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Free stuff in London this weekend

Aaaargh it’s been another week when I forget to post anything all week and then it’s time for another weekend round-up. Fuck it, here goes:

Friday: Get your ass down to the Big Chill Bar off Brick Lane to see Stringer Bell from the Wire DJing. That’s not a joke. He’s an actual DJ too, not a DJ like Alexa Chung is a DJ, and he’ll be playing hip hop and soul FOR FREE.

Saturday: Go to Beat It at The Hideaway on Junction Road cos it’s awesome, it has a pretty little beer garden, and because I said so. Not just me though, this place is now endorsed by never-heard-of-her-before-today-singing-sensation Zarif, in this Londonist interview. And they’re involved in the Holloway Arts Festival in some way that’s not completely clear to me yet, which I’ll be blogging about at some point.

Sunday: Fix your hangover at the Summer Food Market at the Southbank Centre. The website says this:

A programme of free access demos, tastings and workshops runs each day; a special feature are workshops demonstrating the use of Japanese condiments, courtesy of Clearspring.



Free Ice Cream! Twice In One Week!
April 24, 2009, 7:34 pm
Filed under: Exhibitions, Food

On Free Cone Day, I was discussing with a friend how giving away free ice cream is probably the best way of marketing anything, and it appears I’m not the only one who thinks so.

This Sunday, at the Whitechapel Gallery, from 1pm, you’ll be able to get free ice cream as part of some sort of art project.

Now, I don’t really understand the aristic value of this project, although to be fair all I know about it is the free ice cream bit, but that’s enough to get me down there.

I’m not joking, I really don’t understand what this is about, so I’m just going to copy and paste from the website:

“To mark the end of this year’s Street project, Fleet Ice Cream Orchestra perform outside the Street Headquaters on Toynbee Street. Six vans from Honours Ice Cream play a specially created six part composition written by Kelvin Pawsey for the ice cream van horn.

Free ice cream will be served before and after the performance at The Shop as part of Minerva Cuevas’ S·COOP commission (while stocks last).”



Happy St George’s Day!
April 23, 2009, 12:14 pm
Filed under: Food

Quite a specific freebie to celebrate St George’s Day…

A couple of London restaurants are letting ‘George’s and ‘Georgina’s (although neither of them mention Georgias?) eat for free today!

One in The Park Terrace in Kensington, which is offering a free two course lunch or dinner, and the other is the St Pancaras Grand, where you can get whatever you want!

So if you’re a George  or Georgina- of if, like me, you have a friend called George you can convince to go halves- take your pick!



Free Ice Cream!!!!!!!!
April 21, 2009, 7:07 am
Filed under: Food

No way… free ice cream? Seriously?

Yes! It’s true- today is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s. Find out where you can get yours, here.

Watch out though, they try to trick you. In the UK, it’s not actually a free cone “day” as such, more of an extended happy hour. Free cones are available 1-5pm.

You’re welcome :-)




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