Hillary Clinton let me know today (see her letter below) that this Saturday she is going to step aside and let the Democrats get on with the tough election they face this year, conceding the race to Barack Obama.

Thanks Hillary! Yes, it's time, and you are very needed in helping the Democrats win back the White House this year.

Many congrats to Barack Obama for running what has been, and continues to be a campaign that inspires hope among voters. He has really fired up the USA Democrats, and seems to be achieving a remarkable appeal, crossing over party lines and making mince of traditional voting patterns. This blog will be enthusiastically supporting Barack Obama in the run-up to the November '08 Presidential elections, as he did completely win me over earlier this year. I'd been on the fence for the early days of this race, and had wanted to see both candidates stop the primary campaign earlier, set aside their differences, and pal up on the Democratic party ticket to make a powerful partnership. Who knows, maybe that will still happen?

This is an exciting race, and I'll be watching it, from across the pond.

A Letter from Hillary to Me

Dear Lisa,

I wanted you to be one of the first to know: on Saturday, I will hold an event in Washington D.C. to thank everyone who has supported my campaign. Over the course of the last 16 months, I have been privileged and touched to witness the incredible dedication and sacrifice of so many people working for our campaign. Every minute you put into helping us win, every dollar you gave to keep up the fight meant more to me than I can ever possibly tell you.

On Saturday, I will extend my congratulations to Senator Obama and my support for his candidacy. This has been a long and hard-fought campaign, but as I have always said, my differences with Senator Obama are small compared to the differences we have with Senator McCain and the Republicans.

I have said throughout the campaign that I would strongly support Senator Obama if he were the Democratic Party's nominee, and I intend to deliver on that promise.

When I decided to run for president, I knew exactly why I was getting into this race: to work hard every day for the millions of Americans who need a voice in the White House.

I made you -- and everyone who supported me -- a promise: to stand up for our shared values and to never back down. I'm going to keep that promise today, tomorrow, and for the rest of my life.

I will be speaking on Saturday about how together we can rally the party behind Senator Obama. The stakes are too high and the task before us too important to do otherwise.

I know as I continue my lifelong work for a stronger America and a better world, I will turn to you for the support, the strength, and the commitment that you have shown me in the past 16 months. And I will always keep faith with the issues and causes that are important to you.

In the past few days, you have shown that support once again with hundreds of thousands of messages to the campaign, and again, I am touched by your thoughtfulness and kindness.

I can never possibly express my gratitude, so let me say simply, thank you.

Sincerely,

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Who’s Lisa Devaney?

I head the Hai Media Group, a multimedia communications company based in London, offering client’s traditional public relations, combined with new technology marketing strategies. I also perform, creating original Cabaret-style comedy skits for festivals, theatre and parties. Find out more about me, and the talented entrepreneurs I collaborate with, by visiting: www.haimediagroup.com

 

 

What will Boris do?

 

Many Londoners are wondering the same thing I am, for better, for worse, for whatever. Boris Johnson is our new Mayor, and I’m looking forward to watching these things unfold, living under this new leadership:

Buffoonery

There is going to be a lot of it, and I get the feeling that Boris, in addition to outsourcing his entire professional team, is also recruiting a top comedy performance coach to keep his public laughing, as we get dragged along for this ride.

Comedy Sketch Shows

Can’t WAIT to see what the top British comedy talent comes up with. Will Matt Lucas step up to the plate on this one? There is plenty of material for him already.

Fancy Dress

Festival season, fancy dress parties (hey Americans, that means costume party) and club nights are going to be sprinkled with Boris look-a-likes. I suspect the fancy dress shops are now stocking up on floppy blonde haired wigs. Better get my order in.

Documentaries

I suspect that brainstorming is now in progress among Channel 4’s Dispatches, the BBC’s Panorama and all the other fantastic British documentary producers, who are planning for the next investigative piece about how and why Boris Johnson won the London Mayoral election. I’m looking forward to some hilarious ‘docudrama’ about the subject, and wondering who will be cast as the lead role for...Boris the West End Musical, or for Boris the Movie? Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis could dye his mop blonde, gain weight, and give a fantastic OTT moving performance, something he is great at, as a bonified card-carrying member of the Overactors Annoynmous. He won't take the gig though, as for him to play Boris, it would require him to do some actual acting.

Virals

I’m already seeing some citizen-created viral campaigns appear in response to this election, such as the folks over at I Didn’t Vote For Boris, who invite non-Boris voting Londoners to tag a photo with ididntvoteforboris and add it to the Flickrstream. The conservative viral online campaign viral Boriswatch, has had its day, and now I’m looking forward to other Citizen Journalist reports, such as the eye view of Sunny Hundal, from the frontlines of what may be a new sport in London of Boris Watching. Clearly with 2,000+ already signed up to the Facebook group, it will be a popular activity here.

Celebrity Commentary 

“Boris has as little knowledge of multiculturalism as I have of life on Jupiter. He used to go to this club in Oxford called the Bullingdon Club, full of snobs and creative conmen. The man has not only no physical ability to run anything, he is immoral and a bully. Boris as mayor would be like discovering you had piles and there was no cure for it.”

Vivienne Westwood

“In Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, there is a scene where a character is talking

about another who is a card player and he’s described as ‘a fucking liability’. That’s my idea of Boris. The mouth engages before the mind does. He doesn’t have any sense of diplomacy or tact. London is a cosmopolitan city. You can’t have someone who makes quotes like that [Johnson’s “piccaninnies” comment] representing London, regardless of the fact it was in the past [Johnson wrote the comment in 2002]. Of all the things people say about Ken, in my view he’s done a lot for London. When you go into the city it looks like a European capital now with all the regeneration, and it didn’t before. Trafalgar Square is a much more welcoming place.”

David Mitchell
Comedian, Peep Show

“Boris is mad. He wants to bring back bus conductors, but that’s never going to happen. I think he talks rubbish. He’s

out of touch and he doesn’t understand Londoners. People say Ken is obnoxious, but what can you do? One thing about him is he knows London.”

Charlie Brooker
Guardian columnist and Television Presenter

Thanks to this election result, I’ve now got a powerful retort to the next Brit who blames me for the conservative politics of George Bush, because clearly it can happen here as well, and I will not be surprised if David Cameron is this country's next Prime Minister.

 

I’m watching Boris,

-Lisa

 

Who’s Lisa Devaney?

I head the Hai Media Group, a multimedia communications company based in London, offering client’s traditional public relations, combined with new technology marketing strategies. I also perform, creating original Cabaret-style comedy skits for festivals, theatre and parties. Find out more about me, and the talented entrepreneurs I collaborate with, by visiting: www.haimediagroup.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've been mulling over which candidate to give my vicarious vote to -- either Ken or Brian Paddick, or the Green Party's candidate Siân Berry and paused from electoral considerations to join up with other performance art lovers at Liverpool Station tonight, to participate in another flashmob, similar to the great fun had at the recent pillow fight. This time the theme was FREEZE, and those who participated struck statue-like poses in the midst of the evening rush hour, for four minutes. It was more harmless, hilarious fun that took the edge off of a cold rainy day here. New York City's Improv Everywhere group staged a fantastic example of this public art fun, and you can see what happened here:

Whoever serves as Mayor in London, my hope is that they support the arts in this city, which have taken a brutal beating from funding diversions happening across the city, which many are attributing to, and being told, as the funding plug gets pulled on budgets, that it is happening in order to support the upcoming £10 billion+ 2012 Olympics.

At least random performance art flashmobs don't need Art Council funding and are free for anyone to participate in.

I've got some breaking news this week from an individual that I support here in London, both with PR services from time-to-time, with my agency the Hai Media Group, but also because I'm simply just a fan of Dr. Richard Barbrook.

Next week, Richard is headed to Vienna, where he has been invited to be a guest speaker in the Austrian city's annual May Day celebrations. He'll be taking the podium to speak with a crowd of 100,000 on Thursday, May 1st 2008, and is an honourable guest of Vienna Mayor Michael Häupl, who has invited Richard to talk about his ideas from his book The Class of the New, a popular title among many urban dwellers, who have interest in a thought leadership initiative surrounding the concept of 'creative cities.' If you are in the USA, you may have heard of an author by the name of Richard Florida, who is also known for his ideas about the urban creative classes, and yes, these two authors do share some similar views, but haven't met in person -- yet.

Much like Richard Florida in America, Britain's Richard Barbrook is both an author (his newest book is Imaginary Futures) and a lecturer of politics at the University of Westminster here in London. Prior to relocating to London, I also had the opportunity to meet and see the inspiring Richard Florida speak in the USA, and I think both academics have a lot of food for thought for people, especially urbanites, to consider. When it comes to Barbrook, I think the number one reason I most value the impact he has in this city, is because he is truly a great supporter of so many creative people, projects and entrepreneurs in London.

He is an early adopter, and is credited with being the first instructor to introduce students, and get them thinking about, the wild wonderful world of the web, with his founding of the Hypermedia Research Centre back in the mid-1990s, an academic department that was formerly based at the University of Westminster. He also conceived of, and set up Cybersalon, an organization that fosters thinking toward cyberpoltics, as well as exploring the intersection between art, music and technology with its festival Cybersonica. Over the years, many of his students have become his idea fans, and quite a few have gone on to produce some terrific things in the interactive world, as well as in the media, music, arts and entertainment worlds, including the fantastic animated rock band The Sancho Plan, which emerged from Cybersonica. Now he is getting up to something NEW:

This Weekend in London: Saturday,

High NOON at The Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park, come along and play Class Wargames

If you are in London, I'm pleased to invite you along to witness a new project that Richard Barbrook has been developing this year, called Class Wargames, a performance art gaming project of sorts that sees a group of academics, artists and gamers re-create Guy Debord's Game of War at The Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park, at 12 NOON this Saturday, April 26th 2008. *Please note that the park has re-scheduled this event from an evening time slot, to take place in the afternoon.

Who's Guy Debord? This is background from the group's website: Guy Debord is celebrated as the leader of the Situationist International and as the author of the searing critique of the media-saturated society of consumer capitalism: The Society of the Spectacle. What is much less well known is that after the May '68 Revolution, Debord and his partner - Alice Becker-Ho - quit Paris and went to live in a remote French village. Over the next two decades, Debord devoted much of the rest of his life to inventing, refining and promoting what he came to regard as his most important project: The Game of War.

Here in the UK, the mainstream media has (finally!!!) latched onto plastic bags. Plastic bags are making headlines in

the Daily Mail, a report that saw Marks & Spencer respond by putting a price of five pence to grocery bills for every plastic bag used. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for new green legislation that requires supermarkets to end reliance on plastic bags in the next year, or be required to charge customer’s 5p for plastic bags.

Bravo for all the hoopla and attention to the issue, and for listing the facts about the damage these horrible convenience items do to our wildlife and environment, a result in Britain alone of 13 Billion free disposable plastic bags being offered to shoppers. Worldwide, The thought of turtles being strangled by plastic bags on the bottom of the ocean, is a nightmarish image, among other innocent wildlife dying because of plastic bags. In my own nightmares over this issue, I had a dream that I was walking along and somehow was made entirely of plastic bags, then the wind came, and I blew away. I think it comes from a scene in the movie Brazil, where a man disappears among newspapers, view the trailer for Terry Gilliam’s film below.

The Consumer Climate is Changing

Politicians, businesses, the media and hopefully your average person-in-the-street are getting motivated to change behaviour with the attention to the issue. I’m glad that leaders are seeing the benefit of supporting and activating people on a grassroots level. Hey, it seems to boost viewer ratings and sells a lot of newspaper that will hopefully be recycled. The people of Britain are great at responding quickly to campaigns like this, a case in point is the recent Chicken Out! Campaign initiated by Channel 4, that I blogged about here.

Now, the demand is so high for free range, happy chickens here in the UK, that my local Tesco has big signs apologizing to customers about the fact that the supply of these chickens is not enough to meet demand right now. Instead, they are pointing us toward an alternative brand of chicken, and a sign on the shelves proclaims how this company’s chickens are also very happy, having been raised in well-lighted and spacious barns, with plenty of places to perch and lots of colourful balls to play with. The situation is somewhat comical, but I’m just glad to see this consumer power in action.

Mass consumer consciousness and activism, can totally make a difference, and these recent examples have given
me renewed hope about the state of the world. You see, I used to be more of an environmental activist, back in my high school and college days on Long Island, in New York. During the summer of 1987, a notorious garbage barge  was floating around off the coast of my favourite beach spots. The public watched the story unfold as the smelly barge travelled hundreds of miles trying to find a dump that would take it, facing rejections everywhere, including Belize and Mexico. The issue was quickly latched onto environmentalists, and at the time I got involved in helping out the New York Public Interest Research Group canvass suburban neighbourhoods across Long Island to raise attention to the issue, and raise funds for NYPIRG campaigns. It was a great learning experience, and certainly very hard work. The environmentalists got accused, as they always do, for messing around with the facts about the garbage barge and incorrectly stating that the roaming garbage barge was a result of a lack of landfill space from excessive waste. The

issue nonetheless, did compel people to increase recycling efforts at the time, and this was certainly a positive outcome of it all.

When Idealism Deflates We All Lose Out

Returning to the University of Stony Brook in the Fall, where I was studying

politics and journalism, I kept working with NYPIRG and even got to meet and have dinner with its founder Ralph Nader one evening. At the time, I was also fascinated by Abbie Hoffman, a radical 60s political activist, a founder of the Yippies! movement and author of Steal This Book. He was doing a campus lecture tour that year, debating neo-conservative G. Gordon Libby. I got to watch Abbie that year at University as well, and it was a great year, where I was really motivated and feeling positive that what we were doing as young activists on campus was going to start making a difference. At least it felt that way.

I’d volunteer to man the NYPIRG booth in the student union from time to

time, sharing space alongside SUNY Stony Brook’s legendary life-long political activist and poet Mitch Cohen, and was glad to be keeping the environmental issue alive, at least as a visual presence among students and faculty. Often, a group of radical Young Republicans on campus, made it an ongoing mission to visit my booth and try to debate and attack me in public. Of course they have a right to their opinion, but their sabotage approach was really mean. They’d come over, with smirks and giggles on their faces, and start arguing loudly with me about what a useless and erroneous left-leaning, hippie liberal cause I was wasting my time with. I could argue with them only so far, taking them on by myself often, and it would just deteriorate into foolishness that made me blush and want to run away and hide in my dorm room. I’m just not that tough in that kind of hostile situation.

The negativity that group was seeding against the environmental issue at the time, was certainly working on many other people’s opinions. It seemed that so many people were just looking for any excuse to not have to believe, and especially not have to do something about it. Long Island is all about convenience, and recycling for most was such a hassle that they didn’t want to bother with it. Meanwhile, depressingly so, scientists were finding out plenty of quantitative facts to show why dire consequences were in the works for the planet. Al Gore, waaaay prior to his success with An Inconvenient Truth, who was also someone I admired at the time and still do, was trying to get the powerful politicians to listen to the same warnings the environmental activists around me were talking about. It seemed the general electorate was a stubborn, lazy bunch back then, getting into the early nineties, and whenever anyone talked about environmental issues, they were quickly called tree huggers, lefties, freaks, hippies or other names invented to deflate credibility, and kill passionate spirit. I never thought I fell into the hippie category, as I was radically opposed to the heady over used scent of patchouli, and  couldn't  stand   birkenstocks, and didn't ever want to dreadlock my hair, although plenty of people on campus did and they did look pretty cool with dreads.

Adding to the negative climate against environmental activism, Abbie Hoffman tragically committed suicide, and reports came out citing that his own spirit was dis-heartened for the youth of America, who he did not think were motivated to make a positive difference. Watching his debate on campus with G. Gordon Libby prior to his death was difficult, because the audience was completely split between fans of Libby and fans of Hoffman, and the two disparate groups sparred verbally, and even to the point of physical fighting. Hoffman was viciously heckled by a large group of young Marines who came to support Libby. I guess Hoffman’s fans (being typical pacifists toward violent situations anyways) shied away from strongly defending Hoffman that evening, because, I think, we were scared.

My Memory Lane: Environmental Reporting

In the early 90s, graduating from college, I went on to work as a reporter at small newspapers in upstate New York,

and then later in Western Pennsylvania. I continued my interest and thoughts about the environment and, with editoral support and encouragment, carved out a niche focus in covering the issues, people, and places involved in the environmental movement in the community. I featured groups like Scenic Hudson, a non-profit that made an incredible difference in cleaning up the Hudson River, and I featured a family living in Pine Bush, New York, who, ahead of their time, lived a sustainable lifestyle, and also worked and volunteered in efforts to clean up the environment. The area I was living in, and reporting on, was called the Wallkill Valley, and one summer, I worked really hard to write researching a huge series of articles about the river that fed this valley called the Wallkill River. The series, published in The Wallkill Valley Times was well received, and was packed with a mix of historic tales of the river, the people who live beside it and plenty of well-researched facts about how modern pollution was causing problems for the waterway. The series won attention among a lot of people in New York State, including (I was told) getting the attention of Albany politicians, and being read and referenced by the then-Governor Mario Cumo at one point.

In covering environmental issues, I was, again, attacked at every angle by opposing views. The majority of readers

were very appreciative of the stories I was writing and that I was featuring efforts that were so often ignored by the media. However, in one case, a lawyer for a major land developer in upstate New York phoned up the newspaper’s office one day and began screaming and threatening me with every kind of legal horror possibility he could pull out of his sleeve, demanding that I not write anything about a controversial development plan that was coming up for review by a town’s planning commissioners, that activists were saying would have a severe impact on the water basin of the Wallkill Valley. I’d like to tell you that the story was published, but, as I remember the situation, the editor had to ask me to back down. It was a very small paper, and the threat was so severe that it would jeopardize the existence of the publication. It was a long time ago, and I think we still covered plenty of breaking news reports about what was happening with the controversial development, and plenty of other land use issues, but our plan to dig deeper into some of the happenings, in the style of investigative journalism, had to take a pause, because of the newspaper's own need to survive as a business in the community, and to maintain its thin editorial staff resources in covering a very wide geographic area. I understood the situation, and wasn't such a radical that I was going to insist on carrying on with the asssignment at that level of depth, was mattered was that that small community newspaper kept on covering the important development and land use issues in the area, and kept on paying attention, in a more detailed level, to the nitty gritty items that larger outlets would never make space for in print.

By the mid-nineties, after spending nearly a decade reporting about what was happening in the environment, among

the usual cop beat, school board meetings and other reporting requirements, the years of spirit crushing anti-environmental criticism started to tire me out. Along with keeping informed about the issue, and reporting relevant news items, I was also choosing to be an eco-consumer in my personal life, with recycling, composting and never ever littering. By the late 90s, having moved into New York City, the issue had seemed to nearly evaporate from all public discussion, news headlines and politicians agendas. It didn’t exactly go away, but it felt like it wasn’t a priority at all and the topic had gotten branded as such a naughty political thing to talk about, that, then, working in PR, you really had to be careful about what you expressed among business associates. I remember  one moment, where I tossed a bit of trash onto the street  in New York City,  I think it may have been a cigarette, which I had sadly started smoking at that point, and watched it  blow away  into a  clogged gutter, already filled with  garbage.  That was a really depressing moment, and  I just had that curshing, horrible feeling of:

"What’s the point???

It had been more than a decade of being devoted and focused on the envirionmental topic, and the fact was that among the people who were really powerful in the world at the time, no one was really paying attention. Even worse, so few people around me in my daily life were doing anything about it, and seemed to have a bad opinion toward those who were doing something. It was honestly like you felt you had to secretly recycle, and not really talk about it, in some circles.

My long tale has a point (I swear it does!!!) because as I watch the news media latching onto this plastic bag issue, along with members of all political parties, and so many big businesses now embracing this new ‘green’ movement. Well, it makes my ideological heart so happy. Sure, there is a lot of politicking silliness in it all, with David Cameron now suddenly ‘green’ and even Boris Johnson being shown frequently riding his bike. Yes, it is showcasing and has an air of fake ness about it, but who cares!!!! Good for them!!! Give them an Opray Winfrey-style hug the next time you see them. I should have done this to Boris, who I happened to be sitting near in a local Crime Summit, hosted by the West London borough of Hammersmith & Fulham here. I'm not a Boris fan, but I'm glad he rides a bike and shows off about it because his fans might also take note of that visual message and ride bikes instead of driving. With Boris, and others, it is great to see that after all these years, the climate of opinion is changing and the environmental issue is not, about what political ideology you belong to. You can be a Tory, a Republican, a Labour Party member or a member of the Pink Fluffy Bunny party and still recognize the importance of simple things like not using plastic bags.

This blog post turned out to be a lot longer than I wanted it to be, having accidentally taken yet another wander down memory lane, and I’ve now realized that the weekend is coming to a close and I have a LOT to do.

Thanks so much for reading if you got this far.

Popping out to the shops, toting my Onya bag, 

Who’s Lisa Devaney?

I head the Hai Media Group, a multimedia communications company based in London, offering client’s traditional public relations, combined with new technology marketing strategies. I also perform, creating original Cabaret-style comedy skits for festivals, theatre and parties. For a reference key to this blog, visit this post. Find out more about me, and the talented entrepreneurs I collaborate with, by visiting: www.haimediagroup.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Few places can claim the living history that London's Camden Market gives the city. And in the East End, time is ticking against music venue The Spitz in Spitalfield's Market. Both are under threat for permanent closure, to make room for development plans.

Like so many cherished cultural hubs, the gritty, edgy, punk, indie, goth-rocking flavour of Camden Market will be another memory if the Londoners who love it don't ACT NOW. Gone will be the stables and outdoor market stalls that are the area's claim to fame. Expect to find more boring High Street shops like Topshop and Starbucks. Londoners have already seen iconic pop cultural areas like Shoreditch's Spitalfields Market clean up and be transformed into sparkly shopping mall style venues, with pricy restaurants, lounges and long-standing popular venues destroyed. The Spitz music venue is holding ground for its last six months, getting pressure to turn its lease over to a new tennant.

Don't want to stand by and watch beloved London haunts become ghosts fo the past?

Here are TWO ways you can do something RIGHT NOW:

SAVE CAMDEN MARKET!!!

Camden Council has given permission for the famous Stables Market to be demolished and replaced with a generic development for the likes of Starbucks.  Camden's famously dodgy with planning with many deals hidden  from public scruitny and accusations of corruption.  Who knows why this one got through: incompetence, corruption, who knows? What's for sure is that the market is Camden and needs saved from these fools.

"Continue reading" to get the campaign newsletter and sign the petition.

For anyone who hasn't yet heard, an application for planning permission has been approved by Camden County Council in order to demolish Camden  stables market and to build a new complex with high street chains like
Topshop and Starbucks.

Camden is not only a place of originality in the fields of music, fashion and alternative culture but also a place of fascinating history.  It's at the very heart of one of London's most culturally, politically and ethnically diverse areas. It attract people from all over the world, of all ages, all interests and all backgrounds. Nowhere has ever been quite like Camden market, and NOWHERE ELSE EVER WILL BE IF WE LOSE IT! We've lost both the Kings Road and Kensington high street as the last bastions of alternative culture to the corporate developers over the

last fifteen years...

We can't let the stables be torn down - They are such an integral part of Camden's ambiance and London itself won't be the same without them.

Please, please give just 1 minute of your time and go to:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/camdenmarket/

This could be our last chance to make a difference. Almost 25,000 have signed to date - and this petition will be delivered to the government authorities, who must responded to it.

Surprisingly few Londoners even know about the plans. Do anything you can think of to help!

INVITE YOUR FRIEND'S TO SIGN + POST IT ON YOUR BLOG + MYSPACE & FACEBOOK + ALERT YOUR REPRESENTIVE + GO GIVE YOUR SUPPORT TO A CAMDEN MARKET STALL OWNER

*Copy the about email and link and FWD: it to all your contacts!
* Camden Market photos by Tone001 & Jason Delport

SAVE THE SPITZ!!!!

Petition & Party:

Another London music icon looks like going the way of the dodo unless we all do something about it. Not only is The Spitz an amazing live venue, it is a cracking gallery, showing established as well as up and coming photographers.

Now in its twelfth year The Spitz has established an internationally recognised reputation as London's leading independent non-mainstream music venue and a gallery that specializes in socially aware photo journalism. The irony of the threatened closure is that The Spitz venue has its strongest ever music programme with the current sell out Spitz Festival of Blues and two more festivals planned for August (Spitz Festival of Country) and September (The Spitz Festival of Folk) with numerous other one off promotions. The Spitz Gallery also has a very strong programme including the forthcoming Chernobyl exhibition by Magnum photographer Paul Fusco called? Twenty One Years of Fall Out?.

The Spitz is threatened with closure after receiving six months notice to quit its current site in Old Spitalfields Market by its landlords Ballymore Properties. This means in a worst case scenario The Spitz would cease to exist by the end of September this year.

Up until the end of September the most immediate way to support The Spitz is by using it as much as possible. Whether you book a table in the restaurant for lunch or hold your party in the gallery or come and see a gig we would be delighted to see you.

Please show your support by signing the Save The Spitz online petition.

Here is some more info

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Last.fm thinks you should come along to  Last.fm Supports The Spitz at The Spitz on Tuesday, 11 September  2007.

Bands playing:

Turbowolf
Mica Levi
Everyone to the Anderson
agaskodo teliverek
Hot Chip DJs
The Last.fm User Generated DJ Team

Here's the link:
http://www.last.fm/event/318269