PROPERTY NEWS, EVENTS, CULTURE AND LIFESTYLE IN W6 AND W12 WIN TIC ISSUE 6 FEBRUARY 2015 KETS! Spend a night with Jolie Holland at Bush Hall PAGE 5 OUR SHEILA GOES BACK TO SCHOOL A celebrated local actor turns her hand to fiction, describing the life of a London teacher over the decades following the Second World War SEE PAGES 6-9 OUR PATCH FEBRUARY 2015 Come and meet the partners! Our new Partners scheme aims to showcase a range of fantastic offers from local traders. As an award-winning local family-owned business, Horton and Garton has joined forces to form a strong local network of traders who champion independence, quality, customer service and a dedication to the local community. Keep an eye out for our purple Partners sticker in shop windows around Hammersmith and Shepherds Bush and if you see one, just head inside to redeem the exclusive Our Patch offer! 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Let’s hope the By:design Distributed by Our Patch magazine’s 2014 debut good times keep rolling. 020 8753 4482 Letterbox Distribution OUR PATCH OCTOBER 2014 February 2 February 4 February guitarist Jake Zaitz and l Islands, l Raised embroidery saxophonist Mike Paice. Bush Theatre W12 workshop, Fulham 7.30pm. £10 A frolicking drama which Palace SW6 www.brooksbluesbar.co.uk lifts the lid on the absurdity Learn a variety of stitch of tax havens and offshore methods, from covered beads 8 February evasion, and exposes the to canvas stump applique at l Milky Chance, Shepherds human cost via black a full-day workshop led by Bush Empire W12 comedy. Written by Caroline Owen Davies of the Royal Timed to coincide with Horton and directed by Omar School of Needlework. All the release of debut album Elerian, the show runs until abilities welcome. Sadnecessary, this is the 21 February, with a post- 10am-4pm. £45 & £10 for kit first of two nights by the show debate on 9 February. www.fulhampalace.org duo whose single Down By 7.30pm. £19.50 (£12 concs) The River has been making www.bushtheatre.co.uk 7 February waves. 7pm. £16.87 l Dana Gillespie, Brooks www.02shepherdsbushempire. 2 February Blues Bar W6 co.uk Othello Five-times winner of the title of top British female blues 12 February vocalist, Dana Gillespie is a l Hiss Golden Messenger, blues diva who has been at Bush Hall W12 the pinnacle for more than Country rocker MC Taylor 40 years, and who has and his North Carolinian recorded more than 60 ensemble Hiss Golden albums. She appears with Messenger gives Shepherds boogie pianist Dino Baptiste, Bush another chance to hear 25 February Eddie Izzard 2 February l Othello, Lyric W6 Last six days of Frantic Assembly’s ultra-modern take on Shakespeare’s thriller/ tragedy, set around a pub pool table. A fast-paced, choreographed adaptation with rowdy music and scenes of violence. 7.30pm. £15 www.lyric.co.uk 3 February l The Bear, Barons Court Theatre W14 STAND UP FOR SHELTER: A dark comedy, based on an Anton Chekov play, and EDDIE IZZARD & JOSH WIDDICOMBE directed by Nick Pelas. EVENTIM APOLLO, W6 Time Out describes it as a ‘great interpretation’, and 25 February it lends itself to the Comedians Eddie Izzard and baby-faced Josh Widdicombe 12 February subterranean intimacy of the headline this one-night show to benefit homeless charity Groovy folk troubadour Barons Court Theatre. Shows Shelter. “Please buy a ticket, have a laugh and support a Hiss Golden Messenger every evening at 7.30pm, great charity at the same time,” says Eddie. Christian returns to Bush Hall except 9 Feb. £14 (£11 concs) O’Connell hosts. 7pm. £38.25 www.eventimapollo.com www.offwestend.com 4/5 7 February OUR PATCH FEBRUARY 2015 Dana Gillespie 19 February has been nothing short of a debut solo album Yorktown l Ibeyi, Bush Hall W12 revelation, teaming up with Heights, so the Feeder lead Ibeyi are 19-year-old French Roots drummer Questlove guitarist will be polished and Cuban twins, Naomi and to deliver a rollicking and perfected when he takes to Lisa-Kainde Diaz. They are politically charged sermon the stage. A new clutch of daughters of the late Cuban with a side of Sly to boot. largely acoustic songs have a percussion Anga Diaz. Naomi 7.30pm. From £40.75 freshness and vim which has plays percussive instruments, www.eventimapollo.com attracted critical acclaim. the Cajon and the Batas, It’s also Grant’s most while Lisa plays piano. 26 February personal work to date. “I Together the twins combine l Grant Nicholas, Bush definitely had a Seventies modern pop, hip-hop and Hall, W12 vibe in my head for the new electronic influences with the He’s coming to the end of record,” he says. 7.30pm. £16 traditional sounds of their his UK tour, promoting www.bushhallmusic.co.uk father’s Yorùbán culture. one of the finest singer 7.30pm. £12 songwriters on the circuit, www.bushhallmusic.co.uk coinciding with the recent WIN FREE BUSH HALL TICKETS! release of his ace Lateness of 20 February Dancers album. 7.30pm. £14 l Opera at the Palace, JOLIE HOLLAND www.bushhallmusic.co.uk Fulham Palace SW6 Young opera stars from the 14 February National Opera Studio l Shoe Kangaroo & the gather in the Great Hall of Big Bad Boot, Lyric W6 Fulham Palace for an If you’ve ever wondered evening of operatic singing. where odd shoes go, here’s Make a proper night of it the answer. A charming by having a three-course children’s production is dinner too. 6pm. £62.50 for centred on the Island of Lost concert and dinner. 7.30pm. Shoes, where footwear- £22.50, concert only. influenced creatures live… www.fulhampalace.org 17 February among them the Shoe Jolie Holland Kangaroo. 11am and 1pm. Ideal for ages 4 to 7. £8 www.lyric.co.uk >> Jolie Holland is performing on Tuesday, February 17, at the popular Bush Hall in Uxbridge Road, Shepherds 17 February Bush, and we have TWO pairs of tickets to give away to l Time for Heroes, Barons the Texan singer-songwriter’s west London gig. The Court Theatre W14 travelling performer’s European tour includes a couple of Menelaos Karantzas directs UK gigs supporting Elbow, while her solo concerts focus Kevin Lee’s provocative on tracks from her new, critically acclaimed folk/jazz tale of former soldiers in album, Wine Dark Sea. A spearkling showcast of her Afghanistan in which a innovative writing style, it is Jolie’s fifth studio album.