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Well, it's a solution to my track 18 problem, but it's a very confusing one.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6vKRQTicFjg6jKhQQ1G0Ei?si=0oqw6aVpQB2A2ePw1OTExA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3rWYffxEyI
The Devil Set My Takkies On Fire: Pick Of The Year 2020
tackie /ˈtaki/ noun, informal, South African plural noun: takkies 1. a rubber-soled canvas sports shoe. 2. a tyre. Hopefully that clears that one up. (Although it's possible it might be trackies - I tried asking one of the songwriters on Twitter, but never heard back. Still, the newly topical ...
Oh, that's a nice touch - I saw he was narrating, didn't spot that he was in it too. And, as you probably know, Chuck himself is serving behind the bar. https://twitter.com/vashikoo/status/1017649512234475521
Simian Substitute Site for January 2021: Year Of The Monkey
MONTH END PROCESSING FOR DECEMBER 2020 [one-line despatches from a lockdown Christmas] Comedy: Just the Tonic New Year's Eve Special: the closest thing available to our usual NYE night out, a fine collection of comics both big (Al Murray, Romesh Ranganathan) and small (Daliso Chaponda's only re...
Yeah, sorry about that: I liked the visual style, but the song really didn't do it for me. In my defence, I'd suggest that the BAA is a major part of this country's animation scene, and there should be more than just one internet rando writing reviews of the films in the Public Choice section - why isn't anyone else doing this? Anyway, here's the link again so the rest of you can judge for yourselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kbvsClU12Q
British Animation Awards 2020
A Tale Of The Before Times (#3 of 5) The British Animation Awards started in 1996. Every two years since then, there's been a ceremony dishing out gongs to the finest animated films, short and long, that have been produced in this country. For me, the most interesting part of the awards is the...
The BBG has pointed out that I forgot to mention one of the highlights of Japan Matsuri Presents. Minyo Crusaders are a band that performs old Japanese folk songs, but in the musical styles of every country in the world other than Japan.
https://minyocrusaders.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-of-japan
Simian Substitute Site for October 2020: The Flying Monkey Movie House and Performance Center
MONTH END PROCESSING FOR SEPTEMBER 2020 Food and Drink: The last six months have seen lots of real world events pivoting to video, but the staunchly traditional Great British Beer Festival has to be the most unexpected one yet. CAMRA came up with a similar idea to the one BrewDog used for their...
As you can imagine, Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 is looking rather different from the 2019 edition. For one thing, it's all online so you don't even need to go to Sheffield any more.
https://selects.sheffdocfest.com/
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019
Here's how good Sheffield's documentary film festival is - that picture there is of a film we saw by accident. Taking a break in between screenings to indulge in our two favourite food groups at self-explanatory restaurant Craft & Dough, at one point I look out of the window we're sat next to a...
This'll blow your mind: scroll down any amount from the top of any page, and watch out for the blue arrows that appear at the bottom left and bottom right corners...
Spank's LFF Diary, Wednesday 02/10/2019
Reviewed today: Leap Of Faith, Maggie. 6.30pm: Maggie [trailer] It's funny how, in recent years, so many of my London Film Festivals have started off at the ICA, as a cheaper and more interesting alternative to the glitz of the Opening Gala across town. This time last year, for example, I was ...
Ah, balls, it's closed again.
https://kmflett.wordpress.com/2019/09/29/brewdog-angel-permanently-closed/
BrewDogging #24 v2: Angel
[Previously: Bristol, Camden, Newcastle, Birmingham, Shoreditch, Aberdeen, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Kungsholmen, Leeds, Shepherd's Bush, Nottingham, Sheffield, Dog Tap, Tate Modern†, Clapham Junction, Roppongi, Liverpool, Dundee, Bologna, Florence, Brighton, Dog Eat Dog Angel, Brussels,...
Kat - Full maps of the Mile do exist out there - like this one https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1qOln6LfuHW_qZWVVvWzA6-rYlHQ&ll=51.498415722518835%2C-0.07049506088253565&z=16 - but our thinking was that it's far too big and rapidly-changing nowadays for a single map to cover it sensibly. That's why we've chosen to plot a series of individual maps between one bar and the next - click on the distance figures above to pull those up.
The Bermondsey Beer Mile: An Unofficial Introduction
For those of you who don't know: the Bermondsey Beer Mile is a loose amalgamation of brewery bars and bottle shops, located along a stretch of railway arch that's closer to two miles long nowadays. The one thing they have in common is that they're all open at roughly the same time on a Saturda...
Press release from uBrew, dated yesterday. So it wasn't *exactly* a refurb, then...
http://ubrew.cc/SOP/UBREW%20-%20PRESS%20RELEASE%20.pdf
uBrew
Location: 29-30 Old Jamaica Business Estate, 24 Old Jamaica Road Opening hours: closed down in September 2019 Other days: n/a Official site: https://ubrew.cc/ Last updated: 30/12/2019 Back when it used to exist, uBrew was our first industrial estate bar on the route, which presumably explaine...
Warren - My guess would be that most of them will be closed - a lot of them don't open on Mondays anyway, and it wouldn't make much difference whether it was a Bank Holiday or not. Bear in mind a lot of these places are working breweries first, bars second, and they like to take holidays too! Still, each bar is a separate case and will have their own plans. Probably best to check their individual websites and associated social media feeds and see what their plans are.
The Bermondsey Beer Mile: An Unofficial Introduction
For those of you who don't know: the Bermondsey Beer Mile is a loose amalgamation of brewery bars and bottle shops, located along a stretch of railway arch that's closer to two miles long nowadays. The one thing they have in common is that they're all open at roughly the same time on a Saturda...
Luke - Thanks for letting us know. I've put a placeholder on this page for the new bar, and we'll pop round to review it at some point in the near future. Best of luck to them/you (delete as appropriate).
The Bermondsey Beer Mile: An Unofficial Introduction
For those of you who don't know: the Bermondsey Beer Mile is a loose amalgamation of brewery bars and bottle shops, located along a stretch of railway arch that's closer to two miles long nowadays. The one thing they have in common is that they're all open at roughly the same time on a Saturda...
Well, this doesn't look good. http://beerinsider.com/statement-from-andrew-morgan-founder-the-bottle-shop/
The Bottle Shop
Location: 128 Druid Street Opening hours: closed down in March 2019 Other days: n/a Official site: https://bottle.shop/ Last updated: 23/06/2019 In the old days, it was simple: the Bermondsey Beer Mile was all about breweries that had opened up inside the railway arches, which would double up...
Clemmie - hope you're happy with the compromise of keeping Bone Daddies in here, but making it clearer it's a restaurant rather than a brewery or bar. Don't forget to eat, readers!
The Bermondsey Beer Mile: An Unofficial Introduction
For those of you who don't know: the Bermondsey Beer Mile is a loose amalgamation of brewery bars and bottle shops, located along a stretch of railway arch that's closer to two miles long nowadays. The one thing they have in common is that they're all open at roughly the same time on a Saturda...
Sam - I think Hawkes would be your best bet: their upstairs room with big telly did a roaring trade during the World Cup last year, and it looks like they're planning to do the same with the rugby. https://www.facebook.com/events/1997523987213949/
The version of this comment I posted earlier today concluded with this sentence: "As far as I know, the only other bar on the Mile that's ever shown an interest in televised sport is London Calling Sweden, though I suspect that would only be useful here if Sweden suddenly became one of the Six Nations." Well, my apologies to the Swedes, because it looks like they're showing it too. https://londoncallingsweden.com/the-2019-six-nations/
The Bermondsey Beer Mile: An Unofficial Introduction
For those of you who don't know: the Bermondsey Beer Mile is a loose amalgamation of brewery bars and bottle shops, located along a stretch of railway arch that's closer to two miles long nowadays. The one thing they have in common is that they're all open at roughly the same time on a Saturda...
Cassius - To give each of your points the attention it deserves:
- There was a mix-up on our part between 98 Druid Street (the old home of The Kernel) and 118 Druid Street (currently home of Anspach & Hobday). That's now been corrected in the post.
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Fourpure
Location: 22 Bermondsey Trading Estate Opening hours: Saturday 1100-2000 Other days: Sunday 1200-2000, Tuesday-Thursday 1200-2000, Friday 1200-2100 Official site: https://www.fourpure.com/ Last updated: 28/12/2018 One final walk in the direction of the Trading Estate (look for the Screwfix si...
James (assuming you're both the same James) - Yes, we've checked you out this month and liked what we saw. Post has been updated accordingly.
The Barrel Project
Location: 80 Druid Street Opening hours: Saturday 1100-2300 Other days: Sunday 1200-1900, Wednesday-Friday 1600-2300 Official site: https://www.thebarrelproject.co.uk/ Last updated: 28/12/2018 When we did our initial research for the website in July 2018, this place looked like it had potent...
IanD - Noted, thank you. We've updated the post to say so.
Hiver / All Good Beer
Location: 56 Stanworth Street Opening hours: Hiver - Saturday 1000-1800 All Good Beer - Saturday 1100-1800 (ish) Other days: Hiver - Sunday 1030-1630, Monday-Friday 0900-1730 All Good Beer - Sunday 1200-1700 (ish) Official site: http://www.hiverbeers.com/ and https://allgoodbeer.co.uk/ Last...
Richard - We're on it, thanks! See new Cloudwater post as of 28/12/2018.
The Bermondsey Beer Mile: An Unofficial Introduction
For those of you who don't know: the Bermondsey Beer Mile is a loose amalgamation of brewery bars and bottle shops, located along a stretch of railway arch that's closer to two miles long nowadays. The one thing they have in common is that they're all open at roughly the same time on a Saturda...
Rebecca - Yes, quite a few of the bars are open on multiple nights. Because all of them open on Saturday, and that's the traditional day when people do Beer Mile tours, we initially decided to just give the opening times for that day. We've now updated the pages to indicate which bars are open on other days of the week. Be sure to check with the bars themselves, though, as they do sometimes change their times without updating their websites (or without telling us, the self-obsessed rotters).
The Bermondsey Beer Mile: An Unofficial Introduction
For those of you who don't know: the Bermondsey Beer Mile is a loose amalgamation of brewery bars and bottle shops, located along a stretch of railway arch that's closer to two miles long nowadays. The one thing they have in common is that they're all open at roughly the same time on a Saturda...
Sensible answer: they'd have put us on different flights. Stupid answer: one of us on the inside of the helicopter, one on the outside.
Get To Da Choppah
I can tell you exactly where this all started: it was in Hong Kong, in 2005. The Belated Birthday Girl and I had checked into the Excelsior Hotel and bought ourselves a room upgrade, because we were feeling a bit fancy and because I didn't realise I was going to lose my job five months later. I ...
Missing you both! (Though you could actually *do* something about that, Old Lag.)
London Film Festival 2018
I went to my first ever London Film Festival in 1989. I've been going every year since. This will therefore be my thirtieth LFF. An anniversary like that makes you ask questions of yourself. Questions like: why on earth have I spent more than half my life doing this? Coincidentally, someone else...
Some sad news: Aimar, the guy behind the bar at BrewDog Tallinn who made us feel like long-time regulars after we'd been there for just two days, passed away last weekend.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlaNDgyl0nB/?igshid=1j6ogmh9kte91
BrewDogging #52: Tallinn (Nordic Expedition II part 4)
[Previously: Bristol, Camden, Newcastle, Birmingham, Shoreditch, Aberdeen, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Kungsholmen, Leeds, Shepherd's Bush, Nottingham, Sheffield, Dog Tap, Tate Modern†, Clapham Junction, Roppongi, Liverpool, Dundee, Bologna, Florence, Brighton, DED Angel†, Brussels, Soho, ...
This post has now grown up into this site: http://www.bermondsey-beer-mile.co.uk
Bermondsey Beer Mile: The Wrong Way
You're aware by now that The Belated Birthday Girl and I have become fully paid-up Beer Ponces. You may have got the impression that it's just BrewDog we drink, but that's far from the case – although we will admit that thanks to the enlightened guest policy in their bars, drinking BrewDog has ...
To answer the question posed at the end of the 2017 section: yes, yes it is. The Divine Comedy's live album Loose Canon is now available on Spotify, so the only track missing from the 2017 playlist is Michael Legge's bit of filth.
Spotify Picks Of The Year: The Tenties
A version of this article was originally posted on this site on January 9th, 2018. Although I've been tweaking and updating the text at various points in this four-part series of reposts, I'm going to quote the opening of this final part exactly as it stood nearly three years ago. When historia...
The competition result is here, although you can probably guess who's won it.
http://spank-the-monkey.typepad.com/blog/2018/02/simian-substitute-site-for-february-2018-helping-hands-monkey-helpers.html
His Sonic Experiments With Robert Fripp: Pick Of The Year 2017
If we assume that my pal Lou has been the main inspiration behind my Pick Of The Year compilations for some time now, then this year's one - the 36th in total! - marks a couple of biggish anniversaries. Because it's the 25th compilation I've made for him since he started receiving them in 1993,...
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