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This weekend we’re all about the music. We’ve got our line-up of our top 5 festivals to book now, a Friday night cinema trip to see Jackie with it’s Oscar-nominated soundtrack, a Saturday night watching tap dance to electronic music, and a Sunday spent with Rinse FM at the Tate.
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• FRI CLAW Residency • SAT National Pisco Day • SUN Ralph’s Coffee and Bar |
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| Top 5 | | Festivals to book now | | | | 1. Victoria Park’s Field Day for some good British fun
2. The ultra-tech Convergence festival, a must for electro-heads
3. Relative newcomer Eastern Electrics, for all your house and techno needs
4. Denmark’s eclectic Roskilde festival (Solange, Justice AND the Weeknd)
5. Austin’s foremost new music showcase SXSW
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| BOOK NOW | | London Fashion Week Festival | | Sponsored Listing | | | | Introducing the fashion event of the season: London Fashion Week Festival. Shop the best designer collections, take a seat at a catwalk show from London Fashion Week favourites, and listen to talks from fashion industry experts. Discover the key SS17 trends and take the opportunity to update your wardrobe at industry insider prices. Pick up your tote bag* exclusively designed this season by Vivienne Westwood – and enjoy the show! *Tote bags are subject to availability for all ticket holders excluding bronze.
For a 20% discount on tickets (and 10% off Luxe tickets) enter URBANJUNKIES at checkout.
| | | 23 – 26 February, The Store Studios, 180 Strand, WC2R 1EA
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| Friday | | | | | | EAT: | | SEE: | CLAW at the Sun & 13 Cantons | | Jackie at the Curzon Mondrian | | Like Seafood? Then here’s some good news. CLAW have extended their residency at Soho’s the Sun & 13 Cantons until the end of February, so there’s more time sample their signature cracked crab claws with lime butter, kimchi fried crab and mac ‘n’ cheese, washed down with your fave after-work tipple.
| | Everyone’s talking about it: Jackie is one of the year’s most-anticipated films. Taking a look at the assassination of JFK through the eyes of the iconic First Lady Jackie O, it already has Natalie Portman being touted as an Oscars shoe-in. Make sure you see it on the big screen; and in one of UJ’s fave (and most stylish) London hotel cinemas no less.
| | | | 21 Great Pulteney St
W1F 9NG
| | £14.50
20 Upper Ground,
SE1 9PD
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| BOOK NOW | | Après Ski Brunch at Bodo’s Schloss | | Sponsored Listing | | | | Get down to west London institution Bodo’s Schloss this Saturday 4th for an alpine extravaganza; fill your ski boots with bottomless Champagne and an all you-can-eat buffet of suckling pig, pulled pork, and of course, fondue. Afterwards, work it all off on the in-house ski simulator (with the chance to win an all expenses paid trip to the Alps), or dancing to acclaimed DJ and producer Storm Mollinson.
| | | 12-6pm, 2A Kensington High St, W8 4PT. Tickets can be purchased here from £40
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| Saturday | | | | | | SEE: | | DRINK: | Sadler's Wells Sampled | | National Pisco Day at Ceviche | | Celebrating its 10th birthday, here you’ll see performances from several different dance styles – experimental b-boy, new school flamenco, ballet, tap to electronic music – all performed by leading dancers, for a reduced fee. If you were ever looking to dip your toes into the dance world, this one’s for you.
| | Saturday 4th February is officially National Pisco Day! And where better to celebrate the Peruvian spirit than at Ceviche, who are celebrating all week long with pisco o’clock at all four of their restaurants? From 4-6pm, get a specially selected snack and a cocktail for £9. Amarillo poppers and an avocado sour anyone?
| | | | Feb 3 & 4
Sadler’s Wells
Rosebery Avenue,
EC1R 4TN
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£9
4-10th Feb
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| Sunday | | | | | | TRY: | | GO: | Ralph’s Coffee and Bar | | Rinse x Tate Exchange | | Yay! Ralph Lauren is coming to London. We’ve always loved his NYC Polo Bar, but now we’re getting a taste of it on our side of the Atlantic. Ralph’s serves up coffee and cocktails alongside light bar snacks like salmon sandwiches and fried olives. Oh, and obviously it looks as stylish as you’d expect.
| | Round off the weekend with some culture, as Rinse FM and the Tate Modern present the latest of their collaborative efforts. Rinse is taking over the Tate Modern with London-based artist Athena Papadopoulos and Swedish musician Jonatan Leandoer 127, with site-specific installations from Papadopoulos and a live set from Leandoer.
| | | | 173 Regent Street,
W1B 4JQ
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Tate Modern,
25 Sumner Street,
SE1 9TG
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