It might not seem like it at first glance, but London can be a romantic city. It can cross your path unexpectedly, after the rain, in the form of a rainbow on top of another while you were trying to catch a meeting. In the middle of the road, you stand, and a couple of green stoplights pass by. You are mesmerized. Another morning, at the crack of a dawn, you are at Elephant and Castle. This can be considered unromantic. It’s the after of a night out at Corsica Studios, everyone is trying to find an Uber, the prices are up to £45, and you decide to walk 52 minutes home, accompanied by acquaintances you just met on the dance floor. The sun rises slowly in between the skyscrapers, the view is the Pantone painted by the clouds.&nbsp;It can be a stranger smiling at you from across the communal table, a contrabass playing Franz Schubert,&nbsp;a painting on a museum wall, or a&nbsp;friend’s name on the screen. The romance of London is sudden, it is hidden in certain moments.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/11/2/1670329931299.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="0.74" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><h4 fr-original-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">An idyllic moment in time</h4><hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">This week we are at the Wick, following the tunes that are turning into an amorous melody; but beforehand, we drop by Maggie Jones, an old-time romantic.<a fr-original-style="" href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6nrUDtBBWBKuSDofJpphDd" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Gotan Project - Época</a> is playing in the background.Hazal

In the 15th AKA '🕯A space for All My Friends; an old-time romantic: Maggie Jones'&nbsp;issueHopping&nbsp;(What’s going on in London: Hand-picked and unmissable events): This week it’s your chance to see Seaming at IKLECTIK; attend Ottolenghi book launch Extra Good Things; walk-in Patterns Weekly Live Jazz at NT’S; plan ahead to see BAFTA-winning Paul Mescal on the scene of Almeida Theater.What’s Cooking (Selected places to eat, drink, cafés, food markets): An old time romantic: Maggie JonesAn Arbitrary Guide (A subjective, opionated guide): To Hackney Wick, as the locals would call it 'Wick'. We are in the search of a winsome tune, turning into a melody that lasts.

IN THE DOORWAY

Walk-in<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/11/5/1669980889631.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.50" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></h2><h4 fr-original-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Wednesdays at NT'S Loft</h4><hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Patterns Weekly Live Jazz</h2>What it is? Jazz improvisation. Every Wednesday, <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ntloft.co.uk/jazz-nights?utm_source=aposto" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Patterns</a> brings together some of London's finest musicians.Where? NT’SWhen? 5 DecemberWhy should you go? To listen to improvisations from jazz to soul, broken-beat to hip hop and beyond.Duly noted: During the weekdays from 9:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. , <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.montyandcompany.uk/?utm_source=aposto" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">MONTY &amp; Co.</a> serves food at NT’S, a perfect spot for freelancers.

Last chance<h4 fr-original-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/11/5/1669980698828.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.78" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Yotam Ottolenghi &amp; Noor Murad</h4><hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Yotam Ottolenghi &amp; Noor Murad: An Extra Good Night</h2>What it is? Book Launch. <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/talks-debates/yotam-ottolenghi-noor-murad-extra-good-night?eventId=916063&utm_source=aposto" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Yotam Ottolenghi</a> and Noor Murad, the team behind the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen are introducing their latest cookbook: Extra Good Things.Where? Royal Festival HallWhen? 7 DecemberWhy should you go? To observe how everyday ingredients can be transformed into dishes with oomph, to be able to ask which secret condiments make Ottelenghi’s authentic dishes.Duly noted: Tickets are £20 for the balcony, going up to £45 for the front seats.

<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/11/5/1669980539599.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.51" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></h2><h4 fr-original-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Seaming To</h4><hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Club Integral presents: Seaming</h2>What it is? Album preview. For Dust Gatherers, a new release by <a fr-original-style="" href="https://iklectikartlab.com/club-integral-7/?utm_source=aposto" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Seaming</a>. She is described as &nbsp;'An astonishing vocalist of haunting emotional power' by The Guardian.Where? IKLECTIK, SE1 7LGWhen? 9 DecemberWhy should you go? To get acquainted with composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Seaming. Pianist Carolyn Hume and drummer Paul May are joined by Tim Hodgkinson for this one-off performance. Hume and May have been recording and performing together since 2002.Duly noted: The first act starts at 7:30 p.m., <a fr-original-style="" href="https://buytickets.at/iklectik/773684?utm_source=aposto" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">tickets</a> are £7.

<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/11/5/1669981008345.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.00" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></h2><h4 fr-original-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Hel Covell blanket design for Slowdown Studio</h4><hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">DIY Christmas Art Market</h2>What it is? Christmas Market. This is a different kind of Christmas Market where you can meet a diverse community of artists and publishers.Where? Rich Mix Arts ClubWhen? 10 DecemberWhy should you go? <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.beeillustrates.co.uk?utm_source=aposto" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Beeillustrates</a>; Bristol-based illustrator and tattoo artist <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/poppycrew/?hl=en&utm_source=aposto" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Poopy Crew</a>; a freelance illustrator from Yorkshire based in London <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.helcovell.com/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Hel Covell</a> are amongst the 80 talented people that would showcase their works at the market.Duly noted: Follow <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/diyartmarket/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">their Instagram</a> for more events. There are 2 more markets coming up: 11 February Ceramics Market at the Copeland Park/Bussey Building and 12 February Grown &amp; Thrown, a ceramics and houseplant market.

Plan ahead<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/11/5/1669981111950.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.62" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></h2><h4 fr-original-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">A streetcar named desire rehearsal</h4><hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">A streetcar named desire</h2>What it is? Play. Following her Summer and Smoke production, Rebecca Frecknall takes on another Tennessee Williams masterpiece: <a fr-original-style="" href="https://ticketing.almeida.co.uk/events/5849?utm_source=aposto" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">A streetcar named desire.</a>Where? Almedia TheaterWhen? 12 December – 4 FebruaryWhy should you go? To watch on the scene BAFTA-winning Paul Mescal (Normal People) as Stanley.Duly noted: The show is sold-out, let’s expect some additional days or tickets transfered from friends of friends who can’t make it.

<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/11/5/1669981163492.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.58" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></h2><h4 fr-original-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Marianne Werefkin, The Return, 1909</h4><hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Making Modernism</h2>What it is? Exhibition. <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/making-modernism?utm_source=aposto" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Making Modernism</a> takes women working in Germany in the early 1900s in its center: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kӓthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin.Where? Royal Academy of ArtsWhen? Until 12 February 2023Why should you go? To meet Gabriele Günter, a founder member of the Blue Rider, the art group at the heart of German Expressionism or Paula Modersohn-Becker who in the 1880s, studied with the renowned Russian artist Ilya Repin, who compared her to Rembrandt.Duly noted: This is the last week to catch William Kentridge, South Africa’s most celebrated living artist at the Royal Academy of Arts.

HOPPING

I’m not exactly qualified on what makes an anniversary date great, unlike picking a spot for an anniversary date, which I’ve been doing for years in consultation with friends and strangers. Recommendations for the celebration of two unique people should always be catered around their preferences and dynamics. A rare pop-up dinner might be an exquisite anniversary spot for a self-proclaimed foodie couple, while an establishment restaurant could do better in celebrating the everlasting veteran love of an established couple (dimly lit spaces do not fit the latter as it’s as difficult to read the menu without using the light of the phone) after a certain age.<img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/11/1/1670281988931.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="0.80" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><h4 fr-original-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Maggie Jones spread</h4><hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">However, one restaurant in London makes it to all lists for important special occasions (in the biblical sense): <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/maggiejonesrestaurant/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Maggie Jones</a>. Rustic and romantic, Maggie Jones serves a hearty and classic menu in a candle-lit atmosphere. The nostalgic but not antique, ornamental but not flashy decorations filling the space make the perfect excuse to look around when one realises they were lost in the eyes of their loved one for too long. The wooden cubicles upstairs give couples breathing room without isolating them completely.What to eat: The food at Maggie Jones consists of rich classics, heavily leaning on meats accompanied by butterful sauces and vegetable sides. It’s the kind of British place where desserts are categorised as puddings.Where: Tucked in the alley at 6 Old Court Place, Kensington Church Street, W8 4PL

The ultimate restaurant for the ultimate special occasion. 

AN OLD-TIME ROMANTIC: MAGGIE JONES

WHAT'S COOKING?

Hackney Wick - Wick as it is known in the neighbourhood - where many asphalt, paper and silk factories were established, became the centre of artists' workshops in the 2000s and the base of many urban transformation projects after the construction of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Today, we are wandering the streets of Wick, where the communal life in the warehouses has shifted to galleries and music venues. The aim is to find where the jazz tunes and afro-beats are coming from.<img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/11/1/1670237728276.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.50" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><h4 data-content-field="title" fr-original-style="text-align: center;" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Celebrating 8 Years of Grow, July 2022</h4><hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Dance it up at the Grow</h3>In London, it is not customary to party until the first light of the morning - of course, this doesn’t apply to the summer months, but it is pitch black at the moment. Pubs close their doors at 11:00 p.m. and nightclubs at 1:00 a.m. <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.growhackney.co.uk/events-calendar?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Grow</a> in Hackney Wick is an exception to this. Here you can find live jazz jam on Thursdays; &nbsp;neo-soul, club 90s/00s; dancehall/ reggae/bashment, old school garage on Fridays; open mic poetry nights on Tuesdays or Matt Johnson, who is for the last 20-years, has been the keyboard player for Jamiroquai.<img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/11/1/1670238271189.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.34" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><h4 fr-original-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">All My Friends, Record Shop open Wednesday-Sunday</h4><hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">The newest addition:&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.allmyfriends.uk?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">All My Friends</a></h3>"A place for the friends we have met along the way. A place for all the people we've yet to met." This is how co-founder Stuart Glen describes the space we are in. A record shop where you can buy, sell and listen to the dance tunes on a rainy afternoon; Sho Foo Doh cooking Japanese style okonomiyaki in the kitchen, serving small (un)familiar dishes; sourdough pizza from <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.truecraftlondon.co.uk/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">True Craft</a>; a laid back, listening bar style hang-out where you keep being mesmerized by the music coming from the hi-fidelity sound system as we would describe.&nbsp;<h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Astounding line-ups at the Colour Factory</h3>Orii Jam on Monday night until 11:55 p.m. (yes, you heard it well). HOWL hosting LGBTQ+ collectives. Secretsundaze kicking 2023 with a 1 January day rave. <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.colourfactory.com/whatson?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">The Colour Factory</a> has a wondrous way of lining up the night.&nbsp;<h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Music, painting, performance central: Open House Hackney</h3>Artist residencies, exhibitions in the gallery on the ground floor, a multi-purpose events space &amp; recording studio complex. On weeknights when you pass by the <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.openhousehackney.com/open-house-hall?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Open House Hackney</a>, you can be captivated by an oboe performance and find yourself in an ongoing party.<h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/11/1/1670238206872.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.00" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></h3><h4 fr-original-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Sofar Sounds at Two More Years, November</h4><hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Let's stick around:&nbsp;Two More Years</h3>Stour Space - closed. In search of a quiet place with coffee during the day, one of the locals suggested Two More Years. What a strange name we thought. Two more years was the time left in the contract when they opened it before the building would enter urban transformation. They are spending whatever time left opening exhibition spaces for local artists, boasting 11 studios for local creatives and dancing on weekends. Who knows, maybe <a fr-original-style="" href="https://twomoreyears.co.uk/whats-on/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Two More Years</a>, like Oslo House, will win by resisting.<h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Thingy Radio&nbsp;is playing in the background</h3>While waiting for your coffee or soup at Thingy, you can look at the works of local artists on the shelves around you and listen to reggae choirs in three-hour <a fr-original-style="" href="https://open.spotify.com/user/chloeround/playlist/7iGG9vjWIXgpZcgJgKTc7c?si=4jQposkNQ-ujkoonYLJS2w&utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Spotify lists</a>.&nbsp;<img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/11/1/1670238501912.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.28" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><h4 fr-original-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Crate Brewery, Brixton Radio Thursdays</h4><hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Meet us at Queen's Yard!</h3><a fr-original-style="" href="https://cratebrewery.com/events?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Crate</a>'s own production beers, creative lamps made of quilt springs, Brixton radio’s residency vinyl nights every Thursday; concerts at The Colour Factory, even vegan markets; <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.oldstreetbrewery.com/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Old Street Brewery</a>'s nachos, cheering teams on match days and the courtyard environment in general. Queen’s Yard is the festival area of Hackney Wick, no matter what season it is.<h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">We are in Michael Phelps' lane</h3>The London Aquatics Centre, designed by Zaha Hadid Architecture for the Olympics, is the neighbourhood pool of Wick residents today. You feel as if you are swimming in the 50-metre lane following Michael Phelps. The music is coming from under the water this time if you have a nifty playlist. <a fr-original-style="" href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ZXsI4OXGfMO0Xy1DCb8QU?si=82e4RfOZSZKZoI40zehmJw&utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Here is one</a> we have.<h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Continuing the amusement park spirit from where we left off in the 1990s!</h3>Not all games are played on screens! There are still places where you can play by throwing coins into the machine like in the amusement parks of the 1990s. At <a fr-original-style="" href="https://fourquarters.bar/location/arcade-bar-east-london/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Four Quarters</a> you can find classics like Pac-Man, Street Fighter, Space Freebird, and Sega Rally. With a beer.

Today, we are wandering the streets of Wick, where the communal life in the warehouses has shifted to galleries and bars that open their doors to Queens Yard. We are following the beats, the tunes and the melodies of the neigbourhood.

TO HACKNEY WICK TUNES

AN ARBITRARY GUIDE

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This week the road leads us to the Wick, in the search of a winsome tune. But beforehand, let's honour an old-time romantic: Maggie Jones, in the heart of Kensington.