 1962 [Le Cool]
2. Sleep in the Old Vic tunnels and live rough for a night [Run Riot]
3. Experience ‘a proper house clubbing aesthetic’ in the Waiting Room with Patrice Scott at Thunder [Flavorpill]
4. Prove that Clerkenwell Green has been a pinko hotbed for 600 years at Radicals Rebels and Revolutionaries [Ian Visits]
5. Find the Robert Stephenson statue [Tired of London]
18 May 2012
London agenda for Thursday 17 May 2012
1. Watch a film of London’s skaters attempt to kill themselves in City of Rats [Le Cool]
2. Stand athwart history and yell ‘Stop!’ at Surviving Progress [Run Riot]
3. Get caught between different planes of existence at the group show, Liminal States [Flavorpill]
4. Spend the night at This is not happening [Don’t Panic]
5. Watch the City enforce its medieval borders at Beating the Bounds [Ian Visits]
6. Attend Late Shift at the National Portrait Gallery [Tired of London]
17 May 2012
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