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What The Inspectors Did Next

We know you’re sick of reading about what the IOC inspection have been up to over the past few days. For example, the most perilous stage of yesterday’s tour was when the special, shiny IOC train was held up for four minutes (yes, four whole …

Camden Crawl Gigs

XFM have announced the line up for this year’s Camden Crawl. If you’re unfamilar with the concept, the general idea is coordinate a one day ‘festival’ whereby 40 bands play across nine different venues (In Camden obviously). The first band appear on stage at around …

Norton v Croydon

There’s a lot of miserable London stories around today: stuff like the Circle Line being voted the worst tube line, or the Met not meeting their repsonse time targets, or parts of Hyde Park closing due to an assault. So we thought we’d bring you …

Swingers On Regent’s Park

Did you know that softball is an Olympic Sport? Londonist had no idea. We must have missed the coverage of the nail biting US v Australia final in Athens earlier this year (America won 5-1 apparently). And if it’s an Olympic sport you can bet …

The Eminem No-Show

Londonist has never trusted ticket agencies. It always seemed a little dodgy that they’re allowed to sell you tickets for gigs so far in advance, and then they add on a “booking fee” plus “postage and packaging”….it’s a slip of cardboard. How much packaging does …