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Black Manila Beach Parade (Rock 'n' Roll night) at Macbeth, Hoxton 14 April 10, 20:00 – 15 April 10, 01:00

The Macbeth, Hoxton, 70 Hoxton Street, N1 6LP

Rumble Rock'n'Roll party.

The Vinyl Stitches (LIVE)
Tripped out beatniks play sleazy Rock.

Speak And The Spells (LIVE)
Garage Punk band.

DJs
Los Greasy Phantom
Black Manila Beach Parade
Playing old and new Rock'n'Roll

Wednesday 14th April
FREE ENTRY
8pm – 1am
Link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112921485384911&ref=ts

Seven Dials (Covent Garden) Shopping Evening Bonanza!

Get 20% off at a range of stores in Covent Garden for one night only…

Thu 29th April 2010, 05:00pm – 09:00pm

Category: Fashion

Seven Dials Shopping Village, Covent Garden, London

Savvy shoppers – form an orderly queue. Seven Dials, Covent Garden's hidden shopping village, is hosting an evening of super-saving shopping, offering YOU 20% off a load of stores and venues.

You could treat yourself to something at MAC or Miller Harris, or Fenchurch or Fred Perry (where you'll find the latest Raf Simons callabo.)

Afterwards, reward yourself with a cocktail at The Covent Garden Hotel or grab a bite to eat at Souk Medina (don't miss the feta and spinach crepes. Delish.)

For a full list of participating venues, and to register (compulsory!) click here!

Category: Music

The first PUMP UP THE VOLUME takes place on Friday 30th April at Visions in Dalston, with guest DJ – legendary 90’s party god, Jon Carter. Jon of course rose to prominence in the 90’s as a resident of era-defining club, Heavenly Social, playing alongside Chemical Brothers and Death in Vegas at the infamous Albany pub. He then went on to record for Concrete Records as Monkey Mafia.

The venue – Visions – is an old video shop in Dalston transformed into a nightclub. With a 300 capacity complete with old video wall it’s the perfect setting for Pump Up The Volume.

So if you want to hear records by the likes of TLC, Altern 8, Whitney Houston, Rhythm is Rhythm, Bizzare Inc, En Vogue, Jazzy Jeff, Lucy Pearl, Vanilla Ice, Gang Starr, Madonna, Q Tip and a whole lot more, and you want to dance again with pure abandonment while wearing your baggy trousers and cropped tops, or smiley t-shirts with a big grin on your face, then you know where to come!

£6 advance tickets / more on the door
9PM – 3AM

The Triffids live at The Barbican 09 April 10, 19:30 – 23:59

The Barbican Centre

A spectacular gathering of the remaining members of cult Australian heroes The Triffids, together with a star cast of guest musicians and vocalists including Stuart Staples (Tindersticks), Dev Hynes (Lightspeed Champion), Mick Harvey (Bad Seeds / Birthday Party), Warren Ellis (Bad Seeds / Dirty Three) and Chris Abrahams (The Necks) to showcase and celebrate the songwriting genius of their leader David McComb, who died in 1999. The band were inducted into the Australian Hall Of Fame in 2008 and have even had the honour of a Blue Plaque in London.

In 2006, the remaining members of the band were persuaded to play his music for the first time since their last performance 17 years previously. Standing on stage and hearing those songs roll out one after the other, in their words ‘like a perfect set of waves’, they realised that the best way to remember their departed friend was through his music.

They set to work on a three-hour long celebration of the brilliant, vividly impressionistic songwriter, and unveiled the results at the Sydney Festival in 2008. This show, with remaining Triffids Rob McComb, Alsy MacDonald, Martyn Casey, Jill Birt and Graham Lee, comes to the Barbican on 9 April and contains classics like Wide Open Road and Bury Me Deep in Love, performed alongside B-sides and unreleased works, in a night of song no one will want to end.

Featuring Stuart Staples (Tindersticks), Dev Hynes (Lightspeed Champion), Mick Harvey (Bad Seeds / Birthday Party), Chris Abrahams (The Necks) & Warren Ellis (Bad Seeds / Dirty Three)
9 April 2010 / 19:30
Tickets: £15/20/25

Supermarket Sarah at Selfridges

See the queen of vintage fashion LIVE in London

Thu 8th April 2010, 10:00am–Wed 28th April 2010, 06:00pm

Category: Fashion

Selfridges, 400 Oxford Street, London W1A 1AB

If you're not familiar with Supermarket Sarah's website, you should definitely familiarise yourself. And pronto. Supermarket Sarah is the brainchild of Portobello Road resident Sarah Bagner.

Sarah festoons her walls with stuff she's got to sell, photographs them, and each piece is clickable and buyable through her site. Genius, no?

As a special treat, Supermarket Sarah is hosting a supermarket wall at Selfridges, so the scratch-and-sniff kinesthetic shoppers amongst us can see and try before we buy.

The lady herself will be there, and will be blogging daily on the Selfridges website.

There'll be one off pieces every day, so head down and treat yourself!

We'll be there on opening day to tell you all about it.

Selfridges, 400 Oxford Street, London W1A 1AB
Admission free.

Category: Music

The Magic Lantern by Ollie Hammick.

Here at Amelia's Magazine we are massive fans of The Magic Lantern and are very excited about the new album Love of Too Much Living, which features the beautiful voice of Jamie Doe set against a lilting picked guitar. You can read our review of his album A World in a Grain of Sand here and an interview with the man himself here. Below you will find all The Magic Lantern upcoming tour dates so you can catch them live: highly recommended.

“The Magic Lantern is the musical moniker of Jamie Doe. Touring in support of his second album 'Love of Too Much Living', a record stripped back to the essentials of voice, classical guitar and piano, it allows his immediately arresting voice to soar. With his tales addressing the difficulties of coming of age, navigating ambition, love, loss and our perennial search for acceptance, he has been compared to Chet Baker and Jeff Buckley, with a unique guitar style that takes elements of folk fingerpicking, Flamenco and West African music.”
The Magic Lantern – 'Love Of Too Much Living' – Tour!
4/10 – St Mark’s Church Hall, London – ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY – TICKETS^ – 
6/10 – The Prince Albert, Stroud^
7/10 – House Gig, Newcastle^
8/10 – Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lincoln^
9/10 – The Speak Easy at Fudge, Hull^
10/10 – The Fuel Café, Manchester^

11/10 – Community Centre, Burntlaw
12/10 – The Independent Cafe, Scunthorpe^
16/10 – Catweazle Club, Oxford
20/10 – Old St Pancras Church, London tickets
24/10 – Grain Barge, Bristol* tickets
25/10 – The Goods Shed, Stroud*
26/10 – The Lexington, London* tickets
27/10 – Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich* tickets
28/10 – Portland Arms, Cambridge* tickets
29/10 – LAMP, Leamington Spa* tickets
30/10 – Railway, Winchester* tickets
31/10 – UCLU Folk Society, London
12/11 – The Green Note, London tickets
19/11 – Bath Gallery, Bath
5/12 – House Show, Fife
10/12 – The Carlton Cinema, Westgate^
11/12 – The Lighthouse, Deal^
13/12 – Irregular Folk, Oxford

^with Alabaster DePlume
*with Cocos Lovers & Hot Feet

Category: Art

Jerwood Encounters: The Grantchester Pottery paints the stage is the next exhibition in the Jerwood Visual Arts’ Encounters series curated by The Grantchester Pottery, an artist collaboration between sculptor Giles Round and painter Phil Root.

Founded in 2011 The Grantchester Pottery takes the structural framework of an artist’s decorative arts studio, drawing historical precedent from Roger Fry’s Omega Workshops. It seeks to produce a series of utilitarian ceramics together with other decorative household items such as printed & woven textiles, wallpaper, painted furniture and hand painted murals. It draws inspiration from Cambridgeshire and specifically on the rich heritage of Art & Literature that surrounds Grantchester as a historic meeting place for writers, poets, artists & philosophers. The Grantchester Pottery is a fictitious nod towards this specific history whilst at the same time using it as a basis for conceptual departure.

In this exhibition works by The Grantchester Pottery’s associated artists will be presented together for the first time and framed by an adaptable stage set designed by the company. As with the convention of stage theatre, all works will face the same vantage point, towards a hypothetical audience. The visitor enters centre stage and is immersed in the set of a three act melodrama singularly aligned for an ideal and impossible vista.

The exhibition will comprise printed fabric, paintings, tapestries, ceramics, sculpture, and the realisation of three large painted murals by The Grantchester Pottery directly onto the gallery walls.

For further details about the exhibition and accompanying events visit: www.jerwoodvisualarts.org

Opening times: Mon – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat – Sun 10am – 3pm

Category: Fashion

Register now for this great bike ride from London – Paris in aid of sustainable fashion, hosted by the Ethical Justice Foundation!

This July a team of style-savvy adventure loving cyclists will saddle up for EJF’s Great Fashion Cycle riding 300 miles between two of the world’s most iconic cities – London and Paris – in aid of the Environmental Justice Foundation’s work defending the environment and protecting human rights in the cotton industry.
Whether it’s getting fit for fashion week or an excuse to be out of the office for a few sunny days in July, join us and get your friends and colleagues involved too!
Everything you need to know is on their website www.ejfoundation.org/londontoparis including a fantastic video from the 2009 ride to really get your motivated and get a feel for the spirit of this exciting event which includes a dress-up day in Paris as you cycle down the Champs-Élysées to finish under the Eiffel Tower (where a well earned glass of fizz will be waiting!).
Anyone can make it and the route, although challenging, is designed for people who don’t perhaps spend all their spare time on international cycle trips!
Get on your bike and together we can protect people and planet!

Category: Art

Sarah Gillett, I think I am an ominous decoration 2014.

The Loomings is an experimental exhibition of work by Sarah Gillett, the Pushing Print Solo Show Prize Winner 2013. It begins with her interest in landscape, memory and mythology… and ends in new imaginings of both real and fictional worlds. Unstuck in time, a strange collection of objects, drawings and prints warns of events long gone and events still to come. Nothing is quite what it appears to be in this installation at Margate Gallery.

Sarah Gillett, Palm Bay Cliftonville.

Sarah Gillett says 'I have started seeing meteorites everywhere; little interruptions or interventions in the pattern of life. In oil spills on tarmac, in ruins, in dirt splashes on train windows, in shattered mirrors.

Recently I walked past Tate Britain in London and spent ages studying the bomb-blasted, shell-shocked walls, damaged in the Second World War. Remnants of broken time, like a stopped clock.

I see these ‘loomings’ as occupying both fixed and hypothetical spaces, like the noonday shadow. At noon, objects cast a shadow on themselves, the shadow and the object becoming indivisible, two versions combined. The loomings have a physical reality, but when is this? Their presence is layered into my work before the event, during the event and after the event, as I alter old postcards and tapestries to shift perspectives. Like my shadow in the picture, the loomings are coming, but they have already left their trace.'

Sarah Gillett, Monoprint, Loomings.

Sarah Gillett, Newgate Gap And Bridge, Cliftonville.

Opening times: Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm, Sunday 12noon to 4pm, Closed on Monday.

Category: Art

The first show of 2015 at Brighton's No Walls Gallery is Masquerades and Silhouettes, the first solo show by renowned Bristol based artist Mr Penfold, focusing solely on the abstract side of his work.

Over the years, Penfold has gradually stripped back his work, focusing on the contrast between colour, texture and line work. Drawing inspiration from classic abstraction and minimalism, Masquerades and Silhouettes explores his love for iconic pop culture and clean crisp graphic painting.

Originally from Cambridge, Mr Penfold currently lives in Bristol. After leaving school he started working in a professional collaborative printmaking studio, making work for and with a number of internationally renowned artists and has developed a distinctive way of working and a range of imagery that is as striking as it is unmistakable.

Operating outside the traditional gallery system, No Walls Gallery represent some of the most exciting and innovative young artists, designers and illustrators working today. 2014 saw them host solo shows with Hattie Stewart, Lucy Sparrow, Ben Frost, Megamunden, Supermundane, Hayden Kays, Billy, Supermundane and Lynnie Zulu.

Their Brighton gallery, a beautiful 19th century former chapel in the heart of Brighton’s cultural quarter, can be found at 114 Church Street, directly opposite Brighton Dome.

Opening night Friday 30th January 6-9pm;
Opening times: Tuesday to Saturday 12-6; Sunday 12-4