Thanks to the excellent Rat & Mouse blog for pointing us in the direction of this story on Damon Dash being evicted from his “Chelsea mansion”. We’re going to risk damaging our hip hop credentials and admit that we didn’t even know the “music mogul” …
Shrill deranged songstress Mariah Carey arrived in London this weekend but promptly ran into problems as she was unable to enter the Kensington branch of plush Italian hotel chain Baglionis as they had not met her specific entry criteria, namely a red carpet lined with …
It’s mid month and funds are no doubt in short supply but if you do have a few pennies to spare Londonist recommends, for your listening pleasure, the following recently announced gigs: A group who never forget to send flowers on Mothering Sunday, Motorhead bring …
Londonist was somewhat chuffed to be offered a last minute ticket to check out the Arcade Fire at ULU last week. And not wishing to carry out an equine dental inspection we said yes please and left work pretty sharpish. The band first came to …
In 2003 it was Lee Scratch Perry, and in 2004 Morrissey decided to come out of hiding to do it, so everyone was pretty excited to see who was going to be curating this year’s Meltdown festival at the Royal Festival Hall. And we haven’t …
Lock up your cliches and hide your stash because this week the Monday Music Review brings you the officially most dangerous band in rock ‘n’ roll since the last one, the hardest working slacker in pop and two friends from Brixton who thought it would …
We don’t want to give too much space over to rock wanker Justin Hawkins and his new wax model over at Madame Tussauds so we’ll just give a quick run down of things we wish you could do to his effigy instead of simply playing …
FROG have done it again, and as if to prove they’ve got more balls than that stupid annoying mobile-ringtone-toting amphibian, they’re putting on not one, not three, not fifty-seven, but two shows on for you this Saturday. The special one-off FROG Saturday Matinee features Babyshambles …
It’s twenty five years or so since Frank Zappa complained about the (brain) Dead Girls of London and if you sit on a bus around the time that schools get out then you’d be forgiven for thinking that things hadn’t changed all that much; a …
This Friday, 18th March, sees the inaugural session of The Breadcrumb Trail, a club night hosted by The Colonies. The Colonies are one of Londonist’s favourite unsigned bands (click here to read the interview we published in January), and this is the perfect opportunity for …
It’s fair to say that Michael Jackson’s life isn’t going so well right now, what with the child molestation trial and everything, and it’s just taken yet another turn for the worse as London’s own Heart Fm has taken the decision to remove him from …
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