Greenlaw is a Victoria based musical duo who will be performing on Hallowe’en Night in Leicester, United Kingdom. Check out the whole event here and be sure to get tickets in advance as it’s sure to be big. There are a tonne of brilliant DJ’s at this event, so even if you’re not so into the jazz feel of this Canadian duo, you’re sure to find some music you like anyway.
Network Canada in London holds a social event on the 22nd of every month called “Vandoos.” That’s tonight! It’s now late in the evening for readers in the UK, but maybe you can still read this and get down to the pub for tonight’s Canadian gathering. Check it out here.
You can also meet Canadian authors in the UK:
CHRISTIAN LANDER, author of the incredibly successful blog, Stuff White People Like, (now also a book published by Hardie Grant, £7.99), will be making his first visit to London this month.
He will be giving a talk and signing books at this FREE event on Thursday, October 22 at the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE, 54 Lincolns Inn Fields, London WC2A 2AE.
I met Margaret Atwood in London and let me tell ya’, this was BIG. She’s such a Canadian icon, and to meet her in person in London was very cool. The best thing to do is to read the Guardian newspaper books section every weekend and you’re bound to find an author coming to town that you’d like to meet. I also met many amazing American authors, but that will be another blog post one day soon.
Tegan and Sara are performing in London at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire (where I saw Cat Empire, a really fun Aussie band, and a Japanese Ska band whose name I forget – it’s a great venue anyway) on November 13th.
That’s it for the shows and events I know of for the next couple of weeks anyway. Anyone know of other Canadian artists in the UK that we should post? Please let me know by leaving a comment below. Thanks!
Victoria Westcott
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I loved stuff white people like! soo funny, and often true. Though a better name may be “stuff middle- upper class white people like”…but that’s a discussion for another time
lol – yes indeed! In my family, if I wear a scarf and it’s not that cold out, but I’m wearing it because I think it looks good (like in London!), then my family shouts “Ooooohhh….white people love scarves!” It’s changed the way we see things.