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Acoustic Boy Soldiers

The excellent Raconteurs are to prolong their visit to London to play a free acoustic gig at HMV Oxford Street next Thursday at 1pm. There are no tickets on sale so it’ll be a first come first served scramble for space to witness what should …

Get Your Bunny Fix Here!

This is the new video from London dance kids, Spektrum, who you may know from the Zipper hammered Kinda New. It’s called I’m Not Shy, it’s in the shops now and it’s ripe for some ass-shaking. Vocalist Lola Olafisoye has the same funk and mischievous …

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Managing A Hostage Crisis, Frontline Club

If you’re the type who would sleep better if you knew what to do in a hostage situation, then clear your diary for tonight. Aimed at journalists and anyone likely to be working in war zones, the Frontline Club is holding a talk titled Managing …

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Deakin vs Middleton: Let The Battle Commence

It’s not often that the motley gang here at Londonist plan clubbing nights out with more than a couple of hours, or at most a day to go. So brace yourselves, here comes a suggestion a whopping NINE days early. Reasons why this will be …

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Competition: Win All Saints tickets!

As far as comebacks go All Saints making their mark back on the pop scene is our favourite. Yeah sure, we were there at Milton Keynes screaming along to Take That back in the summer, but when we’re talking new material our favourite fighting girl …

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Township Stories at Theatre Royal, Stratford East

Township Stories opens tonight at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East after a successful run in the Edinburgh Festival and is the kind of play that reviewers cannot help but describe with words like “sordid underbelly” and “gritty” and “contemporary urban realism.” This new play about …

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Londonist Live: Hot Chip @ Astoria : 11 October 2006

We like ours with sauce here at the Londonist, and shakin’ their maracas and booties like streetwalkers in a Miami Vice musical, South London homies Hot Chip served it up thick at their biggest headliner to date last week at the slowly crumbling Astoria. Surprisingly, …

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The Londonist Literary List

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghoutir has fourteen books under his belt and has been described by Edward Said as “one of the finest existential …

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Happy Birthday Fabric

If you’ve ever been anywhere in EC1 on a Friday or Saturday night then you’re sure to have been asked a million times where Fabric is. Right opposite the back of Smithfield’s Meat Market, the former meat cellar has been doing a stirling trade since …

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Competition: Win Patrizio Buanne CDs!

It’s competition crazy at Londonist at the moment. Firstly, congratulations to Rachel Horwood who won our pair of tickets to see Seth Lakeman tomorrow at The Scala. And don’t forget you can still enter to win a copy ofThe Meaning of Life by Michael Cox. …

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Dogs Full Of Money

We were going to save this one for Random Graffiti of the Week, but it’s just too delicious to sit on. Walking around Shoreditch over the weekend, we kept spying these odd little stickers plastered with a regularity beaten only by those sodding onlyjoe labels. …