In Memoriam

The second exhibition at Charlie Smith London, the new gallery set up by the people behind the ever-brilliant art fair The Future Can Wait. Featuring work by the increasingly impressive Gordon Cheung and the bafflingly entertaining performance artist Mark McGowan (you know, the dude who eats corgis and stuff) Future or Ruin looks at notions of

Slow Dazzle is the elegant and apt title for contemporary artist Roger Kelly's first major solo show in London since 2002.

Moving away from the large-scale landscape paintings with which he made his name, Kelly presents works comprised of collaged and manipulated photographic images.

Perspective is all awry in these densely detailed images.

Tickets for 7th November veritably leapt off the shelves for the Swedish House Mafia gig in Brixton Academy, but luckily the trio have announced another date the night before. Steve Angello, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso touch down for the very first time in London's best big venue - the legendary Brixton Academy. The Swedes are evidently one

Border Community team up with We Fear Silence for another Corsica Studios jam.

James Holden's label has become renowned for the quality of its releases and DJs - Nathan Fake calls it home - and tonight showcases a load of artists from the stable including Wesley Matsell and Luke Abbot.

Bridget Riley's second exhibition at Timothy Taylor Gallery features a selection of new paintings, wall-based works and gouaches. Bridget Riley is the leading exponent of Op Art, a movement that exploits the fallibility of human vision to create illusions of colour, form and movement. Her works from the 1950s and '60s, which are often

Far more delicate than your regular tearjerker, Heartbreak Soup is the story of Cuddy and the power of a child's imagination. Born a pale shade of blue with a congenital heart defect, he longs to be pink and energetic like the other children who play and run and jump without getting out of breath.  Brilliant performances with a weighty and

What would you rather do - read Paradise Lost or listen to Milton Jones reel off hilarious gag after hilarious gag? Well in our case, it's the latter. Of all the esteemed Miltons past and present, Milton Jones is our favourite. He is a master of the one-liner; be it silly, clever or punny. He also loves daft costumes and bizarre props. Thinking

Rabid is London's winter techno festival: a 12 hour, 5 room hoe-down organised by five of London's best underground promoters; Lost Souls, Ketoloco, Trailer Trash and DJ Mag. Flexing their influential promoting muscles they've secured a ball-busting line up featuring all manner of top international DJ talent. Umek, Matthias Tanzmann, Paul Ritch

An afterparty for the smashing Rabid Festival - where five underground promoters throw down their best beats at a secret warehouse location.

Tonight the Lost Souls residents smash out their heads down brand of early morning techno with Birmingham's first lady of beats Rebekah. Her skills are exemplary.

Leading lights in the new wave of the British heavy metal movement of the early '80s, Barnsley-formed rockers Saxon tasted success in their early years, notching up four top 20 singles and albums and touring far and wide with the likes of Mötorhead and Iron Maiden. Taking a trip down memory lane tonight at Koko, support comes from Anvil, another

Somewhere deep within the Canadian Ministry of Culture, there must be an office full of people fervently working to distil indie music down to its purest, sweetest form and secretly sending the formula out to every garage band in the Dominion. That's the only way we can explain the sheer monopoly Canada has on indie pop right now. Spawning bands like Great Lake Swimmers, Arcade Fire and Women in the last couple of year, it's starting to get a bit ridiculous.

Dan Mangan is the latest in a long line of annoyingly good singer/songwriters to emerge from the Northern Territories. Sort of like a Canadian version of Jack Dee, he makes delightfully downbeat indie-folk that blend toe-tapping rhythms with whistful lamentations on lost loves, broken hearts and good times long gone.

As his UK tour comes to a close, Reginald D Hunter brings his latest show, full of musings and debate on everything from living in London to Obama mania, to the Soho Theatre for a final two week run.

Originally from the Deep South, Reg is one of the few performers to have been nominated for a Perrier Award for three years running but will be known to most Brits through his frequent panel appearances on shows like Have I Got News For You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

Current favourites of Brainlove Records, Internet Forever is what happens when you combine charity shops full of discarded instruments, basement rehersal spaces and 3 kids with too much time and bags of energy.

Bashing the crap out of knackered guitars and making fractured, yet beautiful indie-pop ditties, these guys are sort of like the Raggy Dolls of the whole Los Campesinos!/Johnny Foreigner scene, and deserve props for being so damn geniune. Go see them, you'll see what we mean.

It seems almost impossible to get from Manhattan's Lower East Side to the endless mobile phone shops and Greg's bakeries of Nuneaton, but Youves seem to have managed it. Sounding like Ex Models soundtracking a Van Damme movie they throw angular dance shapes about with the best of them.

Tonight they're playing a show at the Camden Barfly tonight, alongside Shapes, Calories and Jawbreaker throwbacks Holy State. There will be nakedness.

As the Afghanistan conflict enters its eighth year, The Royal British Legion is asking thousands of Britons to stand together and reflect on the price of freedom, which is still being paid, at Silence in the Square in Trafalgar Square, London.

Musical acts Athlete and Mark Knopfler will join compère Ben Shephard and thousands of onlookers to remember those from The British Armed Forces who have made the ultimate sacrifice.

How exactly does one go about creating a God?

This play by Nigel Dennis is a satirical look at the psychological influence of a community's religious ardour. The engineer of a new dam discovers he has murdered the river god and so must find a way to create a new one.

The space-time continuum, tarot cards, space stations, black holes, shooting stars, eclipses, astrolabes, a supernova, Capricorn, White Dwarf, inter-galactic shenanigans.

Yes, it's an exhibition of weirdness in Hackney Wick this winter. All manner of contemporary artists are responding to ideas around the celestial and the ethereal.

Christina Mitrentse and Jonas Ranson curate this nebulous (sorry) project.

It's a funny (and slightly musical) charity bash at the Apollo tonight as a smattering of Britain's best stand-ups take to the stage in support of environmental charity Friends of the Earth. Chris Addison, Dan Antopolski, Marcus Brigstocke, Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Francesca Martinez, Stephen Merchant, Lucy Porter AND Mark Watson will all be performing in this special one-off gig with a special guest appearance from Razorlight.

Whoever came up with this idea really does deserve some praise. Even though the RCA Secret exhibition and sale has now been going 16 years, it still strikes us a a brilliant idea.

A load of contemporary artists produce postcard-sized works of art and you can go along and buy one for only £40. The brilliance is that you don't know who's done which work, so you could be picking up a piece by a virtual nobody or, if your lucky, a major name in the contemporary art world. (Past contributors include Paula Rego, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.)

Rowena Chiu curates an exhibition of contemporary art, exploring notions of balance and the liminal. The show - at Eleven Spitalfields - features work across a broad range of media by six contemporary artists, including Henry Krokatsis and David Spero.

Margins, space, and the space between spaces: a cerebral and challenging investigation.

Renowned for his fiercely funny and honest observations, Louis C.K.'s exploration of life destroys politically correct images of marriage, children, sex and race with thoughts we have all had, but would rarely admit. After a three week sell-out run at the Soho Theatre last year, he returns to London this week with a brand new show.

One of the most respected comedic voices of his generation, American stand-up legend Louis C.K is an Emmy Award-winning writer, actor, producer, director and had a starring role in the recent Ricky Gervais' movie The Invention of Lying (but don't judge him on that).

Bar25 is - or was - a landmark Berlin venue. Perched on the bank of the river Spree, the wooden bar began life as a small afterhours haunt which quickly steamrolled as the tranquil setting and superloco parties gathered notoriety.

Tonight they come to London to recreate the vibe for one night only. They engage the extravagant showcase of art, music, theatrical circus performance and underground Berlin spirit for your deviant pleasure.

Scottish minimal techno darlings Sandeman and Mr Dickie join Bar25 residents Philip Bader and Danny Faber plus Fuse's Enzo Siragusa and other techno villains with intent to destroy.

A big old extravaganza of Polish culture this November, taking place at The Vinyl Factory on, appropriately enough, Poland Street, in Soho.

The Polish Cultural Institute in association with Wodka Wyborowa present all manner of art, film, design, architecture and music. There's books, music, poker lessons, vodka... okrzyki, na zdrowie! 

Blood Orange is the new project from trendsetter and zeitgeist-moulder Dev Hynes, formerly of Test Icicles and Lightspeed Champion. Early demos suggest a move away from country-tinged indie into more rock 'n' roll-type territory.

But, as ever, it's impossible to pigeonhole the chameleon-like Dev. Tonight though gives you the chance to see their debut UK show and find out for yourself.

DDD celebrate their birthday tonight by theming it around this year's biggest loss - Michael Jackson.

Ripperton returns tonight, and is joined by Ekkhaus (2020Vision) plus residents Simon Baker and Morell keep the vibes dark and dirty.

In room two, legendary live disco outfit Crazy P join Graeme Clark (The Revenge), Ryan Hope and Ste Roberts - both residents of underground East London party Pete's 50th.

Good grief. Look at this for a line up.

Squarepusher on the decks with a special rave and bass set. Simian Mobile Disco spinning their upfront bass-face electro, Plaid live, Andrew Weatherall.

It's going to be frickin sick I tell you.

Happy Birthday Wang! Here's to ten years of awesome tunes. (And defending the dance underground). 

A short West End run for the hit nostalgia musical which was a critical and audience smash in Stratford earlier in the year. This run stars world famous Marilyn lookalike and friend of Spoonfed Suzie Kennedy.

An intriguing new musical by Bonnie Greer, expanded from her original radio play about a meeting between Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald. The story marries a serious, thoughtful plot tackling the prejudice and closed doors which the two ladies try to break down, with a glittering set of musical standards including 'They Can't Take That Away From Me', 'Lady Is a Tramp', 'Someone To Watch Over Me', 'My Funny Valentine', 'Every time We Say Goodbye', 'The Man That Got Away' and 'Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend'.

An extremely fast punk band featuring members of Napalm Death, Melvins and Brutal Truth, Venomous Concept play intense, loud hardcore influenced by Discharge and GISM.

Hell, even the name itself is a play on Poison Idea.