Portland

If it isn’t Thursday anymore, it must be Friday

These four-day (working) weeks are great but they do wreak havoc with the body clock. Still, we’d rather Friday crept up on us too quickly than too slowly. So, it’s the weekend and you forgot to arrange anything to do. That’s ok, we’re here to …

Travel To The Colonies

This Friday, 18th March, sees the inaugural session of The Breadcrumb Trail, a club night hosted by The Colonies. The Colonies are one of Londonist’s favourite unsigned bands (click here to read the interview we published in January), and this is the perfect opportunity for …

Rock’n'Roll Soul

Londonist had a great time watching The Bees at Brixton Academy last night, although we stopped just short of doing our chicken impression during Chicken Payback. If you took our advice and got yourself to Brixton too, and you’re in the mood for more funky …

Porridge Over Troubled Water

(Apologies for the punny headline, we think the Xmas cracker jokes we were subjected to over the weekend may have influenced our subconscious.) So the London Met wants to moor a prison ship on the Thames. The ship in question is HMP Weare, originally a …

Stewart Lee, Alan Moore and Brian Eno

There’s no denying it: Radio 4 is great. No, we don’t listen to the Archers (yet), and we’re not quite at the Book at Bedtime stage either, but we should all offer up a prayer of thanks to the BBC directors for organising their latest …