The West End will get its first theatre built in a decade, plus shops, offices and flats, if a multi-million-pound regeneration of the shabby eastern tip of Oxford Street gets approval... more
Nobody but Tricky makes such remorselessly foreboding music and nobody presents even a cover of The Cure’s dippy The Love Cats with such unspoken menace.... more
Brave Big Brother reject Chanelle Hayes ignored the booing crowd to perform her debut single at London's G-A-Y night on Saturday. The Victoria Beckham wannabe, 20, failed to win over the notoriously-hard-to-please audience at the Astoria nightclub, who booed her performance of I Want It. After touring smaller nightclubs around Britain to promote her debut single, which is released today, Chanelle was hoping for a warmer response from her gay fans
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London will get a national film centre and a permanent home for its fashion week under Gordon Brown's plans to revive the "Cool Britannia" spirit of new Labour... more
Things might not be going too well for Hundred Reasons but the Surrey quintet refused to sulk at the Astoria 2, performing as if it was the biggest gig of their lives.... more
Things have slipped in dramatic fashion for Orson since topping the charts in 2006. Their Astoria gig was populated by a smattering of friends and a few die-hard fans.... more
An unsigned band from St Albans are celebrating after scooping two gongs at the Kerrang! Awards. Enter Shikari won Best Live Band and the Spirit of Independence Award at the ceremony. ... more
With their silly Death's Head band logo and casual air of nihilism, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club put on a blistering Astoria show to preview their fourth album.... more
Manchester-based singer-songwriter Cherry Ghost is at The Borderline, Stiff Little Fingers play the Astoria and The Good, the Bad and the Queen head for Hammersmith.... more
David Smyth discusses the threat to the Astoria, albums with excessively long track lists and buying songs direct from radio stations in his regular column.... more
Sam Duckworth - aka Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - celebrated his 21st birthday by playing the Astoria. Andre Paine found his music entertaining even if his political rants were confused.... more
Jack White joins his old Detroit mucker Brendan Benson on stage at the Brixton Academy, tuneful Parisians Phoenix play the Astoria and the New York Dolls will be whipping up a storm.... more
The other Mr Adams comes to town (Ryan that is), Beth Orton and Bert Jansch folk it up at the Spitz Festival and Jurassic 5 bring hip-hop to the Astoria. Read about the weekend's best live music here.... more
The future of historic music venue the Astoria is in doubt after the building was sold to developers. But thousands of Londoners have signed a petition to prevent it being turned into shops and flats.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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