The clubs to help you keep going until New Year's Eve
Rinse: Boxing Day Special @ Fabric, London
Fri Dec 26
***Pressure: End Of Year Party @ The Arches, Glasgow ***
Sat Dec 27
Perhaps there's only one thing to do when the big party that is the festive period is over and that's to keep going. Rinse know exactly that and to top off a big year for the station (they put on some big Carnival performances, took over the Tate, continued playing the best new UK music day in day out on the radio) with their annual Boxing Day show. Waze & Odyssey, Paleman, Bake and more play room 1, Plastician, Stormzy, and Slimzee & Riko Dan are highlights in room 2, while Room three has Pinch, Wen and Alex Coulton play out the last few days of 2014. It's a similar thought at The Arches in Glasgow. They don't believe in resting before New Year's Eve, and so are hosting Pressure's end of year event. They'll round up what they say has been a fantastic year with some of their favourite long time guests Len Faki and Blawan plus some first-timers George Fitzgerald and Marquis Hawkes. Well it's one way to sweat off the turkey feast.
The book subscription to invest in
**Lutyens and Rubenstein, Notting Hill **
All year round
If you have some gift money or a small bonus from your work, here's an idea - don't spend it on that metallic bomber jacket with fur collar and chain cuffs as you dash around the sale (although, so tempting - that's another 'event' this week). Instead invest in a book subscription, aka one book delivered to you every month for the whole year. Bookshop and agency Lutyens & Rubinstein provide a book subscription service tailored to you (just fill in a questionnaire) so you'll get things you're into not a random set. http://www.lutyensrubinstein.co.uk/bookshop-bespoke-services
The perfect wintery date for this weird not-quite-new-year gap
Winter at Kew, Kew Gardens, London
Until Jan 3
Didn't find time for day trips earlier in December due to all the actually getting on with real life? Because life isn't like a) the film Love Actually where everyone just romances rather than working b) The film The Holiday where you can life swap for what looks like a month or c) school where you just watched videos for 3 weeks in December? Then fit wintery day trips into this calmer weekend between Christmas and New Year. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have a special winter display on, with a night-time experience featuring a glittering snowflake trail, light sculptures and what they call 'Miseltoe Moments'. Maybe schedule a winter date for that one?
The ski experience that you don't need to be loaded for
*Snow Factor, Edinburgh *
*Sat, Sun Dec 27, 28 *
If The Debrief were say, Made In Chelsea cast members they'd have already arrived at their parents ski chalet in the Alps and drinking champagne while licking melted 95% cocoa chocolate off the washboard stomach of a Monaco based heir. As it is we'll probably be at the Next sale. But if you want a slice of the snow, try an indoor slope like the Snow Factor in Edinburgh. Snowboard lessons are available, which will come in handy if you ever do end up with a ski resort palace. And if all else fails….it's Boxing Day. You're probably either watching whatever Only Fools and Horses repeat is on TV or furiously refreshing the Zara sale anyway.
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