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Jan
21st
Fri
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Craft Beer Crawl!

So, next Saturday, 29th January we will attempt to visit a lot of london’s finest Craft Beer Establishments in one day.

This is how it goes:

11:30 breakfast of Kernels, Druid Street SE1 (walk to)
12.00 Dean Swift, Lafone St (walk to)
13.00 Draft House, Tower Bridge Road (walk to) Draft House shut ‘til 2 due to waterworks…
13.30 Rake, Borough Market (get THAMES CLIPPER at 1529 (or 1609) to)
16.00 Cask, Charlwood St (get Victoria Line)
18.00 Euston Tap, Euston Station (get Northern Line)
19.30 Southampton Arms, Highgate Road (Overground to Dalston)
21.30 Jolly Butchers, Stoke Newington High Street
21.30 CHANGE OF PLAN Dukeof Wellington, Balls Pond Road is having a beer festival so seems rude not to pop in… Sorry Jolly Bs, we’ll see you soon.

Obviously as the day progresses timings become more [ahem] fluid, particularly once BOATS and TUBES become involved.

we shall be using #craftbeercrawl as our hashtag and having a lovely time, i’m sure.

Sep
29th
Tue
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Bowiesongs on The Laughing Gnome

tomewing:

I’ve been looking forward to this entry and it doesn’t disappoint: seven reasons “The Laughing Gnome” is brilliant.

5. The Gnome saved Bowie from a life of cabaret. “Bowie included the song in his ill-fated cabaret audition, with the assistance of a glove-puppet gnome.” (Nicholas Pegg; my emphasis.)

6. A bassoon is a lead instrument. And as Buckley notes, it’s playing a riff that, mutated, would crop again and again in Bowie tracks, like “Speed of Life” and “Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).”

I’m a bit scared of Bowie Songs I think, partially because a lot of that Deram stuff is absolute crud, partially because, if pushed, i would probably put bowie in my top five musical artistes evereverever despite never having heard about three quarters of his output (no, srsly, beyond Ziggy, the 69-74 hits compi and the obvious chart stuff since then and 1. Outside, i don’t know any of it…)

Also, let us not forget that Laughing Gnome is the clear inspiration for this:

Sep
11th
Fri
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De Burgh Brings The Pain

tomewing:

You really should look up the word “entertainment” again, you might be surprised to see that it is all about people having a GOOD TIME!! Your churlish review is an insult to all those who enjoyed their night out, and in these days of collapsing newspaper sales and an entire new generation on the way who will get their information online, you may be looking for another job sooner rather than later.

Man alive. Better dust off the 10s for “Lady In Red” then.

Dude, the original review is actually quite warm I thought, admits that De Burgh has a fanbase that loves him, but y’know, if that’s not you, you’re probably not going to get it…
Jan
6th
Tue
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TEH BUZZ

this is just in case LJ disappears…