With confirmed sightings of a bright, radioactive ball in the sky, we find our minds wandering toward UFOs. How exciting is the idea that grammar-school rocker Chris Martin has left Gwyneth Paltrow nude and unattended in Crouch End, given up the guitar and moved to …
How do you make the O2 Arena your own? It’s hard to make a gig feel intimate when you have a 20,000 capacity crowd, but you could start by jumping off the stage with your band and bouncing up to a narrow corner to play …
Some photographs of the “chisleing little crook” avoiding the congestion charge have appeared online. The Nigerian police reform committee are coming over on a six day tour to “investigate British policing models and facilities.” Probably best we say no more at this point. The London …
Chris Martin may have declared to the world that it’s sick of him and his band, and hey, who should know better than the gazillion or so people who put his last album to number one in 28 countries simultaneously than Chris himself, but it …
Well, TV Troll was 50% right, which is better than nowt, as salt-o’-t’earth Strictly Come Dancing winner Darren might say. We’re still kicking ourselves for not having put money on Shayne to win as we predicted aaaages ago; we could have bought new cushions for …
Yes it’s street party time again because London has been announced as the official venue for the 2005 World Scrabble Championships. We can tell you’re excited really. Next month this prestigious and highly prized title will be fought over at the Marriott Regent’s Park Hotel, …
Another week dancing with the devil in the cutting world of what we call rock AND roll. And have we learnt anything from it? Well yes we have. We’ve learnt that Chris Martin is NOT the new Noel Gallagher, that Noel Gallagher might be the …
Every now and again a music video is released which features too many abstract shots of London’s streets for us to ignore. It happened with the Chemical Brothers and Kylie, and now it’s Coldplay’s turn. Their video for the new single Fix You isn’t exactly …
Right, we promised some of you that we’d stop talking about. So we won’t. Instead, devoid of any childish finger pointing we’re left with the news that the very tall Mr Brett Anderson is about to release a low key mainly acoustic solo album. Also …
Coldplay hit the stage running. Without milking the applause, without a “Hello, Crystal Palace”, without a wave to the crowd, the rhythm section sets the beat and a countdown clock ticks down to… well, it didn’t get all the way down to zero, such was …
Lightning flashes around Londonist Towers. A heavy-leather-gauntlet clad fist pounds the boardroom table as our Editor screams: Controversy! I want controversy you two-fingered-typing Pitman-pushing hacks! An invisible grip tightens around our throats. And down here in the Londonist Music Dungeon who are we to argue. …
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