It's been a strange ol' week for Londonist music-wise. On Monday we got worried about a rise in nightclub violence, on Tuesday caught Goldfrapp at Union Chapel, on Wednesday caught Nick Cave at HMV and on Thursday got excited about a new-ish club night at Three Blind Mice. Looking ahead to this week however, Monday sees Panic At the Disco and Kate Nash play sold out shows at the Roundhouse and Hammersmith Apollo respectively, whilst......

Seems like Monday was a good day for album launch shows. Whilst Londonista Dave was experiencing the fragile ether-eality of Goldfrapp in Union Chapel, we were in the slightly less salubrious surroundings of HMV Oxford Street, where a reed thin moustachioed man is hopping up and down preaching hell and damnation, or at least something about scissors and prolix, next to some guru-esque sixties serial killer lookalike who's doing strange things to strange things.......

It's officially Spring and by Pisces it's lovely out there in the sunshine. Crocuses have been spotted in Highbury Fields so our biggest recommendation for expenditure light trips this week is get to the parks and into the gardens and witness the miracles of the changing seasons. If you're in need of more artificial stimulation, however, and are squirrelling all your spare cash into your ISA before the end of the tax year then......

iTunes have announced 10 days of gigs starting next Thursday as part of their iTunes Live series. All the gigs will be available to download from iTunes after the 10 day festival is over. Last year’s festival was a bit later in the year, but all the shows were a significant success - dare we say it, but this year's line up isn't anywhere near as impressive - yes, we have Billy Bragg, Alphabeat and......

A Korean company performing their own interpretation of a German Expressionist play to contemporary tango music using only chairs could, on paper, be utterly preposterous. Yet, in the flesh, Woyzeck by The Sadari Movement Laboratory (at the Queen Elizabeth Hall last night) was an incredibly strong, powerful and moving production presented as part of the London International Mime Festival. Woyzeck deals with sexual jealousy, the brutalising of soldiers by war, paranoia, oppression and class......

Last year, Icelandic theatre company Vesturport, in collaboration with the Lyric Hammersmith, staged a performance based on Franz Kafka’s novella Metamorphosis to great acclaim, and the theatre reported a 100% sell-out run. Now the Icelanders and the Lyric’s Artistic Director David Farr bring the play back for a brief three weeks, before touring it internationally. The cast has changed, but the story remains the same, as does the haunting music by Nick Cave and......

The past few years haven't been kind to Brighton's finest Goth punk psychobilly exports, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. In the years since 2004's phenomenal "The Royal Society" album, they were scandalously dropped by their record label, parted with guitarist and founding member Andy Huxley and witnessed The Horrors steal the hearts of the nations Goth youth. They have a lot to prove tonight. Within 30 seconds of taking to the stage lead singer Guy......

Everyone loves Kylie (well apart from this guy). Oh and maybe anyone who paid good money to see The Delinquents. Which we did. God we're old. Now as far as Londonist is concerned the best thing Ms Minogue did since leaving Neighbours was to be killed by Nick Cave in the video for 'Where the Wild Roses Grow'. But she knows how to wear a dress. Or pieces of dress. Or sometimes just a......

Budging The only fringe theatre venue in Leicester Square is to close in September. The tiny 150 seat Sound Theatre has sat shoulder to shoulder with the biggest of West End dross-peddling venues (Mama Mia is still playing at the Prince of Wales...) in the same block as the Swiss Centre since June last year, but while Sound's restaurant, bar and nightclub willmove to new Leicester Square premises, the theatre will not be joining......

Just squeezing the May Music Review in before the end of the month. And to kick off this month's mailbag of music are some folks who like trains. And history. iLIKETRAINS - Terra Nova (single released 29th May on Fierce Panda) Terra Nova is about Captain Scott's doomed 1912 Antarctic expedition and the b-side is about the Norwegian who beat him to the pole. This is rock music for A-Level history students perhaps. iLIKETRAINS sound......

Renowned barrel of laughs Nick Cave is set to make his follow up to The Proposition right here in London. He's dumping the outback, but keeping Ray Winstone: His new movie tells the story of a travelling salesman who trawls the south coast of England hawking beauty products. The salesman, played by Ray Winstone, finds this the perfect way to meet lonely women and feed his need for sex. Sounds seedy. Maybe Naomi Watts......

Re-opening tonight at the Lyric Hammersmith is Aurelia's Oratorio which is back by popular demand and still glowing from its fond reviews from its first run this time last year. Described as "a magical whirl of visual illusions and trickery", the show is performed by Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter, Aurelia Thierree and directed by her mother Victoria Thierree Chaplin and is a glimpse into the scruffy world behind the footlights of theatre where disbelief is......

This week: The Proposition, The Child, and The Hills Have Eyes. Plus all the usual film news and Trailer of the Week. Let's kick things off this week with a look at The Proposition, John Hillcoat's Aussie western starring Guy Pearce and scripted by Nick Cave. Londonist reviewed this film recently and gave it a resounding thumbs up (can thumbs resound?) and it looks like at least two out of our three regular broadsheet......

Support bands aren't meant to blow you away. We weren't even meant to catch the support, but our timing was off, and we thought the Spree were on early. And then they disappeared off the radar almost as soon as they left the stage. So when an email arrived announcing a couple of Last Man Standing gigs at Madame JoJos (the next is tomorrow night), we had to ask: do you mean that Last......

Is there an official term for this genre? An Outbackian perhaps or even a Kangaroo Western... but that suggests something halfcocked and that's one thing that can't be said about John Hillcoat and Nick Cave's The Proposition. It's a hell of a film that plays around with some of the mythic aspects of the traditional Western, but is more concerned with Cormac McCarthy type themes of retribution and salvation. Its overlying motif is that......

The London Australian Film Festival kicks off on Thursday 2 March and runs for ten days. The main draw will be outback 'western' written by Nick Cave. The Proposition may be not quite as touchy feely as Brokeback Mountain, but it certainly has more believable facial hair. A Nick Cave/Warren Ellis soundtrack, Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone and John Hurt make this a pretty hot ticket. Also on offer are Jewboy, Look Both Ways, Irresistible......

Just a couple of grand nights out for you next week, seeing as you're all no doubt getting busy with the Christmas party season. Saturday: For your very own Wicker Man medieval Christmas experience in the dungeonesque confines of the Mean Fiddler, Circulus play Frog, doors at 11, horse and carts at 3am. Alternatively mix your very own Caucasian from a night out bowling with the Rock'n'Roll Soul Festive Bowl. Not only will there......

Just got back from the press launch of the 49th London Film Festival and it looks like there's even more on offer this year than ever. Amanda Nevill, the director of the British Film Institute (which last year alone screened an astonishing 3000+ films in the UK) kicked things off with a promise that she was "hell bent on bringing you one of the best festivals of world cinema" - no idle threat judging......

OK, so hands up all those who are going to get tickets for Billy Corgan's solo show in June (15th) at the Forum. Yeah, thought so. Old razor bonce himself has never really been forgiven for burning his t-shirts and inventing the Morpheus look 5 years too early. The jury's still out on whether his new solo outing thefutureembrace is going to disappoint the old Pumpkins fans even further but Londonist really liked Zwan......