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Clara Lacy - BORN Barnes. LIVES London.

CRAFT Clara is an amazing Illustrator and an Egg she designed is in the Faberge Egg Hunt.

LOVES Waterloo Bridge, cats, “The Royal Oak” & London Pale Ale. TAKE YOUR TIME. DRINK RESPONSIBLY.

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Scouted //SECRET CASH////////////////////////////////////// MACHINES OF LONDON//////////////////////////// BRIXTON////////////////// It’s Friday night. You’re supposed to meet your better half at O2 Brixton Academy and 20 minutes late. You have no cash. And the cashpoints that line Brixton Road have queues that are composed of the drunkest people in London, if not the world.

Not to worry, cashless friend.

Pop over to the Brixton branch of Marks & Spencer. The shop is open until 9pm on Fridays and 8pm on Saturdays and contains a secret cashpoint little-known to the masses, operated by HSBC – and it’s free to use.

Not only can you grab some cash, but there are many other on-the-hoof services you can avail yourself of. Dinner? Discounted on-the-turn sandwiches. Premixed cocktails in a can are the perfect pre-gig livener. And don’t forget the Percy Pigs for the journey home.

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LONDON 6 Actors in Search of a Director Charing Cross Theatre Closes Sat Jun 23

Brilliance: Contemporary American Indian Art Highgate Gallery Closes Thurs Jun 21 Collaborators National Theatre: Olivier Closes Sat Jun 23 Dev’s Army Etcetera Theatre Closes Sun Jun 24 The History Boys Greenwich Theatre Closes Sun Jun 24 The Odyssey  The Albany Closes Sat Jun 23

England football songs are a mixed bag – from the memorable such as New Order’s World in Motion, to the wish-you’d-never-heardit (the 1982 World Cup England squad’s This Time We’ll Get It Right).

While the quality of FAbacked “official” song by Chris Kamara is a matter for some debate, one London singer-songwriter is hoping 6

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his unofficial anthem will be adopted by the fans.

Frank Hamilton has embarked on a project to write, record and release one song a week, and as part of this has written Sing For England for the tournament.

It’s a catchy, tongue-incheek belter of a track and has already been racking up praise from fans and celebrities – with even the

BBC calling it “a football anthem fit for the 21st century”.

Just in time for the final game of the group, Hamilton is offering Scout London readers the chance to download the song for free. The first 1,000 people to visit his site will get the download for free. Just go to onesongaweek.co.uk/ singforengland

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don’t underestimate my boredom

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Natalia Tena Musician and actress Best know for playing playing Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter film series, and the wildling Osha in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Natalia Tena is also the lead singer in Molotov Jukebox - a gypsy punk, dubstep mix-up of extremely danceable tunes. The band has a series of festival dates coming up and their latest EP, Bang, is out now.

Let’s go to the pub. Scout’s buying - you pick the location.

Pub on the Park at London Fields because it has huge terrace, a smoking area overlooking park, sick roasts and bar staff you want to drink with or – if you’re lucky – take home.

Sounds like fun. How about if we want to eat? Any restaurant tips?

We should go to Buen Arye in nearby Broadway Market. It’s an Argentinian grill and has loads of sexy meat!

What are your favourite outdoor spots?

The canal, Angel end. It has pretty ducks and boats and such vibe in

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the summer, I love cycling down there!

Where do you go shopping?

Broadway Market has such a saliva-inducing array of food. You can get a Vietnamese baguette where they use pâté instead of butter, German sausages the length of your forearm, the Italian cheese stall that’s just so wrong it makes your thighs quiver, plus every type of scotch egg imaginable.

Where do you go to relax?

Lying in London Fields on a Saturday nursing your hangover with cider and food from Broadway Market with all your mates and music. It’s a brilliant place to picnic while watching the stupid east London outfits people sport without even smiling.

What’s your secret London tip for Londoners?

I always recommend Passing Clouds in Dalston to people the first time they come to London.

It’s not in guide book but it should be. It’s like entering Narnia with nasty beats and a vat of alcohol, all dressed up for carnival.

What in London inspires you?

London is a city that encompasses everything. Creativity can be found anywhere you open your eyes, ears, or mind. I love how walking down a street can take you through pockets of different culture, society, architecture, history. I don’t understand how you can’t be inspired by that.

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Any London secrets to share?

Shoreditch has its share – a drink

from an old gramophone in Callooh Callay is a worthwhile experience, and The Book Club covers its walls with ever-changing illustrator exhibitions and is a great place to stop for coffee and a game of Jenga. Camden has its landmarks but I always head around the back of the World’s End to visit the Black Heart. Hot Pepper Jelly, a little family run place in the heart of Crouch End serves the best café food in the whole of London I swear.

How important is London in your work?

The city is a fantastic hub for connecting with other creatives. I love being only a bus or tube ride from a show, exhibition, or gig.

What’s next for you?

Finding time for more work is always a challenge but the brain is overflowing with to-do’s and ideas and possibilities. Watch this space!

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Lifestyles of the rich and boring

By Amy Lamé ccording to a recent report, Russian, Indian and French buyers account for at least 60 per cent of recent house purchases in central London.

We’re not talking ex-council flats in Hither Green; more like mansions in Holland Park and gated grounds in Chelsea. London’s richest residents are almost exclusively from somewhere else.

Whether they are dodging a punishing Putin or doing a bit of pre-emptive Gallic tax avoidance, there is no denying that London is being taken over by the loaded.

Rich Greeks and Italians are coming here in droves too – escaping euroeconomic instability at home. It won’t be long until the Spanish follow suit.

A third of London’s workforce is born overseas, many of them highly skilled professionals from non-EU countries. Gone are the days of punky Portuguese turning up in Camden looking for a café job. Now, London’s immigrants are looking for safe places to spend and stash their cash, not necessarily earn it.

London is now the sixth largest French city; more French people live in the capital than they do in Nantes or Strasbourg. But I guess it’s fair do’s considering all the people from west London who have holiday homes in Normandy.

I am all for immigration; I was born and grew up in America, a country which was founded and

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made strong on the hard graft of people born elsewhere. My family were early 20th century economic migrants from Ireland and Italy, escaping grinding poverty and lack of opportunity. But this new London influx is economic migration of a very different sort.

The international super-rich are sucking the lifeblood out of London, turning our quirky capital into a bland playground for those with spare cash, little taste and lots of stamps in their passports.

And it’s not just the usual enclaves around Knightsbridge that are affected. The arty hub of the East End is swarming with international bankers eager to spend their strong bonuses on emerging, edgy art and “flipping” it for a massive profit.

We often complain when chain shops take over a high street; but what is the difference between Gap and Gucci except the shopping bag caché? This is in stark contrast to, say, a local Polish café in Hammersmith or a Vietnamese grocery in Dalston. These types of businesses support and enhance our local London communities, add diversity, and give us an opportunity to look at weird fruit and veg wondering what the heck you could make with it.

A recent article in the Guardian reported that exclusive concierge services are booming in the capital.

For a mere £5,000 a month you get 24/7 access to someone who can obtain the unobtainable. Need

blood diamonds at 3am? Can do.

Want to eat sushi off a call girl’s bosom at midday? No problem, sir. You’ll have to meet all other costs, too, just so you know when you’re doing your budgeting and wondering if you’ll have enough for the electricity meter.

It seems to be the case that if you are rich enough, you can have anything you want. Unless you are Mohammed al Fayed and applying for a British passport – even owning Harrods and Fulham FC didn’t sway the Home Office for him.

Part of the problem is that the super rich want access to an idealistic, unrealistic version of British culture – places for their children at Eton, invitations to the best hunting parties, reservations at Heston Blumenthal’s. Oh, a tweed flatcap and Wellington boots too. This fuels the class divide, but also constructs an added level of London-based international elitism, which boils down to one thing: BORING. Some may say that allowing the super-rich to settle here pumps much-needed money into the economy. But it has been reported that uber wealthy foreigners have a penchant for dodging council tax. They may pay their bill at their local Chanel outlet, but won’t part with their pounds to ensure their rubbish is cleared away. Perhaps it’s because they think theirs doesn’t stink.

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In Broadway Market in Hackney, with the usual massive hipster mob out in full force. One East Endy Trendy turned to the other and said: “I mean, for God’s sake – how many coffee shops does one street need?”.

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News just in that a life-size statue of Amy Winehouse will be erected in The Roundhouse.

Amy will be poised in the balcony bar. Will we have to rub her bronze beehive for good luck, I wonder?

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Don’t fret about the lack of Olympic Games tickets or worry that the tube will be rammed. This summer will be the best London has seen for a long time. Why? Because in the midst of the lycra-clad loopiness, there’s a parallel summer of arts that will spoil us all. Much of it is free, many of these events are secret little shindigs, and there’s so much on that you can hardly get a handle on it. We’ve scoured the brochures and done the hard work for you by picking the best of the best. Get out, get set, and do something cultural

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CROW Borough Hall At Greenwich Dance, (CORR) Jun 18 to Jul 7 You’ll know the work of the lauded Handspring Puppet Company from the way it brought the titular War Horse to life for the National Theatre.

Now the company has turned its hand to Ted Hughes’ Crow, bringing the poet’s well-loved verses to life. Even the music is well thought out – the score here is by Leafcutter John.

Theatre

You Me Bum Bum Train

West End Live Trafalgar Square, Jun 23 and 24

Canary Wharf, Jun 20 to Aug 26 The Bum Bum Train is back. Yes, you read that right. Taking up residence in Docklands, you get to go on an eye-opening journey through a Canary Wharf office complex, in one of the most exciting pieces of immersive theatre we’ve seen. Everyone who takes part is sworn to secrecy so we can’t tell you anything more about it, except that if you think it all sounds

a bit ‘drama school car crash’ you’d be wrong – previous incarnations have been absolutely brilliant. Once you’ve boarded the train it’s a non-stop smorgasbord for the senses. You’ll come out the other side feeling exhilarated, buzzing and a little guilty you still thought it’d be drama school car crash, despite what anyone else told you.

Mums will go mad for this: every single West End musical will be pimping out their performers to do a couple of show-stoppers. That’s Billy Elliot, Les Mis, Rock of Ages, Chicago, The Phantom of The Opera, Wicked, and The Lion King – to name but a few. Even Tim Minchin’s Matilda. Everything’s for free, and it all takes place in the middle of Trafalgar Square. Pack a picnic and prepare your pirouette.

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BT River of Music Various venues, Jul 21 and 22 The world is coming to our city this summer – so this is surely how to welcome them.

Plot the venues for BT River of Music’s weekend of festivities on a map and they thread through central London, hugging the Thames. Nice touch, that. Each stage proffers acts from a different continent – all told, one from each of the 205 countries taking part in the Olympics. The Asia Stage at Battersea Park boasts Kronos Quartet and Transglobal Underground. The Europe Stages

Baaba Maal/ Africa Utopia

Hackney Weekend

Southbank Centre, Jul 3 to 28

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Not just a series of performances, but a whole summit examining how music (and the arts in general) can sit at the forefront of Africa’s rise to a bright new hope for the future. And who better than Senegalese sensation Baaba Maal to chair proceedings? The musician and human rights advocate is one of the clearest and most coherent voices coming from Africa – whether that voice is singing, or calling for a new chapter in democracy and political rights. Africa Utopia features talks, events, live performance, discussion and much more.

Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend is so BIG we need to cap up BIG. Big names, big shows, big surprises and one big audience – who’ll be getting down to Jay-Z, Rihanna, Jack White, Lana Del Ray, Azealia Banks, Bombay Bicycle Club, Wretch 32, Tinchy Stryder and Plan B on Hackney Marshes.

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in Trafalgar Square and at Somerset House offer up Beverley Knight, Jools Holland and Matthew Herbert. On the Americas Stage at the Tower of London there’s Wynton Marsalis and Scissor Sisters. The Barons of Tang and Frank Yamma are the big draws on the Oceania Stage at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. The Africa Stage at the cool new Pleasure Gardens site in Docklands will have live music from Angelique Kidjo and The Noisettes. Truly a global gathering, then.

BBC Proms Royal Albert Hall, Jul 13 to Sep 8 Everyone knows the last night of the Proms for its pomp, circumstance and unabashed patriotism. But there’s more than that – dozens of top class concerts will fill the Albert Hall with the best in classical music throughout this, the 118th season of one of the world’s greatest and oldest music festivals. The whole Proms is part of the London 2012 Festival and on the first day of the Olympics, July 27, Daniel Barenboim leads a very special performance of Beethoven’s 9th. It’s performed by the West Eastern Divan Orchestra, an ensemble which is made up of Arabs, Palestinians, and Jews, and aims to help bring peace to Israel and the Occupied Territories through the power of music. September 8 sees a grand culmination in Hyde Park, for the annual Proms In The Park, with proceedings shown on a big screen.

covered aMAZEme Southbank Centre, Jul 31 to Aug 26 Mazes made of maize are for country bumpkins: but a maze of books? Now you’re talking. Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo’s cerebral puzzle takes bookworms on a literal literary odyssey and will even feature guest writers reading from their books at the end of your journey.

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Bus Tops Across London, until Sep “The London 2012 Festival gave us and many others the chance to realise projects which push the boundaries and hopefully even push a bit at the edges of modern art too,” says Alfie Dennen, a 36-year-old self-confessed “digital merry prankster” from Hackney. His Bus Tops project involves 30 red and black LED screens dotted around London, on the roofs of bus shelters. Anyone can create artwork for display on them, by submitting it online. “The idea behind Bus Tops is both simple and complex,” he explains.

“On one hand, we wanted to create a

new platform for public art that anyone could create for. Kind of like a digital fourth plinth [the space at Trafalgar Square]. On the other hand, there are a lot of themes at play: public versus private, the rise of digital, the role of screens in public spaces and urban travel. We also decided on bus stop roofs because they are of no use to advertisers, which is why they remain blank canvases to this day. It’s not just amateurs though, explains Dennen.

“We have nine artists working with us, each one having a month to show new work across 10 of the screens.”

The flame passes to Rio de Janeiro for the next Olympics in 2016, so the time is right to make a fuss about what Brazil has to offer.

Fortunately, the lamentable spectacle of the London bus driving into the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing to handover to London four years ago won’t be repeated.

Nope, the Brazilians are too cool for that. Its effort – Rio Occupation – kicks off with

a one-day bash at Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) on July 8 as part of the LIFT Festival – with visual artists making their mark, and continues around town with art events for the next month. Oh, and BAC is handy for the Brazilian and Portuguese neighbourhoods located around Stockwell, so why not head down there for a caipirinha and a bowl of moqueca after the show?

Tino Sehgal Tate Modern, Jul 24 to Oct 28 We’d love to tell you what Tino Sehgal has in store for the Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern, but we’d have to kill you. So let us tease you: you know Tino Sehgal makes performance pieces. We know he’ll be using a mixture of real people. Ultimately, it’s the interplay between audience and storyteller which lies at the heart of the artist’s work. It’s set to be a modern, theatrical, crowd-pleasing addition to the turbine hall – perhaps the most people-friendly work since Carsten Holler’s slides provoked a lot of smiles.

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On the water

Like A Fish Out Of Water

Mira Calix Nothing Is Set In Stone Fairlop Waters, Barkingside, Jun 21 to Sep 9 “I’m exhausted. I’ve been at the Fabricator Workshops the last three days and nights putting the finishing touches to it,” says Mira Calix by way of an apology. But she needn’t worry.

This latter day Delia Derbyshire – a pioneer of the fuzzy transitional zone where art and sound collide – is a softly spoken charmer. Her creation for the London 2012 Festival is a peach.

Or perhaps a peach stone? “It’s made of hundreds of stones, a mixture of sizes. They are held in an egg-like shape. Inside this form are hidden speakers through which the specially composed piece plays, moving around the sculpture. It’s broken into musical movements, voice and more natural elements.” Calix is best known for her ethereal output on Warp Records, but this renaissance woman is not just

a musician but also an artist. In the tranquil surroundings of Fairlop Waters country park in Barkingside, Calix will combine both her loves to end up with a giant sculpture which will come alive with music and found sounds.

However, she’s not earnest, and jokes: “It’s like a Kinder Egg. The surprise is the music.” Where did the idea come from? “I’ve always been a person who takes a pebble from the beach as a souvenir,” she explains. “I started to think about how, when you remove pebbles, you slow down time because they will then erode much slower than they would on a beach or in a river.

That led to a lot of other thoughts about things changing.” The Londonbased South African adds: “I think of [the work] as a physical manifestation of a song.”

Uxbridge Lido, Jul 5 to 7; Richmond Jul 12 to 14 Who doesn’t love a lido? The lead character in this multi-media show put together by English National Ballet and Seven Sisters Group is an old woman who’s swum in the lido for all her life. She reminisces about how she loves being in the water, not ‘a fish out of it’ on land. Expect to see dancers doing their stuff poolside and in the drink, for these cute shows which take place at actual lidos in west London. You’ll also get given an MP3 player to listen to a pre-recorded soundtrack or music and speech. You can even take a dip yourself.

The Owl And The Pussycat Various venues, Jul 20 to Aug 1 Look out for a pea-green boat: that’ll be the one on which the eponymous couple of this piece will be found. With shows on London canals, poem by Edward Lear, libretto by Python alumnus Terry Jones, and a score from The Full Monty’s Anne Dudley this will be a show to remember.

Pleasance Ahoy!

Tall Tales From The Riverbank See top notch comics (the line-up and venue stays a secret until the very last minute) perform a pop-up gig on a barge. Hopefully there’ll be no men overboard, just a lot of laughs and some soggy canal puns, no doubt.

See the comedians off on Jun 28 before they take their narrowboat up the country, arriving in Edinburgh in time for the Festival Fringe.

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Other unmissable events

A Running Jump Hackney Picturehouse, Jun 25 Eddie Marsan, Sam Kelly and Sam Spiro star in Mike Leigh’s newest film, specially commissioned for the London 2012 Festival. The grumpy auteur’s latest work pits sport against normal life in east London, showing a Royal Tenenbaums-style family (minus the NYC glamour, natch) indulging their love of all things sporty as antidote to their rather more mundane everyday lives. (See Film, page 35)

Big Dance Various venues, Jul 1 to 15 If Strictly, Dancing With The Stars, and Got To Dance have got you in the mood to shake your stuff then this festival will blow the cobwebs off. Live dance inspired by Matthew Bourne at Sadler’s Wells (Jul 12 and 13), dance and circus at Eltham Palace on Jul 1, and an exhibition of photos of dance in the National Theatre foyer from Jul 13 to 15 are some of the highlights of this gargantuan homage to nifty footwork.

Damon Albarn Dr Dee London Coliseum, Jun 25 to Jul 7

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Blur’s Damon Albarn teams up with English National Opera to tell the tale of a true Elizabethan gent. Dr John Dee was a spy, politician, scientist and thinker in the reign of the previous Queen Lizzie. This is the London premiere of Albarn’s musical journey into one man’s mind – a mind so famous it even inspired Shakespeare to write a character based on him.

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Going for gold This week, 50 golden pianos will crop up on the streets of London for the public to play. Alice Wiggett gets in tune

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xpect to hear multiple renditions of chopsticks in the next few weeks as a dazzling array of goldcoloured pianos will be appearing on London’s streets.

From Hampstead Heath to the East End, the second-hand pianos will be placed in public places for people to use freely, as part of the 50th City of London Festival.

It is the fourth and final year of the street pianos project, which has seen thousands tickling the ivories and prompted some unusual levels of dedication.

“Last year one man did a marathon tour of the pianos, running between the locations and stopping to play as he went,” says festival organiser Jessica Rees.

“In the City we had a student join a businessman from a nearby office and they played a duet together. It was fabulous to see these two people – who had never met – come

together, play a piece of music and then go their separate ways.

“One man even played the piano at St Barts hospital every day for the full three weeks. He lived in Wembley and didn’t have a piano at home. He played beautifully and people loved listening to him.”

Residents get protective about their local piano, even going as far as offering to cover it if rain threatens, Rees says.

This year’s golden crop have been decorated by street artists Milo Tchais, Themba Mkhize, Steven Ball, Morgan Paton and Anna Masters.

“We wanted to work with emerging artists whose work could be featured to decorate the pianos,” Rees explains.

“We want the pianos to make a visual impact.”

To celebrate the opening of the event, Tony Hadley will be performing Spandau Ballet’s most famous anthem, Gold, on the Millennium Bridge alongside the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.

And a golden piano, naturally.

Choreographer Rafael Bonachela has created a dance and piano duet with music written by Mercury Prize nominee Gwilym Simcock. Performances will tour each of the 50 pianos from June 27-29.

There’s more to the City of London Festival than the pianos. “The tour of The Bank of England is always one of the most popular events,” says Rees, adding there is a wide range of classical concerts, film screenings and more.

Dick Whittington may have thought the streets of London were paved with gold, but he probably had no ideas the pianos were.

June 24–July 13, various locations, colf.org

 Colour me gold: Street artists Steven Ball (left) and Milo Tchais (right) have customised the pianos  Golden touch: Street pianos will crop up all over London from June 24

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TUESDAY JUNE 19

Banqueting House at Banqueting House, Whitehall, SW1A 2ER Charing Cross Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, last adm 4.30pm, £5, concs £4, under 16s FREE. The last remaining part of the Palace of Whitehall, designed by Inigo Jones. Until Dec 31.

His Holiness The Dalai Lama Real Change Happens In The Heart: Talk at Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP South Kensington £10-£100, under 2s FREE, 2pm, doors 12.30pm. The spiritual leader discusses and answers questions about the relationship between heart and mind, followed by a programme of Tibetan dance and song.

Beginners Watercolour: Workshop at Donald Hope Library, High Street, SW19 2HR Colliers Wood Thursdays 4.30pm-6pm, phone for prices. Drop-in session. Until Jun 28.

Bicycle Tours at The London Bicycle Tour Company, Gabriel’s Wharf, Upper Ground, SE1 9PP Blackfriars Jan-Mar, Nov & Dec, Mon-Sun 10am-4pm, Apr-Oct, MonSun 9.30am-6pm, closed Dec 25, £18.95£29.95. Classic tours of central London, plus countryside tours and cycle rental.

Alfie’s Antique Market at Alfie’s Antique Market, Church Street, NW8 8DT Marylebone Tue-Sat 10am-6pm, FREE. Indoor market for antiques and other collectibles. Until Dec 31.

Ukulele Jam Session at The Royal George, Goslett Yard, WC2H 0EA Tottenham Court Road Wednesdays 7pm-11pm, FREE. Until Jun 27.

All Ears at The Old Queen’s Head, 44 Essex Road, N1 8LN Angel £12, 7pm-11pm.

An evening of real life stories.

Xanthe Gresham at Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road £8, 8pm.

Goddess-themed tales.

Historical Tours at Fulham Palace, Bishops Avenue, SW6 6EA Putney Bridge £5, accompanied children FREE, 2pm. Join a tour of all the public rooms to hear secrets and stories.

Samsung Bike Week at Various Venues, Nationwide, W1A 7LF Tottenham Court Road FREE, times vary. A mass participation cycling event. bikeweek.org.uk

WEDNESDAY JUNE 20 Book Group at Hackney Central Library, 1 Reading Lane, E8 1GQ

Transport for London travel update

Jubilee line: No service between North Greenwich and Stratford until 10am on Sunday.

Hammersmith & City line: Paddington (Hammersmith & City line only) closed on Saturday Jun 23.

Northern line: No service between Hampstead and Edgware all weekend.

Docklands Light Railway: No service between Stratford and Poplar all weekend.

London Overground: No service Highbury & Islington to New Cross, New Cross Gate and Sydenham to Crystal Palace all weekend.

For the latest information on all public transport across the capital check tfl.gov.uk

Hackney Central FREE, 6.30pm7.30pm. A lively discussion group.

Career Girls On TV: Lecture at BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT Waterloo FREE, 6.15pm. With Dr Rachel Moseley followed by a Q&A with Abi Morgan and Amanda Redman.

Celebrating Life On Earth: Talk at Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD South Kensington FREE, 2.30pm-3pm. Systematists discuss how they describe and order species and work out their relationships.

Priceless London Wonderground: Oh! Oh! Oh! It’s Magic at The London Wonderground Spiegeltent, Jubilee Gardens, off Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX Embankment £15.50 & £20.50, concs £14.50, 9.30pm. Some of the UK’s best contemporary magicians.

THURSDAY JUNE 21 Ben Aaronovitch: Talk at Waterstones, 203-206 Piccadilly, W1J 9LE Piccadilly Circus £5, mems £3, 6.30pm. The author discusses his book Whispers Under Ground.

Garden Open Evenings at South London Bontanical Institute, 323 Norwood Road, Tulse Hill phone for prices, SE24 9AQ 6pm-8pm.

Jeremy Vine: Talk at Waterstones, Kensington, 193 High Street Kensington, W8 6SH High Street Kensington £5, inc wine, 7pm-8.15pm. The broadcaster discusses his book It’s All News To Me.

FRIDAY JUNE 22 AfterCHOC Lounge at The Cavendish Arms, 128 Hartington Road, SW8 2HJ Stockwell £39, two people £69, email lounge@afterchoc.co.uk for availability, phone for times. Learn to taste, cook and decorate with chocolate.

Attila The Stockbroker, Rory Ellis at The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Road, SW9 0TP Stockwell phone for prices, 8pm11.30pm. Folk-punk and performance poetry.

Culture Now: Michael Landy: Talk at ICA, 12 Carlton House Terrace, The Mall, SW1Y 5AH Charing Cross £5, mems FREE, 1pm. The artist discusses his work.

Farago Poetry Summer Slam! at RADA, 62-64 Gower Street, WC1E 6ED Goodge Street £6, NUS/mems FREE, concs £5, 7.30pm. Poetry performances from all genres.

SATURDAY JUNE 23 Explore Shakespeare - By Speaking Him at Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, W6 9RL

Hammersmith £22, concs £16, 10am, 3pm. The former BBC television presenter and voice coach Matthew Collins, leads a three-hour workshop on the texts of Shakespeare.

A Grand Medieval Joust at English Heritage: Eltham Palace, Court Yard, Off Eltham £12, Court Road, SE9 5QE child £7.20, concs £10.80, mems FREE, family £31.20, 11am-5pm. A tournament, jester, games and a knights training school.

Horror Movie Workshop (Ages 13-18) at British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG Tottenham Court Road FREE, 11am-4pm, booking essential.

Izy Penguin: Author Event at Waterstones, Islington, 10-12 Islington Green, N1 2XH Angel FREE, 12.30pm4pm. The author reads from and signs copies of her book Grandma Bendy.

LIFT 2012: Requardt & Rosenberg: Motor Show at West Parkside, Area 12 Greenwich Peninsula, SE10 0DX North Greenwich FREE, ticketed, 9.45pm.

Outdoor dance performance on a patch of wasteland.

SUNDAY JUNE 24 The Rumba Lounge at Karen Hardy Studios, 10/11 The Boulevard, SW6 2UB West Brompton £10, mems £7.50, 7pm-9pm. Learn dance steps.

Samsung Bike Week: Bike The Borough at Various Venues, Lambeth, SE11 6PY Lambeth North FREE, 10am. Cycle a dedicated route around the area.

Tired Of London, Tired Of Life: The Life Of Dr Samuel Johnson: Talk at Guildhall Library, 5 Aldermanbury, EC2V 7HH Bank FREE, 1.30pm-2.30pm.

Vocals & Verses at Dingwalls, Camden Lock, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AB Camden Town £10, £8 before 8.30pm, 7.30pm, doors. Spoken word, poetry and music performances.

MONDAY JUNE 25 Crafty Arty Party at Upstairs At The Ritzy, Coldharbour Lane, SW2 1JG Brixton FREE, 6.30pm. Craft workshops.

E4 Udderbelly Festival: An Audience With Howard Marks: Talk at E4 Udderbelly At Southbank Centre, Jubilee Gardens, SE1 8XX Embankment £17.50 & £22.50, concs £16, 9pm. Marks discusses his life.

Sebastian Faulks: Guardian Review Book Club: Talk at Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 9AG King’s Cross St Pancras £9.50, 7pm. The author talks to John Mullan about Birdsong.

Incite Poetry at The Alley Cat, 4 Denmark Street, WC2H 8LP Tottenham Court Rd FREE, 7.30pm-10.30pm. A poetry reading, followed by an open-mic.

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SMART ART It’s not just the likes of Charles Saatchi who can snap up the work of emerging artists, as Lisa Williams finds out

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ake a look around your home. If your walls are covered in peeling posters and knock-off prints then clear some space in your diary this week to visit a graduate art show.

While most of us say we love art, how many of us can say we own something well-crafted, original and – potentially – valuable?

This could all change this month when many colleges in London open their doors to exhibit what their students have been working on, with some incredible works being offered for sale.

Three of the University of the Arts London’s six Colleges: Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon (known collectively as CCW) are opening their exhibitions this week, promising art fans and potential collectors the chance to snap up original paintings, photography, sculpture, textiles and animation at reasonable prices.

With alumni including Turner Prize winners Anish Kapoor, Steve McQueen, Gillian Wearing and Chris Ofili, there’s a chance that what you buy might end up being a canny investment. Standards are likely to be high, so if you buy something you enjoy looking at, then it will never lose its value anyway.

Angelica Sule, curator of University of the Arts London’s Emerging Artists Programme, says these shows play a significant role in the artists’ development too.

“Investing in work from these emerging artists not only gives them funding and confidence to continue with their practice, but it also helps create the landscape for the next generation of creative talent. On top of that, you also get a great piece of contemporary art without the enormous price tag.”

The graduate shows run until June 23 at Camberwell College Peckham Rye, Chelsea College of Art and Design of Arts Pimlico and Wimbledon College of Art Wimbledon.

Admission is free and prices range from under £10 to £1000+. summershows.arts.ac.uk

 Claimed Light Space, James Cliff, Wimbledon College of Art  Untitled, Rosanna Jeffrey, Wimbledon College of Art  Heygate Memories, Daniel Clarke, Camberwell College of Arts  Untitled, Eleanor Cunningham, Chelsea College of Art and Design

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Lunchtime learning Looking for something new to do at lunch? Try a quick cookery class where you can eat the results. James Drury dons an apron and gives sandwiches the slip

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s Scout London approaches the L’atelier Des Chefs showroom and kitchen in St Paul’s, there’s a trio of office workers peering curiously into the glass-fronted building.

“Look – they teach you how to make lunch in there,” one exclaims to her workmates. “And then you get to eat it!” she squeals excitedly, catching sight of a class of people sitting down to eat their creations.

“Maybe you should do that,” her friend responds. “For your boyfriend’s sake.”

As their cackling and intentions to “give that a go” drift off down Foster Lane, I step into the

shop, full of recipe books, pans, knives and other utensils on sale. At the back, there’s a glass box with sliding doors and the unmistakable glimmer of stainless steel surfaces.

Inside, an intimidatingly tall man in chef’s whites busies himself with the final prep.

“Come in,” booms head chef Andre Dupin, (pictured top) who joined L’atelier Des Chefs following 10 years working in award-winning fine dining restaurants such as Chez Bruce, Gordon Ramsay’s kitchen at Claridges and most recently, ran the modern French kitchen at Four 0 Nine in Clapham.

Today, my class – two women from a nearby

office who are here on their lunchbreak – and I are cooking rump steak with a smoked paprika bean salad.

Under Dupin’s watchful eye, we’re guided through chopping onions – the professional way – as well as mange tout beans, garlic and herbs, while the steak briefly marinades.

“People ask if this has the same effect as using a garlic crusher,” the chef says, mashing a bulb with sea salt using the blade of his knife and a chopping board. “It does, but when you use a crusher you leave about a third of the garlic bulb behind.”

It’s nuggets of information and tips like this that set the class abuzz. Soon enough, a few false starts and amid some nervous laughter, we’re all working away in a way which is considerably more professional-looking than when we started out just 10 minutes before.

It’s not long before we’re at the sleek-looking black-topped induction hob, where two frying pans and a griddle are shimmering with heat.

With a sizzle, the steaks are placed into the pans, and Dupin explains how to tell by touch how well-cooked a steak is.

Within a few minutes we’re all sat at a table in the shop window, eating our creations. My classmates and I are wide-eyed with excitement.

“This is amazing,” one beams, unable to wipe a grin of pride from her face. “I never in a million years thought I’d be able to cook something this good. I never invite people round for dinner because I only ever use a microwave as I’m terrified I’ll ruin the food.”

It’s exactly this de-mystifying of cooking which L’atelier des Chefs was founded on, explains Tom McNeile, MD of L’atelier Des Chefs UK – and a former City worker himself.

“It’s been the ethos of L’atelier Des Chefs from the very beginning to inspire people to cook and helping them realise they can cook,” adds Dupin. “Many people are nervous about cooking.

We set out to show them it’s not as scary as they thought.”

McNeile says the location was picked not least because City workers are notorious for not eating properly. “Being able to do a class in your lunchtime, then have the recipe emailed so you can recreate it when you’re at home means it’s so much more accessible,” he explains.

At £15 for an hour’s lesson, including the food, this beats the sandwich run hands down. atelierdeschefs.co.uk

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The Cube, Southbank summer pop-up SE1 8XX Waterloo

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Galvin at Windows, Hyde Park without the rain W1K 1BE Hyde Park Corner

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Skylon, Cocktails overlooking the river SE1 8XX Waterloo

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Babylon, Hanging baskets and flamingos W8 5ED High Street Kensington

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Vertigo 42, Eye-to-eye with The Gherkin EC2N 1HQ Bank

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Feng Shang Princess, Floating on the canal NW1 7SS Camden Town

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OXO Tower Restaurant, See the landmarks from a landmark SE1 9PH Southwark

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China Boulevard, Peaceful Thames views SW18 1DE Wandsworth Town

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Inn The Park, Nestled in beautiful St. James’ Park SW1A 2BJ St. James’ Park

Restaurant, Looking at the Southbank 10 Northbank rather than from it EC4V 3QH Mansion House

Eighty-Six South Kensington Full of decadent bling and all that’s shiny, it’s only on Fulham Road that Eighty-Six could blend into its surroundings so inconspicuously. The three-storey converted Georgian townhouse’s downstairs bar, first floor restaurant and top floor private dining room, each seem to vie with each other for plushness.

Some venues would find it difficult to inject soul into a restaurant amongst such swank, but Eighty-Six has plenty of personality. The interior design is in keeping with the building’s historic facade, but it is given a modern twist, most strikingly by the Charlotte Cory artwork hanging on the walls. The images – apparently admired by the Queen – feature Victorian portrait photography with superimposed photos of stuffed animal heads added to the subjects’ shoulders and create a real talking point should conversation dry up.

It’s not too tenuous to think of the artworks as a metaphor for the food on offer. Not solely because there’s plenty of meat, but because the just-a-little-flashy menu takes classic French dishes and gives them a twist, incorporating chef Simon Levy’s ideas and British influences.

Levy dares to be a bit different, injecting fun and flavour in some unusual ways. Snails perk up a starter of macaroni cheese, while a vodka and gin cured salmon offers a particularly good alternative to smoked salmon or gravlax – it’s tangy from the booze and whispers with notes of juniper and citrus from the gin, making a truly memorable dish.

Some of the more conservative offerings fly

the French flag more ferociously, but are a little less fun for it. Though technically well-executed and served in large slabs, foie gras with smoked duck rillette and blood orange marmalade is not as mentally stimulating as other dishes. It seems more geared towards giving the west London set a plateful of pomp than serving up anything truly special. Priced at £12 for a starter, the restaurant is only too aware that this particular breed of clientele can’t be bothered counting the pennies.

The more adventurous choices from the menu are the most rewarding. A dish of monkfish served with braised squid and wild garlic punches way above its weight, with a slow-cooked ragu of squid packing an almighty umami whack which contrasts well with the delicate monkfish.

A Pimms jelly with cucumber sorbet injects some patriotic playfulness into dessert, while a cross-Channel strawberry millefeuille shows off the kitchen’s intricacy if not the breadth of its imagination.

In all instances, this is good, solid stuff with very little to fault. At its high points there are some memorable dishes and a real sense of passionate foodie fun, too. It’s just a shame that a price tag of close to £40 for a three-course meal doesn’t go down anywhere near as easily as the food itself. However, there is a prixe fixe menu which runs on Mondays and Tuesdays offering three courses for £23. Now that’s much more appetising. BN 86 Fulham Road, SW3 6HR South Kensington scoutlondon.com Scout London 21

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The Rookery Clapham

Bistrot on the Square Victoria

With a seriously busy bar and the feel of a converted pub, The Rookery doesn’t immediately seem like somewhere to eat. Packed to the nines until at least 9pm, there’s quite a commotion to contend with in order to get fed, but provided bumping elbows with your neighbours and talking over the hubbub is something you’re comfortable with, there’s some serious cooking to be found on the neatly condensed menu.

Cornish smoked mackerel, Dexter beef and Gloucester Old Spot pork paired simply with asparagus, broad beans and fennel shout loudly about being British and seasonal but quietly get on with their job on the plate. A patriotic cheeseboard is about as showy as it gets and having devoured it you’ll be convinced of this modest venue’s potential. In light of this, the fact that by far the biggest menu is the drinks list is slightly disappointing.

With the area around Victoria station a little too awash with bland chain restaurants, this plush joint in the striking Eccleston Square Hotel has a mirage-like allure. Decadently oversized seats, a shiny tiled floor and theatrical chandeliers are a little too much glitz for a room with just two taken tables, but at least we’re graced with some of the most attentive service possible. The French menu is less classical, preferring instead to raid the country’s colonial past, leading us to Vietnamese duck salad and Indochine-style seared yellow fin tuna. Both are light, refreshing and zing with flavour. Perhaps if the restaurant made its mind up as to what it wanted to be, more diners would make their way in, but despite our reservations (and the restaurant’s lack of them) it’s definitely one of the area’s better options.

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Clapham Common

37 Eccleston Square, SW1V 1PB

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Spice Market West End

The Draft House East Dulwich

As pan-Asian restaurant that’s come to Leicester Square via New York, Spice Market was never going to be a shrinking violet. It’s a full-on beast of a place with food to match. Prawns slathered in black bean sauce come with dehydrated pineapple chunks that erupt into juice in the mouth. Lobster summer rolls are meaty and generous with swathes of spice. Black cod is slightly overcooked but whacks with a mighty miso punch. They certainly do nothing by halves here.

You’ll leave, after having indulged in the eccentric Ovaltine kulfi, with taste buds on heat and the feeling of having partaken in an epic piece of food theatre. The jury’s still out on an encore, but we’re giving this bolshy brute much respect for giving a massive two fingers to authenticity at a time when it’s all most restaurants are banging on about.

Born out of Charlie McVeigh’s original Westbridge pub in Battersea, the now renamed Draft House group has become a small but mighty player on London’s beer pub scene. Having brought the world of craft beers, third of a pint measures and simple pub grub to Clapham Junction and Bermondsey, it’s East Dulwich’s increasingly trendy Lordship Lane which is next. Whether it’s London brews, American ales or fruity European numbers, the bulging beer list is unsurprisingly unfaultable. Beer-friendly small(ish) plates of ribs, scotch eggs and audibly crisp foot-long pork scratchings served with a smile are equally well-received, though the burgers which form the mains receive mixed reviews from our party. Yes, they’re piled high, gherkinladen and full of smoky flavour, but their oozing greasiness is a tad too much. Better cleanse that palate with a dessert beer before you leave.

W Hotel, 10 Wardour Street, W1D 6QF

21 Lordship Lane, SE22 8EW

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21-24 JUNE 2012 - REGENT’S PARK Discover London’s diverse cuisine at the world’s greatest pop-up restaurant festival.

Savour the best in international flavours from 40 of London’s hottest restaurants, see world class chefs live on stage and explore fine food and wine from top producers.

Celebrate summer in the city with Taste of London, the gourmet event of the season.

Restaurant line up: Asia de Cuba ● Barbecoa ● Bar Boulud ● Benares ● Bocca di Lupo ● Cinnamon Soho ● Club Gascon ● Coq D’Argent ● The Corner Room ● Gaucho ● Gauthier Soho ● Iberica ● Kensington Place ● L’Anima ● Launceston Place ● Le Gavroche ● Massimo Restaurant & Oyster Bar ● Maze ● Opera Tavern ● Petrus ● Pollen Street Social ● Rhodes 24 ● Sake No Hana ● The Savoy Grill ● Tamarind ● Theo Randall at the InterContinental Hotel ● Whitechapel Gallery Dining Room ● Yauatcha ● plus a pop-up restaurant from Action Against Hunger Taste of Thailand restaurant line up: Blue Elephant ● Busaba Eathai ● Ora ● Patara ● Suda

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The Seagrass 74 Chapel Market, N1 9ER Angel British ££ A new part-time pop-up serving seasonal seafood and game on a weekly changing menu. Open evenings from Thursday to Saturday only.

Shrimpy’s King’s Cross Filling Station, Goods Way, N1C 4UR King’s Cross St Pancras Cali-Mex ££ Part of the ongoing King’s Cross redevelopment, Shrimpy’s serves a mix of Californian and Mexican dishes such as soft shell crab burger and lomo steak with chimichurri.

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The Lawn Bakery 9 High Street, SW19 5DX Wimbledon Café ££ Chef Ollie Couillaud of nearby The Lawn Bistro has taken over a bakery and relaunched it as this neighbourhood café serving breakfasts, light lunches and afternoon tea as well as freshly baked bread and pastries.

Tom Ilic 123 Queenstown Road, SW8 3RH Queenstown Road Modern European £££ A longstanding favourite with Battersea locals, championing Great British pork alongside other contemporary European dishes.

Southwark Rooms 60 Southwark Street, SE1 1UN Southwark Bar ££ A small menu of diner-style dishes such as burgers and club sandwiches complement a much larger offering of cocktails. There’s plenty of happy Hours, too.

WEST Sonny’s Kitchen 94 Church Road, SW13 0DQ Barnes Bridge Gastropub ££ Philip Howard, chef and co-owner of Michelin starred The Square in Mayfair, makes a move into less formal dining with the revamp of this Barnes gastropub.

Mazi 12-14 Hillgate Street, W8 7SR Notting Hill Gate Greek £££ Traditional Greek food gets a modern twist at this new opening. A deli accompanies the main restaurant which serves dishes such as grilled beetroot salad with a Greek yoghurt foam.

Vinoteca Soho 53-55 Beak Street, W1F 9SH Oxford Circus European ££ The third opening from the Vinoteca team, serving their now signature style of European dishes alongside a 300-strong wine list.

Tapasia 32 Old Compton Street, W1D 4TP Leicester Square Pan-Asian ££ Pan-Asian ‘tapas’ from the team behind Japanese restaurant group Tsunami.

Dishes include octopus with mango & walnuts and lamb cutlets with kimchi.

MEAT Market The Mezzanine, Jubilee Market Hall, Tavistock Street, WC2E 8BE Covent Garden Fast food ££ The latest meaty addition to the Meat Liquor empire, with a focus on fast food. Try the deep-fried bacon-wrapped hot dog for some overindulgence.

Donostia 10 Seymour Place, W1H 7ND Marble Arch Spanish ££ Tapas with a Basque focus from ex-Barrafina chef Tomasz Baranski. Dishes include traditional tortilla and croquettes alongside twists like tempura prawns wrapped in Bayonne ham.

Central & Co 22 Great Marlborough Street, W1F 7HU Oxford Circus British ££ A brand new all-day brasserie and bar in Soho serving small plates, afternoon tea and more, all with a distinctly British flavour.

NORTH

Hix at The Tramshed 32 Rivington Street, EC2A 3LX Old Street British £££ Specially commissioned artworks from Damien Hirst accompany a meaty menu which focuses on chicken or steak.

The Gate 370 St John Street, EC1V 4NN Farringdon Gastropub ££ Following in the footsteps of The Gate in Hammersmith, this St John Street venture serves entirely vegetarian brunch, mezze, and main dishes.

Frizzante 1a Goldsmith’s Row, E2 8QA Hoxton Café £ The café at Hackney City Farm serves an ever-changing selection of rough and ready dishes liked by hippies and hipsters alike.

SOUTH

Sette 4 Sydney Street, SW3 6PP South Kensington Italian £££ Owned by renowned jockey Frankie Dettori, the menu at this new Chelsea joint is based on Italian classics such as fritto misto and veal Milanese.

The Potting Shed Dorset Square Hotel, 39 Dorset Square, NW1 6QN Marylebone British ££ Set in the new Dorset Square Hotel, this restaurant is just about as quintessentially English as it’s possible to be. Afternoon tea and cocktails

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Allotinabox Who says you can’t grow your own food in London? Allotinabox (see what they did there) kits contain everything you need to start growing your own herbs and vegetables on a windowsill, balcony or doorstep. £12.99, allotinabox.com (will yield at least £50 worth of produce, apparently)

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Tragedy of a genius life cut short War hero, codebreaker and computer pioneer’s work underpins everything from washing machines to laptops, as Alice Wiggett discovers

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o this day, Alan Turing’s death remains a mystery.

One of the pioneering brains of modern computing, an outstanding mathematician and World War Two codebreaker, he was convicted in 1952 of having an “indecent relationship” with another man and forced to undergo a form of chemical castration.

Two years later he was found dead at his home. Debate continues as to whether the 41-year-old committed suicide by taking cyanide, or poisoned himself by accident.

David Rooney, curator of new Science Museum exhibition, Codebreaker – Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy, says: “Every time you use your mobile, send an email, or even use the washing machine, the programs these devices use are based on Turing’s work.

“He helped created the basis for all the computer programs we use today.”

Known as The Prof, Turing was stationed at World War Two codebreaking HQ, Bletchley Park, because of his incredible abilities.

“He is credited with shortening the length of World War Two by years,” says Rooney.

“He designed the programs for the machines at Bletchley that were used for codebreaking during the war.”

This gift for programming gave birth to Turing’s most famous and influential creation, the Pilot ACE computer, which embodied his work – regarded as the foundation of computer science and of the artificial intelligence program.

“Turing was more than a mathematician, he was a computer scientist, a codebreaker, a biologist but overall a great thinker,” explains Rooney. “He was able to unravel patterns of life itself, he was a pioneer of morphogenesis, exploring the ways organisms grow from an embryo and develop.”

Indeed, so progressive was his thinking that scientific papers he wrote in the 1950s are still used today. “If he had lived, who knows what other contributions he would have made,” says Rooney.

The exhibition has been carefully curated to be a celebration of Turing’s life, rather than the ‘cold’ exhibition about computers and scientific papers, that it could quite easily have become.

Rooney explains: “It looks back at the legacy

Turing left behind and builds a full portrait of the man who died under tragic circumstances.

“We worked closely with a group of people who were young, gay, and working in the 1950s.

They gave us an insight into what it was like to be gay at that time and how they were treated.”

It was a time when doctors were experimenting with castration drugs, under the misconception that if people could be ‘cured’ of homosexuality, they would lead happier lives.

“These treatments were certainly not cures but punishment,” says Rooney.

This was formally recognised in 2009 by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who apologised for the treatment Turing experienced, describing it as “appalling”. However, successive campaigns for an official government pardon have failed.

Perhaps that doesn’t really matter – the truly important thing is that the incredible work and contribution Turing made to society is being celebrated and acknowledged.

Codebreaker – Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy is at the Science Museum from June 21, sciencemuseum.org.uk

 Codebreaker A four-rotor Enigma cypher machine

 Pilot ACE Computer

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 Alan Turing 29 March 1951

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YOKO ONO/ STEPHAN CRASNEANSCKI/ IAIN MACMILLAN

Here’s looking at Yoko

 Film Still from Fly 1970. Early in her career Yoko regarded the common house fly as her alter ego and directed this film following a fly as it walks about the body of a nude woman

 Sky Ladders 2007. The idea behind Sky Ladders is that you drop off a ladder with a personal message on so it reaches the sky. The work was originally dedicated to John Lennon

Described as “the world’s most famous unknown artist” by her late husband, it remains that Yoko Ono is best known for being married to John Lennon.

But Ono has been working as an artist, film-maker, poet, musician, writer, performance artist and peace activist for over 50 years and is a pioneer of conceptual art. These works from her new exhibition at The Serpentine Gallery show the artist’s breadth.

 Apple (withered state) 1996.

In short, this is a wrinkly apple on a plinth

 Smile 2010. #smilesfilm, a large-scale project inviting people to upload and send an image of their smiles, to create an anthology of smiling portraits.

As Yoko says: “Smile! I love you”

Yoko Ono: To The Light Serpentine Gallery June 19 – September 9

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Gunther von Hagens, plastinated reindeer, © Gunther von Hagens, Institute for Plastination, Heidelberg, Germany www.bodyworlds.com

Erdem, A.W 2008, Photograph © David Hughes

Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands British Library

Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings The Courtauld Gallery

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Art & Culture CENTRAL

Grayson Perry: The Vanity Of Small Differences at Victoria Miro, 16 Wharf Road, N1 7RW Angel FREE, Until Aug 11. Tapestries inspired by Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress.

The Artists Of Ampilawatja: Songlines 24 at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, 2A Conway Street, W1T 6BA Great Portland Street FREE, Until Jun 30. Paintings by artists from Alice Springs, Australia.

Bauhaus: Art As Life at Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS Barbican £12, adv £10, ages 13-17 £7, adv ages 13-17 £6, concs £8, adv concs £7, under 13s FREE, Until Aug 12. The most extensive Bauhaus display in the UK in more than 40 years.

Arturo BonFanti: Works 1961-1972 at Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Pied Bull Yard, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3BN Holborn FREE, Until Jul 27. Figurative paintings by the Italian Master.

Cultural Olympiad: Damien Hirst at Tate Modern, Bankside, Holland Street, SE1 9TG Southwark £14, concs £12.20, mems FREE, Until Sep 9. The first major survey of the acclaimed British artist’s work to be held in the UK. Cultural Olympiad: Mind The Map: Inspiring Art, Design And Cartography at London Transport Museum, 39 Covent Garden Piazza, WC2E 7BB

Covent Garden £13.50, concs £10, Until Oct 28. An exhibition detailing the history, inspiration and creativity behind London Transport maps.

Cultural Olympiad: Writing Britain: Wastelands To Wonderlands at The British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB Euston £9, child FREE, NUS/disabled/ unwaged £5, OAP £7, Until Sep 25. An exploration in how the landscapes of Britain run throughout great literary works.

Christian Louboutin at Design Museum, 28 Butlers Wharf Shad Thames, SE1 2YD London Bridge £10, NUS £6, concs £9, mems/under 12s FREE, Until Jul 9. A major retrospective of the career of the renowned French shoe designer.

The Designs Of The Year 2012 at Design Museum, 28 Butlers Wharf Shad Thames, SE1 2YD London Bridge £10, NUS £6, concs £9, mems/under 12s FREE, Until Jul 4. Innovative designs in various categories.

Etching The Landscape: City And Country at White Cube, 48 Hoxton Square, N1 6PB Old Street FREE, Until Jul 7.

Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer at White Cube Bermondsey, 144-152 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3TQ London Bridge FREE, Until Jul 8.

Contemporary still-life paintings.

Kevin Cummins - Manchester: So Much To Answer For. The City That Shaped the Smiths at Proud Camden, The Horse Hospital, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AH Camden Town FREE, Until Jul 15. A photographic retrospective of the career of The Smiths.

Leonardo Da Vinci: Anatomist at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, Birdcage Walk, SW1A 1AA Victoria £9.25, NUS/OAP £8.50, family £23, ages 5-16 £4.65, under 5s FREE, Until Oct 7. A major display of works relating to the artist’s studies of the human body.

Picasso And Modern British Art at Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG Pimlico £14, concs £12.20, mems FREE, Until Jul 15. A mostly chronological show exploring the Spanish artist’s connections to the UK. The Queen: Art And Image at National Portrait Gallery, 2 St Martin’s Place, WC2H 0HE Charing Cross £6, OAP £5.50, NUS/ages 12-18/unwaged/disabled £5, National Art Pass holders £3, disabled carer/accompanied under 12s/mems FREE, Until Oct 21. Around 60 images and related media of Queen Elizabeth II, marking her Diamond Jubilee.

NORTH

Zoe Leonard: Observation Point at Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, NW3 6DG Finchley Road FREE, Until Jun 24.

Photography by the New York-based artist.

Brilliance: Contemporary American Indian Art at Highgate Gallery, 9 South Grove, N6 6BS Archway FREE, Until Jun 21. Paintings, jewellery, beadwork and photography.

London Festival Of Photography: Simon Roberts: Let This Be A Sign at Swiss Cottage Central Library, 88 Avenue Road, NW3 3HA Swiss Cottage FREE, Until Jul 1. Photographs, films, texts and artefacts documenting the effects of the recession.

The Stephens’ Collection at The Stephen’s Collection, Avenue House, 17 East End Road, N3 3QE Finchley Central FREE, Until Dec 31. Featuring collections about Dr Henry Stephens, the inventor of writing ink in 1832. The museum is set in the house owned by Stephens, and features the

recommended laboratory where he experimented with inks.

EAST Cultural Olympiad: Government Art Collection: Commissions: Now And Then at Whitechapel Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX Aldgate East FREE, Until Sep 2. Works marking the 60 years of commission for the Collection, and work inspired by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Cultural Olympiad: Yoko Ono: IMAGINE PEACE at Waltham Forest, Town Square, E17 4HU Highams Park FREE, Until Sep 9. A large-scale project using posters, words, badges and the Internet.

Cultural Olympiad: Rachel Whiteread: Whitechapel Gallery New Commission at Whitechapel Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX Aldgate East FREE, Until Dec 31. A permanent work by the award-winning artist.

Jo Spence: Work (Part 1) at SPACE, 129131 Mare Street, E8 3RH London Fields FREE, Until Jul 15.

A retrospective of images by the British photographer.

SOUTH

Andy Warhol: The Portfolios: Bank Of America Collection at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, SE21 7AD West Dulwich £8, OAP £7, NUS/unwaged/disabled/Art Fund mems £5, under 18s/mems FREE, Until Sep 16. Featuring iconic and lesserknown prints and paintings.

Eric Baudelaire: The Anabasis Of May And Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi And 27 Years Without Images at Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street, The Oval, SE11 5RH Vauxhall FREE, Until Jul 22.

An installation and film investigating the history of the Japanese Red Army.

Dorich House Museum at Dorich House Museum, Kingston Vale, SW15 3RN Southfields £4, concs £3, under 16s FREE, Until Jul 27. The museum, which is the former home of the internationally acclaimed Estonian sculptor Dora Gordine, holds the major collection of her bronzes, paintings and drawings. It also holds a superb collection of Russian Imperial art, gathered by her husband Richard Hare.

Cultural Olympiad: Yoko Ono: IMAGINE PEACE at Live Site, Woolwich, General Gordon Place, SE18 6EU Woolwich Arsenal FREE, Until Sep 9.

A large-scale project using posters, words, badges and the Internet.

London Festival Of Photography: Hijacked III: Australia at Photofusion, 17a Electric Lane, SW9 8LA Brixton FREE, Until Jul 20. Pictures by Australian photographers including Michelle Tran,

Warwick Baker and Bindi Cole.

Jo Spence: Work (Part 2) at Studio Voltaire, 1a Nelsons Row, SW4 7JR Clapham Common FREE, Until Aug 11. A retrospective of images by the British photographer.

Royal River: Power, Pagentry And The Thames at National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, SE10 9NF Greenwich £11, child £5, family, 2 adults, up to 2 children £24.50, family, 1 adult, up to 3 children £14.50, concs £9, Until Sep 9.

A major exhibition featuring paintings, manuscripts and other artefacts.

WEST Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 at Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL South Kensington £10, concs available, Until Jan 6. A large display of ballgowns dating from 1950 to the present day.

Cultural Olympiad: Heatherwick Studio: Designing The Extraordinary at Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL South Kensington £6, OAP £5, NUS/ages 12-17/disabled/ES40 holders £4, family of 3 £10, family of 4 £16, disabled carers/mems/under 12s FREE, Until Sep 30. Two decades of contemporary design projects undertaken by the acclaimed British design studio.

Cultural Olympiad: Yoko Ono: To The Light at Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, W2 3XA South Kensington FREE, Until Sep 9. Works in a range of disciplines by the artist, including a largescale project, SMILE. Cultural Olympiad: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 Designed by Herzog & De Meuron And Ai Weiwei at Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, W2 3XA South Kensington FREE, Until Oct 14.

A collaborative design formed of twelve columns exploring the history of past Pavilions.

The Stone Roses: The Third Coming at Whiteleys Shopping Centre, Queensway, W2 4YN Bayswater FREE, Until Aug 12. A number of photographs and memorabilia charting the rise, fall and rise again, of the Manchester band.

Transformation And Revelation: Gormley To Gaga. UK Design For Performance 2007-2011 at Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL South Kensington FREE, Until Sep 30.

A celebration of the work of over 30 British theatre designers, architects and artists.

British Design 1948-2012: Innovation In The Modern Age at Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL South Kensington £12, OAP £10, NUS/unwaged/disabled/ages 12-17 £8, family £20 & £32, mems/carers/under 12s FREE, Until Aug 12. A major showcase of British design from the ‘Austerity Olympics’ of 1948, to the present day.

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Comedy

Nice by name The world’s second most famous ex-drug dealer is on top form, as Chris Beanland discovers

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oward Marks takes a drag on a hastily assembled roll-up. We’re stood outside the Groucho Club in Soho, as some spring sunshine just about pierces the clouds. A female beggar stumbles over and before she can speak...

“Ha! You’ve picked the absolute worst f***ing person to ask!” he laughs good-naturedly,

offering her a light for her equally badlyassembled rollie.

We repair inside. The bar of London’s supposed ‘cool media private members club’ looks more like a Marriott hotel, but Marks likes it. “I’ve been a member for years – I can get away with stuff,” he winks.

The world’s second most famous former

drug-dealer (after Pablo Escobar) has just come down from his room upstairs. He sips on a sparkling water as he tells me: “John Sinclair and I are doing a show tonight. But we got absolutely sh*t-faced after doing the radio show last night.”

Sinclair, a poet from Detroit who managed the band MC5, has been heavily involved in left-wing politics throughout his life. He and Marks have written a song together, despite only meeting about a year ago.

The Welshman, who lives in Leeds now and has four kids and two grandchildren, could have ended up with his own political career – he stood in four separate elections, but never really made the cut. What would he have done if he’d won a seat? He thinks. “I’d probably have skinned-up in the House of Commons.

Or turned the House of Lords into an all-night rave club.”

I ask Marks why he stood twice in Norwich.

“It’s the closest you get to Amsterdam! And the cannabis legalisation party is based there.

We were a single issue party, so that’s all reporters could ask me about.”

Marks looks as wonderfully dishevelled as ever, but what endears him – despite his crimes, for which he’s served serious time in the US – is his effervescent manner. He’s a real pleasure to chat to.

He reprises his aptly titled Mr Nice show at the Udderbelly this week, and has more projects in the pipeline too. There’s the second part of a crime fiction trilogy he’s just penned: “My agent said if I wanted to be a proper writer I’d have to stop writing about myself – so I wrote this book from the point of view of someone the opposite of me, a female undercover drugs detective.”

He’s also currently working on a documentary about his life, pieced together from fragments of old VHS cassettes. It sounds like a good companion piece to the whimsical film version of his memoir, Mr Nice, in which fellow Welshman Rhys Ifans plays Marks. “We’d known each other for years. And you know what – if anyone had to play that f***er in a film about him, it should be me.”

Mr Nice, June 25 and 26, Udderbelly, underbelly.co.uk

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FRIDAY JUNE 22

E4 Udderbelly Festival at E4 Udderbelly At Southbank Centre, Jubilee Gardens, SE1 8XX Embankment times vary, prices vary. Stand-up, family shows, music and theatre. Until Jul 8.

Andrew Maxwell: The Lights Are On at Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road Jun 22 & 23, 29 & 30 £17.50, concs £16 & £15, Jun 19-21, 25-28 £15, concs £12.50 & £13.50. Social observations. Until Jun 30.

Newsrevue at Canal Cafe Theatre, Bridge House Pub, Delamere Terrace, W2 6ND Royal Oak Thu-Sat 9.30pm, Sun 9pm, £10, concs £8.50. Topical sketches and songs. Until Dec 23.

Lewis Schaffer Is Free Until Famous at The Source Below, 11 Lower John Street, W1F 9TY Piccadilly Circus Tue & Wed 8pm, FREE. Self-deprecating stand-up.

Until Jun 27.

99 Club Leicester Square at Storm, 28a Leicester Square, WC2H 7LE Leicester Square 8.30pm-10.30pm, £10-£13. With Josh Widdicombe, Mike Gunn and Joe Bor. Banana Cabaret at The Bedford, 77 Bedford Hill, SW12 9HD Balham 9pm11pm, £14, concs £11. With Rudi Lickwood, Pierre Hollins, Stuart Goldsmith and Nish Kumar.

Bec Hill’s +1 at The Camden Head, 100 Camden High Street, NW1 0LU Camden Town 7.30pm, £5. With Celia Pacquola.

Kieran Boyd & Mark Cooper-Jones: Work in Progress at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square 8.30pm, £7, concs £5. Stand-up from two thirds of WitTank.

Comedy Cafe at Comedy Cafe, 66-68 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY Liverpool Street 8pm, Fri £12, Sat £16.

With Kevin Precious, Alistair Barrie and Kate Lucas.

Comedy Carnival at Metra, 14 Leicester Square, WC2H 7NG Leicester Square 8pm-10pm, £12. With Paul Sinha, Pete Jonas and MC Craig Murray.

Nina Conti: Dolly Mixtures at Hen & Chickens, 109 St Paul’s Road, N1 2NA Highbury & Islington 9.30pm, £7.50.

Inventive ventriloquism.

Crack Comedy Club at The Watershed, 267 The Broadway, SW19 1SD Wimbledon 8.30pm, £10, NUS £6.

With Earl Okin, John Robins and Ben Van Der Velde.

Foster’s Comedy Live at Highlight, Camden Lock, Middle Yard Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AB Camden Town 8.15pm-10.30pm, £17 & £18. With Owen O’Neill, Rob Heeney, Tiernan Douieb, Tania Edwards and Chris Conroy.

TUESDAY JUNE 19

Peacock & Gamble: Don’t Even Want To Be On Telly Anyway... at Hen & Chickens, 109 St Paul’s Road, N1 2NA Highbury & Islington 9.30pm, £6.50. Two-time Chortle Comedy Award nominees.

Euston 7.30pm, £15, concs £12.50.

With Pajama Men, Paul Foot, Terry Alderton, Robin Ince, Alex Horne, Jen Brister and MC Paul Tonkinson.

Pear Shaped In Fitzrovia at Fitzroy Tavern, 16a Charlotte Street, W1T 2NA Goodge Street 8.30pm, £5. With Shaun Jacques, Robin Keck, David Hamilton, James Howell, Tim Allen, Elliott Quince, Jake Taylor and MCs Brian & Krysstal and Anthony Miller.

THURSDAY JUNE 21

Summer Cook Up Season: Josie Long at Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, SW11 5TN Clapham Junction 9.30pm, £10, concs £8. The stand-up previews new material.

Barry From Watford’s Bingo Bonanza at 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street, W1D 1LL Oxford Circus 7pm-11pm, £12, adv £10.

With Rob Brydon, Harry Shearer, Judith Owen, Frank Sanazi, Trodd En Bratt and Duncan Wisbey.

Bright Club at The Wilmington Arms, 69 Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4RL Angel 7.30pm, £5. With James Acaster, Isy Suttie, Suzanne Harvey, Maebh Harding, Tom Stern, Tim Miles and Geraldine Horan.

Comedy Virgins at The Cavendish Arms, 128 Hartington Rd, SW8 2HJ Stockwell 7.45pm, FREE. New comics on the scene showcase their material. Bar open until midnight.

Stand Up For The Week: Work In Progress Shows at Up The Creek, 302 Greenwich Creek Road, SE10 9SW 7.30pm, £5. With Jon Richardson, Seann Walsh, Josh Widdicombe, Sara Pascoe, Paul Chowdhry and Andrew Lawrence.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 20 Checkley & Bush’s Comedy Riot at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square 8.30pm, £12.50. Sketch comedy.

Comedy Wednesday at Paradise By Way Of Kensal Green, 19 Kilburn Lane, W10 4AE Kensal Green 8pm10.30pm, phone for prices. With Patrick Monahan, Daniel Simonsen and MC Jeff Leach.

Laugh Till It Hurts at The Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AH

SATURDAY JUNE 23 Tom Stade at The Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AH Euston Jun 21 & 22, 7.30pm, £15. Razor-sharp storytelling and offbeat observations on modern life from the Canadian stand-up, who is now based in the UK. These performances will be filmed live for DVD. Paul Chowdhry: Work In Progress at Canal Cafe Theatre, Bridge House Pub, Delamere Terrace, W2 6ND Royal Oak 7.30pm, £5. Outspoken stand-up.

Crack Comedy Club at The Hideaway, Stanthorpe Road, SW16 2ED Streatham 8.30pm, £9, adv £7, NUS £4. With Andrew Lawrence and Jigsaw.

Alan Davies: Life Is Pain at Pleasance Theatre, Carpenter’s Mews, North Road, N7 9EF Caledonian Road 6pm, £12.50, concs £10. Inventive wit.

Nick Mohammed Is Mr Swallow at Invisible Dot, Camden Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AH Chalk Farm 7.45pm, £6. Character comedy.

Ritzy Crackers: Edinburgh previews at Upstairs At The Ritzy, Coldharbour Lane, SW2 1JG Brixton 7.30pm, £8, concs £7, mems £6. With Adam Bloom, Carl Donnelly and Paul McCaffrey.

Scratch at North London Tavern, 375 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7QB Kilburn 8pm, £5. Improvised comedy.

7 On Red Comedy Club at Seven Dials Club, 42 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LA Covent Garden 8.30pm-10.45pm, £15, adv £10 & £13. With Scott Capurro, Piff The Magic Dragon, Benny Boot and Tom Allen.

Gemma Arrowsmith: Defender Of Earth at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square 7pm, £7, concs £5. Sketch and character comedy.

Barry And Stuart: Show And Tell at The Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AH Euston 8pm, £14, concs £12. Magical comedy.

Central London Comedy Club at Theodore Bullfrog, 28 John Adam Street, WC2N 6AS Charing Cross 8.30pm, £5. With Eric Hutton, Pam Ford, Rick Kiesewetter, Andrew Watts, Gerry Howell, Ben Adams and MC Ramsay MacDonald.

Comedy Carnival at The Clapham Grand, 21-25 St John’s Hill, SW11 1TT Clapham Common 8pm-10pm, £14.

With Andrew Lawrence, Earl Okin, Pete Jonas and MC Craig Murray.

E4 Udderbelly Festival: Alex Horne: Seven Years In The Bathroom at E4 Udderbelly At Southbank Centre, Jubilee Gardens, SE1 8XX Embankment 7.45pm, £12.50 & £17.50, concs £11.

Intelligent wit.

Foster’s Comedy Live at Highlight, Camden Lock, Middle Yard Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AB Camden Town

8.15pm-10.30pm, £17 & £18. With Owen O’Neill, Tiernan Douieb, Andrew Bird, Matt Price and Michael Kossew.

Jongleurs Comedy Show at Sway, 61-65 Great Queen Street, WC2B 5BZ Holborn 7pm, 8.45pm, phone for prices.

With Alex Boardman, Paul Sinha and Jeff Innocent.

Lights! Camera! Improvise! at Hen & Chickens, 109 St Paul’s Road, N1 2NA Highbury & Islington 9.30pm, £8.50.

An improvised movie live on stage.

SUNDAY JUNE 24 Comedy Variety Cabaret at Downstairs At The King’s Head, 2 Crouch End Hill, N8 8AA Finsbury Park 8.30pm, £10, concs £7. With Tony Dunn, Paco Erhard, Paul Sinha and Lloyd Griffith.

E4 Udderbelly Festival: Sean Hughes Stands Up at E4 Udderbelly At Southbank Centre, Jubilee Gardens, SE1 8XX Embankment 7.45pm, £15.50 & £20.50, concs £14. Quick-fire intelligent wit.

Stuart Goldsmith: Prick at Pleasance Theatre, Carpenter’s Mews, North Road, N7 9EF Caledonian Road 8pm-9pm, £5. Mock-provocative stand-up.

Urban Comedy In The Park at The Open Air Theatre, Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, NW1 4NU Regent’s Park 7.45pm, £27.50 & £35. Eddie Kadi hosts an evening of Regent’s Park-set comedy.

The Working Men’s Club: Edinburgh Preview at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square 12noon, £6. With Luke Benson and David Hardcastle.

MONDAY JUNE 25 Blah Blah Comedy Club: Edinburgh Fringe Preview at The Camden Head, 100 Camden High Street, NW1 0LU Camden Town 7.30pm, £3. With Roisin Conaty and Al Barrie.

The Good Ship Comedy Club at The Good Ship, 289 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR Kilburn 7.30pm, £5. With Abandoman, Helen Arney and MC Juliet Stephens.

Happy Mondays at Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, SE14 6TY New Cross 8pm-10pm, early bird £4.

With Josie Long, Chris Ramsey and MC Holly Walsh.

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square 8pm, £12.50. With Graham Linehan and Armando Iannucci.

Howlin Comedy Club at New Wimbledon Theatre, 93 The Broadway, SW19 1QG Wimbledon 8pm, £15.

Shappi Khorsandi: Me & My Brother In Our Pants, Holding Hands at Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road 9.30pm, £15£17.50. Sharp wit from the Iranian-born stand-up.

Sheeps: A Sketch Show at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square 7pm, £5. Quirky sketches.

Stand Up For The Week: Work In Progress Shows at The City Arts & Music Project, 70-74 City Road, EC1Y 2BJ Old Street 7.30pm, £4.

With Jon Richardson, Seann Walsh, Josh Widdicombe, Sara Pascoe, Paul Chowdhry and Andrew Lawrence.

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Film

Being Blunt She has Hollywood at her feet, but Emily Blunt is determined to keep it real – and buy her own loo roll, she tells Jeananne Craig

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mily Blunt plays a bride-to-be with a bumpy build-up to her big day in new comedy The Five-Year Engagement, but the star’s own wedding preparations couldn’t have been more different.

In fact, despite a guest list that included George Clooney, Matt Damon and her The Devil Wears Prada co-star Meryl Streep, Blunt insists she didn’t lose any sleep before she married US actor John Krasinski in an intimate ceremony in Lake Como, Italy, in 2010.

“I didn’t want to have a big wedding. I wanted to keep it really laid back,” she explains, looking chic and relaxed in a belted black silk top, black ankle-skimming trousers and grey suede wedges.

“I’m quite decisive. I’m not one of those people who says, ‘Oh, what about this, what about that?’. I’m just like, ‘That’ll do, that’ll do, that’ll do’, because I just think the day is what’s special, not all of the stuff that comes with it.

“The day should be kind of freewheeling a little, because something could go wrong and

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you’ve just got to roll with the punches.”

Blunt, who turned 29 in February, is in her native London to promote the new romantic comedy with co-star and close pal Jason Segel.

The How I Met Your Mother funnyman, who plays Blunt’s fiancé in the film, turns to her as she finishes speaking about the wedding, a wounded look on his face.

“It’s funny you say that,” he deadpans. “You could have put just a little more thought into the guest list.”

Blunt, stony-faced, leans forward and confides in a stage whisper: “Jason wasn’t invited.”

For all his posturing, Segel clearly didn’t have any hard feelings. He and Nicholas Stoller, who co-scripted and directed The Five-Year Engagement, wrote the role of British academic Violet with Blunt in mind.

The film begins with talented chef Tom (Segel) popping the question. The wedding date soon gets postponed, however, and cracks begin to emerge after Violet lands a new job in Michigan and Tom quits his to go with her.

As the big day gets further delayed, the couple wonder if they are really meant to be together.

Despite the grace and poise which landed her roles as Queen Victoria in The Young Victoria, and ballerina Elise Sellas in thriller The Adjustment Bureau, Blunt is clearly game for a laugh, demonstrating her gift for slapstick as Violet gets shot in the leg with an arrow, runs into an open car door and performs an impeccable impression of Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster during a row.

“Emily’s really capable of anything,” Segel enthuses. “I’m in awe of everything she can do.

She can be elegant, she can be a tomboy, she can be funny, she can be serious, but you always believe what she’s doing. You never feel that she’s ‘efforting’ at anything and it astounds me.”

As a child, a career in drama seemed unlikely for Blunt – let alone becoming one of Britain’s most in-demand actresses in Hollywood – as she had a bad stammer.

Blunt credits a “really amazing teacher” for encouraging her to take part in school plays, which not only cured her speech difficulties but ignited a passion for the craft.

After being ‘discovered’ by an agent at Hurtwood House, a sixth-form college known for its performing arts, Blunt made her professional debut in a musical at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2000, while she was still doing her A-levels.

Her breakout role came a few years on, in dark British drama My Summer Of Love, but it was playing ice-cold office bitch Emily in The Devil Wears Prada, that really put her on the map.

Since then, Blunt has taken on a wide variety

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of roles, from Ewan McGregor’s love interest in Salmon Fishing In The Yemen earlier this year, to voicing a garden gnome in animated movie Gnomeo & Juliet.

Upcoming titles include the sci-fi war flick All You Need Is Kill alongside Tom Cruise, and futuristic thriller Looper, with Bruce Willis.

With such a busy schedule, Blunt clearly values her down-time with husband Krasinski, star of the US version of The Office, who she describes as “the funniest man alive”.

They met in 2008 and now live in Los Angeles (though Blunt ensures her kitchen is always well-stocked with Marmite), and everyday life for the couple sounds low-key.

“At the moment I get chunks of time off, which we spend together,” she says. “It’s also nice to have a shared understanding of what each other does.”

Despite the A-list wedding and LA postcode, it seems unlikely Blunt will ever succumb to Hollywood diva behaviour.

“I have great friends,” she muses. “And I think you’ll always remain grounded if you wash the dishes every day and buy your own toilet paper.”

Keen to “keep mixing it up”, Blunt doesn’t want to stop appearing in indie films, alongside the big blockbuster hits. This month, she can also be seen in Your Sister’s Sister, a low-budget comedy drama in which she plays a woman who

invites her grieving ex-boyfriend to recuperate in her family’s cabin, only for him to drunkenly get involved with her gay sister.

“I like the variety out there,” she says. “Your Sister’s Sister was made for no money and I think those experiences are really valuable - the collaboration and the sort of element of, ‘Who knows how this will turn out?’.

“I love that about the industry. I just don’t think you can strategise the jobs that you do. It’s so subjective. You’ve got to pick what you love.”

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Film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3D (15) There will be blood – lashings of it – in action-packed horror Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, based on the supposedly secret diaries of the former US President. Filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) orchestrates the carnage as the young Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) declares war on the fanged fiends who killed his mother and grandfather. During a trip to New Orleans, Abraham witnesses a slave auction and discovers that people are being sold to the creatures of the night as sustenance – a heinous practice, which stiffens Abraham’s political resolve as an Abolitionist.

British actor Rufus Sewell sinks his incisors into the role of the chief vampire. DS

The Five-Year Engagement (15) Love hurts in Nicholas Stoller’s uneven romantic comedy about a doe-eyed couple whose rosetinted dreams of marital bliss are undone by everyday life. Jason Segel plays San Francisco sous chef Tom, who meets psychology graduate Violet (Emily Blunt) at a party, and nervously pops the question on their first anniversary. She secures a doctoral position at Michigan University, studying under Professor Winton Childs (Rhys Ifans), but the subsequent move to the frozen Midwest puts the relationship under strain. The film woos us with a terrific opening; 30 minutes of zinging one-liners and colourful supporting performances. But our attraction to the script wanes and we almost fall out of love with the film during a plodding middle section, made bearable

by Segel and Blunt’s on-screen chemistry. DS

Lay The Favourite (15) “As luck would have it, the following story is true,” boasts Stephen Frears’s ham-fisted comic caper, which follows free-spirited stripper Beth (Rebecca Hall) from trailer park Tallahassee to glittering Las Vegas where bookmaker Dink Heimowitz (Bruce Willis) introduces her to the high stakes world of illegal sports gambling. Beth’s natural aptitude for figures piques Dink’s interest but as he gravitates towards his flirty protégée, their close working relationship generates friction with his vampy wife, Tulip (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Lay The Favourite unfolds at a sluggish pace and lacks charm or belly laughs, even when Vince Vaughn enters the fray as a rival bookmaker, who belittles Dink by quipping, “He is the ‘57 Chevy of gambling. All modesty aside, I’m the Ferrari”. Alas, Frear’s film is a second-hand banger. DS 34 Scout London scoutlondon.com

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London Indian Film Festival

With less than 40 days until the Olympics open, some of the UK’s most respected film-makers première four short films to celebrate the amazing summer of sport. Produced in a partnership between BBC Films and Film4, the programme comprises Asif Kapadia’s elegiac aerial portrait of the city, The Odyssey; Mike Leigh’s (pictured) comedy A Running Jump starring Eddie Marsan; Lynne Ramsay’s haunting and poetic journey through Britain’s waterways, The Swimmer; and Max & Dania’s celebration of youth culture, What If?, featuring Noel Clarke and the urban art of Matthew Small. Following the screening, the filmmakers will take part in a Q&A session in Hackney for live transmission to other Picturehouse cinemas. DS

Indian cinema continues to flourish in the UK, accounting for approximately two per cent of annual box office takings. However, there is much more to the country’s artistic output than Bollywood song and dance spectaculars. The Third London Indian Film Festival showcases the work of some of the country’s hottest independent talents. Maverick Mumbai director Anurag Kashyap opens proceedings with his crime thriller Gangs Of Wasseypur, while Srijit Mukherji’s gripping whodunit Baishey Shrabon ensures nails are bitten to the cuticle on closing night. In between there are stylish and provocative features from every genre. Variety is truly the spice of this festival’s life. DS

Jun 25, 6.30pm, Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, E8 1HE Hackney Central, £10, concs £6-£9.

Jun 20-Jul 3, Cineworld Haymarket and various venues, 63-65 Haymarket, SW1Y 4RL Piccadilly Circus. £5-£18, concs £5-£10

Heartbreaker (15)

POUT Film Festival

With its picture postcard Mediterranean locations and attractive cast, Heartbreaker is a perfect romantic comedy for the summer.

Pascal Chaumeil’s romp proves the search for true love is fraught with misunderstandings and a few bruises. Romain Duris smoulders with Gallic charm as Alex, who runs a company with his sister (Julie Ferrier) and her husband (Francois Damiens), which specialises in terminating doomed relationships. However, sparks of attraction with the trio’s latest target, beautiful heiress Juliette (Vanessa Paradis), cloud Alex’s judgement. Duris and Paradis share sizzling on-screen chemistry, culminating in an unforgettable dance sequence. DS

This year’s POUT promises a potpourri of LGBT and queer-friendly cinema, including four UK premières. First up is Sabine Bernardi’s sensitively-handled drama, Romeos, about a shy female-to-male transgendered 20-year-old (Rick Okon), who falls in love with a bedhopping gay hunk (Maximilian Befort) and agonises over the decision to reveal his pre-op body. Rikki Beadle-Blair adapts his own stage play Bashment, which explores the thorny issue of homosexuality in the dancehall reggae scene. Maryam Keshavarz’s youth drama Circumstance, Rolla Selbak’s triptych Three Veils and Campbell X’s romantic comedy Stud Life are also on the line-up. DS

Jun 24-25, 6.30pm (a double bill with Café De Flore), Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, W6 9RL Hammersmith, £9.50.

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aniel Radcliffe’s tastes have changed.

Gone is the can of Coke that accompanied him into Potter-era interviews, replaced instead by a white coffee in a delicate china cup.

He’s still as charming and blissfully candid as ever, but his words seem more considered and his enthusiasm, while boundless, is no longer quite so puppyish.

In short, he’s now a man. And one determined to show the world what he’s capable of.

Following an acclaimed stint on Broadway in the all-singing, all-dancing How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, the next weapon in his arsenal was the film adaptation of gothic thriller The Woman In Black.

“This is the first step in the transition of me moving on and doing other things – and it’s one I’m very proud of,” he says, earnestly.

“People are going to stop thinking about Harry Potter pretty quickly when they see this film. Even if they go in thinking, ‘What’s Harry’s up to now?’, the story is so compelling that after the first five minutes, 95 per cent will not be thinking that.”

Based on the classic 1983 novel by Susan Hill, which was adapted into a successful West End play, The Woman In Black has been slightly reworked for the cinema by Kick-Ass writer Jane Goldman.

Radcliffe plays young London solicitor Arthur

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Kipps, who in Goldman’s version lost his wife when she was giving birth to his son. Eager to please his boss and keep his job, he leaves the boy and travels to a remote northern village to wrap up the affairs of the deceased owner of Eel Marsh House. That’s when the spooky sightings of a mysterious ghostly figure begin.

The 22-year-old actor’s own little godson, Misha Handley, plays his son, which Radcliffe says made his transition from young man to father more convincing.

“I knew it might be a hindrance to making me seem older if the relationship with my ‘son’ didn’t feel real. They auditioned a lot of boys for that part, but it was very hard to beat that natural chemistry, because he knows me,” he says.

Misha’s first scene with his godfather was shot at the village train station.

“I felt slightly awful on his first day,” Radcliffe admits. “I was really excited to have him on the film, but his first day was a night shoot, and it was cold and horrible on this train track.

“He’s only this little five-year-old and suddenly 9.30pm rolls round, which is later than he’s ever been up. But he was a trooper.”

Misha wasn’t the only one enduring some rough times on the shoot. At one point Arthur dives into a marsh to try and recover a body.

Radcliffe spent three days in a cold tank of “Saturday morning children’s show” gunk.

“I thought it was going to be really cool, I was getting all psyched up to break the surface like Apocalypse Now, but when I came up, I was informed I looked more like Al Jolson.”

Cast as Harry Potter in 2000, when he was just 10, Radcliffe acknowledges most of his childhood happened on set, but insists he hasn’t missed out on anything.

“I still got a very good education, it was just a different way of growing up,” he says, though readily admits he’s now a complete workaholic.

Appropriately, he read the script for The Woman In Black just four hours after shooting wrapped on the final Potter film.

Then, mere weeks after The Woman In Black hit cinema screens in February, Radcliffe started work on his next project, playing the American poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, about the true story of a murder committed by one of Ginsberg’s friends.

Whatever comes after that, only Radcliffe can decide.

“I understand there’s a lot of interest in what I do next, but I have to do what I’m passionate about. It’s about showing people you’ve got good taste, like Brad Pitt or George Clooney.

“I want to be one of those actors about whom people say, ‘I don’t know what this movie’s about but he normally picks good films’.”

The Woman in Black is on DVD now

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Daniel Radcliffe’s schoolboy spell is most definitely over, Kate Whiting discovers

new releases Carnage (15) Alan Cowan (Christoph Waltz) and his wife Nancy (Kate Winslet) visit the apartment of Michael and Penelope Longstreet (John C Reilly, Jodie Foster) in order to to apologise for their son Zachary, who has hit the Longstreets’ son Ethan in the face with a stick. The meeting is intended to be brief and courteous but as the conversation ebbs and flows, tensions become evident until poor Nancy is taken ill and Penelope unleashes her

middle-class fury. Adapted by playwright Yasmina Reza from her own award-winning stage comedy, Carnage strips away the veneer of civility that supposedly separates man from beast, and reduces two well-to-do couples to snarling adversaries. Director Roman Polanski entrusts the incendiary dialogue to three former Oscar winners, who deliver each verbal grenade with real lip-smacking relish. It’s an acting tour-de-force.

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One For the Money (12) Times are tough for Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl) – she is out of work and out of luck.

In desperation, she turns to her shady cousin, Vinnie (Patrick Fischler), who runs his own company Vinnie’s Bail Bonds.

Without any training or obvious skills, Stephanie goes to work for Vinnie, chasing down men and women who have skipped bail, beginning with her handsome old flame, Joe Morelli (Jason O’Mara). One For The Money is a misfiring comic caper about a young woman forced to reevaluate her life, based on the

best-selling novel by Janet Evanovich. Director Julie Anne Robinson veers sharply and awkwardly from black comedy to thriller, unable to get a grip on a script that is poorlypaced and flimsy. Heigl’s run of mediocrity, which began with Killers and continued with Life As We Know It, teeters precariously on the brink of deathly dull, hamstrung here by a lack of screen chemistry with her male co-stars. Only the occasional fleeting comic supporting turn convinces us to stay awake. DS

Man On A Ledge (12) Ex-cop Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) is sentenced to jail for stealing a diamond belonging to billionaire David Englander (Ed Harris). His pleas of innocence fall on deaf ears so when Nick is granted temporary leave to attend his father’s funeral, the convict escapes police custody and heads for the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, where he enjoys a final meal, scrawls a note, then steps onto the ledge. Police Department negotiator Lydia Anderson (Elizabeth Banks) rushes to the scene and tries to talk Nick back into the hotel room unaware that

in the building opposite, Nick’s younger brother Joey (Jamie Bell) and his girlfriend (Genesis Rodriguez) are poised to breach Englander’s private vault. Man On A Ledge wilfully ignores the laws of physics to deliver a series of energetic set pieces. Worthington is a likable hero but emotion rarely troubles his face, while Bell and Rodriguez provide comic relief as the lovers. Continuity errors are an unnecessary irritation, for instance Joey’s hulking bag of hi-tech tools is conveniently forgotten for great swathes of the film, then magically reappears at a critical moment. DS scoutlondon.com Scout London 37

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Funny boy Rising star Phillip Wragg talks to Ray Lamothe about being a gay comedian in 21st century London

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he 90s could be considered the decade that LGBT comedians broke through. Graham Norton, Rona Cameron and Julian Clary – now considered national treasures – were part of a groundbreaking troupe of funny people who moved LGBT comedy from the gay bar to the heady heights of Saturday-night prime time TV. Today, gay comedians are no longer consigned to the pink ghetto, with most comedy club line-ups featuring a member of the LGBT community alongside their straight brethren every evening.

Phillip Wragg has been creating a buzz with his blend of observational and camp humour.

Comedian and actor Logan Murray is among his fans, saying: “Phillip Wragg headlined the gig and had the audience eating out of his hand. His deceptively innocent face hides all sorts of evil.

Unfortunately, the audience were laughing too much to realise just how depraved he is.”

A relative newcomer to the scene, Wragg launched his stand-up career in late 2012, when a friend enrolled him on the Amused Moose Comedy Course. Three weeks after the course finished, he performed his first gig and hasn’t stopped since, having notched up his 100th gig last month at The Torriano in Kentish Town.

Part of Wragg’s appeal is that – unlike some of his predecessors – he doesn’t shy away

66 His deceptively innocent face hides all sorts of evil 99 from “the gay stuff” in his comedy. Recent sets have explored material such as coming out to his parents, whether or not he is good in bed, the pressure on gay men to be able to work a catwalk at any given time, and the pitfalls of gay saunas and Grindr.

“The main difference between today and the 90s is that LGBT comedians can talk about the reality of being gay in the UK, whereas in the past it was more camp/innuendo based,” says Wragg. “The overall reaction has been great – my material isn’t too ‘in your face’, and I am

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dealing with the reality of the situations I am in, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Most people can relate to that.”

While comedy has moved on leaps and bounds, Wragg is not immune to the odd homophobic heckle from an audience member.

“Thankfully it’s 2012 and the majority of the audience is as sick of that crap as I am.

“The worst time it happened I just repeated what the idiot had said so the rest of the audience were clear and when he carried on saying the hateful word (“faggot”), I told him

that I knew he was a big straight man and I was a tiny little gay man, but if he said that word one more time, I would f*ck the straight out of him.

He left after that.”

Still, he feels that female comedians continue to struggle on the circuit. “I’ve heard nightmare stories about promoters saying they couldn’t have any more females on the bill as there were too many already, or that women aren’t funny – ridiculous!” phillipwragg.tumblr.com

recommended TUESDAY JUNE 19 Balearic at The Shadow Lounge, 5-7 Brewer Street, W1F 0RF Leicester Square £5, guestlist FREE, 10pm-3am. Deep, vocal, and Balearic house courtesy of Amir Groove and Nick Tcherniak.

Ruby Tuesdays at Ku Bar, 30 Lisle Street, WC2H 7BA Leicester Square FREE, 9pm-3am. Pop, R&B and 1980s hits from Sandra D and Joe Grohl.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 20

dubstep, house and retro.

Gravity at Fire, South Lambeth Road, SW8 1UQ Vauxhall £10, concs £5, 2pm-late. DJs Alan K and Fat Tony spin electro, house and disco, with hosts Mauricio and Danny Boyce.

High On Heels at Freedom Bar, 66 Wardour Street, W1F 0TA Piccadilly Circus phone for prices, phone for times. Resident DJs spin pop, chart, dance and house.

Industri at Barcode Vauxhall, Railway Arch 69 Goding Street, SE11 5AW Vauxhall FREE, 8pm-2am. House from Miss Minty, Brent Nicholls and Paul Heron.

Macho City at Joiners Arms, 116-118 Hackney Road, E2 7QL Old Street £5, £3 after 2am, FREE before 11.30pm, 10pm-3am. Resident DJs spin disco, pop and retro.

Retrosexual at Ku Bar, 30 Lisle Street, WC2H 7BA Leicester Square FREE, 10pm-late. Tasty Tim spins 80s music.

Xxtra at The Shadow Lounge, 5-7 Brewer Street, W1F 0RF Leicester Square £5, FREE before 11pm, 10pm-3am. TerryJames Lynch hosts a night of house, electro and pop, plus fashion.

FRIDAY JUNE 22

Trannyshack at Madame Jojo’s, 8-10 Brewer Street, W1F 0SE Piccadilly Circus £5, w/flyer £3, FREE before 12midnight, 10pm3am. Miss Dusty O, Tasty Tim and Lady Lloyd spin commercial dance and pop.

Baby Grand at Freedom Bar, 66 Wardour Street, W1F 0TA Piccadilly Circus phone for prices, phone for times. Resident DJs spin pop and rock from the 1970s to 2000.

Disco Paradiso at Joiners Arms, 116-118 Hackney Road, E2 7QL Old Street phone for prices, 11pm-2am. DJs Jo Public and Stewart Who? spin disco, soul, funk and rock’n’roll.

Girls-A-Loud at Candy Bar, 4 Carlisle Street, W1D 3BJ Tottenham Court Road FREE, 8pmlate. DJs Coco Yeah and MDMX play pop, chart and electro.

Shinky Shonky at Ku Bar, 30 Lisle Street, WC2H 7BA Leicester Square FREE, 10pm-3am. Boogaloo Stu and his colourful coterie spin classic and contemporary pop, plus live cabaret performances.

Trannyoke at Escape Bar, 10A Brewer Street, W1F 0SU Piccadilly Circus FREE, 9pm-3am. DJ Matt spins pop and dance, with host Lady Lloyd, and karaoke.

Work at Fire, South Lambeth Road, SW8 1UQ Vauxhall £5, £4 before 1am, 11pm-5am. Lee Harris, Niyi Maximus Crown and Big John Freeman spin house, pop, electro, R&B, funk and dancehall.

THURSDAY JUNE 21 Chick Habit at Candy Bar, 4 Carlisle Street, W1D 3BJ Tottenham Court Road FREE, 9.30pm-late. Resident DJs spin

Fabulous Fridays at Escape Bar, 10A Brewer Street, W1F 0SU Piccadilly Circus £5, FREE before 10pm, 9pm-3am. DJs Robby D and Matt Boland spin disco, retro and pop.

The Good Foot at Madame Jojo’s, 8-10 Brewer Street, W1F 0SE Piccadilly Circus £8, mems £5, 10pm3am. DJ Snowboy and weekly guests spin funk, soul and retro hits.

Phil Marriott, JC Christopher and DouG’uim, Hoxton Whores, Soul Avengerz, Mikey D, Sharp Boys, Pagano, Tasty Tim, Jason Prince, James St James, Lady Lloyd, Dusty O, Ariel and Lisa German spin house, electro, techno and funk across three floors.

Popstarz at The Den & Centro, 18 West Central Street, WC1A 1JJ Holborn phone for prices, 10pm-4am. Resident DJs spin indie, pop and R&B. Popstarz: After Dark at The Den & Centro, 18 West Central Street, WC1A 1JJ Holborn FREE, 4am-8am. Resident DJs spin indie, rock, R&B, pop and Motown.

Therapy at The Shadow Lounge, 5-7 Brewer Street, W1F 0RF Leicester Square FREE before 11pm, 10pm-3am. Electropop and dance from DJs Miswhite, Minx, Paul Heron and Sonathaq.

Tonker at Eagle, 349 Kennington Lane, SE11 5QY Vauxhall £6, mems £5 after 10pm, FREE before 10pm, 9pm-3am. DJ Tim Jones and Alan X play house, chart and dance.

SATURDAY JUNE 23 A:M Afterhours at Fire, South Lambeth Road, SW8 1UQ Vauxhall £12, w/flyer £8, 3am-11am. Resident DJs spin house and disco.

Barcode Saturday at Barcode Vauxhall, Railway Arch 69 Goding Street, SE11 5AW Vauxhall phone for prices, phone for times. Mattias, D’Jonny, Gonzalo, Steven Artis and Pagano play electro.

Carpet Burn at Eagle, 349 Kennington Lane, SE11 5QY Vauxhall £5, FREE before 11pm, 9pm-4am. Resident DJs spin disco, pop and retro hits.

Duckie at Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY Vauxhall £6, 9pm-2am. The Readers Wifes spin pop, indie and cabaret at this long-running rock disco hosted by the irrepressible Amy Lamé, featuring special guests every week.

Fabulous at Ku Bar, 30 Lisle Street, WC2H 7BA Leicester Square £3, FREE before 11.30pm, 9pm-3am. DJP and Toumo Foxx spin pop, chart and R&B. Inferno at The Shadow Lounge, 5-7 Brewer Street, W1F 0RF Leicester Square £10, FREE before 11pm, 10pm-3am. Andrew Elmore spins funk, house and dance.

Lost And Found at Madame Jojo’s, 8-10 Brewer Street, W1F 0SE Piccadilly Circus £8, mems £5, 10pm3am. Keb Darge and Andy Smith play blues, rockabilly, funk and Northern Soul.

Wow at Freedom Bar, 66 Wardour Street, W1F 0TA Piccadilly Circus phone for prices, 10pm-6am. DJ Stuart spins commercial house and dance.

Beyond Afterhours at Fire, South Lambeth Road, SW8 1UQ Vauxhall adv £12, 6pm-1am. DJs Steve Pitron, Mikey D, Alan K, Sharp Boys, Gonzalo Rivas, Paul Heron, HiFi Sean, Paul Christian, Ariel and Fat Tony spin house, electro and techno across three floors.

SE11 5HY Vauxhall £8, £5 before 7.30pm, 2pm-12midnight. Simon Le Vans, Andy Almighty and Sean Sirrs spin disco, electro and house, plus The D E Experience performs live.

MONDAY JUNE 25 Bearcode at Barcode Vauxhall, Railway Arch 69 Goding Street, SE11 5AW Vauxhall phone for prices, 9pm-1am.

Resident DJs play house music.

Detention at Ku Bar, 30 Lisle Street, WC2H 7BA Leicester Square FREE, 10pm-3am. KU DJs and Doug Silva spin house music.

The Joiners Arms: Soulful Sounds at Joiners Arms, 116-118 Hackney Road, E2 7QL Old Street FREE, 10pm-2am.

DJ Alex spins soul and funk.

Mondays at Candy Bar, 4 Carlisle Street, W1D 3BJ Tottenham Court Road FREE, phone for times. Resident DJs spin pop and R&B.

SUNDAY JUNE 24 Super Techno Party Machine at East Bloc, 217 City Road, EC1V 1JN Old Street Station £5, 10pm-4am. DJ Larry Tee spins techno and house.

The O Zone at Ku Bar, 30 Lisle Street, WC2H 7BA Leicester Square w/flyer FREE, 10pm-3am. Dusty O spins pop, chart and R&B. Onyx at Fire, South Lambeth Road, SW8 1UQ Vauxhall w/flyer £6, FREE before 12midnight, 11pm-5am. Lee Harris,

Barcode Sunday at Barcode Vauxhall, Railway Arch 69 Goding Street, SE11 5AW Vauxhall phone for prices, phone for times. DJ Saki plays dance and house.

Horse Meat Disco at Eagle, 349 Kennington Lane, SE11 5QY Vauxhall £6, 8pm-3am. Residents Jim Stanton, Luke Howard, James Hillard and Severino spin disco and house.

Lady Lloyds Hit Factory at Ku Bar, 30 Lisle Street, WC2H 7BA Leicester Square FREE, 8pm-3am.

Lady Lloyd spins retro pop.

S.L.A.G.S / CHILL-OUT Sundays at Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane,

Popcorn at Heaven, Charing Cross Arches, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NG Charing Cross £8, 11pm-5.30am. Resident DJs play dance, electro, R’n’B, pop and hip hop.

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American Idol winner Carrie Underwood is ready to show London there is life after Simon Cowell

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alent show winners often have a bit of a struggle once the excitement of the show has faded away.

Not so Carrie Underwood. The 2005 winner of American Idol has gone on to sell over 14 million records, making her one of the most commercially successful female country singers of all time.

But until now, she has only ever been to the UK as a tourist.

“We did all the tourist things,” she tells Scout London. “I was one of those people with a camera strapped to my neck, riding double decker buses, going to Buckingham Palace

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– all the usual sights. But I never rode the underground.”

She’s now set to return to these shores, this time to perform her first British gig – at the Royal Albert Hall.

“I was worried that nobody would show up,” she says. She needn’t have. Tickets flew out.

She’ll be singing tracks from her first official British release, Blown Away, and says she’s keen to show that she’s not just about country music.

“My iPod is full of all kinds of different music and I think that comes across on the album.

There’s something for everybody.”

June 21, Royal Albert Hall, returns only

Not content with performing at Bluesfest this year, Rolling Stone and all-round blues guitar legend Ronnie Wood also painted this striking work for the festival.

As well as Wood, the event will include performances from Hugh Laurie, Van Morrison, Tom Jones, plus more of a soul vibe from Erykah Badu and Brand New Heavies.

Festival organiser Leo Green says: "We really wanted Ronnie to do something special musically, so when we approached him with the idea of doing an evening celebrating the legendary blues record label, Chess, he got it straight away and loved the idea.

Running parallel to Ronnie’s music, is his art career. His work hangs in galleries and is sold all over the world, so we asked him if he would creating some artwork too. He has produced the most incredible imagery, which we hope will become synonymous with Bluesfest for years to come."

June 26-July 6, various venues, bluesfest.co.uk

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featured They may be about as far from a mine as you can get, but that doesn't stop Hackney Colliery Band taking classic party anthems and giving them the brass treatment

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Drum n brass

f you’ve never heard the likes of Toto's Africa or Blackstreet’s No Diggity blaring out from a trumpet, sax and trombone combo, then ask yourself this; have you really been living?

Heralding the return of the brass band is Hackney Colliery Band, a nine-piece outfit from, yep, you guessed it (clue's in the title), who are currently ruling the airwaves and festival scene with their unique musical interpretations on party tunes.

Founder and lead trumpeteer Steve Pretty, says: “We’re definitely a ‘party band’ to some extent and we love to play stuff that people know, but with a bit of a twist. There's something even more satisfying about playing

our own music that gets the same kind of reaction.”

It’s this mix of covers and their original material that’s won them fans in the likes of Gilles Peterson, Rob da Bank and Huey Morgan, who said the band “blow me away.” That’s not to mention collaborations with Jarvis Cocker, the Royal Opera House and their up-coming work with electro-funk band, Snorkel.

Pretty says: “We bring in a lot of different influences, from contemporary rock and electronic music to classic soul and New Orleans marching bands via a bit of avant garde jazz, west African and Balkan music.

“The response at gigs is pretty amazing given

that we don’t have lyrics, a vocalist, guitars, samplers or drum machines. I think people really respond to the live, acoustic nature of the gigs; there's something quite special about having this big sound being made by nothing more than pieces of mutated plumbing and people hitting things with sticks.”

It's this back-to-basics ethos of traditional music-making that works surprisingly well with tunes such as the Prodigy Medley (which must been heard to be believed). Steve adds: “These are both very good examples of us HCB-izing tunes, which normally means ripping them apart and reassembling them in our own fashion while trying to preserve a bit of the spirit of the original.”

Next up on the band’s hit list is a Best Of British set which will tie-in with the national celebrations this summer, to be performed at festivals such as The Secret Garden Party, and which was debuted at last week’s Lovebox festival. The band is also planning to explore new genres. Steve says: “After the success of the Prodigy Medley, we’re starting to experiment with a bit of drum ’n’ bass, dubstep and the like.

We like to surprise people.”

By Laura Martin Hackney Colliery Band, June 28, Hackney Attic at the Hackney Picturehouse hackneycollieryband.co.uk

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Bloc Party June 21, KOKO, £20 What with Saint Etienne making a return and now Bloc Party, it’s something of a boon for lovers of cult indie bands. Kele and the gang went on a hiatus in 2009 but are set to release their first album since 2008’s Intimacy in August. This will be chance to hear the new material before everyone else. Then you’ll have top notch indie bragging rights.

Anton Du Beke, Lance Ellington Jun 24, 606 Club, £10 Barb Jungr Jun 23, The Vortex Jazz Club, Dalston Culture House, £12

Gallows June 22, Sailor Jerry's Hotel, £3

The new Sailor Jerry’s Hotel in Soho continues its programme of putting hot acts in a smallcapacity room by booking punk outfit Gallows.

The Watford band’s new album will be released in September but fans will be hoping to get a sneak preview of what's to come at this up-close-and-personal show.

The drink brand’s showcase store regularly hosts film, music and exhibitions and this looks set to continue its reputation. A rum thing indeed.

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Drums of Death June 22, Hidden, £10

Ghoul-faced elecronic beatmaster Drums of Death will be debut-ing his audio visual show at Vauxhall's Hidden for this rather special night which brings together labels Audio Doughnuts, Civil Music and Tempo Clash.

The three have plundered their rosters, meaning the line-up will include the launch of Darling Farah’s new album, plus sets from Micachu, Jehst, Starkey, Brassica and many more.

Expect cutting-edge beats, Richter-worrying bass and a big grin on your face.

Bear In Heaven Jun 20, Birthdays, £8.50 Basin Street Brawlers Jun 21, Royal Albert Hall, £12 Best Coast Jun 20, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £16 Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Chima Anya, Droppin Science Jun 22, HMV Forum, £22.50 Bleech Jun 22, The Borderline, £7 Born Blonde, Brightlight City, Talk In Code, Buffalo Ink Jun 20, Bull And Gate, £6, adv/w/flyer £5 Boyce Avenue, Ingrid Michaelson, Tyler Hilton Jun 21, HMV Apollo, £22.50 Chromosome Breaker, Xavier & The Gotta-Dos, Xsara, Vive, Field Of Wolves Jun 22, The Good Ship, £5 Condemned, Unbreakable Hatred, Amagortis, Regurgitate Life Jun 24, The Garage, £12

Curtis Stigers Jun 25-Jun 29, Ronnie Scott’s, £38-£50 Damo Suzuki, Yeti Lane Jun 21, Shacklewell Arms, £10, adv £8 Denys Baptiste Quartet Jun 23, Pizza Express Jazz Club, £15 Doug Carn, Jean Carne Jun 21-Jun 23, Ronnie Scott’s, £25-£45 East In East: London Bulgarian Choir Jun 23, Rich Mix, FREE Freddy Cole, The Ronnie Scotts All Stars Jun 19, Ronnie Scott’s, £20£32.50 Godsmack, The Defiled Jun 20, HMV Forum, £19.50 Gracetonbury 2012 BBQ Jun 23, The Windmill, £6, adv £5 James Ferraro Jun 19, Rough Trade East, FREE Levellers Jun 25, The Garage, £17.50, w/ CD £19.50 Machinedrum, Deadboy, Throwing Snow, Patchwork Pirates Jun 22, The Nest, £7 The Chapman Family Jun 25, The Macbeth, £7, adv £5 The Dogs D’Amour Jun 22, O2 Academy Islington, £17 The Shoes, San Zhi Jun 20, XOYO, £9 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Jun 20, Royal Albert Hall, £40-£75 UpCDownC, Mayors Of Miyazaki, What The Blood Revealed, Gunning For Tamar, Waking Aida Jun 22, Underbelly, £6, before 8pm £4 Van Dyke Parks & Britten Sinfonia, Gaby Moreno Jun 23, Barbican Centre, £15-£25

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Also this week:

this week Nicki Minaj June 24-25, HMV Apollo, £35-£45 Nevermind her album's called Pink Friday, it's going to be Pink Sunday and Monday when the Minaj rollercoaster lands this weekend. The hip-hop star, who has changed her hair more times than she's had hit singles, will play two shows at the Apollo the day after she supports Jay-Z at the BBC Hackney Weekend festival.

Iluvlive 8th Birthday Special June 21, XOYO, £15

The list of musicians who have played live music showcase Iluvlive reads like a Who’s Who of today’s chart toppers: Jessie J, Ed Sheeran, Wretch 32, Katy B, Roll Deep, N Dubz, Ms Dynamite, Professor Green, Emile Sande and Tinie Tempah all graced one of these events in their time.

Now the night is marking its eighth birthday with performances from Sway (pictured), Ghetts, Cleo Soul and Big Kids. A birthday treat for everyone, then.

Saint Etienne June 25, London Palladium, £22.50-£28.50

Jack White June 21, O2 Brixton Academy, White Stripe, Raconteur and now solo, Jack White is one of the most admired guitarists of the 21st century. And extremely popular, as these back-to-back dates attest. Like Minaj (above) he’s playing for free at Hackney Weekend, but with tickets given out in a lottery, these dates are the chance to see him if you weren’t one of the lucky ones.

The pioneers of 1990s indie dance built up an extremely dedicated and somewhat cult-ish following over their 20 years in the charts.

Having not released any new material for nigh-on seven years, they returned with Words And Music By Saint Etienne in May, which has attracted pretty glowing reviews.

No doubt this rescheduled show – the May date having been cancelled due to singer Sarah Cracknell’s sore throat – will feature all the hits. Plus a sprinkling of the new. Très bien.

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Hit Factory Live: Kylie Minogue, Steps, Jason Donovan, Bananarama, Rick Astley, Dear Or Alive Jul 11, Hyde Park, £54.25

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BluesFest 2012: Hugh Laurie Jul 2, HMV Apollo, £35-£40 Blur, The Specials, New Order Aug 12, phone for times, Hyde Park, adv £55 Bromide, The Musgraves, The Episodes, Monarchy Of Roses Jun 27, Dublin Castle, £6, concs £4.50 BrynFest: Gruff Rhys Jul 6, Southbank Centre, £12-£18, concs £6-£9 BrynFest: Huw Warren And Neil Yates Jul 6, Southbank Centre, FREE Bush Aug 30, KOKO, £27.50 Cameo Jul 16-Jul 20, The Jazz Cafe, adv £32.50 Camille Maalawy Jun 29, St Ethelburga’s, £12, adv £10 Casiokids, Becoming Real Jun 27, The Barfly, Camden, £9 Charlotte Gainsbourg And Connan Mockasin Jul 19, Somerset House, £25 Chas & Dave Dec 8, IndigO2, £20-£45 Comeback Kid Jun 29, The Borderline, £12

Katy B Jul 8, Somerset House, £25 Cultural Olympiad: Angelique Kidjo, Baaba Maal, Justin Adams, King Sunny Ade, Seckou Keita, The Invisible Republic Of JuJu, Wizboyy Jul 21, London Pleasure Gardens, FREE, ticketed, adv booking required at www. btriverofmusic.com Cultural Olympiad: Back2Black Festival Jun 29, Jun 30 & Jul 1, Old Billingsgate, Fri £35, under 16s £20, Sat/Sun £45, Sat/ Sun under 16s £25, weekend ticket £120, weekend ticket under 16s £70 Cultural Olympiad: Eurostar Presents Traction Jul 14, Granary Square, £20 Dappy Oct 3, HMV Apollo, £18.50 David Essex Nov 30, IndigO2, £20-£35 David O, Rosie Hopkins, The Meds Collective, Shanel Brown, Connor Welsh, Tommas Lee, The Singing Pictures Jul 22, 100 Club, adv £10 Death Angel Jun 28, The Underworld, £15 Dexys Sep 16, Barbican Centre, £30 & £32.50 Die Antwoord Jul 5, HMV Forum, £15 Django Django Oct 31, Nov 1, Heaven, £12 Donny And Marie Jan 20, The O2 Arena, £45-£75 Dr John Jul 18 & Jul 19, Under The Bridge, £30-£50 Dry The River Nov 1, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £12 E4 Udderbelly Festival: Havana Rumba!

Cuban Salsa Party Jun 19-Jun 22, Jun 26-Jun 29, Jul 3-Jul 6, Jun 23, Jun 24, Jun 30, Jul 1, Jul 7, Jul 8, E4 Udderbelly At

Southbank Centre, £15, £20 Eagles Of Death Metal Aug 21, O2 Academy Islington, adv £17.50 Eddie Vedder Jul 30 & Jul 31, HMV Apollo, £37-£50, phone for availability Emily Saunders Jun 27, Boisdales Of Canary Wharf, £10-£20 Faith No More Jul 8, HMV Apollo, £33.50, phone for availability Faith No More Jul 10, O2 Academy Brixton, £33.50 Fat Freddy’s Drop Aug 4, HMV Forum, £29.50 Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons Jun 26 & Jun 27, Royal Albert Hall, £85 Fun Jul 9, Heaven, £11 FutureProof, We Start Partys, Tonight We’re Electric Jun 29, O2 Academy Islington, £6 Garbage, The Jezabels Jul 1, O2 Academy Brixton, adv £29.50 George Michael: Symphonica: The Orchestral Tour Sep 29, Royal Albert Hall, £46-£126 George Michael: Symphonica: The Orchestral Tour Oct 13, Oct 14, Oct 17, Earls Court, £51-£91 Glen Matlock & The Philistines Aug 23, Half Moon, Putney, £18.50 Godspeed You! Black Emperor Nov 4, HMV Forum, £20 Gong Nov 19, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £20 Gossip Jul 5, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, phone for prices Grandaddy Sep 4, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £20 Grimes Sep 5, Heaven, £11 Hard Rock Calling 2012: Soundgarden, Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band, Paul Simon Jul 13-Jul 15, phone for times, Hyde Park, Fri £50, Sat £60, Sun £55, Sat & Sun £110 Howling Bells, Steve Smyth Jun 27, The Lexington, adv £15 Incubus Jul 9, O2 Academy Brixton, £29.50 Jaguar Skills Oct 13, HMV Forum, £15 Jason Mraz Dec 1, The O2 Arena, £32 Jennifer Lopez Oct 22, The O2 Arena, £50-£75 Jill Scott Jul 9 & Jul 10, Somerset House, £37.50 John Cale Oct 13, Southbank Centre, £20£30, concs £10-£15 Kate Rusby Oct 23, Southbank Centre, £25 & £30, concs £12.50 & £15 Katie Melua Oct 10, HMV Apollo, £37.50 Labrinth Oct 20, O2 Academy Brixton, adv £17.50 Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Yacub Addy Jul 10, Barbican Centre, £15-£35 Lionel Richie Oct 28 & Oct 29, The O2 Arena, £40-£65 London 2012: BT London Live Hyde Park Jul 28-Aug 11, Jul 30-Aug 3, Aug 6-Aug 10, dawn, music and performance, Hyde Park, TBC M Ward Jul 2, KOKO, £15 M83 Jul 16, Somerset House, £25 Macy Gray Jun 27 & Jun 28, The Jazz Cafe, adv £30

Laura Marling Jul 7, Royal Albert Hall, £25 Madonna Jul 17, Hyde Park, £70 & £125 Marc Almond Jul 9, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £19.50 & £27.50 Maverick Sabre Oct 6, O2 Academy Brixton, £18.50 Michael Kiwanuka Dec 5, Southbank Centre, £17.50 & £20, concs £8.75 & £10 Mick Hucknall Sep 18 & Sep 19, Royal Albert Hall, Tue £30-£50, Wed £30-£60 Mike And The Mechanics Jul 18, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £30 Ministry Jul 20, HMV Forum, £20 Muse Oct 26 & Oct 27, phone for times, The O2 Arena, phone for prices Neil Sedaka Oct 17, Royal Albert Hall, £40-£55 Nik Kershaw Sep 28, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £25-£40 Of Monsters And Men Jul 12, The Scala, £11.50 One Direction Feb 22, Feb 23, Feb 24, The O2 Arena, £28.75 & £38.75; Apr 1, Apr 2, Apr 4, Apr 5, Apr 2, The O2 Arena, £25 & £33.50 Orbital Dec 14, O2 Academy Brixton, £30 Paloma Faith Jul 17 & Jul 18, Somerset House, £25 Pat Metheny Unity Band, Chris Potter, Antonio Sanchez & Ben Williams Jul 8, Barbican Centre, £10-£65 Paul Heaton Jul 5, Barbican Centre, £18£28 Paul Hegley Band, Empire Affair, The Phoenix Brothers, Cathodes Jun 30, Dublin Castle, £5 & £7 Priceless London Wonderground: Shlomo: Ministry Of Mouth Jun 19, The London Wonderground Spiegeltent, £12.50 & £17.50, concs £11 Public Image Ltd Aug 11, HMV Forum, £27.50 Queen & Adam Lambert Jul 11, Jul 12, Jul 14, HMV Apollo, £70 & £75, phone for availability Radiohead Oct 8 & Oct 9, The O2 Arena, £47.50 & £65 Ray Davies And Band Oct 4, Royal Albert Hall, £45 Regina Spektor Jul 2, Royal Albert Hall, £38.50 Richard Hawley Oct 3, O2 Academy Brixton, phone for prices Robyn Nov 1, O2 Academy Brixton, adv £20 Sean Paul Jun 26, IndigO2, £27.50 & £35 Shed Seven Aug 17, O2 Academy Islington, £17.50

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A 60s Night To Remember Jun 29, Artsdepot, £28 Abram Wilson Quartet Jul 5, Lauderdale House, £9, concs £7.50 Active Child, The Invisible, Hospitality, Nzca/Lines Jul 5, Village Underground, adv £11 Adam Ant & The Good, The Mad And The Lovely Posse, Georgie Girl & Her Poussez Posse Nov 30, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, adv £28.50 Africa Utopia: Angelique Kidjo Jul 26, Southbank Centre, £10-£27.50, concs £5-£13.75 Al Jarreau, The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars Jul 26, Ronnie Scott’s, £100-£150 Alan Broadbent Trio Jul 19, Pizza Express Jazz Club, phone for prices Alanis Morissette Jun 27, O2 Academy Brixton, £37.50, phone for availability Alex Clare Oct 25, KOKO, £17.50 Alex Cornish Nov 30, Bush Hall, £10 Alex Metric Jul 13, The Nest, £7 Anchorsong Jun 29, XOYO, adv £12, early bird £7 Anna Calvi Jul 12, Somerset House, £25 Antony’s Meltdown: Lou Reed Aug 10, Southbank Centre, £45-£65, concs £22.50-£32.50 Arnocorps Jul 14, Bull And Gate, adv £10 Atlas Sound Jul 19, The Scala, adv £12.50 Average White Band Jul 13, 14 & 1619, Ronnie Scott’s, £30-£45 phone for availability Azealia Banks Oct 12, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £15 BBC Proms 2012: Prom 38: National Youth Jazz Orchestra Aug 10, Royal Albert Hall, £12 & £16 Babelfish Jul 15, Pizza Express Jazz Club, £15 Band Of Skulls Dec 7, O2 Academy Brixton, £17.50 Bastille Oct 19, KOKO, £11 Beirut Sep 14, HMV Apollo, £20 Bellowhead Nov 7, Roundhouse, £22.50 Ben Folds Five Dec 4 & 5, O2 Academy Brixton, £37.50 Billy Ocean Jul 21, Under The Bridge, £27.50 Biscotti Dec 6, Cecil Sharp House, £20, adv £17.50 Blak Twang, Extra Curricular, Kalakuta Jul 28, Hootananny, £3, FREE before 11pm Blink 182 Jul 25 & 26, O2 Academy Brixton, £35

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Goran Bregovic Jul 6, Barbican Centre, £20-£35 Andrea Bocelli Nov 14 & Nov 15, The O2 Arena, £45-£120 BBC Proms 2012: Prom 52: London Symphony Orchestra Aug 22, Royal Albert Hall, £8.50-£44 Chroma Jul 5, Guildhall School Of Music & Drama, FREE Gabriela Montero Jul 20, Wigmore Hall, £12, concs £10 Hugh Mather Jun 22, St Barnabas Millennium Hall, FREE, donations welcome London Gay Men’s Chorus Jul 6, Southwark Cathedral, suggested donation £10 Philip Glass Ensemble Dec 15, Union Chapel, adv £20

Festival: Heath Quartet Jun 21, St Leonard’s Church, £5-£15 Rebecca Woolcock Jun 19, St Martin-In-The-Fields, £10-£18 Sounds Venezuela 2012: Simon Bolivar String Quartet Jun 24, Southbank Centre, £8, concs £4 Spitalfields Music Summer Festival: Schubert Ensemble Jun 19, St Leonard’s Church, £5-£22

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BBC Proms 2012: Prom 12: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Jul 23, Royal Albert Hall, £13-£55 The Gershwin Family Quartet Jul 6, St Martin-In-The-Fields, £8-£24 Vox Humana Jun 28, St James’s Church, FREE Zri Jun 22, Royal Albert Hall, FREE

Marilyn Manson, Lacuna Coil Jul 5, O2 Academy Brixton, £30, phone for availability Sweet Billy Pilgrim Jul 11, Bush Hall, £9 Tame Impala Oct 30, O2 Academy Brixton, £17.50 Tangerine Dream Jun 24, phone for times, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £45 Teebs, NosagThings, Eskmo Jul 12, XOYO, £9, adv £14.50 Teenage Crime, Laid8, Death Valley Knights, Tempting Rosie Jun 26, Dublin Castle, £6, concs £4.50 The Brian Jonestown Massacre Jul 7, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, adv £15 The Cinematic Orchestra Jun 30, Barbican Centre, £24.50-£35 The Datsuns Jun 28, Power’s, £8 The Don’t F*cking Cares, Bermondsey Joyriders & Stash Jun 27, 100 Club, £7 The Enemy Jul 13, Somerset House, £25 The Family Stone Jun 29, The Jazz Cafe, £23.50 The Farm Oct 28, O2 Academy Islington, £17.50 The Forestry Commission, The Proletarians, Clepto, Naked Remedy, Mellor, Nyctophonia, TLi Jun 26, Nambucca, £5 The Futureheads, The Cornshed Sisters Sep 19, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £16.50 The Hives Dec 14, Roundhouse, £18.50 The Mars Volta Jul 15, HMV Forum, £25 The Pharcyde Jul 17, KOKO, adv £20 The Voice UK Live Sep 15, The O2 Arena, £35 The Wailers Jul 4, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £19.50-£28.50 The Wedding Present Nov 23, KOKO, £16 The Whitest Boy Alive Aug 28, The Coronet, adv £25 The Wonder Stuff, Pop Will Eat Itself, Jesus Jones Dec 19, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, phone for prices Tony Bennett Jun 30 & Jul 1, phone for times, Royal Albert Hall, phone for prices Van Dyke Parks & Britten Sinfonia, Gaby Moreno Jun 23, Barbican Centre, £15-£25 Velvetines, JoanOvArc, Voodoo Child, Erika, Martin McLaughlan Jun 22, 100 Club, £10, adv £8 Verushka, Sarah Mac, Samantha Whates, Poppy & The Opium Eaters Jun 24, Zigfrid, £4, £2 before 8pm Vic Godard & Subway Sect Sep 14, Nambucca, £10 Vice Squad, Subculture, Potential Victims Jul 7, The Grosvenor, £7

Viktor Toth Trio Jun 27, 606 Club, £10 Vince Kidd Jun 20, Under The Bridge, £10 Violentango Jul 29, Hootananny, FREE Viper Central, Jan Bell Jul 29, The Apple Tree, donations FREE Virginia Wing, AKDK, Colours, Anguish Sandwich Jun 25, The Old Blue Last, FREE Viva Las Vegas, The Spacewasters, Les Tosseurs Jul 20, 12 Bar Club, phone for prices Vivien Glass, Tall Poppies Jun 29, Dublin Castle, £7, concs £5 Vlad Miller Quartet Aug 9, MAP Studio Cafe, adv £10 Vocals@Vortex Jul 1, The Vortex Jazz Club, Dalston Culture House, £9 Voodoo Glow Skulls, Left Alone, Tyrannosaurus Alan Aug 9, The Underworld, adv £13.50 W.A.S.P. Sep 21, HMV Forum, £22.50 Wagon Summer All Dayer Jul 21, The Old Queen’s Head, £5, FREE before 4pm Walk Off The Earth Sep 8, HMV Forum, £12 Walthamstow Folk Festival Jun 24, Stoneydown Park, FREE Warbringer, Em Street, Necroriser Jul 17, The Barfly, Camden, adv £10 Warped Tour Nov 10, Alexandra Palace, £40, disabled £20 Warrior Soul, Long Day Fear, Generation Graveyard Sep 27, O2 Academy Islington, £11 We Are Fiction, Our Time Down Here, Hey! Alaska Jul 4, O2 Academy Islington, £8.50 We Are Scientists Jul 25, The Garage, £15, phone for availability We Came As Romans, BlessTheFall, Stick To Your Guns, For The Fallen Dreams, Obey The Brave, At The Skylines, The Browning, At Dawn We Rage Oct 18, Electric Ballroom, £15 Wednesday 13 Oct 31, KOKO, £16 West Weston’s Bluesonics Jul 20, Ain’t Nothin But Blues Bar, FREE West Weston’s Bluesonics Jun 23 & Jun 29, Ain’t Nothin But Blues Bar, FREE White Keys Jun 20 & Jul 20, Dover Street Restaurant And Bar, £15, diners FREE before 10pm White Label Jun 20, Half Moon, Putney, £15 Who’s Who: The Who Tribute Jul 7 & Nov 2, Half Moon, Putney, £10

Robert Plant Jul 12, HMV Forum, phone for prices

Wildcard, Imis Parade, Yassassin Jun 26, Proud Camden, FREE Wildcookie, Kendra Cash, Chidi, Charlene, Cartier Jul 8, Adam Street Private Members’ Club, £10, £15 inc meal Wilko Johnson, Virgil And The Accelerators Oct 25, O2 Academy Islington, £17.50 Will Chaley, Fear No Fish, Trinkets Jun 22, Bull And Gate, £6, w/flyer £5 Will Dutta Jun 20, BFI Southbank, £5 Will Kerr, Jenni Mellor Jul 21, The Camden Head, phone for prices William Topley Jun 27, Archangel, FREE Willie Garnett, Don Weller Quintet Jun 23, Bull’s Head, £12 Willy Mason Dec 5, The Scala, adv £15

London 2012 Olympic Games: Opening Ceremony Celebration Concert: Snow Patrol, Stereophonics, Duran Duran, Paolo Nutini Jul 27, gates 2.30pm, Hyde Park, £60 Winston Morson’s Off The Cuff Jul 1, Bull’s Head, £10 Wireless Festival 2012: Wireless 2012: Deadmau5, Drake, Rihanna Jul 6, Jul 7 & Jul 8, Hyde Park, Fri/Sat day ticket £49.50, Sun day ticket £52.50, Fri & Sat two day ticket £94, Sat & Sun two day ticket £97, weekend ticket £135 Witchsorrow, Astrohenge, Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight, Iron Witch, Dead Existence, The Bendal Interlude, ENOS, Gurt Jun 30, The Windmill, £7, adv £6 Wolfmother Jul 6, IndigO2, £22.50 & £27.50 Wolfsbane Oct 25, The Garage, £12 Wolventrix, Rafaeli And The Real, Apple Eyes Jul 6, Bull And Gate, £6, w/flyer £5 Wooden Wand, Duke Garwood Jul 5, Rough Trade East, FREE Wooden Wand, Duke Garwood, Dead Rat Orchestra Jun 29, Cafe Oto, £9, adv £8 World Sanguine Report, Glockenspiel Jun 28, The Vortex Jazz Club, Dalston Culture House, £8 Wu Legends Jul 13, HMV Forum, £27.50 & £50 Xavier Rudd Aug 8, KOKO, £20 You & Whose Army Sep 2, Nambucca, £5 Young Guns, We Are The In Crowd, Your Demise, Marmozets Oct 17, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £13.50 Zoe Rahman Trio Jul 12, The Vortex Jazz Club, Dalston Culture House, £12.50

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Music TUESDAY JUNE 19 The Electric Musicbox at Market Place W1, 11 Market Place, W1W 8AE Oxford Circus phone for prices, phone for times. Resident DJs spin party mixes and dance favourites.

The Iko’s New Orleans Music Shop at The Alley Cat, 4 Denmark Street, WC2H 8LP Tottenham Court Road phone for prices, 7.30pm-late. DJ Lil’ Koko spins rhythm’n’blues, funk and soul, plus live bands.

Stupid Tuesday at Thirst, 53 Greek Street, W1D 3DR Tottenham Court Road £3, FREE before 10pm, 5pm-3am. Resident DJs play funky house, disco and pop.

Tuesdays at Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY Old Street FREE, phone for times. Louise spins house and electronica.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 20 After School Music Club at The Macbeth, 70 Hoxton Street, N1 6LP Old Street £6, adv £5, 7pm-late. Resident DJs spin indie and electro.

Beef ‘N’ Beats at 64th & Social, 64 Clapham High Street, SW4 7UL Clapham North phone for prices, phone for times. DJ Blaise spins dub and house.

Choke at The Roxy, 3-5 Rathbone Place, W1T 1HJ Tottenham Court Road £5, NUS/w/flyer £4, guestlist £3, 10pm-3am.

Resident DJs play hip hop, drum’n’bass, electro, indie and grime.

Hot Rocks at Surya, 156 Pentonville Road, N1 9JL Angel FREE, 10.30pm2am. Resident DJs spin rock’n’roll, rhythm’n’blues, punk-rock and ska.

Traffic Light Party at Rumba, 36 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 7EP Piccadilly Circus phone for prices, phone for times. Resident DJs and guests supply dance beats and party tunes.

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Bad Sex at Proud Camden, The Horse Hospital, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AH Camden Town £7, £5 before 10pm, NUS/guestlist £5, NUS/ guestlist FREE before 10pm, 7.30pm1.30am. Phaze One, Mayton DJs, Fin Munro, Red House Glory and Itamar spin indie, rock and disco.

Chris Coco & Friends at The Player, 8 Broadwick Street, W1F 8HN Oxford Circus FREE, 8pm-1am. Pete Golding and Chris Coco play Balearic beats, disco, funk and house.

Dance Nights at EC3 Live, Crosswall, EC3N 2JY Tower Hill £10, 11.30pm4am. Princess Karina and DJ Gary Baldi spin dance hits.

Dubba Jonny Present at Cable, 33A

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Bermondsey Street, SE1 2EG London Bridge FREE, 9pm-3am. DJs Captain Crunch, AMC, Mattix and Futile, Buchan and Maksim spin drum’n’bass and electro, plus Dubba Jonny performs live.

Faded at The Rhythm Factory, 16-18 Whitechapel Road, E1 1EW Whitechapel £8, £5 before 11pm, 10pm-3am. Cable, Ace and guests supply hip hop, dubstep, grime and electronica.

Fuel For The Weekend at Sound, 1 Leicester Square, WC2H 7NA Leicester Square phone for prices, phone for times. Resident DJs spin garage and old skool.

Iluvlive 8th Birthday Special at XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A 4AP Old Street adv £15, phone for times.

DJs Sway, Cleo Soul, Ghetts and Big Kids spin R&B, hip hop and house.

Monster Mash at Cellar Door, Zero Aldwych, WC2E 7EN Charing Cross FREE, 9pm-1am. Resident DJs, plus live act Kitty La Roar and Nick of Time.

Radio at The Roxy, 3-5 Rathbone Place, W1T 1HJ Tottenham Court Road £5, NUS/w/flyer £3, FREE before 9pm, 10pm3am. The Radio DJs play 1980s pop, indie and disco.

So Much More at Market Place W1, 11 Market Place, W1W 8AE Oxford Circus FREE, 8pm-2am. DJ Khalil supplies summer jams and classic party vibes.

Thirsty Thursdays at Raduno, 85 Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6HJ Farringdon FREE, 12midnight-4am.

Resident DJs play 1980s pop classics.

Tweetbox at The Book Club, 100-106 Leonard Street, EC2A 4RH Old Street FREE, 8pm-2am. Resident DJs spin funk, disco and retro.

FRIDAY JUNE 22 90 Free Fridays Presents: Mr Magpie at 93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, E1 6RU Liverpool Street FREE, 7pm-1am. DJs Waxdolls, Flash Fiktion, Second Shepards, Holy Vessels, Ray Foxx, Laurent Schark, Jon Bon Bailey and residents spin dubstep, house and electro.

Best Of British Fridays at Rumba, 36 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 7EP Piccadilly Circus best of british outfit FREE, 11pm-3am. Resident DJs spin chart hits, party pop, R&B and commercial dance.

Boogie Originals at The Queen Of Hoxton, 1-5 Curtain Road, EC2A 3JX Shoreditch High Street adv £6, 8pm4am. Neville Watson, Krystal Klear, Deep Space Orchestra, Cosmic Boogie, Emma and Big In Japan DJs supply house, disco, funk and boogie, plus a live performance from Murphy Jax. Buttoned Down Disco’s Midsummers Boat Party at The Battersea Barge, Riverside Walk, Nine Elms Lane, SW8 5BP Vauxhall £10, 8pm-2am. DJs Christian Laing, Pete Wheeler and Richard Titchener spin indie, rock and electro.

Church at Corsica Studios, 4-5 Elephant Road, SE17 1LB Elephant & Castle £6-£12, 10pm-6am. DJs Dark Sky, Mele, Hackman, Mickey Pearce, Brackles, Akkord, Maribou State, Seb Wildblood and Apes spin electronica and dubstep.

Credit Crunk at Market Place W1, 11 Market Place, W1W 8AE Oxford Circus £10 gents, £5 ladies, £5 gents before 12midnight, FREE ladies

before 12midnight, FREE before 10pm, 8pm2am. Tik Boom and guests supply multigenerational party classics.

Dysfunctional at Pacha, Terminus Place, SW1V 1JR Victoria £10, 11pm-late.

Scott Kemp, Mark Radford, Max Smith & Daniel Lesnieski, Vishaal Laurent, Jia & Jevs and Dan Norton spin house, disco and electro.

Fancy Footwork at The Hoxton Pony, 104-108 Curtain Road, EC2A 3AH Old Street £8, concs FREE before 8pm, £5 before 10pm, 8pm-2am. Resident DJs spin a mash up of house, electro, bass, garage and party classics.

Fabriclive at Fabric, 77A Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6HJ Farringdon £18, adv £17, adv £22 inc CD, £7 after 3am, NUS £10 before 12midnight, mems £13, 10pm6am. Erol Alkan, Justin Robertson, Daniel Avery, Boggy Riotous Rockers, Maurice Fulton, Rory Phillips, The Lovely Jonjo and Kiwi spin house, techno and electro, plus Pillowtalk perform live.

Funkin Good Fridays at Gigalum, 7 Cavendish Parade, Clapham Common South Side, SW4 9DW Clapham South £22, 7pm-late. DJ Steve Butcher plays club classics and party anthems.

I Heart Fridays at Opal, Hungerford House, Victoria Embankment, WC2N 6PA Embankment phone for prices, 6pmlate. Resident DJs spin party pop, R&B and dance.

La Remix Tape at Zigfrid, 11 Hoxton Square, N1 6NU Old Street FREE, 9pm-3am. Maxime De Hurel spins electro and dance.

Mono Audio Vs Loud Noise at Cable, 33A Bermondsey Street, SE1 2EG London Bridge £14, £12 before 12midnight, concs £6-£10, 10pm-6am.

Pinch, Zed Bias, Phaeleh, Horsepower Productions, Commodo, Jack Swift, Kai Marley, Lean, Dank, Parris, Dubson, Loake, Image, Fillers, C-Side & Bigman, G-Man, Wiggs and Inhabit Magazine DJs spin techno, house and dubstep across two rooms, with hosts Toast, Prof D, Milo and BigMan. Not For Kids at Bar Music Hall, 134-146 Curtain Road, EC2A 3AR Old Street FREE, 9pm-3am. Kid Circus spins disco, house and retro.

Off-Ramp at The Player, 8 Broadwick Street, W1F 8HN Oxford Circus £5 after 9pm, 8pm-2am. DJ Michael C spins house, disco, funk and Afrobeat.

Oh What A Lovely Recession at The Peacock Cafe, 148 Falcon Road, SW11 2LW Clapham Junction FREE, 8pm-2.30am. DJ David Diskojuice and DJ Tubby spin hits from the 1970s and

1980s and funky house, plus burlesque performances.

Pick N Mix at Arch, 15-16 Lendal Terrace, SW4 7UX Clapham North FREE, 10pm-3am. Resident DJ Jerry spins funky house, soulful electro, indie, rock, pop and soul from the past six decades.

Renegade at Cafe 1001, 1 Dray Walk, E1 6QL Aldgate East FREE, phone for times. DJ Slauka spins dubstep and drum’n’bass.

Retro Fiva at Walkabout, Temple, Temple Place, WC2R 2PH Temple £5, FREE before 9pm, 8pm-1am. DJs Mr T and Amia play hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Shake It at Egg, 200 York Way, N7 9AX King’s Cross St Pancras £15, 11pm8am. Layo & Bushwacka spin house and techno.

Songs Of Freedom at The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL King’s Cross St Pancras adv £12, 10pm-6am. Channel One, Blackboard Jungle and Aba-Shanti-I spin dub, jungle and drum’n’bass.

Thank Funk It’s Friday!! at Funky Buddha, 15 Berkeley Street, W1J 8NL Green Park ladies FREE before 11.30pm, phone for times. DJs Nicole B, VY and Will spin funky house, electro and R&B. Tittle Tattle at Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY Old Street £10, FREE before 10pm, 8pm-3am. Bas Amro, Tomoki Tamura, Toni C and Kazizi spin house.

Trouble Vision at Corsica Studios, 4-5 Elephant Road, SE17 1LB Elephant & Castle €13-€16, 11pm6am. Jimmy Edgar, Paul Woolford, 2562, Dark Sky and Mr Solid Gold spin house, disco and electro.

White Light at The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, N1 9JB Angel adv £7, 7.30pm-late. DJ Max Tundra spins indie, rock, electro and psychedelia, featuring performances from Knifeworld, Thumpermonkey, Barringtone and Something Beginning With L. XOYO Versus Presents at XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A 4AP Old Street adv £6, 10pm-late. Boddika, Girl Unit, Sei A and Deco Child spin electro and techno.

Yamajam at Ginglik, Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12 8PH Shepherd’s Bush £7, £5 before 11pm, 9pm-3am. Max Brydon, Filthy Fiction and guests supply funk, soul, hip hop, garage and house.

Yo Mama at The Westbury, 34 Kilburn High Road, NW6 5UA Kilburn High Road £5, NUS £3, FREE before 10pm, 8pm-3am. Resident DJs spin hip hop, electro, funk and R&B.

SATURDAY JUNE 23 Annie Mac Presents at KOKO, 1a Camden High Street, NW1 7JE Mornington Crescent £15, 10pm-4am.

Redlight, Wookie, Scrufizzer and Monki supply electronica and dance beats at this showcase event.

Audio Sushi at The Dogstar, 389 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8LQ Brixton £5, FREE before 10pm, 9pm-4am. Jeffrey Disastronaut plays reggae, electro, funk jungle, pop, indie and dubstep.

Bunker 194 at East Village, 89 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3HX Old Street £7, adv £5, 9pm-3.30am. Ian Pooley, Bruno Balbino and Freaklou spin tech house and Brazilian beats.

clubbing Christmas Club at The Borderline, Orange Yard, Manette Street, W1D 4JB Tottenham Court Road £7, w/flyer £6, 11pm-4am. Indie and retro pop disco with DJ Tom Smith.

Club De Fromage at O2 Academy Islington, N1 Centre, 16 Parkfield Street, N1 0PS Angel £6.50, 10.30pm3.30am. The resident DJs at Tony and Slow Alfie spin pop hits, with themed fancy dress.

Common Sense at Belushi’s Bar, 161-165 Borough High Street, SE1 1HR Borough FREE before 11pm, 8pm-late.

Resident DJs spin funk, house and electro.

Disco Infernos at Infernos, 146 Clapham High Street, SW4 7UH Clapham Common £10, £5 before 10pm, 9pm-3.30am. The residents supply disco.

Doctors Orders Presents at The Book Club, 100-106 Leonard Street, EC2A 4RH Old Street £5 after 9pm, 8pm-2am. DJs Sarah Love, Josey Rebelle, Emily Rawson and Chery Ice spin hip hop and old skool sounds.

Drift at Apples And Pears, 26 Osborn Street, E1 6TD Aldgate East FREE, 8pm-1am. DJs Gang Colours, Sepia, Twinsmith and 30 Foamscape spin drum’n’bass, dub and old skool beats.

Duckie at Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY Vauxhall £6, 9pm-2am. The Readers Wifes spin pop, indie and cabaret at this long-running rock disco hosted by the irrepressible Amy Lamé, featuring special guests every week.

Fabric at Fabric, 77A Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6HJ Farringdon £19, adv £18, adv £23 inc CD, £10 after 4am, NUS £12, mems £13, 11pm-8am. Cassy, Craig Richards, Hipp-e & Halo, Marcel Dettmann, Blawan and Terry Francis spin house and techno, plus Shed performs live.

Feeling Gloomy at O2 Academy Islington, N1 Centre, 16 Parkfield Street, N1 0PS Angel £8, £6 before 12midnight, adv NUS £5, 10.30pm-3.30am. Leonard and Cliff spin melancholy pop and indie.

Heavyweight House at Proud 2, The O2 Arena Peninsula Square, SE10 0DX North Greenwich £17.50, 10pm. Phunk Investigation, Beltek, Miles Dyson, Christian Cambas, Sons of Audio and guests supply house over three rooms.

Funk Punk at Electric Social, 40 Acre Lane, SW2 5SP Brixton FREE before 10pm, 9pm-3am. Resident DJs spin funk, soul, pop, hip hop and retro hits.

Genesis at Hidden, 100 Tinworth Street, SE11 5EQ Vauxhall £10, adv £5, 10pm-6am. dBridge, Doc Scott, Xtrah,

Hunchbak, Dexta Arkaik and guests supply drum’n’bass.

Glamorous at The Clapham Grand, 21-25 St John’s Hill, SW11 1TT Clapham Common £10, guestlist £5 before 11pm, 10pm-3am. The residents play funky house, soul, R&B and disco.

Hed Kandi Presents Pure Kandi at Hed Kandi Bar, 38 Clapham High Street, SW4 7UR Clapham North phone for prices, 7pm-2am. Resident DJs spin funk and house.

Kitsune Club Night at XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A 4AP Old Street £10, 9pm-late. Gildas & Jerry Bouther and residents spin house and electro, plus Housse De Racket and Jupiter perform live.

I Love The 80s at The Jazz Cafe, 5 Parkway, NW1 7PG Camden Town £7, NUS £5, w/flyer £5 before 11.30pm, 10.30pm-3am. Jake Armstrong and Martin2Smoove play pop, indie, disco, cheese and rock.

Midnight A Go-Go at The Waiting Room, 175 Stoke Newington High Street, Stoke Newington £5, 9pmN16 0LH 4am. DJ Dreamtrak plays pop, hip hop, disco and dance from the 1980s.

Monkey Funk at The Bedford, 77 Bedford Hill, SW12 9HD Balham £6, 11pm2am. The residents supply club classics in the theatre, with funk, soul, ska, rock’n’roll and blues in the ballroom.

Oh No! at The Garage, 20-26 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD Highbury & Islington £5, concs £4, 11pm-late. Resident DJs spin electro, house, chart and indie.

Poppadom Preach at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, Pollard Row, E2 6NB Bethnal Green £8, adv £6, 9pm-2am.

DJ Anjali and Workers Playtime DJs spin swing, jazz, rock’n’roll and Bollywood, plus live performances from The Jolly Good Bollywood Band and Anil Desai.

Punk Saturday at Punk, 14 Soho Street, W1D 3DN Tottenham Court Road phone for prices, 10pm-late. DJ Dele and guests supply house and commercial club tunes.

Saints & Sinners at The Watershed, 267 The Broadway, SW19 1SD Wimbledon £8, £7 before 12midnight, 11pm-3am.

Daniel Scott plays club classics, while resident DJs play indie and pop in the bar.

Shake at Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, NW1 8QP Camden Town £10, NUS/mems £8 before 11.30pm, 10pm3am. Disco and pop from DJ John Osbourne and Paul C in the main room, while DJ Milo plays party anthems in room two.

Size Matters at The Ministry Of Sound, 103 Gaunt Street, SE1 6DP Elephant And Castle £15, 11pm-7am.

AN21 & Max Vangeli, Third Party, Tim Mason, Qulinez and Shane Patrick spin electro and house.

Smoke & Mirrors at The Barfly, Camden, 49 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AN Chalk Farm £5, £3 before 11pm, 10pmlate. Resident DJs spin indie, rock and disco.

Soho Chic at LVPO, 50 Dean Street, W1D 5BQ Leicester Square FREE before 10pm, phone for times. Resident DJs spin dance, house and R&B. Soundtracks at The Monarch, 40-42 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8BG Chalk Farm £3, FREE before 9pm, 8pm-late. Resident DJs play music from film soundtracks.

So What Saturday at First Out, 52 St Giles High Street, WC2H 8LH Tottenham Court Road FREE, 7pm11pm. DJs Capey and Fierce Diamond play indie and electro.

Stanton Sessions at Cable, 33A Bermondsey Street, SE1 2EG London Bridge £10-£20, 10pm.

Resident DJs supply breaks and dance beats.

Studio 64 at 64th & Social, 64 Clapham High Street, SW4 7UL phone for prices, 6pm-9pm. Resident DJs play funk, disco, house, breaks and party hits.

Subsoul at The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, W1W 7JD Oxford Circus £5, FREE before 8pm, 6pm-1am. Jazzie B, Spin Doctor and Chris P Cuts provide soul, disco, hip hop and house.

Supernova at Egg, 200 York Way, N7 9AX King’s Cross St Pancras mems £13-£20, adv/NUS £10, 10pm10am. Todd Bodine, Tom Clark, Philip Bader, Daniel Dreier, Neverdogs, JG Bros, Greg Brockmann, Hot Stuff, Keira, ThanksMate, Foxx, Jamex Fix, S H E, Kevin DCruz, Gavin Stockman, Varon V, Max Lenski, Charlie G and Jo Tucker spin house and techno.

Vast With Agent! at Horse And Groom, 28 Curtain Road, EC2A 3NZ Shoreditch High Street £5, guestlist £3, 10pm-4am. Agent!, Knock, Red Pig Flower, Ceri Stokes and Daisuke Miyata spin techno and house.

We Are One at Sound, 1 Leicester Square, WC2H 7NA Leicester Square £10, £5 before 11pm, 10pm-3am. DJs Krisis and Flex spin pop, R&B and dance anthems.

Whirl-Y-Gig Summer Celebration at Crucifix, 7-9 Crucifix Lane, SE1 3JW London Bridge £17 & £18, concs £14, 10pm-6am. Resident DJs and guests supply heavy dubstep, funk, drum’n’bass, tropical house and tribal trance.

Zen Bar at The Alley Cat, 4 Denmark Street, WC2H 8LP Tottenham Court Rd phone for prices, 10.30pm-3am. Resident DJs spin rhythm’n’blues, soul and ska.

SUNDAY JUNE 24 Free Your Soul at Madame Jojo’s, 8-10 Brewer Street, W1F 0SE Piccadilly Circus £5, £3 before 11pm, 10pm-2.30am. Resident DJs spin old skool, disco, jazz, soul, house and Latin.

Monday Don’t Mean Anything at The Lockside Lounge, 75-89 West Yard Dock, NW1 8AF Camden Town phone for prices, phone for times. Adam Cotier, Raz, Mark Radford, Alex Sesto, J Da Buddah, Max Van Morisson, Kirri Cornwell, Dominique Danielle, Grant Richards, Brad Francis, Chloe Fontaine, Nico Da Funksta and DJ Rocha spin disco, techno and house.

Pause at The Den & Centro, 18 West Central Street, WC1A 1JJ Holborn £10, 10pm-6am. Resident DJs spin house, disco, hip hop, chart, funk and Latin.

Jermaine Reilly, Kadija Kamara, Chockz, Nathan Devonte, Juliyaa, Junior P, Soneni, at The Queen Of Hoxton, 1-5 Curtain Road, EC2A 3JX Shoreditch High Street £5, 7pm12midnight. Resident DJs and guests supply dance beats and electronica.

Sensational Sunday at Zoo Bar, 13-17 Bear Street, WC2H 7AQ Leicester Square £5, FREE before 10pm, phone for times. Resident DJs and

Jaded at Cable, 33A Bermondsey Street, SE1 2EG London Bridge £12, concs £8, 5pm-1am. DJ Raymundo Rodriguez plays house and techno. guests spin party tunes and dance beats.

Soul Food at Proud Camden, The Horse Hospital, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AH Camden Town FREE, 7.30pm-11.30am.

Soulful Sundays at So.Uk, 165 Clapham High Street, SW4 7SS Clapham Common phone for prices, phone for times. DJ Wigz plays a mix of classic soul, funk, electro and jazz.

Star Life!! at Rumba, 36 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 7EP Piccadilly Circus £7 guestlist, £5 gents before 10.30pm, £5 guestlist, FREE ladies before 10.30pm, 10pm-3am. Resident DJs spin chart, R&B and hip hop.

Sundays at Metra, 14 Leicester Square, WC2H 7NG Leicester Square phone for prices, 8pm-2.30am. Resident DJs spin R&B and funky house.

The Sunday Supplement at The Vauxhall Griffin, 8 Wyvil Road, SW8 2TH Vauxhall phone for prices, 8pm. DJs David, Stuart, Hayley Unlikely, Swat, Bidup and Milkshake spin rock and soul.

WetYourSelf! at Fabric, 77A Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6HJ Farringdon £10, NUS £7, adv £5, 11pm-6am. DJs Cormac, Jacob Husley and Peter Pixzel spin techno and house.

MONDAY JUNE 25 The Fix at The Boogaloo, 312 Archway Road, N6 5AT Highgate phone for prices, 6pm-12midnight. Indie-rock, pop and folk courtesy of resident DJs and live acts.

Funday Monday at Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY Old Street FREE, 7pm-1am. DJ Jimbo Jangles plays house, dance, indie, pop, R&B and electro.

I Love Mondays at Moonlighting, 16-17 Greek Street, W1D 4DR Tottenham Court Road £5, w/flyer £3, NUS £1.50, 10pm-3.30am. DJ Victor spins commercial dance, disco, pop, garage, R&B and funky house.

The Jump Off at The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL King’s Cross St Pancras £12, £10 before 9pm, adv £8, 8pm-2am. DJ Manny Norte plays hip hop, garage and R&B, with hosts Rap 6 and Charlie Sloth.

Rehab at The Roxy, 3-5 Rathbone Place, W1T 1HJ Tottenham Court Road £5, NUS/w/flyer £3, mems £1 before 9.30pm, 10pm-3am. DJ Haley, Zoe Demonette, Dan Udy and Malarky supply indie, electro and pop.

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Theatre Sport & Fitness

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“D

o you play tennis?” enquires John Leach with a raised eyebrow, before sending an easy ball down the court – which I miss. Like many of us, I’m more of an armchair tennis fan – and there’s no greater tennis spectacle for the spectator than Wimbledon, which opens on June 25.

Tennis isn’t – and this is perhaps why British kids aren’t universally into it, and why we don’t produce many champion players – especially easy to play. It takes a lot of skill and requires a lot of practice.

But padel (or paddle) tennis requires far less of both – you

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can pick it up after half an hour’s knockaround.

Leach has captained the Great Britain padel tennis team, and after a few more practise hits, I’m banging the ball back down towards him on the covered court at Chelsea’s Harbour Club with, if not Roger Federer panache, at least my dignity intact. Just about.

We’re joined by Alejandro Fernandez, the club’s tennis co-ordinator. We step up for a proper hit around on the first padel tennis court to be built in London, which opened 16 years ago. For the uninitiated (which, by the way, I was before today), padel tennis is incredibly popular in South America

and Spain. Our court is walled with perspex: you can bounce the ball off the wall – or hit it on to the wall, so there are similarities with squash, or even perhaps, pelota.

Fernandez explains that the foamy rackets are “lighter, easier to hold – you don’t need so much power to hit. So old people and kids can play quite easily”.

Because you can bounce the ball off the back wall it’s less frustrating then tennis.

“You can get rallies going easily – 40, 50 strokes,” says Fernandez.

Leach agrees: “You can get good rallies going quite quickly, and with less power.”

The game is played ideally as a

doubles match, so it’s fun and less competitive too.

Might it become an Olympic sport? “Well the Olympics are in Brazil next time and it’s popular there. Host nations can suggest sports,” points out Leach, who also coaches tennis at the club.

I let the pair of them spar – showing me just how much fun a full-blown game can be. “You can lob a lot,” says Fernandez.

The play is frenetic – but extremely forgiving. I can see how this could get addictive.

“It’s one of the fastest growing sports at the moment,” says Fernandez, a native of Seville who’s lived in London for the past three-

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Jetlag Sports Bar, 125 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia Still, it’s worth it because the game is a hoot. Wimbledon’s one thing – but it seems London is also getting a taste for padel tennis, ping pong (judging by the raft of new al fresco tables sprouting in parks around town), and even the game’s blue-blooded forerunner real tennis,

which is also enjoying something of a revival.

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Theatre

Rock steady s the musical Before the film with Tom Cruise there wa at impact – a nostalgia trip into 80s hair rock. But wh Martin will the big screen feature have? By Laura

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ower rawk choons. Big hair. Lots of leather. It’s easy to see why Rock Of Ages has become a runaway musical theatre success – and has now been translated into a slick Hollywood film.

On the back of Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin and Mary J Blige’s retelling of the story, the Rock of Ages theatre show in the West End has also had a boost, with a predicted 50 per cent rise in ticket sales following the film’s release.

The theatre show-turned-movie weaves classic 80s rock tunes (say hello again to epics from Bon Jovi, Whitesnake and Guns N Roses) into a plot revolving around the planned demolition of the hedonistic LA Sunset Strip and a fictional bar, The Bourbon Room.

The show premiered in Los Angeles in 2006 and has since graduated to Broadway and across the ocean to London, with its story of keeping the spirit of anthemic rock alive.

In Blighty, the show has been playing at the Shaftesbury Theatre since August and currently boasts funnyman Justin Lee Collins and former X Factor winner Shayne Ward in leading roles in the rock opus.

Collins says he may not be the most obvious choice for his role of bar owner, Dennis Dupree, but his obsession with the 80s makes him perfect for the part: “It’s the music I’ve always loved, it’s my era. All those tunes like Here I Go Again and bands like White Snake and Def Leppard, I enjoyed very much the first time around. I’ve always been ‘Mr Retro’, I suppose.”

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It’s this retro-mania that is also shared by the public – more than 250,000 people have watched more than 300 shows since it opened just under a year ago.

Collins thinks the show’s success is due to the public’s rose-tinted view of the music scene back then: “I suppose nostalgia has a lot to do with it. These things are always cyclical – for a period of time the 60s is fashionable, then we’re back on the 70s or the 90s. It seems that now the 80s are back in vogue. I think there was a time when it wasn’t cool to like the 80s, but now it’s been embraced again.”

For fellow cast-member Shayne Ward, his role as bad-boy cock-rock star Stacee Jaxx was a chance to ditch the Mr Nice-guy image he got when he won The X Factor in 2005.

He says: “Coming into this role, I had been pigeonholed and I think a lot of people were ready to slate me with all the ‘pop star going into the West End, not being able to act’ views, but I’ve been received really well.

“To me, it’s funny because being part of Syco [Simon Cowell’s music management agency] back then meant I never really got to show my personality, it was totally toned down. I felt I couldn’t really show people what I was like, like I didn’t have a funny side, so being on stage every single night being a rock god is fantastic.”

And the jump from pop ballads to stadium rock is even something that Ward’s planning to take into the studio with him, when his run on Rock Of Ages ends in September. The singer –

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featured  Smalltown girl: Natalie Andreou as Sherrie  From left: Justin Lee Collins as Dennis Dupree, Shayne Ward as Stacee Jaxx and Sandy Moffat as Franz  Don’t drop it: Rock of Ages incorporates rock classics and some serious dance moves

who split with record label Syco in 2011 – says: “The good thing about being in a rock show is that I’ve learned a whole new side to my voice and developed it. I don’t think I had the confidence to really belt out something before, with all the pop songs I was doing. But I’m buzzing with it now, I think it will influence the new material I’m working on.”

The film adaptation of the play has lead to a renewed interest in the West End show and director Julian Stoneman, who was general manager of Mamma Mia!, which also became a film, says: “After the premiere of the film, we saw a 10 per cent increase of interest on the website overnight. Typically, 10-15 days after a film premieres, we see a 50 per cent or 60 per cent rise in tickets. We’ve also seen a 50-50 split between men and women in the audience

– a much higher male audience that any other show in the West End. “The film’s fantastic, but there’s nothing like seeing it live on stage. You laugh a lot more and as it’s live, it changes each night. It’s very adaptable like that.”

With Tom Cruise taking Ward’s role as Stacee and Alec Baldwin stepping up to play Collins’ part as Dennis, the stars say they’re happy to see such A-listers reviving their roles.

Ward says he’s due to watch the film shortly: “I’m intrigued to see what Tom Cruise is like at playing my character, he’s a fantastic actor.”

Collins jokes: “Alec was phoning me months ago in the middle of the night asking me for tips, driving me crazy. I was like, ‘Alec, give it a rest’.” rockofagesmusical.co.uk scoutlondon.com Scout London 51

Theatre WEST END

Six Actors in Search of a Director ends Jun 23, Charing Cross Theatre, The Arches, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NL Embankment £29.50, concs £24.50, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 3.30pm. Steven Berkoff’s latest comedy, set on a film location set.

The 39 Steps until Mar 30 2013, Criterion Theatre, 218-223 Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, W1J 0TR Piccadilly Circus £15-£55, Mon-Sat 8pm, mats Wed 3pm, Sat 4pm, no perf Dec 26, Dec 24, 4pm. John Buchan’s thriller.

Abigail’s Party until Sep 1, Wyndham’s Theatre, Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0DA Leicester Square £12.50-£49.50, Premium Seats £75, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Thu, Sat 3pm. Mike Leigh’s 1970s suburbia-set comedy drama, featuring Jill Halfpenny as Beverly.

Antigone until Jul 21, National Theatre: Olivier, South Bank, SE1 9PX Waterloo Jun 1-30, Jul 1-21 £12-£32, Tue 2pm OAP £12 & £22. Sophocles’s Greek drama features Jodie Whittaker in the title role.

Billy Elliot - The Musical until Dec 15, Victoria Palace, Victoria Street, SW1E 5EA Victoria £19.50-£65, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm. An adaptation of the film.

Birthday Starts Fri, until Aug 4, Jerwood Theatre At The Royal Court, Sloane Square,

Chariots Of Fire, Starts Sat, until Nov 10, Gielgud Theatre, 35-37 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6AR Piccadilly Circus £26£55, Premium Seats £85, From Jun 23, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Wed, Sat 3pm, no perf Jul 27 (press night Jul 3, 7pm).

Mike Bartlett’s stage version of the race to compete in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games.

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SW1W 8AS Sloane Square Jun 2230 Mon £10, Tue-Sat £12, £20, £28, concs £15, £23, Jul 1-31, Aug 1-4 Mon £10, TueSat £12, £20, £28, under 25s £8, Thu, Sat 2.30pm concs £15, £23, From Jun 22, MonSat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm (press night Jun 28, 7pm, no perf Jul 27, no mat perf Jun 23, 28, Jul 5, 12, 19). Joe Penhall’s drama on the tribulations faced by a couple at the imminent arrival of their second baby.

Blood Brothers until Nov 24, Phoenix Theatre, 110 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0JP Leicester Square £20-£65, MonSat 7.45pm, mats Thu 3pm, Sat 4pm. Willy Russell’s musical.

The Cheeky Chappie Arts Theatre, 6-7 Great Newport Street, WC2H 7JB Covent Garden £16, Jun 24, 7.30pm.

Dave Simpson’s drama about the life of comedian Max Miller.

Chicago until Jan 26 2013, Garrick Theatre, 2 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0HH Charing Cross £26-£67.50, Apr 23-Sep 22 Mon-Fri 8pm & 5pm under 26s £20, Mon-Thu, Sat 8pm, Fri 5pm & 8.30pm, mats Sat 3pm, no perf Dec 24 & 25, 3pm, Dec 22, 3pm. Musical.

Chicken, Starts Mon, until Jul 21, Trafalgar Studios, 14 Whitehall, SW1A 2DY Charing Cross Jun 25 preview £17.50, Jun 26-30, Jul 1-21 Mon-Sat 7.45pm & 3pm £17.50, £25, Thu 3pm £17.50, From Jun 25, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Thu, Sat 3pm (press night Jun 26, 7pm). A dark and gritty comedy by New York playwright Mike Batistick.

Collaborators until Jun 23, National Theatre: Olivier, South Bank, SE1 9PX Waterloo £12-£32. Alex Jennings and Simon Russell Beale feature in John Hodge’s 1930s Moscow-set drama.

Cultural Olympiad: Gatz until Jul 15, Noel Coward Theatre, 85-88 St Martin’s Lane, WC2N 4AU Leicester Square £25.50-£75.50, Wed, Fri-Sun 2.30pm10.30pm inc two 15-minute intervals and a 90-minute supper break. A loving enactment of F Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal novel, The Great Gatsby.

Cultural Olympiad: The Last Of The Haussmans until Oct 10, National Theatre: Lyttelton, South Bank, SE1 9PX Waterloo Jun 19-30, Jul 1-31, Aug 1-31, Sep 1-30, Oct 1-10 £12-£47, MonFri/Sun 7.30pm, 2.15pm & 2.30pm child £12-£23.50, Wed 2.15pm OAP £12-£27.

A witty, moving and savage look at a family that is losing its collective grip. Written by Stephen Beresford.

Democracy until Jul 28, Old Vic, 103 The Cut, SE1 8NB Waterloo Jun 15-23 £10-£35, under 25s £12, Jun 24-30, Jul 1-28 £10-£45, Wed, Sat 2.30pm OAP £26, under 25s £12, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm, Jun 21, 2.30pm (press night Jun 20, 7pm, no mat perf Jun 20).

Michael Frayn’s spy drama based on reallife events.

Dreamboats And Petticoats until Nov 24, Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, WC2N 5DE Charing Cross £17.50-£55, Premium Seats £55-£65, Mon-Fri 7.30pm, Sat 8pm, mats Thu 3pm, Sat 4pm. Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran’s musical.

Ghost - The Musical until Apr 20 2013, Piccadilly Theatre, 16 Denman Street, W1D 7DY Piccadilly Circus Mon-Wed/ Thu mats £25-£65, Thu eves/Fri & Sat £25-£67.50, Premium Seats £85, £25 day tickets available Mon-Fri from the box office

from 10am on the day of the performance, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm. A stage adaptation of the 1990 film.

Graft: Tales Of An Actor Charing Cross Theatre, The Arches, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NL Embankment £15, concs £12.50, Jun 24, 7.30pm. Solo drama written by Steven Berkoff.

Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain! until Sep 21, Garrick Theatre, 2 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0HH Charing Cross £10-£14.50, Wed-Fri 1pm, Sat 10.30am & 12noon, Sun 3pm & 5pm. A look at all the nasty, crazy things British people have done to each other over many years.

Jersey Boys until Feb 17 2013, Prince Edward Theatre, 28 Old Compton Street, W1D 4HS Tottenham Court Road Tue-Thu £20-£65, Fri-Sun £20-£67.50, Premium Seats Tue-Thu £85, Fri-Sun £95, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Tue, Sat & Sun 3pm, except Jun 19-Oct 21, Sun 5pm, no perf Dec 25, Dec 30, 3pm, extra mat perf Dec 27, 3pm. Musical drama about the career of Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons.

Les Miserables until Oct 27, Queen’s Theatre, 51 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6BA Piccadilly Circus £10-£65, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm. Musical based on the Victor Hugo novel.

A Walk On Part: The Fall Of New Labour ends Jul 14, Arts Theatre, 6-7 Great Newport Street, WC2H 7JB Covent Garden £15-£29.50, standby for NUS/OAPs/ child £20, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 3pm. An adaptation of former government minister Chris Mullin’s diaries.

The Lion King until Jan 6 2013, Lyceum Theatre, 21 Wellington Street, WC2E 7RQ Charing Cross Tue-Thu £30-£60, Fri, Sun £32.50-£62.50, Sat £35-£65, Jun 19-Jan 6, Sep 2-Dec 31, Jan 1-6 2013, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat & Sun 2.30pm, Jul 24-Sep 1, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed & Thu, Sat 2.30pm, no eve perf Jul 27, no perf Dec 25, no mat perf Dec 26, extra mat perf Dec 27, 2.30pm. Musical.

Long Day’s Journey Into Night until Aug 18, Apollo Theatre, 31 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 7EZ Piccadilly Circus £21£53.50, Premium Seats £76, Mon & Tue, Thu-Sat 7pm, mats Wed 2.30pm. David Suchet and Laurie Metcalf star in Eugene O’Neill’s drama.

Mamma Mia! until Sep 1, Prince Of Wales Theatre, 31 Coventry Street, W1D 6AS Charing Cross Mon-Fri £20-£64, Sat £20-£67.50, Premium Seats £85 & £95, Mon-Thu, Sat 7.30pm, Fri 5pm & 8.30pm, mats Sat 3pm, extra mat Jul 27, 3pm, no eve perf Jul 27. Musical comedy.

Matilda: The Musical until Feb 17 2013, Cambridge Theatre, Earlham Street, WC2H 9HU Covent Garden Feb 14 2012-Feb 17 2013 £20-£62.50, disabled £31.25, Tue-Thu under 18s £19-£52.50, Tue 7pm, Wed-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm, Sun 3pm, extra mat perf Nov 1, 2.30pm. Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin’s musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s tale.

The Mousetrap until Dec 15, St Martin’s Theatre, West Street, Cambridge Circus, WC2H 9NZ Leicester Square £15.60£41.60, Premium Seats £60.60, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Tue 3pm, Sat 4pm. Twisty Christie, now in its 60th year.

Naked Boys Singing until Dec 29, Charing Cross Theatre, The Arches, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NL Embankment £15 & £22.50, Fri & Sat 10pm. Comedy revue celebrating the male nude form. Contains full frontal male nudity.

Noises Off until Jun 30, Novello Theatre, 5 Aldwych, WC2B 4LD Covent Garden Mon-Thu £10-£52.50, Fri & Sat £10£55, Premium Seats £85, concs available, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm.

Michael Frayn’s farcical comedy.

One Man, Two Guvnors until Jan 12 2013, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 18 Suffolk Street, SW1Y 4HT Piccadilly Circus £15-£55, premium seats £85, concs available, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm, no perf Dec 25, extra mat perf Dec 27, Jan 3, 2.30pm, Dec 24, 2.30pm, Dec 26, 7.30pm. Richard Bean’s comic tale, based on Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant Of Two Masters.

The Phantom Of The Opera until Oct 27, Her Majesty’s Theatre, 57 Haymarket, SW1Y 4QL Piccadilly Circus £22.45£85, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm. Lloyd Webber’s hit musical, celebrating its 26th year.

Posh until Aug 4, The Duke Of York’s, St Martin’s Lane, WC2N 4BG Leicester Square £15-£52.50, NUS £25, OAP £29.50, adv OAP £32.50, Premium Seats £75, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm. Drama about members of an elite student dining society.

Rock Of Ages until Oct 28, Shaftesbury Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8DP Holborn Mon-Thu £20£57.50, Fri & Sat £20-£65, Mon-Thu 7.30pm, Fri 5.30pm & 8.30pm, Sat 8pm, mats Sat 4pm. Chris D’Arienzo’s musical celebrating Los Angeles rock culture, starring Justin Lee Collins and Shane Ward.

Shrek - The Musical until Mar 31 2013, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Catherine Street, WC2B 5JF Covent Garden £20-£65, Wed & Thu eves family of four £99-£150, additional seats £29.50 (upper circle) & £45 (best available), Premium Seats £95, Mon, Thu-Sat 7.30pm, Wed 7pm, mats Thu, Sat & Sun 3pm, no perf Oct 10. Musical based on the computer-animated film.

Singin’ In The Rain until Feb 23 2013, Palace Theatre, 109-113 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5AY Leicester Square £14-£84, £25 day seats available from the box office from 10am on day of the performance, Mon & Tue 7pm, Wed-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 3pm, Jul 2-Sep 30, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mat Jul 2-Sep 30, Wed, Sat 3pm, Oct 1-Feb 23 2013, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mat Oct 1-Feb 23 2013, Wed, Sat 2.30pm. Musical based on the MGM film about the end of silent movies.

South Downs & The Browning Version: Double Bill until Jul 21, The Harold Pinter

recommended Theatre, 6 Panton Street, SW1Y 4DN Piccadilly Circus £15-£49.50, Premium Seats £75, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm. One-act dramas by David Hare and Terence Rattigan.

Stomp until Dec 15, Ambassadors Theatre, West Street, WC2H 9ND Leicester Square £20-£49.50, Mon, Thu-Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm, mats Thu, Sat & Sun 3pm, extra eve perfs Aug 1, 15, 22, Oct 31 2012, 8pm, extra mats Aug 15, 22, Oct 31 2012. Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell’s show.

The Sunshine Boys until Jul 28, Savoy Theatre, Savoy Court, Strand, WC2R 0ET Charing Cross £20-£58.50, concs available, Premium Seats £75, 20 top price seats at £10 each, available in person only from 10am on day of performance, MonSat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm. Neil Simon’s comedy with Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths as the estranged comic duo Willie Clark and Al Lewis.

Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street until Sep 22, Adelphi Theatre, 409-412 Strand, WC2R 0NS Charing Cross £20-£67.50, £25 seats available in person from the box office from 10am on day of performance (max 2 per person), Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm. Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton star in Stephen Sondheim’s musical.

Thriller Live until Sep 23, Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 7ES Piccadilly Circus £27.50-£59.50, Premium Seats £85, Tue-Fri, Sun 7.30pm, Sat 8pm, mats Sat 4pm, Sun 3.30pm.

A celebration of the music of Michael Jackson.

Top Hat - The Musical until Jan 26 2013, Aldwych Theatre, 49 Aldwych, WC2B 4DF Covent Garden £20-£65, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm, no perf Dec 24 & 25, 31. Irving Berlin’s romantic musical.

War Horse until Oct 26 2013, New London Theatre, 166 Drury Lane (corner of Parker Street), WC2B 5PW Covent Garden £15-£55, Premium Seats £85, Mon, Wed-Sat 7.30pm, Tue 7pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm. Michael Morpurgo’s story.

We Will Rock You until Oct 20, Dominion Theatre, 268-9 Tottenham Court Road, W1T 7AQ Tottenham Court Road Jan 1-Dec 31 2011, Jan 1-May 13, May 15-Oct 20 2012 £27.50-£60, £40.50, £73.25, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 2.30pm.

Musical based on the songs of Queen.

What About Samuel? Arts Theatre, 6-7 Great Newport Street, WC2H 7JB Covent Garden £14, Jun 24, 5pm.

Comedy drama exploring middle-class notions of good parenting.

What The Butler Saw until Aug 25, Vaudeville Theatre, 404 Strand, WC2R 0NH Charing Cross Jun 1-30, Jul 1-31, Aug 1-25 £25-£49.50, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm, no perf Jul 27, extra mat perf Jul 24, 2.30pm. Joe Orton’s final play features Omid Djalili as Dr Rance.

Wicked until Apr 27 2013, Apollo Victoria Theatre, 17 Wilton Road, SW1V 1LG Victoria Mon-Fri eves/mats £15£62.50, Sat eves £15-£65, 24 front row day tickets priced £27.50 each released 10am at the box office, maximum two per person. A musical retelling of The Wizard of Oz. The Witness until Jun 30, Jerwood Theatre At The Royal Court, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS Sloane Square Mon

£10, Tue-Sat £20, concs available, MonSat 7.45pm, mats Sat 3.30pm, Jun 21, 28, 3.30pm. A modern thriller written by Vivienne Franzmann.

The Wizard Of Oz until Sep 2, London Palladium, 8 Argyll Street, W1F 7TF Oxford Circus £25-£65, Premium Seats £84, £25 day seats available from the box office from 10am on day of the performance, Tue 7pm, Wed-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm, Sun 3pm. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s version of L Frank Baum’s classic tale.

The Woman In Black until Dec 15, Fortune Theatre, Russell Street, WC2B 5HH Covent Garden £16.50-£45, Premium Seats £55, Jan 9 2012-Jul 15 2012, Sep 2 2012-Dec 15 2012, Tue-Sat 8pm, mats Jan 9 2012-Jul 15 2012, Sep 2 2012-Dec 15 2012, Tue, Thu 3pm, Sat 4pm, Jul 16 2012-Sep 1 2012, Mon-Sat 8pm, mats Jul 16 2012-Sep 1 2012, Tue 3pm, Sat 4pm.

Susan Hill’s ghost story.

Yes, Prime Minister until Jan 1 2013, Trafalgar Studios, 14 Whitehall, SW1A 2DY Charing Cross £26.50, £46.50, MonSat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm. Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn’s comedy.

OFF WEST END Bud until Jul 8, King’s Head, Islington, 115 Upper Street, N1 1QN Angel from Jun 18 £15, concs £12, Sun & Mon 7.15pm, mat Jul 8, 3pm. Solo comedy drama by Cornish writer Nick Darke.

The Burglar Who Failed & Dutchman until Jun 30, Orange Tree Theatre, 1 Clarence Street, TW9 2SA Richmond £12, concs £10, Tue mats £9, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Tue 2.30pm, Sat 3pm, audio described mat perf Jun 23. Double bill of dramas directed by Karima Setohy and Polina Kalinina.

Cultural Olympiad: The Comedy Of Errors until Jul 4, Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8EH Chalk Farm £12-£47, OAP £12-£25, Jun 19 & 20, 22, 27, 29, Jul 3 & 4, 7.30pm. Shakespeare’s comedy of identical twins and mistaken identities.

Cultural Olympiad: The Coming Storm until Jun 23, Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, SW11 5TN Clapham Junction £17, concs £13, Jun 19-23, 7.30pm. Using devices from puppet theatre, dance, songs and amateur dramatics, this epic, physical show is presented by Forced Entertainment.

Cultural Olympiad: DruidMurphy: Conversations On A Homecoming Starts Thu, until Jun 30, Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU Swiss Cottage £14.50-£66, Jun 21, 29, 7.30pm, mats Jun 23, 27, 30, 1.30pm.

Tom Murphy’s drama on unfulfilled dreams.

Cultural Olympiad: DruidMurphy: Famine Starts Fri, until Jun 30, Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU Swiss Cottage £14.50-£66, Jun 22 & 23, 26 & 27, 30, 7.30pm. Tom Murphy’s drama on the struggles faced by the people of County Mayo during the 1846 famine.

Cultural Olympiad: DruidMurphy: A Whistle In The Dark Starts Wed, until Jun 30, Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU Swiss Cottage £14.50£66, Jun 20, 28, 7.30pm, mats Jun 23, 27, 30, 3.30pm. Tom Murphy’s 1960s-set drama on Irish immigrants adapting to life in an English city.

Cultural Olympiad: The Tempest until Jul 5, Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road,

NW1 8EH Chalk Farm £12-£47, Jun 21, 23, 26, 28, 30, Jul 2, 5, 7.30pm.

Magical tale of a usurped Duke, a shipwreck and retribution.

Cultural Olympiad: Twelfth Night until Jul 5, Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8EH Chalk Farm £8-£47, Jun 25, 7.30pm, mats Jun 21, 23, 28, 30, Jul 5, 1.30pm. David Farr directs Shakespeare’s comedy of disguises and wounded hearts.

Fear until Jul 14, The Bush Theatre At The Old Library, 7 Uxbridge Road, W12 8LJ Shepherd’s Bush Jun 18-20 previews £18, concs £10, Jun 21-30, Jul 1-14 MonSat 7.30pm £24, concs £12, under 26s £10, Wed & Sat 2.30pm £18, concs £10, MonSat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm, no mat perf Jun 20, audio described mat perf Jul 14 (press night Jun 21, 7pm, captioned Jul 5).

Drama in which a late-night robbery goes badly wrong.

The History Boys until Jun 24, Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, SE10 8ES Greenwich Jun 19-24 £20, concs £17.50, Jun 19-23, 7.30pm, Jun 24, 6pm (mats Jun 20, 22 & 23, 2.30pm). Alan Bennett’s award-winning drama.

LIFT 2012: White Rabbit, Red Rabbit until Jul 1, Gate Theatre, 11 Pembridge Road (above the Prince Albert Pub), W11 3HQ Notting Hill Gate £12, concs £10, Jun 24, Jul 1, 2pm & 5pm, Jun 24, 3.30pm, inter-show talk. Solo drama written by a young Iranian dramatist.

LIFT 2012: You Once Said Yes until Jul 1, Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8EH Chalk Farm Jun 12-17 £15, Jun 19-30, Jul 1 £20, Tue-Fri 5pm-7.50pm, timed entry, one at a time, Sat & Sun 2.30pm-7.10pm, timed entry, one at a time. Look Left Look Right’s promenade work has thrilling stories and characters taking you on a special experience.

Mary Shelley until Jul 7, Tricycle Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR Kilburn Mon eves/Wed mats £14-£21, Tue-Fri eves/Sat mats £20-£27, Sat eves £24-£31, Mon-Sat 8pm, mats Sat 3pm, extra mat perf Jun 20, 27, Jul 4, 2pm. Helen Edmundson’s drama exploring the life of the Frankenstein author.

The Physicists until Jul 21, Donmar Warehouse, 41 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LX Covent Garden May 31, Jun 1-6 preview £10-£25, Jun 7-30, Jul 1-21 £10-£32.50, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm.

A satirical drama written by Friedrich Durrenmantt, adapted by Jack Thorne.

The Play’s The Thing: Henry V until Aug 26, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, 21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT Mansion House lower/middle/upper galleries seated £15-£39, yard standing £5, under 18s £12-£36. Jamie Parker stars as the young English monarch warring with the French, in Shakespeare’s history play.

The Play’s The Thing: The Taming Of The Shrew Starts Sat, until Oct 13, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, 21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT Mansion House lower/ middle/upper galleries seated £15-£39, yard standing £5, unders 18s £12-£36, Jun 23, 25, 29, Jul 2, 4, 6, 16, 18, 20, 23, 26, 30, Aug 3, 6, 10, 13, 17, 20, 27, 29, Sep 4, 6, 10, 14, 19-21, 24, 27, 29, Oct 1, 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, 7.30pm, Aug 3, 12midnight, mats Jun 26, 28, 30, Jul 3, 5, 7, 19, 21, 24, 27, 31, Aug 7, 11, 14, 18, 21, 28, 30, Sep 5, 7 & 8, 11, 14 & 15, 28, Oct 2, 5, 9, 12, 2pm. Shakespeare’s romantic comedy is directed by Toby Frow.

The Prophet until Jul 21, Gate Theatre, 11 Pembridge Road (above the Prince Albert Pub), W11 3HQ Notting Hill Gate Jun 14-19 previews £10, Jun 20-30, Jul 1-27 Mon-Sat 7.30pm £20, concs £15, Sat 3pm £10, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 3pm (press night Jun 20). A part-verbatim drama written by Hassan Abdulrazzak, set during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

Spinach until Jul 7, King’s Head, Islington, 115 Upper Street, N1 1QN Angel £17.50-£22.50, concs £15, Tue-Sat 7.15pm, mats Sun 3pm. An exploration of abduction and disorientation in which every line is sung instead of spoken.

Summer Cook Up Season: Brand New Ancients: Scratch, Starts Thu, until Jun 23, Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, Clapham Junction SW11 5TN pay what you can, Jun 21-23, 9.30pm.

Kate Tempest’s contemporary theatre piece exploring notions of heroism in everyday life.

Torch Song Trilogy until Aug 12, The Menier Chocolate Factory, 53 Southwark Street, SE1 1RU London Bridge Jun 12-30, Jul 1-31, Aug 1-12 £29.50, concs £27, £37 inc meal, Tue-Sat 8pm, mats Sat & Sun 3.30pm. Harvey Fierstein’s comedy drama is directed by actor-director Douglas Hodge.

Utopia Starts Wed, until Jul 14, Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road £10-£15, From Jun 20, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 3pm. A collaborative theatre project exploring ideas about the future.

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London 2012 Cultural Olympiad: The Rest Is Silence ends Jun 23, Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, W6 9RL Hammersmith £25, Tue-Sun 8pm, mats Wed, Sat & Sun 4pm. A multimedia meditation on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Barons Caught In The Act Barons Court Theatre, The Curtain’s Up, 28A Comeragh Road, W14 9HR Barons Court £10, Jun 25, 7pm & 9pm. BlackPolar Productions presents a murder mystery drama.

Be Good Revolutionaries until Jun 23, Oval House Theatre, 54 Kennington Oval, SE11 5SW Oval £14, concs £8 & £10, Tue-Sat 7.45pm. Drama set amongst the family of a lost revolutionary hero.

The Beauty Queen Of Leenane until Jun 24, Etcetera Theatre, 265 Camden High Street, NW1 7BU Camden Town £7, Jun 19-23, 7pm, Jun 24, 6pm. Martin McDonagh’s black comedy set in the mountains of Connemara.

Bedford Park Festival 2012: Her Right Mind Tabard Theatre, 2 Bath Road, W4 1LW Turnham Green £10,

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A Chapter Of Accidents Starts Fri, until Jun 24, Hen & Chickens, 109 St Paul’s Road, N1 2NA Highbury & Islington £7, Jun 22-24, 7.30pm.

Cultural Olympiad: Crow until Jul 7, Greenwich Dance Agency, The Borough Greenwich Hall, Royal Hill, SE10 8RE Jun 18-20 previews £10, Jun 21-30, Jul 1-7 £15 & £18, concs £12 & £15, Mon-Sat 8pm, press night Jun 21, 7pm, Jun 30, Jul 7, 5pm. A puppet and dance adaptation of Ted Hughes’s dark poem, from Matthew Dunster.

Cultural Olympiad: West End LIVE 2012 Starts Sat, until Jun 24, Trafalgar Square, WC2 5DS Charing Cross FREE, Jun 23, 11am-6pm, Jun 24, 12noon-6pm.

Cast members from West End musicals perform during this annual musical theatre spectacular.

Cultural Olympiad: You Me Bum Bum Train 2012 Starts Thu, until Jul 26, Canary Wharf, Canada Square Park, E14 5AG Canary Wharf £20, phone for availability, From Jun 21, Thu-Sun 7.30pm10.45pm, extra perfs Jun 21, 7pm, Jul 25, 7.30pm-10.45pm. Physically challenging, immersive, participatory theatre experience.

Daybreak until Jun 30, Tristan Bates Theatre, The Actors Centre, 1a Tower Street, WC2H 9NP Leicester Square £13, concs £10, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sun 3.30pm. Notion Theatre presents Bobby Cronin’s time-bending musical.

Dev’s Army until Jun 24, Etcetera Theatre, 265 Camden High Street, NW1 7BU Camden Town £11, concs £9, Jun 19-23, 9.30pm, Jun 24, 8.30pm. Elysion Productions and Studio Salford present Stuart D Lee’s dark comedy.

Dirty Great Love Story Pleasance Theatre, Carpenter’s Mews, North Road, N7 9EF Caledonian Road £5, Jun 25, 7.45pm9pm. Romantic comedy exploring the realities of modern love.

E4 Udderbelly Festival: The Girl With The Iron Claws, Starts Sat, until Jun 25, E4 Udderbelly At Southbank Centre, Jubilee Gardens, SE1 8XX Embankment £10 & £15, Jun 23 & 24, 4.15pm, Jun 25, 5.15pm. Nordic tale of a young girl who falls in love with a polar bear.

An Evening Of Tim Rice The Pheasantry, 152-154 Kings Road, SW3 4UT Sloane Square £21.50, Jun 23, 8.30pm, doors 7pm. The show tells the story of the established lyricist, illustrated with his songs.

The Fix Starts Wed, until Jul 14, Union Theatre, 204 Union Street, SE1 0LX Waterloo £18, concs available, From Jun 20, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sun 2pm & 6pm, extra mat Jul 14, 3pm. Satirical musical set during the US presidential race.

Friday Folies Bergere until Jun 29, Cellar Door, Zero Aldwych, WC2E 7EN Charing Cross FREE, Fri 9pm.

Burlesque show starring Miss Beatrix Von Bourbon.

GDIF 2012: Mean Between Times Starts Fri, until Jun 30, Charing Cross Station, Strand, WC2N 5HS Charing Cross booking required FREE, book via Greenwich Theatre box office, Jun 22-24, 11am, 1.30pm & 4pm, Jun 25-30, 3pm & 7pm.

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Belong ends Jun 23, Theatre Local At The Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, SE15 4ST Peckham Rye pay what you can, adv £10, concs £8, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Wed, Sat 3.30pm. A satirical drama written by Bola Agbaje. sounds and voices of the city, both past and present.

GDIF 2012: Prometheus Awakes Royal Museums Greenwich, Rodmere Street, Greenwich FREE, Jun SE10 9EF 22, 10pm. A bold re-interpretation of the ancient Greek myth, presented by the disabled-led Graeae Theatre and Catalonia’s visual company La Fura dels Baus.

GDIF 2012: White Suit Starts Sat, until Jun 24, St Alfege Park, Greenwich Church Street, SE10 9RB Cutty Sark FREE, Jun 23 & 24, 1pm & 3.55pm. A combination of vocal harmonies with physical theatre, in a stylised song-theatre show.

Henry V until Jun 30, Marylebone Gardens, 35 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QD Regent’s Street £16, concs £10, MonSat 7.30pm. A contemporary, immersive staging of Shakespeare’s history play.

Herve Old Red Lion, 418 St John Street, EC1V 4NJ Angel £10, Jun 25, 7.30pm.

Herve Goffings presents a solo show based on his life story.

In The Latter Days Tristan Bates Theatre, The Actors Centre, 1a Tower Street, WC2H 9NP Leicester Square £7, concs £6, Jun 21, 2pm. A reading of the play written by Ann Magaha.

Life’s a Drag until Jun 25, Cellar Door, Zero Aldwych, WC2E 7EN Charing Cross FREE, Mon 9pm. Performance artist Michael Twaits entertains.

LIFT 2012: Minsk, 2011: A Reply To Kathy Acker until Jun 23, Young Vic, 66 The Cut, SE1 8LZ Waterloo £17.50, NUS/under 25s £10, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.45pm. Contemporary drama about life under dictatorship.

LIFT 2012: There We Will Be Buried Starts Thu, until Jun 24, ICA, 12 Carlton House Terrace, The Mall, SW1Y 5AH Charing Cross £12, concs £10, mems £8, NUS mems £5, Jun 21-24, 8pm. A visual and aural play featuring pre-recorded audio and video tapes of slightly differing performances, written by Yair Oelbaum.

Mauve New World (Freakoid/ Midsummer/It Gets Better) Starts Thu, until Jun 23, Oval House Theatre, 54 Kennington Oval, SE11 5SW Oval £5, Jun 21-23, 8pm. Dramas-in-progress imagining a queer future.

Meat until Jun 30, Theatre 503, The Latchmere Pub, 503 Battersea Park Road, SW11 3BW Sloane Square £14, concs

£9, Tue-Sat 7.45pm, Sun 5pm. Jimmy Osborne’s drama about a factory worker who becomes a vigilante.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream until Sep 5, The Open Air Theatre, Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, NW1 4NU Regent’s Park Jun 20-23, 25 & 26, Jul 5-7, 9-11, 19-21, 2326, Aug 16-18, 20-22, 30 & 31, Sep 1, 2-5 £22.50-£42.50, Premium Seats £49.50, Jul 25 & 26, Aug 2-4, 6-8 Olympics Tickets pricing when booked before Apr 30 £20.12.

Shakespeare’s evergreen forest fantasy.

The Mighty Carlins Tristan Bates Theatre, The Actors Centre, 1a Tower Street, WC2H 9NP Leicester Square £7, concs £6, Jun 22, 2pm. A reading of the play written

by Collin Doyle.

The Molly Room until Jun 24, White Bear Theatre, 138 Kennington Park Road, SE11 4DJ Kennington £13, concs £10, Jun 19-23, 7.30pm, Jun 24, 5pm. Drama set backstage at the Gaiety Theatre in 1915.

Moonlight And Magnolias until Jun 23, Teatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road, NW1 1TT Mornington Crescent £14, concs £13, mems/adv £12, adv concs £11, adv mems £10, Jun 19-23, 7.45pm, mat Jun 23, 3pm. Comedy drama about the hurried rewriting of Gone With The Wind’s screenplay.

My Big Fat Jamaican Funeral, Starts Sat, until Jun 24, Broadway Theatre, Rushey Catford £20, Jun 23 Green, SE6 4RU & 24, 8pm. Comedy drama about an ageing mother’s boy on the lookout for a bride.

No Picnic until Jun 24, Waterloo East Theatre, 3 Wootton Street (Entrance In Brad Street), SE1 8TG Waterloo £14, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sun 4pm. A satirical dark comedy by Greg Freeman, on the crisis of conscience faced by teddy bears.

Othello until Jul 1, Brockwell Park, Dulwich Herne Hill £9.50Road, SE24 0NG £13.50, Jun 19, 22-24, 27 & 28, Jul 1, 7.30pm, mats Jun 24, 30, 3pm. William Shakespeare’s tragedy is directed by Rachel Velentine-Smith.

Peter Lovatt On Good Moves Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL Holborn £12.50, Jun 24, 11.30am-1pm.

An energetic performance-sermon from professional dancer and psychologist, Peter Lovatt.

Postcards Festival: 2012: An Olympic Vaudeville Jacksons Lane Theatre, 269a Archway Road, N6 5AA Highgate £10, Jun 22, 8pm. The Zeit Geists, a pair of clowns, tell of wondrous feats of athleticism and other things, of the modern Olympics.

Priceless London Wonderground: Cantina until Sep 30, The London Wonderground Spiegeltent, Jubilee Gardens, off Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX Embankment Jun 1-30, Jul 1-31, Aug 1-31, Sep 1-30 £15-£50, booths £175, £200. A glamorous mix of vaudeville, circus-theatre, dance and music, all taking place inside a traditional Spiegeltent.

Ragtime until Sep 8, The Open Air Theatre, Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, NW1 4NU Regent’s Park May 18 & 19, 21-26 previews £17.50-£37.50, Premium Seats £44.50, May 28 & 29, Jun 14-16, 18 & 19, 27-30, Jul 2-4, 12-14, 16-18, Aug 13-15, 23-25, 27-29, Sep 6-8 £22.50-£42.50, Premium Seats £49.50, Jul 28, 30 & 31, Aug 1, 9-11 Olympics Tickets Pricing when booked before 30 April £20.12, Jun 19, 27-30, Jul 2-4, 12-14, 16-18, 28, 30 & 31, Aug 1, 9-11, 13-15, 23-25, 27-29, Sep 6-8,

7.45pm, mats Jun 28, 30, Jul 4, 14, 18, 28, Aug 1, 11, 15, 25, 29, Sep 8, 2.15pm. Musical about three families separated by race and destiny.

The Rules Of The Game until Jul 8, Barons Court Theatre, The Curtain’s Up, 28A Comeragh Road, W14 9HR Barons Court Tue-Thu, Sun £12.50, concs £10, Fri & Sat £15, concs £12.50, From Jun 19, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, Sun 6.30pm, mats Jun 30, Jul 7, 2.30pm, no perf Jun 21, Jul 1. Romantic comedy in which three geeky guys meet three girls.

Spring Awakening, Starts Wed, until Jul 14, Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, SE4 2DH Honor Oak Park £12, concs £10, From Jun 20, Tue-Sat 7.45pm, mats Jun 30, Jul 7, 3.30pm (press night Jun 21). Frank Wedekind’s drama exploring authority, education, sexuality and religion.

Summer And Smoke until Jun 30, Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, corner of Tooley Street and Bermondsey Street, SE1 2TF London Bridge £13 & £17, adv £9, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mat Sat 3pm. Tennessee Williams’s drama set in Mississippi.

The Odyssey until Jun 23, The Albany, Deptford Douglas Way, SE8 4AG £12, concs £7, Thurs-Sun 7.30pm. A promenade performance that takes the audience on a man hunt down seemingly normal high streets and into the heart of this classic story.

The Sunny Side Of The Street, A Musical Tribute To Dorothy Fields until Jul 7, Jermyn Street Theatre, 16B Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6ST Piccadilly Circus Jun 19 & 20 previews £14, Jun 20-30, Jul 1-7 £18, concs £15, Early Bird Offer book before Jun 1, £14, From Jun 19, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat & Sun 3.30pm (press night Jun 21). A celebration of the work of the awardwinning lyricist, Dorothy Fields, devised and directed by Tim McArthur.

The Tin Violin until Jun 21, Pleasance Theatre, Carpenter’s Mews, North Road, N7 9EF Caledonian Road £11.50, concs £10, Jun 19-21, 7.30pm. Drama based on the life of West African composer Joseph Emidy.

Uncle Vanya until Jul 7, The Print Room, 34 Hereford Road, W2 5AJ Notting Hill Gate £20, concs £15, phone for availability, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 3pm. Mike Poulton adapts Anton Chekhov’s classic drama.

Velela!: Peter Piper - The Man Behind The Legend, Starts Wed, until Jun 21, Queen Mary, University Of London, 327 Mile End Road, E1 4NS Stepney Green £5, adv £3, Jun 20 & 21, 7.30pm. Solo work performed by Sam Quinn.

World Stages London: Wah! Wah! Girls until Jun 23, Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street, WC2A 2HT Holborn Jun 1-23 £15-£42, 4 tickets at top two prices incl at least one child family £120, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 2.30pm, Sun 4pm. An exciting mix of Bollywood-style dance and songs, original music and a modern romance, in a musical written by Tanika Gupta.

World War Freeze, Starts Sat, until Jun 24, Camden People’s Theatre, 58-60 Hampstead Road, NW1 2PY Euston £10, Jun 23 & 24, 7.30pm. Drama about a philosopher who finds himself in conflict with the authorities.

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