Archive for May, 2005

Happy Hammers….Finally

Back in February, we wrote about how things were starting to look a little rosier for a West Ham side that had been enduring a frustratingly incosistent season. Alan Pardew had avoided the sack, Teddy Sheringham was beginning to drag the team up to his …

Daley Star

Forget David Beckham. Never mind Sir Steve ‘ooh look at all my medals’ Redgrave. If you want to get serious about hosting an Olympic Games then you have to go for the big guns. And when it comes to Olympics the guns don’t get any …

Westminser Abbey Versus Dan Brown

Why has Westminster Abbey decided to embroil itself in the ongoing Da Vinci Code argument? We’re hoping that it might be because it’s getting close to the summer and they need to bring in a few extra tourist greenbacks. In which case: well done Westminster …

Londonist London Festival Lodown

Something’s changing in Londonist Towers. Something’s in the air. Perhaps it’s a subtle shift in the midichlorians, perhaps it’s that there’s a new Turin Brakes album out but we’re beginning to stockpile bottles of Tequila and Rizla papers and trying to find the number of …

Competition: Do Me Bad Things Tickets Up For Grabs

If you’ve not heard Croydon’s answer to the Scissor Sisters, Do Me Bad Things, you need to, if only to have an opinion on them. The eclectically-influenced band will be bringing their pop tunes, loud guitars, soulful voices, top class drinking abilities, costume changes and …

London Tomes – Big Brother episode

It’s been a while since we had one of our London Tomes cartoons, but what better reason to return to the lives of those cute London-based creatures than yet another series of the interminable Big Brother? Just click on the logo above, sit back and …

Monday Music Review On Tuesday

You’d have thought there was only one record in town the way the radio was so full of hype recently. But enough about Crazy Frog (we can think of a more appropriate word beginning with ‘C’ to apply to the Annoying Amphibian), this week we …

Basic Instinct 2: Posh Botherers

Those poor poor people of Highgate Village. As if they didn’t have enough to worry about, what with all those hooded teen vandals to keep an eye out for and intricate Nieghborhood Watch schedules to compose. Now they have to deal with those bloody Yanks, …

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Happy Bank Holiday

Just a quick post to remind all Londonist readers that we won’t be posting on the Bank Holiday Monday (because, coincidentally, it’s a Bank Holiday). So, in the meantime, here’s a hastily cobbled together list of things you might want to see or do: Out …

Keiller’s London

Something we should have mentioned at the start of this week is the release of Patrick Keiller’s film London on DVD. The film is a “a provocative film essay in the form of a journal, recording fictitious journeys through a very real city,” and is …