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Booking Ahead – Indie Schmindy Special

Anyone with even a hint of taste and decency will know that the only time to drink Carling is after you’ve been atomised by a particularly nasty nuclear power station meltdown. And yet still their indominatable quest to tie up every concert venue in the …

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Spend the Witching Hour with Ladytron

One of our favourite bands ever ever eva has got to be the bewitching Ladytron. So when news of a whole night from Ladytron popped into our inbox we were damn excited. On March 24th the band will be curating a whole night at the …

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How to fit 200,000 fans in one Tooting basement

Reuters has picked up the story of a London based singer playing to a vast audience each evening thanks to her webcam tour: Armed with just a webcam and a guitar, Scottish singer Sandi Thom sets off around the world every night from a basement …

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Ice Space

London likes ice. We’re really big on ice skating (even before all those slebs got involved) and we’re quite fond of our new ice bar so why not a whole Ice Space (beware: wanky, slow Flash site). Ice Space, which is due to appear on …

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Booking Ahead

Not a moment’s hesitation in recommending The Eighteenth Day Of May‘s Bush Hall show on the 28th April as our buy of the week. If you need to ask why then there’s gonna be tears and spilt milk at tea time. We give the Americans …

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Booking Ahead

Eel Pie Eccentrics Mystery Jets have never been ones to do things in the regular rock’n’roll way, possibly why their Dad plays in the band, and possibly why they’ve just started an online treasure hunt ahead of their debut album and a small tour in …

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Wireless Goes Broadband

With a huge Glastonbury shaped hole in the calendar this year and the faint promise of warm weather lingering on the horizon, it’s time for Festival Season to slip into Wacky Races mode. With T In The Park and V 2006 neck and neck out …

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Extra, Extra

It looks like the IPCC have been told to go back to the drawing board after failing to identify the officer who made the “blatant and clumsy attempt” to tamper with evidence. Five people are due in court today charged with the kidnap of a …

The Insomniac’s Ball

The Insomniac’s Ball is a strange one. You’d think it’d be something full of plush beds with soothing ocean sounds playing while the walls cycle through calming colours. Either that or just an all-night Coldplay gig. Virtual Festivals have a somewhat different interpretation, though. It’s …

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Booking Ahead Ahead In The Flesh Update

It always happens, doesn’t it. Just as we get all excited about Roger Waters doing Dark Side in Denmark than we hear the news that he’s doing it over here as well, as part of the Calling Festival in Hyde Park on Friday 30th June. …

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Booking Ahead Ahead

Coming to you a few days early to give you some advanced warning on a few big shows out this Friday and let you know of a few others hanging around. First up and already on sale here are the Teenage Cancer Trust shows at …