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Arsenal Vs Manchester United

In case you hadn’t noticed, Islington’s finest are involved in a rather big game this evening, a game with just a little bit of history . Popular opinion has it that Arsenal and Man U are fighting over second place at Highbury tonight, but try …

Queens, Moss And Doherty

Some quick music news from today’s NME: the Queens of the Stone Age are going to be playing two gigs in one day in Camden this coming March. According to the report QOTSA will play the Underworld in the late afternoon/early evening and then move …

Interview: Warrick Brownlow, AKA Fraggle Boy

You might have read in the press today about a young man named Warrick Brownlow who has spent the past two years fighting an epic battle against ‘the man’ in the name of peace, love…and puppets. Basically Warrick has been campaigning to get the Jim …

Mark Maier: Objects

The comedian Mark Maier brings his acclaimed show ‘Objects’ to London this month and it’s well worth checking out. Originally called ‘Fat Baby on the Rampage’ the show was well-received at the 2004 Edinburgh Festival, and now plays in Hampstead under a rather more prosaic …

25 Years Of The Comedy Store

If you’re in on the sofa tonight and somehow Celebrity Big Brother just didn’t deliver the huge belly-laughs you were expecting, then you could do worse than turn over to BBC1 at 10:35 for 25 Years of the Comedy Store. It’s a documentary, directed by …

London: Retirement Home To The Stars

So yesterday we reported on the fact that Liam (or was it Noel?) Gallagher was sick of London (too overcrowded, too many queues) and was going to “up sticks and move out”. And now today we have yet another story of a ‘major Hollywood star’ …

Popscene

The shock of being back at work after the torpor of the Christmas holidays is a little bit like a cold that won’t quite go away, you can’t quite shift that nagging horrible feeling that’s stopping you feeling 100 per cent. To blast away the …

Bloc Party In At No. 2 In BBC ‘Sound of 2005′ List

London band Bloc Party had better prepare themselves for the inevitable ‘New Kids on the Bloc’ headlines as they came second in a BBC News poll of 110 critics and broadcasters. (New York band The Bravery topped the poll but we’ll let our friends at …

Happy Birthday Holmes

Today is the ‘birthday’ of London’s most famous, fictitious detective and the most celebrated resident of Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes. The New York Sun seems to be the only paper celebrating the anniversary with this article on the Baker Street Irregulars (the contemporary society not …

Belle De Jour Update

In case you missed it in yesterday’s Guardian: here’s an interview (conducted over instant messaging) with London’s most famous ‘chippy’: Belle de Jour. It’s to promote her book of course (Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, £12.99 on Amazon folks), but there a few …

New Music at Cargo

Cargo is a lovely little venue perfect for sampling new bands. What luck it is, then, that they have a weekly unsigned bands showcase for you to enjoy. Tuesday night is Demo City night, which this week stars