Spendo Comes to Europe
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I wouldn't know what to recommend live music wise (have you checked resident advisor? More club stuff really) but my two favourite Hackney pubs were biddle brothers on lower Clapton Lane and the Prince George, parkholme Road I think.
Really you should just walk all around Hackney, London fields, Victoria Park. There's a nice bunch of Vietnamese restaurants near where we'll street branches off Cambridge heath Road. There might be something going on on vyner Street.
All this information is 15 years old though.
If you're staying at Fish Island and the weather isn't too shit you should walk down the River Lea towards Springfield Park. The woodlands/marshes/Middlesex filter beds are all worth a wander.
For live music Cafe Oto has stuff on every night. Forum favourite Mark Fell is there Sunday.
For live music Cafe Oto has stuff on every night. Forum favourite Mark Fell is there Sunday.
craner
Beast of Burden
This is actually the Dissensus Golden Triangle, it's the site upon which the forum was founded. It would be a pilgrimage to go there.
sufi
lala
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
The mediocrity!
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Next best thing to watching London football
sus
Moderator
Some first impressions
Edmund—nice silent type masculine brooding energy but kind
Luka—no idea, I was plastered and didn't have much of an observation window
Sufi—very friendly happy presence lots of joie de vivre would 100% get cancelled in the States for his love of brown culture seems to have lived a very adventurous life has a whole harem (maybe it's an Islam thing?) multiple wives dozens of children, uses the word "lovely" a lot
Edmund—nice silent type masculine brooding energy but kind
Luka—no idea, I was plastered and didn't have much of an observation window
Sufi—very friendly happy presence lots of joie de vivre would 100% get cancelled in the States for his love of brown culture seems to have lived a very adventurous life has a whole harem (maybe it's an Islam thing?) multiple wives dozens of children, uses the word "lovely" a lot
sus
Moderator
I apologize for my lackluster field notes on the poets, I tried to get a little more but they are some combination of reclusive &/or don't like me very much 😆 you could tell from Edmund he was doing his best to be hospitable and welcoming despite skepticism, while with Luka he had no qualms on this front, brazen distrust and suspicion of the American
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sus
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Edmund went tu-thunk, tu-thunk over and over on the cobblestones with his rolly cart (chair, sign, typewriter etc). We met up at Kings Head Yard pub very OG London spot apparently, old-fashioned all shoulders no urinals you just piss in a trough, Brits kept getting successive rounds of double-whiskeys and pints (simultaneously, "and" not "or") every 15 minutes, by 11pm we were completely plastered, I never drink haven't drank in ages but I have a natural aptitude, always been able to handle my liquor well, in college I could drink anyone under the table, whereas Luka couldn't handle the heat he knew he was in deep trouble the way I was keeping up, he'd really screwed himself, shamefacedly turned toward home to pass out (not in front of the 'murican he thought to himself) and was so hungover the next day he skipped work on the Thames
IdleRich
IdleRich
Edmund gave you a very positive review actually.