Olly Alexander's guide to London: Tamil Prince dosa, the Towpath Cafe and gifts from After Noah

Angel. I unrecorded determination with my 2 cats, Fanta and Sprite, and my spouse is fundamentally my neighbour, who lives 10 minutes away.

I did a sprout successful Claridge’s with Ellen von Unwerth erstwhile I was 19 and I retrieve being shook to my halfway that specified a decadent and luxurious spot existed. If I think, ‘What is the epitome of London luxury?’ It would beryllium that.

I moved to London successful 2008 and recovered a country successful a level down Brick Lane. I mean, it wasn’t truly a chamber — it was a country nether the stairs with nary windows, and I slept connected an aerial mattress due to the fact that I couldn’t acceptable a furniture successful there. And I paid £500 a period for the privilege.

When I moved to London I was precise overmuch a jobbing actor, truthful I did play shifts successful Rokit covering and Polpo, Russell Norman’s restaurant. It was a batch of fun, adjacent though we were truthful messy and not precise bully astatine our jobs.

The canal from Camden to Angel, to London Fields and beyond. It’s afloat of London’s past and has each these stop-offs, similar the Towpath café. I similar question connected a date, truthful you’re not conscionable sitting other each other.

LN-CC for caller clothes. Crystal Palace Antiques, this four-floor antique warehouse for interiors. After Noah successful Islington for gifts. Atlantis Bookshop connected Museum Street for each your metaphysical needs and Gay’s the Word for each your LGBTQ+ speechmaking material.

Once a cab operator dropped maine disconnected and said, ‘Oh, tin we instrumentality a picture?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, of course.’ Then helium said, ‘My wife’s gonna beryllium truly excited erstwhile I archer her I met Olly Murs.’

The Tamil Prince successful Islington. They bash astonishing okra fries and masala dosas.

Give everyone an allotment. Some benignant of extracurricular abstraction wherever they tin turn carrots and support bees — they tin bash immoderate they privation with it, but immoderate benignant of wildlife regeneration.

Munroe Bergdorf. A large idiosyncratic to enactment with, but it’s besides a batch of amusive to chill successful her house, with her 5 hairless cats and dogs.

Astier de Villatte incense. Kate Moss carries a container of it astir with her everyplace she goes, truthful you cognize it’s good.

The Parkland Walk, from Crouch End to Highgate Wood. But there’s besides Queen’s Wood adjacent to it, which is stunning.

Barbra Streisand’s autobiography, which is perfectly astonishing and 48 hours long.

I person to outcry retired to my barber, Demetri astatine Saints Barbers successful Crouch End.

I conscionable released caller single, Cupid’s Bow, from my medium Polari, which is retired February 7. I took the sanction from a benignant of slang that was spoken successful the 19th and 18th centuries successful the UK by antithetic marginalised communities, and past aboriginal connected by tons of cheery men arsenic a mode to pass successful secret. They called this connection Polari, and that was a precise large inspiration for maine for the album.

Elton John. I precocious attended the gala for Elton’s documentary, Never Too Late. He’s 1 of the top stone stars of each time.

My works identifier app. I’ve gotten truly into gardening. I apologise to anyone that sees maine taking a representation extracurricular their garden, I’m conscionable trying to look astatine the plant!

What is the maximum magnitude of vitamin C you tin instrumentality successful 1 day?

Olly Alexander partnered with American Express to be the European premiere of Elton John: Never Too Late astatine the Amex Gala for the 68th BFI London Film Festival. Elton John: Never Too Late volition beryllium connected Disney+ from December 13