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Mid Week Music News

Time once again to cast an eye over this week’s gig going highlights. Wednesday: If you haven’t already been tempted by The Magic Numbers being nicer than is humanly possible at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire or Hard Fi being T4 favourites at the Camden Electric …

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Mid Week Music News

As Michael once said: It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white. He forgot to add as long as you’re rich but then again he never recorded a cover of I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles, no matter how much we pleaded. Although he has been under …

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Curry, Seafood And How To Free The Chef In You

Fast becoming the alternative to the Notting Hill Carnival, the Brick Lane Festival is a street carnival, food festival and outdoor music shindig all in one. It’s going to be big, noisy and tasty… Contributing to the music element of this mela is the ever-hip …

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Booking Ahead

Gigs, gigs, gigs, pay money and see shows. Unless of course they’re free. You should always go and see free shows, especially if its the Editors this evening at 7pm at the Truman Brewery Complex on Brick Lane. Friends of ours keep haranguanging us about …

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Ink The Pink

It’s getting so that you can’t see a trend setting London lass bend over these days without a scrawl of tribal swirls rising above the thong line, just daring you to ask: Is that a Hawaiian?. No longer is it socially unacceptable to have I …

Nathan Barley I Presume?

Following the arrival of Nathan Barley on our TV screen last week, today’s Independent asks the question no one else could even be bothered to ask: “how does it feel for the East London media set to see their lives lampooned on prime-time television? Do …

Deathmatch With Banksy

You know Banksy, of course – our homegrown civil disobedience tutor and street art stencil impresario – and no doubt you’ve enjoyed his many small (and not-so-small) additions to the London street scene. However, it seems to us that his output has been tailing off …

Popscene

Pete Doherty apparently turned up at the XFM Winter Wonderland last night and by all accounts, the word ‘shambles’ was entirely appropriate. If you’d rather not feel like an ambulance-chaser when watching a band on stage, try this lot: Monday 6th Londonist favourites The Pipettes …

Furious George

Slandered and now vindicated, MP George Galloway, is coming to London to stick it to the pro-war New-Labourites. Mustachioed Galloway is set to contest the seat of Bethnal Green, the home of Pro-War Labour MP Oona King, in Londons East end. Thrown out of the …