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Queens, Moss And Doherty

Some quick music news from today’s NME: the Queens of the Stone Age are going to be playing two gigs in one day in Camden this coming March. According to the report QOTSA will play the Underworld in the late afternoon/early evening and then move …

Annual London Art Fair

If you are looking for something to do besides follow the premiership matches this weekend (which may be well impossible for a majority of our readers), you may consider making your way over to the Business Design Centre in Islington for the 17th Annual London …

Johnson Vs. Defoe

This week’s London Premiership derby sees relegation-threatened Crystal Palace at home to mid-table certainties Tottenham. The reverse fixture a couple of weeks ago produced a 1-1 draw with Defoe scoring for Spurs and (quelle surprise) Andy Johnson scoring for the Eagles. Similarly both teams will …

Abbey Road Film Season

Hard to know whether to put this story in the ‘cinema’ or ‘music’ category, as Abbey Road studios hosts a film season to take place 19th March to 3rd April. The studio will temporarily become a fully-functioning cinema and will screen a selection of films …

Mark Maier: Objects

The comedian Mark Maier brings his acclaimed show ‘Objects’ to London this month and it’s well worth checking out. Originally called ‘Fat Baby on the Rampage’ the show was well-received at the 2004 Edinburgh Festival, and now plays in Hampstead under a rather more prosaic …

Interpol and Bloc Party London dates

New York’s Interpol have added a second London date, after selling out the first gig at the Brixton Academy. Note that the ‘not as Joy Divisiony as you might think’ band have added their second show before the originally-announced gig so the extra date is …

Popscene

The shock of being back at work after the torpor of the Christmas holidays is a little bit like a cold that won’t quite go away, you can’t quite shift that nagging horrible feeling that’s stopping you feeling 100 per cent. To blast away the …

Wild Bunch At The NFT

The British Film Institute has decided to kick off the new year with a festival entitled The Wild Bunch celebrating America circa 1965 onwards and the cinema that era produced. “Out of this time of social change, came a decade and a half of challenging, …

TLA overload – dkt/MC5 and SRA play RFH

Following their acclaimed reunion last year, the surviving founding members of one of rock’s most influential bands, the MC5, come together again, this time in a co-bill at the Royal Festival Hall on 25 February 2005, with sonic jazz phenomenon Sun Ra Arkestra (pictured above). …

No Alarms But Some Surprises

Popscene

Londonist breathed a heavy sigh of relief as posh-boy-band-novelty-act G4 missed out on winning ITV’s The X Factor on Saturday night. (We’re not too proud to admit that we found the winner Steve to come across as an immensely likeable chap, despite Sharon Osbourne inexplicably …