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Every day its pull gets stronger. Pulling us to beaches, pools, ponds and fountains. For as summer pulses, it seems our species has always been happiest by the water’s edge. So go. Bring a friend. Celebrate your happiness with ABSOLUT. Then raise a toast to the life-giving power of water.
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FILM
The Ruined Map (1968)
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| when: | Tue 20 July (6:20pm) |
| where: | National Film Theatre (Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1, 020.7928.3232)
Tube: Waterloo, Embankment |
| price: | £7.90 |
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| | Post-war Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara's first big feature is a strange gem. A stylised private-eye flick about the search for a missing man in Tokyo's underground, 1968's The Ruined Map (Moetsukita Chizu) plays with ideas of identity and confusion in its own broken way. This screening is part of a season of Teshigahara's films, including the Oscar-nominated Woman of the Dunes (1964) — a curious piece that proves it wasn't just Godard and Antonioni who were churning out innovative and experimental films in the '60s. (FG)
 
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MUSIC: Post-Rock
Mono
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| when: | Tue 20 July (7:30pm) |
| where: | ICA (The Mall, SW1, 020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross, Piccadilly Circus |
| price: | £7 / £6 concessions |
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Event Info | Mono |
| | Not to be confused with the London duo who trip-hopped their way onto the Great Expectations soundtrack in 1998, Tokyo's Mono merely harbour ambitions of experimental-rock ascendency. Often described as "cinematic", the band's brutally beautiful, multi-instrumental sound can be found in brooding abundance on this year's Steve Albini-produced Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (RykoDisk). Calling on buzz-saw distortion, layered strings, echoing guitar chimes and a dash of Japanese mysticism, Mono deserve a piece of the mist-enshrouded post-rock mantle shared by Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor! and Sigur Rós. (JS)
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DANCE
Martial Arts
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| when: | Tue 20 & Wed 21 July (8pm) |
| where: | Royal Opera House, Clore Studio Upstairs (Covent Garden, WC2E, 020.7304.4000)
Tube: Covent Garden |
| price: | £10 |
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| | Roll up, roll up! See Jackie Chan at the Royal Opera House! Oh, OK, everyone's favourite kung-fu comic won't appear at Covent Garden any time soon, but Jacqui Chan, the homonymous actor and dancer, does tonight. As part of an interesting programme illustrating the influence of martial arts on modern dance, Chan tells the story of samurai, while choreographer Jean Abreu presents a solo based on Brazilian capoeira. If that all sounds a bit too macho, don't panic — Ellen van Schuylenburch wears Julien Macdonald for her interpretation of Keralan martial art kalari. (LCD)
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| | Gavin Lambert — British novelist, screenwriter and ex-editor of Sight and Sound — moved to Hollywood when it was still glamourous. While there, he wrote some of the most biting and realistic portrayals of LA's tainted heart ever set to page. Many of his novels, such as Inside Daisy Clover and The Goodbye People, depict the rise of female characters from poverty into the detached emptiness of stardom. It could be argued that these damaged women are based partly on Lambert's good friend, and subject of his latest biography, Natalie Wood. Gain insight into old-school stardom from a man very much in the know. (FG)
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LECTURE
History and the Media
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| when: | Wed 21 July (7pm) |
| where: | London Review Bookshop (14 Bury Place, WC1, 020.7269.9030)
Tube: Tottenham Court Road, Holborn |
| price: | £4 |
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| | In our media age, history takes place before our eyes, but the filters of television and the internet inevitably distort our perception of events from Afghanistan to Washington. And that's before we even consider fictional reconstructions, popular history programmes and the building of national identity. Clearly, the media helps historians communicate with a public increasingly curious about the past — but the responsibilities and disadvantages their use of that media bring remain blurred. Launching the book History and the Media (Palgrave), editor David Cannadine discusses these important ideas with Taylor Downing, Tristram Hunt and bouffant luvvie Melvyn Bragg. (AOB)
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MUSIC: Reggae / Drum 'n Bass
Two Culture Clash
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| when: | Wed 21 July (8pm) |
| where: | Hammersmith Palais (242 Shepherds Bush Road, W6, 0871.872.1234)
Tube: Hammersmith |
| price: | £7 |
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| | Picture this meeting at Wall of Sound records: "Right, so what shall we do this year?" "Well, you know how electronic music and dancehall are closely linked? I was thinking, maybe we should ship some producers out to Jamaica and let them put down grooves for people to sing over." "How many are you thinking?" "About 14 a side." The outcome could be an unholy mess, but with participants as talented as Roni Size, Jon Carter and Howie B, plus dancehall vocalists Patra and Big Youth — all of whom appear tonight — this just might be the collaborative project of the year. (NC)
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| | Natives and tourists alike appreciate the beauty (and usefulness) of the London A-Z. Created in 1936 by the late Phyllis Pearsall — who walked 3,000 miles to complete it — the street atlas is as much an iconic feature of life in the capital as the Routemaster. And now a Swede has turned it into art. Appearing on giant billboards at Gloucester Road as part of the Platform for Art project, Lars Arrhenius' 250 comic strip illustrations use the A-Z maps as a backdrop, featuring characters and stories that reflect the diversity of the city. A great reason to venture underground. (LCD)
NB: A-Z is installed until Mon 25 Oct.
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MUSIC: World
Trilok Gurtu
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| when: | Thur 22 July (7:45pm) |
| where: | Royal Festival Hall (Belvedere Road, SE1, 020.7960.4242)
Tube: Waterloo |
| price: | £10-17.50 / concessions £3 off lowest price |
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Event Info | Trilok Gurtu |
| | Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu is revered throughout the music world. Over the past several decades, Gurtu's jazz and rock compositions — incorporating ancient Indian rhythms and vocal styles, as well as African motifs — have enthralled audiences. Tonight, he returns to his roots with a traditional Indian quartet, while providing a dash of jazz-driven modernism with hybrid instrumentation. Fans of Asian Dub Foundation, Talvin Singh and Nitin Sawhney: seize this rare chance to experience the otherworldly sounds of a master. (JM)
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| | While xenophobic US congressmen and hypersensitive liberals sweated vinegar over what to call their fries, Nebraskan Shane Aspegren was chumming along with Parisian Lori Sean Berg, producing slices of Franco-American multi-instrumental intelligence. As Berg Sans Nipple, they've bypassed their innate domestic routes of French pop and dustbowl realism, opting instead for expansive, dreamlike excursions of drumming, looping and live sampling that evoke elements of Do Make Say Think, Fridge and the Books. Cyann & Ben are 100% Français, and since last year's Spring turned up on Gooom (magical thunderbolt number two from the label that brought us M83), their psych-folk sketching has attracted loads of praise. Sigur Rós, Broadcast and Warp's Gravenhurst are all worthy reference points without completely giving the game away. Allez! (RW)
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| | The Glimmer Twins are a class act. If you ever have the chance, visit the duo on their home turf at the Culture Club in Ghent (home also to Soulwax), and be wowed by a beautiful venue bouncing to their DJ-elektro-party eclecticism. The Twins' new mix on the second Culture Club compilation sees them skip through Kate Moss, Simple Minds, Mylo, Wee Papa Girl Rappers and Basement Jaxx. It ain't rocket science, but it's something they seemingly do better than anyone else. Tonight, shimmer along to Plastic People, as the Twins join Nadia Ksaiba and residents Den Odell, Rory Phillips (de Trash) and Glyn Campbell for this musically well maintained Friday night. (SR)
NB: Glimmer Twin mixes can be heard on the Serie Noire, Eskimo and Culture Club compilation CDs.
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| | This provocative and timely documentary turns the camera on the people who play an important role in shaping our perceptions of the world: journalists. Award-winning director Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com) infiltrates media centres to investigate how different news providers approach their coverage of the Iraq war and conflict in the Middle East. The focus is largely on controversial Arab satellite network Al-Jazeera — the news source the Bush administration branded "Osama Bin-Laden's mouthpiece" — but Control Room brings even your most trusted media outlets into question. (MB)
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ART: Opening
Agora
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| when: | Sat 24 July (12-10pm) |
| where: | Transition Gallery (110a Lauriston Road, E9, 07941.208.566)
Tube: Mile End, Bethnal Green |
| price: |  FREE |
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| | Classicists will know that agora is ancient Greek for "a public open space used for markets and meetings". But an agora in a converted east London garage? At Cathy Lomax's Transition Gallery, anything is possible. For the next three weekends, more than 20 artists display their work in the gallery's Agora group show, with highlights including Abigail Reynolds' mountainous cardboard sculptures based on crime statistics and Theo Michael's primitive urban animations. The exhibition is complemented by talks, screenings, workshops and food, all suggested by the artists themselves. Ancient Greece was never this much fun. (LCD)
NB: The exhibition runs until Sun 15 Aug (Fri & Sat: 12-10pm / Sun: 12-6pm).
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SPORTS
Damp Assassins
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| when: | Sat 24 July (2pm) |
| where: | Somewhere in east London |
| price: | FREE |
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| | Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is deliciously simple. A fusion of high and low tech, this interactive game permits about as much (legal) fun as you can have running around the East End like an overgrown kid. A photo of your intended target is sent to your mobile, who you must then locate and shoot with your water pistol — preferably a fully-loaded Super Soaker XP 270. Take them out before they shoot you and you're given a new target, with the fun continuing until there's just one dry man or woman left standing. At which point, naturally, everyone retires to the pub. This message will self-destruct in five seconds. (KW)
NB: You'll need a mobile phone capable of taking pictures and sending/receiving them via MMS. Participants must register in advance via the Damp Assassins website.
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PERFORMANCE
The Dazzle!
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| when: | Sat 24 July (10:30pm-latenight) |
| where: | Secret location |
| price: | £5 (in advance only) |
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| | You? Me? Saturday night? It must be Dazzle o' clock! High time then, for a secret-performance all-nighter. Expect a sparklingly dirty rock-'n-roll disco of a show with DJ sets from Cosey's dark-wave surfer Richard Clouston and ex-Elastica frontwoman Justine Frischmann. Live sounds come from Au Plan K and White Rose Movement, a five-piece art rock band (think a cubist Joy Division) who recently signed to Independiente records and have a jeng penchant for declining keyboard stands. With contortionist compere Miss Jiggy Jones at the reins, things will assuredly end up star-shaped. Hey, they may even begin that way. (SR)
NB: For more information and ticketed invitations, call 07939.233.153
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| | It's a given that Graham Greene was among the 20th century's most important literary figures. It's all the better that so many of his novels translated extremely well into cinema — The Third Man and The Quiet American among them. Tonight, with the aid of television interviews and film clips, Film London boss Adrian Wootton looks back on how Greene also carved out a successful niche as a scriptwriter and cinema critic. The event highlight is a big-screen showing of Brighton Rock, Greene's claustrophobic account of small-time seaside mobsters. Richard Attenborough plays teenage pyschopath Pinkie with an understated, chilling menace, laying down the cinematic template for legions of deranged gang leaders to come. (KW)
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| | While other so-called chillout DJs disappear up their posteriors in a haze of whooshy synths and whale noises, Pathaan always keeps the listener engaged with his uniquely global take on horizontal clubbing. He continues to throw reggae, dancehall, soul, obtuse electronica, South American sounds and Ibizan Balearica into his famed Asian-influenced mélange of beats and pieces, digging in the crates for both long-forgotten gems and the most bleeding-edge twelves. And while you're frugging to Pathaan's global grooves at his new weekly residency, also be sure to check out the venue's celebrated soul food menu and ace cocktails. (KW)
NB: £5 after 11pm.
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| | Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995) ended with a promise: star-crossed Gen X'ers Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) will continue their one-night stand in Venice in six months. A credit roll, a kiss and a decade later, Linklater, Hawke and Delpy return with Before Sunset. Now comfortably in their early 30s, the on-screen pair hover in almost-love in Paris' lazy haze. Jesse, stood up by Celine in Venice, has written a memoir in the interim, concealing his disappointment and failed marriage under the guise of art. Celine, her face beautifully drawn by the years, has become a professional activist, hiding her romantic disillusionment in the selfless pursuit of larger issues. A wonderful examination of what survives and thrives ten years after love at first sight. (YS)
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| | Strange that an American band would choose to name itself after something so quintessentially British, but perhaps the alt-music influence of John Humphrys and the Archers has just been missed by us natives. In any case, Radio 4, like fellow New Yorkers Interpol, make a better fist of 2004's version of 1979 than homegrown acts such as Franz Ferdinand. They give their post-punk influences — PiL, Gang of Four, A Certain Ratio — an impressively modernist makeover, and all bodes well for the band's upcoming new long-player, Stealing of a Nation, much of which is showcased tonight. (AJ)
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MUSIC: Upcoming
Kelis
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| when: | Thur 26 Aug (7pm) |
| where: | Shepherd's Bush Empire (Shepherd's Bush Green, W12, 020.8354.3300)
Tube: Goldhawk Road, Shepherd's Bush |
| price: | £25 |
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Event Info | Kelis |
| | Her milkshake may have brought all the boys to the yard, but will the prospect of hearing the live versions of her impossibly slick Neptunes-produced tracks draw folk en masse to west London? You bet. It's been a very good year for the erstwhile Miss Rogers, whose aptly-named third album, Tasty, is packed with futuristic funk and vertiginous vibes. Which is something of a relief, given her previous fall-with-a-big-thud offering, Wanderland — an album as pointless and unrewarding as two bald men fighting over a comb. (AJ)
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CITY GEM: Shop
Mister CD
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| when: | Mon-Fri: 11:30am-7pm / Sat: 11am-7pm |
| where: | Mister CD (80 Berwick Street, W1, 020.7439.1097)
Tube: Oxford Circus |
| price: | FREE |
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| | Soho is full of achingly brilliant record shops. Mister CD, however, isn't full of DJs and vinyl — it's just crammed chocka with compact discs. Sited at 80 Berwick Street — which features on the cover of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? — the shop lies just around the corner from the Oxford Street HMV. However, while a CD over there sets you back up to £16, Mister CD sells them for £11 tops, with a bargain basement stocking older material for a fiver. Go buy! (SR)
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| CD REVIEW: Mike Ladd, Nostalgialator |
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Released July 2004
£11.99 (Amazon)
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Cerebral hip-hop: you just can't beat it. And no one in the milieu is more inspiring than New York's Mike Ladd. Thankfully no longer cutting about in the Boss suit and Elizabethan period dress required of his Majesticons project (Big Dada/Ninja Tune), the humourous, arch, dark poet returns zealous and brimming with ideas. Few can deliver unravelling, free-thought rhyme schemes like Ladd, who frequently underpins his musings with issues of passion, pride, race, creed and colour. Dragnet horns punctuate much of Nostalgialator, often casting a needed lifeline into the album's choppy sea of intended aural chaos. The result is more music that seeps into the soul, with rhymes for the head and vibes for the body. (ND)
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| DRINK AND TELL: worldsbestbars.com |
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Not only a great local drinking resource, this site is also good for travellers off to Bombay, Tallinn or Edinburgh who might fancy a posh cocktail. Not all bars listed here quite meet the mark of "world's best" in our estimation, but that's what the online public forum is for — dishing about cocktails, staff, music and clientele. With 121 London bars, ranging from Attica to Zuma, currently listed by geographical area, this site proves a useful prod for exploring parts of the capital you don't regularly frequent. New locations are added regularly, one of the most recent being the photogenically-pristine Kingly Club: bar of choice for lazy fashion-shoot crews. (SR)
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| STREAMS: Fabric |
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The latest installment in the FABRICLIVE series comes courtesy of Andy Turner (aka Aim), and like the earlier John Peel mix, it revels in eclecticism. The sounds twist and turn from the psychedelic and subversive synth melodies of Boards of Canada to varied hip-hop gems dug from the crates to, surprisingly, the Byrds' "Wasn't Born To Follow." Included here is a half-hour radio mix from Aim, complemented by summertime selections from Jon Marsh and heavyweight breaks from the Plump DJs. (CJN)
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