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June/July 2019 Volume 15/03 FREE Ju Ne June/July 2019 Volume 15/03 FREE MARYLEBONE JOURNAL JOURNAL MARYLEBONE WHISKY | SPIRITS | CHAMPAGNE | WINE June/July 2019 Discover the finest selection of whiskies and spirits in the heart of Fitzrovia Volume 15/03 15/03 Volume THE WHISKY EXCHANGE FITZROVIA 92 Great Portland Street Fitzrovia, London W1W 7NT Call: 020 7100 9888 [email protected] Also at 2 Bedford St, Covent Garden, WC2E 7HH 35,000+ REVIEWS | RATED: EXCELLENT mj_2019_volume15_03_cover_01.inddMarylebone Ad_200mmx250mm_Artwork.indd 1 1 20/05/2019 13:04 23/05/2019 16:16 01. Contents Cover: Judith Owen, one of the stars of the Marylebone Music Festival 42. 04-19. Up front 04. Forward thinking 12. Local lives 04. 28. 16. My perfect day FORWARD GILDED CAGE 20-47. Features THINKING THE STRANGE 20. Silver screen YOUR GUIDE TO STORY OF 28. Gilded cage JUNE AND JULY THE MISER 34. The Peter principle IN MARYLEBONE WHO BUILT 42. After the deluge MARYLEBONE 48-53. Culture 48. Q&A: Judith Owen, singer-songwriter 52. Book reviews 20. 34. 54-63. Food 54. Q&A: Paul Sarlas of Bao & Bing 60. Food philosophy 42. 62-69. Style AFTER THE 62. Q&A: Belma Gaudio DELUGE of Koibird THE DIPLOMATS 66. Inside knowledge WHO ARE 67. The look SEEKING TO 70-77. Life SHOW THAT 70. Q&A: Michael RWANDA’S STORY di Giorgio of GOES BEYOND Greenhouse Sports GENOCIDE 74. Inside knowledge 78-83. Health 78. Q&A: Prof Keyoumars Ashkan & Mr Ranjeev Bhangoo of The London Clinic 20. 34. 48. 82. Special relationship SILVER SCREEN THE PETER JUDITH OWEN 84-91. Space THE CINEMA PRINCIPLE THE SINGER- 88. Ask the expert CLUB THAT HOW PETER SONGWRITER ON 90. Q&A: Tim Fairweather CELEBRATES GORDON CAME NEW ORLEANS, of Sandfords GOLDEN OLDIES, TO SHAPE PICASSO’S BOTH ON THE THE CAREERS WOMEN AND THE SCREEN AND IN OF SOME OF MARYLEBONE THE AUDIENCE LONDON'S MUSIC FESTIVAL FINEST CHEFS mj_2019_volume15_03_UpFront_01.indd 1 24/05/2019 11:28 02. Editor’s letter Marylebone Journal Web: marylebonejournal.com GOLDEN AGE Twitter: @MaryleboneJrnl MARK RIDDAWAY Instagram: marylebonejrnl Facebook: Marylebone Journal Editor There can be few things more enjoyable than Mark Riddaway [email protected] gathering with friends of your own age to watch Deputy editors Viel Richardson an old film on the big screen, particularly in a [email protected] Clare Finney setting as beautiful as the Regent Street Cinema. [email protected] Sub-editor But, as our lovely feature on the cinema’s classic Ellie Costigan [email protected] film matinees suggests, one thing that might just Editorial desk trump it is gathering with those friends in that 020 7401 7297 Advertising sales same setting to affirm with each other how much Donna Earrey 020 7401 2772 better the films once were and how everything [email protected] made today is complete bilge: too long, too loud, Publisher LSC Publishing too jumpy, too violent. 13.2.1 The Leathermarket Weston Street London SE1 3ER This is something that can be enjoyed by every lscpublishing.com Contributers successive generation, and is probably one of Jean-Paul Aubin-Parvu, Glyn Brown, Sasha Garwood, the few universal benefits of ageing. Nostalgic Orlando Gili, Matthew Hancock, Christopher L Proctor consumption of the culture of your ever-more Design and art direction distant prime is a pleasure that comes in two Em-Project Limited [email protected] distinct waves—initially, there’s the sense of Distribution Letterbox transportation, the explosion of memories, the Printing Warwick thrill of familiarity; then, later, there’s the warm Owned and supported by hug of smugness that comes with the absolute The Howard de Walden Estate 27 Baker Street, W1U 8EQ certainty that yours were truly the best of times 020 7580 3163 hdwe.co.uk and that the young really don’t know what they’re [email protected] missing—and the second part is just as uplifting The Portman Estate 40 Portman Square, W1H 6LT as the first. The beautiful thing is that this cycle 020 7563 1400 portmanestate.co.uk never ends. The popular films of this decade really [email protected] have been almost universally terrible—too long, too loud, too jumpy, too violent—but the young of today will still gather in their dotage to love them all over again and tut about how execrable the films of that era have become. Mine, of course, really were the best of times, but they’re not to know that. mj_2019_volume15_03_UpFront_01.indd 2 24/05/2019 09:19:15 THE NEW YORK LASER CLINIC +MEDISPA www.thenewyorklaserclinic.co.uk Do you want to be hair free? ExclusiveDiscounts Quote: Sick of ingrown hairsand MJMAG19 shaving rashes? Solution Laser Hair Removal is agame changer! 90% of clients who are good candidates, report permanent hair loss after an average of 6-8 treatments 62% of people areusing the incorrect skincare and aren't targetingtheir skin concerns correctly* We offerSolution free skin assessments so we can talk through your skin concerns and give youour expert advice to help you get the bestskin possible! 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FESTIVAL de Walden Estate, and incorporating a weekend Sunday 16th June of fun and activities, the Marylebone Sunday event will be raising money Street Party and awareness for the Sunday’s colourful Greenhouse Sports charity. community event runs from 11am to 5:30pm offering Saturday 15th June the familiar medley of street Marylebone Summer food, live music, fairground Film Night stalls and dancing in the Set in the atmospheric streets. The high street surroundings of and its surrounding streets Paddington Street will be pedestrianised to mj_2019_volume15_03_UpFront_01.indd 4 24/05/2019 08:19 05. Up front accommodate a vast array of activities. The main EVENT EXHIBITION EXHIBITION music stage and festival bar 19th JUNE UNTIL 22nd JUNE UNTIL 22nd JUNE are located in Paddington PORTMAN ANISH KAPOOR CHRIS SIMPSON: Street Gardens and will SQUARE CARNETS DE remain open until 8pm. Anish Kapoor, With Moxon Street car park GARDEN PARTY VOYAGE closed this year, most of the Every year for more than one of the world’s In 1987, a journey to children’s activities have a decade, the beautiful most distinctive Australia’s Northern been relocated, with the Portman Square Garden— and influential Territory to photograph big wheel moving to the top access to which is usually contemporary the region’s Aboriginal of the high street and a new reserved for residents of people—a personal wellness and activity area the square—has played artists, returns for project—had a profound located on the north side of host to one of the most his 17th exhibition impact on fashion Paddington Street Gardens. enjoyable social events of at Lisson Gallery photographer Chris the summer: an evening of with a striking new Simpson’s outlook. Marylebone Summer al fresco food, drink, live Stepping away first from Festival music and entertainment body of work that the fashion world and marylebonesummerfestival.com in a spectacular setting. includes sculptures later from almost all Proceeds from the event, created from stone, commissioned work, he which also features a welded steel, silicone focused instead on trying fundraising raffle, are to capture the landscapes this year being donated and mirrored and people of some of to Greenhouse Sports, a surfaces, as well the world’s most remote charity that uses sports as oil paintings regions, from the Atacama coaching and mentoring on canvas—a Desert to Easter Island, to improve the life chances from the Himba tribe of of children. The event, significant but Namibia to the tobacco tickets for which cost £45, is rarely-exhibited farmers of Cuba. This supported by Baker Street element of Kapoor’s exhibition, his first solo Quarter Partnership, practice over the show in London, features Home House, Hyatt shots from around the Regency London—The past 40 years. world, all of them marked Churchill, Invesco, The out by their clean lines, Lisson Gallery Portman Estate, Marsh simple compositions and 27 Bell Street, & Parsons, Seddons, deep sense of place. NW1 5BY Barclays, Eliska Design, lissongallery.com Marylebone Gin, Serve It Atlas Gallery Up and Sanders. 49 Dorset Street, W1U 7NF Portman Square atlasgallery.com Garden Party portmansquaregardenparty.com mj_2019_volume15_03_UpFront_01.indd 5 24/05/2019 08:19 06. Up front mj_2019_volume15_03_UpFront_01.indd 6 24/05/2019 11:28 07. Up front THEATRE MUSIC FILM THEATRE 14—22nd JUNE 16th—23rd JUNE 22nd—23rd JUNE 21st—24th JUNE HANSEL AND MARYLEBONE AMAZING THE WILD GRETEL MUSIC FESTIVAL GRACE PARTY Following last season’s Over the course Aretha Franklin’s Amazing The Royal Academy acclaimed production of of a week, many of Grace, released in June The Turn of the Screw, Marylebone’s most 1972, was the best-selling of Music Musical the Regent’s Park Open attractive destinations, album of the singer’s Theatre Company Air Theatre continues its including Manchester career, featuring one presents Michael budding collaboration Square, Wigmore Hall, of the most compelling John LaChiusa with the English National The Wallace Collection vocal performances in Opera with a production and the Rudolf Steiner the gospel music canon.
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