Have you ever tried filming your family for posterity? If you have then you'll know it's a nightmare. The kids won't stand still, the teenagers hide behind their hair and swear at you, and you have to get the adults drunk before they'll get in front of the camera. |
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Patrick Martinez is first to go in Brooklyn-based Parker's Box/The Showroom's Sound Exchange Project. 1-6pm. 44 Bonner Road, E2. Free. |
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Perrier winner Daniel Kitson polishes off his Fringe act at Lowdown at Albany. 8pm. 240 Gt Portland St, W1. £6. |
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La Bamba and mariachis at Somerset House: Los Lobos. 8pm. Strand, WC2. £22.50. 0870 154 4040 or online. |
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Of course there is an answer to all this strife (ditch the camera!) but, like most things in life, it's only available to those who've got a bit of expendable income handy. For anywhere between five and forty grand the Notting Hill-based Personal Motion Picture Company will set their camera operators, directors and editing staff to work on your life - creating the ultimate home movie for you and your family to treasure for ever (or at least until something swankier and more expensive comes along). |
Jazz-funk from George Duke at the Jazz Café, NW1. 7pm. £20. 0870 264 3333 or here. |
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Witness Iranian high drama @Jerwood: Amid The Clouds 7:45pm. Sloane Sq, SW1. £13. 020 7565 5000 or here. |
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PMPC will charm your kids by turning them into little Brangelinas or
Tomkats, they'll make your barbeque appear sunny, and they might even
be able to make that weird uncle you don't see very often look charming
and charismatic. Personal Motion
Picture Company |
D&AD presents Nokia design guru Frank Nuovo at Royal Geographical Society for the President's Lecture series. 7pm. £15. Email or call 020 7840 1127 for info. |
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Genre defying jazz quartet Acoustic Ladyland performs tonight at Buzzard. 8pm. 61-65 Crowndale Road, NW1. £7. 08700 600 100 or online. |
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