Here’s what we’ve learned while you’ve been battening down your hatches and bringing the cattle in: In the weekend crime round-up…police were rather cross to be shot at on Friday, while there was an unseemly brawl outside Claire’s Accessories (we blame the pink feather boas). And in the wannabe-crime round-up, meet the bunny burglar who managed to cage himself. Shiny new terminal, shiny new security measures: there will be fingerprinting for all at T5.......

It's rocking around to Eurovision time and in case you didn't notice last year, we get pretty excited about it. Admittedly the UK normally seems to send embarrassing rubbish, but every year we have a little hope that the song we select will be actually good. Today the BBC announced the singers hoping to represent the UK and to be honest it's not a great list. Nearly everyone is from a loser from a......

This is what we have learned whilst you have been browsing through holiday brochures this weekend: A pub in Tottenham with a really bad record for trouble is to be shut down. Londonist can think of a few more that should be… A gang fight at a greengrocers has left one man stabbed to death. A met. policeman accused of killing his wife has been found dead. As has his former mother-in-law. People have......

The legendary girls from St Trinians had their premiere last night in Leicester Square. St Trinian's is the 2007 film of the 1950s film series is getting certain bits of the press excited, with a cast that features Rupert Everett in drag, Russell Brand twatting about with no noticeable change of costume or persona, Colin Firth striding about being humourless and lots of attractive women playing schoolgirls. Celia Imrie and Anna Chancellor both have......

We're skint again! We've spent all of our money on festivals only to find that we've spent hours standing in the rain listening to the bands we didn't really want to see but our best mate wanted to because they fancy the singer. This means that yet again, we can't go and do any of the things we want (and yes we're sulking). We can't go to any of the gigs we'd planned to,......

Busy week as ever in the capital for music, so straight in we go: Monday night sees Fountains of Wayne grace the Astoria with their power-pop melodies. Tickets are still available from the usual places, however are going quickly. However if power pop isn't your sort of thing, you can seethe avant-garde guitar experimentalists Wilco play Shepherds Bush Empire on Monday night, which is well and truly sold out. If you like your Joy Division......

The British al Qaida terrorist who planned to blow up the tube has been jailed for a whopping 40 years. Kate Moss is at the forefront of a new National Portrait Gallery exhibition.. The Faces of Fashion exhibition will run from June next year. Meanwhile Kate's waster of a boyfriend was at court again today to be fined for attacking a Radio 1 newsreader he attacked when leaving the same court earlier in the......

To tell you the truth we're getting a bit bored of 90s pop reunions. Take That - yes that's quite funny. All Saints - hooray, their 2nd album was fab. East 17 and the Honeyz? No there is no need! However, we are much more interested however in a few more acts who've taken several members of one band, tweaked it somehow and comeback as a whole new act! That is at least taking a......

Today's Guardian contains a brilliant article by their music writer, Dorian Lynskey, who explains how he went about adapting the London Underground in order to plot the history of 20th century music. The idea is simple and ingenious: each line takes on a certain musical genre, so the Circle Line is pop (because it intersects with everything else of course), the DLR is classical (controversial), and the Northern Line is hip-hop. Key stations are......

After a comment yesterday saying Londonist was a bit biased towards being maybe too cool for school and rock focused with their top choices of the year, I say HOLD YOUR HORSES. It’s time for me. I'm sparkly, shiny and hate Coldplay, Keane, and the dreary sleep inducing song writers of 2005. No doubt I will get lots of comments telling me that most of my likes aren't proper music. Bite me. Top Ten......

It was reported over the weekend that the IOC have been busy putting together "a timetable of deadlines" to meet over the next seven years in the run-up to the Olympics. There isn't much detail on this "timetable of milestones" except for something about sponsorship plans and budgets. However Londonist can reveal that a section of the plan was leaked to us earlier today and we can now give you a sneak peek at......

Not much in the way of new tours this week but worth an honourable mention are: Fightstar, the anti-Busted, who head off next year in support of their debut album, Grand Unification, taking in the Asoria on March 22nd. You know what, they're really not that bad. Rock with funk, but not funk rock, boogie metal titans, Clutch play the Astoria on the 29th January, co-headlining with Corrosion of Conformity. Once upon a time......

Last week, we wore ourselves out so much on Thursday night with JD Samson that we were disappointingly ill the rest of the weekend, and the shoes didn't get put to their full potential. There doesn't seem to be too much exciting new fun to be had this weekend, but if we do go out, these will probably be the places. Tonight we're torn between 2 very cool nights. If you're south of the river,......

It's twenty five years or so since Frank Zappa complained about the (brain) Dead Girls of London and if you sit on a bus around the time that schools get out then you'd be forgiven for thinking that things hadn't changed all that much; a lot of squealing over McFly, arguing over whether Hollyoaks is better than Home & Away and strained a cappella versions of the latest Girls Aloud tune. The TV is......

It's fair to say that Michael Jackson's life isn't going so well right now, what with the child molestation trial and everything, and it's just taken yet another turn for the worse as London's own Heart Fm has taken the decision to remove him from their playlist. Ok, so not totally remove him, but relegate him to times when "there's less chance of children or parents listening". Now we don't have kids, but when......

With ticket prices for gigs now regularly breaking the £20 mark (including that pesky booking fee) it's good to know that you can still get to see some of your favourite bands for mostly free courtesy of the resurgence of the instore performance/signing event. Most of the shows are free although for some of the bigger acts you'll need to pick up a wristband from the store that day and occasionally you will have......

Londonist got its first listen of the Band Aid 20 record this morning when the XFM breakfast show played Do They Know It'sChristmas? as we arose from our overly-central-heated slumber. We were not helped in our efforts to make the transition from asleep to awake when the record started with a Coldplay-esque piano 'riff' (ironically, it later transpired that it was Thom Yorke of Radiohead on the old Joanna). Indeed we were nearly pushed......