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Sun Sep 7, Regent Street
The theme of this year's festival is 'A Great British Experience'. The whole of Regent Street will be closed off for performances, music & food stalls
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Fri Sep 5, Bishops Square
Al fresco free jazz freak out headlined by the incendiary Led Bib whose drummer, Mark Holub, also curates this fine afternoon's worth of creative music making
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Comedy
Fri Sep 5, Bloomsbury Theatre
Outstanding and delightfully entertaining Aussie comedian and singer/musician Minchin has to be seen to be believed. He's dark, hilarious and more...
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Classical
Fri Sep 5, St Martin-in-the-Fields
Ivor Setterfield – BBC TV's 'Maestro' tutor to drum'n'bass DJ Goldie – conducts the New London Soloists Orchestra in 'Summer' and 'Winter' from Vivaldi's...
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Art
Until Sun Jan 4 2009, Design Museum
Despite its feel of an international trade show with glittering exhibits taken from each city's past, this is still a great opportunity to get up close and...
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Music
Sep 5-7
With established names like Kanda Bongo Man and the South African Gospel Choir and also new talent in the shape of Madagascan folk guitarist Modeste Hugues...
Dance
Sep 6-Oct 20, National Theatre, Lyttelton
Akram Khan takes on his most unlikely collaboration yet in a dance theatre duet with actress Juliette Binoche. The deeply personal but universal theme of...
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Around Town
Sun Sep 7, Willesden Green Library
Celebrating Brent's Brazilian community, with music and dance from samba and bossa nova to forro and capoeira, plus a food and crafts market.
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Comedy
Sat Sep 6, Hammersmith Apollo
Probably one of the best comedians in the world right now. Definitely the gig to see even if you have to beg, borrow or steal a ticket. He is the real deal....
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Sport & Fitness
Sun Sep 7, Victoria Embankment
Britain's highest-profile event in cycling - a sport that, post-Beijing, is pedalling on a wave of enthusiasm - returns to the centre of London for the first...
I blame that Peugeot ad. With M People’s ‘Search For The Hero Inside Yourself’ as its sound track, suddenly the modest motor became an emblem of reach-for-the-skies...Read the Big Smoke blog
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