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Couldn’t Escape If We Wanted To: Preview 1

Eurovision 2007 is on. Here’s the first of Londonist’s previews of this year’s entries, and there’s already some amazing songs. Bulgaria send an ethnic rave song with vocals that are mere sound effects built into the heavily drummed mix. It’s quite amazing. Israel’s controversial entry …

Londonist Live: Fell City Girl @ Barfly : 27 Oct

Fell City Girl consist of Phil McMinn on vocals/guitar, Joe Gibbons on guitar, Adam Drake on bass and James “Shrek” Pamphilon on drums. They’ve been around a couple of years now, and by all accounts have been pretty busy boys, opening both the Carling Reading …

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New Music Interview: Rod Thomas

A week or so ago, we were trundling down Tottenham Court Road underground station dreading the face-sweating levels of heat that were about to hit us when we heard something we thought was rather wonderful. While buskers have got much better since the Underground introduced …

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Regeneration: Tate Modern Turbine Hall

The Turbine Hall in Tate Modern is, to put it mildly, bloody huge. It’s… enormous. And sometimes filled with polystyrene sugar cubes, strange weather or the mutterings of millions. However, a space like that has rarely seen live performance which makes sense if you’ve been …

Bye Bye Union Chapel

Sad news reaches us that the Union Chapel in Islington is to close. The Union Chapel Project (UCP) said that: …a recent vote by the Church membership to ban the consumption of alcohol in main auditorium, with immediate effect, was carried by a small majority. …