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 …
It’s easy for the Americans to blog the Oscars, they just get some drinks in, invite some friends round and make a night of it. And even the Guardian doesn’t have it so bad – ok so they have to stay up until the early …
The big release this week is raging smug-fest Oceans Twelve, a sequel to the remake of Oceans Eleven, and it’s not fairing well with the critics. Bradshaw in the Guardian maintains his always high standard of vitriol with probably the harshest line directed towards welsh …
Oh dear, it’s getting desperate already – today’s Independent carries an article listing “20 reasons why London is the winner over Paris”. Of course, this is ostensibly an article about that great sporting insitution, and symbol of all that is great and noble in the …
You might have read in the press today about a young man named Warrick Brownlow who has spent the past two years fighting an epic battle against ‘the man’ in the name of peace, love…and puppets. Basically Warrick has been campaigning to get the Jim …
And talking of vote rigging… Schoolboy errors abounded at the weekend as the XFM Rock School‘s online vote was rigged. One error came from XFM’s technical end, as the ‘one person, one vote’ setting was overcome with ease. Another came from the bands rigging the …
Tonight sees the inaugural UK Music Hall Of Fame ceremony at the Hackney Empire theatre. The UK Music Hall Of Fame is a lot like the US Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame except it’s British…but includes US artists such as Elvis, and Madonna who …
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