| Wednesday 16 July, 2008 |
| East Goes Rich. Sorry: South-West. |
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Newburgh
is the new Portobello. Shoreditch is the
new Soho. London Fields is the new Primrose.
Hell is the new Heaven. I am the new You.
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No
doubt you're getting as sick of hearing it as
I am of saying it, and God knows I'm as guilty
as the rest when it comes to bandying about
such 'tomorrow is the new yesterday' propaganda.
But such is the nature of this Beast we call London:
she's a fickle strumpet, but darn if we don't
love her dearly.
There is an oft-repeated legend about the Golden
Age of Hoxton, in which its streets ran with artistic
Milk and Honey (and Bars and Crack). Its willingly
impoverished inhabitants were the very embodiment
of Cool, and it was to their disinterested embrace
that the rest of London soon scurried like leeches
to bleeding flesh.
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And
then the (literally) poor party folks grew
up and realised that there was nothing wrong
with being cool and making money. Take a
look at the Swap-a-rama chaps, for example.
Tonight they're launching their new piece
of Shoreditch-style debauchery, La
Chaise Electrique, down in - wait for
it - South Kensington. Who says you can't
have your cool cake and eat it?
La
Chaise Electrique - tonight 7pm-3am
FireHouse, 3 Cromwell Road, SW7 2HR
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TODAY'S
EVENT PICKS |
They've only got 68 minutes to sing the Stones to the power of 12 at the ICA. 8pm. The Mall, SW1. £8
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Prog-rockers The Mars Volta bang out indulgent timbres. The Roundhouse. 7pm. Chalk Farm Rd, NW1. £20 |
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Like beer? Learn from a master brewer - tasting included. The Royal Institution. 7pm. 21 Albemarle St, W1. £8 |
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Like beer? Like art too? Then it's about time you thanked Beck's for their Canva. RCA. 10am-6pm. Kensington Gore, SW7. Free. |
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Poets Simon Armitage and Lavinia Greenlaw get to grips with rock.