PROMOTION TIM ARNOLD our community. The fact is, the long-term SAVE SOHO: the tanqueray tribute benefi ts of protecting and rebuilding small Tiny music venues make artistic and economic sense. That’s why Save Soho doesn’t just benefi t venues London; it’s for every aspiring performer in the UK – and their audience. The spirit of With their sticky fl oors, edgy Soho is multicultural, diverse and tolerant character and unique charm, and crucially, it has forever catered for all income groups. It’s inclusive, not exclusive. are the hallmark of Soho and That’s what Save Soho is trying the lifeblood of the British to save. If you are an entertainer, or you love to music industry... be entertained, then you’ve already joined the campaign. et today, a small venue is not perceived Welcome aboard. as a viable business; an entirely Ymisguided concept since each act Save Soho is proudly performing in a small venue is a whole supported by business in itself. So one venue is actually a model for a booming business? And this an entire ecosystem for multiple businesses. ‘Save Soho doesn’t just country has the talent. With all those acts performing every night, benefit London; it’s for every Developers, politicians and local councilors a small venue can host 100 businesses per aspiring performer in the UK’ should value the music sector in our cities, month. I’m not an economist, but isn’t that allowing creative spaces to unify and inspire PROMOTION TIM ARNOLD music venues are truly thriving again.’ SAVE SOHO: the tanqueray tribute Change is possible. Jo Jo’s, While we wait for Jo Jo’s and The 12 Bar to reopen, Save Soho has its own pop- up music venue, The Reservation. We’re BoJo and fi lling in to keep Soho a platform for emerging talent until the real venues are up and running again. So join us if you like The Soho Hobo discovering new talent in small rooms of It all began when Madame Jojo’s bohemian atmosphere in Soho. closed a year ago. I wrote to Our next Reservation is on Boris Johnson asking if the November 18 at The Union Club. Mayor’s offi ce could help with the Saving Soho: Tickets are available on Mayor Boris Johnson savesoho.com future of live music in London? gets stuck in Save Soho is proudly e wrote back to me and said they could venues across the capital. The Mayor has supported by help. One year later and the fi rst step thrown his weight behind this new report and Hhas been made. that’s going to bring real, genuine change Mark Davyd of the Music Venue Trust says: Save Soho: Jo Jo’s to the planning and licensing process. It’s all closure protest ‘This week has been a really important been achieved by working together and that’s moment for Soho venues and for music what we intend to keep doing until London’s PROMOTION TIM ARNOLD three hours during peak times, double the footfall of King’s Cross underground station. Any concept we have of Soho the ‘village’ or The ‘community’ would be lost forever. Stephen Fry and I attended a consultation with TFL in September. They stated that they Curzon would consider a different location for the station. Stephen assured them, with his usual charm, that we would hold them Cinema Soho to that statement. The Curzon Cinema is the most To save the Curzon is to save Soho. valuable thing we are trying to Our next reservation event is on save in Soho right now Wednesday, November 18. Go to savesoho.com to buy tickets and support #SaveSoho. he site has been home to a cinema PICTURE: MICHAEL WARBURTON since 1959 when it fi rst opened as the TColumbia. It has changed hands over that the site is safeguarded for their the years, but retained its original attraction proposed CrossRail 2 railway. This would as a temple for the moving image, enjoyed Photo taken from mean the demolition of the entire block by the local community and international Aro Korol’s fi lm that the cinema is housed in. In its place, Proudly supporting Save Soho moviegoers. The Battle of Soho TFL would build a train station that brings Last year, Transport For London announced 270,000 people into central London every PROMOTION TIM ARNOLD In addition, the Mayor of London has put together a plan to help small music venues fl ourish Making again in the capital. With planning and licensing laws that will genuinely history support new venues, now is the perfect moment for somebody to open a new in Soho music venue in Soho. The Ever since the emergence of youth only question is: culture in the late 1950s, Soho who’s going to start making history fi rst? has been at the heart of countless PICTURE: REX musical and creative movements PICTURE: PA he rich musical history of the Gardenia. There aren’t many artists who music venue called The Reservation. Made neighbourhood stretches from the don’t owe a debt to the infl uences of that possible by Soho’s private members clubs, Tbirth of British Rock ’N’ Roll at The 2i’s square mile of the West End. these usually exclusive clubs – known for Coffee Bar on Old Compton Street to The Most of Soho’s legendary venues are their strict members-only policies – have Who and The Jam playing early gigs at The now either closed or demolished, but in opened their doors to the general public Marquee Club, right up until the last decade, order to keep the tradition of discovery on select nights to help bring back live when Paloma Faith started out at The Black alive, Save Soho has started a pop-up music in Soho. PROMOTION TIM ARNOLD ‘Playing my songs in front of a packed club in Soho is a dream come true,’ The he said. ‘It’s given me confi dence to keep doing what I love. All the greats played in Soho, so it’s Reservation exciting to be a part of that. We need small venues in London. Reservation: [noun] a It’s defi nitely a part of Soho tract of land designated to an that should be saved.’ Out of endangered species the mouths of babes. Join in thediscussion nd that is precisely what a working Making his debut: Josh Wolfsohn and support #SaveSoho musician has become in Soho: an on stage at The Reservation A endangered species. PICTURES: BRYANNE MCINTOSH-MELVILLE We started The Reservation club nights as a response to the loss of grass roots music as Soho. But right now, Soho has a unique venues in Soho and it’s become the most ‘Soho has a unique value value nowhere else can offer, and that’s what diverse evening of talent you will fi nd in nowhere else can offer, and we try to capture at The Reservation. Perhaps London at the moment. all this is best articulated by 18-year-old Of course there are other parts of London that’s what we try to capture singer-songwriter, Josh Wolfsohn, who made with fantastic music scenes – and maybe in at The Reservation’ his London debut at The Reservation last 50 years, they will have the same provenance Wednesday at the Union Club. TIM ARNOLD PROMOTION WKDQPRQH\FDQEORVVRP 7KHSUHVHUYDWLRQRI6RKRQHHGVFRQVWDQW The Spirit DWWHQWLRQDQGFRQVWDQWYLJLODQFH7KDW·VZKDW 6DYH6RKRVHWRXWWRGR²DQGLW·VZKDWLW·V DFKLHYHG%XWZKDWDERXW7KH6RKR6RFLHW\ of Soho ZKLFKUHSUHVHQWVWKHFRPPXQLW\DQGLVWKH A short saunter down from ROGHVWRUJDQLVDWLRQSURWHFWLQJ6RKR" 7KH\FDQ·WDFFRPSOLVKWKHLUWDVNDORQHDQG Oxford Street’s famous festive QHHGRXUVXSSRUW,KRSH\RX·OOKHOSWKHPVDYH VSDUNOHVOLHD/RQGRQÀUVW 6RKR·VFXOWXUHDQGKLVWRU\IRUGHFDGHVWRFRPH HE Berwick Street Christmas lights. 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People shared with fashion designer and who put their passion into action. bespoke tailor David Newell of It’s ordinary to lose a button on Newell Bespoke. your blazer, but it’s extraordinary David is another dear friend of when the person who sews a new mine. He worked with Raffaele for 10 button on for you can lift your years and he’s picked up the baton spirit. Over the course of fi ve from Raffaele by taking his lead and years, the longest standing tailor bringing a touch of Soho’s old school in Soho, Raffaele Candilio, did style into modern tailoring.