Tonight LOW loves Kids Company

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LOW LOVES KIDS COMPANY

You may have read about LOW Members Club in the press recently with some massive fashion week parties and Rihanna dropping in. If not check out our review here (spoiler: we loved it).

Well tonight they’ve got a charity do, so you can get trashed and dance to their excellent sound system whilst getting a warm feeling inside knowing that you’re helping those less fortunate. Lovely.

Kids Company provide hot nutritious meals to 2,000 vulnerable children every week. A good cause I’m sure you’ll agree.

Line up will include some of their fave DJs such as Young & Lost Club, John Monkman, Rudi Gubbarah and Chris Bowen… Plus a special guest performance from Natalie Mitchell, a young mother supported by Kids Company.

Doors will be open from 8pm and tickets (priced £15) will be sold on the door

RSVP here
For Guestlist enquiries contact: justine@lowmembersclub.com

Watch out for MONSTA

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MONSTA - Holdin on

Exploding into your ears this summer with a BOOM are MONSTA. Combining soulful vocals from Bryn Christopher with massive beats from hot production duo Pegasus they’ve been touted as ‘Next Hype’ by Zane Lowe, and the ink is still drying on an EP deal with Skillrex’s OWSLA label. We like.

Check out their debut single Holdin On here

If you want to hear more they’re playing Camden Crawl in a couple of weeks, and we’ve got a free download of another of their tracks ‘Heard it on the Grapevine’ here.

Let us know what you think!

Go Dutch on a boat with supperclub

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Boat Party

Debauched Dutch den of iniquity supperclub will cast off from their West London club moorings on the 29th April and hit the Thames for a hedonistic boat party.

To celebrate Queens Day, Holland’s notorious day of wild partying, you’ll cruise down the river for four hours on The Golden Flame while enjoying cocktails and performances from some of London’s best DJs.

If you haven’t checked out supperclub in Notting Hill yet, it’s part of the same group as the legendary supperclub in Amsterdam and combines great DJs, risqué acts and gourmet dining on beds. It’s a crazy night out.

Where: Temple Pier

When: Sunday 29th April, 2pm-6pm

Tickets: £20 available here

 

 

Popbitch Popquiz moves to Century

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Popbitch Quiz

You may already be aware of the original and best salacious pop culture newsletter that drops into eager inboxes every Thursday. If not, where have you been the past ten years? Yes I may be a little biased as I am somewhat involved, but Popbitch has been spreading naughty rumours and pictures of otters for an internet millennia.

The shadowy cabal who run Popbitch also put on a monthly pop culture quiz, previously in the Player Bar in Soho. This month they are moving to a fancy pants new location on Shaftesbury Avenue. Century is a cool members club that has recently been bought and revamped by Jonathan Downey of Rushmore Group. We’ll be there, having a cheeky peek at the new gaff and shouting out the wrong answers drunkenly at compere Tom ‘Tomedy’ Webb.

When: Wednesday 11th April, doors 6.30pm for 7.30pm start

Where: Century 61-63 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D6LQ

How much: £5

Buy tickets here

Wilderness Festival 2012 Line Up

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Wilderness Party

Festivals all have their own personalities. Global Gathering and its epic rave casualties is the Bez of music festivals, Download is a gnarly old rocker like Lemmy. Wilderness is more of an Ed Sheeran, with an unashamedly posh background and a wry sense of humour, this young festival has got us rather excited.

The line-up includes ace duelling guitar folk from Rodrigo Y Gabriela, American alt rockers Wilco and critically acclaimed space rock band Spiritualized.

Wilderness isn’t all about the music though, there’s some serious food on offer – banquet style. With top chefs Yotam Ottolenghi, Fergus Henderson and Valentine Warner throwing feasts you sure won’t go hungry. Tickets for the banquets are £42.50 and likely to sell out rather fast.

Of all the menus TV Chef Valentine Warner’s is our pick:

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Starters

Venison tartare

Cured marinated trout

Snails with fried garlic, parsley almonds & breadcrumbs

Crayfish with nutmeg butter

 

Mains

Barbequed shoulders of lamb with petis pois, bacon & lettuce & new potatoes

French onion tart with herb salad

Lovage local vegetables

 

Dessert

Blackcurrant Blancmange with shortbread

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If all the food and folk on offer isn’t enough there’s also some more cerebral entertainment with debates and talks with people such as The School of Life and Intelligence Squared. To continue the party into the night The Old Vic will be putting on an amazing performance in the woods with a masquerade ball.

Line up highlights

Music:

Spiritualized, Stornoway, Lianne la Havas, London Folk Guild, Cloud Control, Giant Giant Sand, Grant Lee Buffalo, Jenny O, Field Music, Fatoumata Diawara, Milagres, To Kill a King, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Crystal Fighters, Jake Bugg.

Food:

Yotam Ottolenghi, Fergus Henderson (St John’s), Valentine Warner, Moro Souk Tent, Thyme Food School

Talks, debates and well-being:

Intelligencesquared, the Royal Observatory, the School of Life, the Idler Academy, the Lakeside Spa, the Healing Garden

Late night parties:

The Old Vic tunnels masked ball

 

Grab your tickets from the Wilderness website here

10th – 12th August

Cornbury Par, Oxfordshire

£119 + booking fee (if you’re quick)

Get your fingers sticky at Ribstock

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Ribstock

Get your bibs on and crack your knuckles in anticipation of a primeval feast of fun coming to Soho at the end of this month.

Ten of the UK’s best rib chefs will be throwing you a bone at St Anne’s Square in Soho on Saturday 28th April. With drinks provided by cocktail connoisseurs Milk & Honey and a selection of craft beers available on site you won’t go thirsty. If your machismo is not fully satisfied by the meat fest there will be a hot sauce competition to make your eyes water, in a manly way.

The first 150 tickets are going for £20 and this includes all the sticky ribs you can shove in your face, plus 3 free drinks.

The event has been organised by the pop up street food pioneers TweatUp and will include ribs from the legendary Rib Man.

Check out the Ribstock website here

Introducing Saul Ashby

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Saul Ashby

This week we’ve been tapping our feet to a summery slice of pop from Saul Ashby. Citing his influences as Elvis Costello and Edwyn Collins his single ‘Debutantes’ is released on May 2nd on Fly 2 Records.

Check out the single here, we think it has echoes of Billy Bragg with an annoyingly catchy simian chorus hook.

Saul Ashby – Debutantes

Saul is currently on tour, you can catch him on the following dates:

 

5 April MANCHESTER Night & Day Cafe

6 April CORNWALL B-Side @ Bunters

18 April LEEDS Oporto

25 April EDINBURGH Sneaky Pete’s

26 April GLASGOW The Captain’s Rest

27 April BELFAST No Alibi’s Bookstore

29 April DUBLIN Academy 2

The single launch is at the Sebright Arms on Wednesday May 9th

Monkey Shoulder Chocolate Trail

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Monkey Shoulder

Easter. Yeah we know it’s really an important religious holiday but to many it really just means one thing: chocolate. And lots of it. It’s a time of year to act like a kid and gorge yourself on Easter eggs.

Well you’ve got a chance to unleash your inner child this Easter because Monkey Shoulder have created a little Easter egg hunt in the middle of Soho for you. The twist is that for every Easter egg you find they’ll let you swap it for a bespoke cocktail and complementary chocolate. For example, a green egg hidden in the hybrid chocolate-mint plants might get you a mint julep and some dark, spearmint chocolate. The cocktails have been put together with the help of the ace London Cocktail Club and fancy chocolates from Niko B so we’re expecting great things.

Banana & Sherry fix

Monkey Shoulder Ambassador Dean Callan will be leading some guests through advising the best flavours and garnishes, whether he will be wearing the Easter bunny costume it is not clear.

Where: Monkey Shoulder Chocolate Trail, 63 Broadwick Street, Soho

When: Friday 6th – Monday 9th April, 12.00 -7.00pm

Cost: Free

Beer and Pirates in Greenwich

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The Old Brewery

It is a form of hell sitting here, stuck behind a desk on a beautiful sunny day writing about lovely delicious beer. But I figure the WJ readers will like this place so here goes..

The Old Brewery in Greenwich is a long way away from where I live. I had to get something called the DLR. It’s like a tube but you there’s no driver. Freaky. There are open spaces in Greenwich, boats and even the people seem somehow alien from my grubby corner of North West London.  I suspect they’re all pirates or something. The building itself is awesome, the bar is inside an old Navy College and cosy inside, but with enough space outside if it’s a nice day. Like it is today. Grr.

The Old Brewery (as you may guess from the name) actually brews some of its own beer. I wetted my lips with a half of the latest creation. It’s called Yakima Red and it is lovely fruity number, made by head brewer Steve Schmidt from a combo of American and European hops.

You may have attended wine and cheese matching evenings in the past, which can vary from excellent to soul suckingly awful. Well The Old Brewery are trying to change the way we think about beer by running a series of food matching evening with some of their favourite tipples.

I was a little sceptical at the beginning of the night as I stepped into the impressive restaurant of The Old Brewery, complete with shiny brewing apparatus on display. Guest speakers were Jayne Peyton from the School of Booze and Patricia Michaelson from La Fromagerie. Honestly. The School of Booze! Where do I join?

Over the next hour I sunk several delicious beers and sampled some amazing cheese. Beer is apparently an excellent palate cleanser due to the natural carbonation. My favourite match was an earthy, dry beer called Orval served in champagne flutes, with a deliciously salty parmesan crisp.

Just to get a complete feel of the place I headed back into the bar for a final pint and to tackle one of their grilled Galloway burgers. Moist and pink inside, it was served in a manly fashion on a wooden board with a generous helping of hand cut chips. Perfect for soaking up the evening’s beery entertainment.

The Old Brewery Burger modelled by Alex

The Old Brewery Burger modelled by Alex

The Old Brewery is an excellent bar with a large selection of great beers, just watch out for the pirates.

Verdict: 4/5 (only losing a mark because it’s too far to be my local)

The Old Brewery, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10 9LW

http://www.oldbrewerygreenwich.com/