Move over Manchester, Shepherd's Bush has been officially proclaimed the rock and roll capital of Britain (based on population). A survey conducted by Guitar RockStar found that the West London neighbourhood with a population of 11,000 proudly boasts one rock star for every 1,222 residents. Shepherd's Bush was the birthplace of three quarters of the Who, two Sex Pistols, and half of the Clash, as well as being the adopted home of Pete Doherty.......

L-R: Ed Harcourt, Baby Gramps, Sandy Dillon, Gavin Friday When Hal Willner takes the stage dressed as a pirate to introduce wily mountain man Baby Gramps, the show ahead is guaranteed to be out of the ordinary. After the third or fourth performer, the artists got tired of calling "ahoy!" and growling "arrrrgh," but it made the evening no less nautical. Running nearly four hours with no interval, the show was something of a test......

Enjoy a night of pirate-themed revelry without the risk of scurvy. On Monday, 28 July, the Barbican will be hosting Rogue's Gallery -- Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys as part of their Only Connect series. The evening will feature songs from the two disc compilation of the same name, the brainchild of Johnny Depp and Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski and produced by Hal Willner. Some songs maintain a more traditional,......

So the worst has happened. You've got yourself in a spot of drug-related bother (possibly after following Croydon's cut-out-and-keep guide) and been sent down to do a bid. Worse still, that pill-popping has left you with a fiendish habit, all cold sweats and shaky hands without that daily fix. How to feed the drug monkey on your back? See if you can score a transfer to Wandsworth Prison. According to a report by the......

The Boys (of the International Olympic Committee) are back in town . And everything’s looking peachy. Boris may be a bit short of funds for Crossrail. Pete Doherty seems to be able to play football. Is there no end to his talents? Walthamstow Race Track is going to the dogs. Well, actually, and very sadly we might add, it’s been sold to developers The mystery dude who spent sixty million on paintings last week......

London collectively yawned as Amy Winehouse was arrested then released on bail last night in her duel with Pete Doherty to become London's most-wanted, drug-addled musician. To her credit, she did go to an east London police station voluntarily. She was called in based on her "alleged possession of a controlled drug" and an investigation involving some fun video footage that supposedly shows ol' Ames smoking crack. We think Best Week Ever said it best......

The Post Offices which are to close are named (and mourned). There’s been yet another stabbing in South London. In the Kings Road siege incident, it has been revealed that the dead man was a barrister, and that he left a note for his wife. It’s all very strange and sad. The Zip Card: kiddies need to carry a valid travel card from now on, which they will forfeit if they misbehave. Pete Doherty......

Pete Doherty is a free man and roaming the streets once again. The Babyshambles singer was released from jail today, just 29 days into his 14-week sentence. Doherty showed the media his certificate proving he passed his drug test as he left Wormwood Scrubs. It’s all very well and good that Pete’s proven he’s clean, but considering he was jailed for missing appoints with his probation officer, is it really advisable to release him......

Apparently, Her Majesty's prisons are so full of inmates that some convicted of terrorism offences have been let out early to make space. Now Babyshambles bad boy Pete Doherty has been sent to fill the gap: he'll be serving a 14-week sentence on parole violations, following last October's suspended sentence for drugs and illegal driving. It's hardly a surprise, seeing as he's been flirting with incarceration for some months. But this time it looks......

The London Art Fair opened to the public today in Islington. It's a massive art trade fair with modern and contemporary art to buy. There were many smart, be-scarved or brightly tie-d artsy types manning stalls looking bored or eating sandwiches and lots and lots of interesting art to ponder, point at and take photos of, which is apparently acceptable (I'm taking a photo to see if Flavia likes it, yah....). This is a......

It’s almost Christmas! Over the Christmas holidays, we’ll be here every day recommending the best of what’s on television. We’ll do the hard work, slogging through the TV listings, and let you sit back with a nice hot drink and a mince pie. Enjoy! On TV, Londonist likes: Strictly Come Dancing (BBC1, 17:50-19:15 and 21:25-22:10) While we haven’t been keeping up with the excitement of this year’s dancing fun, we know lots of you......

Pete Doherty wants to run the London marathon. We're sure many people will sneer at this idea, what with Pete's history of performance restricting drugs, his post-rehab bloatedness, and his jaunty hat, which will have to be held on with an elastic strap if he is to continue to look like a handsome East end libertine/bohemian counter cultural icon/twat* (*delete as appropriate). However, we welcome his decision to take up exercise. We're sure that he's......

Londonist was rapped on the nose the other week for cocking a snooty snook at the unending, Tube-clogging newspaper coverage of the travails of Ms. Winehouse, while - yes - covering the story ourselves. Cowed and humbled, we bring you the latest from Chez Amy without any further editorial pawmarks. With her hubby incarcerated and her private life a whorl of drug-taking and rumours of ill health, Amy has wisely decided a change of......

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend: Today is Remembrance Sunday which actually falls on 11th November - Armistice Day. The Queen and other Royals attended the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall last night. The Ceremony of Remembrance and Cenotaph Parade take place on Whitehall from 10.30am with Two Minute Silence at 11:00am. There was some pomp, circumstance and kids with strawberries on their heads at the Lord Mayor's Show yesterday. The......

Here's what else has been going on while you've been at The Notting Hill Festival: This weekend's news: It's possible there could be a new Thames Barrier built. More people have been shot in North London. Toddler dies in swimming pool. Authorities agree to give bus drivers more toilets. How nice. Mum fights web drug dealers. Hooray for cyber mum! And here's what we think might happen next week: Pete Doherty arrested. Again. Amy......

Halifax Bank harasses woman who doesn't even have a current account with them . High C-charge for gas-guzzlers a step closer. Why do we call them 'gas guzzlers'? We are not Yanks goddamn it. How about 'fuel farters' or 'petrol pumping pollution promoters'? OK, I think we just answered our own question. Pete Doherty goes to jail for a very long time. No, of course not. The BBC are looking for little green corners.......

Spitalfields Market, in case you hadn't noticed, has been undergoing a major facelift. Last year, the revamped western end reopened with trendy boutiques and eateries, amid grumbles from some quarters that the area would lose its character (it hasn't). Now it's the turn of the central market. This has now closed for around 3 months while the floor is refurbished. The usual Thursday, Friday and Sunday markets will be moved to a spot on......

Try as he might, Pete Doherty just can't stay out of the headlines. Last time we wrote about him, he was getting his wrist slapped by the police for being a naughty boy. Now, it's long suffering girlfriend (or fiance? who can keep up?) Kate who's giving him the grilling. The news comes just after pretty pants designer Agent Provacateur left Ms Moss on the shelf for their next campaign (yes, even after that......

Who is Pete Doherty? Get ready for a shock: Pete Doherty has had his wrist slapped again. What for this time? Assault? Possession of a dangerous weapon? No… surely not drugs again? Does anybody really care? Was anyone surprised? Will it happen again? Of course. Who on earth is Pete Doherty? OK, he sang in a band or two for a while…but that didn’t end too well - remember the cocaine shenanigans a few......

The Independent Online has a loved-up profile of Pete Doherty. His PR people must be on red alert, as yesterday the Daily Mail’s A.N. Wilson was blaming him and Kate Moss for the murders of the five women in Suffolk. It was an unusually reasonable piece to begin with, asking why the media don’t discuss the womens’ drug use, and then Wilson loses it by going into frothy-mouth mode. Nick Hasted's profile chronicles Doherty’s......

We're making something of a habit of this today, posting photographs of criminals that is. Fortunately, we know how to find this one - all you have to do is wait silently in the dark of night and listen out for his idiosyncratic sound, that of a car careering into something stationary. Unfortunately however, it doesn't look like this one is ever going to be locked up (and why would he be, his 'rehabilitation'......

London's theatre museum may be closed packed up and moved to Blackpool! Travel on the Northern, Jubilee or Piccadilly lines? Prepare for dirt! Your tube cleaners might be getting sacked. 'Left Behind: Eternal' - a new video game which sees depicts a crusade of violence by Christians looks set to be a Christmas best seller! One of our favourite TV comedies of the year, the Jack Dee written Lead Balloon has been given a......

As if you couldn't get enough of her...now Fred Vermorel, the author of Kate's unofficial biography 'Addicted to Love' is offering up the contents of Kate's discarded underwear. The part-time Kingston University lecturer, and author of biographies of Vivienne Westwood and the Sex Pistols, claims he received the basque from a friend of his. When pressed on what he had done with the no-doubt fashionable little number, he said "I DNA-tested it just to......

Last time we wrote about a list the NME had published, they tried to sue us. This time we're actually impressed by what they've written. Yes, it's time for that all important 'how cool am i today list' aka the NME 2006 Cool List. Instead of people like Pete Doherty and Alex Turner, who ruled the roost last year, this years list is surprising. It's topped by a woman: a woman who is not......

Olympic organizer Jack Lemley has unexpectedly quit seven months into a four-year term, leaving us without anyone in charge of construction. And talking of the Olympics: Animal activists have said that they will target the 2012 Games. No word yet on whether the animal kingdom will have advanced sufficently to compete by then, but I for one welcome out new animathlete overlords. The man who broke into Number 10 carrying a knife recently, has......

It's surprising how much Londonist skin ends up covered in ink - and we're not just talking about the days that M@ leaves his pocket protector at home and has a Bic explosion. We quite like having needles shoved into us (just not in the 'Hey look I'm a wanker' Pete Doherty way) so we're looking forward to this year's International London Tattoo Convention: The list of artists who will be setting up stall......

Well, London Fashion Week begins today and the first story of the week isn't the usual Is London still fashionable nonsense, but something slightly less shallow: thin models. On one side you've got Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, who wants the LFW organisers to ban what she calls "stick-thin" models from its catwalks. And on the other side you've got the British Fashion Council who run the whole shebang, saying that it's not their place......

Just a quick bit of news to cheer you up on this grey, drizzly morning: Pete Doherty has had his car towed! Apparently the junkie knobhead hadn't paid £170 road tax on his Jaguar (although we read somewhere else that he'd got unpaid fines for driving in bus lanes - rock and roll!). Anyway he didn't pay whatever he was supposed to pay and the car got towed by bailifs from outside his house......

The man who cut his wrists in Malcolm Rifkind's Chelsea office before trying to daub slogans on the walls with his own blood, has been found guilty of criminal damage. For the two or three people who haven't heard this incredibly bit of important news yet: Lindsay Lohan had her handbag half inched at Heathrow airport. It contained a ton of diamonds and some asthma medication. Pete Doherty has put in a request to......

The Met's handling of a harassment complaint from 22-year-old Peter Woodham, who was later shot dead near his home, was "unacceptable", a senior officer said today. Tories have accused the Government of not acting quickly enough to introduce new security scanners at airports and on the Tube. Police have arrested seven people in connection with a scam in which Mercedes cars are stolen to order before being stripped down in a yard in Stratford......