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Mid Week Music News

Another week dancing with the devil in the cutting world of what we call rock AND roll. And have we learnt anything from it? Well yes we have. We’ve learnt that Chris Martin is NOT the new Noel Gallagher, that Noel Gallagher might be the …

Interview: The Eighteenth Day Of May

The Eighteenth Day of May are responsible for Londonist’s favourite single of the year so far, the double-A-sided The Highest Tree / Sir Casey Jones, released (and reviewed) last week. They play the Marquee tonight (note: this is a venue change, after being stitched up …

Live 8 Rant And Line Up

And so is came to pass that the Lord looked upon the world and saw that there was still much pain and suffering as a result of smug greedy Western governments shafting their poorer cousins in a most unrighteous manner. And he saw that despite …

Monday Music Review On Tuesday

You’d have thought there was only one record in town the way the radio was so full of hype recently. But enough about Crazy Frog (we can think of a more appropriate word beginning with ‘C’ to apply to the Annoying Amphibian), this week we …

Booking Ahead

Many of you fine Londonistas out there will be experiencing the joys of pay day today and what better to do with your new found readies than to purchase of yourselves some fine gig tickets. And we here at Londonist music feel compelled to asist …

Mid Week Music News

OK, so hands up all those who are going to get tickets for Billy Corgan’s solo show in June (15th) at the Forum. Yeah, thought so. Old razor bonce himself has never really been forgiven for burning his t-shirts and inventing the Morpheus look 5 …

Busted Broken

Yahoo reports with the marvellously-alliterative-yet-informative headline that British Boy Band Busted Breaks Up. (They are a London-based band, so we get the write about them.) The band’s website is currently silent on the news but the messageboard (always the best source of information about bands, …

White Christmas Guaranteed

Londoonist can confidently predict a good few feet of snow for Christmas Day this year. How do we know? Because ex-weatherman Michael Fish has bet against it. According to the papers Fish “has put his reputation on the line again – betting £1,000 that it …

Popscene

Londonist breathed a heavy sigh of relief as posh-boy-band-novelty-act G4 missed out on winning ITV’s The X Factor on Saturday night. (We’re not too proud to admit that we found the winner Steve to come across as an immensely likeable chap, despite Sharon Osbourne inexplicably …

Charity Begins At Bono

Londonist got its first listen of the Band Aid 20 record this morning when the XFM breakfast show played Do They Know It’sChristmas? as we arose from our overly-central-heated slumber. We were not helped in our efforts to make the transition from asleep to awake …