By George

The Photographers' Gallery presents an exhibition that seeks to explore the notion of a photograph as object, rather than merely an image of an object. A photograph may be a two-dimensional image, but like a painting (or indeed a sculpture) a photograph is also a three-dimensional object. With works by a host of experimental artists including Andy

The Camden Crawl returns to take over NW1 for two days of live music, film screenings, quizzes, comedy and debauchery. No wonder it is fast becoming a highlight of the urban festival season. Now sensibly held on a Friday and Saturday over 25 official venues, the emphasis is firmly on groundbreaking live music, with many of rock, indie and

Soundspecies (an electronic melting pot of ideas formed by brothers Henry and Olly Keen) play live tonight to celebrate the launch of their self-titled album on Burnt Progress records.

Deck support in the shape of Nwachukwu, Gavin Alexander (Burnt Progress) Mr Beatnick and Alex Nut.

Southern Hospitality throw an extra special, extended party at The Social tonight. All the way from Brooklyn NYC, The Rub's DJ Eleven is in the house flying the East Coast flag. The Rub are a hip hop collective. They throw mind-blowing parties, have their own radio show and are widely regarded for their encyclopedic knowledge and ability to make

Cult circuit favourite Andrew O'Neill brings his 2008 show, a fake historical comedy about British industry, to the Cockpit Theatre for three days as part of a national tour.

Expect fast-paced jokes, impressive word play, silliness and vitriol all rolled into one from this wonderfully offbeat comedian.

Shake Shake have relaunched as Retro Remix. The mash up style party starters who remix and re-edit the very best in guilty pleasures, retro classics and party anthems return tonight to the best venue in London for another edition of swanning round like a '50s pin up in bowling shoes. Tonight they've got the Congo Faith Healers plus their rocking

Scand was a London based electro night which shut up shop three years ago.

Well they're back - this time in newly cool venue Lightbox with NYC techno pioneer Damon Wild topping the bill.

Sync 24 and Truss head up proceedings at Scand, with electro legend Carl A Finlow performing live under his Silicon Scally moniker.

Dominic Dromgoole directs an all-new, but entirely faithful rendering of the classic love story, with Ellie Kendrick and Adetomiwa Edun as the lovers from different warring factions. Performed in period costume, with Shakespeare's florid, moving poetry preserved, but still as vital and relevant as when it was first performed, this will be one

A hardcore band from Exeter, Rat Attack have managed to make music that sounds like Born Against, Strike Anywhere and Youth of Today all at the same time. Headlining a fairly ramshackle night at the Monto Water Rats (it must be said), this is the perfect show to take anyone who's ambivalent to hardcore as it will probably be full of people getting

We've discovered a peculiar thing about Casiotone For the Painfully Alone - his music can cure hang-overs. Seriously. Whenever one of us was feeling a bit under the weather we'll throw on his tales about being a sad loser still pining over some girl who left him in 1995 and somehow feel much better.

A curious mix of playful electronica and austere characters inspired by traditional Americana, commercial hip hop and '80s synth-pop, we'd recommend this to anyone who has been having a hard time recently.

Monday is comedy night at the hugely popular Kilburn pub - The Good Ship. Every week, it recruits the best in stand-up to give you a top night of comedy to kick the week off.

Tonight, if.comedy 'Best Newcomer' and purveyor of some of the silliest songs in town, Tom Basden headlines; supported by some up and coming stand-ups that have been getting a lot of attention recently.

For only £4, this is a bargain of an evening; head down early to guarantee a seat and make use of the free 100-disc jukebox.

A fascinating theatrical conceit from the pen of J.B. Priestley is realised for the first time in decades at the National. Priestley was completely obsessed with the passage of time (who above the age of 25 isn't?) and he uses this play to take a 21st birthday party as the starting point and move forward through the decades picking out highlights, low points and unexpected pivotal moments.

Exactly like the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future in A Christmas Carol, but actually rather more complicated and cleverly interlinked. And lacking the supernatural element as well. So, completely different. But anyway, it's interesting how little things change your life and major tragedies are just blips.

Edie Sedgwick is the transgendered reincarnation of a vacuous Andy Warhol Superstar who died of a barbiturate overdose in 1971. A visionary artist who lay dormant in her host organism until his first epileptic seizure in 2001, Edie appeared at the dawn of the New Millenium to save the world by singing, writing, and producing video about celebrities.

Edie Sedgwick also happens to be Justin Moyer (El Guapo, Antelope) and his band and their new album 'Things are Getting Sinister and Sinisterer' is out on the mighty Dischord Records.

Acclaimed Bollywood theatre producers Tamasha transpose Emily Brontë's romantic tragedy from the Yorkshire Moors to the scorched deserts of Rajasthan: an equally unforgiving landscape, and similarly ridden with class inequality and petty local hatred.

This production promises vibrant colour and brilliant music, and the company have treated grim subject matter sensitively before. East is East preserved the harrowing storylines and offered joy, optimism and realism in equal parts. We expect this show to walk the fine line between melodrama and romance with style.

Tonight at Elephunny, catch two hour-long Edinburgh previews in a row courtesy of cross-dressing stand-up Andrew O'Neill and musical genius James Sherwood.

Sherwood is renowned for his hilarious spoof songs which have covered Paul Simon and Guns 'n' Roses in the past and O'Neill is one of the most inventive, offbeat comedians on the circuit. It should be a quality night.

You should be very excited about The Hothouse Revue.

The most decadent, elegant and opulent ballroom mess-around to hit London for 80 years tonight takes you back to the root of free expression and youth liberation with a bona fide black tie 1930s party. Authenticity and detail is key - they recreate the original cool of the era - it is absolutely not a contemporary party with a '30s theme: no plastic tommy-guns, no zoot suits.

Expect non-stop variety cabaret, sultry burlesque, gramophone DJs playing original 78s, black jack, intimate lamp-lit tables and old world sass.

Knitted cigarette buts, huh? Whatever next! Yes, that's right, a contemporary artist has painstakingly knitted a whole pile of little cigarettes and put them in a gallery for a month. Somehow they manage to be both cute and a bit horrible at the same time. Very strange.

This is part of an exhibition of work by Sally Spinks at the ever-innovative Tenderpixel Gallery. There are three works on show, all exploring the effect that the smoking ban has had upon the capital: there's even a piece called Fine Line, which features giant cigarettes invading the gallery.

Mi Ami is a San Francisco-based drum punk trio, featuring two key members of Dischord's hyper-percussive Black Eyes - Daniel Martin-McCormick on vocals and guitar and Jacob Long on bass - as well as Damon Palermo on drums.

Mi Ami builds on the promise of Black Eyes' renowned live performances, but steers it into a more focused, volatile and personal direction.

To mark the launch of their new website, Londonisfunny.com is holding a one-off comedy night at the Dogstar with a really excellent line-up in store.

Our new favourite comic and runner-up in the 2009 Hackney Empire New Act of the Year Awards, David James will be telling the kind of long-winded stories you wish your grandparents told. Joining him will be hilarious comic poet Tim Key, plus the insightful John Gordillo, the inventive Tom Webb and quirky character comedian Caroline Mabey. The funny glue holding them all together will be legendary veteran MC Ivor Dembina. This is a must for any comedy nut.

The title for this exhibition comes from the voiceover to a film by contemporary artist Matthew Buckingham. The full quotation is:

'Everything has a name, or the potential to be named, but who does the naming when the unknown is falsely assumed not to exist?'

It's a pretty important and interesting question - one looked at to a greater or lesser extent by Said and others - and forms the basis of Gasworks' exploration of the colonisation of the Americas in the 17th and 18th Centuries.

There's work on show across a range of media by a number of contemporary artists (including Buckingham): blurring the line between history and art, this looks like a cracking show.

All sorts of weird and wonderful art forms come together this May and June at Nettie Horn in an exploration of the theories around the idea of multiple worlds.

David Lewis' Modal Realism theory is one of the more interesting, but some of the ideas can be found as far back as Leibniz and even Lucretius.

The actual likelihood of these theories is not really art's territory, and the work on show is by now means a rigorous test of logic. Rather these artists respond to the ideas with aesthetic flair and no little sense of excitement. Looped videos, burnt out cars, close-up photographs, surreal sculptures and multi-coloured neon strips all contribute to a sense of wonder.

For the first time in 10 years, the cats behind the absolutely legendary Heavenly Social parties at Turnmills return to London clubland.

This time, they bring with them a band of merry makers fit for the kings and queens that you are.

Trevor Jackson (aka Playgroup) dishes his high class mix of everything from hip hop to house via funk, dub and electro, Andy Blake - owner of the most underground-but-not label London has ever seen - spins his brand of cosmic disco, plus you've got DJ Dexter all the way from Australia and Joe Hot Chip bringing the indie electro for good measure.

Z Shed keeps on touching you in all the right places with its bass-face beat policy - tonight headed up by ghetto bassline monster Baobinga. This guy is serious.

This is an excellent, high octane, underground party at which you'll hear some swerving, off-centre beats slung at you by hardened pros through a 20K rig. Better be ready.

They've shipped in Mikix The Cat for tonights shenanigans - a young Parisian producer whose new releases have been snapped up by Kid 606's Tiger Beat imprint. 

The Architectural Association presents an exhibition that seeks to explore the ways in which architecture is exhibited. A mere exercise in the meta-tastic, or something more meaningful?

Well, given that this show is the result of a collaboration between curator Cedric Libert and Belgian architect Pierre Hebbelinck, we're placing our bets on the latter.

World-famous camp extravaganza the Alternative Miss World skips its dainty way to Camden's Roundhouse for a big old night of fun and frolics on Saturday May 2nd.

This is the 12th outing since 1972 for the event that brought Leigh Bowery to London and has enchanted such folks as Brian Eno, Zandra Rhodes and David Hockney.

Andre Logan and Ruby Wax present a night of outrageous entertainment as a whole host of extroverts compete for the title of Alternative Miss World 2009.

Eastern Electrics secured their position as blinking great with their sell out new year party.

This bank holiday mash up looks set to be equally blinding and early bird tickets are ONLY £8. That represents stunning value right there.

The line up is simply superb. Justin Martin is a legendary producer and DJ (Dirtybird) and headlines the Man Make Music arena. Bloc - the coolest chalet festival around - have their own arena, as do Dublime: the bass heavy cats who have been throwing serious parties at Fabric which explore the roots and progressions of dub.

A super-exciting edition of Communion today.

Firstly there's sets from the excellent Dark Captain Light Captain and Jeremy Warmsley, and, if that's not enough, there's a stint from Sunny Day Sets Fire who not only name-check two of the most amazing emo bands ever, but also make incredible avant-rock.

Now that's what we call a Sunday afternoon.

Captain Picard and Gandalf in a British classic at a huge, comfortable West End theatre? It sounds like a marketing man's wet dream. In fact, however, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, as well as being national treasures, are both thoroughly subversive. What this national tour of Godot actually represents, is an impish assault on the TV watching public's senses, a healthy dose of rancour, disgust and intellectual dejection from Samuel Beckett, direct to the West End.