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Bentley_Boisdale_Life_1105_297x420.indd All Pages 02/05/2018 10:34 A summer spectacular of shows paying tribute to: The Beatles • Elton John • Queen The Rolling Stones • Rod Stewart and our very special guest Glen Matlock (ex-Sex Pistols) co-writer of Never Mind the Bollocks 30 July - 3rd August Glen Matlock with Earl Slick & Slim Jim Phantom 4th August The Bohemians (Queen’s Greatest Hits) 6th-9th of August Ben Rogers (The Elton John Show) 14th-16th August Imagine... The Beatles 18th August Some Guys Have All The Luck (The Rod Stewart Story) 21st-23rd August The Stones Best of British FESTIVAL BOISDALE OF CANARY WHARF CABOT PLACE • 020 7715 5818 • BOISDALE.CO.UK BestOfBritishA4.indd 2 27/04/2018 18:54 sprIng 2018 BOISDALELIFE.COM Issue no.12 EDITOR’S LETTER GAME ON AT BOISDALE! publicly awarding the UK’s favourite game champions at a magnificent dinner to be held at Boisdale of Canary Wharf on Tuesday 9 October. You will be able to book tables shortly. Our objective is to stimulate demand, interest and respect for the produce of the game industry on a national scale. So what can little old me do, I hear you ask yourself? Please without any further hesitation go online and register your nomination for the categories listed, which include Best Game Chef, Butcher, Pub, Restaurant and Retailer. Alternatively, if you are one of the 47,260,800 people in this country who have never eaten game, may I encourage you at your very earliest opportunity, to go to a Boisdale restaurant near you and experience what you are missing in the flesh! As always live music is at the very Boisdale of Canary Wharf is occasionally referred to as “our” Bat Cave in Gotham City. It is home to heart of Boisdale and you need to one of the world’s finest collection of malt whiskies and boasts a 130 metre Cigar Terrace. Live music is know that we have developed some performed every night and forthcoming artists include Melanie C, Rita Coolidge, Glen Matlock, Marcella wonderful new three-course VIP Dinner Detroit, Alexander O'Neal, Brian McFadden and Omar. The menu is extensive and entirely British with a particular emphasis on Scottish ingredients including Aberdeenshire beef, highland game and Hebridean & Live Music experiences at Boisdale of shellfish. The wine list is also exceptional. The caped crusader never resides! Bishopsgate and Boisdale of Mayfair for £45 per head. Also, amongst an amazing forthcoming line up of performing elcome to the 12th issue of is the culprit? In our restaurants we talent, including Brian McFadden, Boisdale Life. As ever this pride ourselves on serving scrumptious Glen Matlock and Alexander O’Neal, publication is packed with British game throughout the year and we are particularly proud to present audacious and challenging ideas aimed we have now launched a seven-course three must see residencies at Boisdale at stimulating your consciousness and Wild & Foraged Menu for £59.50, which of Canary Wharf, namely Rita Coolidge occasionally perhaps rather irritating offers astonishingly compelling value (14 to 18 May), Melanie C (21 to 26 May) you. As a special feature Tsar Vladimir’s and the rare opportunity to experience and Marcella Detroit (9 to 20 July). Our Russia is scrutinised separately delectable game combined with intrepid and brilliant Musical Editor by General Sir Peter Wall and Con wonderful foraged ingredients that you Jonathan Wingate has interviewed each Coughlin. Could bear baiting become may not have tasted before. For some of these legendary artist-songwriters for socially acceptable again? Meanwhile, ideas as to what to expect do please read this magazine. Finally it is with great Bruce Anderson brutalises Theresa Bill Knott’s charming account of his pleasure that I introduce you to David May and Nick Ferrari ridicules various foraging experiences with Mark Hix or, Katz, a wonderful new writer for Boisdale insidious manifestations of the Nanny probably far more sensibly, just look at Life, who in this issue interviews State, which if they weren’t true, would our menus online. Musclehead, Victor Victorious, D.Rowe be quite funny. While Mark Littlewood On a more serious note now, I would and Mini Muscle, the iconic founders clearly has it in for whingeing like you to consider playing a part in the of Saxon Sound System and examines millennials, Ella Whelan describes her future of the shooting industry, which Jamaica’s outstanding contribution to generation as suffering from sexual employs 74,000 people and contributes global music and Saxon’s powerful role paranoia as a direct result of the illiberal £2.5 billion to UK GDP as well as being in that development. Saxon Sound DJs 21st century puritan sexual reformation. the most important contributor (£250 will be taking up a residency on the Heady stuff? Well perhaps not, but million per annum) to the conservation Garden Terrace at Boisdale of Canary there is also some gentle fun to be had of our beautiful great British countryside. Wharf this summer every Saturday both with John McEntee’s delightful Given that 72% of the British public do from June to August 6pm-11pm. There reminiscences of alcoholic excess at not consume game, altruistically we will also be a jerk BBQ and a Jamaican the Irish embassy’s Christmas party in need to urge more people to discover the inspired menu and cocktails. Be there or 2006 and also discovering what William absolute joy of eating game. With that be square! Sitwell won’t tell us about tasting wine in mind, James Purdey & Sons, Taste of at high altitude! For further amusement Game and Boisdale have joined forces our countryman Francis F. Fulford to create the Eat Game Awards 2018. extolls the virtues of splitting logs and The idea is to encourage those who best laments how much weight he puts on promote the delights of this divinely Ranald Macdonald during the shooting season, presumably delicious, highly nutritious, sustainable, Editor & Chief Boisdale Life Magazine it’s not the remarkably lean game that unique and natural British produce, by Founder Boisdale Restaurants & Bars 7 sprIng 2018 BOISDALELIFE.COM Issue no.12 CONTENTS WELCOME TO BOISDALE LONDON’S ORIGINAL RESTAURANTS & BARS WWW.BOISDALE.CO.UK Boisdale of Belgravia Boisdale of Bishopsgate Boisdale of Mayfair Boisdale of Canary Wharf RUSSIA: MAD AS HELL! PEOPLE WHAT’S TO BE DONE? Nick Ferrari General Sir Peter Wall 62 41 IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE! THE JOY OF SPLITTING LOGS Stanley Johnson WOOED BY THE BEAR Francis Fulford 15 Con Coughlin 64 44 MELANIE C BISHOPS, PARTIES AND BOOZE Jonathan Wingate John McEntee 19 MONEY 67 RITA COOLIDGE THE INSIDUOUS RISE OF NEO-PURITANISM Jonathan Wingate THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT: Ella Whelan 22 IF THEY CAN GET THEIR FACTS STRAIGHT 69 Mark Littlewood MARCELLA DETROIT 49 Jonathan Wingate FOOD & DRINK 24 TRUMPENOMICS – BOOM OR BUST? THE LEGEND OF SAXON SOUND SYSTEM Roger Bootle UP AND DOWN THE MOUNTAIN David Katz 52 William Sitwell 27 72 LIFESTYLE WILD AT HEART COMMENT Bill Knott 75 ASTON MARTIN’S GREAT PROJECT CARNAGE LEAP FORWARD SMOKIN' HOT! Giles MacDonogh Ben Oliver Tobias Gorn 32 57 80 BLACK HOLES & RISING STARS HOOVES UNDER THE HAMMER THE RISE OF THE BOILERMAKER Bruce Anderson Colin Cameron Joe Boxall 36 60 82 Editor & Chief Managing Editor Editor at Large Any facts stated or opinions Ranald Macdonald Michael Karam Paddy Renouf expressed anywhere in the magazine are the responsibility of the [email protected] Lifestyle Editor individual writers and contributors. Super Sub-Editor Timothy Barber All material omitted intentionally Creative Director Bruce Anderson is the sole responsibility of the Design Barbara Widera individual contributors.