Folk Olympics: Mrs Basil Holmes – Gravestones, Greed & Old School Socks
Our musical tour of the Olympic boroughs reaches Hackney.
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Folk Olympics: Battles, Brothels And Broken Hearts – General James Wolfe
Meet the Greenwich warrior who sired 14 bastards.
Ho Ho Hoxton: Santa Writes Christmas Songs To Order
And pens this ditty for Londonist readers.
Folk Olympics: Of Cockney Mudlarks And Maori Chiefs
A song about a Greenwich mudlark who, improbably, became a Maori chief.
Folk Olympics: Angela Burdett-Coutts, Queen Of The East End Poor
Celebrating the Olympic boroughs in video and song.
Folk Olympics: Charlie Brown, Uncrowned King Of Limehouse
A boxer, a pub and a two-headed calf in Limehouse.
TONIGHT: Southwark Folk At Cuming Museum
Nigel of Bermondsey leads songs about Southwark
Last Minute Listing: Red Cross Bards
Nigel of Bermondsey and Vanessa Woolf-Hoyle lead songs, poems and stories in the Red Cross Way Garden, SE1 this evening. Open air poetics with open floor spots unfold between 5.30-7.30pm and all are welcome. This event is free and funded by Southwark Mysteries. Best take …
Blogger Sings His Way Through The East End
The Londonist inbox swells to Jupiter-like proportions each day with inane requests for coverage. Much of it is guff of the most guffsome guffishness. And then, every once in a while, we get beautiful non-guff like this: Over the course of a year I’m writing …
Stories & Songs For South London
On Sunday, Stories and Songs for South London come to the New Cross Inn. Tales of monsters in the blitz and setting Dulwich kids on fire (excellently, from this month’s issue of Smoke) will be spun, whilst songs come in the shape of an acoustic …
Comedy Review : Ginger And Black @ BAC, Clapham
Do you like musical comedy? Snappy jokes? A good old, proper belly-laugh? Comedy duo Ginger and Black would seem to fit the bill nicely. Their current show hit the BAC as part of the N20 Comedy Fesitval this week, and given the string of accolades …
