Isabelle’s 22nd birthday dinner.

20:47 Friday June 9, 2017

Franco Manca, Soho, London

Fact: Franco Manca is a sourdough pizza business with 36 pizzeria in London and southern England. The first store was opened on Market Row Brixton Market in 2008. Franco Manca serves six items on the menu, the pizza is made from slow-rising sourdough and is baked in a wood burning oven at 500°c (900°F). This system was originally developed by the Greek settlers who in the 5th century BC founded Neapolis (New Town). They adapted a pre-existing baking tradition to develop this new ‘Pita’, which through experimentation, luck and linguistic distortions, became pizza.

Polling Day. I registered to vote in the 2017 UK general election, and as it turned out our polling booth was 30m from the front door.

20:49 Thursday June 8, 2017

St Michaels C of E Church, Stoke Newington, London

Fact: For a party to be able to form a Government and its leader to become Prime Minister, it needs to win more than half the seats in the House of Commons – 326. The party that wins the second largest number of seats becomes the main opposition party and its leader the ‘leader of the opposition’. Basic but key.

Fancy.

21:22 Wednesday June 6, 2017

Hampstead Heath, London

Fact:

My super talented and uber cool friend Leah Mason just re-emerged onto the scene as MINKE and this was her secret warm up show ahead of performing at Bushstock Festival this weekend. Her track Gold Angel has been streamed over 3 million times on Spotify. We became friends working together at a pub (as a second job) in Fulham back in 2012-13. The pay was awful and nobody tipped but it was still a laugh.

21:22 Tuesday June 5, 2017

The Islington, London

Fact: Lindsay Lohan used MINKE’s ‘Gold Angel as a soundtrack to a fireside meditation on Instagram in a post last month.

I thought I’d forgotten to take a photo today but then realised I sent my good friend Diana a picture of her favourite beer on special!

19:05 Monday June 5, 2017

Sainsbury’s, Stoke Newington, London

Fact:

Moulin Rouge is the latest film to get the Secret Cinema treatment and my good friend Jen invited me along.

18:23 Sunday June 4, 2017

Canning Town, London

Fact:

I met my friend Rohan here for a drink after leaving a failed night out in Camden, going to Voodoo Rays in Dalston (pizza for one) and then hearing the news about the London Bridge attacks from a friend checking in from Australia. We were on the fresh orange juices and it was the best move I made all night.

23:48 Saturday June 3, 2017

Ridley Road Market Bar, Hackney, London

Fact:

I was given an iPhone fan add-on at work to celebrate ‘Summer Fridays’ where in theory you leave work early afternoon on a Friday between June and August after putting in extra time during the week. I walked into my friends BBQ and ‘saved the day’, giving life to a not-yet-flaming BBQ. I was feeling quite anxious for my new iPhone 7 but all ended well.

19:58 Friday June 2, 2017

Balham, London

Fact:

Checking out this new addition to the Shoreditch scene in the name of a surprise dinner for Anita’s birthday.

20:15 Thursday June 1, 2017

The Curtain Hotel & Members Club, Shoreditch, London

Fact: A six-storey hotel and members’ club on Curtain Road costing £70 million and having taken four years to build, featuring 120 rooms for hotel guests, a rooftop pool, spa and screening room, as well as a members-only basement drinking den, Billy’s Bar, an ornate, flower-garlanded Imperial Rose Room for members to hang out and work in, and a live-music space, LP. Even more impressive, it will host the first London outpost of Red Rooster, open to bookings from non members, from Marcus Samuelsson, the Michelin-starred darling of the New York food scene, who served as guest chef for Barack Obama’s first-ever state dinner as President.

Louis Berry; rock & roll in it’s purest form. One of those few shows free of iPhone screens in place of people just having a good time in the moment.

21:40 Wednesday May 31, 2017

KOKO, Camden, London

Fact: Louis Berry is a singer/songwriter from Liverpool whose rock & roll sound is heavily influenced by Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis. Recording in Nashville with legendary producer Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Kings of Leon), his album looks set to come out sometime in 2018.