Tomorrow, the BBC announce the acts that will be in contention to represent the UK in Eurovision. Making Your Mind Up, the show, will be held sometime in the next few weeks. Whispers have been flying around for months about who’ll be in the running, …
Eurovision season is well and truly on. While in the UK we’re all still waiting on the BBC to get on with Making it’s Mind Up about this year’s entry, there are songs being chosen all around Europe. 11 songs have been chosen and heard …
Time was Eurovision was just one day in May. Not anymore, as the internet allows us to follow the very hectic season of national finals from all around Europe. We say hectic, because there’s 42 countries in Eurovision this year – sometimes even Londonist can’t …
Now, we realise we’ve already had a post about the Eurovision this week, and there’s still 4 whole months to go before the actual contest, but we simply had to tell you about London’s number one (or, probably, only) Eurovision night. The Retro Bar, off …
Eurovision Song Contest. Those three words have garnered so much undeserved scorn. And all because a bunch of singers representing countries come together on a big stage somewhere in Europe to sing some songs with poppy, up-beat melodies and sugary lyrics. What could be more …
Will Howling Belles play blues-fuelled rock that’s being variously compared to the likes of Mazzy Star, The Kills and The Duke Spirit at the ICA on the 27th July? You can bet your sweaty jeans on it. This one we rather recommend. Guns’n’Roses are back …
The animals went in two by two, hurrah. Hurrah! There’ll be something else to watch on telly apart from the bloody football! And, good news for all us addicts across the land, the inhabitants of the Big Brother ark this year are weirder than ever. …
This week marks the start of the new Big Brother (Thur 9pm C4). We’re fairly sure this will split our readership (hello, Mrs Trellis of North Wales) right down the middle; BB is a love-it-or-hate-it proposition. TV Troll hated it until undergoing a Damascene conversion …
TV Troll is in a bit of a domestic mood this week; it must be the horrible cold weather. So, to celebrate this, here are a couple of programmes guaranteed to make those of a foodie bent quiver with joy. First up is Gordon Ramsay, …
To be honest, the build-up to the FA Cup Final on Saturday hasn’t quite reached ‘frenzy’ status yet, but at least it seems to be progressing beyond ‘mildly agitated’ and ‘a bit miffed’. Sigh….how Londonist yearns for the ‘good old days’, when the whole country …
Mido. Sounds like a continental supermarket chain. Or maybe Sweden’s entry in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. But no, Mido is neither of things. In fact, Mido is Spurs’ new Egyptian striker (The Sun headline writers must be rubbing their hands with glee…), a player …
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