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Just because we like you, we’ve compiled the best
bits of London for the next month, so get out those
diaries and pencil in these dates!
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Fashionistas rejoice! The London Fashion weekend is
back at Somerset House! For four days the historic venue
is transformed into a fashion paradise as big names from
the beauty and style industries show off their creative
work. 26 Feb | £20-£130 | londonfashionweekend.co.uk.
If steamy, grooving, disco-edged neo-soul tracks is your
bag then you’d better book this one quick as Jungle is
returning to The Big Smoke after a sold-out run in the
capital last year. Not heard of them? Check out their
videos featuring a six-year old break-dancer on YouTube.
3 March | £41.50 | songkick.com.
Comedian, actor, writer, DJ and fully-fledged artist, Noel
Fielding is at it again, and this time at the Royal
Albert Hall. His new exhibition is titled ‘He Wore Dreams
Around Unkind Faces’, and will include portraits of wellknown musicians like The Beatles and Elvis Presley
alongside more experimental pieces. 7 March | FREE |
royalalberthall.com.
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When an exhibition comes with the laurels of being the
most popular fashion exhibition in history, we tend to
take notice. Celebrating the extraordinary creative talent
of one of the most innovative designers of recent times,
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty will be the first and
largest retrospective of McQueen’s work to be presented
in Europe. 14 March | £17.50 | www.vam.ac.uk.
With its unique position as the UK’s innovation
foundation, Nesta uses FutureFest to gather some of the
planet’s most radical thinkers, makers and performers
together to create an immersive experience of what the
world might be like in decades to come. So if you’ve ever
wanted to hear Mr. Edward Snowden talk, book your
ticket now! Oh, and don’t forget it’s at Vinopolis, so there’s
loads to drink! 14 March | £80 | futurefest.org.
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We’re sure you don’t need any introduction to this one...
St. Paddy’s Day 2015 falls on a Tuesday (the 17th), with
the parade making its way down Piccadilly on Sunday the
15th. Get your green garbs and Guinness ready! 17 March
| Cost of a Few Pints | Everywhere.
Of Mice & Men will play their biggest headline run to
date and as we know them, they won’t be holding anything
back! They’ll be playing new material and old favourites
and this is one concert experience you won’t want to miss.
There to open for them are Volumes and The Amity
Affliction. 28 March | £23.06| o2academybrixton.co.uk.
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The
BUMFIDDLER
CROSS
Word
To bumfiddle means to pollute or spoil
something, in particular by scribbling or
drawing on a document to make it
invalid. A bumfiddler is someone who
does precisely that.
E.g. Lloyd ruined that document. He’s such a
bumfiddler.
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