Archive for April, 2005

It’s a struggle but Londonist must occasionally provide the odd Pete Doherty story… Model-mating tabloid-baiting Pete Doherty is reported by the NME to be confirmed for the Love Music Hate Racism gig this Sunday (1st May). According to BabyShambles.net, he’s playing an acoustic set sometime …

Have we moaned about the transport system in London enough today? Maybe…but, hey, if the news is there we have to report it right? Today a new study by the RMT union has revealed just how much more expensive travel in London is compared to …

Author, journalist, and all-round nice bloke, Nick Hornby is to guest edit next week’s issue of Time Out magazine. The author of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and most recently

Rejoice! The Tories have launched their London manifesto. You can read it here (.PDF). So what might the capital expect from a Conservative government? (Yes, we know, just try and suspend disbelief for a while.) Well, most of it’s just the national manifesto with the …

There’s a report over at the BBC today which claims that 2005 will be a bumper year for tourists coming to London: Visitors from the EU rose from 5.7 million in 2003 to 6.5 million last year, while US visits rose from 2.6 million to …

Now that’s a Prime Minister… flying through the heavens, defying the laws of nature, deflecting lightning blasts and still home well before the start of Blue Peter. Makes Howard’s powers of darkness seem a tad old fashioned… Damn, but this election is dull. Only a …

If you have been anywhere near City Hall in the past two days there is no way to have missed the WEEE Man structure being erected. It bears a striking resemblence to what the Terminator looked like when his “human skin” melted off in the …

As this post is being written, drivers in west London are holding a go-slow to protest the possible extension of the Congestion Charge to their blessed plot. This is taking place without any obvious sense of irony. A go-slow to protest something that would make …

OK, so hands up all those who are going to get tickets for Billy Corgan’s solo show in June (15th) at the Forum. Yeah, thought so. Old razor bonce himself has never really been forgiven for burning his t-shirts and inventing the Morpheus look 5 …

Residents of Meopham village (it’s just south of Gravesend) are being plagued by “mystery interference” which is causing them to be locked out of their cars. According to This is Local London, the villagers “have been disrupted for two weeks by the strange happening”, which …