This week saw Londonist get incredibly excited about a few live music events. First up, was French pop sensation Yelle, who played an intimate show at the Old Blue Last. Then, we had the Camden Crawl line up which, as ever, is pretty amazing for those of us who value music over sleep. Finally, Sally got (understandably) excited about The King Blues @ the 100 Club. Once we've come down from our excitement of last......

October hasn't been a great month to be a Royal. If it's not a blackmail attempt, or being immortalised in bronze for a controversial sculpture, now they can't even go out for a spot of recreational rare-bird shooting without some spoilsport kicking up a fuss. It's been reported that Prince Harry was interviewed by police after two rare hen harriers, a legally protected species of bird, were shot in flight at Sandringham. The prince......

Climate change march reaches London, after leaving Northern Ireland in July. Would have been quicker to fly. Fake DVDs fund people smuggling. So stop buying them. Seventies and eighties sitcom scripts come up for sale. The olduns are the gooduns. Image courtesy of Yersinia's flickr stream.......

Stand Aside, oh diminuitive purpley chap formerly known as Prince. Make Way for the taller and altogether more substantial man formerly known as the 42nd President of the USA. As previewed here last month, Bill Clinton came to the O2 this lunchtime. To afford the VIP tickets we re-mortgaged our home, sold our grandma to science before she'd even popped her clogs and employed George Galloway to do a bit of fund-raising for us.......

Tim 'The Tube Man' O'Toole has said that he doesn't believe Abu Hamza's son posed a threat while working as a labourer on the Underground. Ex-IRA spy Kevin Fulton has been arrested in London in connection with two murders in Northern Ireland. The Telegraph delves into the 2012 budget and comes up with a few surprises. Centrepoint have opened a new facility for the homeless featuring internet-access in every room. The Doors (not all......

Reading Reserves 0 Tottenham Hotspur Reserves 1 Madejski Stadium, Reading Wednesday 4th October 2006 As we suggested a month ago, you’re unlikely to be watching anybody playing in a Premiership reserve fixture these days who could legally be served in a bar in America. Last night a 71st minute close range header from Northern Ireland under-19 captain Kieran McKenna, set up by a far post nod from Czech youth international Tomas Pekhart following a......

We were delighted last week to discover that Cherno Samba, the former Millwall youth striker once courted by Liverpool, has pitched up again in this country after a spell on the continent, trying (but sadly failing) to earn a place in Bristol City's squad for the upcoming season. We remember him with affection as the spearhead of more than one of our Championship Manager 3 sides from the top-selling computer game's heydey around the......

On Saturday afternoon the whole nation, while not wishing injury on anyone, might have breathed a sigh of relief that the most goal-shy, undisciplined striker of England’s world cup qualifying campaign was unlikely to play more than a cameo role in this summer’s finals tournament. Instead the reaction has been more what you’d expect if the government announced all English telephone codes were changing at the end of the week. Such is the importance......

There's a famous and overused line about the past being a foreign country, and people doing things differently there; in some cases this seems a bit of a shame (what's wrong with being embalmed and put in a pyramid after you die, eh?) but in many cases it's a relief to look back and realise that the past is, well, passed, and that things have changed. In the case of the Brixton riots of......

A misleading title really, as there is very little happening at Westminster for the next couple of weeks. The reason being that it is the Easter recess - M.P.s have all gone back to their constituencies for two weeks, so there is nothing happening in the Commons. Nevertheless, if a week is a long time in politics, the ensuing two week recess will still be eventful: Blair Plays Down Rift With Brown Shock news!......

Today sees the release of a set of stamps which marks the end of Royal Mail's 'British Journey' series. The series began in 2003 and ends its journey throughout the British Isles with a set for England. Curiously, a previous set was issued for South West England - other sets were issued for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales - suggesting that Royal Mail views this area as somewhat, ummm, different. St. Paul's, of course,......

You may have heard the rumours that Charles Kennedy is facing a coup d’etat within the Liberal Democrat party. Well, these rumours certainly got louder today. Lembit Öpik, the Lib Dems’ Wales and Northern Ireland spokesman, spoke to the press today denouncing those in the party who are plotting behind the scenes to unseat Kennedy as ‘cowardly.’ “What is questionable here is why go through the press and brief in what I think is......

Righto, it's time to take a quick break from all that Premiership, FA Cup and Champions League stuff and take another look at the very highest level that football has to offer. Yes, it's international weekend, it's World Cup Qualifiers, it's....ENGLAND v NORTHERN IRELAND!!!! WOOOOOO HOOOO!!! No...wait...come back...this is more exciting than it sounds, I promise. Granted this isn't one of those fixtures that stirs the blood and quickens the pulse. We expect England......

As Homer Simpson once said: "Television - teacher, mother, secret lover!" And he was right. Indeed, if the report over at the BBC today is correct, the UK public seem to derive most of their opinions from TV dramas: "Almost half of the UK population form their opinions about crime and the police from television dramas, a new survey has revealed." Out of 2500 people questioned 34% of people voted London as the UK's......