heavy metal

One man’s 20-year mission to meet Lars Ulrich.

Phosphatic rock. A radium-luminised gauge dial face. Radium paint. It sounds like an amateur nuclear hobbyist’s shopping list, but these are just some of the scary-sounding radioactive materials found recently at the Olympic Park site in east London. Contractors uncovered the objects whilst clearing a …

Paul Smith certainly knows what a stage is for. From the moment he kicks into tonight’s opener, The Coast Is Always Changing, he’s hopping, bouncing, climbing, leaping and shadow boxing around his band mates; an ongoing mission to incite the massed Maximites (copyright Londonist 2007) …

From some not-so-humble beginnings as an eccentric DJ double-act, Kaiser Saucy and Lord Fader have turned The Loose Cannons into a relentlessly fun-loving electro-punk-funk-camp-clash live band. Certainly when we first saw them perform a hugely energetic set at a ridiculously sweaty 93 Feet East a …

It’s been a good week for pissing off the neighbours. Firstly it was a couple of ickle pussy cats in Camberwell, now it’s the thought of thousands of James Blunt fans roaming endlessly across London’s green and pleasant spaces, high on spritzers and Sainsburys’ bacon …

As Ricky mentioned a few weeks ago in his introduction to the Demo Dungeon, we’re not running the weekly Monday Music Review any more. But we do still get sent CDs from time to time and we thought, since someone has taken the trouble to …

Police at Luton airport recently detained four actors on their way back from the Berlin Film Festival under the counter-terrorism act. They were travelling with two of the former terrorism suspects that they play in Michael Winterbottom’s The Road to Guantánamo. The police seemed very …

Since the tube map of music failed to give Heavy Metal it’s own line, even though we Brits practically invented the bloody thing, we thought we’d redress the balance by concentrating this week on a couple of shows that will echo as much to the …

And so it was decreed that on the 23rd day of January after having taken Christmas off to let the punters indulge themselves in X-Factor winners and soft rock compilation albums, proper music would rise again from the ashes of the yule fireplace, shake out …

Advertising on the Tube is as easy to ignore and forget about – the occasional piece of strategically placed chewing gum or BLAIR OUT sticker may catch the eye, but for the most part Londonist is happy to keep it’s collective head down, listen to …