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| This weekend it's all about live music, new restaurants, relaunches and goodbyes. Chicago and Japan are satisfying our appetites, whilst Aeroplane and Real Lies are giving us our music fix. For design junkies, it's your final chance to say goodbye to Battersea Power Station. And on the fashion front, we chat LFW, with a high-fashion pop up thrown in for good measure.
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| • FRI Village East
• SAT Neon Noise Project
• SUN The Great Beauty
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| Real Lies – The Waiting Room |
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| Real Lies has been on the UJ radar for some time, so we're calling their live performance tonight a must-see. Produced by new London label Sweet Exile, the pop synth trio is making LDN proud. Fresh sounds, new talent – check them out! |
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Real Lies, The Waiting Room, 175 Stoke Newington High Street, N16 0LH, free entry
9pm - 2am
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| Live Live Cinema (UK premiere) |
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| There's a new way to watch cult films in the City, as the hit cinematic 4D experience from last year's Sydney Festival comes to the Barbican this October. Two eccentric B-movies from the 1960s are brought back to life with new live soundtracks, onstage actors and scary sound effects. Pure pre-Lynchian small town horror Carnival of Souls kicks off a Sunday of vintage terror in the atmospheric setting of the 18th century church LSO St Luke's, followed by Francis Ford Coppola's gothic psycho-thriller Dementia 13.
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Watch the Live Live Cinema trailer now.
Live Live Cinema, Sunday October 20, from 4pm- 9pm, LSO St Luke's, 161 Old Street,
EC1V 9NG, Tickets £18- £22 per performance. Book tickets here
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| FRIDAY |
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EAT:
Village East Bermondsey |
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| Foodie fave Village East is relaunching. Having pioneered the SE neighbourhood as a culinary hot spot, the restaurant and bar are shaking things up with a gust from the Windy City's cuisine. Expect sharing plates of milk-braised pork shoulder with kale and parsley, soft shell crab baps and roasted fig radicchio, with the cocktail menu showing the same pizzazz – think beetroot Bloody Marys and Gin Gin's (gin, watermelon, rhubarb bitters and aperol). |
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Chotto Matte is the latest Nippon injection to Soho, and it's a big one. From Kurt Zdesar, the man responsible for bringing Nobu to London, it's gone all Nikkei on us, aka Peruvian and Japanese fusion. The building (yes, building) is three-levels (restaurant, Robato grill and raw bar on top) with the cocktail bar ground level. Expect retractable glass windows, live DJs, pisco, shochu, and sake cocktails and neon – lots of it. But the best bit, last orders are at 2am. |
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Open for lunch and dinner
Mains from £7
171-173 Bermondsey St, London
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| Sunday Wise with Bombay Sapphire |
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| Those who like to think while they drink should take note as Sunday, September 29th brings the next instalment of Sunday Wise with Bombay Sapphire. Held in The Club at The Ivy, expect an afternoon of design-led debates and entertainment. Awaken your senses with a Bombay Sapphire Ultimate Gin & Tonic and listen to headliners Sebastian Noel and Conny Freyer (co-founder and director of Londonbased sculpture, architecture and contemporary installation studio Troika), lighting designer and artist Alex Randall, Made in Peckham's up and coming duo, Jan Hendzel and Oscar Hunt and theatre director Michael Attenborough. When all said is done, it's time for lunch in The Piano Bar, followed by laughter-fuelled comedy sets from award winning comics including Rich Wilson and Carly Smallman. |
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Sunday Wise with Bombay Sapphire, Sunday September 29 from 12.30pm-5pm, The Club at The Ivy, 9 West Street, WC2H 9NE
Tickets £25 including a Bombay Sapphire Ultimate Gin & Tonic on arrival (not including lunch). Book tickets here
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| Best of festival no.6 |
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| UJ + BELVEDERE INSTAGRAM REPORTER |
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| We teamed up with our friends at Belvedere and sent one UJ winner (and 3 of their friends) to Festival No. 6 as our Instagram reporter. Here's what our winner, Nick Bowden had to say: |
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"Festival No. 6 is the best festival I've ever been to. I'm still wearing a stupid grin after Chic + Nile Rodgers, dancing in the sun to Andrew Weatherall, dancing in the rain to Crazy P, Belvedere breakfast Bloody Marys, poetry reading by the beach, a castle, a storm, and a rave in the woods. Best of all was dancing with friends I've known for years (and friends I made that day). See you next year, Portmeirion!" |
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| Check out Nick's Instagram snaps from the festival here
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| SATURDAY |
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PARTY:
Neon Noise Project x Aeroplane |
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Battersea Power Station |
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| 80s pop, new disco and some R 'n' B classics – it's the Neon Noise Project.
Held in the intimate Lightbox venue, Belgium producer Aeroplane steps up for a 6 hour set with his usual mix of new disco remixes. Think a bit of Grace Jones, a bit of Sebastian Tellier and an LED-walled dance floor.
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London Open House festival is back, giving us a sneak peek into some of London's most iconic buildings (830 properties in total), including our top pick, Battersea Power Station. Get in quick to wander the alcoves and say your goodbyes to this inter-war period building before it gets turned into apartment blocks (boo!). Join the walking tour (bear with us) as the architects and engineers of the refurbishment will be on hand to talk nooks, crannies and future plans. |
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6A South Lambeth Place, Vauxhall,
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188 Kirtling St,
SW8 5BN
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| FOUND SHOREDITCH STREET PARTY |
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| Summer might have ended, but that doesn't mean that the street fun has to be over. FOUND are throwing a Shoreditch street party with US house legends Kevin Saunderson and Frankie Knuckles on decks. And for those who want to keep going – the FOUND crew are throwing a warehouse afterparty at Factory 7. We have three pairs of tickets to give away, which give you access to both parties. To enter, just fill in our competition form. |
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FOUND Shoreditch Street Party, September 21, 1pm-8pm, Wilson Street, EC2A
FOUND Afterparty, September 21, 8pm- 6am, Factory 7, Hearn Street, EC2A 3LS
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| SPAMALOT |
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| "I honestly haven't laughed so hard and so many times in years" |
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| WARWICK DAVIS (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Life's Too Short) will make his towering West End debut as Patsy in the ALL NEW West End production of SPAMALOT at the Playhouse Theatre from 23 September- 19 October 2013. He will star alongside his Life's Too Short co-star, Les Dennis, who is currently playing the role of King Arthur, and the legendary Bonnie Langford will also be gracing the stage as Lady of the Lake. So come-a-long and sing-a-long to the Nation's Favourite Comedy Song 'Always Look on The Bright Side Of Life'. |
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BOOKINGS: spamalotwestend.co.uk
ATG Tickets – 0844 871 7631
Ticketmaster – 0844 847 2345
Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, WC2N 5DE
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| SUNDAY |
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DRINK:
Light bar |
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THE GREAT BEAUTY |
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| What do you get when you mix Simone Rocha and Cointreau Privé? Light Bar, the latest pop up at St Martins Lane. Rocha's vibrant aesthetic shines through the speakeasy (expect red ceiling drapes, rose motifs and vintage mismatched glassware). With 12 Cointreau cocktails on the menu (we like the pomegranate and chilli Passion and Pepper), you can't go wrong. Get in fast – it closes this weekend. |
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We're calling it: this is the must-see film of the season. Dream team Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo are at it again, creating a masterpiece set in Fellini-esque Rome. Wealthy hedonist Jed is a once-great novelist cursed with writer's block, spending his 60s in a haze of opulent, carnival-like parties. In his search for true meaning beneath the city's polished surface, corruption, hypocrisy and the beauty of Rome collide in a complex love letter to the city. |
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4.30pm – 12am
Register on the guest list here
Cocktails from £12
45 St Martins Lane,
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Now playing
Tickets from £7.20
Hackney Picture House,
270 Mare Street,
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| London Fashion Week roundup |
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| SS14 is taking us deep sea diving. Coral and seafoam shades adorned the catwalks of Simone Rocha and Peter Pilotto, whilst Antipodium introduced us to an all grown up Little Mermaid by way of iridescent sheers and gossamer metallics. The rest of the runways bathed in saturated pastels and stark whites, with Burberry (the main culprit) going OTT with the candy shades. Fabrics – sheer, lace and suede, done all ways. Off the catwalk – sneakers frowed (sports luxe is here to stay), PVC was the fabric du jour and bunny ears by way of Comme des Garçons where the fash hat must-have, whilst food-wise it was sushi and sweets all the way. And if you didn't make it to the shows, it was all about Insta-video. Away from Somerset House, the EDITION hotel was the go to - from models and editors resting their heads, to the launches, W party takeover and our fave fashion week drinks: slushies and punch. Now off to Milan… |
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| Vodafone London Fashion Weekend |
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| Enough about fashion week - this weekend is all about shopping. Somerset House is being transformed into a shopping nirvana, with Vodafone London Fashion Weekend offering up exclusive offers from must have designer names (think Joseph, Sass & Bide and more). Expect catwalk shows from local faves Giles Deacon, Julien Macdonald, PPQ, Holly Fulton and Ashish. With talks from the design team at Topshop and ELLE magazine, this is one event you don't want to miss. We have 25% off all tickets (except Luxe) for you: just quote URBANJUNKIES at the checkout. |
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Vodafone London Fashion Weekend
September 19-22,
11am-9pm Thursday, 11am-7pm Friday, 10am-7pm on Saturday and 11am-5pm on Sunday.
Somerset House, The Strand, WC2R 1LA
Tickets from £18.36, book here
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| WEEKEND GUIDE by CS & NN |
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