Ally Pally

Life expectancy in London varies considerably. The Belgravia Gallery seems to have landed itself with a bunch of fake Mandelas. There wil be no footie for the cupcake: it faces downsizing after 2012. Whilst Ally Pally is to be ‘expanded’. The River Lee could do …

Genteel Muswell Hill’s probably never seen anything like it. “Hordes” of “youths” who’d gone to Ally Pally to muck about in the snow on Monday decided to pelt cars with snowballs. But some of the snowballs were so hard they apparently broke some car windows …

Londonist likes to breathe. This Londonist is pneumatically challenged, and so she is especially fond of a good puff of the invisible stuff. So when the invisible stuff becomes visible, and London is shrouded in an ominous sulphurous blanket, we either stay indoors, or wander …

To be honest the rain and coldness is kind of making us not want to go to gigs at the moment, preferring instead to wrap ourselves up warmly at home. But if we did, this is what we’d be bouncing at. Monday: The biggie tomorrow …

Hard-Fi have announced a massive UK tour of arenas throughout the land, including a night at Wembley Arena. They’ll be bringing their tales of urban hell to Wembley on Tuesday 18th December, with tickets on sale tomorrow morning at 9am. For those quick off the …

A festival weekend wouldn’t be complete without the threat of rain, but while fans at Wireless in Hyde Park mostly got away dry, 500 geeks at Alexandra Palace couldn’t escape Saturday’s storm. Hack Day is a 36-hour marathon of coding, pizza, beer and music sponsored …

Tickets are going on sale at the moment for a lot of the Autumn gigs, so be sure to get your diaries out for this little collection of gems to catch soon. Everyone loves the Manic Street Preachers, and they’ve just announced a new full …

What with March coming in like a lion and blowing everyone all over the place it’s the ideal time to take to the water under sail power. Although there’s plenty on offer for the seasoned small boat owner in this weekend’s Dinghy Sailing Show at …

The London Assembly is pondering what’s going on with London’s allotments. The Environment Committee is apparently going to look into whether allotments are disappearing to make way for things such as the Olympic Village in Stratford. With luck, they might even suggest what to do …

You may have noticed that we skipped this week’s mid week listings post. That’s because we’ve decided to roll them into one bumper Friday post combining new tour announcements and a randomly bizarre recommendation of gigs for the week ahead. There’s a bumper crop of …