What with your favourite London-by-way-of-Essex Britpop band reforming and playing not one but two dates in Hyde Park, it’s perfect timing to discover some more quintessentially London love from a indie native outfit. Swanton Bombs could be just what you’re looking for. The two-piece band …
If you’re looking for something to entertain the Little Londonist in your life, head to the London Transport Museum this weekend to celebrate Kipper’s birthday (it may be just the reprieve you need from the canned Christmas carols and the crowds of the West End …
Those who remember the first time while simultaneously wanting a little bit of the now with their nineties may have found the answer, in the shape of the new monthly indie night Mutton at Islington’s Buffalo Bar. Aimed at those ‘who want their MGMT served …
‘We’ll play this next song, and then we’ll do requests’, Nick Cave tells the audience in the art-deco Troxy, ‘as long as they’re on the list. And in the right order.’ Such is the added bonus of seeing the snake-hipped, immaculately-tailored musician live – not …
For our very first Littlest Londonist, we meander to the most salubrious of localities – that of Hampstead and Belsize Park. Think of it as the Mercedes of the Littlest Londonist canon, if you will. With wide, tree-lined streets, celebrity inhabitants and a heath so …
What does London mean to you? Falling asleep on the nightbus home; whiling away hours in coffee shops and museums and holing up in cosy pubs; heading out with your camera on a crisp, clear day to Brick Lane, or the City, or Richmond Park. …
The Argentinian art collective Mondongo (the word for a traditional Argentinian tripe stew) are renowned for using a wide range of materials in their work – freeze-dried slabs of meat and biscuits, plasticine and hair. Unenticing as it sounds, their work still manages to be …
What happens when we dream? The delicious question marks behind our complex subconscious are explored in more depth at the Institute of Contemporary Arts this weekend, as the art and science of sleep is put under the microscope. Bristol-based artist Luke Jerram, in collaboration with …
The use of blasphemy in the title got us along to the second show at Fitzrovia’s recently opened contemporary art gallery on a wet and windy night. After all, swearing is funny (don’t tell the children this). The art on show in question is much …
From not-so-saccharine schoolgirl smut to the sad lip-synching performance of a troubled Judy-Garland figure, the faces of Ms Britney Spears have always been pored over in the media-driven public eye during her short life. Slobbering over her ripped stomach, shaved head or estranged children, the …
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