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Talented musician, if.comedy 'Best Newcomer' 2007 and BAFTA nominee, Tom Basden performs his Edinburgh show Now That's What I Call Music Based Comedy at the Soho Theatre this weekend.

Expect lots of funny songs, ideas and visual gags ('Obamas in Pyjamas' is a highlight) from this talented young comic.

Maxi Priest is a renowned performer and remains the only UK reggae artist to have reached number one in the US. His music is often nearer to R&B and pop, but he has gained international acclaim over a career spanning 21 years. If you love reggae, soul, lovers rock, gospel, and R&B then this is the concert for you. The UK's 'King of Lovers

On September 19th 2008, Corsica Studios threw open their doors to the first ever Trouble Vision party. Since then the night has got bigger and better, month on month, tirelessly keeping pace with dance music's breathless evolution. Tonight Trouble Vision celebrate their 1st birthday with grimey bass monster Plastician, good times jungle heavy

Gosh those folks down at auto-italia are busy little bees this October. They're hosting five seperate events in just four days at their massive old car showroom in Peckham. Hectic! Well this Saturday they're playing host to a bestial séance. Yes really, and it's courtesy of Better Place Portraiture (aka Darren Banks and Flora Whiteley). Visitors

Wow. To celebrate the most notorious and well loved club in London turning 10, they have conjured a line up that dreams are made of. Sentimental, vital, historical; the collected DJs represent the rise of one of the most respected venues in clubbing history. Villalobos, Steve Bug, Andrew Weatherall, Bill Brewster; the prospect is both mouth

After making his name putting cows in alcohol, coating skulls with diamonds and employing staff to undertake the oh-so-challenging task of putting spots onto canvases, Damien Hirst has decided to produce some real paintings, with a brush and everything! And, check this out, he's actuallly done them himself. Intriguingly he's shunned the whole

As seen on Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, Tony Law, winner of the Comedians' Choice award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival hits the roads of Britain for his first national tour. Expect surreal yarns and playful imagery from this talented Canadian stand-up. Note: 'Airline Style' Pricing - the earlier you book the cheaper the tickets.

The Californian experimental rock duo headline their biggest UK show yet at the Scala tonight, plugging their latest EP 'Losing Feelling', released earlier this year on Sub Pop.

Apart from being really quite good, the band are also of note for releasing five singles on five labels in one day in 2009. Pretty cool, huh?

highly unusual one-man-show telling the story of a boy's childhood in Nigeria, Dublin and London, and also the tale of co-operation behind the arrival of running water in a remote village.

Celebrated spoken word performer and graphic artist Inua Ellams plays all the characters and deftly blends fantastical stroytelling and hard reality into a monologue that's studded with memorable images and beautiful moments.

Andy Zaltzman has firmly established himself in the vanguard of British stand-up with his unique brand of political comedy.

Swiftly moving from one theme to the next with an articulate and intelligent stream of funny logic, he has the ability to make you listen as well as laugh.

Tonight he brings his new work-in-progress show to the Canal Cafe Theatre for his forthcoming Radio 4 series, picking apart the last ten years with stand-up, facts and blatant lies to round off the decade.

Drawing from Henry Goodcole's pamphlet The Wonderful Discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer, The Witch of Edmonton is a tale of witchcraft in London during the Jacobean period.

Recounting the old obsession of the English to accuse women of being witches, the story follows one woman thrown into a world of danger, demons and murder.

Founded by artist Louise Stern, Maurice is a magazine distributed for free to primary school kids throughout the UK and sold at places like the Tate and Serpentine.

This October, Londonnewcastle are showing an exhibition of work based around the concept of the magazine. There's work on show by a broad range of artists and illustrators - from Ricky Gervaise and Rob Steen to Quentin Blake and the incomparably wonderful Tessa Farmer.

An absolute cornerstone of British hip hop, Blak Twang comes to Hootananny tonight. The man has truly international acclaim and continues to produce excellent music.

He is supported by Lazy Habits, an 8-piece live hip hop band who use beat-boxers, decks, drums and a brass section to create an awe-inspiring sound.

This autumn the Affordable Art Fair is celebrating its 10th birthday! 10 years of selling art priced between £50 and £3,000 - it's quite a success story.

As always, there's a good combination of established names and emerging talent. This is a great place for collectors (from entry-level to experienced) and for any fan of art whatever your income.

In addition, this year sees more events than ever before (including walking tours, workshops and children's activities) as well as a enchanting garden made entirely of paper by Artist in Residence Marifer.

The Poet's Lounge is the poetry and music fusion night which has been packing out the inSpiral Cafe and inspiring word fanatics left right and centre.

Tonight they welcome the simply brilliant Polar Bear. The rhyme smith from Birmingham captivates crowds with his down to earth lyricism.

Click here to read Lowri's review of The Poet's Lounge, June 2009.

Tonight is a special edition of AmusedMoose Covent Garden with a top class line-up.

A London showcase of UK talent for possible inclusion in NBC's The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, it will star Edinburgh Fringe favourite Mark Watson, Irish rascal Andrew Maxwell and if.comedy winner Tom Basden; not to mention acclaimed newcomers in the shape of James Redmond (that's right, Finn from Hollyoaks) Mike Wozniak, Spencer Brown, Seann Walsh and Naz Osmanoglu.

A llama in a supermarket? How frightully bizarre! Come to mention it, anyone ever eaten llama? Mmmmm llama...

Anyway, wehether llamas are edible or not, this exhibition still looks cool. It's an exploration of the relationship between food and art and features work by a whole host of big names - Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, Gayle Chong Kwan and the wonderful Bobby Baker.

This elegant Edwardian music hall is a fine setting for hosting some of the 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, Andy Zaltzman and Sean Lock performing live.

Tonight's gig sees hectic Fringe favourite Mark Watson headlining, plus support from star of BBC2's Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Channel 4's You Have Been Watching Richard Herring, double Perrier Award nominee Andrew Lawrence and bumbling anti-comic Ed Aczel. But let's be honest, they're all headliners.

The Disco Shed rekindle the shedonism at the Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes - one of the coolest venues in London.

Tonight they recreate all that they have become famous for in festival land - shed included.

Head of Shed Peepshow Paddy spins his tasty mix of funked up vintage classics, DJ Barry dark lays on the disco mash-uppery and bootleg veteran Del Gazeebo joins the fun.

There'll also be bowling, karaoke, table football, giant twister and retro cartoons.

Italian beat maestros Crookers headline the infamous Bugged Out! warehouse party tonight, with Isa-GT (Girlcore), Solo and Mowgli in support.

Seeing these guys live is a wonderful thing. Fidgety, glitchy, high class mayhem.

North Yorkshire - the land of moors, unfriendly people and not much else. Take York for example - it may look nice, but beyond the city walls and impressive architecture, the most exciting thing is the Jorvic Viking Centre (and that, if we remember correctly, is also completely rubbish).

Hijak Oscar is just the sort of band you get when kids create music in places like this. A multi-piece rock group, they take elements of blues, county and soul, and deliver an impassioned performance in Tarantino-esque style.

A first revival for Nicholas Wright's witty dissection of family relationships, not seen in London since the 1980s.

Mrs Klein is one of the most respected child psychologists in the world. So why can't she control, manage or even get along with her daughter? When a message arrives from abroad it threatens to drive them apart totally and sets up an intriguing mystery that even Mrs Klein can't solve alone.

Bi-monthly party which sticks to the principal of exploring unique and largely undiscovered venues which are generally smallish - helping to maintain their friendly, intimate atmosphere.

You'll hear classic house, good techno, garage, disco old and new.

Tonight they've employed the talents of producer de jour and original resident of seminal acid house party Checkpoint Charlie: Neville Watson. His latest releases on Rush Hour, Clone and Dissident have been widely caned by techno lovers the world over. He was resident at alongside Mat Carter, sharing the bill with Laurent Garnier, Craig Richards, Andrew Weatherall and many more. He's recently co-authored a book called Raving '89 - a retrospective of the 80s rave culture he was entrenched in.

The whole of London comes alive on Sunday October 25 as a load of cool venues across the capital do their bit to raise money for Oxfam. Check www.oxjamsouthlondon.org.uk for more details on who's playing where.

This event is part of Oxjam 2009, a national music festival made up of independent music events raising money and awareness for Oxfam.

Richard Herring returns to the Lyric to host another season of quality comedy. Tonight's line-up is extra special with comic poet and winner of the 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Award - Tim Key making an appearance, plus Bafta-winning comedian Stephen Merchant returning to his stand-up roots, rapper turned stand-up Doc Brown and the 'only gay Indian doctor in the village' Paul Sinha.