Ticket Alert: Kanye West, Patti Smith, Local Natives And More
From Kanye to Kennedy, here’s our pick of gigs on sale this Friday.
Patti Smith
Patti Smith Opens Mapplethorpe Exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery
Tonight saw the opening of Robert Mapplethorpe’s A Season in Hell at Fitzrovia’s Alison Jacques Gallery. On hand for the event was rocker Patti Smith (along with several hundred of her and Mapplethorpe’s fans – private view? Yeah right!). Overwhelmed by the crowds inside and …
A Tyger In The Library!
This year is the 250th birthday of poet / illustrator / philosopher William Blake. Blake was born 28 November,1757 at 28a Broad Street, Golden Square, London. The British Library, to celebrate the anniversary, have put on display one of Blake’s notebooks in which he wrote …
Hello, Goodbye
Happy New Year to everyone from the Music Dungeonistas. We trust you found solace in some decent music while ‘Best ofs’ and Reality TV Rubbish polluted tweeters, woofers and sub-woofers over the break. In a bizarre collision of mainstream and alternative, we spent New Year’s …
Monday Music Review
A break from the norm in this week’s Monday Music Review as we lead with a single review and eschew the normal full album reviews (mainly because we couldn’t bear to listen to the albums more than once and we have yet to reach a …
Fast, Cheap And Out Of Control
Sandy Pearlman – Purcell Room, South Bank Centre – 23rd June Sandy Pearlman’s CV affords him a certain authority when he speaks about his vision of the future state of the music industry. A producer and songwriter of some note, he worked with Blue Oyster …
Midweek Music News
Excuse us for a perfunctory midweek news roundup this week. It’s not that we’re bitter about being left as the sole occupant of the Londonist Music Dungeon while others swan off to Glastonbury and New York (although we are very bitter). It’s just that whilst …
Awake From Your Slumber
Steve Earle & Patti Smith – Royal Festival Hall – Meltdown 2005 – 19th June 2005 A roll call is played over the PA. The audience listen intently. Within seconds it becomes clear: this is a roll call for the dead, the casualties on both …
Perform With Patti
Over the next few weeks Londonist will be trying to cover the goings on over at Patti Smith’s Meltdown Festival in as much detail as we can. Bear in mind though that there’s a lot going on and we’ve only got so many pairs of …
The Iain Sinclair Interview
We’ve mentioned a couple of times now that Iain Sinclair will be appearing at Patti Smith’s Meltdown, but we didn’t reveal that Londonist was invited to have a chat with him one sunny afternoon a week or so ago. What followed was a conversation that …
More Added To The Meltdown Pot
The line-up for Patti Smith‘s Meltdown gets even stronger with the latest announcement of new events and artists and an interesting bunch of additions they are, too. You know how much we like free stuff here at Londonist, so we’re particularly happy to see that …
