‘Kidsalive’ is a worldwide organization founded in 1916. Its aim is to help and care for the children living in sad and devastating conditions. Based in China it’s now spread in many countries of the third world (e.g America Latina, Africa or Asia) and leads many actions of support for the children such as sponsoring a child, building schools…

Indeed, it’s very important to realise that children are the future and that we shouldn’t abandon them. By organising a Charity Walk, our friend Julia Roberts wants to raise money for ‘Kidsalive’ as well as make you have a nice time in London.

The Charity Tour will take place on the 22 July and will start at 12:30 outside the ‘S Bar’ south of Battersea Bridge. It will cover 11 miles and 12 of the most main bridges in London. The ticket is £10 and you receive a t-shirt ‘Kidsalive’ as well as doing a good deed.

If you are interested in rising funds for the organization, please visit the website www.kidsalive.org

If you want to join the tour, please contact Julia Roberts: julhindi@yahoo.co.uk and visit the website www.justgiving.com/juliaroberts for more information on this event.

Elisabeth gives us her take on British Music:

As everyone knows, London has always been a famous capital for finance & business but beside this formal reputation, London is also a hot spot for music of all its kind.  This is certainly why all famous British singers and bands have started their carreer here and why London is now a place of pilgrimage for many generations.

Throughout the last decades, London and British culture has been illustrated through music.
As for example everybody remembers the Beatles crossing Abbey Road on the cover of their eleventh album as well as the famous “London Calling” released by The Clash in 1979 which put forward the punk rock movement along with the controversial “God save the Queen” by the Sex Pistols (1977). This is mythical, THIS is London!

But those days are not gone as each generation has had their fair share of charismatic bands.  In the mid-nineties under the Brit-pop and Cool Brittania revival Oasis had their stunning unforgettable song “Wonderwall” and Blur had London swaggering to the sound of ‘Parklife’.    Indeed this last decade has revealed a new lease of life for music.  A new successful music wave appeared in England in the early XXIst century: indie rock.  Indie is a shorten form for “independent” which characterizes the independence of this music from the commercial & major record labels and its autonomy in recording, publishing and performing. Indie bands of today inlcude Franz Ferdinand, Hard-Fi, Bloc Party… and some more.

If you want to know more about indie rock and remember about the genius bands of the past decades, why don’t you join us for our great “Best of British” Night on Thursday 19 July at Bar Andalucia  in Whitfield Street? You will have the chance to learn more about British music and culture in a fun and entertaining atmosphere.  See on the Thursday 19 July then!