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Saint Etienne do the honours once again for a rare perform of ‘How We Used To Live’ with live soundtrack at NFT1 on London’s Southbank at 9.30pm on Friday 24th July. The screening forms part of a season of over 200 films about London shown by the BFI this summer (details below). The film will be followed by a DJ set from Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs and Travis Elborough in the Benugo Bar. This is the last live soundtrack performance for the forceable future so it’s likely the event will sell out quickly. Tickets go on sale at 11.30am today (9th June) priced just £16 or £12 concs and are available here: http://bit.ly/1dZCcbf

The V is for Victoria. But the A came as a surprise. Alexandra rather than Albert: the old Queen’s daughter in law, rather than her much-mourned German consort, with his hall, memorial and a kind of piercing….

Read on or not, as the case may be:
http://chisenhale.org.uk/archive/offsite/index.php?id=37

“London changes so constantly that we barely notice it, but many famous neighbourhoods and landmarks in London have vanished and been forgotten. Conversely, in 1957, the River Thames was declared biologically dead yet today it teems with over 125 species of fish. Tom Bolton, (The Vanished City: London’s Lost Neighbourhoods), Caitlin Davies, whose latest book Downstream is a celebration of swimming the Thames and Travis Elborough, (London Bridge in America and The Bus We Loved) consider the shifting pieces of the capital.”

Tickets £4 more info here:

https://billetto.co.uk/london-lost-found