What we need right now is something to take us back to a time when explosions were fun and the men that carried them out were rocket scientists and occultists. We first got interested in reading the book Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket …
Well, here we go again. Londonist’s not-inconsiderable powers of augur and haruspex (plus a machine-like publicity campaign) have alerted us to the imminent release of JK Rowling’s latest grimoire. Stores will be open long past the witching hour tonight as millions of children and special …
Mastodon – LA2, Monday 11th July Do you ever get one of those days when someone asks you if you want a Mastodon ticket and you carelessly say yes? Yeah, happens to us too. Which is how we found ourselves in the Mekong Delta heat …
More American fretting we’re afraid. It seems that the troubled production of Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta movie has hit another glitch. Should the release date be moved back from November the 5th (which was kind of the whole point as far as the idiots …
Since our copies of The Earth from the Air and Exquisite Mayhem are now well thumbed and falling to pieces it’s time for Londonist to find a new book for its coffee table. And what could be a better subject than the Blitz? Nothing – …
Another week and another bit of Alan Moore news. No not that Hugo Weaving has taken over as V on the stupid movie of ‘V for Vendetta’. This is much better. The trailer for The Mindscape of Alan Moore is online. It’s a bit of …
We’ve mentioned a couple of times now that Iain Sinclair will be appearing at Patti Smith’s Meltdown, but we didn’t reveal that Londonist was invited to have a chat with him one sunny afternoon a week or so ago. What followed was a conversation that …
The latest tome from JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Pubed Bints Half-Blood Prince is almost upon us. As part of the inevitable media frenzy in the run up to its publication, Rowling has announced a competition to make the launch that extra bit special …
If Londonist ever had to get itself a ‘board of directors’ a few names would immediately spring to mind: Iain Sinclair, Peter Ackroyd…and Lee Jackson. Lee is the author of three historical thrillers as well as a huge, illustrated book on Victorian London. He is …
Right, no pithy introductions this week. Let’s get straight to the sensuously seductive and dirty as a tramp’s trousers Goldfrapp who take to the Brixton stage on Thursday 6th October to support the forthcoming Ooh La La. We’re already rubbing our thighs in anticipation. There’s …
In 1797, haberdasher John Hetherington strolled out into the streets of London to show off his new invention: the top hat. The reaction, it must be said, was not as good as it might have been – he was booed and jeered, several women fainted, …
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