Stiff Little Fingers

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Londonist Live: Stiff Little Fingers and Mark Stewart at Meltdown 2008

Stiff Little Fingers’ Inflammable Material provided a soundtrack for our teenage years, every single one of its three chords forever fused with our memories of youth. As we grew a bit older, it remained a favourite and was soon joined by Mark Stewart and the …

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Music Choice: Monday 3rd – Friday 7th March

This week saw Londonist get incredibly excited about a few live music events. First up, was French pop sensation Yelle, who played an intimate show at the Old Blue Last. Then, we had the Camden Crawl line up which, as ever, is pretty amazing for …

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God Gets Hippodrome

El-Shaddai are very excited. Particularly Dr Ramson and his wife, Pastor Linda, founders of and pastors for this “non-denominational, Christ-centred” church. They’ve just spent £5m on a shiny new London home. This weekend, they’ll be meeting their flock in the splendid surroundings of Golders Green …

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London Calling? Anti-terrorism Police Answering

We’ll file this one under unfuckingbelievable: British anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when he started singing along to a track by punk band The Clash. Detectives halted the London-bound flight at Durham Tees Valley …

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The Marshall Plan

After the muddy excess of Glasto (have you noticed how it’s cool to shorten the word Glastonbury this year? It’s like our version of Gitmo – without the cramped horrible conditions and torture by terrible music of course) and a couple of wanky stadium style …