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Own the 100 Club: Legendary club needs £500,000. Do you have it?

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It’s been a haven for jazz, R&B, punk and indie for decades. It’s the heartbeat of London’s Northern Soul scene. Now fans of the 100 Club are in a race against time to save the Oxford Street venue as it battles against crippling running costs.

Rent and business rate increases, plus the new government’s VAT increase have convinced Jeff Horton, whose family have run the basement club since the 1960s, that the business can’t go on without new investment.

Thanks for nothing: London lawyers seek justice for Roma who finally escape toxic UN death camps in Kosovo

Somewhere in London, a team of lawyers, who, despite all the evidence to the contrary, still believe in justice for all, stare at the ceiling, searching for a chink in a dragon’s armour.

A thousand miles away in Serbia an heroic 69 year-old American expat, parts Ernest Hemmingway, Rocky Marciano and the best bits of Don Quixote, lies awake at night stoically cursing the madness of the world, grinding out reams of poetry and prose and lucidly dreaming of a victorious end to an 11-year battle he never wanted.
To the American’s south, in deeply troubled northern Kosovo, a band of Gypsies, 500— 600 strong (500 – 600 weak, actually), sit atop a mountain of toxic waste, drawing more lead into their blood than has ever before been recorded, slowly dying.

Just a little further south, in Kosovo’s capital city, Pristina, an Italian diplomat, entrusted by the United Nations to keep the peace in the Balkan powder keg, sleeps, perhaps peacefully, safely ensconced in his dragon’s armour, impervious to the darts of legal pygmies, the words of heroic dreamers, and the tears of the world’s most despised race.

London agenda for Tuesday 2 November

London agenda for Tuesday 2 November
1. Eat Montreal-style meatballs on meatball Tuesday at Pizza East [Le Cool]
2. Gape at astonishing dance company, The Feathernaughts [Run Riot]
3. Explore the Sir John Soane Museum by candlelight [Tired of London]

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London agenda for Monday 1 November

London agenda for Monday 1 November

1. Have a bit of the old slap and tickle with God spank the queen [Le Cool]
2. Avoid paper cuts with Rob Ryan: the stars shine all day too [Run Riot]
3. Just super. Xiu Xiu, Zola Jesus, Former Ghosts at XOYO [Snipe]
4. Revisit Portland in 1992 with Alice Cooper, Jim Rose Circus, Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction [London Gigs]

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London agenda for Friday 29 October

London agenda for Friday 29 October
1. Play an instrument of the mind [Le Cool]
2. Go to a carpark to see Delphic [Le Coo]
3. Take on the man at the Frontline [Run Riot]
4. Porn it up, with, you know, class, at Agent Lynch’s Studio 64 Hallowe’en Special [Run Riot]
5. Vivisect your heart out at Last Legs Veterinary Clinic [Run Riot]
6. Watch B Movies at the Victoria’s Blood Ceremony Hallowe’en Special [Run Riot]
7. Punks say fuck you to Hallowe’en. Dragster, Maximum RnR, The Deadnig, Grimble Band, and Public Disgrace at 12 Bar [London Gigs]
8. Laugh until you cry, dance until you die [Spoonfed]