The Forum

We love stats. We love music. So it’s probably not that hard to guess that London based piece of music geekery Last.fm remains one of our favourite web applications. In the past the Last.fm team have dabbled with clubnights and gigs, but have now gone …

There is something particularly English – in fact, quintessentially London – about Saint Etienne. Performing what was, pretty much, a greatest hits packed set for their Christmas gig at the Kentish Town Forum on Saturday night, the band certainly looked and sounded like they were home.

Ahead of their Reading and Leeds sets over August bank holiday weekend, the recently reformed, Libertines have announced their intentions to play a warm up show at The Forum on August 25. Although we’ve never quite understood the adoration they receive, enough of you do …

Looking to start your week off right? Then make sure to head down to the Kentish Town forum tonight to check out what is arguably Canada’s largest alt rock band, The Tragically Hip. The band which formed in Ontario during the early 80’s has consistently …

Last night legendary grunge metallers Alice in Chains returned to London for the first of two shows at the Kentish Town Forum in support of the recently released “Black Gives Way To Blue”. Their first studio album in 14 years also marks the debut of …

The sound of felicidad is coming to London, albeit for two nights only. Manu Chao’s frenetic strumming may be more than a poco loco, but the music he makes is full of life and laughter as he ties traditional ideas of genre and language in …

The Londonist Music Minions have had a night off from their hectic gigging schedule tonight, and we hope that you have done the same. The party season is rapidly approaching, and you need at least one laid-back evening to conserve your energy for the rest …

As reported last week, Monday should see you going crazy to hear that one good song (are there others) by

Some of our favourite Scandinavian bands are coming to the UK in the next couple of weeks and we thought you better know about them. First, the most mainstream, Robyn will play her first live dates since everyone woke up and realised she was actually …

Kick off the week tomorrow with Stephen Fretwell at Cadogen Hall (£15). The singer songwriter is touring his 3rd album “Man On The Roof” and by all accounts it’s pretty good. Or if you like your things with a bit more soul (or rubbish pop …