Robin Rhode

Witty work across a wide variety of media from South African contemporary artist Robin Rhode.

Utilising drawing, video, photography, sculpture and performance, Rhode enacts visual puns like trying to blow out a candle that he's sketched or drawing a picture of a bicycle and attempting to ride it.

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The Kransky Sisters

Venturing out from the intensely private world of their old family home in Esk, rural Queensland, The Kransky Sisters arrive at Leicester Square Theatre's  'Big Joke' Festival with stories of their travels and some very unique home-spun renditions of popular tunes. Mourne, Eve and the decidedly shy Dawn Kransky use tambourines, a tuba, a musica... read on

Fat Tuesdays

Fat Tuesdays is a fortnightly midweek comedy night compered by cheerful funnyman, Tiernan Douieb.

Hosting the likes of seasoned stand up specialists like Stewart Lee, Robin Ince, Simon Munnery and Reginald D. Hunter alongside TV comics including Russell Brand and Simon Amstell, Fat Tuesdays aim to show you the very best of live stand up.

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Ladyhawke

New Zealand's electro-pop siren Ladyhawke (aka pip Brown) headlines at the Scala tonight, plugging her eponymous debut album.

She hit the charts earlier this year with 'Paris Is Burning', and will be hoping to improve on the no.61 placing with new effort 'Dusk Til Dawn'.

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Elephant Man

A new version of the life of John Merrick, the hideously deformed man rescued from destitution and transformed into a favourite of Victorian high society, and even Queen Victoria herself, by the intervention of physician Frederick Treves.Merrick was a sensitive soul who wrote prose and poetry and exerted control over his own affairs most of his life,... read on

Proud Presents

Proud Presents is the new weekly live showcase in the bigger, brighter and better Proud Camden.

 

Tonight they've got former Ruff Sqwad grimester Tinchy Stryder, performing tracks from his album 'Star in the Hood'.

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The Manifestation

Collaborative performance/installation art at Cafe Gallery Projects this month. Or is it? Well, the exhibition professes to be founded on the 'global dialogues' between artists Tania Koswcyz and Richard Layzell that have taken place over the past five years. But it turns out that Tania Koswycz does not exist. So God knows what this might be about, some... read on

Pete Molinari Band

Bluesy indie-folk troubadour Pete Molinari headlines at Dingwalls tonight with a full backing band, playing tracks from his album 'A Virtual Landslide'.

A protege of legendary Medway polymath Billy Childish, Molinari has been compared to the likes of Billy Holliday, Roy Orbison and Van Morrison.

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Paperweight

Top of the World theatre won the Scotsman First Fringe Award 2008 just now in Edinburgh for this show about two men driven mad by their pointless office jobs. It not only struck a chord, but also managed to be inventive and surprising. A modern day office-bound Samuel Beckett would recognise the pointlessness and cruelty of this existence, brilliantly... read on

Bush Hall Presents

This elegant Edwardian music hall is a fine setting for hosting some of then best comedians on the circuit and they really are. No local children's entertainers here - recently they have had cult comedy heroes like Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Tom Basden and Richard Herring performing live and this month looks pretty special too. British Comedy Award Winner... read on

These New Puritans

Rockfeedback present Essex dance/punk/rockers These New Puritans at the Monarch tonight, playing tracks from their debut album 'Beat Pyramid'. They've been on the fringes of the indie scene since around 2005, and their record rightly gained positive reviews from all angles. As an added treat, French folk-popsters John and Jehn are also on the bill tonight... read on

Chew the Fat 11th Birthday

With Paul Arnold at the helm, this monthly at The End began as a stunning showcase of breaks and has developed into a cacophony of all things electronic – namely techno, tech house and electro with a fair bit of genre-bending going on. If you like your tuneage to kick like a mule; tough beats and a bang up for it crowd, Chew The Fat is inevitably... read on

Circo Loco DC10 Reunion Party

To ease the pain of those who didn't make it to Ibiza this year, DC10 and Circo Loco have joined forces to throw a London party at an as yet undisclosed location. RPR Soundsystem – three Romanian DJs hailed as minimal techno's messiahs – and known individually as Raresh, Pedro and Rhadoo are residents at DC10 and in to spin at tonights special... read on

Gang Gang Dance

Like their New York ancestors Liquid Liquid, Brooklyn's Gang Gang Dance are obsessed with percussion, but where the former made sparse angular stomp, these guys produce amazingly spacey disco filled with twisted samples and Middle Eastern flavours.

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The End of The World

The truth is out. A meteor the size of Russia is careering towards Earth. At 3am tonight it will obliterate all life. Some are running screaming for the hills, others are counting their beer mat collections. The people who know are getting smashed while they can, celebrating their last night on Earth by being dirty, debauched and decadent so that when... read on

Switch Supposing

When we receive info from Area 10 it's always hard to say whether they're about to do something amazingly cool or whether they've just missed the target and have drifted over into pretentiousness. Well, this looks great! Billed as a 'drawing experience', Switch Supposing is an exhibition involving three contemporary artists and their work across drawing... read on

Trevor Lock: Work In Progress

Trevor Lock, star of Channel 4's Star Stories and BBC2's Russell Brand Radio Show previews a plethora of new material in this monthly one hour show.

It could be stand up, could be plays, stuff for radio, TV, or an improvised dance. The audience don't know, and he's not too sure either, but, as always, it will be brilliant!

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Wetyourself

Trendy electro techno party in the trendiest corner of town, in a kitsch 80s throwback club boasting a pool... it's easy to see how the kids of Shoreditch were taken with Wetyourself. Even the name is in your face. The residents of this Sunday hoe-down are Husley and Gunz, Peter Pixzel and Cormac. They have some enormous guests and each and every we... read on