Archive for May, 2005

In a move that screams “we’re the government, ha ha”, Labour has announced that it will not be releasing a London manifesto, claiming its national manifesto contained enough references to the capital. Anyway, let’s see what the ruling party sees fit to draw London’s attention …

Wi-fi is a marvellous thing. It allows all our dear readers, who we imagine are sophisticated early-adopter types who swan around with the latest PalmOne, Pocket PC or PowerBook, to read Londonist in whatever part of London is trendy today. But Wi-fi has a dark …

Vampires setting fire to the Pope, Japanese girls suckling blood from freshly razor-bladed arms and a reading from the Necronomicon: must be Friday night in Camden then. Londonist is a little like Mae West in that we’ll try anything once (twice if we like it, …

We at the Londonist like nothing better than a political rebel. No, hang on. We at the Londonist like quite a lot of things better than a political rebel, but in the world of politics we love them. And of course there’s no better rebel …

Joy Zipper at the ICA, Thursday 28 April Couples are the new rock’n’ roll don’t ya know. Jack and Meg, Mimi and Alan from Low, Win and Regine from Arcade Fire, Sonny and Cher, Ike and Tina, yes rock history is scattered with the bloodied …

The call is out for new musicians and designers to take part in this year’s City Showcase from the 5th to the 9th September, which will be supported as ever by XFM. But hurry you only have 28 days to get your designs or demos …

Ahh, a lovely weekend (ignoring the occasional isolated spots of rain), we sincerely hope our loyal readers spent the time outdoors slathered with liberal dosages of factor 80 sun cream. Londonist, on the other hand, spent the weekend checking out new music for you. That’s …

Today’s Independent carries a feature on the (in)famous Groucho club. Subtitled 20 years of schmoozing and boozing, the article attempts to capture the allure of the media set’s favourite members club, so we get the ubiquitous ligger Keith Allen reminiscing about Moby playing the piano …

As always, Londonist is looking out for the cultural well-being of all of our readers. This week we are bringing you a list of exhibitions that are on in London that may (or may not) interest you but we figure if we list a few …

Just when you thought the whole George Galloway saga couldn’t get any worse better…along comes his wife! This weekend ‘Gorgeous George’ was handed a piece of paper by a representative of the Sunday Times informing him that his wife would be announcing her intention of …