I recommend staying at www.townhallhotel.com or at least sipping something cool in their bar http://viajante.co.uk. Say hi to Rasheed, the superb barkeeper who mixed us a couple of specials that weren’t on the list.
Start the day with a walk through www.broadwaymarket.co.uk. Such a great atmosphere and plenty of good shopping, cafes and just wonderfully friendly people! On the way to Brick Lane, pass by the V&A Museum of Childhood www.vam.ac.uk/moc in a beautiful old building with a huge collection of toys… For lunch, try a crispy pizza at www.storydeli.com. Right next to them are some great shops and, a little later in the day, www.cafe1001.co.uk for dancing and clubbing from five in the afternoon ;)
Always a must is Tate Modern, especially at the moment with Ai Weiwei’s installation “Sunflower Seeds” in the Turbine Hall. Take time to watch the making-of movie shown right next to it www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/unileverseries2010/default.shtm
After a nice dinner at www.smithsofsmithfield.co.uk and a quick look at Fabric (building and staff are nice but the crowd is not), we joined an amazing warehouse party (thanks to Marie-Laure) organised by a group of guys – if you want to know more, come up with a very good reason and maybe I’ll let you know…
Inspired by The Desert Sessions (founded by Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age in 1997), sixteen musicians, one sound engineer, and one graphic artist all found themselves at One Drop Studio in Basel, Switzerland in April of 2010. The task before them was to write, record, and mix an album in four days. The initiators of the project, Luc Montini and Olivier Joliat, had only one goal in mind: «We aren’t looking for perfection, we just want to capture the moment». Although the musicians barely knew each other, the moment was captured and hardly a song took longer than two hours to record. Not all the tracks recorded were included on «All You Can Eat», but there will certainly be a next session!
What a great idea and not only because I’m proud of my brother I think this is a very special project! If I wasn’t in London I would love to go to the release party on saturday 20th november at Kaserne Basel… they rock!
www.myspace.com/thedessertsession
www.onedrop.ch
dessertsession@onedrop.ch