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London agenda for Tuesday 15 November

Meet band tour sleeper bus driver, Pappy

In a café in Washington DC I sat with a tour bus driver known as Pappy. He was eating a large bowl of chili and launching into a story about touring with a group who had once tried to trash his bus.. “So I drove way out into the Nevada desert and had a pistol in one hand and was throwing their bags out the bus with the other”.. I really need to learn to press the record button on my dictaphone faster. Pappy has lived through the heyday of rock n’ roll excess and driven some of the biggest names across America. While band members are asleep in their bunks, Pappy drives through the night to the next city, hundreds of miles away. Everyday he wears a chunky ring adorned with a giant diamond, personally given to him by Willy Nelson and his stories of years on the road pour out of him.

London agenda for Monday 14 November

Runners, jumpers and throwers invited back

London agenda for Friday 11 November

How to be a protestor

Thanks to the Occupy movement and the howl of the 99%, the oft-derided hobby of protesting is no longer confined exclusively to bearded drop outs and long-winded undergraduates. So, who’s doing it, and should you be one of them?

Booze: bringing policemen and protesters closer together

“A source” who’s a bit confused about what “globalist” means tells The Sun about PC Gary Withers, who got pissed in town and ended up passing out in the Occupy LSX camp. If only the police and protesters could get smashed together more often, just think how much better the world would be.

Metapranking: Was famous historical hoax a hoax all along?

Watch Mayor Johnson bluster away the dangers of cycling