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Weekend Combo: Art, shadows, post-industrial
Art | 6 September 2013
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Rosemarie Trockel, Queen Anne is dead, 2013, courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London

This article is part of Weekend Combo – What to do this weekend

We bring you our guide to living well in the world’s capitals, from exhibitions to cinema, food, drink, fashion, music and beyond. Just call it culture and take it, it’s yours.

LONDON, SATURDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER – SUNDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2013

LISTEN TO the new Factory Floor album over and over
Ahead of Monday’s (long awaited) debut album release, stream post-industrial act Factory Floor’s LP in its entirety HERE. Worth the wait, they’re one of the surprise acts at The Quietus’ 5th birthday at Corsica Studios tonight [Friday 6th], but that’s on the qt. *Cough*, you didn’t hear it from us.

Factory Floor by Factory Floor, out Monday 9th September, LP/CD/iTunes. Support your local independent record shop

THE NEW PAINTING, check out fresh work by Rosemarie Trockel
Cologne-based artist Rosemarie Trockel had a big exhibit at the Serpentine Gallery earlier this year, and now she presents new work at Sprüth Magers, a gallery she had her first show with in 1983. Trockel has always used a diverse range of genres and media in her work, from sculpture and drawing to collage, photography, video, and installation. This grouping focuses on wool pictures and ceramic/Acrystal/Plexiglas sculptures; the material placed like a brush stroke on canvas, initiating a subtle examination of 20th century abstract painting.

Until 5th October, Tuesday – Saturday from 10:00 – 18:00
Sprüth Magers London, 7A Grafton Street, London W1S 4EJ

TAPE ME: cassettes still kick-ass
Taking Record Store Day as a sexy template, it’s about time we paid tribute to the humble tape. The format is having a moment, thanks to Burger Records and Gnar in the US, who are putting out the hottest, most vital new guitar music of the moment. They’ll celebrate Cassette Store Day, but over here head down Rough Trade East for the new Omar Souleyman; a DJ set by Jen Long and Bright Light Bright Light and The Proper Ornaments live. Plus you can buy limited releases by the likes of Fucked Up, Suicidal Tendancies, Animal Collective and Fair Ohs. Why is the format finding its legs again? Because young artists can make tapes in tiny runs of 100, 200 or 250 cheaply and easily, they’re a good hanger for artwork and there’s a warm gravitas you just don’t get with MP3s. They’re special (oh so special).

Worldwide, check out Cassette Store Day. Beginning at Rough Trade East from 12:30
Rough Trade East, Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL

TAKE A TRIP to meaty utopia
Take a trip down Tobacco Dock for a smoky, fleshy feeding frenzy. A local version of an event founded in the US, more than 20 top chefs from the capital and America will cook up a feast abiding by three edicts: meat must be locally sourced, organic and cooked over a real fire. There’ll be craft beers and music to get the sweats to. Will probably crave salad for a week after.

Saturday 7th September from 12:00, tickets £45-£85
Meatopia, Tobacco Dock, 50 Porters Walk, London E1W 2SF

SCALARAMA! A Sam Fuller double bill at a time to suit you
“Film is like a battleground. There’s love, hate, action, violence, death… in one word: emotion,” according to Sam Fuller. The American screenwriter, novelist and director known for his controversial low-budget movies is being shown back-to-back at the Rio. In The Naked Kiss, ex-prostitute Kelly moves to Grantville to start a new life, dredging up some perverse secrets simmering beneath the town’s seemingly wholesome surface. Shock Corridor is gritty tabloid filmmaking at its most explosive, using an insane asylum as a microcosm of 60s America, a full-blown masterpiece from one of cinema’s great originals.

Late night Saturday 7th September from 23:30 or Sunday 8th September from 13:45, £10
Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2PB

STAY CLASSIC doing Sunday brunch
Bistrotheque is the original east London destination for delicious food and drinks, no elaboration needed. Book and sit down or perch at the bar with a [gin, Campari, Martini] Negroni: pure alcohol to put a perfect haze on your Sunday, as Xavier tinkles the baby grand piano. Next month David Waddington and Pablo Flack will open a third restaurant (after Bistrotheque and Shrimpy’s) when the Ace Hotel lands in Shoreditch. The name? Hoi Polloi, set on the area’s busiest strip.

Bistrotheque, 23–27 Wadeson Street, London E2 9DR




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