Purple Hibiscus at the Barbican Centre
"A new artwork by Ibrahim Mahama transforms our Lakeside Terrace, enveloping the building’s iconic concrete walls with approximately 2000 square metres of bespoke woven cloth."
Location check in 🗺 — Founder’s Arms. Young’s Special beer 🍺
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Location check in 🗺 — Barbican Centre
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Location check in 🗺 — Hackney Empire to see Lankum perform _ False Lankum_ 🎵
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Location check in 🗺 — Abney Park Cemetery
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Stoke Newington has changed a lot since I lived there in 1982/3.
Very continental! Made in France wine merchant on Church Street, Stoke Newington. Sparkling burgundy 🤷🏼♂️🍷🇫🇷
Sunny afternoon in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington. Small picnic of beer, olives and crisps 🌞
Location check in 🗺 — Clissold Park, Stoke Newington 🌞
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I’ve been dipping my toes into the Hipstamstic world again. The app has improved a lot since the last time I used it (about a year ago) 📸
🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:
Paul Weller (24 plays)
Kavus Torabi (8)
MC5 (6)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1)
Hotel rooftop bar serving a microbrewery IPA 🍺😊
Location check in 🗺 — Kingsland Locke, Dalston
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Location check in 🗺 — National Express coach, Cardiff to London 🚌
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Finished reading: Buried by Alice Roberts 📚
My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:
Maurizio Pollini (10 plays)
Hozier (9)
MC5 (8)
Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra, Schwanewilms, Dever, Groves, Hawlata (8)
Brittany Howard (5)
Bristol. Walking back to my daughter’s flat in the early morning.
7th May 🎵
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 was first performed in Vienna on 7th May 1824. Today in 2024 is its 200th anniversary.
Johannes Brahms was born on 7th May 1833.