We love it when great club nights not funded by some huge company come along. DIY night NoOneDied has been pumping it up at The Enterprise in Chalk Farm for over a year and given they even managed to survive the fire, we thought it was about time to check up on them. When and why did you set NoOneDied up? We planned No One Died around Christmas 2006, but the first night wasn't......

This is what we have learned this weekend whilst you’ve been indulging those spring-time DIY pangs: LU has become very censorious of late. What’s to offend about a photo of a fat, pink-boxer-shorted Christ on the cross? A couple of shoppers were so worried about being caught for card fraud that they ran out of a Bromley store leaving their baby behind. High jinx in High Wycombe. Actually a bit more serious than that......

Bored tonight? Well if you're hanging round East London without much to do then we recommend a visit to Stoke Newington's Bardens Boudoir. Constantly a source of exciting small bands and DIY events, tonight Upset The Rhythm are your hosts. Girl Talk is their headlining act and one we're particularly excited about. A big star in the music circles, Gregg Gillis has been mixing up all types of songs in his DJ sets as......

We at Londonist hope you’re having a great weekend, and – if we’re not overstepping the bounds of our relationship here – maybe even a bit of a sexy weekend. But if these chilly November days haven’t contained quite so much hanky panky as you’d hoped, there are a few hours left to get to the Erotica 2007 show being held this weekend at the Kensington Olympia where you can, ahem, warm your cockles.......

Amidst calls for their boss' resignation, it's reassuring to know that some London cops haven't lost sight of the big issues facing modern policing - namely, getting "ethnically diverse" mascots on our streets. "PCSO Steve", whose beat covers primary schools in and around Sutton, has spent the past couple of years attending community events and glad-handing celebrities and politicians. Now before you get all high-horsey about the money wasted on PCSOs, we should point......

A night of clubbing is as much about the music you want to hear as it is the experience you hope to get out of it. Whilst there are endless opportunities to don your best threads and brave the night buses to see and be seen, we prefer to come as we are, get sweaty and get down. With their irresistible selection of post-punk and electro classics and obscurities, Our Disco ticks all our......

A slap on the wrist for Londonist - we're three days late in previewing this year's Oxjam music festival, and we haven't even got a "dog ate our homework" excuse to cover our blushes. Must try harder next time. So what is Oxjam? It's only the most fun you're ever likely to have raising money for charity. Throughout October, thousands of budding Michael Eavis's are promoting gigs and club nights across the country. Working......

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their......

We first came across Tack! Tack! Tack! a few months ago when we trotted down to The Social to watch some Swedish pop stars sing songs about boys and tight jeans. It was great! So we figured as the night has an event coming up this Thursday, they'd be the ideal clubnight to launch what will hopefully be a regular feature introducing you to some of the best nights in London. Meet co-promoters Nick......

There's no question in my mind that My Space is a wonderful thing but I find it alternately inspiring and overwhelming when you get a glimpse of the sheer number of bands and promoters are out there trying to do their thing. It doesn't help that at the majority of gigs I've played on the so-called "toilet circuit" I haven't been that keen on the other bands, I'm not someone who will randomly pop......

Not only is Steven Lindsay in possession of a spellbinding voice that's as rich in tone and nuance as a vintage claret, there is also a queue of admirers for the cinematic songs he fashions for it. Keane’s Tom Chaplin and novelist Ian Rankin joined a chorus of critical praise for Lindsay’s 2004 solo debut, Exit Music, and now the urbane singer/songwriter from Glasgow, once leader of chart act The Big Dish, is preparing......

Artist and curator Robert Gordon McHarg III founded the Subway Gallery last year and on 6th of June 2006, the gallery joined the rest of London's art scene. While some galleries like to say they are underground, this one is undeniably so. It's in a pedestrian subway, still open to the public, still used by many people trying to get from one side of Edgware Road to the other. It's, like, totally underground. The......

We were going to write a long detailed explanation of why we're once again doing a weekly blog roundup and then realised that only a few days (and a few centuries) ago Samuel Pepys had done the job for us: (Lord’s day). Lay long in bed, and then up, and being desirous to perform my vowes that I lately made, among others, to be performed this month, I did go to my office, and......

As much as we love blaming stuff on George W Bush even we can't quite accept that as part of the war on terror he's handing out stabbing implements to London's construction workers: A Southfields thug slashed a man across the face with a knife he bizzarely claimed was a gift from US President George Bush. Construction worker Everton Reid, 27, from Keevil Drive, was jailed for four and a half years for the......

We imagine that once we reach retirement age, we might well consider some extensive home-improvement projects to keep us busy. Seems mostly harmless, as long as we’re careful about it. However, one pensioner in Hackney has quite ably shown that home improvement can be taken too far. Far, far too far, in this case. William Lyttle is 75, and is lucky enough to own a big Victorian house in Hackney. Until recently, he was......

I’d like to focus on one topic this week. This Saturday 29th July at The Underworld, Camden, ten bands will come together to play at the Freedom Festival, an all day event organised by the front-man of independent alternative punk/metal band, Djevara. Bass was the instigator behind the well known Scumfest events of 2002/03 which developed from Kerrang!’s “Scumscene” and got coverage from the magazine, also becoming a major source of inspiration for musicians and......

This week I've been getting really excited about all the new bands I keep seeing and hearing. Since starting to play gigs in Lewisham and meeting a lot of the Lewisham/New Cross bands I've been impressed not only by the music but by the sense of community they're building up and the DIY attitude they display in every aspect of their work. They're just doing their thing, releasing independent EPs and split singles, gigging all......

The as yet unfinished Wembley Stadium has been under fire for most of it's embryonic life, at times literally and of late, figuratively. It has been confirmed that the stadium will not be ready in time for the FA Cup final which was to be Wembley's formal unveiling on 13 May, and a new date for the opening cannot be given by Australian building firm Multiplex. Losses have surpassed £75million and are creeping towards......

Blur have pulled out of a secret gig they were supposed to play at the Rhythm Factory tomorrow night. The gig, designed to showcase their first new material since Think Tank, was only announced yesterday and sold out in minutes to members of Blur's fanclub. However yesterday a band spokesman told Fake DIY "The band ultimately felt they couldn’t do justice to a full show right now, and want to concentrate on writing and......

Every year 30 000 souls descend upon the Black Rock desert to live outside the constraints of a commercial world and party their smalls off, climaxing in the burning of a 40 foot effigy. It is the Burning Man festival. Now the burning man ethos is coming to East London this Saturday for London's first Decompression. Built upon the same principals of radical self-expression; radical self reliance; no commerce whatsoever; radical particiaption; and leaving......

- There's to be an 'informal' meeting (jeans and trainers allowed then) on Iran's nuclear program in London today.This was announced by the US yesterday after Tehran resumed nuclear fuel work. - EU regulations on noise pollution mean our clubs might get quieter. - Google has opened it's London 'Googleplex' at Belgrave House in Victoria. - Will the xmas light crapness never end? G4 turned on the Covent Garden lights last night. With a bit......

Ever since Al Jolson opened his gob in the Jazz Singer the worlds of cinema and rock'n'roll have become inextricably linked. You're going to have to go with us on the Jazz Singer rock'n'roll analogy but you know what we mean. Almost 100 years later and we have movie stars wanting to become rock stars (Lyndsey Lohan anyone???) and rock stars wanting to become movie stars (Gene Simmons and half the cast of Singles).......

If you really fancy going to a gig tonight but everything is sold out then you might want to get up to Lock 17 (you know, they used to be Dingwalls and they have a VERY yellow website). Anyway, according to Fake DIY.co.uk the Raveonettes are to play a 'secret' gig up there tonight at around 7. Apparently it's a "'flash mob' show" for T-Mobile, but don't let that put you off. You're advised......

Anyone who knows Londonist knows we like toys, and our favourite destination for a bit of toy shopping is undoubtedly Playlounge off Kingly Court. So imagine our excitement when we learned that Playlounge was organising an exhibition of the hideously collectible Qee toys. To mark the tenth anniversary of their company, Hong Kong-based toy manufacturers Toy2R are currently touring the world with a Qee Expo and it's due to land in London this week.......

Who knew that the battle of the London radio station was such 'headline news'? Look at " target="blank">all the coverage dedicated to the frankly pretty boring news that Heart FM "leapfrogged" its rivals Capital FM and Magic FM in the Radio Joint Audience Research league table. According to the Independent it's the "upbeat playlist of 1980s classics and contemporary hits for thirty-something women" that make Heart FM such a winner, with "Londoners tuned into......

The big 'indie' release this week is Garbage's Bleed Like Me and after a major PR assault, with 'not too threateningly sexy sex symbol for geeks' Shirley Manson even doing a photoshoot disguised as an interview (geeks can keep the kleenex in the box, there's no pictures in the online article) for The Guardian's fashion pages, Garbage are clearly hoping to raise their profile back to the level it was in those heady early......

Today is the 'birthday' of London's most famous, fictitious detective and the most celebrated resident of Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes. The New York Sun seems to be the only paper celebrating the anniversary with this article on the Baker Street Irregulars (the contemporary society not the fictitious gang). But there are of course a number of things you can personally do if you feel like celebrating the great detective. Your first stop should be......