Category: London Calling 2023

We’re pleased to announce our two evening events, on April 28th and 29th. Join us on Friday 28th April between 5 pm and 7 pm in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, in Festival Gardens for LC23: The Game is Afoot (https://coord.info/GCA2DM7). There are plenty of places to grab food and drink nearby in either One New Change or the surrounding streets within the City of London. This is an outdoor event, so dogs are welcome at this one and if it’s raining, then you’ll need a brolly!

Then after London Calling 2023, go grab a coffee or some dinner and then return to St Mary’s, Marylebone, for our Saturday evening event on 29th April for LC23: The Marylebone Mystery between 6 pm and 9 pm (https://coord.info/GCA2DMX). We’re keeping a lot of details related to this event under our deerstalkers, so be ready for a few surprises.

We’re also going to be announcing a Cache in Trash Out event on the morning of Sunday 30th April, but we’re just finalising some details before publishing.

All three side events are free to attend and do not require any ticketing/reservations.

See you there, and at the Mega!!

We have several side events coming up, both domestic and international – in fact, for the first time, we’ve got two in a week – although geographically they’re the furthest apart our events have ever been. On Tuesday, November 8th, we’re going all the way to Australia for our first Southern Hemisphere Tour event (although it might not be our last) for London Calling on Tour: Sydney (GC9ZYHY). Then on the following Saturday, November 12th, we’re going to be right in the heart of our home city for London Calling on Tour: City of London (GC9YEY3).

But we’re now able to announce our six-months to go event – London Calling on Tour: Westminster (GCA168R), which we’re holding at the Sherlock Holmes pub down Northumbria Avenue. We’re also hoping to be launching some of our Mega weekend side events at the Westminster meetup.

So come down to any of these events to pick our committee’s brains about the plans and how stuff is going.

We’re pleased to announce that our new Signal the Frog geocoins are on sale. As with the run-up to London Calling 2021, we have produced a set of London-inspired Signal coins. Last time around we had Signal dressed as a Queen’s Guardsman, and this time with London Calling 2023 going to Marylebone near Baker Street, what else could we do but have Signal as Sherlock Holmes.

The coins come in three varieties; the Polished Gold and Polished Silver versions are both inlaid with enamel and are available individually for £13 each. The Antique Bronze version comes without enamel and is only available as part of a set of three with the Gold and Silver for £40. All three coins are 50mm in length and feature the London Calling 2023 logo on the reverse. The coins come with a custom trackable icon.

Go to our online store to place your orders now. The coins are available for worldwide delivery, as well as for collection at any London Calling on Tour events or at this year’s Piratemania or the UK Mega in the West Midlands. If placing an order for collection, please send us a message to let you know where you intend to pick up the coin.

One of the things we’d planned to do back when we were organising London Calling 2021 was the Tin Pan Alley Band Reunion Tour. For those who aren’t in London, the TPAB was a very fun geocache set as you might imagine, just off Denmark Street in London in the area nicknamed “Tin Pan Alley“. Sadly after it amassed a thousand favourite points, sadly it had to be archived in 2015 because of the redevelopment of the area.

So for 2021 we decided to take it on tour. We had those guitar picks made up (with thanks to LaserLogoShop over in Germany), we held our first event at the Museum of London where they were running a Clash exhibition at the time, and then our Chair headed off to Dubai for the first overseas tour date. It also turned out to be the only tour date, because well, Covid.

We’re excited to be bringing you in the run up to London Calling 2023, a series of tour events simply called “London Calling on Tour”. We’re not doing any special additional merchandise during the tours, although we’re going to make tour t-shirts available shortly before the Mega should anyone want one. These will have tour dates on the back as with a traditional tour t-shirt.

We’ll be sure to advertise the tour events on our social media, and we’ll be adding them to the London events calendar here. We’ve created a special category specially for these as unlike the other events listed on that calendar, these won’t necessarily be in London. They will, however, have the location in the title of the event, so you should be able to easily tell.

The first event listed is going to be on Saturday 18th June in Leigh-on-Sea, England, at the train station. Sure it’s not the United Arab Emirates, but it’s still near to a beach. So that counts! A couple of our committee members will be there, so come down and say hi and we’ll talk your heads off about our plans for 2023. Log a will attend here.