London agenda for Thursday 30 September

London agenda for Thursday 30 September
1. Show up on time and in regular attire for the Streetstyle Book Launch [Le Cool]
2. Wander through the apocolypse to Scorched [Le Cool]
3. Discover When the 60s Didn’t Swing [Run Riot]
4. Crown London’s Top Tranny [Run Riot] Note: try to crown the right one.
5. Take tea at Soho’s Secret Tea Room above the Coach & Horses [Tired of London]

 

And you think your student loan is bad...

Der Spiegel reports that October 3rd will be the day Germany finally pays off the last bit of interest on its reparations payments from the treaty of Versailles in 1919. So they’ve been paying that debt back, give or take (Hitler wasn’t all that keen to keep up repayments), for 91 years. Kind of puts your next credit card bill in perspective…

Germany Closes Book on World War I With Final Reparations Payment [Der Spiegel]

 

London agenda for Wednesday 29 September

London agenda for Wednesday 29 September
1. Don’t Panic! And also, admire ten years of Don’t Panic posters [Le Cool]
2. Tell tales at Spin Cities [Le Cool]
3. Get psychedelic with Violens, Mabel Love, Sad Day for Puppets, and Venus Fury [London Gigs]
4. Legitimately enter Shoreditch House (for once) and drink free G&Ts at the Literary Salon [Run Riot]
5. Seek sustenance at the Pavilion Cafe, Dulwich Park [Tired of London, Tired of Life]
6. Plot the overthrow of the previous five selections at the Last Tuesday Society, A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents [Run Riot] (And no, it was not yesterday. Thank you for asking.)

 

The End Times: French film cliches

The End Times: French film cliches
1. The other football. BritBowl XXIV – London Blitz retain National Championship with victory over Coventry [Camden New Journal]
2. Funny maps of European sterotypes [AlphaDesigner]
3. Help Dalston’s Arcola theatre move the stage to the next stage [Hackney Gazette]
4. French film cliches [Sabotage Times]

 

London agenda for Friday and the Weekend 24 Sept - 26 Sept

London agenda for Friday and the Weekend 24 Sept – 26 Sept
1. Buy cheap art books at the London Art Book Fair (Fri) [Run Riot]
2. Verb verb noun non at the Bubblegum Slut Fanzine birthday party (Sat) [Londongigs]
3. See the new play Crimes of the Heart (Sun) [Spoonfed]