23.06.17 INSIDE AL JAZEERA
Can the world’s most controversial TV network survive?
BEACHES CRUISES PARTIES What’s hot in the city now
why I hate holidays
By Hannah Betts
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yana peel cocktails in cans and the rise of neo-boho
haim
Glastonbury, Taylor Swift and soundtracking the summer
contents 5 Dressing for your ex in UPFRONT 7 Our MOST WANTED is Tod’s two-tone snakeskin bag
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8 Cara Delevingne steals the scene in FLASHBULB 13 Folksy fringes and laser heels in STYLE NOTES 14 It’s prime HAIM!
tsiakkos & charcoal ‘Tsiakkos & Charcoal on Marylands Road serves the best Greek food in London. Try the meze — for £25 you get five courses and as much hummus and tzatziki as you want. The dream.’ Lily Worcester, lifestyle assistant
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SUN CITY: your London summer guide 28 One HOLIDAY HATER tells all 31 Shooting for bronze in BEAUTY 33 GRACE DENT scoffs comfort food at Red Rooster 35 TART dish up a healthy carbonara 37 Festi-friendly booze in DRINKS 39 Art without borders in HOMEWORK 41 ESCAPE to Ecuador 42 Yana Peel’s MY LONDON 24
COVER Haim photographed by Charlotte Haddon. Styled by Sophie Paxton. From left, Este wears ATTICO dress, £875, at net-a-porter.com. Alana wears BEAUFILLE top, £400; trousers, £480, at boutique1.com. Danielle wears BEAUFILLE top, £498, at sales@beaufille.com; JIL SANDER trousers, £480 (jilsander.com)
Here are the ES team’s top 5 local restaurants
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cafÉ 209 ‘A no bells-and-whistles, BYO Thai restaurant where owner Joy is a local celebrity thanks to her chatty hostess manner.’ Katie Service, beauty editor
ida ‘Tucked between Queen’s Park and Kensal Rise, this is a proper Italian, family-run affair — and the tiramisu is exceptional.’ Dipal Acharya, commissioning editor
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chicks on fire ‘This is the best chicken you’ll eat in London (big claim, I know). It’s a Holloway secret, serving amazingly cooked, affordable food and owned by the lovely Hassan.’ Helen Gibson, picture editor
el rancho de lalo ‘This fab Colombian spot in Brixton Market has massive portions — I dare you to finish the bandeja paisa (sausage, steak, pork belly, kidney beans, rice, egg, corn bread, avocado and plantain).’ Frankie McCoy, features writer
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Sing it, sisters Haim are back with an album that’s destined to be the sound of the summer. As they prepare for Glastonbury they talk celebrity fans, cancelled gigs and live performance in the age of terror with Jimi Famurewa. Just don’t mention Taylor Swift… PhotographS BY Charlotte Hadden stylED BY Sophie Paxton
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t’s a sweltering, appropriately Californian morning in London and, within the airconditioned sanctuary of Fitzrovia’s Villandry restaurant, the Haim sisters are explaining their father’s unique approach to limiting their screen time as children. ‘He was a drummer, so he set up a drum kit right in our living room and would just play,’ explains Danielle, the band’s lead vocalist and guitarist. ‘So it was just impossible to watch TV.’ ‘I think that’s how he got us to not watch it,’ chips in bass player, Este. ‘You’d be watching something and you’d just see him go in there and be like, “boom, ba-cha, boom boom ba-cha”.’ ‘And our mom was like, “It’s always so loud in this house,”’ concludes rhythm guitarist and keyboard player, Alana, laughing. That these three LA-born performers were raised in a musical household in which afternoon Nickelodeon binges had to compete with deafening drum solos explains plenty about their percussive, widely adored brand of harmonious pop-rock, which has garnered more than 400 million global streams and once beat Justin Timberlake — the actual Justin Timberlake — to No 1 in the UK album chart. But it also, perhaps, indirectly gives a sense of what it’s like to spend an hour with Este (31, queen of droll asides), Danielle (28, thoughtfully quiet interjector) and Alana Haim (25, motormouthed de facto spokeswoman). Additionally, it possibly tells you why their long-awaited return, capped by a bound-to-be-mobbed
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appearance at Worthy Farm this Sunday, has been so gratefully received. Because to be in Haim’s orbit is to encounter a sort of entrancingly noisy familial chaos. Up close it’s easy to see why, in the wake of 2013’s Grammy-nominated, gold-selling debut album, Days Are Gone, they charmed celebrity collaborators as diverse as Stevie Nicks and A$AP Rocky. Their famous fans include Hillary Clinton (who added them to her International Women’s Day Spotify playlist last year), Jay Z (who signed them to his management group, Roc Nation) and Florence Welch (who memorably ended a sold-out London gig at the Forum by crowdsurfing in a Haim T-shirt). In their company, prolonged singalongs break out, sentences are completed in three parts, sororal in-jokes
From left, Alana wears A.W.A.K.E. coat, £1,000, at net-a-porter.com. Danielle wears ATTICO coat, £1,166, at matchesfashion. com. Top, her own. Este wears CÉLINE dress, £2,400 (020 7491 8200)
fly and declarative statements are delivered in knowing Valley Girl hyperbole (Alana: ‘Trying Percy Pigs for the first time was, like, a really big moment for me’). In short, Haim (pronounced ‘high-im’) are an undeniable riot. Or, at least, they are until later, when a mention of Taylor Swift — the former tour mate, Hawaiian holiday buddy and general social media bestie who recently broke an eight-week Instagram hiatus to support Haim’s new single — causes a storm cloud of tension to momentarily form over our conversation. But all that’s to come when they swoop into the restaurant’s vacated back room with open arms (‘We’re huggers,’ says Este) and wide smiles. Their signature look, once denoted by leather jackets and cut-offs, has evolved
somewhat (Este wears a checked dress, Danielle is in a billowy Bardot top and Alana sports a wide-collared, pillar box red suit) but they all still have long, glossy Alanis hair. And, impressively, they are not acting remotely like women who, thanks to a secret gig at Islington Assembly Hall the night before and an early morning interview at Radio 1 with Nick Grimshaw, have all had only a few hours’ sleep. After we’ve finished speaking they’ll fly to Barcelona for another unbilled appearance, this time at the Primavera Sound festival. It’s the sort of sleepless whirl of airports and hotel check-ins that betrays a central fact: four years after soundtracking the summer of every discerning music fan on the planet, Haim are back with followup album Something To Tell You. But they’re back a lot later than plenty of people would have liked. Why the holdup? ‘Well, we toured Days Are Gone for three years,’ says Danielle. ‘Plus we wanted to just hunker down on songwriting and write the best songs possible,’ adds Este. ‘We’ve realised it’s a muscle you have to flex. It’s like going to the gym.’ Soon after starting, they’d flexed their way to ‘a million ideas’ for songs and ‘over 50’ actual demos, but couldn’t quite get over the figurative finish line. Drastic action was needed. So, last July, they cancelled a clutch of European dates, including a British stop-off. It was a necessary decision but one that clearly still stings. ‘We would never cancel a tour lightly,’ says Alana, ‘and I will make up those shows tenfold. I want to tour this record until my ears bleed and my eyes are dripping with God knows what.’ We happen to be speaking the weekend before One Love Manchester, Ariana Grande’s moving tribute to the victims of the terror attack at her 22 May concert, and I wonder aloud if Haim were approached. ‘No, but we would have played,’ says Alana, quickly. ‘We totally would have. It was such a tragedy so, of course.’ With more live shows on the horizon — and the murders at the Bataclan theatre and the Manchester Arena fresh in the mind — safety at gigs is firmly in their thoughts. ‘We are taking it very seriously,’ adds Alana. ‘Playing shows and being in venues, safety is absolutely first and foremost.’ Away from this grim new normal, those who do get tickets for the upcoming performances (which will include make-up dates for axed shows at Reading and Leeds Festivals) are, without a doubt, in for a treat.
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THE ART OF AL FRESCO Let the battle of the summer art pavilions commence, as the ever lavish Serpentine Gallery’s offering — this year designed by Burkina Faso-born architect Francis Kéré — finds itself in a square-off with Dulwich Picture Gallery. The latter is celebrating its 200th birthday with its first pavilion (above), designed by Camberwell architects IF_DO. While the Serpentine is home to one of summer’s hottest parties (co-hosted with Chanel), Dulwich is keeping it arty with botanical workshops, film screenings or Friday Lates like Sargent: Wanderlust. Meanwhile, Sculpture in the City features work from 16 artists installed between office blocks, including a Damien Hirst on Cullum Street and Mark Wallinger’s lifesize black horse on the corner of Bishopsgate and Wormwood Street.
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When summer hits, London comes alive like nowhere else on earth. Make this one your best ever with our guide to having fun in the sun words BY frankie m c coy
Lay your towel down at Neverland, left, for a cocktail or two, or take in the sunshine at Brixton Beach, below
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What London’s pop-up summer beaches lack in tropical climes they make up for in sheer fun. Newington Causeway’s Backyard Cinema becomes Beachyard Cinema, with its new Miami-themed cocktail bar serving up all your favourite beachside coladas, plus a range of new-ish flicks such as La La Land and classics (Top Gun, anyone?). If you like the sound of the latter’s booze more than its blockbusters, head down to Fulham’s Neverland, the only beach bar to grace SW6, where baskers can bring their own alcohol or have on-site bartenders shake them up a £5 daiquiri to sip in one of the pastel-coloured beach huts. And then there’s classic night market Brixton Rooftop, currently transformed into a Cuban beach. Start with some good clean fun at one of its exercise classes, then pound the sand into the ground at the weekend raves — the pick of which is Garage Sessions with Artful Dodger, and DJ Luck and MC Neat.
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street vibes
It’s easy to love your neighbours when the sun’s out and you can bond over a shared barbecued sausage. Soak up the E8 community vibes at the Hackney Summer Fete on 8 July, where St John’s Church hosts all the coolest local street food, craft beer and vintage fashion any self-respecting hipster could desire, as well as music, a dog show and an after-party. Queen’s Park Day on 17 September, meanwhile, has donkey rides, cider and GBBO-worthy cake competitions. South of the river there’s the epic Lambeth Country Show (15-16 July), where New Orleans jazz legends The Hot 8 Brass Band headline after a jousting competition. The week after there’s the Camberwell Fair (22-23 July) which, in addition to lots of great music, food and drink, also has dance workshops (hip hop, samba), sock wrestling and tug-o-wars for the kids.
STRETCH OUT IN THE SUN
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When the sun’s glaring through your curtains at 4.30am, there’s no excuse not to get in a smug pre-work workout. Oxford Street office workers can hit the roof of John Lewis, where the Gardening Society pop-up garden is offering ‘Wake Up London’ tabata classes — 45 minutes of hardcore boxing circuits (left), based on the tabata training technique of high intensity exercise followed by rest periods. If HIIT’s your thing, also try Aviary’s HIIT the Roof rooftop sessions (top left), every other Friday from 30 June to 25 August, in Finsbury Square, where the views will distract you from the pain. Sound a bit much for a sunny morning? Stretch out at Dalston Roof Park’s Fat Buddha Yoga sessions, or Frame’s Breakfast Barre (below) on the banks of Regent’s Canal (12 July and 2 August), where you’ll be rewarded with breakfast from Gangsters for Granola.
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A sunny afternoon spent getting lightly sozzled at a festival dedicated to booze? It’s the very essence of summer. Pull on your rosé-tinted glasses for London’s first ever rosé wine festival (21-23 July) at Bethnal Green’s Geffrye Museum (above left). Given that it’s in association with Laurent Perrier, you can expect some classy pink — there are 30 varieties on offer for sipping alongside cheese and charcuterie. Fans of tiki cocktails — those mad, colourful, super-boozy drinks in Aztec tumblers (right) — have the inaugural Spirit of Tiki festival in Regent’s Park: a two-day, rum-soaked bonanza of Bacardi, Mount Gay and Polynesian food (14-15 July). Alternatively, you can pay homage to the capital’s never-fading love of an 8% dry-hopped grapefruit pale ale at London Craft Beer Festival (4-6 August, above) — back for the fifth year with 45 breweries, beer-inspired food from Radio Alice and Morito, plus music from Hot Chip and Foals.
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my london
yana peel as told to katrina israel
Home is… Bayswater, in a flat that used to be home to the Royal Society of Literature. I love the legacy of the Omega design workshops that were once based there and also the horses that people ride through Hyde Park — a bit of country life on our doorstep.
What do you collect? Serpentine editions, first copies of favoured Russian Literature, half-read New Yorkers, white trainers, Charlotte Tilbury lipsticks, talented creative partners and Muji 0.5 pens. Favourite shops? Hatchards and Heywood Hill for books; Rough Trade for albums; Cos for beautifully cut basics; Bodas for ethical essentials; Flowerbx for the best thank-yous (above), fresh from the market. Last play you saw? The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Donmar. I’ve followed Josie Rourke and Kate Pakenham since their Bush and Old Vic days.
First thing you do when you arrive back in London? I pick up a coffee from the 34 varieties at Markus Coffee (above) in Marble Arch, put on my Beats X and run through Hyde Park with Benji B’s latest on SoundCloud. What are you up to right now? Planning the Summer Party 2017 with Chanel and our creative collaborators. The annual gala raises essential funds keeping the Serpentine Galleries free and open to all. This year Francis Kéré designed the pavilion, Karl Lagerfeld drew our invitations and Caius Pawson, Es Devlin and Elizabeth Saltzman are also involved.
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The head of the Serpentine Galleries sips Martinis at Dukes, goes running in Hyde Park and splashes out on Chanel Best piece of advice you’ve been given? From Michael Bloomberg: ‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.’ And from my parents: ‘Do your best and have fun!’ Who do you call when you want to have fun? My husband, Stephen. My three best girlfriends. Jason Basmajian, Ben Evans and Amanda Levete, Francis Sultana, Fiona Leahy, Sara Sjölund, Ben Pawson. Oh, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist (right, with Peel), of course.
Best place for a nightcap? Martinis at Dukes (right) or an old fashioned at The Cub Room at The Beaumont. What would you do if you were Mayor for the day? My 12-year-old son suggests making the buses free so no one would need cars. Super-speed electric car chargers will also be welcome, once they arrive for the new generation of black cabs.
Biggest extravagance? Hailo (shamelessly) — now called Mytaxi — and Chanel (discerningly). Earliest London memory? Nights at Subterranea or Tramp when I was at LSE. Visiting Sensation at the RA, then seeing the Chapmans’ Great Deeds Against the Dead at Charles Saatchi’s house (plus the letter of complaint in his loo from an irate neighbour). Who are your heroes? My grandmothers. One survived the siege of Leningrad, the other was the first female student to be accepted at law school there. Their fighting spirit lives on in my daughter. The Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Francis Kéré, is open from 23 June to 8 October
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Best meal you’ve had? The Typing Room (above) at Bethnal Green Town Hall for the locally foraged elderflower and raw almond dessert. Chef Lee Westcott was in Hong Kong when I lived there.