Some say there are over 100,000 Poles now living in London. You may be getting to know their pierogi or drinking their wódkas - but just how much do you know about Polish pop music? The UK's first Polish pop music festival - PKO BP London Live - being held on September 7 at Wembley Arena gives you a chance to find out more. The festival - free to attend - will be an......

Be there first: After all the brouhaha over the From Russia paintings, this is surely the show to see in its opening week. Stunning, inspirational works by the likes of Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin, Matisse, Kandinsky, Tatlin and Malevich come to the Royal Academy from Saturday. This is jaw-dropping art you'd normally only get to see with a deep, heavy, carbon-footprint inducing flight to Russia, we're lucky enough to have it on our doorsteps until......

Ten years after storming Wembley Arena with his revival of the 1976 album, Oxygene, its creator and performer, French synth maestro Jean-Michel Jarre, is back in town... to play exactly the same thing again, only this time in the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday, March 30th. The 59 year-old has released 18 studio albums in his 36 year career so far so we'd have hoped he'd have seen fit to treat us, say, to......

After a quick break travelling the US, this Londonista is back to normality bringing the weekly roundup of whats happening in London. Monday night sees Oakland metal stars High on Fire grace UL. Tickets are available for £12 each on the door or from See tickets. Reformed 90's Brit rockers Shed Seven grace Shepherds Bush Empire, with a few tickets left at £17.50 each, if you really must indulge your nostalgia. Finally, Scritti Politti plays......

To be honest the rain and coldness is kind of making us not want to go to gigs at the moment, preferring instead to wrap ourselves up warmly at home. But if we did, this is what we'd be bouncing at. Monday: The biggie tomorrow is of course Led Zep at the O2, but you've more chance of meeting Santa than getting tickets for that. So instead, forget the dinosaurs and try something new......

Cult canadian star Feist is back in the UK playing a sold out date at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on Monday night. Now "1, 2, 3, 4" is all over an advert it might be tricky to find tix but we reckon the ever reliable XXX. Kill Hannah bring their Chicago rock to Kings College with I Was A Cub Scout and Saving Aimee supporting. Tickets are £7.50 and here and American R&B lothario......

Hard-Fi have announced a massive UK tour of arenas throughout the land, including a night at Wembley Arena. They’ll be bringing their tales of urban hell to Wembley on Tuesday 18th December, with tickets on sale tomorrow morning at 9am. For those quick off the mark on their refresh buttons, Bloc Party play Camden Barfly (yes, you’ve heard me right – they’ve sold out two nights at Ally Pally but they’re doing a miniscule show)......

Sting and Co bring The Police to Wembley Arena on Saturday 20th October to finish off their European tour before jetting off to North America. Tickets go on sale at 9am tomorrow, but expect them to go quickly. Madness plays the O2 on Friday 14th November as part of a quick UK arena tour. Tickets are on sale at 9am tomorrow morning. Kanye West brings his “Glow in the Dark Tour” to London in......

As has been the case for the last few weeks, very few new gigs have gone on sale this week, or are scheduled for tomorrow, but even so here’s the best of the new ones. The biggest perhaps is Marilyn Manson, who has announced a short three date tour of the UK, stopping in London, Manchester and Birmingham. His Wembley Arena date is on Wednesday 5th December, and tickets go on sale at 9am tomorrow......

As both bands and fans saunter back to the capital with the mother of all hangovers from Glastonbury, this week is a bit slow for music in the capital. Things are also running a bit slow for this Londonista, thus the later than normal posting of this weeks listings. Tonight sees Camden post-hardcore Hell is for Heroes play the Barfly, whilst Jason Molina fronted alt-country collective Magnolia Electric Co. play Scala. Hell is For Heroes......

Busy week for music as bands start to warm up for the massive festival known as Glastonbury next weekend. Monday night sees Pearl Jam grace Wembley Arena, with support coming more than ably from the brilliant Idlewild. Tickets are sold out; however as always check for a last minute allocation or Scarlet Mist for a fair deal. Doors are at 6pm. Everyone’s favourite Liverpudlians The Coral grace the Astoria as a warm up for Glastonbury,......

Tickets are going on sale at the moment for a lot of the Autumn gigs, so be sure to get your diaries out for this little collection of gems to catch soon. Everyone loves the Manic Street Preachers, and they've just announced a new full UK tour, where they'll be playing Brixton Academy on Tuesday 11th December. They're on sale slightly later than other tickets at 9:30 on Friday. KT Tunstall brings her own......

Lots on sale tomorrow morning and today, so straight in we go. First up, Smashing Pumpkins have announced a one off date at Shepherds Bush Empire on Tuesday 19th June, ahead of their (sure to be) sensational return to Reading and Leeds Festivals. Tickets are sure to go quickly, so make sure you're there are 9:30 tomorrow morning to catch them. Londonist favourite Mika has announced two London shows as part of a full UK......

Not very much on sale this week, however below are some of the hottest new gigs that are on sale now or will be at 9am on Friday 25th May. Stereophonics have announced a UK Arena tour for November. They'll be playing Wembley Arena on Thursday 15th November, and tickets are sure to sell out quickly, so make sure your there at 9am tomorrow to get yours! The Coral are back with a date at......

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......

It's the time of year that sends compulsive list makers in to a frenzy, and this girl is no exception. It's the Notes From The City Official 2006 End Of Year Things-That-Laura-Liked Summary - catchy! It's as much a list of things I really think everyone should check out as a list of my favourite things from the year, so follow the links at will... Top 10 Albums 1. The Eraser - Thom Yorke 2.......

Ken better watch out. The pigeon protesters are coming to get him! A restaurant in Mayfair has been giving away free food all week after their trading licence was delayed. Free food is so our favourite type of free. UKTV have announced a new show partly broadcast from Borough Market. Go and pull faces behind Clarissa won't you. And finally, looking for a way to spend New Year Eve? This sounds pretty ace -......

As a Girl Guide in Cyprus in the early 1990s I thought I had it good. Singing, dancing, doing crafts, collecting clothes from the neighbourhood for recycling…it was a lot of fun. The annual Guide camp was the pinnacle of the year – I loved camping out under the stars and cooking breakfast over a gas stove every morning. The in-fighting, bullying and politics were another matter, but to get the opportunity to do......

The missing teenager and her 18-month-old cousin who went missing from Fulham last Thursday have been found safe and well in Harrow. The FA are apparently confident that next season's FA Cup will be held at Wembley and they have no plans to book the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff (might be all down the park then). Following the tat extravaganza that was last year's debut London International Tattoo Convention, the second one has just......

Will Howling Belles play blues-fuelled rock that's being variously compared to the likes of Mazzy Star, The Kills and The Duke Spirit at the ICA on the 27th July? You can bet your sweaty jeans on it. This one we rather recommend. Guns'n'Roses are back at Wembley Arena on July 30th, so interest can't have waned that much then. Will they play anything by Slash's Snakepit? Hmm, you never know. Although probably not. Disco......

Tickets for Madonna's Wembley Arena shows on August 1st and 3rd, go on sale at 9 and off sale at a few seconds past 14 more swans tested for avian flu. Is it time for a national panic yet? The Judas gospel: "Jesus made me do it..." Well Christianity wouldn't have got far without him. Northumberland allotment terrorised by rabbit. The rabbit is not known to have been trained by Al-Qaeda or the CIA.......

With news that Wembley's Take That concert has been moved to Milton Keynes Bowl, 90s pop fans across London must be feeling a bit grumpy. But have no fear, for tickets have today gone on sale for what sound like two of the most unnecessary come-backs going... First up, it's the street version of Take That, London's very own East 17. Clocking up twelve top ten hits including a Xmas number 1 between 1992......

It's a quiet Friday on the new gigs front too. Sir Tom Jones plays Wembley Arena (since no one's now playing the Stadium) on 28th October, piano man Billy Joel does the same on the 10th July, and the aptly named Arena Tour completes our nightmarish trilogy at the Arena on the 5th October where you can find out what the hell happened to Eternal, Boys II Men, Tunde (the voice of Lighthouse Family),......

The big release for this week has to be Radiohead's two dates at Hammersmith, which go on sale tomorrow from 9am. A chance to hear new material, and a welcome return for a band who've become a considerably entertaining live force of late, whilst undertaking an ever more perplexing attitude to their studio work. It's going to be fastest fingers first, since a fanclub presale brought their own, generally well regarded, site down. Not......

Coming to you a few days early to give you some advanced warning on a few big shows out this Friday and let you know of a few others hanging around. First up and already on sale here are the Teenage Cancer Trust shows at the Royal Albert Hall. A stirling line up for all shapes and sizes is available with only the Cure show sold out at the time of typing. They are:......

If you're reading this at any time past 9 this morning chances are all the tickets for the following three gigs are gone. Take That, minus Robbie as if we didn't know - but they'd sure be happy if he donned his overalls and joined them, play Wembley Arena on the 8th and 9th of May. Birds are expected to fall from their telephone wire perches as thousands of decibels of high-pitched screams echo......

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......

You may have noticed that we skipped this week's mid week listings post. That's because we've decided to roll them into one bumper Friday post combining new tour announcements and a randomly bizarre recommendation of gigs for the week ahead. There's a bumper crop of shows to mention this week, but not until we've stopped laughing at the news that Justin Hawkins of The Darkness bought back a copy of their forthcoming album off......

A heavy duty start to this week's new listings with Brazilian thrash titans Soulfly, getting some kind of cheesy Londonist thumbs up of the week, back over here on the 7th February at the Astoria to pummel some heads with their excellent new Dark Ages album. Trivium's star is certainly shining in the metal firmament at the moment so a somewhat triumphant return to the Astoria on March 15th. Sludge rockers Monster Magnet, again......

It's a very modern quandry: if a man pays £279 for two tickets to a Shania Twain concert, who should be punished: the man who sold him the (horribly overpriced) tickets or the man who was stupid enough to buy them? Ok, so we're being a little facetious but seriously: nearly three hundered quid to see Shania Twain at Wembley Arena, one of the worst venues in the city? According to the papers the......