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Your cultural event guide
Here's a snapshot of our favorite things to do in London this week. |
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Another August bank holiday, another weekend of serious revelry. As ever, the major highlight is the Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's biggest street parade and a guaranteed party atmosphere come rain or shine. Elsewhere, we have Addictive TV and their now-traditional projections onto the National Theatre fly tower; indie-rock hoedown Get Loaded in the Park on Clapham Common; and the zombie-tastic Film4 Frightfest. Of course, if all that seems like a little too much, then the Ballroom Bonanza at the Southbank Centre offers more sedate pleasures. Enjoy the time off while it lasts — it's the last public holiday before Christmas.
- Kieran Wyatt, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Flavorpill Causes
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Flavorpill is all about culture and going out on the town, but we also recognize that not everyone has the luxury to enjoy these things. With so many amazing charity organizations around, we've hand-picked three causes doing great work and serving the most basic needs. Check out their profiles, learn more, and give what you can.
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MORE FLAVOR: Fundraiser
Trekstock
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Tuesday 19 Aug 2008 (7pm)
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The Boogaloo (312 Archway Road, N6, 020.8340.2928) Tube: Highgate
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The Boogaloo gets all philanthropic during the second of three Trekstock nights, all conducted in the name of charity — Teenage Cancer Trust, to be precise. Those bringing along their instruments to support the cause include Starsailor singer and songwriter James Walsh, North London's the Holloways (who don't have far to travel), pop talent Rosie Oddie and the acoustic wonder that is Sam McCarthy. On DJ duty are the charismatic Mat Horne of Gavin & Stacey fame and 8 Out of 10 Cats regular Jason Manford.
- Joe Rudkin
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MUSIC: Electronic
Lindstrøm
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Tuesday 19 Aug 2008 (7pm)
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Rough Trade East (91 Brick Lane, E1, 020.7392.7788) Tube: Aldgate East, Liverpool Street
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Oslo's Lindstrøm — famous for his remixes of fashionable acts such as Franz Ferdinand — cruises down to Rough Trade to play the whole of his new, as-yet-unreleased album, Where You Go I Go Too. Downtempo beats typically met minimal, Ibiza-style disco in this understated Norwegian's previous work, but this record is a more uptempo affair, with deep, glossy synths and driving rhythms. Rough Trade's monthlong birthday party keeps getting better and should influence the whole city's musical climate — expect to hear this Norwegian export everywhere in the coming months.
- Oliver Spall
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Wristbands for admission will be distributed beginning at 6pm and are first-come, first-served.
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ART: Photography
The Greenwich Annuale
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Wednesday 20 Aug 2008 (9am–5pm)
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Viewfinder Photography Gallery (Peyton Place, SE10, 020.8858.8351) Tube: BR: Greenwich
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Viewfinder hosts the first London Independent Photography exhibition over the (hopefully balmy) bank-holiday weekend. Both photo novices and Wolfgang Tillmans wannabes are represented in equal measure at this populous take on the standard gallery show. All members of the LIP group have been invited to contribute pieces to the collection, meaning that genre, style and subject matter are completely open. The Annuale is as much a great opportunity to see contemporary photographers' work as it is a breath of fresh air from the austere gallery atmosphere.
- Oliver Spall
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FILM: Festival
Beefeater London Movie Season
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Wednesday 20 Aug 2008 (8pm)
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Roxy Bar & Screen (128-132 Borough High Street, SE1, 020.7403.4423) Tube: Borough, London Bridge
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"I could take double anything you could!" Anyone who wants to challenge Withnail can do so during the Beefeater London Movie Season. The Roxy Bar & Screen pours two-for-the-price-of-one cocktails while screening five quintessentially British films. The Wednesday-evening line-up includes the classics The Long Good Friday (20 Aug), Alfie (27 Aug), Withnail and I (3 Sep), Naked (10 Sep) and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (17 Sep). Take your pick of themes — there are gangsters, excessive drinking and psychotic behaviour, not to mention violent comedy and promiscuity, all tinted with a hefty dose of traditional geezer sentimentality.
- Stephanie Cotela
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WK-LISTER
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Thursday 21 Aug 2008 (noon–8pm)
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Elms Lesters Painting Rooms (1-5 Flitcroft Street, WC2, 020.7836.6747) Tube: Tottenham Court Road
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Counter-culture gallery Elms Lesters Painting Rooms' pulsating new show brings internationally renowned urban artists WK Interact and Anthony Lister under their roof once again (both were featured in a February 2007 exhibition). France-born and Brooklyn-based, Interact has taken inspiration from New Yorkers for the past 20 years, capturing bodies in motion through a range of techniques, including photocopying, layering and collage. Australian Lister provides a pleasing counterpoint to Interact's frenetic murals, employing the spray can and paint to create diptychs, both dreamlike and cartoonish, that draw inspiration from belief systems and action heroes.
- Helen Holtom
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FILM: Festival
Film4 Frightfest
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Thursday 21 Aug 2008
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Odeon West End (40 Leicester Square, WC2, 0871.224.4007) Tube: Leicester Square
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Striking more fear in the heart of Leicester Square than a gaggle of guidebook-wielding tourists, Film4's Frightfest returns for its ninth year. Bucketloads of blood and indulgently far-fetched plots are the norm during its five-day run of premieres, previews, personal appearances and signings. Day one kicks off with hoodie horror Eden Lake, torture flick Scar — in 3D, no less — and Aussie cricket (yes, cricket) thriller, I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer. High culture this festival may not be, but with monsters, homocidal maniacs and samurai cops galore, it does what it says on the tin — and then some.
- Natalie Liechti
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London's Calling
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Friday 22 Aug 2008
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Though geared toward couriers, the London's Calling festival has plenty to offer cyclists (and bipeds) of all vocations. The fest kicks off on Friday with an analog version of Space Invaders — on bikes, of course — and the opening of the London's Calling gallery show at the Foundry, which showcases courier- and bicycle-themed art. Things heat up on Saturday with the Great Tour de Ville Adventure Ride, when competitors race for the top prize of a spanking-new track bike. Sunday brings the Messenger Olympics, which give everyone a chance to show off their skills in the saddle. With parties every night, even non-pedalers are guaranteed to be sore by Sunday.
- Oliver Spall
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Addictive TV present AV Club Night
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Friday 22 Aug 2008 (10pm)
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National Theatre (South Bank, SE1, 020.7452.3000) Tube: Embankment, Waterloo
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Addictive TV inundate the National Theatre's 25m tower with an explosion of audio and visual stimuli tonight. Taking their cue from video mash-ups and high-speed film remixes, the duo have mastered the art of VJing, sourcing an eclectic array of material — from black-and-white movies to TV ads — to both capture and expand our age's visual fixations. Recently back from Glastonbury's Dance Village, the video artists have supported Grandmaster Flash, the Chemical Brothers and Goldfrapp, among others, and they perform tonight to a soundtrack of electro and breakbeat.
- Helen Holtom
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Pretty Vacant
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Saturday 23 Aug 2008 (noon–6pm)
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Transition Gallery (Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, E8, 020.7254.4202) Tube: Bethnal Green
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Tadpoles, bees and eggs are just some of the materials used in an attempt to capture and explode the mundane in this all-female show at Transition Gallery. Taking the Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant" as its theme, Nina Ogden, Keara Stewart and Rachel Potts' exhibition is unashamedly nihilistic, but ultimately more wistful than anything Johnny Rotten ever spat out. Devoid of specific parameters, their work seeks to counteract the mainstream, skew perception, and indulge in the fantastic and the unknown that can be uncovered beneath the humdrum routine of everyday life. Their DIY Punk approach reveals a rejection of commercial values, emphasising, "We don't care".
- Stephanie Cotela
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MUSIC: Electronic
Border Community
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Saturday 23 Aug 2008 (11pm–7am)
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The End (16-18 West Central Street, WC1, 020.7419.9199) Tube: Holborn, Tottenham Court Road
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Despite a relatively short life, electronic-music label Border Community has unleashed a wide selection of sounds, from the dark and atmospheric to the uplifting, emotional and melodic. Tonight, the label's founder, DJ and producer James Holden, headlines. Joining him are Chilean Ricardo Tobar, dropping a mindblowing live set of noisy new shoegaze; Avus, adding some acid-dark elements and special guest Legowelt, spinning a mix of old-school Chicago tracks and techno-funk.
- Graziela Pancheri
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MUSIC: Festival
Get Loaded in the Park 2008
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Sunday 24 Aug 2008 (noon)
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Clapham Common (Clapham Common, SW4) Tube: Clapham Common, Clapham South
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With the steady stream of events held there each summer, the grassy expanses of Clapham Common suffer greatly — and never more so than when the circus of Get Loaded in the Park rolls into town. Reaffirming its nomination as the best medium-sized festival by the UK Festival Awards, the day looks set to surpass the triumph of previous years, with the intoxicating swagger of Iggy & the Stooges, the Hives, Supergrass, the Gossip, Kate Nash and other artists still to be added. Grab a ticket to guarantee your own stumbling trail of hoofprints is added to those of the masses.
- Natalie Liechti
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Notting Hill Carnival
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Sunday 24 Aug 2008
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Celebrating Caribbean culture — and, indeed, the summer's conclusion — the thrilling hustle of the Notting Hill Carnival once again takes over this bank-holiday weekend. With a million-odd punters descending upon West London across the two-day affair, streets are filled to bursting with eardrum-bursting sound systems offering everything from reggae and soca to jazz, soul and funk, plus smoky barbeques piled high with jerk chicken and, of course, the parade. Snaking its way over a three-mile course, the array of steel bands, floats and extravagantly festooned performers is the infectiously exuberant heartbeat of a massive celebration that's been partying every year since 1964.
- Natalie Liechti
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Warm vs Horse Meat Disco vs D*Ruffalo August Bank Holiday Special
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Monday 25 Aug 2008 (noon–midnight)
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Big Chill Bar (Dray Walk, Brick Lane, E1, 020.7392.9180) Tube: Liverpool Street
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Artist-management agency Warm have a distinguished record in arranging showcases for acts both on and off their books, and this bank-holiday event at the Big Chill Bar is no exception. Horse Meat Disco, aka James Hillard and Jim Stanton, have a legendary reputation for continuing the legacy of early-'80s NYC punk disco while injecting London's knowledge of how to put on an out-there party. Meanwhile, Berlin's D*Ruffalo provide squiggly samples, and the Warm residents promise to cover everything else, from yacht rock to OAP house.
- Joe Rudkin
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Strictly Summer Ballroom Bonanza
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Monday 25 Aug 2008 (11am)
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Southbank Centre (Belvedere Road, SE1, 0871.663.2501) Tube: Embankment, Waterloo
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Ballroom dancing isn't just for jobbing celebrities and athletes on Saturday night telly – thanks to the Southbank Centre, we all can learn to glide over the parquet without major podiatric injury. Assuming your coordination hasn't been compromised by earlier bank-holiday excesses, this all-day Monday event includes everything you need to start: music to get you hot to trot and simple demonstrations that even those with two left feet can follow.
- Joe Rudkin
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Philip Diggle: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
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Tuesday 19 Aug 2008 (9am–7pm)
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Hornsey Library (Haringey Park, N8, 020.8489.1118) Tube: BR: Crouch Hill, Harringay
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Mancunian artist Diggle has lived in Haringey for a quarter of a century, and the borough now rewards him with a full retrospective of his work in the gallery and promenade space of his local library. Diggle's Pollock-esque abstracts are heavily influenced by the punk scene (his brother Steve was in the Buzzcocks), the Hacienda (a huge painting adorned the club) and his Northern upbringing — although the vibrancy of his works belies the area's grey industrial landscapes. Temptingly tactile, paint drips and swooshes engulf his canvases in layers of primary colour, making for a kaleidoscopic effect.
- Lucy Davies
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Anya Gallaccio: that open space within
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Tuesday 19 Aug 2008 (10am–6pm)
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Camden Arts Centre (Arkwright Road, NW3, 020.7472.5500) Tube: Finchley Road, Hampstead
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Turner Prize nominee Anya Gallaccio's impressive new sculpture at the Camden Arts Centre sees her once again harnessing materials from nature, having previously employed rotting fruit, horse chestnuts and chocolate in her work. For that open space within, Gallaccio foraged in the gallery's back garden and supervised the felling of a dead tree earlier in the year. Gallaccio resurrects the top of the leafless, fragmented tree inside the exhibition space with the support of rope and pins, so that it appears to be bursting through the walls and floor. The piece is an appropriate continuation of the artist's preoccupation with the transience of life and certainty of decay.
- Helen Holtom
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Editors
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Kieran Wyatt
DEPUTY EDITOR
Joe Rudkin
PRODUCTION EDITOR
Jess Sauer
SENIOR EDITORS
Jake Lancaster
Doug Levy
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Natalie Liechti
Helen Holtom
Graziela Pancheri
Andrew Phillips
Lisa Rosman
Oliver Spall
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