There seems something oddly obscene about ITV’s decision to make a programme about the public’s favourite images of death, destruction, mayhem, murder, pain, suffering, and general shittiness (ITV 50: The Shot That Shook The World, Tue 9.45pm ITV1). So, which is your favourite picture of …
Alfie – Crying At Teatime Following Alfie through their career feels a little like watching someone grow up. Indeed, in our recent interview, front-man Lee Gorton described the band’s journey from their folky acoustic beginnings to their current incarnation as ‘growing up in public’. EP …
There’s a serious amount of lurrrve for Alfie in the Londonist Music Dungeon at the moment. A great new album is out in a couple of weeks and the trailing single Your Own Religion is out now. We don’t normally buy singles if we’re going …
Alfie return with a cracking new single, Your New Religion (released next Monday), which precedes the even crackinger new album Crying At Teatime, released on 15th August. A full review of the album will be published on the release date but for those of who …
So Prince William graduates and gets some initials after his name to match the ones at the front – must be nicer than some of the four letter words we like to throw at him and his family of leaches. Back off Royalists – we’re …
The Colonies @ The Spread Eagle, Shoreditch – Friday 13th May 2005 Having had a Catholic upbringing, Londonist is absurdly superstitious (one of the reasons we’ve vowed not to inflict religion on our offspring) so getting us to venture outdoors on Friday 13th is normally …
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 …
So you’re standing there on the Tube, seething with rage after having changed trains three times due to a Job-like trial of passenger action, faulty trains and general incompetence on the part of London Underground Limited, and having just suffered a twelve minute intra-tunnel endurance …
London is officially the “most diverse city ever” according to today’s Guardian. The article, part of the paper’s special What is Britain report, profiles the capital’s non-indigenous communities (e.g. Poles in Hammersmith, West Africans in Southwark, Congolese in Tottenham, Koreans in New Malden, Portugese in …
In a move to cut down on Cash Machine related crime (such as shoulder surfing) Lambeth Council has proposed the creation of “safe zones“, a painted area around the machine that only the card user is allowed in. But Ken says no. More specifically “Labour …
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