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Fire up The Barbi, National BBQ Week Starts Monday!

The 28th of May marks the start of National BBQ Week, and the National BBQ Association is hosting events up and down the country in their bid to get you to barbecue better and more often. Are you a wonder on the Weber? Then enter …

Across The -ist Network

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark “Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid.” Is that a promise? They also give us this week’s best CDs and make us realize that LA is the …

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Video Mania : Wigwam & The Pipettes

You may have noticed we love The Pipettes. We also may have slightly become obsessed with the concept of Betty Boo’s Wigwam which we told you about a couple of weeks ago. So imagine the squealing and bedwetting that occured when videos for both these …

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Want To Be In A Pipettes Video?

…that’ll be a professional pop video, not a dimly lit home super-8 production you perverted hopefuls. Well you should email thepipettes at gmail dot com NOW. Here’s the blurb: Fancy getting your mug onto the small screen alongside Becki, Gwenno and Rose? The Pipettes are …

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Hello, Goodbye

Happy New Year to everyone from the Music Dungeonistas. We trust you found solace in some decent music while ‘Best ofs’ and Reality TV Rubbish polluted tweeters, woofers and sub-woofers over the break. In a bizarre collision of mainstream and alternative, we spent New Year’s …

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The Pipettes Pull Shapes At The 100 Club (15/11/05)

By now, Londonist’s unhealthy infatuation with The Pipettes should be no secret; there was talk of a restraining order at one point. If there’s some polka-dotted action going down in town, it’s a dead cert we’ll be there. Go ahead, we dare you: next time …

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Monday Music Review

Neil Young – Prairie Wind As prodigious as he is unpredictable (this after all is a man whose record company once sued him for not sounding like himself), Neil Young‘s 41st solo record, just shy of his 60th birthday and recovering from an aneurysm that …

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King Of The (Muswell) Hill

2005 is going to go down as the year when the Brits won everything (as long as we gloss over the England football team): Our glorious Olympic bid, the hastily damed Ellen MacArthur, Liverpool stealing the Champions League and, of course, England’s Ashes triumph. But …

Pipettes Go! To Memphis

We’ve been banging on about them long enough, so it’s with great delight that we bring you the wonderful news for genuine Londonist favourites The Pipettes. Last night saw the band’s hard-gigging finally pay off when they signed to the Memphis Industries label, home to …

Clear and Unpleasant Danger

The music promoter Mean Fiddler is set to be taken over by Irish firm Gaiety Investments and American entertainment group Clear Channel. It’s a deal that still has to be approved by Mean Fiddler shareholders, but already Londonist has a bad taste in its mouth. …