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Asides from its Turkish supermarkets, drive-by-shootings and art student hang outs, Dalston is also home to a disused WWII bunker which lurks inconspicuously off the High Street. Art’s collective ‘Space In Between’ have installed their latest exhibition ‘Where Beats This Human Heart’ into the space and Mooks went along to the private view last night.
The Last Tuesday Society are an arts collective who are “devoted to exploring and furthering the esoteric, literary and artistic aspects of life in London and beyond.” The society was first established by William James at Harvard University in 1878 and is now run by the Chancellor Viktor Wynd, who’s been running events in the capital since 2006. Regular events include ‘The Salon’ in which one of the committee members gives a talk accompanied by a nine course dinner or tea on a lawn, a quarterly séance and ‘Loss’ – a night consisting of Victorian taxidermy, headless pigs and piles of rotting fruit as a tribute to Gunter Grass’s fictional nightclub ‘The Onion Cellar’ in which people wept over chopped onions whilst sad plays and songs were performed.
For one weekend in May each year, the seaside city of Brighton becomes the destination for hundreds of bands, thousands of fans and trainloads of music industry folk. They all come flocking southwards to check out the three-day showcase of the hottest acts from around the world who are on the brink of breaking the big time. Each venue in Brighton transforms into a stage for the event and impromptu guerrilla gigs take place in mysterious places like down in the tunnels below the pier, publicised by text messages which circulate around the punters.
Working in a shop in Camden provides no end of entertainment. From street punch-ups, cross dressers and eccentric homeless people, to the crazy man who sits outside my shop every Thursday afternoon blaring out reggae from a ghetto blaster on his shoulder, there is never a dull moment.
By Jessica Hazel. The Women’s Institute (W.I) was first established in 1897 and now has over 205,000 members in the UK alone. The W.I carries a somewhat frumpy reputation and most people imagine a gaggle of old ladies, who meet each week in the village hall to discuss jam making techniques and various health complaints. This is indeed the case, except for a pocket of women from East London who go by the name of the Shoreditch Sisters, who have been tipped as the most glamourous W.I group in the country. I tagged along one Tuesday evening for the first meeting of 2010.
By Jessica Hazel Now it’s 2010, the 1990’s are officially vintage… doesn’t that make you feel old? Selfridges has teamed up with Rellik in their first ever retail collaboration to present a selection of original nineties and nineties-inspired products, all up for sale in one neon-coloured corner of the Oxford Street store. Grunge, Britpop, Nearly-There Technology, YBA’s. Grrrl and Girl Power, Supermodels and the rise of the Super-band are the main themes of the collection, which come together in eclectic and authentic harmony. |
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