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Bon Jovi To Headline New Hyde Park Festival

Bon Jovi return to Hyde Park for a brand new festival.

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Club Watch: Ultimate Power at Electric Ballroom

A club night dedicated to power ballads? That’s Friday night’s alternative to the Olympics sorted, then!

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Bon Jovi Play O2 Roof Today

Bon Jovi will be rocking the O2 from the roof around 3.30pm today – weather permitting – playing 4 tracks to mark the start of their Greenwich Peninsula summer residency (Sky News will be there, apparently). It’s not quite up there with the Beatles on …

Appropriate Shoreditch graffiti by Fin Fahey

Extra, Extra

Appropriate Shoreditch graffiti by Fin Fahey Two men jailed for “sustained and brutal attack” on a tourist near Buckingham Palace Have you been groped by the Shoreditch pincher? Police want to know London just might stage four NFL games per season by 2012 Bon Jovi …

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Screw Somerset, Love London

If you’ve not headed off to a muddy field in Somerset but still want some live music this weekend, then fear not! There are plenty of muddy fields in London to enjoy instead. Twickenham is the place of action for Bon Jovi fans today and …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it’s important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities. …

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Extra, Extra

Hooha over very expensive council corporate suite at the O2. But Bon Jovi christens it with “hair rock”. Motorist hides gun between buttocks in Tooting. But local newspaper fails to spot ‘Shooting craps’ pun potential. At Wimbledon, if the rain doesn’t get you, the snipers …

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Couldn’t Escape If We Wanted To: Preview 4

What’s that? More Eurovision, you say? OK, we’re hyped up on sugary euro-ethno-pop so here we go! Rusza Magadi sings the Hungary entry, Unsubstantial Blues. It’s what it says: a blues number about being dumped. With her repeated shrieks of “why did you leave me”, …

Ticket-alert : And the first people to play Wembley are…

Bugger the football, the only thing the music kids here at Londonist are bothered about at Wembley is when it will be ready for gigs. Bon Jovi, Take That, and Robbie Williams were all shunted off to Milton Keynes Bowl when the stadium failed to …

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Mid Week Music News

With Download, The Isle Of White Festival and Bon Jovi’s Milton Keynes shows all coming this weekend, festival season is well and truly upon us. For agrophobics everywhere else, may we suggest the following for consideration. Tonight: Upbeat, uncynical quirky Brit punky pure pop from …

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Death Trap Goes Electric

Bloody typical. The minute that we find something interesting about the new Wembley build and the powers that be are already trying to fix it: Power cables designed to carry up to 4,000 volts at the £757million stadium are being replaced after water leaks… An …