The Old Queens Head on Essex Road is home to one of the very first solo gigs from ex Pipette Rosay tonight. Now performing as Rose Elinor Dougal, we're told she's ditched the retro vibes of the polka dot princesses and created a year zero for herself using the music of Broadcast, Penguin Cafe Orchestra and The Silver Apples as a base. Rose plays at 8.30 as part of The Cool Fun Club alongside French......

Free gigs ahoy! The Pipettes have announced they're to play a date at Koko on September 2 and the best bit is it's free! Well, kind of. You do have to pay a £2.50 postage fee (!) but for that you can bagsy yourself four tickets to see the new Pipettes 3.0 line-up courtesy of AOL. There's two further acts playing that night that are yet to be announced but we're hoping one of......

Londonist has been big fans of The Pipettes ever since their first polka dotted dress rolled off the production line back in 2004. We've banged on about them a hell of a lot so it's with some sadness today that we have to report the leaving of the two original members of the band. In a press release issued by Polydor Records (so they've obviously moved up in the world!) The Pipettes declared that......