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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maps promote their new album 'Turning the Mind' with a live set of euphoric space-rock, folksy, downtempo whisperings and clattering, thudding noise-pop at Cargo tonight.

Recalling everything from the far away electronics of Basic Channel and Carl Craig, through the skewed songwriting of Postal Service, Flaming Lips and Grandaddy to the epic soundscapes of Sigur Ros and My Bloody Valentine, this is a band you have to see!

Slick charmer Charlie has just found out that his inheritance has been left to someone else. Determined to find his money, he embarks on the road trip of a lifetime with his newfound, card-counting older brother Raymond who unwittingly teaches him all about unconditional love.

A touching cracker of an adaptation of the 1988 film staring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman.

Inspired by no wave and SST era hardcore, experimental Connecticut-based punks Magik Markers are known as much for their free-rocking sound as they are for their stream-of-consciousness approach to music-making.

A cauterwauling, cacophonous assault of noise, their recent release 'Balf Quarry' has seen them smooth the rough edges a bit, by ramping up their experimental tendencies to new and stranger heights. Here's hoping they bust out a Glockenspiel solo when they take on the Grosvenor tonight.

Tonight staunch Liberal Robin Ince is joined by a secret TV comic, the winner of Dave's 'Funniest Fringe Joke' - Dan Antopolski, exciting newcomer Joel Dommett and Trevor Lock, as your witty, freewheeling host.

Located on Penton Street, the breeding ground of good comedy nights, this club is held in the Chapel Bar, so called because of the pulpit on the right hand side of the stage.

Idea Generation pull out all the stops this Halloween with a big old fright-fest extravaganza in celebration of Britain's most successful film company Hammer Horror.

As well as never-seen-before artwork, there's a packed programme of film screenings, ghost tours, readings and all manner of terror-inducing fun and games.

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An amazing band that have been compared to My Bloody Valentine, King Crimson and Hakwind, These Monsters play complex post rock with riffs that roll over you like a fleet of Russian tanks.

Psychedelic, epic, and deafeningly loud, these guys are the closest thing Britain is going to get to a home-grown God Speed You Black Emperor, and are well worth checking out if you're in any way interested in what's happening at the sharp end of neo-prog.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them. Well accoring to his school art report - which is included in the programme for this exhibition - Ben Turnbull must have been a late developer. Achieving 2 out of 28 in his exam, Turnbull's efforts are described as "absolutely apalling"!

But obviously others believe in his work. For this show at Eleven Fine Art, Turnbull presents a series of wooden classroom desks with images of guns and other weaponry carved into the top. A neat and powerful commentary upon childhood and innocence (or the lack thereof).

Written by Brendan Dodds and David Puckridge of Pappy's Fun Club fame, The Institute is a black comedy devised specifically for Halloween. Starring some of the funniest comic actors on the circuit -  the Penny Dreadfuls' David Reed, Humphrey Ker and Thom Tuck, the play centres around the creepy Avernus Institute and a world of pharmaceutical corruption.

'Exciting, if ethically questionable, developments are being made in the area of genetic research, particularly research aimed at warding off disease, age and ultimately death. Now for the first time Avernus opens its doors to the public. But the Institute's latest experiments, compromised by corporate greed, seem destined to lead to horrific events of an almost apocalyptic nature.' 

A big riffing group from Vancouver, Japandroids make this sort of half garage rock, half At The Drive In post hardcore racket that is so triumphant, punching the air like some coked-up maniac is the only good response.

Basically two guys trying to sound like a five piece, these guys are the perfect band to go nuts to on a Friday night.

Excellent experimental soul and jazz label Wah Wah 45s blow the candles out on their 10th birthday cake tonight with a line up fit for a music loving king.

DJ Format and Bonobo lay down some select cuts on the tables while beatboxer de jour Beardyman shows you just what he can do with his mouth.

The Apples play live along with some damn fine DJs. Happy Birthday chaps.

We love Plex because they book off-centre, subversive artists who do something different and don't tow any kind of line.

They don't mold themselves to please a crowd, and - in this line up at least - much of the material will be absolutely rinsing.

Tonight they celebrate 3 years of existence - by bringing Berlin's heavyweights out in force.

It's 20 years since the Berlin wall came down and to mark the momentous occasion the titans of techno are out in force: Substance and Vainqueur, Berghain resident Norman Nodge, plus breakthrough producers Ancient Methods.

An amazing one-off spectatcular, experimental Brooklyn indie act Grizzly Bear are teaming up with the London Symphony Orchestra to present songs from their critically acclaimed album 'Veckatimest' as well as works and arrangements by much-touted Rhode Island-baded composer Nico Muhly.

The penultimate event in the Barbican's 'Only Connect 09' series which has seen the likes of Celestial Mass, Magma, Chroime Hoof and Effferklang conspire with respected members of the classical world, this willdefinitely be one of the wish-you-were-there moments of 2009.

The truth is out. On Saturday 31st a herd of killer zombies are going to attack earth, killing everyone.

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 (while the Queens of Noize DJ) so that when they go it will be with a song in their heart and a smile on their face.

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.

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

mulletover return from their sunny adventures in Croatia, Ibiza and erm..Glade with another line-up to make you smile.

Heading things up is Lee Burridge - the DJ who began his rise to fame at Fabric with Craig Richards. He's joined in the main room by Simon Baker (Infant Records), Cocoon's MEAT and of course the main man Geddes.

Room two is headed up by one of the forefathers of disco Kenny Carpenter - former resident of Studio 54, with Horse Meat Disco providing high gloss backing.

After a wild 9th birthday with Prosumer and Tama Sumo, Sud Electronic return: the underground party for people with a propensity for excellent beats.

When the clock strikes midnight, they welcome you to the basement of The Camp for their Halloween extravaganza - their first for 5 years.

Record shop and label Smallville - run by guests Lawrence/Sten and Julius Steinhoff - debut their label night for the first time in London.

They're joined by Lowtec (Workshop) who will be unveiling his live set.

Fresh from winning three Metal Hammer awards, Swedish death metal band Amon Amarth are probably the prefect ambassdors fo a Scandinavian metal scene that loves to wear make-up and scream about winged death.

Deeply rooted in the traditions of death metal and Viking mythology, they basically make songs about mysteroius warriors chopping peoples heads-off in snow covered hell-scapes. What more could you want?

Bringing the personal to the political, This Much is True takes a deep look into the events surrounding the death of Jean Charles de Menezes.

Never before heard testimony from Jean Charles friends and family as well as 'Justince4Jean' campaigners and senior police officers helps gather together a number of questions and takes a moment to consider what is all means.

In the gathering darkness of Green Park, deep inside a warm yurt, a crowd of cunning listens, giggles in the gloom. Terror awaits you there this Halloween...

Snuggled in the sheepskins, sipping hot bloody Maries, warming your claws by the stove, be regaled with ballads and requiems, stories from Angela Carter, Mick Jackson and many new talents. You will hear tell of vampires, ghouls, murderers, cannibals.

Decorate yourself in honour of the dead. Swaddle yourself in Romanian furs and keep your wits about you like a cape.