Might be worth a trip to Battersea Powerstation, new shopping centre, you could get thames Uber boat back.
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Tryouts? It’s a facebook page.
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Thanks yeah, tryouts. Ah, Thought it might be a Facebook thing, i deleted my acct a few years back. Will ask a friend to keep an eye out for me tho 
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Thanks, I have been following that insta page for a while, but they don’t seem to announce club dates through it, unless it’s via stories or something that I’ve missed.
cant wait to check that out, looks amazing
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So was in town for the weekend following a brief detour to Brighton for my Dad’s 82nd. No great parties or anything but a nice break, aided and abetted by optimal pub garden weather. Still can’t get over how much the Docklands has changed. We stayed at a Point.A b&b across the water from Canary Wharf and outside there were these little hermetically sealed floating jacuzzi life rafts floating about, a metaphor perhaps for the suspended reality of that whole area, where big money seems to physically loom large over everywhere.
We stopped off at the Pizza Pilgrims (not somewhere I ever expected to hear Sworn Virgins ‘Fifty Dollar Bills’, nor somewhere I would have expected to find the Spanish cousin of a Fulham player and his travelling mates from Murcia, all excited about visiting Craven Cottage the next day). That feeling of strange displacement also followed us to the St Katharines Community Project further along the DLR line where somebody had put up a yurt cafe in a lovely garden, that does excellent sausage sandwiches, which if you blinked could easily have been a chintzy boutique festie somewhere in the country.
We walked for miles through Wapping, Cable Street, all these legendary places in London folklore and stopped off at the Museum, where there is a current exhibition on the history of the mudlarks who scavenged the Thames over centuries. The Samuel Smiths boozer on the north side of the river was mobbed. £7 a pint in there… old enough to remember when it was just shy of £2 at The Chandos… evidently been gone a long time.
We saw 2 mates and had a skinful around Farringdon. The ghosts of parties past still reverberate all around. Turnmills just a gleaming office block, although I noticed The Castle was still there on the corner. Following someone’s recommendation on here, we also made it to Coals Drop Yard at King’s Cross, which was buzzing with thousands of people mooching or sat around (someone was DJing but I couldn’t make much out beyond the Crystal Waters). Again, it’s so eerie when you half-recognise somewhere, trying to work out where The Key and Canvas had once stood, wondering how many people around you had any inkling of what it was like to hear Rolando or Greg Wilson for the first time, literally yards away. On the corner of York Way, I had once emerged blinking into the light and seen local kids on the corner dispensing pills from a carrier bag, whereas now there were just groups of women on the Pinot.
The journey home was horrific. Following an excellent roast at the Star of the East we thought we were booked from City but I somehow got mixed up and it was actually Heathrow. Cue panic (my missus as per usual saved the day with a far cooler head) and we hotfooted across town.
Each visit back is certainly different to the previous…
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I’ll be in London late September and mid October. I haven’t been since I was a teenager, and looking for any and all recommendations, especially record store, boozers, walks/parks, and any off-the-beaten-path things to do around that time of year. We’re staying somewhere central, I believe, and happy explore beyond.
Berwick Street / Poland St still good for rekids
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Probably the most amount of good record shops within short walking distance of each other in London.
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