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Londonist Live: The Broken Family Band / The National at Shepherd’s Bush Empire
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...
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Londonist Live: The Duke Spirit, 229 Club, Wednesday 21st November
Whilst many, last night, were labouring under the somewhat unreasonable expectations that our national football side might do something a little old school, like win, there was a group of us who went...
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OAP Olympic Outrage
In years to come as historians look back on the events that triggered the untimely demise of this once great nation of ours, they’ll probably be analysing the following timeline: October 2003: First...
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‘Head To The Park
Anyone wanna go see Radiohead at Victoria Park next year? Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th June. That’s Glastonbury week too, isn’t it? Well presales are available now if you don’t fancy getting up all...
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Christmas KILLS!!!
OK, so maybe not kills, although it might, but it is bad for you. Details to follow. A new report shows that shopping in an area with a high volume of traffic has a worse affect on your lungs than...
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New Playground Game May Harm Kids
London is getting more dangerous by the day ladies and gentlemen. It’s not enough that a quick trip down Oxford Street is going to leave you gasping like a floundering flounder on the deck of a...
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Londonist Live: Okkervil River @ The Luminaire, Monday 10th December
As another rock’n'roll revivalist spectacular pulls in the press, Londonist, once again, finds itself on the other side of town. Okkervil River are playing the last show in 3 months of solid touring...
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Save Our Pits And Pickle Factories, Finally The Government Steps In
The Rainbow is long gone, the Hammersmith Palais now lingers only in the memory and even that good old grubby beer stained shit-hole that is the loveable Astoria is under threat. Gigs are selling out...
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Cop A Load Of This Portfolio
First it’s our music venues, now it seems even our police stations are up for grabs. With a potential value of £1.5 billion, the Metropolitan Police property protfolio is quite a cash-cow. No wonder...
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This Fare Refund Swindle Has Ceased To Be
We’re still wondering whether civil servant, Trushar Patel, is either a clever sod, just another thieving crook, or a bit of both. Either way he’s spending the next 18 months on the tax payers board...
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Thrice Spice Baby
Lasers, screens, explosions, giant mutant zombie mummies (hmm, we may have inadvertently made a cruel pun there), apparently the latest gig gizmo is to parade your offspring, as opposed to The...
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Kids With(out) Guns
Guns don’t kill people, bullets kill people. But bullets need guns to fire them and people to pull the triggers, so it’s a bit of a joint effort all round. The technicalities of death aside, one thing...
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A Job That Slowly Kills You
Anyone with an ounce of common sense should be able to tell you that work-related stress is not good for the health, a bit like cigarettes, junk food and bullets. But, since many of those who make...
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Their House, In The Middle Of Their Street
If only we’d known, we could have taken that £80 million we had squirreled away and bought ourselves a nice luxury pad in Hampstead; added that beauty spa and cinema we always wanted to go with the...
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Londonist Live: Thistletown @ St Aloysius Social Club
If the Guardian hadn’t given Will Hodgkinson £5000 to start a record label then Londonist wouldn’t be spending Friday night in a folk club in Euston. But we’re here for the album launch of Rosemarie,...
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House On The Stawberry Hill
Well, blow us down with a wrecking ball, it’s refreshing to see a piece of news about someone trying to save an old building rather than tear it down and turn it in to a pre-fab pimp palace. Don’t get...
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Londonist Live: Elbow at Porchester Hall, 12/02/08
Elbow have long been favourites of Londonistas past present and future, so a last minute opportunity to catch Guy Garvey and his band of burly Bury boys was too good to miss. And if this show, set in...
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There’s A New Scourge In Town
Hoodies to the left of us, police marksmen to the right, here we are stuck in the middle with… hmm, an angry Chelsea Pensioner. Or at least a pensioner from Chelsea, one Eric Williams, recently jailed...
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Straight Outta Lambeth
A quarter of all ‘youth gangs’ reside in Lambeth. Now there’s a statistic to make the Borough’s residents sleep easy at night. According to Auntie, an unpublished report has linked 40 gangs to the...
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Londonist Live: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds @ HMV
Seems like Monday was a good day for album launch shows. Whilst Londonista Dave was experiencing the fragile ether-eality of Goldfrapp in Union Chapel, we were in the slightly less salubrious...
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