events
Check out our events, performances and appearances. Looking for our regular groups? You'll find them by clicking the button below.
8 september to 3 october
ART: UNEASY - MARK STAFFORD, DAVID HINE, WAYNE SNOOZE
This month in our gallery: graphic works by Mark Stafford, David Hine and Wayne Snooze.
An exhibition of discomforting original graphic works by the artist and writer team responsible for books The Bad Bad Place, Lip Hook, and The Man Who Laughs. UNEASY is a celebration of the labour intensive business of ink on paper and graphite on board. A reminder of the messy process of summoning these things into the world.
Mark Stafford will be exhibiting a selection of art seen and unseen from works in progress and work in print. David Hine will be showing, for the first time, his tortuously rendered reactions to the incoming storm of the artificially intelligent created in blood, sweat, caffeine and carbon. Wayne Snooze is local and interesting and decidedly less twisted than Mark or Dave, but you can't have everything.
UNEASY is all about the difficult and deranged and darky amusing. The uneconomic process of the overly rendered. The torture of innocent art materials. Why on earth are we doing this to ourselves? It's not easy...
Free.
Thursday 18 september
All Good Mystery Talks
Doors 7pm for 7.30pm start. £8.
A brand new idea: Two speakers, giving talks on any subject they want, whether it's broad or mind-numbingly specific. The twist - the audience doesn't know what the talks will be until they start! Expect the unexpected.
We're hoping to make this a regular event, so please come and support the first one!
Age recommendation - adult.
saturday 20 september
ART PARTY: UNEASY - MARK STAFFORD, DAVID HINE and WAYNE SNOOZE
7pm. Free.
Join artists Mark Stafford, David Hine, Wayne Snooze and guests for the celebration of their new show in our gallery space.
thursday 25 September
VERBAL DISCHARGE - NORTH (Spoken Word)
7pm Doors.
Club Verbal Discharge takes the reins of the All Good Spoken Word night in All Good Bookshop. The finest readings of new writing known universe. Poetry and prose encouraged. Whatever your written thing is.
Expect the usual madness. BYOB bar with drinks flowing till late. Doors 7pm. Curtain at 7:30.
Tickets start from £5 (via another website).
saturday 27 september
BOOK LAUNCH: SOMETHING TO TAKE OFF THE EDGE by Errol McGlashan
7pm.
We celebrate the publication of Something To Take Off The Edge with a performance by the man himself, Errol McGlashan. Book included in the entry price. If you ask nicely Errol might even sign it for you.
Tickets cost £12.99 which includes a copy of the book.
friday 3 october
COMEDY CLUB
7pm Doors.
We are hosting a Comedy Club, on the 1st Friday of the month. The Comedy Club
show-cases some of the most exciting rising stars of London’s vibrant, contemporary circuit. Come & check out some of London’s emerging comedy talent, and experienced comics trying out new material!
The line up:
TBC
With compere: Mike Lash
Mike is a comedian and compere known for his work in the UK comedy circuit. He has built a reputation as a warm and engaging host, known for his quick wit.
saturday 4 october
Storytelling: STOOPID with Alys Torrance
Doors 7pm for 7.30pm start. £10.
Folktales are full of duffers, twits and fools. We invite you to embrace your inner idiot, learn how to wear trousers, and finally understand why the chicken crossed the road. Most importantly we will unravel the riddle: Who else is Else?
Alys Torrance (storyteller, clown and panicky optimist) brings you a madcap mixture of misadventures with a big heart.
The world is full of women, men and chickens who won’t behave as they’re supposed to. Maybe they’re fools, or maybe they’re onto something. And just maybe, we should join them.
Plunging into the Grimm brothers’ folktales, the European Wild Men tradition, foolery and the state of the world, Alys explores how we try to control of the uncontrollable, when maybe we should just climb a tree.
Audience quotes:
I LOVED IT!
so much depth and poignancy
very funny, especially enjoyed the silly slapstick
AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING!
This show is suitable for adults and everyone over 12. Brief mild swearing (‘bastards’) but only under provocation from a cartload of robbers. No actual nudity. No flashing lights.
6 october to 7 november
ART: AS INFINITY DANCES - ALIKI KARVELI
This month in our gallery: mixed media works by Aliki Karveli.
Aliki Karveli is an Athens-born and London-devoured interdisciplinary artist (Mixed Media Fine Art BA) focusing on visual art, performance and sound, approaching their creative practice as a tool for inner transformation and exploring the Unconscious.
This exhibition will feature visual mixed media works both old and new, on canvas and paper using oil paints, inks, blood, graphite, charcoal, pens and more. There will also be some artifacts made of natural materials like bones, copper, wool and bird feathers.
The works are visionary centered around expressing inner experience of the spiritual aspect of life and Creation’s cyclical nature, tracing the flow of elemental forces, entities, abstract and archetypal forms. At times depicting a vision wholly received and sometimes the result of an intuitive, instinctive process akin to scrying, allowing symbols and patterns to reveal themselves organically.
Aliki has been exhibiting internationally since 2014, with three solo exhibitions in Athens and two in London, biggest one being in 2023 at the The Crypt Gallery of St Pancras Church.
All ORIGINAL WORKS will be FOR SALE and alongside many art prints and printed merch. Prints of any work you choose can be requested if none are available!
Free.
Friday 10 OCT
BOOKLAUNCH:Revolution in Carcassone with author Elaine Graham-Leigh
7pm. Free.
About the book: In August 1303, the people of the southern French town of Carcassonne rose up in revolt. Their rebellion against King and Inquisition saw the prison stormed, many of the town elite driven out and their houses sacked, and the inquisitors humiliated. For eighteen months, Carcassonne was a town where the French royal writ did not run.
Reconstructed from the contemporary accounts, the revolt emerges as an important incident in medieval class struggle. It was also the apogee of the fight by the people of Languedoc against the northern French invaders of the Albigensian crusade and the persecutions they brought with them.
Combining political analysis with original research, this book reveals the hidden story of a significant medieval rebellion and its importance for our understanding of oppression and resistance today.
About the author: Elaine Graham-Leigh is an activist and writer of history, politics and fiction. She is the author of The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade, (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005), A Diet of Austerity: Class, Food and Climate Change, (London: Zero Books, 2015), Marx and the Climate Crisis, (London: Counterfire, 2020), The Caduca, (Canterbury: The Conrad Press, 2021) and Revolution in Carcassonne: The Story of a Fourteenth-Century Rebellion, (London: Whalebone Press, 2025). She is a founding member of Counterfire.
saturday 11 OCT
Performance: THE PARANORMAL PORTAL OF STUPIDITY with Annabel Bashford and special guests
Doors 7pm for 7.30pm start. £10.
Get into the Halloween mood with a night of creepy clowning, sinister stupidity and hilarious comedy. Think Tim Burton meets Chris Morris and a Dia De Los Muertos party in a bookshop in Turnpike Lane. With your host the river hag of the Thames, Jenny Greenteeth, aka Annabel Bashford, and special guests including: the guy who put the dead in deadpan, Fred Strangebone, aka Ben Whitehead; the most spooky ventriloquist in town, Lachlan Werner - and the irrepressibly funny Rob Duncan.
"It is a delightfully bizarre performance that will have you splitting your time between laughing and questioning exactly what it is that you are witnessing." (Broadway Baby on Annabel Bashford in Fool's Moon Cabaret, Soho Theatre 2024)
BACK SOON!
Retro Gaming Night
7pm
Do you like retro video games? So do we!
On the back of our board games afternoon, we realised there's a few of us who love the classic days of gaming. So we'll bring some classic consoles and games, and feel very free to bring your own.
Whether you want to play, show and tell, or just have some drinks and chat about classic video games, come join us!
At the very least, we'll have a PlayStation Classic, an N64 and a Japanese DreamCast up and running, along with anything you want to bring.
This is a free event, but if you'd be up for donating a fiver to the shop, that'd be lovely.