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A house has been firebombed in Stepney, taking (suspected) road rage to a new level. Looks like the police ought to drop a few VIPs: the protection bill is £310,000 a day. There’s a big (very big) old Picasso on show at the V & …
Hammersmith Palais
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A woman on death row in Texas has had her hour on the plinth. No brainer of the day: the Beeb relocates – and
Ken Saves The Indie Gig
As much-loved venues like the Spitz and Hammersmith Palais closed their doors forever last year, we began to worry that the small gig would one day become an endangered species. One of our favourite things to do in this great city is to pack into …
Save Our Pits And Pickle Factories, Finally The Government Steps In
The Rainbow is long gone, the Hammersmith Palais now lingers only in the memory and even that good old grubby beer stained shit-hole that is the loveable Astoria is under threat. Gigs are selling out in minutes, replacing restaurants and cinemas as the preferred venue …
Preview: The Pick of Persian Pop
Fancy something completely different for the weekend? Next weekend that is? Howzabout a preening and prancing, full-blooded Persian pop concert? We thought that might grab your attention, for one reason or another. Most Londoners tend to forget that for every ex-pat community living in London, …
Sporting Weekend – Tour de France Roadshow
As we mentioned on Wednesday, the opening kilometres of the Tour de France are coming to London from July 6th – 8th this year. While this weekend’s Vive La France event at Olympia celebrates the culture of those who would have been Frenglish, the Tour …
Ticket-alert: Tits Out, Pants Down
If there’s one band that made us squeal repeatedly during 2006 it was Toronto’s Metric. Signed to Drowned in Sound in the UK, Emily Haines and her boys have managed to release two of the finest indie albums of recent years as well as working …
Goodbye to the Palais?
With the news that the smelly Astoria might be on it’s way out thanks to some pesky flat builders, never mind bloody Crossrail, it’s with a sad face that we hear the same fate may await the much lovelier Hammersmith Palais. The venue opened in …
Monday Miscellanea
This day in London’s history 1952 Joe Strummer is born in Ankara, Turkey. The lead singer of punk icons The Clash may not have been born here – few great Londoners ever are – but his band became synonymous with the capital after a series …
Booking Ahead – Indie Schmindy Special
Anyone with even a hint of taste and decency will know that the only time to drink Carling is after you’ve been atomised by a particularly nasty nuclear power station meltdown. And yet still their indominatable quest to tie up every concert venue in the …
Booking Ahead
Don’t buy anyone any Christmas presents. Spend your money on these gigs instead: So lovely they even have their own made up language, Sigur Ros play a night at the Hammersmith Apollo on March 29, with all manner of collaborators in the pipeline. The Glastonbury …
