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brains and the charm behind the 

famous Reggae Reggae Sauce. 

Levi started his business years 

ago in his own kitchen and now 

heads up a food and restaurant 

empire worth well over £35 

million. On page 24 you can see 

an interview with him. 

Also in this issue we have 

articles on design (London’s new 

Design Museum), photography 

(animals and humans, both 

unclothed), sport (the bizarre 

hybrid known as chess boxing), 

art (babies in film posters), and 

weird museums. Something for 

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In this issue 

6 London by day 

New shops, shows, galleries and events. 

8 London by night 

New restaurants, bars, concerts and nightlife. 

10 London news 

18 Form and function 

You need both of these attributes to design a 

brilliant product. As evidenced by these wonderful 

devices – at once beautiful and practical – on show 

at London’s new Design Museum. 

24 The man behind the sauce 

From prison to Dragon’s Den to multi-millionaire 

food magnate, Levi Roots is the ultimate rags-toriches 

businessman. In this interview he reveals his 

motivation. 

28 Boxing clever 

Discover the hybrid sport known as chess boxing 

– a bizarre combination of cerebral tactics and 

aggressive pugilism. 

24 

32 Catch your death of cold 

The dancers who have posed naked on London’s 

nighttime streets. 

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“It was frequently very cold; it was usually 

late; it was dangerous, illegal, exhausting, 

and, of course, they’re naked. Yet they still 

said yes.” P.32 

28 

32 

36 Here, Kitty Kitty 

The Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer 

of the Year exhibition offers a glimpse into the secret 

world of wild animals. 

36 

42 Stealing the show 

Meet the baby who has now starred in E.T., Jurassic 

Park, King Kong and Singin’ in the Rain. 

46 London villages 

Where Auntie used to live – White City. 

48 Meet the chauffeur 

We talk to one of Parker Cars’ lovely drivers. 

50 Six of the best… 

Weird museums in London. 

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London by day 

All the best stuff to do 

during daylight hours. 

W14 9sd 

One of West 

Kensington’s cutest 

pubs has had a 

makeover. The muchloved 

Colton Arms 

offers all-day food in 

its cosy bar area, its 

outdoor terrace, or its 

glass conservatory. 

Expect classic pub 

grub alongside more 

cosmopolitan cuisine. 

Beware of tennis 

balls flying over from 

neighbouring Queen’s 

Club. 

NW1 2BE 

Discover how we humans connect with 

nature through a new exhibition at the 

Wellcome Collection called A Museum 

of Modern Nature. Curators include 

a shaman, a dairy farmer and a plant 

scientist. Until Oct 8. 

E20 2st 

Blink and you’ll miss it. Usain Bolt makes 

his last international appearance when 

the IAAF World Athletics Champs come 

to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 

in Stratford between Aug 4 and 13. The 

World Para Athletics Champs take place 

just before, July 14 to 23. 

W14 8UX 

Quaff over 900 lovely beers, ciders and 

perries (plus a few English wines) at the 

Great British Beer Festival at Olympia 

London, Aug 8 to 12. Expect to jostle 

for space with lots of large bellies and 

beards. 

sE1 9tG 

Even skinny art lovers 

will feel well-upholstered 

after viewing the Alberto 

Giacometti retrospective 

at the Tate Modern. Until 

Sept 10. 



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Fans of Pac-Man, Asteroids and Space 

Invaders should head for Four Quarters 

East, the new retro video games bar that 

has just opened alongside the canal in 

Hackney Wick. 

E16 1Xl 

Over 200 different 

breeds of dog will be 

pawing and panting 

at Eukanuba Discover 

Dogs, a two-day dog 

show at Excel London 

from Oct 21 to 22. 

Under 12s go free. 

(Children, not dogs.) 

Ec2a 4BH 

It will be Nobu’s first European hotel. A 

new 150-room, five-storey building is set 

to open any day now on Shoreditch’s 

Willow Street. Look out for the 

cantilevered steel beams protruding from 

the northern façade, giving the hotel “a 

seemingly frayed edge”. 

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Nine restaurants, 252 bedrooms, a club, 

a rooftop pool, a spa, a barbershop and 

an “all-hours cocktail lounge”… 

The Ned is a very cool hotel in the 

former Midland Bank building in the City. 

And that cocktail lounge is deep in the 

former vault. 

sE16 7pJ 

Printworks is a new 6,000-capacity 

music and arts venue. There are six 

events spaces “arranged over multiple 

levels with a maze of corridors and 

rooms throughout which retain all 

the original machinery and industrial 

features”. Expect some exciting shows 

but don’t be put off by the Rotherhithe 

address. 



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London by night 

All the best stuff to do after 

the sun has gone down. 

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“An adrenalin-fuelled journey through 

the sizzling world of tango,” is how 

Sadler’s Wells describe their 30-strong 

Argentinian dance show Tanguera. From 

£12, Jul 19 to Aug 6. 

sE1 7dU 

Are you man (or woman) enough to 

take on the ostrich egg at Florentine, 

the new restaurant and bar in Lambeth? 

Priced £90 it will easily feed six hungry 

diners and comes either scrambled or 

fried. Other great menu items include ox 

cheek, the one-kg Tomahawk beef steak, 

and British sparkling wine. DJs and live 

music too. 

W1F 8ZH 

Celebrity nightclub 

Paper returns to 

Wardour Street, 

on the site of Peter 

Stringfellow’s Angels 

club, at number 201. In 

its previous incarnation 

it welcomed the likes 

of Beyoncé and Kiera 

Knightley, so expect 

some A-list names. 

kt8 9aU 

Sword fighting, courtly games, music 

and jousting all vie for your attention at 

Hampton Court Palace’s Tudor Joust, 

July 15 to 16. 

sE1 1tE 

It’s no secret that London’s live music 

venues are suffering. What a joy, then, 

to hear about a new opening in the 

form of Omeara, a 9,000-square foot, 

350-capacity space beneath railway 

arches in Southwark. There’s pedigree 

here, too, since the venue owner is 

Mumford & Sons’ Ben Lovett. 



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Islington’s legendary gig venue The 

Garage has relaunched after an extensive 

re-fit which includes a live music venue, 

nightclub, café and bar. Rock and indie 

acts still dominate. 

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One of London’s lesser known but very 

important contemporary art fairs is the 

Moniker International Art Fair in the Old 

Truman Brewery in Spitalfields. Urban art 

and huge installations play an important 

role. Oct 5 to 8. 

E8 2pB 

Savour your cocktails 

while listening to 

DJs spinning vinyl 

downstairs at Ray’s 

Bar in Dalston. It’s like 

something out of the 

disco era. 

sE10 0dX 

Fancy going out? Out 

out? Lucky then that 

Cockney comedian 

Mickey Flanagan 

is doing a 10-night 

residency at The O2 

between Sept 14 and 

Oct 14. It’s called An’ 

Another Fing… 

sE1 7tJ 

A spaghetti junction of bus lanes, 

tunnels, dual carriageways, railways lines 

and MI5 security cameras… Vauxhall 

Cross can seem soulless at the best of 

times. One place trying to inject a bit of 

flavour into the area is Chino Latino, a 

totally refurbished pan-Asian restaurant 

and accompanying Latin American 

cocktail bar within the Park Plaza London 

Riverbank hotel. Enjoy the wonderful 

wagyu beef, monkfish tail and duck 

breast while gazing across the Thames. 

W1d 4JB 

Soho’s much-loved alternative live music 

venue The Borderline has been totally 

revamped with a new sound system and 

bar area. Open until 4am on Fridays and 

Saturdays. 



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Return to slender 

There are few sculptural styles as instantly 

recognisable as Alberto Giacometti’s stick-men. 

Even passing admirers of the Swiss sculptor’s work 

will feel right at home (if a little overweight) at the 

Tate Modern’s new retrospective. 

Working in the years after World War II, 

Giacometti tried through his work to make sense 

of the human cruelty displayed during that period. 

As Frances Morris, curator and director of Tate 

Modern, explains: “Many artists found it very difficult 

to depict mankind after the atrocities of Auschwitz, 

after the atomic bomb, after man’s inhumanity to 

man. This depiction of a very fragile, thin, extended 

figure – almost the skeletal remains of a man – 

was seen by many of the critics as epitomising a 

feeling of exhaustion and failure and guilt on the 

part of humanity.” 

Giacometti, Tate Modern, SE1 9TG, £18.50, until 

September 10. 

As a child, Alexandra Llewellyn remembers walking 

through the markets of Cairo with her Egyptian 

grandfather, hearing the constant rattle of dice on 

wooden backgammon boards. Now a designer 

based in London, she has created a whole range of 

luxury boards. The boldest of them all is a limitededition 

ebony board made in collaboration with 

photographer Terry O’Neill whose photos of 1960s 

actresses and models adorn it. There’s Brigitte 

Bardot, Raquel Welch, Ursula Andress, Goldie 

Hawn, Audrey Hepburn and Twiggy. Each board is 

signed by O’Neill, and priced at £5,800. 

www.alexandralldesign.com 




here’s something for the seriously deficient of 

attention. a new book called 30-second london 

brings together the events, architectural styles and 

cultural ideas that have shaped our city, each entry 

explained in 300 words or less. the diversity of 

material is astounding, with entries on everything 

from Boudica, the Fire of london, christopher 

wren and the suburbs to the tube, nightclubs, 

sherlock holmes and punk music (pictured). 

30-Second London, Ivy Press, £14.99. 





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Green fingers 

David Attenborough has cuddled gorillas. He’s 

swum with dolphins. He’s been spat at by a cobra. 

He’s been moved to tears by birds of paradise. 

During his decades as a naturalist and broadcaster 

he has travelled all over this amazing planet of 

ours. Yet he says London’s wildlife – admittedly 

rather pedestrian by comparison – gives him just 

as much pleasure. 

“I’ve got a pond which has dragonflies in it, 

which gives me joy every spring,” he says of his 

back garden in Richmond. “We have wild English 

flowers and we get not only butterflies but all 

sorts of insects.” 

The capital’s wildlife is much healthier now 

than it was when Attenborough first arrived 

in London in the early 1950s. “When I moved 

here, the River Thames was a sewer,” he tells the 

Evening Standard. “If you fell into it you’d get a 

disease. They sorted out the problems of sewage 

disposal. Now there are all sorts of birds. Where I 

live I can see kingfishers.” 

Attenborough’s love of urban wildlife was 

celebrated in his recent BBC series, Planet Earth 

II, which included an episode on animals thriving 

in cities. In it he encouraged us to look out for the 

wild animals sharing our environment. “In cities, 

a lot of people don’t see anything of the natural 

world unless it’s a rat or a pigeon,” he adds. “Since 

we depend on it, understanding and sympathy for 

wildlife is absolutely paramount to our future.” 




Anyone for 

crickets? 

Insects on the menu is always going to be a tough 

call. (Unless you’re a Burmese peasant, that is.) So 

spare a thought for bold French chefs Clement 

Scellier and Bastien Rabastens who are doing their 

utmost to persuade us Brits that dining on creepy 

crawlies is the height of sophistication. Their range 

of snacks includes whole grasshoppers, mealworms 

and crickets, as well as fruit bars with cricket flour, all 

under the branding of Jimini’s. (Get it?) 

“European and British consumers are not used to 

eating insects but it does not mean they will never 

do it,” says Scellier whose products are available in 

Fortnum & Mason, Selfridges, Planet Organic and 

Partridges. “Fifteen years ago, raw fish was not a 

tradition in Europe. Nowadays, people eat sushi 

regularly and it is no longer considered adventurous. 

It shows that tradition can be changed.” 

Scellier, whose insects are reared in Holland, 

stresses how insect farming is so much more 

environmentally-friendly than meat farming. “It uses 

way less food and water than any other livestock. 

Plus it generates 99 times less greenhouse gas.” 

But what do they taste like? In their natural form, 

Scellier says they are rather nutty. Jimini’s products 

are strongly flavoured with the likes of smoked 

onion, paprika, soy sauce, garlic, cumin, mango and 

curry, however, so that not much of the nut shines 

through. 

What does shine through are the legs and 

the wings which you can remove if you’re a tad 

squeamish. Just make sure you have plenty of 

toothpicks handy. 

Post apocalypse 

It’s not a dangerous job being a postman. apart 

from the odd cantankerous dog. But, back in 

the old days, Britain’s couriers rode horse-drawn 

coaches and were armed so they could fight 

off highwaymen and pirates. as you’ll discover 

if you visit london’s new postal museum, due 

to open this summer in clerkenwell. Included in 

the entry price is a 15-minute railway ride along 

the mail rail – deserted tunnels that were once 

used to transport mail beneath the congested 

capital. there used to be over six miles of these 

passages, criss-crossing the tube lines, linking 

various sorting offices, and facilitating the delivery 

of more than four million letters a day. so cut 

off were they from the city above that, during 

the First world war, they were used to hide the 

rosetta stone. 

The Postal Museum, WC1X 0DA, opens in July. 



Following its phenomenally successful David Bowie 

exhibition in 2013, the V&a has joined forces with 

another British rock treasure for its latest exhibition 

pink Floyd: their mortal remains. the band’s music, 

design and stagecraft are all examined in detail. 

however, in a museum dedicated to design and the 

arts, what stands out head and shoulders above 

the rest is Floyd’s album cover artwork. a bemused 

cow (atom heart mother), a flaming businessman 

(wish You were here), a pig flying above Battersea 

power station (animals), hospital beds on a beach 

(a momentary lapse of reason), and of course the 

prism on the Dark side of the moon… the images 

are almost as famous as the music. 

Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains, V&A, SW7 2RL, 

from £22, until Oct 1. 



Very long play 

It all started with a 1960s LP record called Brixton 

Cat. On the cover, with her back to the camera, is a 

black lady in knee-length boots, a mini-skirt dress 

and a beehive haircut. In front of her is Brixton 

market, in south London. 

When photographer Alex Bartsch randomly 

bought the LP from his local record store in Brixton, 

nearly half a century later, he decided to reshoot the 

album cover in its exact original location. 

What followed became a slightly obsessive but 

intriguing photography project that saw Bartsch 

shoot album covers, holding them at arm’s length, 

in exactly the correct perspective, against the 

London backgrounds in which they were originally 

shot. There are 42 covers altogether, all reggae, 

dating from 1967 to 1987, shot in locations all over 

the capital. The results are to be published in a new 

book this summer called Covers: Retracing Reggae 

Record Sleeves in London (One Love Books). 

Bartsch, originally from the French city of 

Strasbourg but now living in Brixton, spent months 

pursuing his mission, contacting photographers from 

the period, researching old press articles, looking 

on Google Street View, and stubbornly cycling the 

streets of London in search of the original locations. 

“It was detective work. I photographed more and 

more until it eventually took over my life.” 

What made his job all the more tricky is that 

so many of his chosen covers were shot in non- 



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descript suburban locations: a park in Hackney 

Downs, a railway bridge in Battersea, a back garden 

in Wembley, stone steps in Holland Park, a church in 

Kensal Green. 

“I realised that for many records they didn’t put 

much effort into the cover. They shot them very 

close to the recording studio or the record label. 

Some literally just outside the back door.” 

There is one record cover that has still eluded 

Bartsch: a 1969 album called Liquidator by the 

Harry J Allstars which shows two gangsters with 

machine guns on a roof fire escape – one lying dead, 

the other, a woman, looking calmly into the middle 

distance. Bartsch is desperate to know where it was 

taken. 

www.alexbartsch.com 



product design 

form and 

function 

Anglepoise lamp 

Developed by 

automotive engineer 

George Carwardine 

and Herbert Terry 

& Sons, this multidirectional 

lamp 

seems almost human 

in its form. Indeed, 

film company 

Pixar have used an 

anthropomorphic 

cartoon version of 

a similar lamp in 

their opening film 

credits. And if you 

need proof of its 

practicality, consider 

this: Anglepoise 

Navigator lamps were 

deployed on British 

bombers during World 

War II. Decades after 

the war, a crashed 

Wellington bomber 

was discovered 

submerged in the mud 

of Loch Ness. The lamp 

still worked. 

You need both of these 

attributes to design a 

brilliant product. As 

evidenced by these 

wonderful devices – 

at once beautiful and 

practical – on show at 

London’s new Design 

Museum. 



Vespa scooter 

Who hasn’t wanted 

to glide around 

Rome on a Vespa one 

summer’s evening 

with a bellissima (or 

bellissimo) friend 

clinging to their 

back? This gorgeous 

machine was designed 

for Piaggio by 

aeronautical engineer 

Corradino d’Ascanio. 

It was named Vespa 

(Italian for wasp) after 

the company boss 

said it resembled the 

annoying insect. In 

Rome at rush hour it 

can sound like the city 

has been invaded by a 

million wasps. 

Barack Obama 

Progress poster 

Artist Shepard Fairey 

created this image 

of the American 

president in a single 

day and first sold 

posters of it on the 

streets of America 

before it came to 

represent Obama’s 

2008 presidential 

campaign. He was later 

fined after legal battles 

with the agency which 

owned copyright for 

the original image. 



Xbox controller 

Nicknamed ‘Fatty’ 

and later ‘The Duke’, 

the original version 

of the Xbox video 

game controller was 

considered clumsy and 

unwieldy. Updated 

versions were much 

more practical. 

Interestingly, plans to 

include odour-emitting 

functions were 

shelved. 

Braun SK4 

record player 

Among product 

designers, Braun’s 

Dieter Rams is 

considered god-like 

thanks to his use of 

smooth, good-looking, 

durable materials 

and simple, selfexplanatory 

functions. 

The SK4 record player, 

from 1956, is a perfect 

example of this. It 

was nicknamed ‘Snow 

White’s coffin’ since 

you could see through 

the lid when it was 

closed. 



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British road signs 

So simple and easy to use, British road signs have 

become models for modern road signage all 

over the planet. They were developed by graphic 

designers Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert in the 

late 1950s and 1960s. Before then our roads were 

populated with a confusing mishmash of different 

styles, typefaces, symbols and colours. Kinneir and 

Calvert first tested their designs in Knightsbridge 

and Hyde Park, before unveiling them in 1958 on 

the Preston bypass in Lancashire. 

Apple iMac G3 

The egg-shaped, transparent, coloured-plastic 

design of Apple’s iMac G3 was so popular that 

it revitalised the Apple brand in the late 1990s 

and saved the company from financial ruin. There 

was controversy on its launch since there was no 

receptacle for floppy disks. 



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Moulton folding 

bicycle 

Dr Alex Moulton 

set up his bicycle 

manufacturing 

business in Wiltshire in 

1962, producing bikes 

noted for their small 

wheels and suspension. 

Moultoneers (yes, 

that’s what they’re 

called) ride them with 

pride. Designers love 

their unconventional 

look. 

Murphy colour 

televsion 

With spindly legs like 

a baby giraffe, this TV 

defied gravity. But it 

also produced amazing 

colour pictures in an 

era when broadcasting 

was finally turning 

its back on black and 

white. “Television 

that turns you on. 

Do it Murphy style,” 

claimed the adverts. 

Consumers did it 

Murphy style in their 

hordes. 



Plumen lightbulb 

We curse low-energy 

lightbulbs as they 

struggle to warm up. 

We gaze at them, 

willing them to burn 

into life. This, from 

British manufacturer 

Plumen, is one of the 

prettiest you could 

gaze at. 

Sony Walkman 

The original version 

of this portable music 

device, invented 

in the late 1970s, 

revolutionised the 

music industry, 

enabling human beings 

to listen to tunes on 

the move. Commuting 

to work, jogging and 

roller skating would 

never be the same 

again. 

Barcelona chair 

Some of the coolest bottoms in history have 

parked themselves on the Barcelona chair. 

Originally created by German designer Ludwig 

Mies van der Rohe in the late 1920s, this piece of 

furniture became de rigueur in stylish households. 

The author Tom Wolfe described it as “the Platonic 

ideal of chair. When you saw the holy object you 

knew you were in a household where a fledgling 

architect and his young wife had sacrificed 

everything to bring the symbol of the godly 

mission into their home.” 



usiness 

the man behind 

the sauce 

From prison to Dragon’s Den to multi-millionnaire 

food magnate, Levi Roots is the ultimate rags-toriches 

businessman. Was it luck that got him there, 

or shrewd planning? Dominic Bliss finds out. 

When Levi Roots first came to the UK, aged 

11, he could neither read nor write. As a 

young man he did two stretches in prison, 

one for assaulting a police officer, the other 

for a drugs offence. Now aged 58, he owns a 

£35 million food business, built on the back 

of his famous Reggae Reggae Sauce. A late 

developer, you might say. 

And there’s more to come. Levi is currently in the 

throes of launching a Caribbean restaurant chain, 

with plans to open 35 venues around the UK over 

the next five years, all under the brand of Levi Roots 

Caribbean Smokehouse. He also records music, has 

a regular DJ slot on BBC Radio 2 (both reggae, of 

course), and there’s a new TV show coming in the 

summer. 

“I’m quite a busy man,” he says, seated in his 

maiden restaurant, in east London’s Westfield 

Stratford City, smiling at his good fortune. 

Dreadlocks tied back, he’s wearing a navy blue 

Ozwald Boateng suit (one of three dozen he owns) 

and enough silver jewellery on his hands to choke a 

werewolf. 

None of this would have happened if Levi hadn’t 

been invited, back in 2007, to appear on Dragons’ 

Den, the BBC show for budding entrepreneurs. 

Sporting a black suit, his trademark dreadlocks, and 

singing to his guitar, he charmed the pants off the 

dragons, eventually securing a £50,000 investment 

in his sauce from Peter Jones and Richard Farleigh. 

(The former is still his business partner while the 

latter, rather foolishly, allowed himself to be bought 

out.) Within weeks the product was on the shelves 

of Sainsbury’s, outselling Heinz Tomato Ketchup 

after just a year. 

“Levi Roots? What a great name. Is that your 

real name?” asked Theo Paphitis, one of the other 

dragons, after Levi had delivered his pitch. “No, it’s 

my pseudonym. My real name is Keith,” he replied to 

all-round mirth. 

Keith Valentine Graham, to be precise, born 

in Jamaica in 1958, the youngest of five kids. His 

parents emigrated to the UK, leaving Keith with his 

grandparents. Aged 11, he then crossed the Atlantic 

to join them, moving to the family home in Tulse Hill, 

in south London. Until then he hadn’t even attended 

school. “I could only write five letters, to spell my 

first name,” he remembers. “But I had this sort of 

photographic memory, I was surprised how quickly I 

caught up.” 

That part of south London in the 1970s was 

rough, to say the least. Levi was a bad boy, often 

in trouble with the law, and twice detained at Her 

Majesty’s Leisure. It was during the second stretch 

(on the Isle of Sheppey) that he met someone who 

would help turn his life around. 

Her name was Theresa, a drama teacher from 

New Zealand, brought in to inspire the convicts. Levi 

was inspired more than most. 

“If I met her now I’d probably have to give her 

half my fortune,” he says, his voice starting to break 

with emotion. “When I think about her I feel I’m 

welling up with tears. She was an absolute angel. 

After I left prison I never saw her again.” 





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Levi couldn’t read or 

write when he came to 

the UK as an 11-yearold 

kid. Now he’s 

worth £35 million. 

Theresa was the catalyst Levi needed to 

abandon his old life of crime and bad behaviour. 

“One day she looked at me and said: ‘You’re not 

Keith Graham. You’re Levi Roots. Don’t be Keith. 

Keith is what got you into prison in the first place.’ 

She started teaching me the right books to read, 

she gave me elocution lessons, because at the time 

I was very patois. She taught me Shakespeare, and 

When I got out of prison I 

became a totally different 

person. I wasn’t Keith Graham 

any more. I was now Levi 

Roots.” 

acting, and how to be a better person. Thanks to her 

tutelage, when I got out of prison I became a totally 

different person. I wasn’t Keith any more. I was now 

Levi Roots.” 

In the 1970s Levi had been immersed in the 

Brixton music scene, performing as part of a 

Jamaican-style sound system. Later he recorded 

reggae albums, even once performing on stage with 

James Brown. All the while, in the kitchen of his 

Brixton flat, he was mixing up his special Caribbean 

sauce, following a recipe handed down to him by 

his grandmother. Every summer the sauce proved 

immensely popular with revellers at Notting Hill 

Carnival. So popular that Levi thought he might 

launch it commercially. But he needed investment. 

“I went to all the banks in southwest London – 

HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds, all of them. And I took my 

guitar along, just like on Dragons’ Den. But none 



I went to all the banks in 

southwest London. And I 

took my guitar along, just like 

on Dragons’ Den. But none 

invested.” 

invested. Some of them got quite fed up with me 

coming in and serenading them with my guitar.” 

Then, by chance, while promoting his sauce at a 

food fair, Levi was approached by a producer from 

Dragons’ Den. “I think they thought, ‘He is going 

to be the worst loser ever on that show. Everyone 

will laugh at him.’ It was an Eddie the Eagle type of 

situation.” 

But they didn’t laugh at him. They gave him 

£50,000 and provided a stepping stone to his 

eventual £35 million business empire. 

Not that he comes across as a multi-millionaire. 

Aside from the expensive suits, Levi claims not 

to enjoy a flash lifestyle at all. He still lives in the 

same Brixton flat he has occupied for decades and, 

despite his fame, he steers clear of what he calls 

“that boiling soup of celebrities in north London”. 

“Where I am in Brixton has given me everything,” 

he adds. “I’ve grown up my kids there. The sauce 

was born there. It turned me into the man I am. 

Everything I’ve got is because I’ve stayed grounded 

where I am. Why would I leave that now?” 

This down-to-earth attitude makes him sound 

like one of those hackneyed lottery winners who 

banks the millions, eschews the new car, and loyally 

returns to the factory job on the Monday morning. 

“I didn’t get famous or lucky in business until I 

was 48 years old,” Levi says by way of explanation. 

“Because I got money later in life, I know the value of 

it now, and how to use it. If I’d got my money when I 

was young, I doubt I would be the Levi Roots people 

see now. I definitely would have been really flash 

with the cash.” 

Being father of eight kids has certainly kept 

him grounded. That’s eight kids by seven different 

women. The eldest is now 38 years old, the youngest 

just four. “I was very popular in my younger days but 

very careless,” he says contritely. It seems he was 

quite the local celebrity when he was performing 

with the sound system band. 

However, he attributes much of his business 

success to the responsibility of having to raise so 

many children. And, despite problems in the early 

days, especially when he was in prison and unable to 

provide for his offspring, he claims now to be friends 

with all seven mothers. He was never married to any 

of them. “In the past we weren’t close. But we’ve 

pulled everyone in and this has created a reason for 

everyone to be united. And perhaps forget about 

the problems of the past that I caused. Because it 

wasn’t a happy place when I was in prison.” 

Apparently all seven mothers attended the 

opening of Levi’s new restaurant. That must have 

called for a certain diplomacy and charm. But then, 

this is the man who entered the Dragons’ Den and, 

with just a guitar and a bottle of hot sauce, charmed 

£50,000 out of them. 

caribbeansmokehouse.com 



sport 

boxing clever 

The hybrid sport known as chess boxing is a 

bizarre combination of cerebral tactics and 

aggressive pugilism. Thanks to a London 

promoter now staging regular contests, 

you can see it to believe it. 



sport 



sport 

Chess boxing 

competitors fight each 

other in alternating 

rounds of chess and 

boxing. 

This must surely be the ultimate combination of 

brains and brawn. Right now, their chests heaving, 

their upper bodies dripping with sweat, Greg Drach 

and Danny ‘Boy’ Bent are seated in the centre of a 

boxing ring, hunched over a chess board, their faces 

clenched in concentration. Two minutes earlier they 

had been punching seven bells out of each other in 

the very same ring during a bout of boxing. 

The unlikely duo – Drach, a digital product 

manager, and Bent, a writer, both from London – 

are the headline bout at the London Chessboxing 

season finale, staged at York Hall in east London’s 

Bethnal Green. Chess boxing is a little known but 

intriguing hybrid sport that sees two contenders 

alternating rounds of boxing and chess, with just a 

few seconds’ break between each round. Winners 

are normally declared through checkmate or time 

penalty in the chess, or through stoppage or points 

in the boxing. It’s rare that a knockout occurs. 

To the uninitiated it looks surreal; like a Little 

Britain sketch about eccentric British sports, perhaps. 

But once you tune in to the unusual juxtaposition of 

chess tactics and boxing aggression, it all starts to 

make sense. As a spectator sport it’s entrancing. 

Winners are normally declared 

through checkmate or time 

penalty in the chess, or 

through stoppage or points in 

the boxing. 



The promoter of tonight’s show is Tim Woolgar. 

From a boxing club in Crouch End, he runs chess 

boxing classes and, at various venues around 

London, stages a handful of events every year. There 

are plans to expand the sport nationwide. 

“It has started to take off big style,” he says, 

pointing to the 700 or so fans present at his season 

finale. “I fully expect sponsors to be knocking on my 

door in the near future.” 

The fact that over 100,000 viewers streamed 

his event live through the internet is bound to help. 

As is a future deal to put the sport on one of the 

Freeview channels. Woolgar is also involved in a 

London-based governing body called the World 

Chessboxing Association. 

He claims the sport first started in 1978 at a 

youth centre called Samuel Montagu Boys’ Club 

in Kidbrooke, in southeast London. But there’s 

a rival governing body, the World Chess Boxing 

Organisation, in Berlin, which points to more recent 

origins. Its president, Iepe Rubingh, claims he 

invented the sport after reading a fictitious account 

of it in an early 1990s comic book. 

Whatever the truth, one thing is certain: chess 

boxing is growing internationally. Woolgar has 

affiliated members in six nations, while Rubingh has 

them in 11. The latter has over 1,000 members, stages 

around 1,500 fights a year, and is in the throes of 

establishing a professional league. 

Back at York Hall, Drach and Bent are still 

going hell for leather. During the boxing rounds, 

it’s Bent, sporting a mullet and a skimpy pair of red 

running shorts, who looks far more confident. In the 

intervening chess rounds both players struggle to 

calm their bodies after the exertion of the boxing. 

Wearing headphones to block out the noise of the 

spectators and the chatter of the commentator, they 

breathe deeply to steady their heart rates and focus 

on tactics. They have already exchanged their queens 

but, soon, Drach finds himself in a very vulnerable 

position, with fewer pieces to call upon. Eventually, 

in round seven, he’s forced to resign, reluctantly 

knocking over his king to concede the match. 

It was brains rather than brawn that won the 

match this time. 

London Chessboxing events are staged at York 

Hall, E2 9PJ. 

www.londonchessboxing.com 



catch your 

death of cold 

Didn’t your mother warn you not to go out in the 

cold under-dressed? These dancers appear to have 

ignored all maternal advice as they display their 

finest moves at various locations around London. 

“It was frequently very cold; it was usually late; it was 

dangerous, illegal, exhausting, and, of course, they’re 

naked. Yet they still said yes. Why? Because they 

shared my belief that if we leap, the net will appear.” 

So writes photographer Jordan Matter, whose 

new book, Dancers After Dark, features dancers 

strutting their stuff across the cities of London, 

New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Stockholm, 

Washington DC, Chicago and Los Angeles, among 

others. Crucially, all dancers are wearing just their 

birthday suits. 

“These images represent our willingness to throw 

ourselves into the streets without fear of failure. 

Doing so led to beauty and exhilaration we could 

not have imagined.” 

Dancers After Dark by Jordan Matter 

[Workman Publishing]. 



performance art 

Left top: Kipat 

Kahumbu across the 

Thames from the 

Palace of Westminster. 

Left below: Sam 

Baskett at Covent 

Garden. 

Below left: Stephen 

Williams in east 

London. Below right: 

Sophie Zucchini and 

Stephen Williams on 

Tower Bridge. 



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kitty kitty 

Glimpse into the secret world of wild 

animals at the latest Wildlife Photographer 

of the Year exhibition, at the Natural 

History Museum. 



photography 

The alley cat by Nayan 

Khanolkar. Every 

night in the suburbs 

of Mumbai leopards 

slip ghost-like through 

the maze of alleys, 

in search of food. A 

particular favourite are 

the stray dogs. Even 

humans have been 

attacked, yet still most 

of the Mumbai locals 

accept their unusual 

neighbours. 




Eviction attempt by 

Ganesh H Shankar. 

Returning to its 

nesting hole in India’s 

Keoladeo National 

Park, this rose-ringed 

parakeet discovered 

an uninvited guest – a 

monitor lizard. For two 

days it attempted to 

evict the reptile but to 

no avail. 



Left: The moon and 

the crow by Gideon 

Knight. This photo of a 

crow in east London’s 

Valentines Park won 

Knight the Young 

Wildlife Photographer 

of the Year award. 

Below: Entwined 

lives by Tim Laman. 

After three days of 

tree climbing, Laman 

managed to position 

the GoPro cameras 

that eventually 

captured this image 

of an orang-utan in 

Indonesian Borneo. 

It won him the overall 

prize. 



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Wild West stand-off 

by Charlie Hamilton 

James. A camera 

trap and five patient 

months eventually 

rewarded this British 

photographer with an 

image of a grizzly bear 

and ravens feeding on 

a dead bison in Grand 

Teton National Park in 

Wyoming, USA. 



stealing 

the show 

An intrepid London artist has devised 

a way to immortalise babies in famous 

movie backdrops. The result is startlingly 

effective. 

Grayson Ainsworth had better grow up to be a film 

buff. He’s only 18 months old and already he’s been 

immortalised against dozens of famous Hollywood 

movie backdrops. 

He’s got his mother Fee to thank for that. 

Pregnant and facing a long spell of unemployment, 

this actress realised she needed to diversify. So 



aby photos 



aby photos 

she came up with the novel idea of drawing famous 

movie scenes in charcoal, before placing her baby 

son on top of them. Her husband Glen then takes 

the photos. 

At first the Ainsworth family team produced 

just 12 images, enough to create a calendar for 

the grandparents. But then, thanks to publicity on 

Instagram, commissions started flooding in from 

parents desiring a bit of Hollywood sparkle for their 

own babies. So Fee, now 33 years old, launched 

a commercial business, calling it Grayson on 

Hollywood. 

“I’m busy drawing commissioned pieces of 

their favorite movie scenes, purchasing wardrobe, 

and arranging studio shoots,” she says. “Basically, 

a business has been born when I never actually 

intended to start one in the first place.” 

So far her favourite image of all is the Jurassic 

Park one. “The film scared me witless as a kid and, 

if I think of the movie, this is the scene that instantly 

pops to mind,” she says. “It was an enjoyable draw, 

and the shooting of it happened so right. Grayson’s 

hand is perfectly placed on the corner edge of the 

kitchen unit and his little face is just so spot on. We 

literally had the shot within seconds.” 

Fee says there are plenty more pictures to 

come. “My husband feels I am severely lacking in the 

Stallone/ Schwarzenegger department. So if he is 

happy to forego his dining room table, I am happy to 

keep drawing away.” 

Fee Ainsworth accepts commissions. 

www.graysononhollywood.com 



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Where Auntie used to live 

the bit where we spotlight one of london’s lesser-known but 

very wonderful quarters. 

White City, the area north of Shepherd’s Bush, is 

soon to become a thriving new residential area 

thanks in part to the apartments being carved out 

of the old BBC TV Centre. Yes, of course they’re 

expensive (what did you expect?) but hopefully 

they will catalyse the grubby area surrounding 

them when residents start moving in, in late 2017. 

Next door there’s already the gargantuan Westfield 

London shopping centre with all its bling. Soon to 

come to Television Centre (as the quarter is being 

marketed) is a cinema, restaurants, a Soho House 

members’ club and new campuses for both the 

Royal College of Art and Imperial College London. 

The future looks bright. 

Great pubs 

The big Daddy of the drinking spots is the pub 

known as The Defector’s Weld. Here you’ll mix with 

locals as well as music-lovers on their way to gigs 

at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Across Wood Lane 

is The Green, with both a ground-floor bar and a 

cute basement section called The Green Room. 

Further south on the Goldhawk Road are craft beer 

specialists BrewDog Shepherd’s Bush. 

Great football club 

QPR might resent being called small. Well, at least 

they would if they weren’t perfectly formed. Their 

Loftus Road stadium has a capacity of just 18,000 

which means fans have to chant loudly to be heard. 

But it also means they’re much closer to the action 

on the pitch. 



lonDon VIllages 

Left page top: new 

apartments in the old 

BBC TV Centre. Left 

page below: Burgista 

burger bar. Right page, 

clockwise from top 

left: Bush Hall Dining 

Rooms; The Green 

Room; Nut Case. 

Great restaurants 

Next to the gorgeous music venue Bush Hall is 

Bush Hall Dining Rooms, a rare gem on the strip 

of fast-food joints that comprises the Uxbridge 

Road. North of Shepherd’s Bush Green you’ll 

find a more than decent burger restaurant called 

Burgista. But best of all is Albertine, a wine bar at 

the base of Wood Lane. It recently opened under 

new management, with a wine bar, a restaurant 

and a private dining and party space. Another 

new restaurant is Pergola on the Roof, an open-air 

offering on top of Television Centre. 

Great music venues 

Shepherd’s Bush Empire is the big one, with 

household names regularly taking up residence here. 

But far more intriguing is the much smaller Bush 

Hall, a former Victorian dance hall where you’ll often 

find folk and Americana bands rocking the house. 

There can’t be many live music venues in London 

where you can drink out of real glass and stand on a 

plush carpet while listening to the gig. 

Great shopping 

It’s difficult to look beyond Westfield London. And 

why would you? This 150,000-square metre (and 

growing!) behemoth of a shopping centre is home 

to everyone from Apple, Ann Summers and Nike to 

Gucci, Jimmy Choo and Prada. But if you can brave 

the grotty Uxbridge Road you’ll stumble upon the 

occasional independent gem: Stuart’s London, for 

example, has been dressing football casuals since 

1967, and is now a mecca for men’s street fashion. 

If you’re feeling peckish try Nut Case which stocks 

every nut you ever knew existed (plus a few more). 

Did you know? 

The now demolished White City Stadium was home 

to the 1908 Olympic Games, back when athletes 

wore white trousers, cravats and moustaches the 

size of small mammals. It was at these games that 

the standard marathon distance of 26 miles and 385 

yards was first established. Factory scenes in the 

1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit? were filmed 

close to the current site of Westfield London. 



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Meet your chauffeur 

the bit where we talk to one of parker’s lovely drivers. 

Amar Saggar started driving for 

Parker Cars in April this year. He 

lives in Slough with his wife and 

three grown-up kids. 

Where do you most love driving 

in London? 

Westminster, especially the wide 

roads around Parliament Square. 

There’s always a buzz to that part 

of town. I’m not very political 

but I studied a bit of politics at 

university, and I have an interest 

in how government works. We’re 

not supposed to talk about 

politics to Parker passengers, 

though. 

If money was no object, what car 

would you drive? 

A Bentley Mulsanne Extended 

Wheelbase. 

What qualities do minicab 

drivers need? 

Patience and the confidence to 

drive in new areas, as you never 

know where you’ll be going. It’s 

important to research the route 

online before picking up a new 

passenger. Then you can give the 

passenger an idea of which roads 

you plan to take. 

Favourite radio station while 

driving? 

LBC. I like to keep up with current 

affairs. There’s a dance-music 

station called Kisstory which I 

listen to every now and then. 

Your top five driving songs? 

Smooth Operator by Sade; Billie 

Jean by Michael Jackson; Eye of 

the Tiger by Survivor; Don’t Stop 

Me Now by Queen; Bat Out of 

Hell by Meat Loaf. 

If you could be a professional 

driver in another domain? 

I’d like to drive in the Gumball 

3000 rally. And I’d fancy my 

chances in the Dakar Rally. 

Getting close to a reasonable 

time would be a bonus. 

What’s your best advice for new 

London drivers? 

Be alert at all times. There’s a 

lot happening around you so it’s 

crucial to stay on top of this in 

order to ensure your own safety 

is not compromised. Check 

websites and apps for traffic 

updates. 

If you were the transport 

secretary, what London traffic 

rules would you change? 

I’d eliminate the unnecessary 

speed cameras. I’d enforce stricter 

rules on cyclists and pedestrians. 

The one place in London you’d 

avoid driving? 

Near Harrods, in Knightsbridge. 

The traffic congestion there may 

as well be permanent. It doesn’t 

make for a pleasant driving 

experience, and it’s not good for 

one’s sanity. 

I picked up Joe Launchbury and Joe 

Marler, from the England rugby team. 

They were both big guys with a lot of kit. 

Lucky I had a large MPV to get them in.” 

The most famous person you’ve 

had in the back of your minicab? 

Joe Launchbury and Joe Marler, 

from the England rugby team. 

They were both big guys with a 

lot of kit. Lucky I had a large MPV 

to get them in. 



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Within the huge Parker fleet there are several Mercedes V-Class 

vehicles available for private hire. You could call them ‘mobile 

offices’. 

As far as the mobile office goes, 

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Viano. These multi-purpose 

vehicles combine all the comfort 

and luxury you’d expect from a 

Mercedes with some mod cons 

you’d normally find only in an 

office. Parker’s extensive fleet 

now includes several Mercedes 

Vianos available for private hire. 

They’re designed expressly for 

busy corporate customers with 

features such as Wi-Fi, a table 

work-station, iPads for browsing 

on the move, phone chargers, 

240V mains power, and (on one 

of Parker’s vehicles) a printer 

which scans and copies – ideal 

for printing last-minute reports or 

airport boarding passes. There are 

even well-stocked drinks fridges 

on board. 

Parker is offering these 

vehicles to passengers for whom 

time is a premium. As well as 

providing luxury comfort, they 

allow them to continue working 

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london’s finest 

Six of the best 

The bit where we bring you the very greatest of London life. 

Be astounded by the capital’s weirdest museums. 

Hunterian Museum 

Not for the faint-hearted, 

the utterly original Hunterian 

Museum, within the Royal College 

of Surgeons, in Holborn, features 

some truly bizarre displays such 

as the thyroid of a dromedary, 

the gall bladder of a puffer fish, 

and the skeletons of a 7ft 10in 

Irishman and a 1ft 10in Sicilian. 

You’ve been warned. 

35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 

WC2A 3PE 

rcseng.ac.uk 

Old Operating Theatre 

Museum & Herb Garret 

Up in the roof of an old Baroque 

church in Southwark, this 

operating theatre is from a 

pre-anaesthetic age when any 

surgical procedure meant a lot 

of pain as well as a lot of blood. 

Listen carefully and you can still 

hear the echoing screams of the 

patients (all of them female since 

this was a woman’s ward) whose 

limbs were amputated here. 

Utterly gruesome but thoroughly 

intriguing. 

9a St. Thomas St, SE1 9RY 

oldoperatingtheatre.com 

The Clink Prison Museum 

Thieves, debtors, prostitutes, 

heretics and all manner of 

scumbags. In the old days, if 

you found yourself in the Clink 

(the prison built on this site in 

Southwark in 1144), you knew 

you were in grim company. Fast 

forward to the present day and 

you can see how said scumbags 

were tortured. Not for little kids, 

this one. 

1 Clink St, SE1 9DG 

clink.co.uk 

The Viktor Wynd Museum 

of Curiosities, Fine Art & 

Natural History 

If you like very curious but very 

random objects, you’ll love this 

quirky museum in Hackney. Dodo 

bones, two-headed kittens and 

occulist paintings are displayed 

alongside McDonalds Happy Meal 

toys and the doodles of mad 

women. “Everything that has 

glittered and caught the eye of its 

founder,” the owners explain. 

11 Mare St, E8 4RP 

thelasttuesdaysociety.org/ 

museum-curiosities 

Grant Museum of Zoology 

Make no bones about it, this 

museum in Bloomsbury’s 

University College London 

features a huge number of dead 

animals. 68,000, to be precise – 

more, they claim, than the Natural 

History Museum. And since it was 

founded as a teaching collection, 

you can get very close to the 

specimens, be they stuffed or 

stripped to the bone. 

21 University St, WC1E 6DE 

ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology 

The Viktor Wynd Museum 

Pollock’s Toy Museum 

What is it about dolls that is so 

exceptionally creepy? If you don’t 

know now, you certainly will after 

a visit to this museum in Fitzrovia 

which houses a vast array of 

antique ones. Also on display are 

board games, model soldiers, toy 

theatres and the world’s oldest 

surviving teddy bear. 

1 Scala St, W1T 2HL 

pollockstoys.com 

Pollock’s Toy Museum 





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