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Music Choice: Monday 15th – Friday 19th December

Christmas may be a coming, but this hasn’t stopped our music output here at Londonist.This week we’ve caught both Scottish Fiddler John McCusker at the Southbank Centre and Texan singer songngwriter Ben Kweller at Union Chapel. We also (along with the rest of the country) …

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London On The Cheap

Friday: Battersea Arts Centre look like they have another experimental gem on their hands. A Small Town Anywhere is theatre as game, with the audience playing the parts in a story of civic intrigue. Tickets for audience/cast members are only £5/£3 concs. Saturday: Participants in …

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Live Review: Ben Kweller @ Union Chapel – 9th December 2008

“Everyone is being so quintessentially English and not sitting next to each other” grumbled one woman as she and her boyfriend tried to find a place to sit before the gig started. How true it was – what’s more English that sitting in a 134 …

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Music Choice: Monday 8th – Friday 12th December

A bit of a chilled week here at Londonist Music – we introduced you to Robin Grey, and gave you a magical idea for a Christmas present for that music mad friend of yours. Looking ahead to this week however, and if you are feeling …

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Free Tonight?

Not allowing a post-Turner Prize slump, Tate Britain is having another gleeful Late at Tate tonight. Do not expect the normal Tate Britain as you enter: art laboratory Beaconsfield will have transformed Tate Britain into a ‘terminal place’, which means those out and about for …

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London On The Cheap

We’re splitting into two camps right about now: those who are happy to make the most of the holiday season and let the mulled wine wash over them, and those who are studiously avoiding all things red and green. There are plenty of diversions for …

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Music Choice: Monday 1st – Friday 5th December

Winter may be drawing in, but that didn’t stop us from catching the amazing Jarvis Cocker at Shepherds Bush earlier in the week, and getting excited about both Left With Pictures and Jay Reatard. Looking forward to this week, and Monday night sees sold out …

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London On The Cheap

This is more like it. Momentum is building towards the holidays, not yet to a reckless rush, but a comfortable trot.Lots of good times to be had and parties to crash. Just don’t wear yourself out before things really get moving. Friday: If you’ve never …

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Music Choice: Monday 24th – Friday 28th November

Want to brave the cold and catch some quality live music this week? Read on for our guide to what’s hot around London this week… Swedish beauties Those Dancing Days bring their pop tunes with a heart to play Goldsmith’s Student Union down in New …

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London On The Cheap

As the pall of winter drives away our fair-weather event planners and publicity machines save up their energy for the starting gun of the holiday season, it’s time to revisit old friends. One-off spectacles come and go, but through thick and thin we can count …

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Art Preview: Dream Director

What happens when we dream? The delicious question marks behind our complex subconscious are explored in more depth at the Institute of Contemporary Arts this weekend, as the art and science of sleep is put under the microscope. Bristol-based artist Luke Jerram, in collaboration with …