The annual jaunt to Victoria Park for Groove Armada's Lovebox festival is always one of the highlights of the summer for us at Londonist. And 'cos the sun is shining today, we thought we'd remind you of summer by offering up three copies of the 'Lovebox Weekender' double CD compilation for you to win. Put together with some of the best artists from our Lovebox as well as the one in Ibiza, both Tom......

Perhaps the biggest announcement this week is that McFly are doing another tour of smaller venues around the country, calling at the Astoria on Thursday 18th October. Tickets go on sale on Saturday morning at 10am reportedly. Expect throngs of sweaty teenage girls, screams and queues from lunchtime when they hit the capital. Rodrigo y Gabriela are playing Hammersmith Apollo on Sunday 9th December. Tickets went on sale this morning at 9am. Wilco have announced......

They've taken over our music, they'll be taking over our phones later on in the year, but now partnered with Channel 4 and many others Apple have taken over our weekends by absolutely stomping through Saturday night with intimate performances at the ICA from Beardyman, Mutya Buena and Groove Armada. There are no ticket retailers, there are no touts, these are the hottest tickets in town and you can only get them from the......

As part of the iTunes festival taking place at the ICA in July, we've just landed our hands on two pairs of tickets to the Groove Armada night a week on Saturday (7th July). At the concert, the boys will be supporting by London tyke Mutya Buena and beatboxing champion Beardyman. If you've not already heard it then you can no doubt expect to see Mutya & GA team up for a performance of......

iTunes announced a few weeks ago that they'll host a month of gigs at the ICA throughout July. Tiny gigs for many of the bands, the ICA holds only 350 people, and each gig will be professionally recorded to be available on iTunes. The events features some of today's biggest bands, with the likes of Londonist favourites Mika along with Stereophonics, Amy Winehouse, Editors, Groove Armada and Duke Special all gracing the stage throughout......

Every time we attend a festival at Victoria Park, it rains. We’re beginning to think that we’re just bad luck for the area. Our attendance yesterday at the Day One of the Lovebox Weekender was no exception. As we stepped off the bus near the edge of the park, our presence seemed to invoke a light drizzle, which soon pulled itself together and turned into a persistent light rain, to the obvious delight of......