Lots of stuff happening on the terrorist hunt front. Nine more people have been arrested under anti-terrorism laws in Tooting. Three women in Stockwell were detained on suspicion of harbouring offenders. Yasin Hassan Omar, thought to be the Warren St bomber, was arrested in Birmingham …
Somewhere up North the South is rising. It’s Friday just gone in Camden’s Barfly and a decent sized crowd is happily bopping along to the infectious Lynryd Skynryd / Little Feat boogie pickings of London’s The Delta Blues. The guys are on fine form tonight, …
As you may have noticed, we in the Londonist Music dungeon like to bring new bands to your attention. Obviously we do this in the hope that should they become big and famous they’ll remember us and shower us with drugs, cash and groupies. Unless …
U2, Wirelss, Live 8, B-Live, Queen, REM it’s not exactly been about the small shows recently. So the cockles were gently stoked when we finally saw the words intimate show again recently. First off was the news that Elbow are back in September on Tuesday …
Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening indeed! As if having to watch Coldplay play in a different postcode from them in the less-than-lovely surroundings of Crystal Palace stadium wasn’t bad enough, the hordes were attacked last night by freak weather conditions created by some shadowy …
Joy Zipper at the ICA, Thursday 28 April Couples are the new rock’n’ roll don’t ya know. Jack and Meg, Mimi and Alan from Low, Win and Regine from Arcade Fire, Sonny and Cher, Ike and Tina, yes rock history is scattered with the bloodied …
Tonight sees the launch of the Raindance East Film Festival at the Genesis Mile End with Danny Boyle’s Millions: Eight-year-old Damian Cunningham is almost killed by an enormous bag of cash that falls from the sky. It’s all sterling, and as Britain is converting to …
Lots of stuff in the press today about Alistair Darling’s idea for a carpool lane on the M25. Apparently Darling got the idea after a visit to LA last year where “some drivers have gone to extraordinary lengths to take advantage of faster journey times …
The big release this week is raging smug-fest Oceans Twelve, a sequel to the remake of Oceans Eleven, and it’s not fairing well with the critics. Bradshaw in the Guardian maintains his always high standard of vitriol with probably the harshest line directed towards welsh …
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