I know we try and bring you good good things to do every week but sometimes an issue seems to bring it all together.... grown-up slumber parties, Mexican wrestling, Kate Moss in her underwear, robots that can draw portraits, lobster rolls in a jewellery shop and a folly under a flyover. It's time to pull a sickie.

 

 

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Days
thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday


Categories
Exhibition Anomalous Visuals, Lister Exhibition, SEE, We Assemble, Kate & Other Women, Aikon II, The Battle For Abidjan
Gig Midsummer Concert, The Night Shift
Food Rock Lobsta
Theatre Lullaby, Greenwich Festival, The Secret Consul
Cinema Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Page Eight + Q&A with David Hare
Sport Lucha Future
Festival Folly For A Flyover, Copeland Book Market, Ease That Sneeze, Meditation in the Park
Shopping Kensal Flea
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June 23 2011


where
CAMP, 70-74 City Road, London EC1Y 2BJ
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when
Private view 8pm-9pm After Party 9pm-12am

how much
Free

exhibition
Anomalous Visuals

If you consider yourself something of a nite owl, klub kid or after-hours-moocher, and you’ve been out and about in the Capital regularly over the past few years (and seeing as you’re reading this then the chances are pretty good that you have) then you should consider beating a path to this exhibition for three reasons. Firstly; it’s an authentically captured, thoughtfully curated, lushly visual document of the culture you immerse yourself in, and well worth a look. Secondly, you might be in one of the pictures yourself – fancy that! And thirdly, it’s held in a club venue itself (the darn cool CAMP) and there’ll be a rip-roaring party to attend on the evening of the private view with beats from ADJ (Anomalous Visuals), Kid Circus (Disco Dirtbox) & Kiwi. Oh, and it’s free! / Naomi Attwood

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June 23 2011


where
Studio One, 49-51 Old Street EC1V 9HX
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when
6.30pm - 9pm

how much
£8

talk
Good Fashion Perspectives

Ethical clothing used to be one-design-fits-all, ill fitting, henna-dyed with a little bit of a damp smell. Livia Firth gracing the red carpet in an up-cycled number at this year’s Oscars was a pivotal point signifying that we’ve grown up and accepted that fast fashion is resource hungry. And that we can’t have cheap clothes at other people’s expense - a point brought home in Lucy Seigle’s excellent To Die For. And one being discussed at the Good Fashion Perspectives talk by some of the top names in ethical dressing, including ASOS’ sustainability manager. The event is part of A Good Week, which celebrates people, communities and businesses who do good and is also running events with The School of Life. / Candice Pires

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June 23 2011


where
Pictures On Walls, 46-48 Commercial Street E1 6LT
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when
6pm Thurs 11-5 after that.

how much
Free

exhibition
Lister Exhibition

Them folk at Pictures On Walls rarely disappoint when they have a show - I sincerely hope you went to the awesome Dran one they did at Christmas. They're following that up with a month long showing of the truly brilliant, Brisbane native Anthony Lister's latest offering through the print house/gallery. Called Fan Boy, he's individually finished by hand 100 screen prints, so basically what you're getting for your dollar is a unique piece that's half screen print, half original painting. They're all for sale, but they're also going to be hanging there for a month so you can go and look at them for free. Tonight is the opening night, so there'll be some booze at the bar and after that it's open office hours until the 22nd July. / Josh Jones

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June 23 2011


where
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY
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when
7.30pm

how much
£15 adv; £18 door

gig
Midsummer Concert

How many songs have you heard, how many would you recognise, how many do you know to sing along to? There must be hundreds, and not all pop songs, but random tunes your parents and grandparents used to sing, nursery rhymes and other oddments you’ve sung drunkenly with your friends at the end of a night. An entire back catalogue stored in your mind. Last year folk singer, Jon Boden announced that all the songs he’s sung for years in pubs but never recorded or performed on stage should be recorded. In essence, he decided to upload all the music he carries with him by recording a folk song a day. 365 days later he’s celebrating with guests including The Remnant Kings. Go along, sing along and add something new to the soundtrack of your life. / Johanna Derry

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June 23 2011


where
Serpentine Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, W2 3XA
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when
10am - 6pm

how much
Free

exhibition
SEE, We Assemble

The art world is in deliberation and this time it’s not caused by throwaway shock tactics. Usually, debate in art is created by cunning PR strategies in order to produce reams of copy dedicated to debating the rules of morals and taste. So when Jonathan Jones created a commotion of dialogue from a review of SEE, We ASSEMBLE, which resulted in 308 comments, the art world braced itself for civil war. Whose camp were you for? Experimentation and playfulness or conceptual rigour and institutional standards? Even Mark Lecky, the artist, wadded in. So now it its final days, we’ve got one last chance to visit the exhibition and come to our own conclusions. Do smart fridges, sub-cultures and powerful imagery make for unique art? I say yes. / Caroline Christie

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June 24 2011


where
Folly For A Flyover, Under the A12 Flyover, Hackney Wick, E9 5HW
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when
Fri: 7pm - 11pm, Sat/Sun: 11am - 11pm, to 31st July

how much
Canal cruises - £2, Films - £4

festival
Folly For A Flyover

As well as wondering why abandoned roadside factories couldn’t have been transformed into giant fortresses, much of my childhood motorway musings concerned the spaces beneath them. Even as a youngster, I worried about what a waste they were: much better to fill them with grand, childish, dystopian visions, no? It’s got a roof already, why not walls? Apparently I’m not the only person to have seen the potential in this otherwise wasted wonderland offers: for two months only, Folly for a Flyover will be turning the underside of the A12 into a brilliantly artistic omnibus. Hand built from local, reclaimed materials, the ‘folly’ will host everything from cinema to canal cruises, from to performance to play. Sounds like a grand, childish, dystopian vision to me… / Vyvian Raoul

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June 24 2011


where
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
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when
10.30pm

how much
£42

theatre
Lullaby

I think most of us are in agreement that sleep is pretty much one of the best things ever. None of those other really great things – food, sex, music, stuff – seem that great if sleep is sorely lacking. I know a ten and a half hour-long theatre show seems like a long time, but given that the audience is encouraged to sleep through a good seven hours of the performance (and then treated to breakfast), I think it sounds just swell. Duckie’s bed-time production for the Barbican features soothing songs and stories all primed to give you the best night’s sleep of your life. Did I mention there’s free breakfast. Don’t forget your pyjamas! / Crystal Bennes

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June 24 2011


where
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, SE10 9LW
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when
‘All that is solid melts into air’ is showing Fri 9pm, Sat 3.45pm & 6pm, Sun 2.30pm & 6pm

how much
Free

theatre
Greenwich Festival

The Greenwich Festival foregrounds street theatre and performance -- most importantly – free theatre. Big this year is its Greenwich Fair, back for the first time since 1857, when it was banned for being too unruly. It claims to have been the ‘largest and most uproarious gathering of outdoor entertainment in Britain’ in its heyday, so if you’re gutted you’re not at Glastonbury, head to Greenwich. Performance highlights of the main festival programme include the premier of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, a play that recalls philosopher Marshall Berman and Marx before him and throws them up into the sky against a backdrop of present-day London urban regeneration. / Delaina Haslam

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June 24 2011


where
Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane
, London EC2A
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when
9pm

how much
£8 in advance, £10 on the door

gig
The Night Shift

If you weren’t already aware, the Spitalfields Music Summer Festival is just about to wrap up for 2011. Oh no, I hear you cry, while you chew your nails with worry about what you might have missed. Fear not, for although you've missed out on some good stuff, there’s still time to hit up this particularly choice evening of musical delights. The Night Shift combines one of London’s best orchestras – the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – with one of the best composers – Handel – and throws them both together in the Village Underground for an evening of blissfully chilled out classical music in the last place that you'd expect it.  / Crystal Bennes

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June 24 2011


where
SON Gallery, Unit 9c 133 Copeland Road, Peckham SE15 3SN


when
24/06/11 – 26/06/11, Launch, Fri 6pm-late, Sat-Sun 12pm-6pm

how much
Free

festival
Copeland Book Market

Last Friday I went on the most amazing tour of the Peckham art scene and one of our best stops was SON Gallery, just round the corner from Hannah Barry’s illustrious gaff. The impressive SON Gallery primarily exhibits photography but this weekend they’re all about the printed word with their Copeland Book Market. The weekend festival in the industrial yard adjacent to their gallery will see a book fair chock with indie publishers and artist’s books, literary talks, a bar, and music performed in the pop-up roof-top cafe in nearby Bussey Building. / Crystal Bennes

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June 25 2011


where
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road London NW1 8EH
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when
Shows start at 7pm, Fri June 24-Sun June 26. Family matinees 2pm, Sat and Sun.

how much
£20 to £50

sport
Lucha Future

Mexicans love wrestling – lucha libre, or ‘free fighting’ is the country’s second-most popular sport behind football. But this is no WWF- style clash of the mulleted flab-boys. No, this is acrobatic high camp. These guys ping themselves off the ropes, somersault through the air and nimbly flic-flac all over the ring – while keeping their costumes in tact. Competitors include butch drag queens, honed young bucks and guys with capes and gimp masks – kind of a cross between Flash Gordon and Hannibal Lecter. Die-hard spectators wear replica headgear to emulate their heroes, so mask up if you want to go authentic. The theatrical battles pitch goodies against baddies, and front-row spectators will need to hold on to their hats. / Laura Mannering

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June 25 2011


where
Paradise by Way of Kensal Green, 19 Kilburn Lane W10 4AE
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when
12pm-5.30pm

how much
£1 (goes to charity)

shopping
Kensal Flea

What the hell's happening to my manor, Kensal Green? First the likes of Jade Jagger and Jamie Cullum move in; the Paradise has gone from 'the best place for an 11am hair-of-the-dog' to a club with queues and bouncers and everything. The old public toilets became a deli selling rosemary-and-potato soda bread and there was even a literary festival here. Heady times. And the cherry on the this resurgent cake is the Kensal Flea; less a flea market, more a street-food/fairtrade/retro fashion extravaganza. If your shopping list reads 'two fascinators, homemade macaroons, a cake stand, Indian jewellery and a pulled-pork sandwich' then I think I've got just the place for you. / Rob Valid

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June 25 2011


where


when
Thu 6pm-9pm, Fri-Sun 12pm-9pm

how much
Cheaper than the jewellery

food
Rock Lobsta

If you've been following le cool you'll know that we are huge fans of Shoreditch jewellery shop Luna and Curious. Every new display in their window is a little tableaux of exquisiteness. So if you'd said to me 'Rob, could you like L&C even more?', I'd have probably said 'No, I don't think I could, Boothby (or whatever your name is), not unless they did something completely wonderful and odd like setting up some kind of pop-up seafood cafe in there too'. You can probably see where I'm going with this. Yes, for one weekend of late-night shopping L&C will be serving lobster rolls and crab cakes among the rings, necklaces and earrings. I think I'm in love... / Rob Valid

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June 26 2011


where
Union Street Urban Orchard, 100 Union Sreet, SE1 0NL
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when
2pm-4pm; garden open Tues-Sun 11am-6pm

how much
£15 for workshop; entry to garden free

festival
Ease That Sneeze

I sit in an open-plan office near several Richter-scale-registering sneezers. When one erupts, instant messages fly across the floor along the lines of: ‘That wasn’t a sneeze, that was a cry for help.’ The Urban Physic Garden urges us to eschew Western medicine and turn to the wonder of plants to ‘ease that sneeze’ at their workshop today. You can even learn how to prevent it altogether using ‘herbs and foods for immunity’. Or just stop by the garden: a marvel nestled amongst office space on the site that became a community orchard last summer. It’s due to be built upon in October, so catch it while you can. Book a consultation, play ping-pong in a skip or dine at the ‘Rambulance’: the Rambling Restaurant in a decommissioned ambulance. / Delaina Haslam

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June 25 2011


where
Secret Limehouse location

when
Tues - Sat 7.30, Sat & Sun Matinee 3pm to 16 July

how much
From £12.50

theatre
The Secret Consul

Menacing architecture, the smell of economic decline, a slate grey sky, a shadowy figure emerging from an alleyway: am I in a film noir come to life? Then I hear the dulcet tones of a soprano and the plot thickens. Actually, I am in a a site-specific 'guerilla opera’. An adaptation of Gian-Carlo Menotti's  1950 musical drama addressing issues of immigration. Rising star divas from the Ukraine, Lithuania and Japan, plus a live band and a chorus of London ‘illegals’, create a nightmare world of sexy secretaries, secret policemen and rooftop chases. The Secret Consul is the third in a series of site-specific performances from London theatre company, The Wedding Collective. Here we suspend disbelief to find ourselves in a totalitarian regime in an unnamed European country. hearing the story of Magda’s desperate attempts to obtain a visa to leave the country and hook up with her dashing dissident husband. / Maeve Hosea

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June 26 2011


where
Russia Dock Woodland, Rotherhithe, SE16
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when
12pm-5pm

how much
Free

festival
Meditation in the Park

I hope we see some more June-appropriate weather this weekend because I want to spend Sunday afternoon here in the park eating a picnic and meditating. If you’ve never tried, then this is a great chance to find out what it’s all about and discover how effective it can be at helping you to see the bigger picture and relieve stress. There are also yoga workshops including specialised classes for cyclists and children and plenty of food demonstrations as well for those less energetic. Picnics will be judged at 1pm with prizes from Borough Market so even more reason to buy all those treats from the deli. Guru Kaur is holding a Kundalini class following the event, I experienced one of these in Rishikesh and it was quite something… / Ian Marshall

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June 27 2011


where
BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road South Bank Waterloo London SE1 8XT
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when
Mon 8.45pm Thu 6.30pm

how much
£9.50

cinema
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

When actress Pepa is left by her married lover Ivan her life begins to unravel as she finds herself confronting increasingly bizarre people and situations. Women on the Verge is Pedro Almodóvar’s homage to the great melodramas of the 1950s. Carmen Maura eats up the screen as the jilted Pepa, and watch out for a very youthful Antonio Banderas. The sets are all wildly colourful and camp, and while the film may start slow, as more characters and plots converge we are treated to some fantastic Latin histrionics. What sets Almodóvar apart is his ability to invest such an over-the-top and superficially whimsical film with such integrity and intelligence. It’s difficult to choose a favourite character or scene, but I do have a penchant for the eccentric cab driver, and gazpacho will never be the same after a certain scene. / Eugene

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June 28 2011


where
BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road South Bank Waterloo London SE1 8XT
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when
6.30pm

how much
From £6.75

cinema
Page Eight + Q&A with David Hare

Sir David Hare’s fist directorial outing in 21 years, Page 8, has inevitably created a high standard for itself. Luckily, it’s reached above and beyond the measuring post. Known for his satirical examinations of post World War II British society, Hare isn’t afraid of rigorously scrutinising and unravelling complex characters and narratives. Using his innovative approach to storytelling, Hare works with the socio-political undercurrent of political activism to tell the story of Tony Blair and the head of MI5. Make sure you grab the chance to watch this cinematic masterpiece on the big screen (like it should be) and hear from Hare himself discuss the film and the true events that inspired it, before it’s shown on the BBC next week. / Caroline Christie

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June 28 2011


where
Little Black Gallery, 13A Park Walk, London SW10 0AJ
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when
Tue-Fri: 11am-6pm, Sat: 11am-5pm, to 30 July

how much
Free

exhibition
Kate & Other Women

The Little Black Gallery has a reputation to maintain - sexy, controversial, never afraid to stir things up a little with its erotically-charged shows. The clothes are off again for its new exhibition by Hollywood director Mike Figgis: Kate & Other Women – a never-seen-before collection of photos of Kate Moss. The Leaving Las Vegas film-maker took the pictures for the supermodel’s 2007 Agent Provocateur campaign and delivers an elegant, dreamy style, with a touch of grit. If a semi-nude La Moss isn’t enough, there’s also a Figgis shot of Bond girl Eva Green. The award-winning director himself will be signing copies of his book ‘The 4 Dreams of Miss X’- which accompanied the underwear campaign - at the gallery from 12pm - 1pm on June 25. / Laura Mannering

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June 29 2011


where
Tenderpixel, 10 Cecil Court WC2N 4HE
Location Map

when
Wed-Sat, 1pm-7pm, until 9/7/11

how much
Free

exhibition
Aikon II

This is my portrait being drawn by a robot. His name’s Paul and he’s in residence at Tenderpixel. He’s the creation of Patrick Tresset, artist and computing researcher at Goldsmiths College. Patrick created a robotic arm -- Paul -- and modelled its sketching techniques on his own. Take a seat before Paul and he’ll take a look at you and start to draw, getting the features down and then adding shading. Paul is joined by Peter, who is more abstract, Peter only creates ‘when he’s in the mood’. The robots used to tweet and do Facebook, but they’re past these things now. ‘It’d just be a gimmick,’ explains Patrick. ‘It’s not artistic. ’ Hurry to Cecil Court to have your portrait done for the exhibition, or for your own mantelpiece or facebook profile. / Delaina Haslam

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June 29 2011


where
Jack Bell Gallery , 13 Mason’s Yard, SWIY 6BU
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when
7pm-9pm, until 01/09/11

how much
Free

exhibition
The Battle For Abidjan

It’s so easy to get wrapped up in the detritus of daily life in London. Today my biggest bugbear was the traffic on the A316. When I read the blurb about this event, it made me remember how easy I have it, and how uncreative I really am. Aboudia is an Ivorian artist who made his name holed up in a basement studio during the civil war in The Ivory Coast last year. It was here that he started his latest body of work, reflecting life outside the basement; death, murder, violence. I plan to head down to the Jack Bell Gallery in Vauxhall to check out Aboudia’s incredible dark style. It’s a chance to see real documented interpretation of life that I can only imagine./ Jake Jones

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Dan Wilton

Dan Wilton is a photographer par excellence. He's a good friend of le cool and has done some of our favourite covers. We thought we'd take a picture of the picture taker, interview him and put him on the other end of le cool for once.

Howdy Dan, so... Glastonbury yeah?  
I demand sure footing and a total absence of Coldplay when I go to a festival, so sadly not this year. Unless I have a last minute change of heart....

Is it possible to take a picture of someone at the exact moment when they don't know if they're coming or going?
Maybe when they're on a trampoline? Or when they're deciding on whether to go to Glastonbury or not? I'm still not sure if I'm coming or going. I'll do a self portrait for you.

Read the full interview here

Photo: Tom Medwell
 

 

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