Lawrence's Picture Page |
Hello there, and welcome to this, my
picture page. As you've probably
noticed,
there's little to none of the flash trimmings you usually find on
your
average website, but you'll find various pics (along with a brief
narrative
accompanying them) that I've taken at various places in and
around
London during the last few years or so. Here's a list of items
you'll
find here for you to peek at on the site:
MI7
1st Anniversary Bash - A top night of music and
partying in Tottenham, N. London (on site - 14/12/06).
Martha
Tilston At The Scala - A lovely evening of whimsical
folksiness down in deepest King's Cross (on site - 07/12/06).
The
Dears At The Astoria - Superior indie from Canada alongside
supporting alt-rock legends The House Of House (on site - 07/12/06).
Big
Green Gathering - Photos taken at one of the best festivals that
I've
been to, deep in the heart of Wiltshire and Somerset (on site - 09/12/05).
Bonfire
Night
Party at St. George's - An evening of spontaneous
activities
down in
Tufnell Park, N.London (on site - 29/10/05).
Open
Mike Night at St. George's - A quality
night's worth of
alternative entertainment in a (formerly) squatted church
down in Tufnell Park, N. London (on site - 16/10/05).
'Parallel
YOUniversity' at St. George's - Poetry, incantations, music
and other stuff down in Tufnell Park, N. London (on site - 09/10/05)
The
Shock of the Nouveau - Early-80's nostalgia
night down in Camden (on site - 29/09/05)
'Make
Love, Not War' at St. George's - Music & poetry
in a squatted church in Tufnell Park (on
site - 28/09/05)
Rejuvenation
Night at St. George's - Some snaps I took with
a badly sprained ankle + walking stick (on site -28/09/05)
Small World Spring Gathering
- More goings-on
down Headcorn way in May '05 (on site - 10/07/05).
MoMo
at Ocean - Top-notch middle-eastern sounds in an old
library-turned music venue in Hackney (on site - 10/07/05).
Stonehenge
Summer Solstice - More than a few (I hope)
mildly iconic pics taken by yours truly whilst in
Wiltshire ( pics on site - 30/06/05).
Fruitstock 2004 - Sun, samba, ice cream vans covered in grass,
mild debauchery in a dance tent. Some of the things I saw
and did one Sunday in Regent's Park ( on site - 18/10/04).
Kingston Green Fair - Pics of a v.lovely Bank Holiday festy to be found at a picturesque spot of London (on site - 16/10/04).
Small
World Easter Extravaganza - Music, juggling, clowns and
'nuff ravers contributing to a fun night out at a squat party in
Hackney, E.London (on site
- 15/10/04).
Small
World Summer Festival - Late summer happenings at a
lovely event held in Headcorn, Kent (on site - 15/10/04).
'WOMAD
2001' - Photos taken during a v.hot weekend spent
at the world music festival down in Reading (on site - 23/02/03).
'Reclaim The Future' - Various alternative goings-on in North & South London (on site - 21/02/03).
Brighton
Peace Festival - Performances to brighten up a grey
Sunday spent down on the South Coast (on site - 21/02/03).
Big
Green Gathering - Photos taken at one of the best festivals that
I've
been to, deep in the heart of Wiltshire and Somerset (on site -
30/01/03).
Temporary
Autonomous Art - Art, experimental films, poetry and
music
in abandoned buildings in Central London (on site - 11/12/02).
'Sacredelic
Elevation' - Photos I took at a rave in an old church
that was squatted at in the time in Swiss Cottage, N.W. London, by the
I.D. Spiral crew, amongst
others, back in May '01 (on site - 3/11/02).
"What
Jubilee?" - Photos that I took down in Brighton on a hot Sunday
in
June '02, while attempting to flee all of the nonsense surrounding the
"greatest Bank Holiday weekend in history" - yawn! (on site - 3/11/02).
'The
Multidimensional Galactic Activation' - Rave, dance,
painting,
meditation (and walking up far too many flights
of
stairs than I'd want to know!) in some vacant office
building
near London Bridge, from Saturday night to
Sunday morning in mid-Feb '02 (on site -
24/03/02).
The
'Sunday Mellow-Out' at Subterrania - Pics of some top-notch
alternative
cabaret over in Labroke Grove (on site - 15/09/02).
Post 'Mellow-Out' Rave Bonfire - Photos taken during the wee small
hours at a rave off the Lea Bridge Road v.early (too early, looking
back!) on Bank Holiday Monday during Easter '02 (on site - 15/09/02).
'Come
Down & Meet The Folks' - Good rockin' (plus a guest
appearance by an early-80's pop icon) down at 'The Golden Lion'
in Camden, N.London just before Xmas '01 (on site - 3/02/02).
Anti-War
Protest In Trafalgar Square - Pics I took when considerably
more
than 15,000 demonstrators voiced their resistance in the centre
of
London against the so-called "war against terrorism" carried out
"not in
my name" (on site - 03/12/01).
Kilburn
Festival - Dub, folky trance and belly dancing. Just
a few
of the delights I found somewhere in N.W. London
one
Sunday in July '01 (on site - 03/12/01).
'The
Festy With No Name' - Pics I took at an event that I only just
found
out about at v.short notice, down on London Fields, Hackney,
one
Saturday evening in May '01 (on site - 03/12/01).
A
Mudfest On Brockwell Park - Rain, mud, music, bumping into
some
folks I know and other things you do down in Brixton,
South
London, June '01 (on site - 21/10/01).
Brockwell Park Cannabis Rally 2002 - Good music, quirky dancing,
clocking familiar faces and seeing a "spliffy fairy" walking around
the
park on stilts. A selection of pics of the things I saw and did over
in
Brixton, S.London back in May '02 (on site - 15/09/02).
Echobelly
At ULU - Some pics I took of an underrated
(but
much appreciated) indie band in concert at the
University Of London Union (on site - 21/10/01).
Critical
Mass - Various pics taken at the Central London
CM
cycle demo on the last Friday of the month.
Festival
of Global Rights - Pics of a friend and stuff at a free rave/concert
that took place at Hackney Marshes, East London, July '98.
Reclaim
The Streets! - Some of the events I witnessed on June 18th,
1999 when London's financial centre was brought to a standstill,
and the cops were made to look v.silly (on
site - 14/11/99).
"The
Charlie Dimmock Experience" - Pics of May Day 2000's
"guerilla
gardening", and other things down on and around
Parliament
Square with Reclaim The Streets (on site - 27/12/00).
"(Mild)
Panic On The Streets Of London" - Pics that were taken
during
the MayDay 2001 anti-capitalist demos, when London's
streets
became a giant Monopoly board for the day (on site - 31/05/01).
"The
Den Of Enlightenment" - Performance, raving, poetry,
plus a
little bit of decadence thrown in for good measure.
A few
snaps I got at an event I was at down in
Camberwell,
S.London (on site - 31/05/01).
"Hubble
Bubble in Highbury" - Belly dancers, trapeze artists and other
performers at the Union Chapel in Islington, London (on site -
21/10/01).
Millennium
Eve Party at The Swanfleet Centre - Pics taken at a lovely
do I
was invited to by a good friend of mine (on site - 23/01/01).
Save
Our World Festival - Pictures I took of the things I
saw in
Brockwell Park, Brixton, S.London one lovely
sunny
Sunday in June '00. (on site - 20/08/00).
Chalton
Street Festival - Pics taken at short notice
down at
a festy down Euston way one balmy Saturday
evening
in July '00 (on site - 08/10/00).
Hackney
Volcano - Music, colour, dancing, and various other things
happening on Hackney Marshes, E.London (Four pages of
pics
fron the 2001 event just added. On site - 17/10/01).
The
Alernative Queen Mother's Birthday Bash - Mildly treasonous
pics
taken during an event staged down Hackney, E.London as an
alternative
to the celebrations for the "nation's favourite granny"
finally
hitting her ton on August 4th '00 (on site - 20/08/00).
Return
To The Source - A few pics taken back in October '00
at a
popular trance/hardcore rave held every now and then at the
Brixton
Academy, down in S.London (on site - 18/11/00).
Mad
Pride! Festival - Pogoing, good-humoured pandemonium
and v.
loud music! Pictures of the things I saw in Clissold Park,
Stoke
Newington on July 15th '00 (on site - 25/07/00).
Charteris
Road Street Festival - A poignant evening spent at a local
festival
in my soon-to-be old neighbourhood (on site - 14/11/99).
"Alien
Invasion In The Neighbourhood" - Photos I took of a
craft
session at a local community centre
back in
June '99 (on site - 01/05/00)
'Wild
Things' Craft Session - Some pictures that I took at the first of
numerous crafts and storytelling sessions that happened at La
Carroll
community centre London on Thursday
afternoons
during the summer of '99 (on site - 31/05/01).
Reading
Safari Prizegiving - Pics taken at a local
community centre, when prizes were handed out to
the
best young readers in the neighbourhood (on site - 22/11/99).
Easter
Egg-travaganza In The Community - More photos
I took
of another craft session. This one occurred on
Maundy
Thursday '00 (on site - 17/05/00).
Olympic
Team Quiz - Some pictures taken late in July '00 during the
first
of the holiday events held at a local community centre that were
part of
local summer activities (on site - 07/11/00).
Olympic
Treasure Hunt - More pictures taken early in August '00
during
the second of the holiday events occurring at Lewis Carroll
library,
as part of local summer activities (on site - 27/12/00).
Health
& Safety Session for Parents & Children - Some snaps taken
when
tips & pointers (plus demonstrations) were given to local mums
and
their toddlers concerning what to do, in an emergency, by a former
St.
John Ambulance worker who came to a local community centre
one
Thursday morning. (on site - 18/11/00).
Thursday
Morning Under-3s Session - A few lovely snaps I took of some
neighborhood mums and their toddlers when a local play worker
came to
a local community centre. (on site - 07/11/00).
Friday
Morning Under-5s Session - Some more snaps I took of some
local
toddlers one wet Friday in September during the regular storytelling
session
held at a local community centre. (on site - 07/11/00).
'Summer
Reading Relay' Photo Roll-Call of Honour - Pictures of nearly
all the
kids who completed the annual reading challenge, held between
July to
September at a local community centre. (on site - 27/12/00).
Halloween
Craft Session - More delightful snaps, taken
at a
hastily arranged half-term craft session at a local community
centre
just in time for the end of October '00. (on site - 14/01/01).
Monday
Storytelling Session with Blessed Sacrament (Year 2)
- Some
delightful pictures of children from one of the local
primary
schools during one of their weekly sessions at
a local community centre. (on site - 27/12/00).
Christmas
Buzz In The Neighbourhood - Festive
goings-on
as local children made cards and decorations
to put
on the centre's Xmas tree (on site - 14/01/01).
Festival
Of The Dispossessed - Music, performance, art and film at a
disused
lido in Hackney, East London, August '98 (on site - 23/09/98).
Clapham
Free Ganja Festival - Music, drumming, poetry and other things down
Clapham Common, South London, May '99 (on site - 29/05/99).
Brockwell
Park Free Festival - More music, seeing faces old faces and
other
things you do on a sunny evening down in the largest park in
Brixton,
South London, May '00 (on site - 31/05/00).
Fonthill
Road Carnival & Hackney Culture Festival - A sexy samba beat
in
the neighbourhood to brighten up a warm autumn evening, plus
carnival
colour in Hackney the next day (on site - 28/04/99).
Islington
International Festival - Music, performance and dancing in
Islington, North London's annual summer event (on site - 22/01/00).
Jagannath
Ratha Yatra - A Hare Krishna event that occurred in
Battersea
Park, South London, August '98 (on site - 23/09/98).
Notting
Hill Carnival - Enjoying myself at Europe's
largest
free annual street festival (on site - 22/03/01).
Morrissey
at the Forum - Pics of the bloke with the quiff from Whalley
Range
on the first of four nights in N.W. London (on site - 5/12/99).
Partial
Eclipse On Hampstead Heath - Pics of one of nature's great natural
phenomena (when the clouds don't spoil the view!) taken in & around
one
of N.W. London's best-loved open spaces (on site - 15/04/00).
Miscellaneous
- Pics that I couldn't classify and conttributions
(two
more pages of pics added
on-site - 08/10/00).
Links
- An updated, but incomplete list of
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