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The Tuttle Club

Co-creating a Social Media Café for London

Eeep!!!! For the Friday Tuttle on 19th December, our friends at the ICA are giving us a special gift of a screening of our favourite movie: Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil”!

It will start promptly at 10.15 so we should be done by 1pm in time for some lunch (don’t worry, we’ll be going for the original cut, not the “happy ending” US version…). I’ll put up a list on the wiki to keep an eye on how many are planning to come. I’d be surprised if we reach the capacity of the cinema (185) but I’ve given up trying to predict these things.

If you haven’t seen it, you’re in for a treat.

Tuttle on Tour: KaraokeNovember 10

****** UPDATED 22/11/08 ******

The ‘Tuttleoke’ is now being held @ Lucky Voice ISLINGTON
(Soho was fully booked)
We’ve bagged two rooms for a total of 20 16 Rockstars;
(8 & 8 respectively)
Currently have 13 16 folk confirmed, that means 7 0 places left kids
Get in touch if you want to play watch - we’ve filled the places now but people are allowed to come along and drink before and swap in and out etc…. Drop us a line and we’ll see what we can arrange.

Original details below…

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This has been a long time coming…

We’ve talked about it,
We’ve attempted it and
We’ve even threatened to just go out and do it…

Well, the time is NOW folks and Vikki Chowney and James Whatley have stepped up to do the organising.

So… It’s Karaoke Time!

The Time: 7:30pm
The Date: Friday Dec 5th
The Place: Lucky Voice, Soho Lucky Voice, 173-174 Upper Street, Islington
The Event: Can you not READ? It’s Karaoke!

Phase IISeptember 27

Mike and I have been joking in public about “phase 2″ for some time and I’m really glad we can stop joking about it and say “Yes! It’s a Go! Go! Go!”

Here’s the simple version: From Friday 10th October, the Tuttle Club will hold it’s Friday meetups at the ICA in The Mall instead of the Coach & Horses.

Of course there’s a more complicated version too:

1. More space - when we push above 40 people, the Coach can be very tight and uncomfortable. There are a couple of separate spaces we can use in the ICA cafe and capacity for up to 200. Which bloody well better be enough.

2. It’s still a little bit secret. The place doesn’t open properly normally until 11am and we’ve been given special permission to go in at 10am. So admission will be through the “back door” in Carlton House Terrace, maintaining the grand Tuttle tradition of entering in a manner that feels a little bit special and naughty.

3. It gives us a foot in the door to do all sorts of other events at the intersection of contemporary art a

That Twitter SongSeptember 20

Perhaps you haven’t heard it or perhaps you are one of the 214,000 listeners (so far) to Ben Walker’s Twitter Song on YouTube.

Either way, what you might not have realised is that it was written by Ben at the Coach and Horses during a Tuttle session. I noticed him sitting alone and scribbling one day and then a bit later, there it was! The comments on YouTube are class, do take a scroll through them.

Bonus Link: Now he’s selling t-shirts too

Some “rules”August 8

I see my job as keeping things going by resisting attempts to structure and set things in stone. But I can’t be everywhere especially as we grow and do things in other places and at other times. So I think it’s time to say something about what’s tuttle and what’s not. I’d like to keep talking about these until we get them right but I think these two are the most important.

1. Whenever two or more are gathered in the name of Harry, the spirit of Tuttle will be with you. This means that even if only one other person turns up on a Friday, we’re still quorate *and* if you want to tuttle, all you need is one other similarly minded underground heating engineer.

2. Do as you would be done by. Tuttle is about sharing what you know and who you know. This means give as much as you’d like to get. Don’t take the piss. People try. They think we don’t notice, but we’ve all seen them. It doesn’t work for long. Newcomers should remember that although some of us may look and sound like hippy-dippy caring-sharing kumbaya singers, we were hacking stuff together while you were still getting high on a can of irn-bru and the latest episode of Thundercats. This is what Harry does to people who take the piss.

But also, Russell found