Rina Sawayama: the Pop Star Who Bloomed in Lockdown London
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TIMEOUT.COM/LONDON November 10 ñ 23 2020 No. 2600 Forward thinker Rina Sawayama: the pop star who bloomed in lockdown London Inside Get out, right out! Yeah, it’s cold. But London looks This issue of Time Out flipping awesome in autumn, so go in no time at all get misty and mellowly fruitful PAGE 29 Shoppy waters All hail the season of consumer profligacy! This year, though, spend your cash at a local independent who really needs your support PAGE 38 Locktails Barred from bars for a bit? No probs, some of London’s greatest mixers are bottling their cocktails for home delivery. Drink this: you’ll feel better PAGE 35 Time In Diwali Immersive gaming, indie reads, podcasts The whole of this year’s Festival of Light and Mrs T going toe-to-toe with Her Maj. is taking place under lockdown: allow us Your home entertainment awaits… to provide some online inspo PAGE 42 PAGE 28 FEATURES AND REGULARS 7 City life 12 Global briefing 16 Rina Sawayama 24 Great DIY meal kits 26 Exclusive offers 27 Things to Do 35 Food & Drink 38 Love Local 40 Escapes 42 Time In ILLUSTRATION: GEO LAW; GREENWICH PARK: ANNA HEATH/PICFAIR; COCKTAIL: NIGHTJAR COCKTAIL: HEATH/PICFAIR; ANNA PARK: GREENWICH LAW; GEO ILLUSTRATION: 3 November 10 – 23 2020 Time Out London Hello, Advertising 7813 6000, [email protected] Circulation London [email protected] Global Editor-in-Chief Caroline McGinn London Editor Joe Mackertich Deputy Editor/Chief Sub Editor Chris Waywell Joe Mackertich Deputy Chief Sub Editor London Editor Sarah Cohen @j_mackertich Features Kate Lloyd (Editor) News & City Life Isabelle Aron (Editor) Events Katie McCabe (Editor), Alexandra Sims One day soon, London will return to normal. Bus seats won’t (Deputy Editor) Film Phil de Semlyen be covered up. Our theatre stages will be full of actors doing (Global Editor) Culture Eddy Frankel and bad American accents in Arthur Miller productions. Waiters Andrzej Łukowski Editorial Assistant won’t wear plastic welding masks. Rappers will rap, guitarists Django Zimmatore will shred and DJs will pretend to twiddle the cross-fader. Global Commercial Editor Stephen Farmer Comedians will once again be able to die on their arse in front Global Branded Content Editor Rose Johnstone of people above a pub in Soho. You won’t wince every time Commercial Designer people on TV shake hands. Julia Robinson Commercial Copywriter George Blew I cannot tell you when this day will come. But come it will. Head of Digital Content Jordan Waller And in the meantime we make do with the quiet, semi- London Digital Director/ Drink Editor Laura Richards shuttered winter city we currently call home. We still have our Engagement Editor Sam Willis parks (best in the world, no contest), we still have bone-broth International Editor James Manning ramen delivered to our doors and, crucially, we still have each International Travel Editor Ellie Walker-Arnott other. London’s most valuable commodity is Londoners, and, International Commissioning Lord knows, those are not in short supply. Editor Huw Oliver Art Director Bryan Mayes Picture Desk Manager Ben Rowe So talk to each other. Talk to your friends. Talk to strangers. Photographer Andy Parsons Head of Production Talk to me, if you like (disclaimer: many people who Dave Faulkner Production, Admin and Sales know me would strongly advise against this). Support Katie Mulhern-Bhudia Our city is brilliant, our city is strong, and so are you. Commercial MD EMEA Lawrence Horne Advertising Sales Ian Tournes (Director), Natalie Reynolds, Juliet Grant, Banbha O’Hagan, Nesha Fleischer, James Hooper, Robyn Eldridge, Emma Myland Creative Solutions Three things you have to do in London Wayne Mensah (Director), THE EDITOR’S ESSENTIALS Charlie Liddington, Nicola Foxwell Project Management Junior Olokodana (Project Management Lead), Nicki Wymer, Zara Taylor MD Global E-commerce Minesh Shah Time Out Group CEO Julio Bruno Cover Photograph Andy Parsons, styling Kate Iorga, make-up Hayley Mason, EAT this SHOP here SUPPORT this hair Tomi Roppongi. Photographed at the Patron is a little French restaurant Mighty Small is like a supermarket St Mungos has re-housed people Barbican Centre in Kentish Town. Its DIY option, of small foodie brands. It works with through the pandemic. Now it’s cold, Maison Patron, is lots of fun. FoodCycle, a charity that provides your donations mean even more. Get involved. free community meals. www.mungos.org/winter Time Out Digital Ltd 77 Wicklow Street, London, WC1X 9JY. @timeoutlondon facebook.com/timeoutlondon @timeoutlondon timeout.com/news www.timeout.com 020 7813 3000 NOT FOR RESALE Time Out London November 10 – 23 2020 4 Advertisement feature Welcome to Page 5G! All in a day’s work FLYING TO WORK – Soon, working from home Office work medicine, too: a paramedic could could involve attending Sorry, but your days of wearing perform an ultrasound on a patient REALLY? pyjamas all day and simply turning from the ambulance, instantly meetings as a hologram. off the camera on work calls are transmitting information to the As you’ll learn from limited. 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Th Woodlnd Trust, Kmpton W , Grnthm, Lincolnshir NG31 6LL. Th WoodlndRistrd Trust is chrit in Enlnd ristrd no. 1982873. in Enlnd Th ndWoodlnd Wls Trustno. 294344 loo is nd ristrd in Scotlnd trdmrk. no. SC038885. Im: AiStock.com/fotoVor non-profit-mkin compn 15036 limitd 10/20 b urnt. City life Edited by Isabelle Aron @timeoutlondon For more on our Love Local Campaign turn to page 38 Buy local, so shops like this survive Independent stores are facing hard times. The story of this venerable Harlesden record shop shows why these places matter more than ever, even if you temporarily can’t visit them THE GREENGROCER THAT puts your local decades and still pops in at least once a week. through. ‘People like [reggae producer] Bunny Lee supermarket to shame. The bookshop with Davis was a member of The Sensations, a vocal would come in. Everyone would drop by – it was the owner who talks your ear off. The record harmony group that played with a host of reggae one of the main record shops at the time,’ explains shop where no request is too niche. London’s legends in the ’s and ’s. ‘Hawkeye [co-owner Davis. ‘You could hang out and chat music.’ independent shops make the city what it is – Roy Forbes Allen] played football with us and The photo shows a space that still packs a and right now, they need support. that’s how I got to know him and started going to punch, in spite of the challenges the pandemic Hawkeye Records in Harlesden (above) is the shop,’ he says. has brought: Anderson slashed his prices by a prime example of how shops support and Gerry Anderson, the straight-talking other percent after the first lockdown. sustain local communities. Harlesden and the co-owner, who works behind the counter, is ‘If we don’t support the record shops, they’ll go surrounding areas were once a hub for Black regarded as a reggae guru, using his connections out of business,’ says Davis.