CITY DIARY
04 October 2006
The Stylish Kids in the Riot: Will and Victor from Circulus, Paul Hamilton, Tom Hodgkinson and Dan Kieran. Photo by John Moore
On Monday 2 October a motley, raggle-taggle and very merry crew met at the statue of John Wilkes in New Fetter Lane for a short meander through Holborn to Clerkenwell Green. It was a Liberty March to celebrate the publication of Idler Ed Tom’s new book, How To Be Free. Tom recited Blake’s poem “London” through the megaphone while Michael Tyack, Will and Victor Hugo of Circulus rocked the medieval beats on the lute, pipe and drum. At the Old Sessions House we drank Fuller’s London Pride, drank red wine, ate ham and bread and made merry. So merry that we were asked to keep the noise down by the masons who were holding a big dinner in the room across the hall.
"For Jerome, idleness had little in common with laziness. His notion of idleness in the world beyond his fiction was one of contemplative productivity with the minimum of fuss."