Milton

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Newgate Calendar

Detectives are now putting up £5,000 for information leading to his arrest. Officers warned people not to approach him as he is considered dangerous. Earl White, wanted for murder. “The shots started firing and all I could hear was my baby brother calling me, trying …

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Now That’s What I Call A Musical Top Ten (4 of 4)

Now that the Pop Kid, the Noisy one and the Club Londonista have all had their say, it falls to Ricky to throw in his two cents. For want of a better pseudonym, let’s call him RiotRicky. More appropriate job titles on a postcard please, …

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Gig Of The Year?

Every minute of receeding daylight heralds the approach of the end of the year list and the NME kicked things off in their paper issue today with their top 25 gigs of the year, as voted for by you, the reader. Well it says that …

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Monday Music Review

They may not have made it into Channel 4′s greatest gigs of all time but for the 130 000 who made it, it was probably pretty damn close, for the rest of us there’s this: Green Day – Bullet In A Bible (Live CD/DVD) (Reprise) …

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DVD Delights

Londonist is as addicted to buying DVDs as everyone else, so it made sense that we should start a regular column to highlight the little laser-etched treats coming your way over the next week or so. Let us know what you think in the comments. …

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The City will endure, it is the future of our world

Those are the words of Mayor Ken Livingstone, one of the quotes etched into a plaque commemorating the victims of the July 7th bombings. It also reads: “Under this tree people of all faiths and nationalities, united in grief, laid wreaths in memory of those …

Mid Week Music News

So it was the week that the Crazy Frog beat Coldplay to the number one slot, and suddenly everyone cares about the singles chart again! Still at least Coldplay’s X&Y was leaked on to file sharing networks (not free music sites as you might like …

Transport In London Is A Rip Off Apparently!

Have we moaned about the transport system in London enough today? Maybe…but, hey, if the news is there we have to report it right? Today a new study by the RMT union has revealed just how much more expensive travel in London is compared to …

Kylie In London

As it’s Friday we’re playing a little game here at Londonist towers, and that game is Guess the loactions in Kylie’s new video. Now we’d just like to stress that this is a serious exercise in the psychogepgraphy of London as it relates to popular …