Any ideas for a 17th birthday in London?

Question

I'm going to be 17 in late October. I've recently gone to college but I wanna celebrate with some old friends as well as new. Any ideas what I can do? I don't want it to be too expensive as I want to treat everyone by paying, but I don't want a party as I don't have the space or money to hire space. Remember, it's London, so it's polluted and expensive.

Answer 1

I have an idea that not only won't cost you a lot but it will make you money.

Kneel on all 4s and put a Taxi sign next to you. Then give people pony rides through the streets of London, going "Winnie! Winnie!", because that is your name.

No space required because it is outdoors, at the end you will have more money than you started, and everyone has a good time!

Answer 2

Try TFI Fridays.

Answer 3

Sorry! I live in the US of A.  But happy birthday anyway,  Mine's on the 17th of October.

Answer 4

What is cheap and what is expensive?     Aside from taking over a city bus and riding around all day - --   check out various festivals and public events - - -  if you are younbg & friendly the situation willlargely pay for itself....    Most people tend to be generous to happy positive folks.   Here are some suggestions for events that may suit:

star    gaze     outside the events attending the London Film  Festival- - -  you may not beable to go inside but working the velvet ropes like frenzied fans you can have a good time;;;;

http://film.guardian.co.uk/festivals/new...

London film festival announces jubilee lineup

Xan Brooks

Thursday September 14, 2006

Guardian Unlimited



"Expectations are very high" ... Artistic director Sandra Hebron at today's launch. Photograph: Getty

  

The 50th London film festival will feature tales of s*x and politics, skinheads and dictators, fast-food workers and pumpkin kings. Announcing the lineup at a press launch in London's Leicester Square, artistic director Sandra Hebron confirmed that this year's event will open with the world premiere of Kevin Macdonald's Idi Amin drama The Last King of Scotland. It closes with a gala screening of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.

Other high-profile highlights include Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation, Marc Forster's Stranger Than Fiction and John Cameron Mitchell's explicit and provocative Shortbus. Todd Field's Little Children is a tale of small-town adultery starring Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly, while Emilio Estevez's Bobby pivots around the 1968 assassination of US presidential hopeful Robert F Kennedy.

"It is our 50th birthday, so I know that expectations are very high," Hebron said. As part of this year's celebrations, the event is planning a live screening event of specially commissioned work in Trafalgar Square, and also intends to roll its long-standing "Surprise Film" screening out to 50 venues around the country. "We want this to be as open and inclusive an event as possible," Hebron explained.

The festival also offers an abundance of new British films. Anthony Minghella's Breaking and Entering is a wry, London-set crime drama starring Jude Law and Martin Freeman, while Shane Meadows' This is England offers a rites-of-passage saga set against the skinhead culture of the early 1980s. Peter O'Toole is already tipped for acting honours for his role in Roger Michell's May-December romance, Venus, and Andrea Arnold's Red Road arrives fresh from an award at last May's Cannes film festival. Lightening the mood, Sacha Baron Cohen's oily, anti-semitic TV presenter makes his eagerly anticipated big-screen debut in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Elsewhere the festival boasts new work from the likes of Lars von Trier, Nanni Moretti, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Lukas Moodysson, Mira Nair and Aki Kaurismaki. Asian cinema is represented by Takashi Miike's Big Bang Love, Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Go Master and Lee Jun-Ik's The King and the Clown, while the documentary genre is spearheaded by The US Vs John Lennon, Sketches of Frank Gehry and Nick Broomfield's Ghosts, about the Chinese workers who lost their lives in Morecambe Bay.

All told, this year's event showcases 181 features and 131 shorts. Special guests scheduled for the roster of interviews and masterclasses include Dustin Hoffman, Kenneth Anger, Paul Verhoeven and Tim Burton, who will be discussing the 3D version of his 1994 hit The Nightmare Before Christmas.

The Times BFI 50th London film festival runs October 18 - November 2."

And  hanging outside of a   concert doesn't needto hurt the wallet - - -  someone might   surprise your friends with tickets  (assuming you are 'straight' here is the scenario,  see pretty London girl outside concert, flirt,  say it is your birthday,wave toward group of friends,she and her friends decide to get you in - - zamm) here are some concerts ------  note in Britain and Europe they style it date,month,year  ....

http://www.londonvisions.com/main_london...

Little Britain Live @ Hammersmith Apollo

23rd October to the 3rd November.

Britain! London! City of busses! Matt Lucas and David Walliams created comedy in 1562 while building a model of the Hammersmith Bridge from matchsticks. Who would have thought that 444 years later they would return to the rhinestone studded streets of wild west London with a bag full of ha ha? Yeeha! Little Britain live has been on tour around the UK and is now at the Hammersmith Apollo for a short time only.

Music Concerts

September 2006 London Concerts

Porcupine Tree @ Astoria, 29/09/06 - Book Online

Y&T @ Mean Fiddler, 29/09/06 - Book Online

Sparks @ Forum, 30/09/06 - Book Online

Top Concerts over the next few months in London.

Walter Trout @ Mean Fiddler, 06/10/06 - Book Online

Psychic TV @ Astoria, 07/10/06 - Book Online

Jim White & Johnny Dowd @ Mean Fiddler, 18/10/06 - Book Online

The Cooper Temple Clause @ Koko, 18/10/06 - Book Online

Pere Ubu plus Stan Ridgeway @ Mean Fiddler, 24/10/06 - Book Online

(HED) pe @ Mean Fiddler, 28/10/06 - Book Online

Emperor @ Astoria, 28/10/06 - Book Online

Zero 7 @ Brixton Academy, 28/10/06 - Book Online

Tom Jones @ Wembley Arena, 28/10/06 - Book Online

Cliff Richard @ Wembley Arena, 09/11/06 - Book Online

Cardiacs @ Astoria,10/11/06 - Book Online

W.A.S.P @ Astoria, 17/11/06 - Book Online

Big Band Blitz @ York House, Twickenham, 18/11/06 - Book Online

Robben Ford @ Mean Fiddler, 18/11/06 - Book Online

Ben Kweller @ Shepherd's Bush Empire, 20/11/06 - Book Online

UFO @ Astoria, 29/11/06 - Book Online

The Yardbirds @ York House, Twickenham, 02/12/06 - Book Online

Buzzcocks @ Forum, 02/12/06 - Book Online

My Life Story @ Mean Fiddler, 08/12/06 - Book Online

IQ @ Mean Fiddler, 9/12/06 - Book Online

New Model Army @ Astoria, 17/12/06 - Book Online

Hawkwind @ Astoria,20/12/06 - Book Online "

and   finally   -----

Exhibitions and Events in London

Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour at the Victoria and Albert Museum

10th October to the 17th December.

The hour of twilight expresses the limit between the familiar and the unknown an uncertain threshold between hope and fear. This otherworldly quality has inspired artists, who strive to record and replicate the ambiguity of the moment between night and day. At dusk, the colour and quality of light changes rapidly and dramatically. This exhibition will explore the theme of the twilight with contemporary photography and video.

Book Online

David Hockney Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery

12th October to the 21st January 2007.

Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this is the first exhibition devoted to David Hockney's portraits spanning over fifty years. This celebrated artist has been engaged with portraiture since his teenage years. Self-portraits and portraits of family, lovers, friends and well-known subjects represent an intimate visual diary of his life and artistic preoccupations. Featuring over 150 works across different media from the now iconic early double portraits to recent paintings produced especially for the exhibition.

Book Online

At Home in Renaissance Italy at the Victoria and Albert Museum

5th October 2006 to the 7th January 2007.

This exhibition looks at the 'Renaissance' by showing how the urban homes of Renaissance Italy made a crucial contribution to the flowering of the visual arts. Many of the paintings, sculpture and decorative art objects we associate with the Italian Renaissance were originally intended for the domestic interior. Yet it is unusual for these objects to be displayed in a manner that evokes their original role as part of the aesthetic ensemble that constituted the household. The exhibition will explore the relationship between spaces, people and objects within the Renaissance home.

Book Online

Dino Jaws at the Natural History Museum

30th June to the 15th April 2007.

Feast on a world of devouring dinosaurs and come face to face with ten of the most incredibly lifelike moving dinosaurs ever created, in a new family blockbuster, opening this summer. From the flesh-eating T. rex to the plant-munching Iguanodon experience at first hand what these awesome creatures ate for dinner. Get to grips with jaws, claws, guts and even poo using exciting hands-on activities to unearth the sometimes gruesome, often disgusting, subject of dinosaurs and their food.

Book Online

Origin London Craft Fair, 03/10/06 to 15/10/06 @ Somerset House

Origin, a new kind of event for original contemporary craft - right in the heart of London. See and buy the work of more then 300 leading designer-makers from around the world, all presented in the spectacular Somerset House courtyard.

Book Online

Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837-1987 at Somerset House

24th June to the 26th November.

The most comprehensive exhibition of Tiffany jewellery ever mounted, Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837-1987, will introduce Great Britain to the rich history of the jewellery of Tiffany & Co. Some 180 glittering pieces from the Tiffany Archive, together with a small selection of jewels loaned from private collections, will chronicle Tiffany's first 150 years. Many of these works have never before been on public display.

Book Online"

Answer 5

Your best bet is probably a private club (if you can afford it) because then you can get in even if you are not 18.

London is full of bars and clubs unfortunately they occasionally ID people.  Sometimes but not always! You don't want your night ruinned because you couldn't get into the club/bar.

Answer 6

If you want a good night out with your mates then i just have a place for you just the type of music you guys and gals would like, it is a place in Ilford, the place is called SHOUT it is near a cinema, there is a bar, and a restaurant and a dance floor, you can ask the DJ for requests of your favourite music or song, and it is brilliant.  Admission is only £4.00, make sure you take your ids with you.  My friends son who turned 18years old, we took him and his girlfriend there and he absolutely loved it, give it a go, anD by the way HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY.

Answer 7

Boat trip down the river

Answer 8

go camping.

Answer 9

well, your a student, so you can bum the money off the government, so to h**l with the expense...............