"Y'all are making Brighton seem like where the party's at", yells DJ Big Whiz from behind the decks. The roar of protest from the crowd, packed tightly underneath Cargo's Victorian arches so movement is reduced to peristalsis-like shuffles, is the desired response: Londoners don't take well to comparisons with our southern cousin. As his DJ riles the crowd, Definitive Jux rapper Aesop Rock lounges across the stage with a Cheshire-cat grin. On the second......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 28th January 1807: The gas lamps on Pall Mall are lit, making it the first street in the world to be illuminated in such a fashion. Tuesday – 29th January 1976: Twelve IRA bombs explode in the area around Oxford Street, injuring a taxi driver and starting several small fires. Wednesday – 30th January 1969: The Beatles perform live for the last time ever, on the roof......

Talia has already covered the more common places to go dancing tomorrow night, but for a more alternative music New Years Eve, then wander over to Kings Cross’ Monto Water Rats to catch Brighton rockers Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster play a special New Years gig with support from Gingerbread Men, The Foxes and a few others. Alternatively, there are still a few tickets available for Super Fury Animals at Royal Festival Hall. The fun starts......

If you missed out on Halloween fancy dress or just want an excuse to get decked out in Victorian garb, then White Mischief offers the perfect opportunity. White Mischief is a night of cabaret, vaudeville, and live music that encourages audience participation and dressing up. The event will be taking over Scala in Kings Cross this Saturday from 8pm until the wee hours. This show's theme is 'From The Earth To The Moon' and......

The past few years haven't been kind to Brighton's finest Goth punk psychobilly exports, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. In the years since 2004's phenomenal "The Royal Society" album, they were scandalously dropped by their record label, parted with guitarist and founding member Andy Huxley and witnessed The Horrors steal the hearts of the nations Goth youth. They have a lot to prove tonight. Within 30 seconds of taking to the stage lead singer Guy......

In addition to being the mad mastermind behind one of the best albums of the year so far, Dan Deacon is also the hardest working freak in the business. While even after witnessing his live performance and listening to his record numerous times, we're still not exactly sure what that business is, we do know it involves whimsical pop sensibilities battling against an impressive array of twisted electronics. And countdowns. Dan likes counting. Amidst......

Hooray! Bus fares are to drop if you're an Oyster user Forget the logo for a sec, the International Olympics Committee has given London the best report they've ever given a city! Jarvis' meltdown is a go-go. Got £1? Buy a chainstore! And finally congrats to everyone who took part in the London - Brighton bike ride yesterday. Photo taken from Lu;s photostream.......

For all you crazy art fanatics out there (you know who you are....) here's the lowdown on what's going on at Free Range this week... Degree Show 5 Who? University College for the Creative Arts Epsom (Graphics & New Media) What? DESIGN (2D & 3D) Where? Atlantis 2nd Floor Your Place or Mine? Who? University of Brighton (Graphics & Illustration) What? DESIGN (2D & 3D) Where? Atlantis 1st Floor University of Westminster Art and......

Want to race down the motorway from London to Brighton with the wind in your hair, a parka on your back and a classic soundtrack by The Who buzzing in your ears? Perhaps you don't go in for all that reckless mod nonsense and for you the phrase 'my generation' involves less rocker-fighting and more Nintendo-playing? Leave the sixties revival down in the tube station at midnight and get down with the pocket calculator......

When tipped for the top, many artists can't live up to the hype that has been created for them by the press. Mika, on the other hand is different. Revelling in the limelight, the 23 year old jumped on stage at London's Koko this week to start the first date of his six date UK tour, fully recovered from a bout of flu that cancelled the first date in Brighton on Tuesday. Support came......

Well, we're working our way gradually through the football codes in this feature and this week we alight on the favoured antipodean variation. The Swans are newly arrived in the capital having been based for the last 17 years in Brighton and are very much on the lookout for new talent to join them, beginning with their first pre-season training session tomorrow afternoon which will be followed by a "Meet the Coach" night in......

Today’s snow made us feel quite festive, even though it’s the wrong time of year for all that. But with all the unpredictability of our modern changing climate, we need to enjoy these sorts of things when we can. So instead of contributing to the rising tide of dissatisfaction with how poorly equipped our services are to deal with a small amount of snow these days, we thought we would turn our thoughts to......

Remember when we told you about Mika, well now the BBC have named him the sound of 2007. Brighton beats London for the title of the UK's healthiest city. It's nearly epiphany so time to start recyling Christmas. The Trafalgar Square tree has already been shredded. London CCTV camera's are beginning to start listening to you, as well as watching. Photo taken from Zero Two Zero's photostream.......

This week - A look into the murky London underworld (London to Brighton) and a hardcore sex comedy, (Shortbus). Bradshaw gives London to Brighton a stonking 5/5, describing it as "cracking" with "enough clout to kick the door in". There are "outstanding performances" from the whole cast - the film is "a 120-degree proof thriller, with storytelling nous and technical flair: it's the best British film of the year." Quinn at the Independent also......

More than 20,000 people rallied in London at the weekend to protest about ManBearPig climate chaos. Ken's in Cuba and having a go at Bush. The BBC has a nice collection of London to Brighton car run pics. A weightlifter had no problem lifting this year's Scrabble crown. How much of a tax bill will the Olympics land? and while we're on the subject... Are Handgun laws to be relaxed for the Olympics?......

If you're not off leaving London this weekend for Brighton Pride [make sure you groupsave 4 your train tix by the way] or the Big Chill Festival then don't forget one of London's best free festivals, Fruitstock, is ruling the roost all weekend in Regent Park. Running from 12 to 9, Innocent drinks stump up the cost for the event which boasts a much more appealing line-up than last year. Mary Ann Hobbs comperes......

We’re going to have to start a new category soon. Stupidly expensive stuff goes on sale at Harrods. This week, it’s whisky (or ‘whiskey’ as the source article sacrilegiously spells it). The Islay distillery of Ardbeg is offering its rare 1965 single-malt for £2000. That’s, like, nearly £3 a millilitre. Or, put a more familiar way, £150 for a double. Frankly, we'd expect thrice-distilled unicorn piss for that price. A Harrods’ spokesperson explained: There......

For once we're giving you more than five hours notice on clubbing tips for this weekend, mainly because we've been planning this particular Friday night for weeks and weeks. We've always been a fan of industrial-styled superclub Fabric and their ecletic line-ups, spending many a night down in the former meat-cellar dancing to the likes of Jacques Le Cont (before the Madonna years) and discovering cool new bands like Clor (*sob*) before they hit......

It's time for Late at Tate again... tonight's big bash is going to be loud with specially invited DJs filling the building with music and grooves - all for free. From 6pm until 10pm, two levels of Tate Britain will be taken over by tonight's snappily titled Noise of Art and will become the "plushest chill out bar in the planet on one floor and the grooviest discotech on the other." The guys on......

London is going to get squeezed yet again: In a bid to reverse the trend of people randomly terrorising the world, teams of huggers are preparing to hit the streets of London, Birmingham and Brighton to provide random hugs. The third annual Random Huggers Day will take place on Sunday 7 May, 2006 and willing individuals will be able to receive free hugs from teams of people based at locations across the city centres.......

We love Bank Holiday Mondays. They make the week go so quickly, we forget to arrange to do anything on the Friday. If you're as useless at reading a calendar as us, here's a couple of suggestions: Londonist favourite Fiona Bevan (whose debut EP we cited as one of our favourite records of 2005) plays tonight at one of our favourite venues: Bush Hall. She's on as part of the Buzz Night and she's on......

Last night, we calmly mooched along Oxford Street at 8pm taking our time to get to the pleasantly open late Apple Store on Regent Street to buy a birthday present for today. When we got there it was shut, and there were a gaggle of teenagers outside. Checking exactly what was going on via web on our phones (asking a real person is too much), we were mildly pissed off to find that Richard......

Time once again to take a quick tour of some gigs coming up that we think you might like. And maybe a few you won't. Friday: Henry Rollins is back to celebrate 25 years of speaking not shouting at Hammersmith, and although sold out, it's well worth trying to find a way in, since the great man's one of life's true raconteurs and very very funny. Alternatively Kaibosh are at The Spread Eagle in......

Pencil the evening of Thursday May 25th into your diary as the FA have announced they are planning to arrange what they're calling a "B" friendly in London to give players outside Sven's starting eleven a run-out ahead of travelling to Germany for the World Cup. Though a specific venue has yet to be finalised Belarus are being lined up to face a team that could be almost entirely composed of players based in......

Cybercandy in Covent Garden is one of Londonist's favourites. We used to buy stuff from the website all the time, so imagine how pleased we were when they set up their first 'real world' candy store a couple of years ago. Now, whenever we return to the office, our pockets bulging with strange looking Japanese confectionary, cans of raspberry favoured coke and lots and lots of cinnamony things (oh, how we love the cinnamony......

We avoided using it in the headline but we can't resist... it's the end of the line (ho ho) for the Gatwick Express. BBC News says the government reckons it's a little inefficient to have a half-full train clogging up the lines when you could run a normal commuter service instead and, according to government calculations, get an extra 480 seats for commuters. We take this calculation with something of a pinch of salt,......

Time to line up a few recommendations for the gig going glitterati amongst you for the cold winter's days ahead. Tonight: If you're staying in then The Rakes, David Gray and the rather awesome The National are on Jools at 11.35. Saturday: nu metal is probablythe music critics all time favourit genre so expect to see a full turn out from the OMM and NME amongst others as nu metal pioneers Korn make a......

If you leave for work early enough and stay until after 5 there's a good chance you're not seeing much of the sun at the moment so we'd like to take your mind off all that by suggesting you watch a film set almost entirely within a small dark cramped cell. Malefique is an overlooked little shocker from France that has been saved from obscurity by our friends over at Frightfest. We had no......

- Police have said they are investigating whether the two men suspected of the Clapham Common attack had abused a woman nearby shortly beforehand. - Ronaldo has 'strongly denied'' the rape claims. His agent called them a "product of imagination and fantasy". - RMT calls Metronet's plans to sub-contract out maintenance 'dangerous'. While the LibDems blame Brown for the mess. - Fans clash in pubs near Selhurst Park after Brighton Hove Albion and Palace game......

The big wheel keeps on turning On a simple line day by day The earth spins on its axis One man struggle to write the Midweek Music News introduction while working out his taxes So wrote Massive Attack about the struggle to keep up Londonist duties while pressing matters involving HMRC are at hand. HMRC wait for no man, however, so without further ado, here's your Midweek Music News. Tonight NME tipped electro boy......