Back in July, we went to see Leftovers at Dino’s Grill in East London. Leftovers was a performance piece in which audience members were called upon to smell, taste, touch, listen and watch, as active participants rather than observers. We got very excited. We called …
The binding properties of bacon grease have never been better emphasised than in Mem Morrison’s Leftovers. This performance is about cafes, performed in cafes, with cafe food for everybody. It is intimate, cosy; a cooked breakfast at 6pm, sitting elbow to elbow, bound together by …
There’s a late addition to our ticket alert this week with the news that The White Stripes will be playing a special one off show in South East London next week. With their new single “Icky Thump” about to hit the charts on Sunday, the …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 14th May 1842: The first fully illustrated weekly newspaper, the Illustrated London News is launched, costing sixpence. It was still being published weekly as recently as 1971, but its publication frequency has since declined. Tuesday – 15th May …
There’s no question in my mind that My Space is a wonderful thing but I find it alternately inspiring and overwhelming when you get a glimpse of the sheer number of bands and promoters are out there trying to do their thing. It doesn’t help …
Much as the incarcerated writers of the Londonist Music Dungeon enjoy relaying our recommendations on music, we can never shake off the mantra murmured to us by our inner voices: ‘music writers are failed musicians’. So it’s with great pleasure that we start a column …
The BBC are reporting that two people are dead and another two have been hurt in a shooting incident in South East London: A man and woman have been killed and two other people injured during a shooting. Police said armed officers were called to …
As the world’s fossil fuel reserves become ever more depleted, it has not escaped our attention that the world faces an impending energy crisis. Unsurprisingly, public awareness of the need to find new sustainable energy sources has risen significantly over the last few years. So, …
A fiendish plan to breed a hideous army of winged rodents to terrorise South East London has been foiled after years of preparation. For more than ten years, ‘Mrs Hughes’ (if that is her real name) has been patiently nurturing an elite strike-force of airborne …
If you were in the Grove Park area of South East London in the early hours of this morning you migth have been lucky enough to see England international Joe Cole “fleeing in terror…bleeding, bare-chested and shoeless,” down the road. According, to the front page …
Norwich, Southampton, Crystal Palace, West Brom. One of these teams will be partying well into the night on Sunday, leaving the others to look forward to playing Hull, Plymouth, and Burnley next season. To avoid the drop, Palace will almost certainly have to beat their …
Get the Londonist Book Of London Pub Crawls for less than the price of a pint. Available now for Kindle.
