It's well known around east London that when it comes to outdoor chillout areas, you can't get much better than Cargo's. So where better to throw a summer party? Dark disco-electro duo Heartbreak and live while Horse Meat Disco's Jim Stanton &...
This was due to happen in June but was scuppered by wet weather. They're expecting sunshine and smiley faces at this stonking eastside location, taking you from hip hop and urban beats and treats into full on chunky, funky house. DJs Mixmaster...
Expect intense, foam-flecked fury and impressive displays of energy and sexual loucheness from the now '60 but still oddly sinewy king of garage punk as Iggy and his Stooges headline the Capital's indie and dance all-dayer. Elsewhere there's an...
This year's special exhibition at the annual summer opening of the 19 State Rooms is found in the Ballroom, which is set up for a State Banquet. A grand table is laid with silver-gilt service, ornate porcelain and lavish flower arrangements,...
The V&A's alternative village fête is held in the John Madejski garden and features stalls run by contemporary artists and designers, a tombola with designer prizes you might actually want, live music and tongue-in-cheek games such as 'Pimp my...
Fernsby's band close out this jazz festival with funk and bop, plus Paul Desmond- and Art Pepper-influenced alto player Neale and her fine band. Support from singer/tutor Chard with jazz standards while Pakistani jazz vocalist Chaudry offers some...
Conductors Stephen Bell and Ben Foster lead the BBC Philharmonic in this celebration of the music of 'Dr Who', with classical works with a time and space theme including Holst's 'The Planets' and Wagner's 'The Ride Of The Valkyries'. Plus a...
After miraculously recovering from the breast cancer diagnosed in 2005, Ms Minogue is well and truly back, playing from her latest (tenth!) hits-packed album, 'X', which displays a sleek, if harder electro edge than before. First of seven nights.
Go!Zilla continue their riotious Cargo residency as they turn three tonight so expect all the usual shenanigans with live acts a-plenty. Tonight Andy Meecham (Bizarre Inc., Chicken Lips), under his analogue electronic moniker The Emperor Machine,...
Swing, jazz and R&B from saxophonist Gelato and his popular, Louis Prima-styled seven-piece at this annual jazz bash. Other highlights include Berklee-trainedstar saxophonist Xenopoulos and the fiery Tomorrow's Warriors with bass ace Crosby.
Another surefire ram-jam affair as Felix da Housecat plays here for the first time in years, spinning electro techno as only he can alongside fellow producer JoJo De Freq, Brendan Long and Dekker from Apocalypso let rip. In the Lounge Severino...
An extensive programme of events is planned to celebrate the museum's fifth anniversary, and there's free entry all weekend. Highlights include costumed actors discussing the history of the area, talks on the founding of the museum (July 26 2pm,...
A contemporary take on the traditional village fête with craft-based stalls and entertainment; see the website for details.
Teens Daisy, her little brother Lewis and sister Kitty have been plying their swing, C&W and rockabilly sounds around London for a fair few years now, aided and abetted by their musical parents. Expect accomplished, good-time, Louis Prima-styled...
It's the ace monthly night where NY punk meets '60s girl groups, where The Velvets, Kraftwerk and the Ronettes rub up next to Flaming Lips, The Fall and New Order. Just add UK indie, cool US rock, underground classics and any other leftfield...
A rare sprint showdown between Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell should be the highlight of a meeting which gives the world's top athletes one last chance to find form before the Beijing Olympics.
The written word is a subtle, endlessly nuanced way to communicate – but photographs can bypass the brain and...
Flying at approximately 300 metres and at around 30mph, the Zeppelin NT helium-filled airship offers a new perspective on the city – weather permitting. Embarking involves a comically quaint system of 'one on, one off' to ensure the Zep remains...
DJs Glyn (Our Disco), Lydia and Jamie spin all-sorts from MIA to Klaxons, Hot Chip to The Long Blondes and Justice to The Horrors at this buzzing indie electro rockin' pop-punk party.
Expect a few old Rufus soul belters from disco queen Khan, along with some jazz standards, a touch of her Prince-ish '90s work and tracks from her latest album, 'Funk This'. In support Birmingham-born singer Christopher – the latest singer to...
Explore the oldest City park (dating from 1606), a rooftop garden, hidden courtyards and fountains on this walk that includes restricted areas and a 'wormhole' route across the City in elevated tunnel passageways. Meet by Boots outside station.
Who's playing Leonard Cohen, Cornelius, The Mighty Boosh, Roisin Murphy, Roots Manuva, Nitin Sawhney, Múm, Ty, Evan Parker, Orchestra Baobab and more Parents love the Chill because they can take their kids along safe in the knowledge that there...
The Be team are back for a guaranteed sell-out electro-indie racket. There's bands a-plenty; check out Black Affair and The Shortwave Set and Grovenor and guest DJs he C90s joining David H mashing up electro, indie and cosmic disco twist. There's...
Camino's 'public festival' boasts sunshine (we hope), sangria (yum!) and sizzling sounds from percussive Colombian live band Kogui and Movimientos DJs, all outside. A great way to while away the day before sundown.
The myth of Narcissus falling in love with his own reflection already overflows through the history of art. Colombian...
Quintet fusing Argentine tango and East European folk music headline, with hard swinging modern jazz from bassist Bartley. Artful freeform guitarist Russell lines up with saxophonist Peachy for some jazz improv fun.
Edinburgh preview shows from the Amused Moose Hot Starlets. The first show features David Mensah, Hannah George, Josh Widdicombe, Liam Spiers, Luke Benson, Mark Cornell and Mark Restuccia. The second features Martin Hill, Mike Wozniak, Moonfish...
The restaurant and courtyard of this elegant Chelsea eaterie are decorated in 1950s style every Wednesday for classic film screenings. Sun loungers, striped parasols and staff in black-and-white uniforms channel the Hollywood of yesteryear, and...
Founded in 1673, this is not the oldest botanical garden in England (Oxford Botanical Garden got a three-year head start), but it does contain the oldest rock garden, made from fused bricks and flint, stones from the Tower of London, and...
Who's playing James Taylor Quartet, Faireys Band, Son Of Dave, Cut A Shine, Imelda May, The Boy Least Likely To, Wallis Bird The smoothie-enhanced party returns for another year of folkish sounds, dancing, welly wanging, dog agility, duck herding...
Entertaining, anecdotal tours conducted by Blue Badge guides during the summer recess of parliament run every fifteen minutes. Starting at Victoria Tower, they take in the Queen's Robing Room, the Royal Gallery, the Prince's Chamber, the Chamber...
Children can take along their favourite teddy, doll or soft toy to enjoy storytelling, songs and poetry at the Keats House teddy bears' picnic.
Edinburgh preview from this wonderful sketch group who are slick, fast and ridiculously funny.
Conductor Peter G Dyson leads the Belmont Ensemble of London in Handel's 'Music for the Royal Fireworks', 'Water Music' suites and 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba', plus works by Bach, Pachelbel and Mozart.
Semi-nomadic Bedouin tribesmen from the Sinai – who perform Sufi and Rabba folk song and dance – headline. Their instruments range from traditional pipes, lyres and fiddles to an assortment of scavenged coffee cans and ammunition boxes, used...
Conductor Thomas Ades presides over the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with bass Sir John Tomlinson and pianist Louis Lortie, for this lively programme of Musorgsky's 'A Night On The Bare Mountain'; Prokoviev's First Piano Concerto;...
Burlesque, cabaret and vaudeville.
All-day alterno fest, featuring hardcore yet slightly Pavement-ey headliners, shrill, robotic art-rockers Pre, trashcan goth pop with a very strong nod to The Birthday Party from the oddly enticing Lord Auch and London duo, Gentle Friendly, whose...
Work in progress for the first solo stand-up tour ever for the former 'Fast Show' man – he will attempt to explain what it is like to be a clown, hero, genius, loser and true artist all in one show.
Free events to accompany Southbank Centre's production of 'The Wizard of Oz': every Friday and Saturday, contemporary singers showcasing styles from jazz to musical theatre perform sets inspired by the music of Harold Arlen, who composed songs...
First performed in the UK at the Manchester International Festival in 2007, this colourful opera, based on the ancient Chinese legend of spiritual enlightenment, is directed by Chen Shi-Zheng, with music composed by Damon Albarn and...
A new venture from Kashpoint/All You Can Eat's star DJ, Warboy, it's a late night freebie on a Saturday night (launching all regular like at the end of September) with no frills, just straight-up poseur-y, neonised electro and a slew of speaker...
Heroically unhinged (he's played with his pants down, allegedly had sex onstage, routinely sets fire to cymbals, smashes equipment and throws things) singer Gibby Haynes leads the reunited Texan psychedelic art-punks cum electronic noise rockers...
You can almost hear the hushed tones of David Attenborough walking you round this exhibition: ‘And here, in the...
Two years ago director Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp came together to organise a CD reworking sea chanties and boozy pirate ballads. Inspired by their work on Pirates of the Caribbean it featured a line-up that included Nick Cave and Bryan...
It's a (welcome) German invasion as ace techno-electro duo Tiefshwarz and minimal beat lover, Anja Schneider, plus Hugo plays live in room one. Terry Francis keeps it deep and housey with Nathan Coles, Eddie Richards and Tigerskin (AKA Dub...
The potters' collective celebrates its thirtieth anniversary by taking up to 50 per cent off a wide range of pieces, and staging live demonstrations of the craft throughout the weekend.
Superstar legends including Carl Cox, Erick Morillo, John Digweed, Fedde Le Grand, Sven Vath and Francois Kplay arena-shaking house in all its chunky, funky, trancey and deep down soulful guises at this DJ all-dayer.
A series of concerts, literature events, exhibitions, films, architecture walks and talks. Highlights include family singing at the Museum of London in Songs of the City (Aug 10) and a celebration of the Olympic torch handover on the steps of St...
Dominic Dromgoole’s ‘Lear’ is left largely to its own devices. Set where the source text specifies,...
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