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Music Choice: Monday 11th – Friday 15th February

A fairly quiet time for Londonist music, but this week saw us introduce you to The Wave Pictures on Thursday, catch indie up-and-comers Parka at the Borderline on Tuesday, and suggest you catch “J-Dilla changed my life” at Cargo this evening. Throughout the week, NME …

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Super Tuesday at Porchester Hall

If you were wandering around Bayswater last night and wondering why you were surrounded by several thousand Americans, it’s not because we started granting political asylum to those seeking refuge from the Bush regime (a bit late for that, really). No, it’s because last night, …

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Music Choice: Monday 4th – Friday 8th February

Philadelphia experimental indie stars Enon play the Luminaire on Monday night, with around 17 tickets left (at time of writing) on We Got Tickets. Support comes in the shape of Ill Ease, which features “Elizabeth Sharp playing guitar, bass, drums, tambourine, shaker, car horn and …

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London Food Blog Round-Up for January

Daily Candy tweaks its culinary repertoire at a secret cooking class in Clerkenwell. Slonik at Edible London visits the Malmaison-ized Fox and Anchor twice in one week! An American in London checks out Crazy Homies in Notting Hill (she’d go back but …) Posting for …

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NFL Update: Saints v Chargers at Wembley?

News is breaking across the pond that this year’s NFL fixture in the UK will be back at Wembley Stadium after all, with the New Orleans Saints hosting this season’s losing Superbowl “semi-finalists” the San Diego Chargers on October 26th. San Diego president Dean Spanos, …

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Music Choice: Monday 28th January – Friday 1st February

Nu-metal stars Linkin Park are the main draw on Monday night, with support coming from the mighty Biffy Clyro as they play the first of two consecutive nights at the O2, and whilst tickets are all sold out, there are a few floating around on …

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Shepherd’s (am)Bush(ed)

Transport anarchy is threatening to break out in W12. TfL’s plan to close Shepherd’s Bush station on the Central Line in early February for escalator upgrade work has been met with a stentorian campaign by locals to keep it open. The protesters claim that the …

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Music Choice: Monday 7th – 11th January 2008

The first full week back at work, and with that we start to get a few decent gigs happening. The Spice Girls continue their record-breaking run of nights at the O2 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Tickets are still available from See Tickets and Ticketmaster …

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2007′s Gigs of the year

We already knew London was capital of the world, but 2007 has firmly cemented us as the best city by far musically. The Millennium Dome reopened as the O2 Arena, hosting not only 21 nights of Prince, the Rolling Stones, Take That, and the Spice …

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Music Choice: 17th December – 21st

After a quick break travelling the US, this Londonista is back to normality bringing the weekly roundup of whats happening in London. Monday night sees Oakland metal stars High on Fire grace UL. Tickets are available for £12 each on the door or from See …

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Weekend Round-Up

This is what we have learnt this weekend whilst you have been making your mince pies: The tube link to Heathrow Airport is celebrating its 30th birthday.