Archive for April, 2005

Right, we’re off to pack our trunks and suntan lotion and reserve our place on the South Bank beach for the bank holiday weekend. Apaarently the weather for the break is going to be very nice with Sunday being especially sunny, so fingers crossed. We’d …

Mike Watt is a punk rock legend. His band, The Minutemen, opened kicked down doors for just about everyone that followed, back in the day and along with bands like Black Flag, Hüsker Dü and Sonic Youth helped revitalise the American music scene of the …

We covered the Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy a bit in last week’s Friday Film news, but it’s worth revisiting briefly this week if only because it seems to be dividng the critics a little. Over in the Independent the adaptation receives just the one …

After yesterday’s launch of the Tory manifesto, today is the Lib Dems’ turn. (Read the PDF here.) Since the Conservative programme was more dog’s dinner than dog whistle, does the party that promises “The Real Alternative” actually deliver it? After all, this is meant to …

“I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.” ~ …

Many of you fine Londonistas out there will be experiencing the joys of pay day today and what better to do with your new found readies than to purchase of yourselves some fine gig tickets. And we here at Londonist music feel compelled to asist …

Joy oh joy: “Heart 106.2 is set to launch its biggest-ever TV and press campaign to promote the arrival of new presenter, Jamie Theakston.” According this report the MOR station will be presenting Theakston (their replacement for Jono Coleman) as “a metaphor for radio, putting …

The details of the lineup for the Patti Smith-curated 2005 Meltdown festival have been released. The Guardian has some of the details online, but here’s a bit of a breakdown of who you’ll be seeing on the South Bank this Summer. John Cale will be …

Not permanently though, just for a week, while “specialist work” is carried out. It is 100 years old after all, and while that’s not quite as ancient as, say, some parts of the District Line, it’s still pretty old. The BBC reports that the bridge …

Londonist just finished watching last night’s special edition of BBC One’s Question Time in which a live audience grappled with the three main party leaders – if you missed it like we did first time round then there’s a web version here (link on the …