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 On Saturday 22 December Blow
the Fuse presents its popular annual Christmas show The Emma Peel Fan
Club this year raising funds for RAWA, the Afghan women's organisation which
sponsors and arranges teachers, medical aid and other assistance for women and girls in
Afghanistan. The twelve-strong women's band will be playing their brand of classic 60's
soul and psychedelic rock at the Ocean in Mare Street. They are joined by special guests
Jackie Clune, Lorna Gee and DJ Ritu, plus there is the legendary dance competition, and
fancy dress prizes. It's from 8.00pm till 2.00am and tickets cost £15112 concs. These are
available from (by post) 76 Hawksley Road, London N16 OTJ, cheques to Emma Peel Fan Club
together with sae; Ticketmaster: www.ticketmaster.co.uk
(subject to booking fee); or the Ocean Box Office 020 7314 2800 (24 hours) or Info
Line 020 8533 0111 (1 10.00am-6.00pm).
The specially commissioned Crime and Punishment in Dalston
by David Farr begins at The Arcola Theatre on 3 January for a month. A
reworking of the Dostoyesky novel brings alienated youth up to date. On the exhibition
front to 6 January, the Arcola has Cengiz Ugur's 'Inerme Painting' inspired by the films
of Jean-Lue Godard.
Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola Street, E8 2DJ. Box Office 020 7503 1646.
On Sunday 9 December the Hackney Empire celebrates its
100th Birthday with Slim, Slick and The Babe featuring Clarke Peters,
Sharon D. Clarke and Clive Rowe. Tickets £25.
Bullion Room Theatre, 117 Wilton Way, E8 (behind the Hackney Empire).
Box Office 020 8985 2424.
You, yes you, are saving the Vortex. There's a new installation at the
Vortex. It's made of Vortex-labelled cleaning bottles that tip into a sink, only to be
stopped by the insertion of coins and notes and cheques. In three days, visitors to the
Vortex have stuffed in £400 pounds worth of blockage - all in aid of, you've guessed it,
preventing the Vortex f rom going down the sink.
'The vibes are just brilliant,' says David Mossman who runs the Vortex. It was David who
warned us all that once the lease expires in March 2002, and without a gob-stopping never
mind sink-stopping - amount of dosh, the Vortex would indeed disappear down a bathroom
appliance.
People are leaving cheques for £25 and £50. 'It's local people building a resource for
the community,' he enthuses, 'and if we get enough money we can offer rehearsal rooms,
facilities for workshops, one-to-one music lessons, a recording studio, never mind a
fabulous bar and venue, and a new shop selling instruments and sheet music.'
If you walk by the Vortex you'll already see the difference. An exhibition of paintings by
Geoff Mowlam in the downstairs gallery brings huge splashes of colour to Church Street.
And inside Brett Catterall, the Vortex's new chef, formerly of Smolensky's and the Dell
restaurant in Hyde Park, is cooking up a feast with a new menu ranging from fillet steak
sandwich, mushroom stroganoff and parmagiani to sausage and mash, and homemade cakes
(prices from £4.20 - £7.95).
Behind the scenes, Vortex hard-core supporters (lawyers by day) are securing a charitable
status for the club so that large donations can be received - private companies, the Arts
Council and the Musicians Union may be amongst the donors. After the benefit in his
honour, Elton John has said he may consider contributing to the Vortex campaign. Charlie
Watts, Rolling-Stone drummer and jazz musician extraordinaire, has offered to be the
club's patron.
What more could David want? Your help. Come on into the Vortex and put some paper money
into the sink-stopper. Then next time you want to get that sheet music for 'A Night in
Tunisia' or buy those extra-long key-boards, it could just be a trip to Stokey Church
Street away.
Still in Stoke Newington, The Kiosk Project at 55 Kynaston Road is
presenting Nina Saunders installation Forever between 18 January and 24
February. Showing for the first time in London, the work is a domestic setting which
'contains the stories and secrets of childhood, memory and time.' Ryan's Bar
on Church Street is showing an exhibition of Christopher Cockburn's Colourful
Zoology, an exhibition of linoprints of stylised animals. The exhibition runs
until 28 December and the prints are available for sale.
QUIZ ANSWERS |
26 The old Nevill
Pub on Nevill Road
27 Isaac Watts
28 Anna Barbauld, Seasons
29 Sir Gilbert Scot
30 Cambridge
31 A Christmas Carol
32 Water pumping station
33 Castle Climbing Centre
34 Stirling Castle
35 Balder
36 coral atoll
37 Zippo's
38 Stoke Newington First
39 Grinch beast?
40 Three Crowns
41 The Red Lion
42 The Rose And Crown
43 Horse and Groom
44 Rosa's
45 The Little Angel Puppet Theatre
46 The Stoke Newington West Reservoir
47 No
48 You'd drink it
49 Dick Turpin
50 The Night Before Christmas or A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore |
1 Hackney Brook
2 Routemaster
3 Richmond and North Woolwich
4 North Woolwich Railway Museum
5 SNAP - Stoke Newington Arts Project
6 1 hour 50min via Tottenham Hale
7 Loddiges
8 Woolwich
9 Salvation Army
10 Marks and Spencer
11 Camoflage paint
12 High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
13 Chelmsford, Essex
14 two
15 Dianne Abbott
16 twelve
17 Thomas Cubitt
18 King of Belgravia
19 Win her affection, With A1 Confection
20 Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
21 Restoration Room, Geffrye Museum
22 Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream within a dream
23 London City Airport
24 The Prince of Wales
25 Butterfield Green |
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