Two years ago today, four bombs were detonated on London’s public transport system in the morning rush hour, resulting in the deaths of 52 commuters (and four suicide bombers) and injuries to more than 700 others. We all remember that day. We can all tell each other where we were at the time, how close we were to being on one of those trains or that bus, who we knew that actually was caught......

Throughout July, London's comedy scene will be packed with comedians trying out new material to take to the Edinburgh Festival in August. It's the perfect time to see big name comics in small venues, for even smaller prices. Here's a list of shows to see each night for the next six days, with a mix of established acts and up-and-coming sketch troupes. Thursday 5th - Simon Amstell will be at the Arts Theatre, near......

Some idiots queued for five hours to get a £5 designer carrier bag from Sainsburys. We've always thought that there aren't half enough pavillions in London. So it is with great pleasure that we tell you that one that looks like a spinning top is being erected next to the Serpentine Gallery. London Buses are running over everyone. Deptford blew up so there will be delays if your train involves London Bridge. Image courtesy......

Playing a gig as a solo musician can be quite a strange experience. Rocking up to a dingy pub on your own with just a guitar for company can be at once isolating and liberating - you may miss out on the friendly banter of bandmates and friends but it certainly seems to make dealing with calamity easier, as I experienced last Tuesday night. The pub in question - Leonard's on Northampton Road, EC2.......

I very randomly won tickets to see Scott Matthews play an intimate gig at Islington Bar Academy on Tuesday night, as part of the Xfm sessions series. After being blown away by his album "Passing Stranger" I was disappointed to leave the venue feeling slightly underwhelmed by the evening's proceedings. It mostly wasn't Scott's fault. What became clear throughout the course of the evening was that, while a lot of people who enter competitions......

The might of the Church of England has been unleashed upon reality television and dumb programming in general. Its members point out that Big Brother, Strictly Come Dancing and even Little Britain aren't very good. In fact they are accused of lowering standards of behaviour and exploiting the humiliation of human beings: There were complaints about everything from BBC news bulletins undermining respect for the prime minister by referring to him only by his......

Book signings are not one of our favourite things. Queue for half an hour – bored – considering what you’ll say to the author; panic, say something platitudinous, receive a banal reply, gratefully accept a misspelled dedication in an illegible hand; go home and gloat to unimpressed flat mates. On Thursday, this lethargic PR-as-event format gets a novel respray. Freedom Press, Whitechapel, plays host to Hugo Martinez, compiler of Graffiti NYC. You won’t have......

So how many people did a double take when handed The London Paper on Friday? The headline read GIANT MONSTERS ON TUBE, but it was, alas, just an advert for the latest episode of Primeval. Anyone try and fool a gullible/drunk friend with tales of giant spiders on the underground? We have to admit that Primeval is a guilty pleasure. It's craptacular, but in a fun way. You never got anything as good as......

Around 200 hydrogen peroxide bottles are the latest piece of evidence in the July 21 terror case A second protester, this time a BT engineer, has been found guilty of stirring up racial hatred Even the games organisers are worried over the real cost of the Olympics More mice, but this time in Asda and munching on chocolate. Awww And Harry Potter's penis, a horse and some breasts have annoyed some idiots......

Last night Londonist put together another team for You're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat in Highgate. By 11pm we had confirmed two things. 1. We are not as smart as we thought we were, and 2. This is the best pub quiz we've ever been to. You can tell it's a bit special from the intro: This was our second outing and while again we managed to finish respectably enough in the top ten,......

What's more boring than talking about the weather? Betting on it: Totesport, which has come up with a series of "global warming wagers", is also offering odds of 50-1 that the Thames Barrier will be breached over the next decade.The company, which thought up the bets with the help of former BBC weatherman John Kettley, is offering odds of 4-1 that 2007 will be the hottest year on record. Totesport spokesman Damian Walker said:......

We have to hand it to the police - they know how to protect our Christmas shopping: Bells will be handed out to Christmas shoppers to attach to their bags to combat thieves and pick pockets. Don't snigger. These are obviously B.E.L.L.S (Bobby Emergency Lightly Lethal Security) systems. The would be thief tries to make off with your bag only for it to transform into a 25ft MECH that shoots first and asks questions......

Frightfest have teamed up with the ICA to put on a bit of a Halloween bash: It’s time to put on make-up, it’s time to light the lights, it’s time to get things started on The Feebles show tonight! Yes, Peter Jackson’s grotesque Muppet-style marvel Meet The Feebles returns to shock and offend again. Before Team America and Avenue Q, and in a gore guffaw galaxy far, far before The Lord of the Rings,......

Following last week’s successful attempt to look at a bit of London from the perspective of a tourist, we thought we would have another go at visiting a ‘tourist attraction’ that we’d not yet encountered. A friend had recommended HMS Belfast, and we didn’t think we had been before (apart from possible vague memories of a school trip many decades ago), so we traipsed off to Tooley Street to check it out. A bit......

A murder of crows. A shrewdness of apes. A tower of giraffes. A grosvenor of idiots. Residents living near the US embassy in London on Thursday accused British authorities of leaving them vulnerable to a terrorist attack by failing to provide adequate security measures. An alliance calling itself the Grosvenor Square Safety Group took out a double-page ad in The Times of London and the Washington Post, accusing government and the police of a......

We hope you've enjoyed these few comedy interviews and recommendations. This will be the last one for a while as this particular Londonista (and all the good comedians) relocates to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for August. But fear not, Londonist comedy coverage will resume with renewed vigour and comprehensiveness in September. Cowards formed in October 2004, and following a sell out run at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe, are returning to Edinburgh this summer. They......

As memorial events continue across London this morning and ahead of the silence at noon we've taken a break from the regular posting to reflect on what happened on July 7 and to remember in our own way those who were killed or injured a year ago today. Our rolling coverage of the day makes for sombre reading, but continuing down to re read the comments that streamed in it's hard not to be......

Note: I am breaking with the Londonist 'no first person singular' rule thing because this is an account of a specific incident that affected me and may not represent the views of the entire Londonist team. Also, this post contains naughty words that might warp your fragile little mind; be warned! I read Thursday's edition of the Independent - the article that could get you arrested - and was vaguely worried by its evocation......

We never got Pamela Anderson. Or Baywatch for that matter. A show about a talking car we get, but a bunch of idiots running around on a beach? No thanks. Then there was that sex tape thing, but she was fucking the dude from Motley Crue (and the idiot from Poison). If it had been Lemmy we may have shown a little interest, but the Crue sucked, so we had no interest in seeing......

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 last year, so we understand both sides of the relationship with Endemol's postmodern, controversial show. Those on the "it's a sign of the End Times" bandwagon will be utterly......

YouTube is great for many reasons, but we really like the time travel possibilities. Check out this interview with Robert Plant & John Bonham from 1970 as it a) begins like a Monty Python sketch and b) gives those idiots The Beatles a good kicking: Anyone know anything about "the final and tragic conclusion to the case of the missing Enfield children"?......

Estate agents, Tess Daly, and racists - sounds grim, doesn't it? Yes, perhaps to reflect the unrelenting yuckiness of the weather (look, it's almost April - please can we have a little, just a little sunshine?) the TV schedules are about s appetising as day-old tramp sick. Apart from the old stalwarts (Footballers Wive$ Thur 9pm ITV1 - Tanya is back! With Joan Collins!, and Desperate Housewives Wed 10pm C4 - getting better again......

Well, we've already had look at Wembley today, so we might as well take a peak at London's other big, troubled development: Heathrow. Today's Times includes an article which tells us what to expect from the airport's new Terminal 5...if it ever gets finished. Apparently, according to the plans that were released today, the idea is to "transform the airport experience from one of hassle and overcrowding into a calming and pleasurable stroll, similar......

We all know that you don't put diesel in your tank if your car takes four star unleaded. But we're still more than happy to fill our bodies full of shit, happily ignoring the damage we're doing to our own internal engines. Obesity levels in the UK have doubled since the 1980s and the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) now claims that over a third of 2 to 15 year olds in the UK......

After spending last week photographing dead presidents, we thought it only decent to turn our services to former British prime ministers. The Parliament Square Collection Dead monarchs have Westminster Abbey; prime ministers have Parliament Square. There’s six of the blighters here, with a seventh – David Lloyd George – in the works if funding can be raised. Canning by Richard Westmacott (1832); Peel by Matthew Noble (1851); Lord Derby also by Noble (1874); Palmerston......

Doesn't look like they get the Evening Standard in Brazil. Despite Ian Blair's denials in yesterday's rag the Brazilian government are sending their own team to investigate the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes. Not that the Met's reputation is in tatters or anything - they just want a little clarification as to how things went so spectacularly wrong on the 22nd of July. There are also a few questions about how the investigation......

So everyone is safe, but four idiots are on the run after yesterday's low rent sequel to the July 7th incident. Here's how events seemed to unfold yesterday: 1225: Shepherd's Bush Underground station on the Hammersmith and City line was evacuated after a man flees following a probable failed attempt to bomb a train (full details). 1230: Ambulance services are called to the Oval Underground station on the Northern Line after reports of a bang......

More American fretting we're afraid. It seems that the troubled production of Alan Moore's V for Vendetta movie has hit another glitch. Should the release date be moved back from November the 5th (which was kind of the whole point as far as the idiots making the movie were concerned) since some bombs went off in London in July? Can't quite see the logic there ourselves, but then we wouldn't have adapted one of......

We love a good bit of technology here at Londonist even when we don't quite know exactly how it works... iPods for example. How do you get so many tracks into such a small white box and then get so many small white boxes attached to so many idiots? It's beyond us. Maglev trains then. They float. No engine. 300+ mph. Give us a break. We live in London. We find the idea of......

The BBC have today "revolutionised" their weather forecasts. No, they're not going to start getting it right, obviously; they've changed the graphics of the forecasts. Out go the lovely cheerful simple maps, and in come "realistic 3-D landscapes" that can be zoomed in and out, lots of whizzy-bangyness, bells and indeed whistles. Why? Well we asked for it apparently. Audience research found that viewers felt the current graphics were out of date. (One wonders......