<p dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;">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.</p><p dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;"><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"></p><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;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Celebrating 8 Years of Grow, July 2022</em></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;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Dance it up at the Grow</strong></h3><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;">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.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;"><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"></p><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;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">All My Friends, Record Shop open Wednesday-Sunday</em></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;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">The newest addition:&nbsp;</strong><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"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">All My Friends</strong></a></h3><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;">"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;</p><h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Astounding line-ups at the Colour Factory</strong></h3><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;">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;</p><h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Music, painting, performance central: Open House Hackney</strong></h3><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;">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.</p><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;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sofar Sounds at Two More Years, November</em></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;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Let's stick around:</strong><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;Two More Years</strong></h3><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;">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.</p><h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Thingy Radio</strong><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;is playing in the background</strong></h3><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;">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;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;"><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"></p><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;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Crate Brewery, Brixton Radio Thursdays</em></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;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Meet us at Queen's Yard!</strong></h3><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;"><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.</p><h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">We are in Michael Phelps' lane</strong></h3><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;">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.</p><h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Continuing the amusement park spirit from where we left off in the 1990s!</strong></h3><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;">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.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;">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;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;">It can be a stranger smiling at you from across the communal table, a contrabass playing Franz Schubert<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">,&nbsp;</strong>a painting on a museum wall, or a<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</strong>friend’s name on the screen. The romance of London is sudden, it is hidden in certain moments.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;"><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"></p><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;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">An idyllic moment in time</em></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;"><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; 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.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;"><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.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hazal</em></p>

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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.

🕯A space for All My Friends; an old-time romantic: Maggie Jones

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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.