Archive for April, 2006

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April Music Review

Once a month Londonist sits down with a pile of the months releases that have dropped through our letterbox. Since we’re almost at the end of April, we’d better get on with it. The Victorian English Gentlemen’s Club – Amateur Man (Single released 3rd April …

What Are You Doing With Your Bank Holiday?

As next Monday is a bank holiday we won’t be posting, so to tide you over here’s the best bank holiday-related clip we could find. See you when we get back from our archery weekend with Tony Hadley.

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End Of Week Music News

Just a couple of gigs coming up that we wanted to mention quickly since we’ve been away for a few weeks. Saturday: is of course the Love Music Hate Racism free gig in Trafalgar Square. Along with Belle and Sebastian, Lethal Bizzle, Boy Kill Boy, …

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Vaisakhi On the Square

We’ve said before London is great for holy festivals. This weekend’s holy Big One is Vaisakhi, the Sikh New Year celebration that is the holiest day of the Sikh calendar. Vaisakhi is traditionally marked by Sikhs with continuous reading of the Sikh Scripture, the Guru …

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Londonist Backs Big Phil

That’s right, it’s the news you were all waiting for – your favourite London multi-contributor weblog has come out in support of the FA’s bid to hire Luiz Felipe Scolari as the new England head coach. SHAZAM! We do realise that this isn’t the kind …

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Butts ‘Buts Mutts

Remember when pit bulls were the new road rage, and in unfortunate danger of extermination by the powers that be? Well, and we may well be shit-stirring here, but looks like that old can of Prima could soon be re-opened. Headline writer’s dream and Metropolitan …

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Booking Ahead

Hot ticket for the week has to be Vancouver’s The Organ, a dreamy, nearly all female hybrid of Joy Division, The Smiths, Blondie and The Cure. Under the singular leadership of the utterly talented Katie Sketch, they take to the stage on Tuesday 18th July …

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Friday Film News

This week: 16 Blocks, Metal: a Headbanger’s Journey and Slither. Plus all the usual gossip and Trailer of the Week. In the last FFN we complained a lot about the fact that that there were no decent films on release. So what do we go …

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Phew… That Was Close

Only one goal ahead and four minutes to go it looked as if it might be extra time, but Fisher Athletic hung on to beat brave Hendon 3-2 in the final of the London FA Senior Cup on Tuesday night. Fisher had been 3-0 up …

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Firebomb Attacks

One man has been killed and another three injured after a firebomb attack on the shop they were working in yesterday: A man threw what police called a “lighted object” into the convenience store on Clapham Road, near the Oval, south London, on Thursday afternoon. …