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Seems like Monday was a good day for album launch shows. Whilst Londonista Dave was experiencing the fragile ether-eality of Goldfrapp in Union Chapel, we were in the slightly less salubrious surroundings of HMV Oxford Street, where a reed thin moustachioed man is hopping up …

A quarter of all ‘youth gangs’ reside in Lambeth. Now there’s a statistic to make the Borough’s residents sleep easy at night. According to Auntie, an unpublished report has linked 40 gangs to the area, one with over 2,500 members. That’s not a gang, that’s …

Hoodies to the left of us, police marksmen to the right, here we are stuck in the middle with… hmm, an angry Chelsea Pensioner. Or at least a pensioner from Chelsea, one Eric Williams, recently jailed for four months for attacking a couple of car …

Elbow have long been favourites of Londonistas past present and future, so a last minute opportunity to catch Guy Garvey and his band of burly Bury boys was too good to miss. And if this show, set in the stately Victorian, chandelier decked environs of …

Well, blow us down with a wrecking ball, it’s refreshing to see a piece of news about someone trying to save an old building rather than tear it down and turn it in to a pre-fab pimp palace. Don’t get us wrong, we can’t wait …

If the Guardian hadn’t given Will Hodgkinson £5000 to start a record label then Londonist wouldn’t be spending Friday night in a folk club in Euston. But we’re here for the album launch of Rosemarie, the debut long-player from new young folkers, Thistletown. Strangely the …

If only we’d known, we could have taken that £80 million we had squirreled away and bought ourselves a nice luxury pad in Hampstead; added that beauty spa and cinema we always wanted to go with the pool and seven kitchens – one for every …

Anyone with an ounce of common sense should be able to tell you that work-related stress is not good for the health, a bit like cigarettes, junk food and bullets. But, since many of those who make decisions regarding our working lives seem to be …

Guns don’t kill people, bullets kill people. But bullets need guns to fire them and people to pull the triggers, so it’s a bit of a joint effort all round. The technicalities of death aside, one thing we can probably all agree on, and speak …

Lasers, screens, explosions, giant mutant zombie mummies (hmm, we may have inadvertently made a cruel pun there), apparently the latest gig gizmo is to parade your offspring, as opposed to The Offspring, which in this case might actually have been better. Brooklyn, Romeo, and Cruz …