Arts and Events

New Free Newspaper Details

The impending ‘Battle of the Freesheets’ has been…well, impending for a while now but today we’ve got a few more details from News International about just what exactly they’re planning. First up it’s going to be launched on September 18, and it’s going to be …

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Portobello Film Festival

The Portobello Film Festival started in 1996 and it has grown and expanded to become the UK’s biggest independent film festival, going from 1,000 visitors back then to over 15,000 last year. Every film submitted is screened, entry is free to all events and there …

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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. August is a quiet month for book launches and the like, so lucky there’s a good old fashioned book brawl to hot things up! Yes, …

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This week’s free gigs

This week One of our favourite London bands Boy Kill Boy release new single Civil Sin today, the third single to be taken from their debut album Civilian. To celebrate the band complete with their very straight hair and swoonworthy eyeliner will be performing at …

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Blur stalled again

Since Alex James’ sideproject Wigwam crashed and burned, and Damon Albarn announced the end of Gorillaz, we’ve been feeling slightly more confident in claims that we’ll be seeing a new Blur album by the end of the year. Now it seems there are not one …

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Great British Beer Festival

Going to the pub is lovely. There’s the bar, there’s the row of pumps, each one a gateway to a different beer experience. There may be games to play with your friends. There may be some entertainment laid on by the management. There’s food and …

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Clubtasm: I am not worthy

Friday: Club NME: You know we don’t really like Club NME. Maybe we’re being harsh, maybe we’ve just not been in the right mood or maybe we’re just getting old, but every time we’ve been it has seemed to be full of really really drunk …

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Culture Crawl

Join the Village Fete at V & A – for tonight, the museum will be taken over by over 30 creative types who will be running stalls, activities and other village fete style stuff. Tombola, fish and chips, freaky vegetable competitions and body painting will …

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Friday Film News

This week – CGI cars populate the earth (Cars), stylist sci-fi thriller set in Paris 2054 (Renaissance) and a computer game becomes deadly (Stay Alive) First up, Cars from Pixar, makers of Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Toy Story etc. etc. However, where Pixar’s previous efforts …

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Naked Boy Wizard Stabs Horses

Really, it was worth reporting on this story just so we could write this headline wasn’t it? So here it is: Daniel ‘Harry Potter’ Radcliffe

Music Video: Sarah Nixey

Our favourite indie girl gone pop Sarah Nixey recently released her 2nd solo single, Strangelove, and we just realised we completely forgot to tell you about it. Fiercer than her inital single, it’s more than reminiscent of SEB and bites and jolts along with a …