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WEDNESDAY JULY 4
Mosaico wine event
Mosaico, 13 Albemarle Street, W1. 7pm,
£75 per person including aperitif, fivecourse
dinner and wines.
Enjoy some of the wines and food from
Piedmonte. Wine grower Valter Fissoro,
the fourth generation of the Elvio Cogno’s
family, also gives a talk.
Info: 020 7751 1000
MONDAY 9
Mim’s Comedy Night
Comedy Store, 1A Oxendon Street, SW1.
8pm, tickets £20, available in advance
from the Comedy Store box office in
person and from Ticketmaster.
Writer and comedian Mark Maier
comperes a night organised by the
friends and family of Miriam Hyman, who
was killed in the 7/7 bombings, to mark
the second anniversary of the attack.
Simon Amstel, Jon Culshaw, Francesca
Martinez, Mitch Benn, Simon Brodkin and
Marcus Brigstocke perform in support of
the Miriam Hyman Memorial Fund.
Info: 0870 060 2300 (Ticketmaster)
www.thecomedystore.co.uk
www.ticketmaster.co.uk
www.miriam-hyman.com
THURSDAY 12
In conversation: Patrick Gale,
Neil Bartlett
Waterstone’s, 203-206 Piccadilly, W1.
7pm-9pm, tickets £3 available in store
and redeemable against a purchase of
THURSDAY JULY 5
Strum and Sing
Chappells Music Store, 152-160 Wardour
Street, W1. 4.30pm-6pm, free.
Join musicians from the the Institute of
Contemporary Music Performance for a
singalong – bring your own guitar if you
want.
Info: 020 7328 0222
www.icmp.uk.com
www.singlondon.org
SUNDAY 8
Magical Mystery Tour
Starts at Abbey Road Studios, 3 Abbey
Road, St Johns Wood, NW8 at 12pm, with
pick-up points at the World’s End, 174
Camden High Street, NW1 at 1pm and
outside Liberty, Regent Street, W1 at 2pm,
finishing at the Southbank Centre, free.
Hop on a special London Routemaster bus
for a musical journey, with performers
singing and looking at the heritage of each
site they visit, finishing at the Southbank
Centre for a finale featuring thousands of
singing Londoners.
Info: 020 7328 0222
www.icmp.uk.com
www.singlondon.org
Handel House Singers:
Highlights from Solomon
Handel House, 25 Brook Street, W1, and
Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street,
W1. 10am-1.15pm Handel House, 3pm-
6pm Grosvenor Chapel, £15, £12
concessions.
Join the Handel House Singers in a
performance of highlights from Handel’s
Solomon, led and conducted by Laurence
Cummings.
He coaches sopranos at 10am, altos at
the book on the night.
Authors Patrick Gale and Neil Bartlett will
be reading from their latest novels, Notes
from an Exhibition and Skin Lane, talking
about their influences and signing copies.
Info: 020 7851 2400
www.waterstones.com
SATURDAY 14
The Chap and Hendrick’s
Olympiad 2007
Bedford Square Gardens, WC1. 1pm-
6pm, free, tickets available in advance.
A daft sporting event, now in its third
year, with activities including the Pipe
Smoker’s Relay, Umbrella Hockey and the
Three-trousered Limbo, plus a 1930s jazz
11am and tenors and basses at 12.15pm.
The whole choir then rehearses with
members of the Linden Baroque Orchestra
at 3pm, followed by a public performance
at 6pm.
No auditions are required but participants
must be able to read music.
Info: 020 7495 1685
www.handelhouse.org
FRIDAY 13
James Taylor Quartet
The Pigalle Club, 215 Piccadilly, W1.
Doors open 7pm, starts 9pm, tickets £20
standing, £60 dinner and show.
Jazz funk.
Info: 020 7734 8142,
Reservations: 0845 345 6053
www.thepigalleclub.com
MONDAY 23
Anjani
The Pigalle Club, 215 Piccadilly, W1.
Doors open 7pm, starts 9pm, tickets £20
standing, £55 dinner and show.
Singer Anjani – Leonard Cohen’s backing
vocalist – performs work from her album,
Blue Alert, which Cohen co-wrote and
produced.
Info: 020 7734 8142, 0845 345 6053
(reservations)
www.thepigalleclub.com
MONDAY 30
Swing Thing
Dover Street Restaurant and Jazz Bar, 8-
10 Dover Street, W1. Approximate set
times 9.45pm and 11pm, free before
10pm, £5 after.
Jump jive and swing.
Info: 020 7491 7509/020 7629 9813
www.doverst.co.uk
band. Guests are encouraged to bring
picnics and sample complimentary
Hendrick’s and tonics. Bowler hats and
cucumber medals are given to the
winners at the end of the day.
Info: 08700 600 100
www.ticketweb.com
www.hendricksgin.com
SUNDAY 15
BUPA Great Capital Run
Hyde Park, £22 (registration fee for
runners), route and start times to be
confirmed.
Join up to 10,000 other 10K runners and
celebrities and support Help a London
Child.
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FRIDAY JULY 6
Tour de France opening
ceremony
Trafalgar Square, WC2, 6pm, free.
Celebrate the Tour’s arrival in London.
Info: 0845 305 1234
www.tourdefrancelondon.com
The People’s Village
Hyde Park (next to Prologue course),
4pm-9pm, also July 7, 10.30am-
8.30pm and July 8 10am-6pm, free.
Info: 0845 305 1234
www.tourdefrancelondon.com
SATURDAY 7
Tour de France Prologue
Starts Whitehall, finishes at the Mall.
Caravan at 1pm, warm up at 2pm,
race starts 3pm, ends 6.20pm.
FRIDAY JULY 13
Moliere (12A)
French comedy speculating about what
happened to the 17th century
playwright/actor, played by Romain Duris,
when he disappeared for several weeks
early in his career. Directed by Laurent
Tirard, it imagines Moliere was bailed out
by a rich nobleman (Fabrice Luchini) who
expects him to coach him so he can woo
his love (Ludivine Sagnier) with a selfpenned
one-act play.
Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix (12A)
David Yates (BBC1’s The Girl in the Café)
directs the next cinematic Potter
installment. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) deals
with the triple trials of Voldemort’s
return, a bureaucratic monster who takes
over Hogwarts, and teenage life with the
help of secret society, the Order of the
Phoenix.
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An exciting 8K time trial with one racer
after another speeding through a
course around central London,
competing for the Yellow Jersey.
Info: 0845 305 1234
www.tourdefrancelondon.com
SUNDAY 8
Tour de France Stage 1
Caravan parade leaves the Mall at
8.40am, riders sign on at the podium
9.25am-10.20am, riders depart the
Mall (Depart Fictif) 10.25am, Tower
Bridge ceremony 10.40am-10.50am,
riders depart the Reel at Romney
Road, opposite the Maritime Museum
in Greenwich 11am.
Info: 0845 305 1234
www.tourdefrancelondon.com
FRIDAY 20
Harry Potter launch
party
Waterstone’s, 203-206 Piccadilly, W1.
9pm, free.
To celebrate the release of the last
installment of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter
series, Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows, Waterstone’s is holding a queue
party prior to the doors opening at
midnight.
Expect wizards, entertainers, creatures
and games.
Info: 020 7851 2400
www.waterstones.com
SUNDAY 15
Private Fears in Public Places (15)
Alan Ayckbourn’s play, directed for the
screen by Alain Resnais, follows six
strangers who look for love in Paris.
Special preview screening at Curzon
Mayfair, 36 Curzon Street, W1, 1pm
T 0870 756 4621.
Released July 20.
SUNDAY 22
Hiroshima Mon Amour (PG) and
Orphee (15)
Double-bill of Alain Resnais’s 1959 war
romance, written by Marguerite Duras,
about a married French actress who has
an affair with a Japanese architect,
followed by Jean Cocteau’s fantasy
about a poet who falls in love with a
princess, Death.
Sunday Special, Curzon Mayfair,
36 Curzon Street, W1,12pm
T 0870 756 4621.