Wick

So it's nice and accessible for those of you in and around London.

If you're-- for those of you in London, you know you can just get over at Stratford, or you take Hackney Wick on the Overground.

But for anybody who's never been to London or is not in London all that frequently, as I just described, it's quite accessible from a variety of public transportation options, very easy to get to, and it's in quite a nice part of the town as well.

Like, it's still part of the, um, kind of renovated area surrounding, um, the Olympic grounds from back in 20-- what was it? 2012? Is that when the, the Olympics happened? Um, and yeah, we've still got tickets.

You got something you wanna talk about?

I get off the train in Hackney Wick.

I'm sweet 15 in a weird outfit.

Got invited to perform at this party through Myspace.

How has it been, um, f-for, by this time last year, fellow councilor and then suddenly, you know, but how has it been, man?

Uh, firstly, thank you for, yeah, the time you gave to come and help with the campaign here in Hackney, in Hackney Wick Ward.

Um, that was really, really helpful.

Hackney Wick had, uh, a lot of, uh, Nigerians and residents from diverse backgrounds, and your presence definitely, um, helped.

But unfortunately, there was, um, a green tsunami in, in Hackney that we just could not, um, sw-swim against, unfortunately.

But, um, being a councilor is a privilege.

We'll give you another update as we go, um, and as we approach the back end of the campaign, uh, which is World Mental Health Day, which is, uh, this Saturday, Saturday the 10th.

I should also say I'm doing another fundraiser on Saturday, a very different one, uh, but I'll be DJing in Hackney Wick.

So if anyone wants to come for a dance and listen to some progressive house music, uh, [chuckles] if you put, uh, put in the words LX System and CALM into Google, I'm sure you'll find it.

Um, but yeah, if anyone wants to come down and have a little boogie in Hackney Wick, um, be my guest.

I think it's not free.

It's a pay what you want.

Thanks for staying with us for the hour.

And yeah, if you're around next Saturday, come to Living Room in Hackney Wick.

We're going to be dancing from 2pm until 11pm.

for Good As You Soiree, first birthday celebrations with myself, my friend Tom, and the incredible Bess Lee.

I'm talking about Flamingo Pier.

It's live on the website and these guys are three New Zealanders who started out throwing parties in a warehouse in Hackney Wick, and their name comes from parties on a pontoon with neon flamingos.

Now their new album, Woven Together, is out on the ninth of October, and this is Living It Up.

[chilled music] Can you feel it? Do you know? I can tell when you're not.

[upbeat music]

[upbeat music][upbeat music] All right, as we are in good company right here, let's count the passport stamps so far.

Brooklyn, Tulum, New Zealand, by way of Hackney Wick, [laughs] Los Angeles, Guinea, and now North Macedonia.

Well, that's not bad for one evening on the sofa.

What?

To live in Hackney Wick.

Jesus.

Yeah, thank God.

We're closer now to Leyton Orient.

Yeah, because if you go towards Hackney Wick and you go further east again from Hackney Wick, then you'd go into Leyton.

So that's when you'd run into Leyton Orient, further down that way.

This Millwall thing, this Millwall rivalry, from your point of view, has such long historic roots.

Um, you must go and see it 'cause it's really, really wonderful.

And I think the first exhibition, something that you can do, which it's only a couple quid to get into, it's in Hackney, um, Hackney Wick.

Wick, um, it's at the Victoria and Albert East.

It's like an archive center.

Um, it's got so much in there, and it's not just David Bowie related, but it has so many little bits in there that it's just fa- absolutely fabulous, like the Olympic torch, like desks, like things from the Middle East, um, that all have significant value and meaning.