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It was an all American affair down at the O2 on Monday night as perky punk band Paramore in their own words “conquered” their 2nd night at the venue. Pink haired princess Hayley Williams leads a band which, she tells us with remarkable knowledge of …

Last night saw Britain’s finest documenter of urban minutiae Darren Hayman, and cult Glaswegian combo The Orchids play the elegant surroundings of Bush Hall in Shepherd’s Bush. Darren Hayman treated us to rare set performed entirely on the venue’s grand piano, tucked away in the …

If you could somehow have transported the builders of The Roundhouse back to the Camden venue for last night’s Chemical Brothers gig, they’d have been stupefied. Because the electronic dance duo shook the character-rich venue to its Victorian foundations with a bowel-shaking, laser-lit performance of …

Race Horses could just be the most refreshing band to arrive on the music scene since Super Furry Animals. Really. Aurally they resemble the swoon and psychedelic pop of SFA along with the avant garde bits of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and the furious paced pop …

Wednesday night saw all the fun of the End of the Road festival come to Cargo for their now regular Christmas Shindig. We’re big fans of the festival here at Londonist but as it’s in Salisbury we rarely get the change to bang on about …

Last night we went to check out the J-pop mega star Suga Shikao play his first ever European date at the ICA. While we weren’t entirely sure what to expect, we decided if we were going to find out more about J-pop, this was probably …

I don’t want to cry My whole life through I want to do some laughing too So come on, come on, come on and laugh with me goes the nonchalent heartbreak of a Girls refrain. A duo with help from ‘friends’, the long-haired Michael Bolton …

The setting is a large clearing in the beautiful Hainault Forest in Essex. An hour ago we were at Liverpool Street Station; now we’re standing in the queue for a Riverford Farm burger, cider in hand, marooned in the middle of a haze of teenage …

Photo by Helen Boast Last night, post-punk innovators Gang of Four played at Hoxton’s tiny Macbeth as a warm up show for their “HMV” Forum gig on 26th September. Playing to an unfortunately subdued, media-heavy audience, the band stuck fairly rigidly to a “one off …

Ash Grunwald: Image courtesy of the artist With England looking good in the Ashes series it’s fitting that there’s an Australian blues man in town. We were lucky enough to catch Ash Grunwald‘s only London show at Charlotte St Blues over the weekend. With an …