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Monday 29th
Rothko
Mark Rothko's work is some of the most instantly recognisable of the Twentieth Century. And the problem with overexposure on the scale that Rothko has faced (along with the likes of Van Gogh, Picasso, Dalí and Monet) is that it is difficult to see the works afresh, to see them for themselves and not simply something that has appeared in print... read on
Tate Modern
Bankside
SE1 9TG
Mark Rothko
Art, Gallery, Painting
Siouxsie
The gothic icon, darkwave pioneer and former Siouxsie and the Banshees singer plays a solo show at Koko tonight.
She released her first solo album 'MantaRay' last year, and her career is set for an Indian summer.
Koko
1A Camden High Street
NW1 7JE
Siouxsie
Rock
Tuesday 30th
Enter Shikari
Enter Shikari play a special intimate show at the Underworld tonight, which sold out in milliseconds.
Those lucky enough to be in attendance will be blown away by these metal-rave gods.
Underworld
174 Camden High Street
NW1 0NE
Enter Shikari
Metal
Memory
Welsh playwright Jonathan Lichtenstein and director Terry Hands team up to bring this postmodern play-within-a-play to the Pleasance. It's an elegantly constructed ninety minutes about a company rehearsal, an elderly Holocaust survivor and a crisis in modern Bethlehem. Drawing parallels between the Holocaust and the current restrictions imposed on Palestinians... read onPleasance Theatre
41 Carpenter's Mews
N7 9DP
Tragedy, Melodrama
Wednesday 1st
Laughter In Odd Places
Laughter In Odd Places is a monthly (ish!) club that was set up by quirky comics Terry Saunders and Tom Bell after they'd had enough of playing smelly little pub rooms full of noisy drunk people. So far, they've had comedy gigs in a record shop, a cafe, a library, a charity shop, a book shop, a heath, a museum, a gallery and even comedy reviewer Bruce... read onBorders Bookshop
122 Charing Cross Road
WC2H 0JR
Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Tom Bell
+ moreStand Up, Sketches
Seasick Steve
Steve Wold, aka Seasick Steve, plays his biggest Uk show to date tonight at the Albert Hall, as he celebrates his rapid rise on the back of 2006's slow-burning hit album 'Dog House Music'.
He's been a busking tramp, produced Modest Mouse and blown away the crowds at Glasto and on Later... With Jools Holland. A true blues rock journeyman.
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
SW7 2AP
Seasick Steve, Amy LaVere
Blues, Folk, Rock
Thursday 2nd
Christopher Morris: My America
America's a funny old place huh? It must be a dream for photographers like Christopher Morris. Morris is perhaps best-known for his war photojournalism, but since 2000 he has set about recordinging the political peculiarities of his homeland. He has documented the travels of George W Bush for Time Magazine and covered the recent campaigns of both John... read onHOST Gallery
1 Honduras Street
EC1Y 0TH
Christopher Morris
Art, Gallery, Photography
Ed Byrne: Different Class
'Half toff, half pikey'... all comic! Comedy favourite Ed Byrne brings a blisteringly funny show to Riverside Studios about marriage, class, the youth of today and anything else that strikes him as humorous. This show went down a storm in Edinburgh and received a string of 5-star reviews. Here Byrne demonstrates that he's lost none of the Irish char... read onRiverside Studios
Crisp Road
W6 9RL
Ed Byrne
Stand Up
Concrete and Glass
Concrete and Glass eh? It'd sure be pretty tough to build a city without those two little babies. To celebrate the East in all its ostensibly gritty glory, Concrete and Glass is a two-day festival of live music and arty happenings taking place across 18 music venues, a load of galleries and over 30 'alternative sites' - i.e. disused shops, warehouses... read onVarious Shoreditch & Hoxton Venues
James Holden, Pete and the Pirates, Gavin Turk
+ moreInstallation, Indie, Electro
Friday 3rd
Rivane Neuenschwander
It's always interesting when a gallery allows an artist to totally transform the space - one wonders how they get it all back to normal afterwards. But that's neither here nor there. What is both here and there (what?) is that Brazilian contemporary artist Rivane Neuenschwander has taken over the South London Gallery for a couple of months, and what... read onSouth London Gallery
65 Peckham Road
SE5 8UH
Rivane Neuenschwander
+ moreArt, Gallery, Installation
Z Shed
The Z-Shed returns for another session of sicko bass, this time in partnership with the Random Audio label. There's a live headline slot from unhinged rave cabaret collective Monster Zoku Onsomb, plus Rag & Bone's Kanji Kinetic, operating on the lunatic fringe of the bassline/niche sound. Also look out for Night Slugs resident L-Vis 1990, with his... read onHub Club
2 Goulston Street
E1 7TP
Ray Pest, Monster Zoku Onsomb
+ moreGarage, Dubstep, Electro
Dethscalator
Stoke Newington may be the last place that comes to mind when you think of sludge metal, but turn over enough stones and you'll find Dethscalator - one of the scuzziest of the lot!
Sounding like an unholy pairing of Black Sabbath and Big Business they make music that Chaos Vs Cosmos described as "wuuurwuuurwuuuur CLANG! - Aaaaaaaaaagh!'
The Montague Arms
289 Queens Road
SE15 2PA
Dethscalator
Metal, Rock
Saturday 4th
Dystopia for All
Check out all the dudes involved in this little project! Gavin Turk, Gordon Cheung, Lee Maelzer, Martin Creed, Will Tuck, Dallas Seitz... bloody Nora, should be ace! Art. Art. Art. Not actually at Carter Presents, but up the road in the Wenlock Building. A load of great artists and contemporary galleries (David Risley, Carter Presents, Seventee... read onWenlock Building
Wenlock Road
N1 7SL
Alison Wilding, Gavin Turk
+ moreArt, Performance Art, Gallery, Video, Installation, Painting
Prologue
Prologue is one of London's longest-standing and most popular club nights and one which has been recently rehoused in East Village. With music ranging from deep tech house to the funkier side - as well as plenty of classics - Prologue is continuously pushing the boundaries, developing the newest sounds and playing cutting edge styles. Past guests hav... read onEast Village
89 Great Eastern Street
EC2A 3HX
Bugz In The Attic, Joe Le Groove
+ moreElectro, House, Drum & Bass, Pop
Liquid Liquid
Famed New York no wave pioneers Liquid Liquid are one of the most important bands of the post punk movement, being one of the first groups to combine the sparse angular rhythms of punk rock with heavy percussion taken from the city's then vibrant funk and disco scenes. Reforming for a one off show tonight in celebration of Domino Record's Crystal Anniversary... read onThe Barbican
Silk Street
EC2Y 8DS
Liquid Liquid, Junior Boys, Optimo
Punk
Sunday 5th
Smoke
Good old London. For a minute it looked like nothing good was happening this October. Apart from the Turner Prize, Warhol at the Hayward, the opening of the Saatchi Gallery... OK there's loads of great stuff, but this looks like one of the best. It's called 'Smoke' and it's taking place at Pump House Gallery in Wandsworth. (Is it just us or is South... read onPump House Gallery
Battersea Park
SW11 4NJ
Simon Patterson
+ moreArt, Gallery, Video, Performance Art, Photography, Installation
Sunday Special
Sunday can tend to be a bit of a lost day at the weekend, spent in bed, on the sofa or wasted away in the pub. Thankfully, Up The Creek comedy club is on hand once a week to get you out to the Sunday Special - a brilliant music, cabaret and comedy night, with a young, enthusiastic crowd, a house jazz band and a 'lucky dip' open spot for anyone wanting... read onUp The Creek
302 Creek Road
SE10 9SW
Ed Aczel, Greg Davies, Phil Kay
+ moreStand Up, As Seen on TV, Fringe
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