Time Out London August 2020 2 Inside Carnival redux London’s biggest party is becoming London’s biggest online party. This issue of Time Out in no time at all Stack up all your speakers into a neighbour-hating ziggurat PAGE 18 All round theirs

Lockdown enliveners Queer House Party will soon be leaving this wall and heading off to be part of our indispensable guide to the summer PAGE 34

Fresh food

Time to eat out, right out. We round up the best places in town for some alfresco nosh (some of them are PUBS!!!) PAGE 37

London Washington wakes up heights

Take a moment to hear some strange and Meet the star of does-it-even-exist movingstories from our city’s lockdown blockbuster ‘Tenet’, John David Washington PAGE 14 PAGE 54

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7 City life 12 Global briefing 14 London is awake 18 Carnival 20 A tribute to Tony Elliott 28 Exclusive offers 29 Things to Do 37Food 40 Love Local 46 Escapes 54 Film

3 August 2020 Time Out London Advertising 7813 6000, [email protected] Hello, Circulation [email protected] Commercial London MD EMEA Lawrence Horne Advertising Sales Ian Tournes (Director), Stephen Jones, Natalie Reynolds, Juliet Grant, Donald Fenton, Banbha O’Hagan, Daniel Sinclair, Caroline McGinn Nesha Fleischer, James Global Editor-in-Chief Hooper, Robyn Eldridge, Emma Myland @carolinemcginn Head of Media Partnerships Karen Fischer Creative Solutions Wayne Mensah (Director), Tamsin Vincent, Charlie Liddington, Nicola Foxwell Project Management It’s really good to see you again. For five long months we’ve been Time IN Junior Olokodana (Project – streaming art, music and theatre, keeping fit with drag stars, cultivating Management Lead), Nicki Wymer, Frankie Biggs, sourdough starters, celebrating lockdown heroes, and getting fat and drunk Zara Taylor, Chloe Godwin E-commerce Minesh Shah on deliveries from the city’s fine restaurants and bars. Like them, we’ve (Senior Director) turned what we do outside in, to survive and to bring a bit of solidarity and Live Events Sylvia Kowalska fun to Londoners. Local lockdown spirit has been irrepressible. But despite all Global Editor-in-Chief Caroline McGinn our efforts, Covid- has punched the lights out of the West End and turned London Editor Joe Mackertich live music and nightlife into endangered species. It’s also kicked the heart Deputy Editor/Chief Sub Editor Chris Waywell out of shared experience: the live, tactile, collective contact that creates new Deputy Chief Sub Editors feelings and ideas, and starts every relationship you ever have. This stuff is Kei Kikuchi, Sarah Cohen not optional for city life (or human life). Zoom can’t replace shared tapas or a Features Kate Lloyd (Editor) News & City Life boat party at sunset. Contactless cards are safe, but a contactless life is deadly. Isabelle Aron (Editor) Events Katie McCabe (Editor), Alexandra Sims Which is why Time Out and London need YOU. Now. This is a pivotal moment (Deputy Editor) Film Phil de Semlyen for our culture and for us as Londoners – we’ve made sacrifices, lost jobs, (Global Editor) learned to live with uncertainty. I’d like to invite you to join us in a quest to Music & Nightlife Oliver Keens (Editor) bring the city we love back to live, connected life. If you spot something new, Theatre, Dance & Comedy Andrzej Lukowski (Editor) inspiring, collective or just weird tell us ([email protected]). And please Art & Culture subscribe to our new newsletter – a biweekly love letter to London and an Eddy Frankel (Editor) Food Tania Ballantine (Editor) indispensable guide on how to go out and connect in the time of corona. We’ll Commercial Stephen Farmer (Global Editor), Rose dedicate Time Out to championing live culture, performers and venues as Johnstone (Branded Content they start up again. We’ll be parking reviews for a while: cafés and restaurants Editor), Julia Robinson (Designer), Katherine need our custom not our criticism. We’ll be documenting the new localism – Lovage, George Blew Digital Jordan Waller (Head neighbourhoods are where it’s at right now. And we’ll keep you updated about of Digital Content), Laura new stuff, and how to support the little guys via our Love Local campaign. Richards (London Digital Director/Drink Editor), Sam In a crisis, city cultures are like petri dishes, one moment they look empty, Willis (Engagement Editor), suddenly they’re teeming with new life. James Manning (International Editor), Ellie Walker-Arnott (International Travel Editor), Huw Oliver (Global Content We’ve been inspired at this moment of crisis and change by an extraordinary Commissioning Editor), person: our founder, Tony Elliott, who died in July from cancer (see the Angela Elvira Bruce (Global Video Commissioning Editor) feature on p’“). This issue, our first print magazine since Covid, is dedicated Art Director Bryan Mayes to his life and legacy. Tony was a visionary, a tireless champion of city culture, Designers Philip Lay and a staunch friend. He invented Time Out in London in August –—, a (Senior), Jason Tansley (Senior Commercial) moment not unlike the one we’re in now. Society was divided. Change was Picture Desk Manager Ben Rowe afoot. Upstart events, art, performance and happenings were bubbling up Photographer Andy Parsons – if you could only find out where and when. Over ™’ years, š’— cities and Head of Production Dave Faulkner countless languages and formats, Tony’s desire to connect people with events Deputy Production Editor has led millions to engage with cities, shared experiences and each other. Katie Mulhern-Bhudia Time Out Group CEO Julio Bruno Tony: we salute you! You can rely on us to keep up your good work. Founder Tony Elliott

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City life

Edited by Isabelle Aron @timeoutlondon

London’s back: damaged, quieter butalso kinder After months in lockdown, our city is reopening. There’s no doubt that things are different, but are some changes for the better? Joe Mackertich explores our New Normal

WHAT WAS YOUR immediate Make no mistake: London has suffered a horrifying taboo and get used to having the waxy, reaction to lockdown? I’m not proud serious blow. But like a York Hall prize fighter who over-washed hands of an embalmed chimp. to admit that mine was ‘annoyed’. won’t stay down, it rises from the canvas, battered Remember also: no one knew how this would Annoyed at the universe for but not beaten. Something has changed, though. pan out. We all have that one friend who, in April, unleashing a devastating pandemic This city has been humbled. Even the estate was mentally prepping for The Fall, asking which at such an inconvenient time for me personally. agents look a little bit less cocksure. you’d do: join a gang of scavenger cannibal bikers Being made editor of Time Out just as all of Warped within the crucible of illness, London or begin a new life off the grid in Norfolk. Having London’s restaurants, pubs and venues shut felt has emerged with new, positive qualities. People to book a table for a pint down the pub is a pain, like getting a job as chief dodo correspondent or are supporting local businesses and, judging by but it’s a small price to pay to save lives. manager of the chocolate teapot factory. the surge in donations to food banks, looking out Covid is an absolute shitter, but it won’t My grotesque self-interest was fleeting, for the vulnerable. Covid has ravaged the capital, beat London. Nothing ever does. Our New however. It vanished as I watched a coffin being but it has also produced a quieter, gentler, Normal isn’t perfect, but as long as we look out carried out from my next-door neighbour’s kinder city. Some of us are even chatting to our for each other, take a bit of extra care and, yes, house. Annoyance was replaced by something neighbours, unthinkable only four months ago. occasionally even talk to the people next door, new: fear. Fear for my parents. Fear for my My advice: find a mask that complements we will create a different London that we’ll be BRYAN MAYES BRYAN ILLUSTRATION friends. Fear for my city. your eyes, accept that sneezing in public is now a still proud to call our home.

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SHE’S A LEGEND

‘Lockdown gave me time to think bigger about my work’ The youth worker changing the lives of Black queer young Londoners

FOR NEARLY TEN years, youth worker Tanya experiences. Last year I launched Queer Black The crowdfunder raised about £40,000 on the Compas has worked tirelessly to improve the Christmas which brought †­ people together first day. The staggering number of donations lives of Black queer young people. She’s created for a day of workshops, games and food. It was meant that I could consider making Exist Loudly spaces for them to meet, connect and access everything I’d hoped for. It reminded me that a charity and for this to be my job. It’s hard to resources. During lockdown, amid the Black my strength is in building community spaces. put into words how much this means to me. Lives Matter protests, she decided to start a programme called Exist Loudly. Having raised It’s hard to navigate the charity sector as a Under Exist Loudly, I want to deliver a research more than  ­­€­­­ through crowdfunding, Black queer woman, even within queer charities. project on the lives of Black queer young people. she’s now on track to launch her own charity. They’re still inherently white, with so many All the research that exists in the UK at the biases. They don’t acknowledge that how they moment doesn’t talk about the implications of I’ve been a youth worker since I was 18. My first view people can impact their level of care. race, and if it does, it’s under BAME – it’s not taste of working with young people came from specific to queer Black experiences. a gap year in Peru where I was the ‘big sister’ to Care for young homeless people has to go † young boys in an orphanage. Now, my focus beyond a place to stay. They might start to Black queer young people and their experiences is on helping Black queer young people who are feel comfortable exploring their identity, but require specificity. When they’re an afterthought experiencing homelessness. lots of people aren’t prepared for dealing with in the charity sector, the needs that exist at drinking, sex and figuring out what a healthy the intersection of their Blackness and their I’ve got first-hand experience of being homeless. community looks like. queerness are never catered to. At Exist Loudly, At ‰Š, I wasn’t able to stay in my family home this community will always be at the core of our when my queerness became too much. When Lockdown gave me time to think bigger about my work.
Interview by Paula Akpan I brought my girlfriend home to stay over, they work. I decided to create an entire programme Follow @existloudly on Instagram. couldn’t ignore the fact that I’m gay. called Exist Loudly, packed with daytime activities and retreats. I was quibbling over how After being made homeless, I began running much to crowdfund. With about  ­€­­­, I knew For more unique looks at London life,

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MADE IN LONDON

Three of the best masks made in the capital

Isabel Manns If bold floral prints are your jam, go for these sustainably made cotton masks by a high-end How to eat out again reversible clothing brand, with profits going to the NHS. £12. www.isabelmanns.com London restaurant staff on the one thing they want you to know about eating out in the New Normal

Neil Campbell Head chef, Rovi Stephen Tozer Owner, Le Bab ‘What I want customers to know about coming ‘Talk to us. When you’re in the restaurant we to restaurants post-lockdown is that it is safe. want to know how you feel. Every restaurant has We fully appreciate that spending time out in different measures in place to reflect the variety in public can seem daunting. Please reach out to comfort levels among guests. We have to guess the us, or wherever you’re planning to eat, to ask for perfect balance, but if there’s anything we can do clarity on the guidelines in place. We don’t want to make you more comfortable, please be vocal.’ to compromise on the overall guest journey.’ Jonny Boud Owner, Passo Inobe Designs Harneet Baweja Founder, Gunpowder ‘Now is a time to support the places you love. The This London maker has two bold ‘If you’re unsure about what time you’ll be able biggest support we can get is from you coming in styles of masks (with nose grips): to come for dinner, please don’t book multiple to experience the food and service we work hard the all-over African print and sittings. This ties up empty bookings and puts to provide. Most importantly, please show up! Afrofusion, which has a pattern added pressure on our teams who meticulously Or if plans change, just cancel the booking. This is across half of the fabric. plan each service. Instead, just let us know in crucial so we can support our staff and our supply From £6. Available on Etsy. advance and we’ll accommodate you.’ chain and together bring back this industry.’ ■

BETTER THAN BEFORE

London’s key workers on what they want to see sticking around post-lockdown

‘People thank me for coming to work now. It’s nice to hear, because the risk Myth & Ritual This designer’s patterns change is there every day you come in. There’s regularly but all masks come with only so much protection. When people nose wires for a comfy fit. There’s say thank you, I think: Yes, I can do this.’ also a pay it forward option so you Adeola Ogunseitan, pharmacist can donate one to a local charity. £7.50. @myth_and_ritual Read more stories from key workers at www.timeout.com/frontline.

9 August 2020 Time Out London City life E DI YP SH H The Qualit y Chop House’s perfect confit potatoes D I N S SECTI O ISOLATION What goes into the London plates SOS that everyone bangs on about

Nervous about DURING LOCKDOWN, The Quality Chop House meat, head chef Shaun Searley was surprised made dreams come true by delivering its famed when a potato dish became the star. It’s cooked returning to confit potatoes to cook at home. Now, the in duck fat, though, so he sees it as a win for reality? Life coach restaurant has reopened and the spuds are back the carnivores. ‘We get enough vegetarians and Dave Knight offers on the menu. In fact, it’s the only dish that’s vegans loosening their belt for it,’ he says.
been served consistently since it was devised, Bobby Palmer his top tips back in . Given his focus on high-quality The Quality Chop House. 88-94 Farringdon Rd. £6. Have a daily routine ‘This is something we can keep on doing no matter The potatoes what is going on in our lives. ‘We slice the potato as The dressing It is our foundation, provides thinly as possible, then layer it. structure and can be a ‘It’s a mustard vinaigrette, We use fluffy, starchy potatoes, protective barrier. We don’t made with good dijon. We put so the layers stick. WeWe’veve need to think about it – we the mustard on there because never counted, but it’s a just do it – and as a result we of the fat content – it needs lot of layers.’ have less to worry about.’ acid to cut through, like lemon on fish.’ Don’t stress about the future ‘The future might seem like a scary unknown at the moment but, when you think about it, we’ve never had control over the future; it’s just that things have been easier to predict before. We do have control of the present moment – what can you do to feel better now?’ Consider how others might be feeling The format ‘Can you share how you are feeling with someone ‘In the early days, we you trust? Can you ask were scooping them out The crunch how they feel too? This and frying them in big messy ‘It’s got a crisp exterior, helps to take the spotlight chunks – it was delicious, but a then a fluffy interior with that off your own feelings. It bit rustic. Now we use exact savoury duck-fat taste. We will also help you realise measurements: 3cm by use duck fat because of the that your experiences are 3cm, every time.’ low burning point: it makes normal. When we do that, them go perfectly The layers we are more in a position to golden brown.’ ‘We make a sort-of breeze embrace them.’
block of potato layers, press it Find out more about Dave’s overnight, then slice it. It gives life-coaching packages at the illusion that we’ve put www.sundaysettler.com one tiny slice on top of another.’

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YOUR WORLD ACCORDING TO TIME OUT

The best stories this month from our editors around the globe

A robot superhero is handing out face masks in New York

USA Like all superheroes, Metro-Man BARBADOS Just when you thought  has a kooky origin story: he dates You can WFH in a tropical paradise couldn’t get any weirder, New York’s back to ­€‚ƒ, and was originally When that much-anticipated second wave hits, transport authority is deploying a an actual remote-controlled robot would you rather be a) working from a sofa in robot-like ‘superhero’ to hand out who travelled around educating your tiny flat, or b) checking your emails from a masks to commuters. The character kids about rail safety. Nowadays sun lounger in Barbados? The Caribbean island with glowing eyes is called Metro- he’s played by a human in a suit and is taking applications for a new type of visa for Man, and he was spotted handing looks like a less violent RoboCop. remote workers, who will be free to stay for up out masks in July at Grand Central Transport for London, you need to to ­ months. Other countries floating ‘digital Station, to passengers on the Metro- up your game! Shaye Weaver, nomad’ visa schemes include Georgia, Estonia North railway to Connecticut. Time Out New York and Bermuda. Zoom background? That’s no

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JAPAN RIP to Tokyo’s IRL Mario Kart Many Tokyo first-timers expect the city to look like a videogame. Of course, it’s not – but until recently, you could see costumed characters zooming on the streets à la Mario Kart, taking in the sights. Now those Street Kart tours are no more, following a crippling Nintendo lawsuit and the collapse of tourism in Japan. A Save the Street Kart crowdfunding campaign raised just ˜††™‹š› (œž‹). Shibuya is a little less colourful without the whizzing tourists in Yoshi onesies – but local drivers won’t miss them.
Kasey Furutani, Time Out Tokyo ITALY Bike-in concerts are a thing now Like many cities, London has gone drive-in crazy. But if all that gas-guzzling gives you the quease, consider this bright idea from an alliance of Italian music promoters. At their Bike-In arena, punters rock up on bicycles instead of in cars, park up in a dedicated spot (with bike rack) and watch a gig under the stars. The first Bike-In concerts run until September in the city of Mantua, with plans for more. Four wheels bad, two wheels better – even if it ain’t quite ‘Grease’.
JM www.bike-in.it/en

UTTERSTOCK; UNDERWATER MUSEUM: MATT CURNOCK MATT MUSEUM: UNDERWATER UTTERSTOCK; SOUTH AFRICA AUSTRALIA Cape Town has a new approach An underwater museum has opened in the Great Barrier Reef tostatuegate In a normal year, millions of tourists would visit the colourful fish, coral and giant cl ams In the wake of the summer’s Black Lives Matter of the Great Barrier Reef. Now, just as Australia has closed its borders, there’s a brand new protests, statues of contentious historical figures reason to go: the Museum of Underwater Art. have been toppled over. This has been, er, a little Its first installation is a sculpture of a †‡-year-old Indigenous girl, sitting above the controversial: are protestors erasing history, waterline and changing colour based on live weather data (the idea is to highlight coral or just setting the record straight? Now Cape bleaching on the reef). The second is even more ambitious: a full-scale underwater Town is considering a new approach for its iffy building, filled with ‡Š figures of children conserving the reef. It’s ‹Š miles from the coast statues: move them all to a single outdoor site. If and you can only see it by swimming through it with scuba or snorkelling gear. The work is enacted, it could become South Africa’s answer pH-neutral to encourage coral growth, so it’ll eventually become part of the reef. BIKE-IN CONCERTS: NICCOLÒ FABI; MARIO KART: JON CHICA/SHUTTERSTOCK; UNDERWATER MUSEUM: MATT CURNOCK MATT MUSEUM: UNDERWATER CHICA/SHUTTERSTOCK; JON KART: MARIO FABI; NICCOLÒ CONCERTS: BIKE-IN to Budapest’s famous Memento Park – hopefully Two more sculptures are due in ‡Š‡† – by which time, hopefully, you’ll actually be able

IMAGES complete with piss-taking gift shop. Huw Oliver to come and see them. Cass Knowlton, Time Out Australia

13 August 2020 Time Out London Time Out London August 2020 14 London is awake again, but something’s changed

As lockdown eases, Kate Lloyd hears stories of hardship, healing and hope from every corner of a city in metamorphosis

Tower Bridge. The Gherkin. heightened. Covid reshuffled every Every day in lockdown Joshua went Londoner’s cards. And yet, across for a jog around the City. the city, people have helped each Guildhall. St Paul’s. other, toughed it out and adapted. He says it was like being in a London has survived. movie: ‘All the landmarks but Heathrow Airport. Travelodge everything closed.’ London City. Barbican. Monument. For three and a half years, Joshua He thought about all the things lived in Terminal  of the UK’s he was grateful for. Told himself: biggest airport. His routine ran like focus on today, not yesterday, not clockwork. Wake up at am and tomorrow. Then he’d head back use the airport’s showers during to Travelodge London City where the shift change. Dress smartly, he was living alongside ‘’ other ‘like a traveller, not a homeless homeless people. He never knew person’. Eat one meal. Use the wi-fi how long he’d be able to stay. in hotel lobbies, coffee shops and For four months, parts of London local libraries to look for work. that are usually in constant motion Stay positive. Focus on today, not – Oxford Circus. Soho – stood still. yesterday, not tomorrow. Return to So still that photographers biked the terminal to sleep. Start again. and walked miles to capture them, Then, on March ‡ˆ, he noticed feeding a public hungry for at least that the libraries were shutting. one beautiful thing to come from Then it was Costa – while he was the pandemic. sitting in it – and the Travel Inn But while our city might have he used for wi-fi. Then Heathrow looked static, its life did not pause. Terminals ‹ and closed and he Ripples of change and challenge started to get worried that they coursed through people’s lives: the might shut the whole airport. ‘I way we work, the way we see friends, didn’t know where to go,’ he says. ‘It whether we can hug our parents, was a very low point. I’d been on the whether they remain alive. Luck streets for three and a half years and

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What happened next was luck or parents. Celia says that a Spanish maybe fate, says Joshua. The day expats’ Facebook group she’s in is he decided to stay in the terminal full of people leaving. rather than look for a library, a café Cleaning has become more or a lobby was the day an outreach stressful since the pandemic. ‘You team worked their way through it. want to wipe every single handle, Many of the hotels used to every single thing. Wiping, wiping, shelter homeless people during the wiping,’ says Celia. They’ve had to pandemic were run by charity St start using stronger products and Mungo’s. If you speak to a volunteer focus on more areas, do their best they’ll tell you that running them to make people feel safe. Before, was busy work. They helped people clients were always trying to review apply for Universal Credit and costs, like ‘We clean the carpets once permanent accommodation. Fixed a week, can we clean them once a meals. Found lost keys. When it was month?’ Now, suddenly, they have sunny, the space came alive. When it millions and millions to spend on rained, people slept for hours. cleaning. (Although two of Celia’s Joshua spent his time in the three cleaning jobs still pay less than Travelodge writing in his journal a the London Living Wage.) lot, hoping that he might publish it The office workers seem to have as a book one day. St Mungo’s helped more solidarity with Nancy and him find a one-bed flat. ‘That will Celia now. ‘Before they’d expect change everything,’ he says. It’s the cleaner to come behind and hard enough to get a job without a clean everything for them,’ says permanent address in normal times, Celia. ‘If they’ve dropped coffee let alone with a global pandemic on. on the kitchen counter they He says that during lockdown he saw expect somebody to come to clean attitudes change. Before, homeless it up.’ Now they’re being more people were ignored when they sat considerate. Celia thinks she’s outside supermarkets and stations, changed too. She’s worked Monday now shoppers were bringing whole to Sunday almost every week for bags of food to them. He hopes the nearly ‡ˆ years. Now she thinks that government’s attitude has changed family is more important. ‘If I could too: ‘It would be a shame to tell be with my family it would make everyone: Lockdown has been lifted. my whole experience completely Time to go back on to the streets.’ different,’ she says. But she’s not, so, Monument. Cannon Street. right now, she’s lonely. It’s unlikely On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Nancy will be able to go to Colombia She’s got dementia and relies on his Of course, he wallowed in self- cleaner Nancy and cleaning until next year. Learning that made visits to survive. It was her birthday. pity for a while. What the hell was he manager Celia always make time to her cry and cry. Tears streaked her face. Just come going to do? But then he remembered eat lunch together. They’ve worked Brixton. Hackney. and cuddle, she kept saying, just take something his mum told him: there with each other for •‘ years in a Have Londoners cried more your gloves off and hold my hand. are always people in a much worse big glass box of an office block near over the past few months? They’ve It’s in moments like this that Dom situation than you. He asked himself Monument station. Normally there probably shed more tears two worries he’s working too much. what the right thing to do was, he are •šŽˆˆ people working there but metres from friends. And inside Sometimes he feels overwhelmed. says, and thought about restaurants for most of this year there’s been hospitals. And outside shuttered Like when his mum needs him and in London and how so many had ‡ˆ. It takes everyone venues. Perhaps his head’s full. Or when his ••-year- become about investment and a while to get used to there have been more old’s being an ••-year-old and needs franchising rather than serving seeing it empty, says ‘Most tears in parks, as his support too. people. Soulless, he says. Then he Celia. It’s very sad. loudspeakers have He’s always worked a lot, though. phoned up restaurateurs and asked Usually, Nancy incomes demanded ‘keep You might know him as the guy who whether he could turn their spaces and Celia will get moving, please keep founded Street Feast. He started into production kitchens. something to eat from were moving’. There have it on his own: directed the promo When you’re at ground zero, you Waitrose before they definitely been more videos, printed off the reserved can make a conscious decision to sit and chat. More down, tears shed over Zoom signs, put up the big tent people sat choose a better path. That’s what often than not, that’s calls, rolling down under. And a couple of years ago he Dom told himself. He built a team of about their families – but the cheeks, splattering on invested all of his money – even the •• people. They started making food in Colombia (Nancy) amount to keyboards. rainy-day savings he swore, swore for people who needed it. Hot meals. and Spain (Celia) – In March, Dom he wouldn’t spend – into a business Recipe boxes. Now they’ve given who they both miss of food we stood at the entrance to he was going to open in Brixton out tens of thousands. ‘This is not very much. Two of his Ž‘-year-old mum’s this spring: The Civic, one of those a badge-wearing exercise,’ he says. their colleagues have were given bedroom as she cried. multipurpose rooftop spaces that ‘We’re building infrastructure.’ returned to their home He’d gone to drop off keep appearing in south London. A few days ago, Dom countries for good shot up’ her shopping and some Then the pandemic happened went for a long walk around to be closer to their food he’d cooked her. before it could open. his neighbourhood.

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How to help people in London right now

Become a St Mungo’s 1 campaigner and keep encouraging the government to use this time as an opportunity to end homelessness for good. www.mungos.org

Sign up to Time for 2 Trussell, food bank charity The Trussell Trust’s weekly email where you’ll find volunteering and campaigning opportunities. Or arrange to make a monthly donation. volunteer.trusselltrust.org

Got a car? Volunteer to 3 pack or transport meals for A Plate for London, delivering hot food and recipe kits to people who need them around the city. www.aplateforlondon.org

Support businesses 4 that are crowdfunding on the Mayor of London’s Pay It Forward scheme. The money you donate will Haggerston. Hackney Road. blocks, knowing that the capital’s But so has support from go towards helping them It was one of those hot early foundations aren’t breeze blocks Londoners. rebuild and recover. summer mornings when London’s and cement, they’re communities Donations from the local payitforward.london.gov.uk buildings are reflective and the and the links between them. That community have risen so much parks are full of people doing squats. lots of us were getting it wrong. that while the team normally give Donate to mental Shoreditch. Kingsland Road. But, around the city, those of us food for a three-day emergency, 5 health charity Mind He thought about what he’d who once packed our lives so full of they’ve been able to increase that to give it the support it learned in lockdown. Negronis and brunches and small to seven. They’ve got a waiting list needs to tackle the mental- Stonebridge Gardens. Brick Lane. plates and barre classes that we for volunteer slots. ‘At a time where health crisis caused by That your goals don’t just have sometimes failed to make time to say most incomes are going down, the thepandemic. to be for you, that if you look wider hi to our neighbours in the lift, let amount of food and money we were www.mind.org.uk you might find a hole you had inside alone help them out, are changing. given went up,’ says Rachel. ‘It could yourself is filled. At a food bank in Wandsworth, so easily have gone the other way. It’s Domestic violence Southfields. Wandsworth. Rachel, a volunteer, says that incredible to see.’ 6 rates shot up during Who knows how the capital’s working during the pandemic has At the start of all of this, you lockdown. Clapton-based citizens will remember this period? been tough. It’s been much harder might have predicted that the charity Sistah Space Through the shaming lens of to help people when you can’t meet pandemic would cause arguments provides help for African- tabloid clickbait: a mass of selfish them in person, she says. And there and divisions across the city. In heritage women and girls people sunbathing in the parks and are more people who need help. some ways it has. But that’s not who have experienced it. It’s land-grabbing toilet roll, shagging, Job losses and rising costs have how this story will end. Talk to any at risk of closure. Join the fleeing, not self-isolating? Or will it left people unable to afford food. Londoner and you’ll hear tales of campaign to keep it open. be remembered as something else? Rachel’s talked to people who’ve had people becoming more connected www.sistahspace.org As a turning point? their electricity cut off when they to the capital, to each other. We’ve You might have always known needed it for medical equipment. learned there’s strength in numbers, that London relies on networks of She’s spoken to locals who only that survival is about more than just support. You might have watched as have six slices of bread left in their fighting for ourselves. And all of that the city filled with ironic pop-ups, cupboards. Demand has increased has made us tougher than anyone Read the full feature at hungry start-ups and luxury tower by ‹ŒŽ percent. ever expected. ■ timeout.com/awake

17 August 2020 Time Out London How to make Carnival happen at home

Notting Hill Carnival isn’t totally cancelled… it’s going global with a three-day online festival

FOR A LOT of Londoners, Notting Hill Carnival flashes by in a blaze of feathers, Red Stripe and tinnitus. To those who work within it, it is a year-round operation, and its cancellation has been devastating for many involved. But it looks like ‘cancelled’ isn’t the right word after all. Behind the scenes, the Carnival community has rallied together to take it from the streets and into cyberspace with a streamed version of the event. Using different channels, they’ll celebrate as much of the ‘real’ Carnival as possible, not just the music, but the history, the culture and the artistry of the mas bands. We spoke to some of the people who are making it happen.

like “Indiana Jones” when that big planned for the August bank holiday THE SOUNDSYSTEM stone ball comes rolling through!’ weekend. Maurice Dennemont, who says Mike Anthony). Or when they joined the Rampage team around played Lethal Bizzle’s ‘Pow!’ in ƒŽŽ‘, nine years ago, says one positive of Rampage and ravers got so hypercharged the whole thing is that this year, ‘the they tried to rip a tree out of the world is watching’. It’s been almost ƒ„ years since ground like it was King Arthur’s Rumours that Carnival could be Rampage DJ Mike Anthony first sword. But people don’t just go to moved or become ticketed have set up his speaker towers on Rampage for the mayhem. The circulated a lot in recent years. Now Coville Terrace. Since then, it’s soundsystem has a well-deserved we’ve had an actual cancellation grown into Carnival’s largest static rep for giving a platform to UK talent forced upon us and seen the reality soundsystem – and its most talked right before they explode: Dizzee of what a year without it would look about. It pulls crowds so huge that Rascal, Bashy and Stormzy have all like. If it weren’t for the Carnival certain Rampage moments have hit the Rampage stage. That it won’t community taking action, it would become Carnival folk tales, like the be on the streets this year is cause be too grim to take. ‘We have to do time Ms Dynamite decided to do a for what Rampage member Treble T everything in our power to make sure drum ’n’ bass version of ‘Dy-Na-Mi- describes as ‘a Carnival mourning’, there is that continuity,’ says Mike. Tee’, and Š‹ŒŽŽŽ people rushed to but the crew have already delivered ‘We want to protect it at all costs.’ get to the front, putting a ‘‹-degree online raves during lockdown, and Catch Rampage on the Notting Hill Carnival bend in the metal barriers (‘It was they’ve got a seven-hour stream online Sound System Channel, Aug 30 and 31.

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Notting Hill Carnival Access All Areas 2020 will be THE PERFORMER streamed for free over four channels on Aug 29, 6pm-midnight and Aug 30 and A’sha 31, 9am-11pm. Register at www.nhcarnival.org. Morris aged 12

‘It’s sad [that Carnival isn’t happening] but at the same time, it’s fine, because we’re still allowed to let everyone celebrate at home through technology. [My Mas outfit is called] The Promised Land. It’s pink and it reminds me of a flamingo. I feel excited [when I wear it]. I feel like a queen. It’s really fun, when you’re dancing on the streets, people want to take pictures of you and your costume. Everyone just joins in and I can wave my feathers around. I just feel alive. [Recording for the online Carnival] was quite nerve- racking because I’d never done something like that before, but at the same time, because I’m very confident, I just let myself have fun. [On Carnival weekend] I’ll just be watching the show and Out of the Blue costume dancing with my mum. Even by Clary Salandy if we’re not doing it on the streets, we’ll still have fun at home dancing together. I’ll definitely still wear my We see our work as art. You don’t The history of Carnival really started costume. Carnival isn’t just THE DESIGNER throw your art away; you put it in exactly as we are right now, with one day to celebrate, it’s the a museum. We treat our art with the killing of Kelso Cochrane [in whole summer.’ absolute respect and reverence. ‰ŠŠ], leading into Carnival. And A’sha will be appearing on the Clary Salandy here we’ve had George [Floyd]. Parade Channel on Aug 30 and 31. In this particular year, where there Now [is the right time] for us to We haven’t got a team out making for is this spotlight on Blackness, it’s refocus on the reason for the season. Carnival this year. We have gone into really important for us to show how I’m glad for the opportunity to the archives, we’re bringing things wonderful the work we do is. present these things that show back. [Normally] we have to select exactly how amazing Black people a theme. In , it was ‘a stretch Carolyn [who is wearing ‘Out of the are. Just imagine if we were all of the imagination’. [The costume Blue’] has been the queen of Notting given the opportunity to reach our pictured above, right] is called Out Hill Carnival for many years. That brilliance. of the Blue, which comes from that face: she lights up and breathes thing of ‘what is the imagination?’. life into any costume that you put Right now we need a hell of a lot Out of the blue, you get this spark. her in. She’s a brilliant dancer, and of inspiration – out of the blue – an expert at manoeuvring and to save this world.
[With this costume] we wanted to bringing to life these giant character Clary Salandy is the founder of Mahogany CARNIVAL FLOAT: DAVID TETT; SOUNDSYSTEM: EVERYNIGHT IMAGES/ EVERYNIGHT SOUNDSYSTEM: TETT; DAVID FLOAT: CARNIVAL show that carnival is an exciting costumes. You will never see her in a Carnival Design. See her work on the Parade IMAGES IMAGES ALAMY; OTHER IMAGES: COLIN HILLS/NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL LTD CARNIVAL HILL HILLS/NOTTING COLIN IMAGES: OTHER ALAMY; form to work in. costume that isn’t lit-up and alive. Channel, Aug 30 and 31.

19 August 2020 Time Out London Tony Elliott in 1970

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Time Out’s founder died last month at the age of . We trace his extraordinary career and invite friends, colleagues and cultural icons to pay tribute to the man they knew, loved and occasionally feared

TONY ELLIOTT WAS LONDON. From the and shopping) more accessible to more people age of two, when he moved with his family than ever before. Long before the internet, Time from Reading to South Kensington, his life Out democratised culture, making anyone who was inexorably linked to the city he loved. picked up a copy an instant insider. That was As a student in the ’Š s, he plugged into the entirely down to Tony’s obsession with ‘the city’s countercultural scene. He founded information about the information’: not just Time Out as a radical listings magazine aged giving you the bare details of an event or opening ­, and steered it – successfully and (mostly) – the what, when and where – but telling you why profitably – through four decades of incredible it mattered. social change. He mentored a generation of Within the company, Tony’s attention to detail independent-minded magazine publishers, was as legendary as his paisley shirts. Despite editors and journalists, fought for social stepping away in  ­ from full ownership of justice, minority rights and the conservation Time Out, he remained energetically involved of London’s historic buildings, and, behind the as a board member right to the end, assiduously scenes, was an indefatigable supporter of the reading the magazines, prowling its city websites capital’s arts and culture. and invariably sending feedback to editors. He From the ’Ž s onwards he took Time Out global, believed that Time Out at its best was the only launching magazines in Š -odd cities alongside guide you needed to make the most of city life, a definitive series of travel guidebooks, a website and that belief still inspires us. covering more than ‘ destinations and six As soon as news broke of Tony’s death, we editor-curated Time Out Markets. But despite began to hear from the people who knew him best: all that globetrotting, Tony remained a lifelong family and friends, cultural leaders, and Time Out Londoner, and it was here in the capital that he staff past and present. Over the next few pages, died on July ­•–  , at the age of •‘. you’ll find tributes and memories from just a few It’s hard to overstate how much Tony’s ‘big idea’ of the people whose lives Tony touched. Without changed London and the world. In launching him, you wouldn’t be reading this magazine right Time Out, he embarked on his life’s mission to now. Time Out will miss his guiding, questioning make the city’s best happenings (from weird presence, and London has lost one of its greatest art and underground club nights to food, drink ever champions. PORTRAIT: JEREMY BEADLE JEREMY PORTRAIT:

21 August 2020 Time Out Londonn A tribute to Tony Elliott

Underground origins The 1960s

Though enrolled at Keele University, Tony Elliott spent most of his time driving his VW Beetle down to London to soak up the city’s chaotic, exploding counterculture. In the summer of  ­, he decided London needed a comprehensive guide to all the best places to goou out.t. Having unsuccessfully offered to take over the listings page of counterculturalal bible International Times, Tony turned his idea into the first issue of Time Out: a fold-outld-out A‡ A‡ pamphlet, produced using birthday money from his aunt. Issue  of Time Out, published on August ˆ‰ ­, included sections on art,, film,film, architecture and political demos (‘Meet the Fuzz’). Tony’s girlfriend Stephaniee Hughes covered theatre, shopping and ‘rabbit food’. Bob Harris (later a BBC DJ) did musicusic andand helped Tony get the magazine seen: he and Tony distributed Time Out to hipsho shopsps around London and even sold it at the Rolling Stones’ legendary concert in Hydeyde Park.Park. By the end of  , Time Out had a basement office, a small team of clued-upup editors editors and a groovy readership of ™š™™™ – including David Bowie and Marc Bolan. ‘WeWe werewere a bright light,’ Tony later said. ‘The one magazine that covered the new underground,ground, independent culture alongside the best of the mainstream.’

Nicholas Ferguson Cassie Beadle Businessman Cob Gallery ‘I met Tony at a dancing class when ‘Tony hired my father, Jeremy we were both 11. As the years went Beadle, to join the Time Out team on, we graduated to the Marquee around 1969, and it undoubtedly Club in Soho. I’ve always thought changed his life. Tony took a chance that Tony’s interest in what to do in on Dad – a loose cannon, albeit London stemmed from those years. an especially talented one – and On one occasion, around 1963, we despite his shortlived time at the Politics and picket lines had tickets to stand in the gods for magazine, he and Tony established a concert at the Royal Albert Hall. a lifelong friendship. Later on, Tony The 1970s Top of the line-up were The Beatles: was incredibly supportive of Cob neatly cut hair, matching collarless Gallery and we were always so Facing a challenge from new magazine Ink, Tony took suits. The house exploded and we grateful for his advocacy. If Tony Time Out weekly in œ, with art director Pearce realised we’d seen the early part of recognised it, for me, it was the the Marchbank and an expanding crew of left-leaning writers a phenomenon. I hadn’t realised greatest seal of approval out there.’ on board. The magazine’s accurate listings, radical that I was also standing beside one.’ politics and bold covers made it essential reading for Michael Craig-Martin young Londoners – even though Mick Jagger reportedly Joe Boyd Artist complained that ‘the problem with Time Out is that you Music producer ‘The late ’60s was, as legend has have to cross a picket line to get to the music listings’. ‘In the winter of 1967-68, a couple it, a wonderful time to be young, Tony rebuffed offers from Condé Nast and the founders of of sales reps came to my office to engaged, optimistic, and hopeful New York magazine to buy him out. Time Out campaigned sell me on the idea of advertising for a better, fairer, more inclusive to save Covent Garden Market from demolition and stop my UFO Club posters in Student world. Tony Elliott became one of police brutality, and covered the rise of David Bowie, Notting magazine. One was Richard the few of us who were able to Hill Carnival and Rock Against Racism. The magazine saw Branson, the other Tony Elliott. translate that idealism into a its first spin-offs: a London guidebook, a directory of radical I booked the ad. Of the pair, Richard practical reality: Time Out. The community organisations and a consumerist sister magazine, became more of a household name magazine was for Londoners, Sell Out, edited by Janet Street-Porter, then married to Tony. but Tony may have had a more wide- particularly the young. It was Even as the magazine increased its coverage of culture, ranging effect on the world. The idea extraordinary in those early days food and shopping, it ran establishment-baiting stories – to of listing everything happening in to find a section devoted to gay the point where two Time Out writers were tried for breaking London was revolutionary in 1968. life (only recently legalised). Many the Official Secrets Act. ‘We were political, but with a small I would suggest that the way we use people I then knew and admired “p”,’ said Tony later. ‘It wasn’t just arts and culture and it the internet is due in part to the way subsequently abandoned their wasn’t just politics, and that was one of the reasons people Tony Elliott and Time Out shaped our ideas, but Tony still held to all those responded so well to it.’ brains. A quietly transformative guy; values. His passing is the end of a one-off who changed our world.’ an era.’

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because we liked him and sawsaw howhow brilliant his idea was. He wasas bothboth of his time and ahead of hiss time.’time.’ Geoffrey Robertson QCC ‘The ’70s were an oppressiveve time for the “alternative” press.ess. Two Time Out journalists – Crispinrispin Aubrey and Duncan Campbellell – faced many years in prison undernder the Official Secrets Act in thee “ABC”“ABC” trial, in which I defended Duncan.can. Later, I defended Time Out editorditor David May, also charged underer Official Secrets for a Time Outt story; the police raided Time Out’s offices.ffices. Tony stood up to the state, andd his courage deterred further raids..’ David Pirie Screenwriter and former Time Out Film editor ‘When Time Out was starting to ggrowrow in the 1970s, the Film section mmetet some resistance. Following a badd review, one distributor even refusedsed to let us see any of their films. Tonyny never once blinked: freedom alwaysays came first. The upside of this wass not so much that we could trash movies, but that we were able to champion with impunity films that others found no space for, like earlyly Brew crew Above: Scorsese, Hellman, Coppola and editorial meeting, John Carpenter. This was a direct 1972, with Tony result of Tony’s hands-off approach.’.’ second from left. Left: Hermione Farthingale, David Neil Lyndon Bowie, Tony Visconti Former features editor at and John Hutchinson Time Out London at Trident Studios, 1969. Below: ‘In 1973, my girlfriend Wendy Tony, 1971 Thomas was working at New York magazine where she sometimes talked to Clay Felker, its founder and editor, about Tony and Time Out. One day, Felker said, “I want you to call Tony Elliott and tell him I want to buy Time Out.” At that time, Felker held court in New York as a kind of Sun King. Wendy duly called Tony. Marsha Rowe Monty Python. The magazine’s “Clay Felker has told me to tell you Founder of Spare Rib endorsement, which included a that he wants to buy Time Out,” she ‘I first met Tony when I was working Terry Gilliam cover, meant an awfulwful said. TonyTo replied: “Tell Clay Felker for Oz magazine. Later, I was in the lot to us. I shall always be gratefuleful to to fuck off.” Nobody was going to process of starting an “alternative Tony for creating something whichich take hishis creation away from him.’ women’s news magazine”, Spare changed the way London presentedented Rib, which became a byword for itself to the world, and made lifee PeterPeter Tatchell second-wave feminism. Tony invited much more exciting.’ HumanHuman rights activist me to a Time Out editorial meeting ‘Tony Elliott’sE Time Out was the first to talk more about the new-fangled Anna Wintour non-LGnon-LGBT+ magazine in Britain to women’s liberation movement. He Condé Nast give consistentco coverage to the was forthcoming and helpful, unlike ‘I met Tony in the early ’70s. Hee LGBT+LGB liberation movement many of his male contemporaries: was part of the underground in thet early 1970s. The pink never patronising me about my crowd, but he wasn’t trying to trtriangleia issue on 22-28 June desire to make Spare Rib happen.’ man the barricades: he was 197919 was, to my knowledge, interested in information. He theth first mainstream non- Michael Palin knew all the hole-in-the-wall LGBT+LG publication in the UK to Comedian and writer places to eat, he knew fringe haveha an LGBT+ image and story ‘Time Out and Monty Python were theatre, he knew where to on its cover. Tony was on our born around the same time, and see compelling movies at sidesi and made this possible. I still have a copy of the entire some run-down little cinema in He will be remembered with

STAFF MEETING: DON MORLEY/GUARDIAN/EYEVINE; BOWIE: RAY STEVENSON/ RAY BOWIE: MORLEY/GUARDIAN/EYEVINE; DON MEETING: STAFF ARCHIVE/GETTY EXPRESS/HULTON MEAGHER/DAILY STAN TONY: SHUTTERSTOCK; edition that Time Out devoted to Notting Hill. We all helped him appreciationapp and affection.’

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Shopping and striking The 1980s

In ‹, after a strike, ‘’ members of staff quit to found a rival magazine, City Limits, while Richard Branson launched his shortlived Time Out competitor, Event. Tony relaunched Time Out in the autumn of ‹. In came a new focus on shops, restaurants and nightlife. ‘We wanted to reflect the fact that London life had evolved,’ he explained later. Time Out thrived, publishing its first ‘Eating & Drinking Guide to London’, which eventually gave rise to the prestigious Eating & Drinking Awards. Tony bought a † percent stake in style bible i-D magazine in ‹† and started a city-guide series. He won a personal battle with drinking, and in June ‹ he married Janey. Together they had three sons – Rufus (born April ‹‹) and twins Bruce and Lawrence (born October ).

Don Atyeo Former Time Out London editor ‘Tony changed my life when he took a punt on an unknown hack and hired me post-strike – arguably the New York and best job I ever had. During those years, I came to greatly admire Tony London The 1990s as that rarity: a truly honourable man. He was not afraid to risk In the s, Tony’s time was split between everything – even the loss of the London and New York. ‘Tony loved New entire magazine – to defend the York and helped establish Andy Warhol’s principles in which he believed.’ Interview magazine in the UK,’ recalls friendnd and colleague Bob Wilson. He had alwayss Richard Branson nursed an ambition to launch Time Out NNewew Virgin From top: Tony, York, and it finally arrived in Septemberr †† ‘Following the Time Out strike, 1979; a view from with almost overnight success. As Londondon I foolishly decided to set up a inside Time Out became the capital of Cool Britannia, tthehe citcity’sy’s Market Lisbon; Dominic Wells competitor magazine in London Time Out street renaissance extended beyond music, ffilmilm called Event. Tony competed poster, 2003. Former Time Out London editor and posh restaurants. Tony was a passionatessionate brilliantly and we had to retire with Below: the Soho ‘A few weeks into being acting supporter of the YBAs and the landmarkmark our tail between our legs. Despite issue from 1986 editor, I showed Tony a cover I had ‘Sensation’ exhibition at the RA in Š.Š. He that, Tony and I remained good sweated blood on. It was Michelle was also a founder of the Roundhouseouse Trust. friends – perhaps helped by him Pfeiffer in her leather Catwoman ‘He was deeply involved from ‹‹ rightright upup marrying one of my closest suit. I had flown to LA to interview until his death,’ says its chief executivecutive anandd friends, Janey. He would never her and Tim Burton over the artistic director, Marcus Davey. ‘HeHe came to miss a birthday.’ weekend, written it up on the all the gigs, shows and performances,ances, and plane, and delivered the copy on he never missed a board meeting.’ing.’ Tricia and Terry Jones Monday to hit the newsstands i-D on Tuesday morning – to scoop ‘Tony brought financial Empire, who were furious. Tony structure to a couple of looked at the cover and said, simply, hippies who had no plans “Is the logo a little too far to the Cyndi Stivers to own a magazine at all! right?”’ Former Time Out New York editortor He allowed i-D to flourish ‘When we launched Time Outut NewNew and grow over the years. Jefferson Hack York, few thought we had a prayer.prayer. At the beginning, Tony Dazed & Confused But Tony always had an almostmost owned 51 percent to our 49 ‘Without Tony, there would be no naive faith that his patenteded percent of shares, but he Dazed & Confused. I first met him listings formula would work.ork. In my never challenged Terry’s when I interned at Time Out in opinion, he was medialand’snd’s firstfirst creative decisions. At the 1990. He was the godfather of information architect, anticipatingnticipating beginning of the 2000s the independent press in the UK a zillion websites to follow.low. Beyond we offered to buy back the and he gave us our first deal: an his adored family, Tony’sy’s human crucial 2 percent. Tony, with advance against sales. To have that legacy is the talent Timeme Out huge generosity, gave them to us. was like a golden ticket. Thanks, attracted: a global tribeibe that has As a business partner and a close Tony, you are a towering legend stayed connected overover decades and personal friend, we love you, Tony, and who paved the way for all us indie includes dozens off namesnames the world

TONY: PHOTOSHOT/GETTY; TIME OUT SIGN: ELENAPHOTOS/ALAMY; NEWS STAND: STAND: NEWS ELENAPHOTOS/ALAMY; SIGN: NELSON OUT TIME DAVID PHOTOSHOT/GETTY; BY TONY: ILLUSTRATION COVER: SOHO OUT TIME TANG/SHUTTERSTOCK; RAY will always miss you. Forever grateful!’ publishers.’ now knows.’

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New beginnings The 2000s onwards Time Out continued to expand around the world, but by the end of the decade, the recession had left the company financially stretched and risking irrelevance in the face of the internet. Tony quietly remortgaged his house to keep Time Out afloat, and looked for the right partner, consistent with the fierce independence which was in his and Time Out’s DNA. In , Oakley Capital took a controlling stake in the company. Digital expansion followed and in , the London magazine went free, giving the inside angle on city culture to a vast new London audience and winning numerous awards in the process. ‘There was a misconception that Tony didn’t like change,’ says former editor- in-chief and CEO Tim Arthur. ‘But he loved it when it was done well.’ In Lisbon, more change was afoot: an ambitious project to bring Time Out curation to life in a food market. Five years later, the Lisbon market would be one of Portugal’s biggest tourist attractions, with further markets in Montreal, New York, Miami, Chicago and Boston. In Œ Time Out launched on the stock exchange. Tony was no longer directly involved in management but his cultural antennae remained super-sensitive. His instincts never tired or went mainstream and his enthusiasm was undimmed by a long tussle with the cancer which eventually claimed his life. He was the kind of ‘’-year-old whose response to a nasty chemo treatment was to offer you his tickets to that evening’s Primal Scream gig: ‘Those guys can really make some noise!’

João Cepeda Founder, Time Out Market For me, and all of us at Time Out The end Lisbon, opening the first Time Out Market was a huge milestone. of an era…a… Tony knew all about the project, of course. The day Time Out celebrated On Tony’s death on July ‘, its fiftieth anniversary I sent him Time Out received hunhundredsdreds a message thanking him for his of tributes from friends,nds, creation. He thanked me back “for ex-colleagues, readers,ers, laying the foundation for the next travellers and culturalral decades”. It was the most important explorers whose liveses he’dhe’d compliment any of us ever received.’ all enhanced in someme way. Friends described him Peter Dubens variously as ‘Peter Pan’,an’, Oakley Capital ‘eternally youthful’, aa ‘gentle‘gentle ‘I vividly recall the first time I walked soul’ and an ‘enthusiast’.siast’. Tony, London, 2018 through the entrance to the Time His death occurreded duringduring Out office on Tottenham Court the peak of Covid-–,–, whichwhich Road, with its iconic red neon logo has challenged the cities, reminding me so much of how proud when we took the company public belonged to the pantheon who rose galleries, restaurantsts andand I was to be a Londoner. I arrived at in 2016, how proud he was that out of that extraordinary cultural culture spots which wwereere that entrance to meet Tony Elliott. his creation was now listed on time in the ’60s. Tony was an Tony’s and Time Out’st’s I decided then and there that Tony the stock exchange. He told me: incredible person in so many ways, passion. It’s the end of an era was a person – and Time Out was a “This is the beginning of the next and wherever he laid his magic which was spanned by his brand – that Oakley would be proud chapter, and you have to go with the hands, he gave his all. He made sure life but also the beginningnning tto invest in, to build a digital (and times and innovate. Time Out will that, whatever you did, Time Out of a new one, where – as in llater bricks-and-mortar) version of go on.” I will miss his advice, his was essential reading each week. –Œ˜ – calls for changege and a TTime Out. How sad I am that he is smile, his passion and his profound The family tree of people who have punkish attitude to ccreatingreating ununable to be with us to see the next understanding of the media world.’ honed their skills at the university of culture and society aarere ststepse in its global story.’ Time Out would make a remarkable reinvigorated. Tony wwouldould Janey Elliott read. He sat on many boards and have been incrediblyy excited JulioJul Bruno ‘I met Tony when I worked charities that were important to him to be part of it. ■ TimeTim Out Group CEO with Pearce Marchbank, and gave support to countless other By James Manning, ‘Tony‘Tony loved Time Out: designer of Time Out’s causes. He had huge energy and Caroline McGinn andd it waswa his life project, most iconic covers in the spirit and an extraordinary capacity Laura Lee Davies. and hish passion for the ’70s. We went on to have for friendship. He was interested in

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Yuu Kitchen BYOB pottery experience Music & Beans Yum Sa What is it? A six-course tasting What is it? A pottery class, only What is it? A damn big brunch, What is it? A great deal on a menu from ex-Nobu chef Jon de ten times better because you’ll be that’s what. You’ll get a main, as well legendary combo. Tuck in to Villa. Oh, and a drink, too. drinking your own booze. as unlimited starters, pancakes and bottomless beer and wings for . Why go? For the spicy raw tuna Why go? For the win-win of learning prosecco. Wear your stretchy pants. Why go? Did you completely ignore tostadas, braised pork belly and a a new skill and having a merry old Why go? For the mountain of food, that last bit? It’s bottomless beer bunch of other delicious-sounding time. An experienced potter will sure, but also for the sweet, sweet and wings! This place has put its dishes. Plus, the place is decked out show you how to work the wheel, tunes. This place is also a music own Thai twist on the chicken, with cool manga-inspired art. and you’ll get to take your creations school, so you can jam while eating too, so you’ll be in for something Wait, how much? For you, dear home with you. Careful now! your, well, jam. a little different. reader, it’s  for the lot. That’s Wait, how much? Just ‰ – that’s Wait, how much? Less than you Wait, how much? Twenty of your around half the regular price. ‹ percent off. think, we’d bet. All of this is just . English pounds is all that’s needed. Yuu Kitchen. Until Oct 25. Token Studio. Until Oct 31. Music & Beans. Until Oct 15. Yum Sa. Until Oct 10. www.timeout.com/yuukitchenaldgate www.timeout.com/tokenstudio www.timeout.com/musicandbeanscamden www.timeout.com/yumsa

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Edited by Katie McCabe timeout.com/thingstodo @timeoutlondon PORTRAIT: LUKE TUBBS LUKE PORTRAIT: Professional filthmonger Baby Lame is bringing pub quizzes back into the real world with a night of X-rated trivia. The only thing that won’t be sanitised is your sewer-mouthed host. Turn to p to read more.

29 August 2020 Time Out London Things to Do Bittersweet stand-up Save Live Comedy Aug  and , free or †‡††. L C www.claphamgrand.com A O The Clapham Grand has been Geldofing all lockdown with its non-stop charity nights. Now it’s out to save the UK stand-up scene with fundraiser streamed from the F venue. Your hosts, the Pub Landlord R O Al Murray and comic Jayde Adams E S C will provide the funny segues to live sets from Dane Baptise and Don Biswas (Aug Ž˜). Others, like Nish Kumar and Aisling Bea, will join digitally. Streaming tickets are free, but you can pay ™š‘šš to sit in the ‘virtual Zoom front row’. If a stand- up tries to single you out, you can just bash that ‘hide camera’ button. Always Be Comedy Dates vary, . www.alwaysbecomedy.com Pre-lockdown, it was a regular stand-up night at The Tommyfield in Kennington, but for now, Always Be Comedy lives on as a Zoom-based comedy club. Even in its virtual iteration, it gets big names like Harry Hill (Sep Ž˜). A comedian without laughs is like an unwatered pot of basil, so MC James Gill makes sure the perfomer can hear the audience response, and get some of the sweet validation they’ve been missing.

At the drive-in

Costa Del Tottenham N West End Musical Drive-in Troubadour Meridian Water, Aug †, from  . To take part, follow the cyclists in shows. Now it’s entering a brave new Being trapped in a car listening to Bike gangs the disco wigs from €pm to ‚pm (you world by pivoting to street food (with showtunes from the stars of West can find the route on the website). the odd free live music and cabaret End musicals is either a dream or W Summer Cycle at Kew Dress with caution. Wide-leg flares performance thrown in). You can a nightmare depending on your Kew Gardens, Aug ,  . are a chain-catching deathtrap. sit in a safe, socially distanced pod taste. It’s ™˜‚ per car with up to two Bicycles are normally a no-go at Kew and snaffle food from your friend’s people. Our guess is only true fans but for one day each year, visitors plate. What’s a few chips between will be prepared to pay those West are invited to BYOBike and cycle members of the same social bubble? End-level entry prices. through the grounds. We wish all bike gangs could be like this one. Open-air N DnB Big BBQ N Gals Aloud Live If the Hells Angels’ only goal was The Cause, Sep ,  per person. Troubadour Meridian Water, to ride through a botanical garden food fests Miss dancing in a fleshy mosh of Aug ,  per car. just as the sun begins to set, they’d sweaty bodies? This drum ’n’ bass Enfield Tesco’s car park has never probablyhave a better rep. StreetEat barbecue at The Cause’s outdoor seen so much action. As well as the South Bank, until Oct  , area Costa Del Tottenham is the next musicals, it’s also the scene of the C IBikeLondon Super City Wimbledon Park, Tue-Sun until best thing. Fill your belly with meats UK’s very first drive-in drag show: Disco Ride Aug . Victoria Park, until Aug . and your ears with beats from jungle a glittery, pop-banger-filled tribute Central London, Aug , free. All free entry. dream-maker Kenny Ken. There’s to noughties band Girls Aloud. Thought rollerskates were the only Underbelly’s big fat purple tent was also bottomless rum cocktails from Fingers crossed for a lip-synched set of wheels that go with disco? Get a familiar summer fixture on the Ž€‘’“pm, but go easy: that two- re-enactment of Nadine’s lost a load of this rhinestoned peloton. South Bank for circus and comedy metre distance won’t keep itself. passport debacle.

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We went to a one-to-one concert and it broke our hearts

C Culture Clinic completely overwhelming. Kings Place, Aug 22 Three other audience and 29, free (donations members join me for encouraged). the next session from Concerts and social classical duo violinist distancing do not go hand Elena Urioste and in hand. In response to pianist Tom Poster. ‘It’s the lockdown fallout, a so wonderful to hear few temporary stand-ins applause again,’ says have been offered, like Urioste, as the sound of Wireless Connect’s VR my clapping echoes in the sets and live-streamed 415-seat concert hall. festivals. Kings Place arts It doesn’t compare to centre in King’s Cross, sharing gig with a room however, has come up full of fans, but what with a more permanent makes this so special answer: tiny gigs. I’m here is the intimacy. It’s a for the first day of its free the pandemic, and then Sitting two metres away transforms them into a privilege being treated to Culture Clinic. The idea create a 15-minute in the low-lit, cavernous delicate improvisation an experience that would is that musicians chat to performance reflecting space, he asks me how with sweeping melodies normally be off limits for a very small audience (a their experience. I’ve found lockdown. and jazz inflections. After anyone without the cash maximum of six people Wearing a mask, I’m It’s the first time a months of listening to to hire a private pianist. from the same social ushered into a concert stranger has asked me music through speakers, If anything can make you bubble are allowed into hall where jazz pianist this question, and I’m hearing warm buttery appreciate the power of each performance) about Elliot Galvin is perched at unexpectedly talkative. notes ringing around me hearing live music, it’s how they’ve felt during a Steinway baby grand. He takes my words and is both humbling and this. ■ Alexandra Sims

E Live Jazz on the Canal Tiny gigs Grow Hackney, every Thu, - . Safe swims Really wild As far as venues go, Grow ticks a lot Nest Collective: of boxes. Firstly, it’s right beside the N Parliament Hill Lido swims Campfire Club River Lea. Secondly, not only can Gordon House Rd, ­, concs €­. Various locations, Aug ,  and  . you sit down for a drink and a bite Cool off in this Grade II-listed art N West Reservoir Centre  live gig, online stream. to eat, but you can watch a live jazz deco-style pool. It’s gorgeous and Open Water Swimming For  years musician Sam Lee has quartet led by Mercury-nominated parent practical (it has a paddling Green Lanes,  (for non-Better been gathering small groups around double bassist Rio Kai. You can book area for under-fives). There’s a members). campfires in secret green spaces to a table for two (Š‹) or six (ŠŽ‹) to limited number of ”‹-minute As its name suggests, this reservoir listen to mesmeric folk music. Kora hear the group serenading guests slots available each day, with new hidden in a very pretty corner of player Kadialy Kouyate and Haitian- every Thursday throughout the sessions released at noon. Stoke Newington is for hardy born singer-songwriter Germa summer. Dreamy. With fewer bodies in the I N water babies willing to Adan are just two of the acts you can water, it’s a chance to R G brave an adventurous spend a magical evening with. Can’t appreciate the rare B wild swim. If it’s on the make it? Stream it online. If you stainless steel pool chilly side swimmers don’t have anywhere to start your liner, which gives must wear a wetsuit: own campfire, just light a candle or River festival the lido its metallic T it’s an English S something. Job done. mirrorball shimmer. H reservoir, people, Totally Thames E I D not a tropical beach. Various locations, Sep -, W Hillingdon Lido K CULTURE CLINIC: MONIKA S. JAKUBOWSKA/KINGS PLACE JAKUBOWSKA/KINGS S. MONIKA CLINIC: CULTURE prices vary. Hillingdon Sports and S Beckenham

IMAGES IMAGES The month-long tribute to London’s Leisure Complex, ­€ . Place Park Lake great liquid highway is back. Another Grade II-listed •Ž‹s Beckenham Hill Rd, , concs € , Feeling adventurous? Try some beauty, this ‹m, open-air pool has Lewisham residents , concs . sea kayaking or join guided river been recently restored with elegant Lewisham’s biggest park refilled its walks and an audio treasure hunt cascades (fountains) at either end. lost Georgian lake last year to create following the path of London’s Kids can bring their own floats, London’s newest wild swimming lost River Fleet. More comfortable and as it’s part of the Better leisure spot. Bathers are surrounded by staying in? Watch live-streamed sea group it’s easy to book a ‹-minute ancient woodland, sweeping grass shanties. The last few weeks are the slot on its app, so you don’t have to verges and more than a few ducks. closest most of us have ever been to spend your lunchbreak browsing And when you’ve had enough of all experiencing the life of a lonely sea swimming pool websites. You can that glorious nature, the park café is Save Live Comedy captain, so we can relate. waste it on Twitter instead. open for take-out post-swim snacks.

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After months of hibernation, London Zoo is roaring back into action. With safety measures in place and some adorable newresidents, there’s never been a bettertime tovisit

Galápagos tortoise could Ahave moved at a speedier pace than the first half of 2020. But if the last few months have felt a tad tedious (to say the least), then we’ve got good news: some of London’s best-loved attractions have reopened! It doesn’t get much more iconic than ZSL London Zoo, located within Regent’s Park. The Zoo’s 18,000 animals have been patiently awaiting your return – and aside from the joy that comes from hanging out with giraffes, meerkats and penguins, your visit helps to fund vital conservation work. Keen to plan your visit? Let’s take a closer look at what’s new at the Zoo… Advertisement feature

Choose your route Support essential To help maintain social conservation work distancing,you’ll be asked to The only other time that the world’s choose between three routes on oldest scientific zoo has ever shut arrival at London Zoo. Your path before this was for two weeks during could take you on ajourney into the Blitz. This year, London Zoo has therainforest, across the savannah missed out on visitor income from or to India’s Gir Forest – and hundreds of thousands of people – onceyou’ve completed your walk, revenue that is used to fund global you can embark on another one. conservation efforts and scientific research. While you’re there, Reconnect with the consider donating. Your animal natural world friends will thank you for it. No matter how many times you’vevisited, there’s something soenchanting about moving through London Zoo’s many lush habitats in search of their inhabitants. Laugh at the antics Otterly charming of cheeky monkeys as they swing On April 15, while we were from tree to tree in the living indoor all in lockdown, two sleek rainforest, pay your respects to the little otters called Bubble monarchs of Gorilla Kingdom and and Squeak came into the stay very still in Butterfly Paradise… world. Until recently, they a colourful new friend might just were cosying up with their land right in front of you. parents Pip and Matilda in their indoor holt. Now, Rest assured that you’re they’ve emerged into their in safe hands leafy London Zoo home Not only has London Zoo (complete with private implemented timed entry slots, riverbank). Give them a limited visitor numbers and one- wave for us! way routes to ensure proper social distancing, but the charity has also introduced other safety measures. These include clearly marked two- metre distances wherever queues might occur, hand sanitiser stations Visitors to London Zoo will need and the use of face coverings in to book a timed slot in advance. indoor areas and walk-through Tickets start from £30 per adult, exhibits. The Zoo is also only £19.20 per child (3-15 years). accepting contactless payments. Members go free all year.

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C Cao Fei: ‘Blueprints’ Blockbusters Serpentine Gallery, until Sep , free, BEHIND THE VIBES pre-book. S Ai Weiwei: ‘History of Enter a site-specific replica of Bombs’ Cao Fei’s Beijing studio at the Imperial War Museum, until May  Serpentine, then explore a stop- Harry Gay   , free, pre-book. motion dystopia populated by giant The Imperial War Museum rampaging turtles and have your has reopened with a startling soul punctured by Fei’s feature- installation from Chinese artist length film about a man losing his and activist Ai Weiwei. Part of the son in cyberspace. By invoking sci-fi museum’s Refugees season, ‘History to explore themes of destruction, of Bombs’ sees life-size diagrams of surveillance and capitalist explosive devices – from WWI hand workspaces, the multimedia artist grenades to nuclear missiles – cover shows us just how slender our grasp the IWM’s floor and stairs. It’s cold on reality has become. and implacable, eerie and weirdly beautiful. Tote bags are promised. C Toyin Ojih Odutola: ‘A Countervailing Theory’ W ‘Electronic: The Curve, Barbican Centre, From Kraftwerk to until Jan    , free, pre-book. The Chemical Brothers’ The Curve is not what you’d The Design Museum, until Feb normally call a ‘blockbuster’ gallery.   , from   , pre-book. But the sheer intensity of its bendy, With this expansive exhibition pitch-black space means that once charting the history of electonic you’ve seen a powerful piece there, dance music, The Design Museum you never forget it. We have high has accidentally produced the most hopes for the takeover by Toyin Ojih prescient show for lockdown times. Odutola, whose cycle of ‹Œ drawings In parts, it’s a tribute to the ravers will fill the gallery’s ŽŒ-metre sweep, who turned face masks into fashion, accompanied by a conceptual at a time when every visitor will soundscape from Peter Adjaye and (hopefully) be wearing one. a new text from author Zadie Smith.

Queer House Party [Some of the attendees] have Next date tbc, free (donations even gone on dates after meeting welcome). www.facebook.com/ at the parties.’ queerhouseparty When lockdown hit, Londoner How has it evolved? Harry Gay and his fellow DJs ‘We’ve done 15 and now we’re (who also happen to be his experts in online parties. We’ve housemates) created a weekly had big-name DJs approach us, LGBTQ+ Zoom party from their but we want to keep it DIY.’ New Cross home. Now that the city is slowly reopening, we ask What have you learned from him: what does the future hold Queer House Party? for online nightlife? ‘There are so many people who can come to Queer House Party How did Queer House Party begin? that wouldn’t normally be able to ‘In March my friends and I saw go out to a queer bar in London. our DJ bookings disappear, so we Now the parties have a BSL thought of ways to make some interpreter, audio descriptions extra cash and get our friends and captioning. I hope there’s a together. The first party was us real push to make venues more DJing for four hours from our accessible after this.’ kitchen, and over a thousand people came. The next day we sat Are online parties here to stay? down and said, “Let’s do this!”’ ‘Even when we go back to real- life events, we’ll always have an What has the response been? online element so they’re always ‘We’ve had messages from accessible. It’s something that people in countries where it’s hasn’t really been done before. illegal to be queer thanking us. I’m excited about what it can PHOTOGRAPHY WHITAKER HOLLY

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Royce, they’ve got it covered: ‘(Work run-down venues with kitschy N Kaleidoscope presents Beer garden and work.) Keep those waxin’ carpets. The lip-syncing queens of Unlocked machines humming…’ this night are taking ball calls from Alexandra Palace, Aug † , parties the Mecca halls to the open air at the from . Brixton Jamm courtyard. Covered We can’t believe it either: an actual S The Brixton Courtyard benches or booths can be booked for music festival in œœ! While Ally sessions up to  people. Yes, you’re playing Pally’s annual one-dayer won’t be Brixton Jamm, various dates, Out and proud for prizes, but you won’t want to quite as comprehensive as usual, it from . keep your eyes down for this show. has decent names on the line-up, Brixton Jamm is making its recently N Touché like Norman ‘Good Times’ Jay and done up beer garden count with The Cause, Aug ‚, , and ƒ, Sep ‚ DJ Yoda. Organisers say there’ll be sessions from big-name DJs. and , from . ‘a lot more extra room than you’d Highlights include sets K E Tottenham’s club with a IRL festivals usually expect’, which sounds from Horse Meat Disco E N conscience, The Cause, mysterious. Please just let us dance. (August ) and Moxie E is using the outdoor S (August ). You’ve D space of its new venue Greenwich and Docklands maxed out that W to host a run of open- International Festival S The New Normal Festival ‘throwback vibes’ I air drag and cabaret Various locations, Aug „-Sep , Le Gothique at The Royal Victoria Spotify playlist. Time N S shows in partnership free. Patriotic Building, until Aug † , to branch out. E with queer club night Greenwich and its surrounding prices vary. R A V Adonis. Every Saturday areas will be flooded with colourful If you’re not over the cancellation E The Old Car brings a new drag starlet. performances as part of London’s of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Wash in Homerton For each show, former Blitz biggest celebration of outdoor this new fest could provide some  Ponsford St, Fri-Sun until Sep
, Kid Princess Julia will be on the theatre. Over š days, the festival comfort. A walled courtyard in book your table in advance. decks – if you don’t have HRH Julia will pack in timely theatre shows Wandsworth’s Grade II-listed Royal Even lockdown could not slow the at your party, what’s the point? and art exhibits that are all free to Victoria Patriotic Building has unstoppable train of pop-up cocktail visit. Look out for ‘The Weavers of been transformed into a socially bars in novelty locations. The latest S Drag Bingo presents Woolwich’, a poetic art installation distanced space where you can is an abandoned car wash that’s Pride 365 by Booker Prize winning author watch fringe theatre, comedy and been gussied up with bunting. It has Brixton Jamm, Aug „, from ‚. Bernardine Evaristo and Gijs van cabaret. See stand-up from Sara a line-up of Hackney DJs planned Drag and bingo go together Bon, and ‘In Memoriam’, artist Luke Pascoe, a show about witches and, over the August bank holiday like Cagney and Lacey. Why? A Jerram’s tribute to victims of the in true fringe style, many quirky weekend. No need to request Rose shared love of bawdy humour and Covid- pandemic. Shakespeare adaptations.

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Thamesside urban beach. Bring Post-Zoom your own mat, spread it out in a socially distanced spot and pub quizzes get stretching. Tickets include a ONE mystery vegan treat. We really hope N The Pub Quiz at it’s a pack of Oreos. The Old Queens Head UNMISSABLE THING The Old Queens Head, every Tue,  per person. It’s mostly known as ‘the one with the good roasts’, but this Essex Socially Road pub happens to have a very popular quiz with pretty generous distanced cash prizes (the jackpot has been known to reach ). Lucky Chip theatre is looking after the menu, so you can tuck into a ‘Royal wit Cheese’ while C ‘Jesus Christ Superstar: you relearn to socialise. The Concert’ Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, E Quiz on My Face Aug ‚-Sep ‹Ž, ‹-ƒ. The Glory, Aug  and Sep , While most West End theatres won’t  per person. open properly until ””, iconic Consider the title of this event a outdoor stage Regent’s Park Open warning and wear that protective Air Theatre is still giving us a dose face mask with pride. All guests at of Lloyd Webber with this special the quiz will be kept a good distance ‘Titian: Love, concert staging of his rock opera. away from its all-powerful host, This pared down production is from Baby Lame, a drag queen with a Desire, Death’ the same team behind the famously grubby sense of humour and hairdo The National Gallery, until Jan Ž–‹Š‹, camp version first seen at the park filled with equally filthy secrets. ‹, pre-book. theatre in ”œ. Not into musicals? Despite her dirty mind, Lame is Try the Monday night comedy. On strictly safety first, so play by her It took nearly § years for Titian’s September Ÿ, catch Mae Martin and rules and the only thing you’ll be series of huge, mythological ‘poesie’ Lolly Adefope, who is going to be spreading is the word. bigger than Jesus one day. paintings to be reunited in full for this exhibition. Then Covid hit, N ‘Sleepless’ and the whole thing closed after Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, Aug ‹-Sep ‹Ž, from . Markets five days. The run has since been Wembley Park’s poor Troubadour extended to ””. If you’re going to theatre only opened last year before and more brave the tube for any exhibition, being dealt the hellish hand that make it this one. is ””. Thanks to its size (it has S DIY Art Market ” seats), it’s one of the first Copeland Park and Bussey Building, theatres in London to open for Sep ,  entry. indoor performances. It’s kicking Sick of staring at the same four things off with an adaptation of walls of your flat? Change it up with the ¡¡¢ film ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ a flamboyant print or some jazzy be any hot food, but you can still starring Girls Aloud’s Kimberley ceramics from this fair showcasing pick up provisions and unique Park workouts Walsh, which follows the lead of an eclectic range of emerging artists pieces from designer-makers, saccharine movie classics like and independent publishers. Like including jewellery from Audra’s C Outdoor Workouts ‘Pretty Woman’ getting big-scale a cross between the Frieze art fair Brooches and blooms from English with Frame musical-theatre reworks. and a primary school jumble sale, Flowerhouse. So wholesome. Various King’s Cross locations, there’s plenty to see here – knitwear, Until Aug , from Š. C ‘Blindness’ jewellery, zines – whether you’re S Plant n Go Fitness studio Frame is taking its Donmar Warehouse, until Aug ‹‹, building a collection or jgjust glad to Copelandp Park, Sepp ‚-ƒ, ffree entry. perky group classes outside. Join Ž“Š-‚. be back browsinging stalls again. Our plant plant obsession reachedreach a everything from high-intensity Here’s one way to ensure social peak in lockdown. CultivCultivate dance cardio sessions to meditative distancing on stage: ditch the C Canopyy Market those green fingers at this flow yoga in different outdoor actors. The Donmar has done just Coal Drops Yard,rd, evereveryy botanical market fillfilled locations around King’s Cross, that by adapting Portuguese author Fri-Sun, free entry.ntry. with stalls selling indoorin like Granary Square’s faux-grassy José Saramago’s dystopian novel Pick up handmademade and outdoor pplants, canalside steps or Lewis Cubitt ‘Blindness’ as a sound installation crafts and freshsh local pots, horticuhorticultural Park. No more whacking over your voiced by Juliet Stevenson. Put produce from supplies and more. lamp trying to do a backbend! on headphones and enter a city King’s Cross’s It’ll even be ggiving experiencing a pandemic of its own: weekend free plants to the first ”• S Yoga on the Beach without warning or explanation, market. It’s foundund visitors each day. There’s Fulham Beach, every Sat, ‹Š. its inhabitants have developed an new digs in swankywanky always room for oone more Swap your Zoom yoga class for a infectious form of blindess. Very Coal Drops Yardrd while succulsucculent!e session in the sunshine at Fulham’s cheery stuff. its usual homeme is useusedd as a car park foror Norman Jay, appearing Didn’t find what you’re after? CHALKEY DEAN JAY: NORMAN TRUST; PRESERVATION SAYE STRATFIELD © LONDON HOUSE, APSLEY COLLECTION, WELLINGTON CANVAS, ON OIL 1551–3, ABOUT DANAË, TITIAN, key workers. at Kaleidoscope

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Five stellar street-food spots The first thing you 4-8 need to know about street food in London right now? It’s all change. You’ve got just two months to eat at Dinerama in Shoreditch before it shuts for good after five years in the biz. Meanwhile, Kerb – another don of the scene – is keeping most of its permanent markets 25 ways to eat shut and is instead running a pop-up called Summer of Kerb on the South Bank, featuring Bleecker Burger and Only Jerkin. For a guaranteed outside in London seat, head to Vinegar Yard for Indian-inspired burgers Sure, you could head to the park clutching a sad meal deal, and Italian snacks. (You’ve got to book a track-and-trace but you deserve so much more. Here are some top options ticket to go, but a visit is well worth handing your contact details over to Big Street Order doughnuts Refuel after flower Head to Supermarket Food.) Pergola Paddington from a bench shopping with a of Dreams for snacks to is also bookable. Sure, it’s 1 2cornershop samosa 3 eat in Holland Park pastel-coloured, foliage-filled Ever found yourself chillaxing on a comfy bench within three Sure, Columbia Road is full of Back when we were properly locked and exactly where grouchy miles of Trafalgar Square only to bougie food spots. You could down (the good old days, eh?), the boomers think millennials be hit with a very specific craving? easily pop to the market and leave team behind Notting Hill Fish Shop hang out, but it also serves up Something like: God, I’d love armed with a Pavilion pastry or launched a grocery store stocked some of London’s finest street someone to deliver six vegan hammered on Laxeiro sangria. But with some of London’s finest food: treats. Finally, if you’re hungry doughnuts made by an ex-St John can we recommend dropping by Allpress shit, Ottolenghi shit, Spring for a goddamn bargain, you’ll baker to me right now? Well, friend, unassuming cornershop Maks News shit. Go blow ”•– on a pretentious be excited to hear that all the check out Poster Bakes because, for too? There you can bag samosas picnic of posh sushi and salad and Boxparks have 50 percent off a mere ­€, dreams can come true. cooked fresh for Sunday shoppers wolf it all in Holland Park like you’re drinks ordered on Mondays Just pick your custard of choice – and perfect for eating with one hand a spoilt child of a rock star who only and Wednesday in August. chocolate, vanilla or blueberry. as you lug your plant haul home. eats organic and trendy.

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Take a very good sandwich to 17 Highbury Fields Trullo. Simple Italian food, done exceptionally well. Until now the only way to get its stuff to go was by slyly decanting the boar ragù into a soup bag under the table. No longer! The Jordan Frieda pasta palace has been joined by a delightful one-room shop next door. The result? You can grab sandwiches, meats, buns, all sorts, and decamp to Highbury Fields to consume an Italian feast in the sun. Bonus: spending time in that park increases your chances of bumping into this mag’s charming editor, Joe. Say hi! 300-302 St Paul’s Rd, N1 2LH. Do brunch on 18 Newington Green As far as greens go, Newington is one of London’s greenest. Not only is it right next to the legendary Newington Green Fruit and Veg (one of the city’s premium spots for niche cabbage Gorgeous variants), but one of our hottest eateries, Jolene, is right there! The restaurant menu changes daily, but fans of terraces pizza and sandwiches should take heart: there’s pretty much always Sometimes only pizza and sandwiches. Now get on 9-13the fanciest that green and brunch. dose of outdoors will do: 21 Newington Green, N16 9PU. birthdays, anniversaries, evenings when you’re sad. On Grab some craft these occasions you want a gelato right by terrace. Ideally one with nice 19 Brockwell Park plants and waiters. And, boy, Ice cream is all well and good but do we know some good ’uns. have you ever tried… homemade Like Tavolino – a just-launched ice cream that only uses the finest Italian place in London Bridge ingredients? That’s what Minus 12, Rochelle Canteen – which has amazing river located literally inside Herne Hill views. Or Rochelle Canteen’s railway station, is all about. And yard in Shoreditch, which feels where better to consume its highly like a bougie literary friend’s Join the party on they melt as you eat them and a rated wares than in that hidden garden with a menu – smoked the Hackney Wick menu that spans seafood platters, walled garden in Brockwell Park? cod’s roe, lamb croquettes, 14 restaurant strip apple pies and pickled eggs. Then You know, that really pretty bit that peach jelly – to match. Want a Head along the River Lee Navigation plonk yourself on a lock at the no one knows about apart from you? highbrow setting with lowbrow towards the Olympic Park, and Camden stretch of Regent’s Canal Oh, whoops! food? Adam Rawson has when you get to what looks like a and watch the crusties drift by on Railway Station, The Booking Hall, Railton Rd, brought a dive-bar menu and a university campus you’ll stumble their barges. Ah, this is the life! SE24 0JW. Moët vending machine to The upon a cluster of restaurants and 30 Hawley Crescent, NW1 8NP. Standard King’s Cross. Udon? a patch of grass by the water. This Eat one of London’s You can eat a summer menu grass – right by The Breakfast Club, Indulge in a fancy best rotis on featuring chicken karaage with picnic hamper 20 Clapham Common Italian joint Gotto and Randy’s Wing pickles and vegetable kakiage 16 Bar – has become a lively afterwork Did you even know It’s a Saturday afternoon. You’re on chips at Koya City’s outside spot since things started opening up. that Colette, the Chelsea-based Clapham Common. You’re starving bit on Bloomberg Arcade. Come for spritzes, stay for vibes. fine-foods place, has launched a after an exhausting day lying static, For the ultimate terrace, Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, collection of ready-made picnics slowly working your way through though, a Provençal-style spot 14 East Bay Lane, E15 2GW. that come in wicker baskets? Did you a Chilly’s bottle full of G&T. What surrounded by olive trees and even know that? One for two people do you do? Head to anonymous- scattered with rug-strewn Sit by Regent’s Canal will set you back upwards of š› quid, looking Roti Joupa on the high street blocks, you want Westerns with tip-top fish and but they contain top-notch nosh and get yourself a Trinidadian hand Laundry in Highbury. Expect 15 chips like tomato consommé, ham hock snack, of course. The rotis here – to pay £35 for three courses, Perhaps the only chippy in terrine, quince jelly (but of course) filled with chickpea curry, or goat, making the most of the town where you can order your and more. Truly a hamper to make lamb, chicken or pumpkin – are summer’s best ingredients. (sustainably caught) cod with a all other park-goers weep into their some of the best in town.
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Upclose and personal Brockley Market Lewisham, Brockley Introducing our new section Love Local, where and Forest Hill we’ll be getting a local’s eye view on the best stuff to do in neighbourhoods around London

Davidson Otobo, the founder of Ordrs, has lived in Lewisham for years.

WE AT TIME OUT have always loved veg selection, the places that make our Horniman uncovering the best things to do in the lives in London our lives – and that can Museum city for you, our reader friends. We’ve easily slip through the cracks. ‘I’ve been visiting the Horniman been doing it since , like a little team That’s why we’re launching this new since I was a kid. I remember going of truffle pigs on the hunt for brilliant section of Time Out. It’s the next stage there on school trips when I was at primary restaurants, great exhibitions and exciting of our Love Local campaign, launched school. I think I took it for granted before we shows. The good stuff. in lockdown, to champion independent went into lockdown, but it being closed has Now, though, it feels more important businesses across the city during these made me realise how unique it is for there to than ever for us to be on the side of the tough times. In this first edition you’ll find be a museum that’s not in central. And the little guy. You know the places we mean: local experts from Lewisham, Greenwich outside space is amazing – there’s always the ones that, over the past few months, and Soho spilling the beans on the gems an ice-cream van there in the summer.’ have become simultaneously more at risk they love in their areas (and why they mean 100 London Rd, and more important than ever. That caff so much to them). Plus celebrations of SE23 3PQ. near you that does the best hash browns in grassroots innovation happening across the city, the garden nurtured by a nearby the city. We hope it inspires you to go out school, the cornershop with the incredible and explore the indie venues near you.

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Brockley Market Lewisham ‘This is a really, really vibrant Bowl local market that supports the ‘This bowling alley has been community. Stalls stock everything in Lewisham since before I moved from fresh produce to locally sourced here as a child. It’s probably the number honey to soaps. There’s always sellers Safika one birthday party spot in Lewisham, ha! shouting to each other and a very Organic Health There’s a little arcade and you can get bustling atmosphere.’ Centre decent fast-food options there, but what ‘A vegan and multicultural hidden Lewisham College Carpark, I care about is the bowling: and that’s gem where you can get everything from Lewisham Way, SE4 1UT. pretty affordable here compared to cream for backache to niche products like other places.’ sugar cane and jelly coconut – which is really 11-29 Belmont Hill, refreshing in the hot weather. Kwame, who runs SE13 5AU. the shop, is super-friendly, knowledgeable and really passionate about boosting health in the community. Whenever I go there’s always loads of people socialising there.’ Upper Brockley Rd, SE4 1SX.

The Orchard ‘It’s the quality of food at this Brockley café that makes it stand out. Simple things like omelettes Ladywell and scrambled eggs are cooked in a Fields way that makes them extra-special. It’s ‘I like jogging there early in the got a homely atmosphere with comfy morning. It’s very spacious and is sofas and friendly owners. I like to connected to the Thames. You can head come here for brunch.’ on a path around the whole park or to the 5 Harefield Rd, SE4 1LW. running track. In the afternoon, it’s great for families: there’s always kids playing football or on the skatepark and there’s a little café towards the entrance where you can get drinks and snacks.’ 126 Ewhurst Rd.

Crofton Park Library ‘This was my hangout area when Olives I was younger. I remember visiting it to do and More a lesson with an artist on how to draw manga ‘I stumbled across this shop characters. I did a course on cash management while exploring Forest Hill. There’s there recently too and they run book clubs as well. quite a few unique stores around there. It was about to be shut down by the government a few It’s run by a woman called Ma, who moved years ago so the community took it over. I’m so glad that here from Spain, and it specialises in happened because it would be a huge shame if we lost products made of olives. It does really nice it – it’s such a beautiful building.’ Ordrs is an online olive cakes, chocolates made with olive oil, shopping service that connects people with the olive oils infused with unique flavours. Ma unique grocery stores in their area. is really helpful – she gave me a really 375 Brockley Rd, SE4 2AG. good paella recipe, actually.’ Currently closed but you can support it at 13 Perry Vale, SE23 2NE. www.localgiving.org. PAOLO PARADISO/SHUTTERSTOCK PAOLO

41 August 2020 Time Out London From ghost town back toChinatown

TABLES SPILL ON to the streets Other restaurants such as Gerrard’s Room, is set to reopen in this month,’ in Chinatown. Diners sit outside Corner, Lotus Garden and Plum Valley he says. ‘People have been dying to go restaurants under a sea of scarlet have been offering alfresco dim sum, out after being locked down.’ lanterns. It’s glorious to see. Especially setting up tables and chairs on the There are still challenges ahead, given that when the pandemic hit, it street since the reopening weekend. though. ‘What we’re doing now is really was the place that emptied first. Look on Instagram and you’ll see not something that we’re used to,’ says This wave of outdoor dining is thanks pictures of the area full of life. Chew. ‘There are more variable factors to a successful campaign to temporarily Iris Ma, acting manager of Cantonese to consider for outdoor seating, such pedestrianise Soho. The project has dim sum restaurant Plum Valley on as weather and extra hygiene.’ Ma adds meant an extension to how far outside Gerrard Street, says that its ‘’-cover that she fears that the new congestion restaurant owners can place tables on outdoor seating area has been busier charge might put people off driving into thoroughfares including Greek Street, than she expected. ‘Customers have central. And, of course, as we head into Dean Street and Frith Street. Its launch been loving this new outdoor set-up, the autumn, there’ll be worse weather on July has led to copycat schemes especially because of the good weather. and the potential of another lockdown around the city – from the Bermondsey It’s wonderful to see the area buzzy and to compete with. Until then, though, beer mile to King’s Cross. a little bit busier again,’ she enthuses. the pedestrianisation makes things ‘It’s amazing. The atmosphere And, most importantly, business is look a tiny bit more hopeful. ‘Without reminds me of how it’s done in East and growing again. Ma says: ‘It isn’t as good it businesses wouldn’t stand a fighting Southeast Asia,’ says Ellen Chew, owner as before, but I expected way worse.’ chance,’ says He. ‘I hope they carry this of Malaysian spot Rasa Sayang on Frith Meanwhile, Z He, co-founder of Bun on for many years to come.’ Street. She’s used her period of forced House on Lisle Street, says that the It’s still too early to tell whether this hiatus to develop a barbecue menu restaurant is getting more takeaway mini-spike of customers in Chinatown for the restaurant’s new outdoor area: walk-in business. ‘We’re in the process is here to stay, but it’s good to know that chargrilled satay skewers and banana- of applying for an outdoor seating Londoners haven’t lost their appetite

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Soho, Chinatown The Ivy ‘Technically not in Soho, but I and Covent Garden love The Ivy and it’s not because I’m a snob or anything. Food is a difficult thing for me due to having an eating disorder. Their food is simple and it’s a place where I know what Jeremy Joseph I’m going to get. I’m very, very boring. I’ll start off has run G-A-Y with a duck salad, followed by a steak with sweet Bar on Old potato and for dessert some sort of sorbet. If Compton Street they had a TV series called “Come Dine with since . Me: The Fussiest Eater”, they would use me because I’m a nightmare.’ 1-5 West St, WC2H 9NQ.

Soho Square ‘People think having a dog in London is weird, but I don’t know what I’d have done during lockdown without my cocker spaniel, Jacob. In all honesty, Soho isn’t the most dog-friendly place compared to Europe or America. A lot of restaurants and cafés don’t allow dogs, but I love walking Jacob around Soho Square and Covent Garden.’ Soho Square, W1D 3QB.

Berwick Street Market ‘Soho’s lost its appeal over the years. The landlords are willing to put anybody in rather than protecting its identity and preserve unique independent businesses like Berwick Street Market. Threats from high rents and rates are driving people away and we should all make an effort to support local independent businesses because our favourites might not be around [after] The Phoenix this tough time. Whether it be Soho or anywhere Theatre else in London, they’re the ones who are ‘I love being right next to the West going to find it toughest to survive.’ End; I’m a big musicals fan and it’s so Berwick St, W1F 0PH. heart-wrenching that the theatres aren’t open. I used to love walking past the Phoenix Theatre seeing what show’s on and who’s in it.’ Charing Cross Rd, WC2H 0JP. Currently closed but you can still grab a drink in the theatre Old bar Phoenix Arts Club. Compton Street ‘After the shooting at Pulse Amorino nightclub in Orlando four years ago, ‘They do the most amazing everyone on our street did a two-minute sorbets. What I love about them silence. We had a day to turn everything is that you can get a little tub and try around and organise a tribute. The street was as many flavours as you like, such as completely packed with people wanting to Odeon mango and raspberry. Their sorbets pay their respects – it was one of the most Luxe Leicester are delicious.’ emotional, amazing days ever and I’ll Square 41 Old Compton St, never forget that.’ ‘I’m desperate to go back to the W1D 6HF. Open for delivery only Old Compton St, cinema and I have to say I love the at the moment. W1D 5JR. Leicester Square Odeon.I actually love sitting in the front row seats because you can put your feet up and no one’s going to be in front of you.’ 22-24 Leicester Square, WC2H 7LQ.

43 August 2020 Time Out London Love Local The show’s not over yet inGreenwich

WHAT DOES A circus performer do Outdoor artist Luke Jerram’s say, how they might move,’ says Jean- when she’s stuck at home without a installation ‘In Memoriam’ will respond Charles. They’ll perform in Greenwich’s crash mat in sight? If it’s Freya Stokka, to the restrictions on funerals by turning St George’s Garrison Church which, she turns her flat into a rehearsal a local park into a temporary memorial, like her hip hop-inspired performance, studio. ‘My sofa has definitely felt where hospital bedsheets will float above mixes old and new: crumbling old walls the impact,’ she says. She’s part of the grass like flags. ‘There’s a need for and a modern ‘floating’ roof that lets the Mimbre, a trio of female circus artists places for people to come together and air blow through it. Still, there’s a worry who are rehearsing over Zoom ahead grieve,’ says Jerram, who explains that about safety:‘Word out there is that Black of their performance at Greenwich the installation will house performances people are more vulnerable to Covid. Am and Docklands International Festival for local NHS workers. ‘After lockdown I I taking a bigger risk than anyone else? (GDIF). ‘I miss having them sliding over feel uncomfortable in enclosed spaces so But we’re going for it. After Black Lives my face – normal people don’t do that! I I wanted to make art for a windy field.’ Matter, it’s more important than ever even looked into performing with cats.’ Jerram developed his installation by that the true history of Britain is told.’ But the trio’s sensory deprivation has spending lockdown dreamily covering For Jean-Charles, creating live inspired their new work ‘To Untouch’, his lawn in bedsheets. ‘My wife wasn’t performance in near-impossible during which they’ll stay at least a very happy,’ he says. But it was tougher conditions is about transformation: metre apart. ‘We’re exploring the for choreographer Jeanefer Jean- turning a weary neighbourhood into spaces between us,’ she says, ‘and how Charles, who’s creating new dance work somewhere that’s lit up with flashes of lockdown exposed our need for touch.’ ‘Black Victorians’. She and her dancers strangeness, magic and silliness. ‘I’m Social-distancing rules have meant will have just three days of in-person worried I’ll get a bit emotional’, says that almost all of ‡ˆ‡ˆ’s planned theatre rehearsal time to answer questions like: Stokka. ‘The fact that people could walk festivals have either been scrapped or ‘How do you duet without touching?’ouching?’ off but choose to stay is precious. And moved online. But GDIF has decided to She’s been inspired by researchersearcher you get kids saying loudly “Is it finished go ahead, swapping its usual large-scale Renée Mussai’s collection of photos of yet?” Which I love.’ ■ AliceAlice Saville Saville spectacles for intimate performances nineteenth-century Black Britons. ‘I Greenwich and Docklands International Festival. that will bring art to unexpected spaces. wanted to know what these people might Various venues. Aug 28-Sep28-Sep 12.12. Free.

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The Cutty Sark pub ‘My favourite place to have a pint is definitely The Cutty Sark pub. Despite the name, it’s a little bit further off the beaten track so it’s not full of tourists. It’s got great benches right out on the Thames so you can sit with your legs hanging over the water looking at Canary Wharf. It’s so typically London, that mix of old cobbled streets and the new modern buildings of the city.’ 4-6 Ballast Quay, SE10 9PD. Thames Clippers ‘Grab the boat from Westminster and you get these panoramic views of the Thames. What a lovely way to arrive in Greenwich. An old Victorian tea clipper they’ve turned into a museum, and you Pickwick Paper can walk to the market in minutes.’ and Fabrics Greenwich Pier, Greenwich ‘Greenwich is the place to go for Promenade, SE10 9HT. niche, beautifully finished, traditional products that you’re just not going to find anywhere else. Pickwick is an amazing shop which has been going since the ’70s and sells really beautiful old-fashioned prints.’ 6 Nelson Rd, SE10 9JB.

Greenwich Market ‘My home is full of things I’ve The Fan bought here. There are so many Museum different traders – not just food, but craft, ‘Greenwich has lots of big vintage clothing, bags and homewares. museums, like the Cutty Sark, but if you There’s a great trader that makes vegan beauty want something you definitely won’t find products and hand creams – obviously being a anywhere else, there’s a little fan museum baker, I need those all the time. And I bought tucked away just next to Greenwich Theatre, a really cool old Greenwich street sign for overlooking the park. You really feel like my wall, because that’s how much I love you’re in a little corner of olden times.’ living here.’ 12 Crooms Hill, SE10 8ER. Closed but Greenwich Market, visit its digital exhibition at www. SE10 9HZ. thefanmuseum.org.uk.

Royal Teas ‘This cafe is tucked away on Royal Hill, behind the hectic town centre – it does the best breakfasts in town.’ 76 Royal Hill, Greenwich SE10 8RT. Greenwich Park and Docklands ‘You have to see the view from the top of the hill, at the Royal Observatory, right by the meridian line. I’m biased but I think it’s the best park in Ruby Amarteifio has London. Walk up to the top of the park and been running vegan you’re in Blackheath, which has a collection bakery stall Ruby’s of shops and cafés – including the most at Greenwich Market amazing rare bookshop, The Bookshop for ten years. on the Heath – it’s very cute.’ Greenwich Park, SE10 8QY.

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Seriously, these destinations will make you feel like you’re abroad

WE’VE HAD A Sintra, just outside Lisbon, with tough few months their rainbow-hued palaces. Built but, unlike Glasto, throughout the twentieth century Carnival, the Fringe by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, and almost every other the collection of technicolour event we were looking forward to buildings on the edge of Snowdonia this year, summer itself definitely National Park were designed to isn’t cancelled. Holidays? They’re make up a playful, mock-Italian back, and it’s no surprise that, village. Bellissimo! after months in the city, the urge to swap London for somewhere Dungeness new is strong. There’s zero need Kent to brave the airport, or risk falling Few places in the UK make you feel foul of Boris’s rapidly changing as though you’ve stumbled through travel restrictions, though. Head a portal more than Dungeness. to these distinctive UK places to The bleak and atmospheric find international vibes without beach, made up of scrubland, having to remember where you wild flowers and shingle, is dotted left your passport. with lighthouses, neat wooden huts, tumbledown shacks, fishing Portmeirion boats, a bloom of new, design-led Gwynedd cabins and even a nuclear power It’s a town clinging to the North station for added otherworldly Wales coast, but, if you didn’t know atmosphere. It could be the better, Portmeirion could be the northern coast of Norway or, like, Portmeirion Italian Riviera or the hilltops of the moon.

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white sandy beaches and bobbing palms (Tresco Abbey Garden is like the inside of a Kew glasshouse gone wild), you might be able to convince yourself you’re in the Caribbean rather than Cornwall. Henrhyd Falls Powys Tropical Bali is reopening to international tourists in September, but you don’t need to travel that far for some just-as-stunning scenes. Henrhyd Falls is the highest waterfall in South Wales, and plunges dramatically into a lush, wooded gorge, just like insta- famous Nungnung and Tegenungan Kynance Cove waterfalls on the Indonesian island. You’ll just want walking boots and waterproofs, rather than your most photogenic swimwear. Kynance Cove Cornwall Little imagination is required to believe you’ve swapped the UK for somewhere further afield at Kynance Cove, thanks to its clear, turquoise waters, dramatic rock stacks and soft sands. The stunning and super-popular Cornish beach Isles of Scilly could easily be mistaken for the rocky coast of Sardinia or the kind of gems you’d discover while island- Hitchin Lavender Bordeaux for that, pals. England hopping through Croatia. Hertfordshire There’s has some world-class vineyards, You don’t have to brave the Channel and several of the best are within Isle of Skye Tunnel for a heady whiff of the no need daytripping distance of London. Inverness-shire purple stuff this summer. Sure, to go to Head to Chapel Down and wander You can find Iceland-esque Provence is delightful but so are the estate before sampling glasses landscapes, without paying out the fragrant fields of Hertfordshire. Bordeaux of British wine made from grapes for an antibody test, on Scotland’s Pre-book a slot to explore  miles grown in the south east of England. Skye. The island’s Mealt Falls is a of lavender-lined rows and picnic to sip dead ringer for Háifoss waterfall in among the blooms, which usually Isles of Scilly Iceland, and the rest of the spot’s peak in mid to late August. wines Cornwall mind-boggling scenery makes If you don’t feel like you’re on a stellar stand-in too. Check out Chapel Down winery among holiday until you’ve crossed a body the Scandi-style houses that dot Kent of water, try out the subtropical the northern reaches around the Daydreaming about sun-soaked the vines Scillies. They’re an unspoilt Quiraing landslip. Bonus points PORTMEIRION: JAX10289 / SHUTTERSTOCK / JAX10289 PORTMEIRION: afternoons spent sipping local wines archipelago just off the English if the Northern Lights make an ■ IMAGES among the vines? No need to go to coast, but thanks to the islands’ appearance. Ellie Walker-Arnott

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The serene boating The hidden 2lake 4swimmingspot Row, row, row your boat on the There may have been a bleak gentle waters of Hollow Ponds moment during lockdown when you in Snaresbrook, on the fringes of thought you might not be able to Epping Forest. Pretend you’re a so much as dip your toe into water character in ‘Wind in the Willows’ this summer. Thankfully, getting asyou wave to the swans, then wet is on the cards again – but why settle down on the banks for a not go somewhere a bit different? picnic. You’ve earned it. The West Reservoir Centre near Snaresbrook. Free. Green Lanes is a terrific little-known wild swimming spot. All you need to The leafy ruin do‹is‹book online using the app. 3Encounter central London in Manor House. Check website for prices. a whole new light by paying a visit to St Dunstan-in-the-East: it’s a The urban jungle shell of a medieval church which 5Ah, the Barbican Conservatory. has been overtaken by nature after A verdant utopia of dreams that being bombed out during WWII. always seemed to be closed Spend a quiet moment under its whenever you tried to visit it in the vine-covered arches, then consider Before Times. In a gift to cooped- heading for a drink or a meal at a up Londoners, the Conservatory nearby restaurant. Many London has extended its opening hours eateries have signed up to the to weekdays. Book a slot online government’s Eat Out to Help Out and prepare to lose yourself in the scheme, including much-loved tropical plants and trees which modern Mediterranean restaurant cover the Barbican’s brutalist Haz and London Bridge wine bar concrete. London will feel a Boot & Flogger. Remember to million‹miles away. book„ahead! Barbican Conservatory Barbican. Until Aug 23. Free. Monument. Free.

Hungry? Remember, the Eat Out to Help Out scheme is now running, which means you can get a 50 percent food and soft drinks discount (up to a maximum saving of £10 per person) when you eat in at participating restaurants across the UK every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday until August 31. St Dunstan-in-the-East Barbican Conservatory photo credit: Scott Wylie Scott credit: photo Conservatory Barbican

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Because you don’tneed to go escapes abroad for some lushholidayvibes

here can’t be many things of the Caribbean or the chance to Tmore nostalgic than taking that cook yourself on a lounger in the first breath of fresh sea air as Spanish sun but you know what? you arrive on the coast. After all, trips AUK coastal escape could be to the coastal towns, fishing villages exactly what you need right now. and hidden little inlets of the UK’s From fish and chips, ice cream coastline are about as British as it andamusement arcades to rugged gets. And with our wanderlust wings cliffs, wooden boats bobbing on clipped a little right now, people are the waterand remote beaches all looking more closely at all the great to yourself, this is where it’s at. things on our doorstep. Hereare some of our favourites There’s a lot here. Sure, we might toget you started – each as not be able to offer the azure waters dreamyasthe last.

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Walberswick Frinton-on-Sea Margate 1This charming Suffolk village 3The big draw of this classy 5When the sun’s out, there’s has a belting sandy beach with Essex seaside town is its long nowhere better to be than the dunes that offer some very pretty stretch of sea and sand with rows sandy beaches of Margate – but views to the town of Southwold, of vibrantly painted Victorian- that’s not the only reason to visit over the river to the north. You’ll style beach huts, many of which this pretty Kent town. The striking probably want to stay overnight so are available for hire. It’s worth Turner Contemporary is open until try The Anchor, a traditional pub with exploring the town itself, too.With September 6 (it’s free, but you’ll some cracking garden chalets. Try its tree-lined avenues leading need to book ahead) and many of your hand at crabbing too, but just down to an impressively old-school its quirky cafés and restaurants are remember they take it seriously esplanade, you can seewhy it back, too. Sample wonderfully fresh here – locals call it ‘the crabbing was once a popular retreat for the seafood platters at Buoy and Oyster capital of the world’. You have aristocracy. Wright’s Delicatessen (also participating in the Eat Out to beenwarned. does fantastic homemade pies, and Help Out scheme) or pick up a tasty you can pick up some realtreasures takeaway brunch from The Bus Café Selsey at Danish homewares and (yes, it’s served from a literal bus). 2Prefer getting someone else to accessories shopGreat Danes, catch the little nippers? Crab from browse antiquesat No24 of Frinton this historic fishing town just south or stock up on treats at The Olde of Chichester is about as good as Sweet Shop. it gets, with the popular Potters or Julie’s Crab Shack fine purveyors. Cromer For dessert, head to Chaplins, 4Twenty-three miles north of Walberswick where you can build your own Norwich on the Norfolk coast, epic sundae with fresh ice cream Cromer’s a bona fide tourist (there are dairy-free options too). destination. But that’s a good thing. Selsey’s long, shingle beaches are It’s got a great beach, a striking beautiful, and you can easily walk octagonal lighthouse, a Grade along the Manhood Peninsula to II-listed pier, museums, galleries the equally lovely fishing village of and even a SouthAmerican-themed East€Wittering. zoo (Amazona) to the south of the town. Our tip: pick up some top- notch fish and chips from Mary Janes to enjoy on the sand. The restaurant also happens to be part of the government’s Eat Out Keep an eye out orf V i sit to Help Out scheme, which means England’s ‘We’r e Good to Go’ you can get a 50 percent dine-in industry standard. Venues food and soft drinks discount (up displaying this mark hav e to a maximum saving of £10 per put all the necessary social person) every Monday, Tuesday and distancing and staff training Wednesday until August 31. in place. That means the government guidance is being followed. Cromer Pier

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Why go abroad when lockdown has prepared us so well for escapes closer to home?

ON MY FIRST post-lockdown escape from London, the further we got from the M25 the giddier I felt. Unloading food into a different fridge? A total rush. Showering in a new bathroom? A genuine high. I was practically delirious waking up in a bed that wasn’t mine. It helped, of course, that the bed was on the mezzanine level of a charming cabin Pause has also been a chance It was made for quiet, dark nights by squiggle of salty grey on the horizon in the lush Sussex countryside. to really slow down and practise the firepit and slow days swinging is so thrilling. There’s no need As a travel editor, I had an urge gratitude. Lockdown took away our in a hammock, watching birds and for the sensory overload (or the to be the first person through ability to make plans and forced walking through wild grasses. potential angst when 2020 cancels airport security the day the travel us to live in the moment. The little After months inside my flat, yet another grand plan – hello, ban was lifted. In mid-July, I should things I’d barely have clocked feeling restricted and tense, fresh unexpected travel quarantine) when have been honeymooning, eating before – pubs serving pints! A quiet air, empty green space and seeing just the ability to leave home feels caper-studded pizzas and drinking footpath! – now seem incredible. new sights felt revolutionary. so heightened and freeing. negronis on the Aeolian Islands. That’s an amazing starting point for I leant into the fire, knowing that There will come a time for the bold Instead, I was walking sections having a holiday in the UK that feels my clothes would smell of smoke trips that max out your overdraft and of the South Downs Way in a nothing like a compromise. for weeks. I swam in the sea, even take months to plan. But this feels waterproof and eating homemade That charming cabin was The though it was cloudy and actually like the summer of simple travel sandwiches. And it was glorious. Wisp, near chunky hills with views of kind of freezing. It felt like living. pleasures. ■ Ellie Walker-Arnott While the last few months have the sea, mystical rings of trees and Right now, we don’t need endless The Wisp, Sussex. Sleeps two. From £115 been sad and stressful, the Great famous beauty spot Devil’s Dyke. Greek sunsets when seeing a a night. www.canopyandstars.co.uk

THREE OF THE BEST Campervan rentals

Camptoo Quirky Campers Indie Campers Campervanning is so . Hire a van and you Sceptical about going off grid? The campervans This lot match campers with vans all over can keep yourself to yourself, bring all your own this site lists will guarantee your break feels Europe. You can pick up your wheels from west kit and socially distance with ease. Camptoo is special. All the vehicles are unique and London and hit the road in a sleek van or RV-style like the Airbnb of campervans – you can rent an handcrafted, featuring incredible, cleverly motorhome, with an itinerary and extras like array of local, privately owned vehicles to escape designed and really nice-to-look-at interiors. wi-fi, a shower and bikes and barbecues in the the city in. See ya. You’ll basically be sleeping inside a work of art. boot. Effortless camping? Yes please. www.camptoo.co.uk www.quirkycampers.co.uk www.indiecampers.co.uk

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ICYMI: England is getting the longest coastal path in the world

Daily walks were our saviour during isolation, and now we can hear the Whitby to Scarborough call of the open hiking trail. Luckily, England is getting a new one and it’s jumped to the top of our post- lockdown list. Surprising UK walks Slated to be completed in the next couple of years, the England Coast Path ‘Guerrilla geographer’ Dan Raven-Ellison spent lockdown creating will take hikers along the the Slow Ways:  walking routes that connect Britain’s towns entirety of the English and cities. Here are five of his favourite wanders coastline and, at 2,800 miles long, it’ll be the longest coastal walking route on the planet when Abereiddy to Porthgain perhaps one of the longest walks highlight for me are the Hangers, a it’s finished. Pembrokeshire to the beach many people would line of hills with steep slopes that The ECP will link up some ‘This is a very small section of make, but it’s well worth it.’ are covered by ancient woodland. existing stretches of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. How long does it take? Half a day to one day. Some are tough to ascend, but seaside walkway (like the Close to the start of the walk at the top you’ll discover glorious South West Coast Path, is former slate quarry the Blue Whitby to Scarborough views of the British countryside.’ which already runs from Lagoon. Come in the autumn and Yorkshire How long does it take? Two to three days. Somerset through Devon from the high clifftops you could ‘This is a great full day’s walk along and Cornwall to Dorset), get lucky and see seal pups the North York Moors National Woolwich to Woolwich improve others and, in sheltering on secluded beaches Park’s coastline. It follows part of London some places, create and rock formations below. The both the Cleveland Way National ‘See London like you’ve never new routes for hikers to walk finishes at The Sloop Inn, or Trail and the new England Coast seen it before by walking the appreciate the country’s you can loop inland back to the Path. The coastline is dramatic with Capital Ring. The 126km route coastline. It’ll pass starting point.’ sweeping bays, wooded valleys goes through Crystal Palace to the through seaside towns How long does it take? One hour. and hidden beaches. Along the way south, Greenford to the west and and major cities, by flat you’ll discover coastal villages with Finchley to the north. It’s suggested white beaches, industrial Blairmore to Sandwood cosy pubs to help keep you going.’ that you complete the walk in 15 heritage, sand dunes, high Bay (and back) How long does it take? One day. sections and 15 days. I’ve done it in chalk cliffs, rugged, rocky Sutherland four consecutive and increasingly coastline, ruined castles ‘Sandwood Bay is one of Scotland’s Rowlands Castle to Alton painful days. Prepare for incredible and islands. We’ll be ready most beautiful and remote Hampshire views of the capital, a rich tapestry to hit the trail as soon as we beaches. The cliffs are home to rare ‘This is a decent two- or three-day of culture and lots of surprises.’ ■ can. ■ Ellie Walker-Arnott birds and the rocks are some of the walk across the South Downs How long does it take? Four to 15 days. oldest in the world. It’s a 7km walk National Park through one of most Find out more about the Slow Ways and volunteer to to Sandwood Bay from Blairmore, beautiful parts of the country. The try out the new routes at www.ravenellison.com

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TIME OUT MEETS John David Washington

The ‘Tenet’ star tells Phil de Semlyen aboutbout the long-awaited blockbuster and his love off Nando’s. Portrait Andy Parsons

AFTER FOUR RELEASE-DATE Does it still feel significant as an changes, ‘eagerly anticipated’ African-American actor in 2020 to doesn’t come close to describing be the lead in a blockbuster? Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’. Not ‘I’m standing on the shoulders that zen-sounding ex-NFL player, of so many African-American ‘BlacKkKlansman’ star and son of performers. It’s definitely more Denzel, John David Washington, is accepted now to cast African- feeling the pressure of headlining Americans in a genre where they’ve the movie that might just save usually been overlooked. [But] cinema. Having spent lockdown I didn’t think about that while like the rest of us (‘Routine. approaching this movie. It wasn’t in Movies. Great documentaries the script anywhere – “Black guy in is talking to me!” I contained it as Is it true that, as a kid, you used to about Michael Jordan. PS—’), he’s his thirties” – and Chris and I never much as I could. When we got all his cosplay as Denzel’s ‘Glory’ character, about to step into the limelight in discussed it. But I’m proud to be close-ups and were turning round Civil War soldier Silas Trip? a big way. ‘Going from Spike Lee to picked for it, I can tell you that.’ [for mine], Chris went: “All right, ‘I did. I can still remember some of Christopher Nolan?’ he says. ‘That’s you’re up. No pressure.”’ (Laughs.) my dad’s speech in the movie. Back the dream.’ You’ve been on film sets since you when I was eight, I knew every word. cameoed in ‘Malcolm X’ as a kid. Did you pick up any cockney slang? I got a blue suit for Christmas and a Your co-star, Robert Pattinson, talks Do they feel more diverse now? ‘I don’t know if I should say. Put it little rifle and a hat.’ about how he was locked in a room ‘It depends on the set. I would like like this: I was very surprised [by] his when he first read the ‘Tenet’ script. to see more faces of colour, male or lexicon. He’s a character, man.’ Can you remember any of his What was your experience? female, in those boardrooms where dialogue from ‘Training Day’? ‘They provided water, so it wasn’t people green-light films.’ You filmed some scenes in London. ‘I get PTSD repeating [the “King like a panic room. I remember How was that? Kong ain’t got shit on me!” scene], reading the title, then [Christopher You spent a day working with ‘I explored a little bit. I have to admit, because in my rookie year in the Nolan’s] name and thinking: Oh my Michael Caine. What was that like? I’m obsessed with Nando’s – and NFL they made me recite that God, this is not real life right now. ‘It was a thrill. Between “action” because they grill the chicken, scene every week. I’ve retired I took my iPad out, put on some and “cut” all that was going through I wasn’t breaking my diet. It’s all that monologue.’ classical music and started reading.’ my head was: “Sir Michael Caine about that Nandonian sauce, man.’ ‘Tenet’ is out Aug 26.

Time Out London August 2020 54 Film Babyteeth

THIS INTOXICATING AUSTRALIAN coming-of- age drama is bookended by two shots of a newly extracted child’s tooth drifting serenely to the WHAT IS IT... bottom of a glass. It’s a brilliantly left-field motif An electrifying for the growing pains of its teenage protagonist, Aussiecoming-of- Milla (Eliza Scanlen): a bruising, jarring and age drama. yet strangely beautiful process that’s at once relatable and, as captured by first-time director WHY GO... Shannon Murphy, a big old mystery. Eliza Scanlen Adapted from a play that debuted on Sydney’s from‘Little Women’ repertory circuit, ‘Babyteeth’ delights in keeping is stunning as you off-balance. Milla is waning with an initially ateenager on unspecified illness and depressed, so when theedge. she brings home small-time drug pusher Moses (Toby Wallace, sporting a nightmarish rat-tail), her Dir Shannon Murphy parents, psychiatrist Henry (Ben Mendelsohn) (15) 118 mins. and lapsed musician Anna (Essie Davis), In cinemas Aug 14. expect the flirtation to be fleeting. But then the twentysomething Moses starts to become a fixture in Milla’s life – and their home – and their latitude turns to a kind of hushed parental panic. ‘He’s a drug addict,’ they warn Milla. ‘Don’t of Ang Lee’s ‘The Ice Storm’ – as it gradually But it’s Milla’s story and the captivating pigeonhole him!’ she replies. lets you into a world of well-heeled suburbia Scanlen mainlines her with herky-jerky energy The brilliance of ‘Babyteeth’ is in getting you that’s carefully shorn of all the usual Sydney (aided by editor Stephen Evans’s arrhythmic cuts) to laugh at the exchange and then, later, wonder landmarks. Each character is fully drawn by and otherness as she rapturously loses herself why you did, as Moses reveals new layers and writer Rita Kalnejais (adapting her own play), and in music, dancing and the swells of first love. Full Henry and Anna are the ones struggling to hold it the gifted Aussie cast does the rest. Davis, in of the joys of discovery and the pain of mortality, all together. particular, seems to get better with every film and she’s at once real and ethereal. You can almost It’s beautifully observed stuff – its fractured here she recalls some of her maternal anguish imagine her as one of the girls in ‘Picnic at but tender family dynamics and depiction of in ‘The Babadook’ behind Anna’s beatific, Xanax- Hanging Rock’, vanishing into the ether in a wash unspoken parental pain reminded me a little glazed veneer. of shimmering dance moves. ■ Phil de Semlyen.

FIVE THINGS TO SEE Cinemas, drive-ins and pop-ups

AFTER FOUR LONG months, The Winter Night Garden cinemas are open for business in a 4 Sure, it’s not technically big way, with a certain Christopher winter but in 2020 anything Nolan blockbuster ready to roll. goes and – within the bounds of Immersive screenings and drive-in social distancing and good common movies are also on the menu. sense – probably will at Backyard Cinema’s fantastical late-summer ‘Tenet’ screenings. If entering via a magical 1The most eagerly awaited wardrobe doesn’t grab you, the line- film – for all sorts of reasons – up of crowd-pleasers (‘Labyrinth’, since ‘Avengers: Endgame’ remains ‘The Greatest Showman’, ‘True shrouded in mystery. Just who is Romance’), the gourmet street food John David Washington’s urbane- and studio bar just might. looking spy? All will become clear Capital Studios. FromSep 4. in late August. Just no spoilers on Free screenings for NHS staff Sep 2-3. social media, y’hear? In cinemas Aug 26. Redefining Rebellion The freshly spruced, socially Drive In Film Club 5 distanced BFI Southbank Drive In Film Club 2 Run by the crew behind reopens on September 1, kicking Rooftop Cinema, this early off with a flurry of fiery, politically adopter of four-wheeled cinema ‘Les Misérables’ The comparison is invidious but not fuelled dramas to mark the is back at its old Ally Pally home, 3Not the musical with a unfair: there are shades of ‘Do the re-release of ‘La Haine’. In the offering choice Hollywood cuts and caterwauling Russell Crowe Right Thing’ here, as well as fellow season? ‘Taxi Driver’, ‘Beau Travail’, gourmet ’dogs from Camden food but a new French police drama that banlieue-set drama ‘La Haine’. That ‘Battleship Potemkin’, ‘Persepolis’ truckers Popdogs. Look out for a crackles with energy and racial one is re-released for its twenty-fifth and ‘Norma Rae’, the 1979 trade night-time screening of ‘Jurassic tension. It’s the work of first-time anniversary in September, so you union drama that won Sally Field BABYTEETH: LISA TOMASETTI; DRIVE IN FILM CLUB: JOEL KNIGHT JOEL CLUB: FILM IN DRIVE TOMASETTI; LISA BABYTEETH: Park’ on August †‡. director Ladj Ly, who has been can double-bill them. her Oscar. Just the classics, then. ■ IMAGES Alexandra Palace. Various dates. dubbed ‘the French Spike Lee’. In cinemas Sep 4. BFI Southbank. Sep 1-30.

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What to stream in August ‘Rising Phoenix’

Finished Netflix? Don’t panic, there’s moremore to come

PROMISING TO MIX the meds-enhanced sci-fi More foreign-language thrills come via the There are buzzy docs to look out for in ‘Boys of ‘Limitless’ with stacks of superhero action, BFI Japan season (BFI Player), which shifts State’ (Apple TV+, Aug 14) and ‘Rising Phoenix’ ‘Project Power’ (Netflix, Aug 14) boasts Jamie focus to indie cinema. Make time for ‘Funeral (Netflix, Aug 26). The first follows American Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and a premise Parade of Roses’, an Oedipal tale set in the teenagers building a government from the ground involving a mysterious pill that gives its user gay underground of ’60s Tokyo, and Hirokazu up, while the second charts the stories behind superpowers. For some reason the tagline isn’t Kore-eda’s first film ‘Maborosi’. And if you have the Paralympics. ‘Coup 53’ (virtual screening, ‘Netflix and pill’ but we’ll let that slide. a spare four hours, settle in with Sion Sono’s Aug 19), an account of the 1953 CIA/MI5 coup in Gorehounds have Russian ‘Alien’ riff ‘Sputnik’ epic romantic drama ‘Love Exposure’, too. Asian Iran, is less uplifting but no less fascinating. (streaming sites, Aug 14) and a digital FrightFest filmmaking mavericks are also big on Mubi, with And if you’re after family viewing and have a (Aug 28-31) to look forward to. Look out for the Wuxia spectaculars of King Hu – ‘A Touch of tolerance for talking-animal movies, ‘The One and paranormal romance ‘A Ghost Waits’ on the Zen’ (Aug 4) and ‘Dragon Inn’ (Aug 16) – on the Only Ivan’ (Disney+, Aug 21) is a feelgood yarn 25-film-strong programme. Apocalyptic thriller slate. Fans of ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ starring a gorilla, an elephant, a dog and Bryan ‘She Dies Tomorrow’ (Curzon Home Cinema, Aug and Zhang Yimou’s movies should make a date Cranston. Animal voices are provided by Sam 28) follows a woman whose fear of dying within with them both. Xavier Dolan’s ‘Matthias & Rockwell, Angelina Jolie and Danny DeVito. It’s all 24 hours begins to infect the people around her. Maxime’ also lands on Mubi, on August 28. based on a true story, too. Okay, most of it is. ■

LOCKDOWN L IF SE AVERS Four actors pick the show that got them through

THE LAST DANCE TIGER KING SUCCESSION THIS COUNTRY Picked by Picked by Picked by Picked by Jason Isaacs Gemma Arterton Jim Sturgess Maxine Peake

‘My dad and I made ‘I watched it early ‘I loved “Succession”, ‘I got through the first our way through in lockdown and it especially Matthew week of lockdown [Michael Jordan and Chicago Bulls was so entertaining. Joe Exotic and Macfadyen as [obsequious in-law by watching it. It’s funny but it’s series] “The Last Dance” during the other characters are completely to media moguls the Roy family] beautiful, and all the characters lockdown. I don’t like basketball, but unique and off-the-wall. If you’re Tom Wambsgans. I’ve seen Matthew are great. There are moments that I loved it. It was made by Jordan’s an actor and you played one of in so many things and he’s always remind me of when I was younger, company, but he didn’t come across them, everyone would think it was been such a brilliant actor, but he like when [Daisy May Cooper’s as someone that I ever wanted to far-fetched. Who would be the best looks like he’s having the time of character] Kerry Mucklowe is asked spend any time with. Great drama director for a “Tiger King” movie? his life playing that character, just if she wants a scone or biscuits and works when the characters reveal I think someone like Danny Boyle or being as repulsive and ridiculous she says: “Both!” You can keep your something about themselves that maybe Andrea Arnold because she’s as possible. He’s enjoying every Fleabags, Kerry Mucklowe is the they didn’t intend to.’ obsessed with Americana.’ moment of it.’ woman for me.’ SHUTTERSTOCK / RAFFIN ANDREA PEAKE: PARSONS; ANDY ARTERTON: SHUTTERSTOCK; / KATHYHUTCHINS STURGESS: AND ISAACS 2020; © NETFLIX PHOENIX: RISING

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