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 Stock Exchange is expecting an excellent year. Well how nice. Let's hope we all have one. The Beatles and Apple (the company, not Chris Martin's daughter) go head to......

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 hasn't stopped him from getting behind the microphone again. At least that's according to andPOP, who claim that whilst Pa Apple was at Abbey Road preparing for a secret......

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 the dungeon or something with the winnings. Congrats to the winners and the runners-up; both finals were superb, although it was a pain in the arse having to swap......

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, with entrants travelling from every corner of the globe to 'clash tiles'. The reigning champ' is 19 year old Panupol Sujjayakorn (there's a triple word score right there!) from......

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 new Chris Martin, who we've also learnt might just be a bit crap in bed. We've learnt that Babyshambles should never play Thailand, but maybe they should take some......

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 groundbreaking (close up shots of Chris Martin looking pained in an equally miserable environment), but if you ignore the posturing then it is fun to play 'Spot the Location'. Is......

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 busy in the studio are Robbie Williams and The Crazy Frog although we can't confirm whether this means there will be one or two releases as a result. Talking......

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 Chris Martin's eagerness to get the show going. Launching straight into Square One, the opening three notes of Fanfare for a Common Man loom large. "We are so big,......

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. If you want controversy you've got it. Album of the week: Coldplay's X&Y. What's that sound? Ah yes, the rumble of a thousand angry fingers on keyboards... Coldplay -......

So it was the week that the Crazy Frog beat Coldplay to the number one slot, and suddenly everyone cares about the singles chart again! Still at least Coldplay's X&Y was leaked on to file sharing networks (not free music sites as you might like to call them) before Froggy has even hit the studio, so kudos to the band there. Of course it will mean that EMI's share prices will fall through the......

Londonist got its first listen of the Band Aid 20 record this morning when the XFM breakfast show played Do They Know It'sChristmas? as we arose from our overly-central-heated slumber. We were not helped in our efforts to make the transition from asleep to awake when the record started with a Coldplay-esque piano 'riff' (ironically, it later transpired that it was Thom Yorke of Radiohead on the old Joanna). Indeed we were nearly pushed......