Music Choice: 12-18 December
Music gigs for the week ahead.
drugs
Music Choice: 31 October-6 November
Gigs to go to this week
Royal Oak Taxis Drug And Money Laundering Gang Smashed
Operation Eaglewood has convicted 33 gang members involved in drug smuggling and money laundering run out of Royal Oak Taxis in West London.
Exhibition Review: High Society – A History Of Drug Culture
Beginning with the idea that the alteration of consciousness is a universal human impulse, Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition, High Society takes a look at the history of drug taking across the continents. Starting with their plant origins and ending at the development of the synthetic …
Coked Up In Suburbia
Image by chrisjohnbeckett from the Londonist Flickr pool Stop sniffing… you, in the corner of the room, buttonholing some terrified-looking soul and banging on about something random… you might think you’re projecting an image at the bleeding meeja edge of popular culture with your Bolivian …
Anthrax Warning To Heroin Users
Bacillus anthracis The Health Protection Agency and NHS London have issued a warning to heroin users after a second individual tested positive for anthrax in the capital, through what is believed to be a contaminated cutting agent present in the drug. HPA director Brian McCloskey …
Angry In Lambeth? You’re Not Alone
Photo / dannybirchall Do you live in the borough of Lambeth? Do you find yourself in a daily struggle to control the bubbling rage that seeps from beneath your very pores, causing you to erupt in an incandescent torrent at the slightest provocation? You may …
Cocaine In The City: Any Excuse Will Do
Image / Alex.MacDonald Cocaine use is on the up in the City, says a charity that works with addicts, and it’s all because bankers are stressed out about losing their jobs. The poor babies. It’s hardly news, really — coke and the Square Mile go …
Man Dies ‘Forgotten’ On Bus
Image by lindseymclarke 25 year-old Pawel Modzelewski died on the 36 bus in January this year; his body was undisturbed for at least six hours as he lay in the garage overnight then set off on the next morning’s journey. While there’s an On the …
If Your Thing is Gone: Bag of Cocaine Found at Heathrow
The UK Border Agency has discovered an unclaimed bag containing £800,000 (or 20kg) worth of cocaine at one of Heathrow’s luggage carousels. HM Revenue and Customs investigators are working to identify the suitcase’s owner. The bag was first detected on Friday after arriving on a …
Cocaine Haul Collared
Image / chrisjohnbeckett You could hear the howls of Hoxtonites from Hounslow to Harlow when news broke that a London-bound cocaine motherlode had been stopped by police. The pure Bolivian marching powder, with a street value of £30 million, was found on a British lorry …
