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Cabaret Review: The Ruby Dolls @ Jermyn Theatre

There’s a serendipity to The Ruby Dolls plying their German cabaret at the Jermyn Street Theatre but they don’t dwell on it too much and why should they? There’s far more to this show than a handy homonym. On the face it, we have four …

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Preview: World’s Smallest Festival

The end of the silly season getting you down? Autumn may be upon us, but summer festival-goers need not yet go softly into the night. Come this Sunday, you can rock out once more, boutique-style, at the highly exclusive (read: tiny, not pretentious) World’s Smallest …

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Preview: Gwenno in Greenwich

For fans of The Pipettes, this Wednesday is a very exciting day. For fans of perky electro pop, it’s a very exciting day for you too – you might just not know about it yet. Gorgeous bubbly Welsh Pipette Gwenno has been quietly filling a …

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Review: Rose Elinor Dougall @ Dingwalls

Photo by Alex Cottrill from the Londonist Flickr pool Head to Brighton and behind the throng of daytrippers and holidaymakers, there’s a melancholic echo of days gone by: Salt air peels paint from houses. End of the pier entertainments, the ghostly voice of the old …

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Free Tonight?

The Old Queens Head on Essex Road is home to one of the very first solo gigs from ex Pipette Rosay tonight. Now performing as Rose Elinor Dougal, we’re told she’s ditched the retro vibes of the polka dot princesses and created a year zero …

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Free Polka Pop

Free gigs ahoy! The Pipettes have announced they’re to play a date at Koko on September 2 and the best bit is it’s free! Well, kind of. You do have to pay a £2.50 postage fee (!) but for that you can bagsy yourself four …

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Prepare The Polka Dotted Armband Of Mourning

Londonist has been big fans of The Pipettes ever since their first polka dotted dress rolled off the production line back in 2004. We’ve banged on about them a hell of a lot so it’s with some sadness today that we have to report the …