In the ever growing list of reality television shows, we can now add one more – The Play’s the Thing. The Play’s the Thing is in search of the newest writing talent. They are searching for submissions of plays by new writers with a big …
The weekend passes all too soon but with its passing at least comes the Monday Music Review, this week brought to you in association with Paul Westerberg‘s Folker. Once upon a time, at the height of Brit Pop, an unassuming bunch of Scotsmen wrote an …
We love to champion new capital based talent, but Londonist also enjoys getting into a band at ground level as opposed to when you’ve no choice but to fork over £50 to a tout outside a sold out Brixton Academy gig, so we were eager …
Mike Watt is a punk rock legend. His band, The Minutemen, opened kicked down doors for just about everyone that followed, back in the day and along with bands like Black Flag, Hüsker Dü and Sonic Youth helped revitalise the American music scene of the …
Tonight sees the launch of the Raindance East Film Festival at the Genesis Mile End with Danny Boyle’s Millions: Eight-year-old Damian Cunningham is almost killed by an enormous bag of cash that falls from the sky. It’s all sterling, and as Britain is converting to …
While it’s normally those pesky ravens over at the Tower that seem to get the most column inches these days, another species of bird close to Londoners’ hearts is now hitting the front pages (ok, maybe not the front pages but definitely the first few …
Freeness looks to be Pop Idol minus everything but the music and with the added perk that the music is the artist’s own, not just covers – so actually, not Pop Idol at all, but keep reading anyway. Freeness is hitting Plastic People on Curtain …
How many football tops do you think a premiership football club will have got through by this point in the season? Go on, have a guess. Fifty? One hundred? More? Well, if you’re Arsenal, you’ve probably managed to get through over 200. How? Because, in …
Can a great artist be a great curator? That’s the question they seem to be asking over at the Alison Jacques Gallery, where David Hockney is about ready to unveil his exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs. Hockney and Mapplethorpe go way back to the early …
One Foot in the Grave didn’t work and The Office didn’t really cut it, but the Americans aren’t ones to give up, especially when it means they can make loads of money out a of a television series without really having to think about it. …
Would you queue in a train station to download music? Londonist thinks it’s hard enough to queue in a train station to get train tickets, so we doubt we’d have the patience or the time to use one of the new ‘music download kiosks’ which …
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