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Denmark Street, via Google Street View.

London’s Forgotten Disasters: The Denmark Street Fire

It killed 37 people, but you won’t find it on Wikipedia.

Klara (left) and Johana Söderberg a.k.a Firt Aid Kit

Gig Preview: First Aid Kit at Scala

Swede Dreams Are Made of This. We chat to First Aid Kit prior to their forthcoming gig at Scala.

Fernando Espi gives a guitar masterclass

Preview: London Guitar Festival

London’s unique celebration of classical guitar shows that there is still life in the axe.

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Londonist’s Back Passage

48. Denmark Place Where: In the shadow of Centrepoint, Denmark Place connects Charing Cross Road to St Giles High Street, with a narrow offshoot into Denmark Street. What: The passage and neighbouring Denmark Street take their names from Prince George of Denmark, consort to Princess …

The Pierces Play London

Every so often we come across a band from overseas that we love. We listen to their album 100 times in a row and then check their live dates, only to discover their last UK date was about a week ago and there are no …

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Mid Week Music News

With Download, The Isle Of White Festival and Bon Jovi’s Milton Keynes shows all coming this weekend, festival season is well and truly upon us. For agrophobics everywhere else, may we suggest the following for consideration. Tonight: Upbeat, uncynical quirky Brit punky pure pop from …

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Mid Week Music News

A quick look at some of what’s on gigging wise over the next seven days. Tonight: William Besson will be alongside The Punkverts at the ‘Number 10 (10 Goldbourne Road) in Notting Hill and Londonist faves Lucky Soul are at the Colour Bar in Camden. …

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New Band Interview: Morning Runner

It’s usually safe to say, that most of the new bands we talk to have rarely played to more than a few hundred people at a time, let alone the odd tens of thousands, but that’s what happened to Reading’s Morning Runner after they were …

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Mid Week Music News (Late Edition)

Late as in this should have been up yesterday but it wasn’t and is therefore late. A couple of instores worth checking out are London’s Rakes on Monday at the Virgin Megastore and melody driven rock types Morning Runner on Wednesday at 6 at the …

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Mid Week Music News & Valentines Night Ticket Giveaway

Another fine week of gigs, and for those of you still undecided about where to take your better half or go stalking on Tuesday, we have a couple of tickets to give away for the Anti Valentines Day Massacre. Read on McDuff. Tonight: Worth picking …

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Mid Week Music News

Re-reading this before putting it live, we’re struck by how many very fine gigs and events there are on this week (as well as how bad our spelling is) and that’s just the ones we know about. Promise us you’ll go to at least one …