Jedi masters are best known for warding off evil forces of the Dark Side on the silver screen, but to 5-year-old Drew James of Hextable, Kent, they are warding off illness in his everyday life. Diagnosed with leukaemia in April this year, Drew’s father used the best analogy his little boy could understand and described the leukaemia as Darth Vader or Darth Maul and the necessary-but-horrendous chemotherapy treatments as the Jedi sent to destroy......

There's a famous and overused line about the past being a foreign country, and people doing things differently there; in some cases this seems a bit of a shame (what's wrong with being embalmed and put in a pyramid after you die, eh?) but in many cases it's a relief to look back and realise that the past is, well, passed, and that things have changed. In the case of the Brixton riots of......

Not one but two BA posts this morning, don't ever say we're not good to you. To be honest the real reason we split the posts up was to avoid any fighting between the various fringe lengths of the fans, for this week a host of hard, heavy and less than hirsute shows have been lined up. In the grumbly crumbly corner, the Hyde Park Calling festival, which we mentioned a few weeks back......

Eel Pie Eccentrics Mystery Jets have never been ones to do things in the regular rock'n'roll way, possibly why their Dad plays in the band, and possibly why they've just started an online treasure hunt ahead of their debut album and a small tour in support that takes in the Mean Fiddler on the 9th March. Clue 1. There's no place like home. Ah, that's easy then. Off to find a copy of Dark......

It always happens, doesn't it. Just as we get all excited about Roger Waters doing Dark Side in Denmark than we hear the news that he's doing it over here as well, as part of the Calling Festival in Hyde Park on Friday 30th June. There seem to be some conflicting stories as to what's happening with the Dark Side Of The Moon performance. Currently the Roger Waters International Fanclub talks about a special......

Coming to you a few days early to give you some advanced warning on a few big shows out this Friday and let you know of a few others hanging around. First up and already on sale here are the Teenage Cancer Trust shows at the Royal Albert Hall. A stirling line up for all shapes and sizes is available with only the Cure show sold out at the time of typing. They are:......

Everyone has fond memories of Hi De Hi. Londonist used to watch, mouth agape, dumbfounded by the idea that anyone would consider enforced jollity and strictly regimented 'fun' to be their idea of a good holiday. The best thing about Hi De Hi was how it made this Londonista's usual holiday - a week in a tent in Wales - look like the epitome of holiday freedom by comparison. Sheep trying to eat the......

So let's get right into this week with the first real UK broadsheet review of Star Wars courtesy of (who else?) Pete Bradshaw. (No spoilers here by the way: Londonist policy). Maybe not surprisingly, Pete gives the film just one star, and that's pretty generous coming from someone who feels they've just sat through "what seems like seven hours of CGI action as dramatically weightless as the movement of tropical fish in an aquarium".......