Flower Power

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.

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 musical saw and a clatter of kitchen pots to offer their offbeat illuminations on what they've heard on their wireless and seen in the magazines.

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.

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'.

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, but died without knowing love.

The film of this story is one of the best, and saddest ever made and it's interesting to see the legend of John Merrick played out on stage.

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'.

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 kind of exploration into the multiple personae of the artist-creator one would imagine. Or an elaborate hoax to fool the unwary. Something approaching the work of Nat Tate would be good.

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.

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 laid bare by an emerging young theatre company through physical theatre, note-perfect dialogue, poetry and slapstick humour.

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 Phil Kay will be making a rare headline appearance joined by musical and character comedian Wilson Dixon, Perrier nominee Dan Antopolski and BBC6 presenter Jon Richardson.

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. The Monarch is alive and kicking.

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 where you'll end up one of these Fridays.

Tonight is their 11th birthday, and what better way to celebrate than by commissioning the likes of Duke Dumont, Micky Slim and The Rogue Element for a balls-to-the-wall electronic hoedown.

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 event. They're joined by chief brain eating zombie Shane Watcha for what promises to be a hefty slice of minimal techno.

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.

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 they go it will be with a song in their hearts and a smile on their faces.

Join them at The End of The World. Email your favourite songs to last.request@endoftheworld.co.uk so that you can dance to them for the last time.

It's 1986 - Russia vs America people so think Russian spies, Margaret Thatcher, Madonna, 80s loving, Rocky IV.

Say what you always wanted to say. Dance like there's no tomorrow.

And die happy.

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 and installation.

There's Marta Angelozzi's abstract landscapes, Elena Cecchinato's tile-carpet installation, and Maia Sambonet's attempts to capture 'drawing in motion'.

This sounds ambitious and fun, an unusual blend of classical and super-contemporary: exactly the kind of thing that Area 10 is all about. The press releases still make little sense, but this time it doesn't matter, because this sounds awesome!

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!

For those of us who know The London Film Festival, who've experienced the magic of a night screening at Somerset House or in Trafalgar Square, it is an absolutely essential date on the calendar. For those of you who haven't been introduced yet this is the perfect year to get acquainted with one of the film world's oldest and best loved events.

Don't expect Jim Jeffries to have turned over any leaves in his new show Hammered. Rape, disabled people, Christians, fatties and burns victims all get good coverage, not to mention that famous run-in with Kelly Osbourne at the NME Awards (if you haven't already heard the story it's worth coming just to hear that alone).

The reformed Reid brothers bring their shoegaze and alt-rock brilliance to the Forum tonight, as they prepare to start work on their first new album in a decade. We saw them last just down the road at the Roundhouse, and they've lost none of the power that made them such musical revolutionaries in the first place.

The splendid Innervisions label returns to Plastic People for another of their occasional London parties. The Berlin label has been gently shaking up European house, with warmly synthetic releases from the likes of Âme – headlining tonight – and Henrik Schwartz. The imprint's appeal could come from that fact that it's equally in thrall to both the deep house beloved of purists and the mellow, musical Detroit techno tradition propagated by Carl Craig.

It looks like the Royal Academy is finally trying to move away from its slightly fusty Prince-Charles-showing-his-watercolours kind of image. In association with GlaxoSmithKline (ooh edgy) the RA presents a season of multimedia contemporary art featuring a host of emerging and established international artists. There's over a hundred exhibitions, live events, performances and film screenings, so plenty to be checking out.

In 2008 Michael Grandage, Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, announced a 'West End' project, whose stated aim is to introduce 'serious' drama to Theatreland to counter the songbook musicals and celebrity-stocked standards. To help get the audiences in, they've got a battery of celebrity actors taking the stage.