I’ve lived in London since way back when and totally like it – especially Soho. It vibrant and busy so you know you’ll probably see new stuff any time you visit. Such a brilliant combination of old and new – Soho hasn’t yet was a victim of the developers who find a way to make city centres all look the identical. I love that you have book shops involved with cupcake shops as well as the film industry rubbing shoulders with tattoo parlours. The streets are smaller than average and intimate and everything is sort of in addition to the other person which increases the sense of only controlled chaos. You do sometimes feel like you’ve stepped way back in to a Dickensian world.
So anyway I needed a job to sort. A friend and that i wished to look for a space to show our new Shoe Collection – which had been easy to reach so people aside from just healthy mates tummy flatness, although and fairly flexible in terms of that this space may very well be used. I’ve helped other folks find spaces before to use on sample sales or maybe dress an area to seem like a desert (with real sand and palms) to get a private dinner which had been great and kind of mad. So you think that I’d be a pro only at that – but the main problem is spaces appear and vanish just as soon as they’ve been ‘discovered’ they get booked up! Also you really want a new challenge as well as a bit underground so you seem like you’re going to something special. You walk around Soho with all its lovely old buildings and you know there must be something somewhere that you just haven’t seen yet.
So it came to be i was relaxing in Randall and Aubin developing a coffee once this guy entered on his mobile referring to a play he’d seen with a space the Gallery Soho. My ears pricked up given it sounded weird a play had been performed within a ‘gallery’ space. An instant check up on my iPad confirmed that the ‘Gallery Soho’ was just about the corner and so taking the bull from the horns I went round to find out. Its brilliant, its big, its white as well as its totally central and easy to go to. You may have shows there, or private parties or sample sales – and even plays! Its one particular places, as if your favourite restaurant, that you form of desire to tell everyone about, but simultaneously you do not give you need to make it for yourself. I believe I’ve cracked it and we’re speaking to the Manager about possible dates to indicate on the gallery – and so i guess its ok to tell all others over it now.
