Kings College

Since November, London has been playing host to the first ever Buta Festival of Azerbaijani Arts.The festival is organised by Buta Art Centre a foundation dedicated to promoting Azeri culture to the wider world and, over these last few months, we’ve seen some of the …

No shit Sherlock story of the day: the tube is overcrowded. GlaxoSmithKline and Kings College are to team up to conduct the business of drugs testing in 2012. Ian Tomlinson’s family have accused the Met of a cover up. An East London school support worker …

London universities are some of the best in the country for research. Results of the first Research Assessment Exercise for 7 years were published today and LSE, Imperial and UCL are in the top 5, beaten only by Oxbridge. It’s actually research that brings in …

Field Music may be on an indefinite hiatus, but the members of Field Music haven’t left us wanting. We’ve already told you about David Brewis’ fantastic School Of Language, and we’re just as excited about Peter Brewis’ The Week That Was. Full of dramatic crescendos, …

Clap your hands and say “YEA”, because Brooklyn bizarrists Yeasayer are on their way to town. Fresh from touring with electro-indie weirdos MGMT, the experimental 4-piece will play Club Uncut at King’s College later this month. Entertainment is guaranteed in the form of lead singer …

This week saw Londonist Get Scientific when we previewed We Are Scientists playing Soho Revue Bar this Tuesday, get excited about Eurovision and get cosy with Portico Quartet. A busy week all in all! Looking ahead to this week however, we have Eels playing Royal …

As Camden is recognised as a musos’ haven, Ken pledges cash for the rebuild. Silly bitch niece is banged up for life for killing her poor 100 year old aunt. Over her inheritance. Doherty is putting it around (his guitar, of course), with gigs here …

Hailed by Steve Lamacq and produced by Trevor Horn, London band Captain released their debut album in 2006 to critical acclaim. But somehow their brand of slightly dark twee pop (and we say that in the nicest way) didn’t quite hit the charts as well …

Tonight start the week by going to see massive Swedish popstar Marit Bergman at Hoxton Bar & Grill. She’s playing a one off UK gig in an attempt to get signed in the UK. (£6, here. Former Hefner frontman Darren Hayman teams up with fledgling …

Some of our favourite Scandinavian bands are coming to the UK in the next couple of weeks and we thought you better know about them. First, the most mainstream, Robyn will play her first live dates since everyone woke up and realised she was actually …