This week saw Londonist get incredibly excited about a few live music events. First up, was French pop sensation Yelle, who played an intimate show at the Old Blue Last. Then, we had the Camden Crawl line up which, as ever, is pretty amazing for those of us who value music over sleep. Finally, Sally got (understandably) excited about The King Blues @ the 100 Club. Once we've come down from our excitement of last......

Now Londonist gets to see some pretty cool gigs in the name of keeping you apprised of stuff. But NME staff writers we ain’t, and quite often we can only blog and dream. Someone out there has gotta go see The King Blues supporting at this gig ‘cos we can’t and we’re real sore about it. Londonist was racking our rather small brain trying to think of how best to describe The King Blues’......

As winter's days grow increasingly numbered, it's the time of year when our thoughts must turn toward formulating a survival plan for the most gig-loaded two days we know: the Camden Crawl. Back for its 7th year from 18 - 19 April, Camden Crawl 2008 will see 130 artists playing across the festival's 25 venues along with, for the first time, the addition of an outdoor stage. A variety of daytime activities are planned......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. If you haven't seen the blog, or spotted them in the Guardian, Post Secret's conceit is simple - send a postcard airing a single piece of your dirty laundry. Now there's a book and an accompanying exhibition at Foyles till December the 10th. The new Smoke - a London Peculiar is out too. Here's......

An interesting post on the Wooster Collective caught our eye this morning (and a few of yours too - thanks to everyone who dropped us an email pointing to this): The King's Cross area is currently being knocked down, cleaned up, rebuilt and gentrified in time for the 2012 Olympics. As a consequence of this, a large population of people who live and work on the street are being displaced. Many of these people......

Following our visit to St Pancras Old Church, the next destination in our exploration of St Pancras was The British Library. Retracing our steps back through the seemingly deserted Somers Town, we walked into the spick-and-span building of the UK’s national library. The building’s contemporary design almost seemed to be intended to obscure much of its history, which was quite a contrast after the much-less-spoilt church that we had just visited. Still, we suppose......

Have you worked out Peter Bradshaw's hidden code yet? In his review of The Da Vinci Code in today's Guardian, Bradders wraps up his rather disturbing critique of the Ron Howard conspiracy flick with this even more disturbing revelation: Well, every decoding is another encoding, as the structuralists used to say, and here is a paragraph by Leonardo about cryptography I have discovered in the British Library... We then get a lengthy passage about......

The FrightFest has crept a little bit closer so it's time to give you a little more incentive to spend at least part of that weekend locked inside the Odeon like the cast of Lamberto Bava's Demons. In our opinion there are TWO big reasons to go along to the FrightFest this year. One of them is George Romero's Land of the Dead which we'll be reviewing tomorrow and the other is Nightwatch. Russian......

We've often thought of Drowned In Sound as an indespensable source of culture, but were somewhat surprised to see their story on Radio 2's poll for the best ever stage musical. Over 400 000 people managed to get it totally wrong by coming up with the following list: 1 Les Miserables 2 The Phantom of the Opera 3 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 4 The King and I 5 Sunset Boulevard 6 Evita 7......

News of more free stuff here at Londonist, this time for those of you who can't actually be arsed to go out. Anyone with a passing acquaintance with BBC TV or BBC Radio may have noticed they've gone a bit Beethoven barmy. Between BBC Four, BBC2 and BBC Radio 3 Beethoven's entire body of works will be broadcast, allowing you to get acquainted with some of the more obscure gems in the canon. Londonist......