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Amongst all the choices of day
festivals in London, The South West
Four Weekender (commonly abbreviated
to SW4) has proved as a popular
choice amongst electronic fans for
the past eight years. Showcasing new
artists and celebrating the best
established acts, SW4 provides a
quality selection of electronica,
dubstep, drum and bass and similar
music inspired by those genres.
Lineup: Saturday: Underworld, John
Digweed, Pete Tong, Judge Jules,
Tiga. Sunday: Pendulum, Magnetic
Man, Annie Mac, Wretch 32, Simian
Mobile Disco.
Clapham Common is an 89 hectare
triangular area of grassland
situated in south London, England.
It was historically common land for
the parishes of Battersea and
Clapham, but was converted to
parkland under the terms of the
Metropolitan Commons Act 1878. 43
hectares (108 acres) of the common
are within the London Borough of
Wandsworth and 46 hectares (112
acres) within the London Borough of
Lambeth. Although the Common is
wholly managed and maintained by the
London Borough of Lambeth, the
policing of the open space is
divided between the Wandsworth and
Lambeth borough "commands" of the
Metropolitan Police, which follow
the local government boundaries. The
roads surrounding the Common fall
within the SW4 post code.
Clapham Common is also the name of
an electoral ward in the London
Borough of Lambeth encompassing most
of the area to the southeast of
Clapham Common Southside until
King's Avenue (an area traditionally
known as Clapham Common or Clapham
Park, but latterly referred to by
some as "Abbeville Village"). In the
centre of the common is the Clapham
bandstand constructed in 1890. It is
the largest bandstand in London and
a Grade II Listed Building. For many
years it was also erroneously
thought to be one of the bandstands
first erected in 1861 in the Royal
Horticultural Society's gardens in
South Kensington, which would have
made it the oldest surviving cast
iron bandstand in Europe. However,
recent research has shown that these
bandstands went to Southwark Park
and Peckham Rye, and it appears that
the Clapham bandstand was fabricated
to a very similar design almost
thirty years later.
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