For sale. ‘A genuine lucky dip of fly tipped items.’ Guess where? eBay, of course. The home of carrots with vaginas and Virgin Mary toast is now offering an assortment of rubbish illegally dumped in Plumstead. Greenwich Council have been a little sluggish in removing …
With four of our favourite new bands in town this week, it is a grand time to be heading out and checking out some live music. Friday: Until we get our own band together, Fuckshovel remain the best named band in Britain. And other places. …
Celebrating European Capitals of Culture is nothing new, whatever Liverpool may think. In the last half of the 19th century, Paris was the hottest place to see and be seen in and a new, much anticipated exhibition on the subject of how great the place …
TV Troll is hyperventilating right about now. Footballers Wive$ (Thur 9pm ITV1) is back on for a fifth series!!! YESSS!!!!!!!!!!!! (We know, we know, multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind, but … FOOTBALLERS WIVE$!!!! Oops, there we go again.) For …
Did anyone read the interview with Damien Hirst in yesterday’s Observer magazine? It was mostly about Hirst getting drunk in Mexico and preparing to offend an awful lot of Catholics with some dead sheep, a few human skulls and some rosary beads, but there was …
Damon “Blur / Gorrillaz / “I’ve worked with musicians in Africa” Albarn is to use his musical genius in creating a new stage musical. Londonist loves musicals (when they’re not by Mick Hucknall) so we welcome this new venture from Albarn who can be relied …
Time once again to take a gander at a couple of shows coming up over the next seven days that have shone out from within the Londonist Music inbox. Most of the action this week is taking place in sold out venues across the capital …
Three men in their early 20s were stabbed in the ticket hall at Holloway Road Tube station last night. One is serious but stable with stomach injuries. The other two have cuts to their hands and arms. One man has been arrested. A reporter for …
The term Brazilian conjures rather limited images for us over here: a certain type of bikini wax, football, type of nut, samba… but there’s more, so much more. The Barbican is hosting a mega three month festival, presenting and celebrating Tropicalia , the movement that …
Yellow Gentlemen is a new play, opening next week as part of the China in London season. Written by Benjamin Yeoh who has been described as one of the hottest new writing talents since featuring in the Battersea Arts Centre New Writing season in 2004, …
Jump is a high octane display of the ancient Korean fighting art of Tae-kwon-do, jaw-dropping flips, dazzling acrobatics and sword fights… crossed with a sit-com. Let’s review: martial arts plus comedy. Finally, our prayers have been answered. Jump, which opened yesterday at the Peacock Theatre, …
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