It’s very easy to get caught up in this city for all of it’s music, clubs and big shiny loud stuff. Well, as much as we remain a fan of all that is big and shiny, Londonist occasionally needs some down time. Preferably with trees …
Morden’s Good Shoes have spent the past 2 years since their formation in 2005 traipsing around the UK and Europe with their brand of two-and-half-minute guitar pop with a hint of a punk edge. Comprised of lead singer/guitarist Rhys Jones, guitarist Steve Leach, bassist Joel …
During her daily early-morning dog walking expedition through Hyde Park (no, not the Kevin Spacey variety), a Londonist contributor encountered a man wearing a navy blue outfit and cap, with natty red scarf, standing next to a pile of golf balls, practicing his golf swing …
So apparently a five foot high Paddington Bear was wandering around Paddington Station this morning, on his way to visit Buckingham Palace. a 5ft Paddington joined commuters as he strolled along a platform eating one of his favourite marmalade sandwiches. The children’s literature garden party, …
Once a month Londonist sits down with a pile of the months releases that have dropped through our letterbox. Since we’re almost at the end of April, we’d better get on with it. The Victorian English Gentlemen’s Club – Amateur Man (Single released 3rd April …
Is there an official term for this genre? An Outbackian perhaps or even a Kangaroo Western… but that suggests something halfcocked and that’s one thing that can’t be said about John Hillcoat and Nick Cave’s The Proposition. It’s a hell of a film that plays …
The bookies Coral have announced that their current 3-1 odds for it to snow on Christmas Day in London are “the shortest they have ever offered in November.” This is mainly due to the rush of bets they’re expecting thanks to forecasts predicting the ‘coldest …
Did you see what we did there? You see, normally it’s called Friday Film News, but for today we changed the ‘Friday’ to ‘Festive’, because it’s all about the films to watch over Xmas on the telly, and we managed to keep the alliteration. Anyway… …
Londoonist can confidently predict a good few feet of snow for Christmas Day this year. How do we know? Because ex-weatherman Michael Fish has bet against it. According to the papers Fish “has put his reputation on the line again – betting £1,000 that it …
We like The Pipettes, so you should too. Luckily for the uninitiated there’s still a chance of seeing them this year and making your Christmas very jolly indeed. To make you so jolly your cheeks will hurt, The Pipettes have even lined up a competition …
And in yet more ‘white Christmas’ news: Customs & Excise officers have intercepted and impounded some sacks of coconuts imported from Guyana. Far from being an attempt to prevent them being wasted in ‘sound-better-than-they-taste’ Bounty bars, the fearsome C&E boys actually discovered cocaine in the …
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