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Sometimes, Londonist stumbles across fantastic new bands by accident. (In this case getting drunk on wine playing video games.) We were introduced to Mitch. And now we’re introducing Mitch to you. Meet Mitch. Who’s in the band? Darren – Vocals, Guitars Jason – Guitars, Vocals …

Saturday Strangeness 15 – Dragons Over London? Dragons are probably the most celebrated yet misunderstood mythical creature across Britain, yet several sightings of such leathery legends have been recorded, and such monsters feature heavily in the lore of the British countryside (remember St George?). During …

Londonist loves a good thunderstorm. So we were obviously very pleased with yesterday’s storm. But, of course, a thunderstorm is best appreciated from inside a warm, dry building. Those of you who were commuting probably didn’t feel the same way about it. The storm hit …

Contrary to the grey skies and what sounded like thunder twenty minutes ago, it is summer in London! And that means… the National Theatre’s annual outdoor free summer festival Watch This Space is back for two and a half months of stuff to enjoy. Last …

A large number of people wearing black descended on Kentish Town last night in order to see Mastodon, heavyweights of the Atlanta prog-math-tech-doom-art-metal scene, unleash their waves of intricate chords and furiously-paced drumbeats at the Forum, and Londonist was pleased to join them. After wandering …

Looks like Ken has won his battle to stop the opening of a lap-dancing club at London Bridge. Apparently the London 2012 Olympics organising committee, is being ‘hampered’ in its attempts to drum up sponsorsship because of all the other organisations trying to sell Olympics-related …

The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. After dominating the continent and the wider world from their power base in Western Europe the French got a bit over-confident on a visit to the distant East and, despite …

A while ago we decided we were going to tackle the problem of pub quizzes. Some are great, some are rubbish and some just are never advertised. So, we reviewed the Bedford in Balham and The Railway in West Hampstead and then, promptly forgot about …

January is, as every primary school kid knows, named after Janus, the double-headed Roman god of gates, doors, beginnings and endings. It’s appropriate, then, that this month will see so many of both; we mourn the passing of Lost (Wed 10pm C4) and Rome, and …