By Chris 07 Which is a straightforward way to get to Wembley this weekend to see the Irish rock veterans play live. TfL have helpfully suspended the Jubilee Line between Green Park and Stratford this weekend for engineering work, just one closure in a summer …
Funny thing happened in Shepherds Bush last night. A bunch of otherwise normal looking, averagely-40 something year-olds became embarrassingly emotional. En masse. It was billed as a concert but was more like an audio-group-hug. For last night saw the return of Cat Stevens, Yusuf, to …
Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… This week, Stallone takes us back to a simpler age in Rambo, Jack Black goes pretend low budget in Be Kind Rewind, Bono gets his ego blasted out in 3D in U2-3D and Norah …
It’s probably fair to say that the couple of hundred people who wandered up to the Union Chapel in Islington last Friday were expecting a fairly low-key affair. Arguably the biggest name at the Little Noise Sessions gig in aid of Mencap was to be …
Whilst the Sex Pistols and The Verve were hawking their wares for the proper reviewers, Londonist was hightailing it down to the Empire for an early start. Since The Broken Family Band cashed in the cool Cambridge climes for our dirty old town, we can …
The Astoria, one of the very best British venues and a favorite haunt of any live music loving Londoner is apparently doomed: Late last week, development company Derwent Valley struck a deal with Mean Fiddler worth almost £24m, and are rumoured to be planning to …
Right now, as we’re typing these words, we’re listening to the music that is streamed from the website of blues musician and London Underground busker Stephen Dale Petit. Normally, we would venture an opinion that despite Mr Petit’s obvious musical proficiency (Eric Clapton apparently thinks …
It’s been a good week for pissing off the neighbours. Firstly it was a couple of ickle pussy cats in Camberwell, now it’s the thought of thousands of James Blunt fans roaming endlessly across London’s green and pleasant spaces, high on spritzers and Sainsburys’ bacon …
Anyone wishing to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with an evening of the best new Irish bands could do a great deal worse than head down to The Metro tomorrow (Friday). Four of the Emerald Isle’s finest exports will be taking to the stage, in what’s …
As Ricky mentioned a few weeks ago in his introduction to the Demo Dungeon, we’re not running the weekly Monday Music Review any more. But we do still get sent CDs from time to time and we thought, since someone has taken the trouble to …
Poor puns aside, it’s still worth getting reasonably excited about the idea of seeing a band of the stature of Franz Ferdinand for free in a venue the size of Koko. Although we’re not sure which Koko Virgin meant when they announced a series of …
