Fresh from last week’s news that Pearl Jam are playing a small gig at the Astoria, they’ve decided to take it to the other size extreme and be the closing headliner at this year’s Reading Festival. Franz Ferdinand have the honour of headlining first night …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Along with a wealth of events this week, new books by Margaret Atwood and Jay McInerney (pictured) are also of particular interest… Events Around London: …
The Insomniac’s Ball is a strange one. You’d think it’d be something full of plush beds with soothing ocean sounds playing while the walls cycle through calming colours. Either that or just an all-night Coldplay gig. Virtual Festivals have a somewhat different interpretation, though. It’s …
Every year 30 000 souls descend upon the Black Rock desert to live outside the constraints of a commercial world and party their smalls off, climaxing in the burning of a 40 foot effigy. It is the Burning Man festival. Now the burning man ethos …
The London Assembly (yes, the lot who sit around all day twiddling their thumbs if Ken is to be believed) have rejected the motion put forward by the ‘politcial group’ One London to suspend the Congestion Charge in the run up to Christmas. According to …
Just got back from the press launch of the 49th London Film Festival and it looks like there’s even more on offer this year than ever. Amanda Nevill, the director of the British Film Institute (which last year alone screened an astonishing 3000+ films in …
We love new bands down here in the Londonist Music dungeon, so far this year we’ve brought you The Sways, The Delta Blues, Eighteenth Day Of May, and Kaibosh, amongst others and there’ll be plenty more to come. But no one loves new bands quite …
Gigs, gigs, gigs, pay money and see shows. Unless of course they’re free. You should always go and see free shows, especially if its the Editors this evening at 7pm at the Truman Brewery Complex on Brick Lane. Friends of ours keep haranguanging us about …
We’ve already started receiving bits and pieces regarding the London Film Festival later in the year, but between this weekend’s FrightFest and October there are a couple of Festivals you’d be mad to miss. First up is one of our favourites: Raindance. Last year we …
Over the next few weeks Londonist will be trying to cover the goings on over at Patti Smith’s Meltdown Festival in as much detail as we can. Bear in mind though that there’s a lot going on and we’ve only got so many pairs of …
Something’s changing in Londonist Towers. Something’s in the air. Perhaps it’s a subtle shift in the midichlorians, perhaps it’s that there’s a new Turin Brakes album out but we’re beginning to stockpile bottles of Tequila and Rizla papers and trying to find the number of …
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