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8 The Halloween Issue With the witching hour fast approaching, we round-up all the best Halloween events that London has to offer, from creepy club nights to macabre museums

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Plus: The definitive guide to the most haunted places in London

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here is wildlife photography and then there is the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.

Featuring some of the most mesmerising images of nature that you’re ever likely to see, the annual competition and accompanying exhibition takes viewers into the faraway habitats of some of the most fascinating (and forbidding) creatures in the world.

This year’s winners – which includes the images shown here – were announced last week, and are now on display at the Natural History Museum. The exhibition is open until March 3, priced £10 for adults and £5 for children.

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Eau de Brad Compulsive rewatches of Brad Pitt’s hilariously hammy Chanel ad

Free WiFi News that Virgin Media’s WiFi service on the Tube network will remain free for the rest of the year

Great British Bake Off Finale Already missing soggy bottoms

Cuckoo Greg Davies and Andy Samberg are great together in this sharply-written new BBC sitcom

Coke Zero No sugar but a cracking caffeine hit – and in a pretty stylish Skyfall bottle

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LONDON 9 To 5: The Musical New Wimbledon Theatre Closes Sat Oct 27 Call Me Madam Union Theatre Closes Sat Oct 27 Lord of the Flies Broadway Theatre Closes Sun Oct 28  Treading water Charlie Hamilton James A giant otter, Peru Commended (The Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Species)  Into the mouth of the caiman Luciano Candisani A yacare caiman waits for fish to come within snapping distance, Brazil Winner (Behaviour: Cold-blooded Animals)

The Marvellous Adventures Of Mary Seacole Rosemary Branch Theatre Closes Sun Oct 28 Mind The Map: Inspiring Art, Design And Cartography London Transport Museum Closes Sun Oct 28

 Snatch and grab Stefan Huwiler A golden eagle chases a red fox away from a carcass he is feasting on, Bulgaria Commended (Behaviour: Birds)

Prix Pictet ‘Power’ Exhibition Saatchi Gallery Closes Sun Oct 28

Paddington Bear had had access to a cash machine at Paddington Station, he probably would have made it back to Darkest Peru via a journey on the Heathrow Express.

Instead, he most likely got stuck queuing at the ATMs near Sainsbury’s and missed his train, and was thereafter destined for a lifetime in a battered hat, with only enough cash to exist on a diet of marmalade sandwiches.

If only Paddington Bear had looked under the stairs at the station. Here he would have found the answer to all his currency worries: cashpoints that are free to use and - when both of them work - largely queue resistant.

Do you know of a secret cash machine in London? Let us know on Twitter @ScoutLondon #secretcashmachines

The Unilever Series: Tino Sehgal Tate Modern Closes Sun Oct 28

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Simon Munnery’s La Concepta Soho Theatre Closes Sun Oct 28

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Vicky Barlow, 24 Freelance graphic designer/illustrator, Greenwich

What in London inspires you?

Above all, I think I’d have to say the variety that the city has to offer.

With so much available to see and do, there’s always something to engage with.

What’s your favourite part of London?

Would probably have to be where I’m currently living in Greenwich.

There are some great little local

Where do you go to relax?

The gardens at the Barbican are a great place to relax, because they’re quiet and secluded and you can hear the fountains in the lake next door.

Let’s go for a drink. Scout’s buying – where do you fancy?

Two Brewers on Whitecross Street is my local and it has darts and a low-key vibe. It shows football too and has a small outside area and great locals.

Where do you like to go shopping?

Dover Street Market is my favourite store as it stocks my favourite brands and the staff are great and friendly. The cafe on the 4th floor is excellent for lunch.

Sounds lovely. How about grabbing a bite to eat – any restaurant recommendations?

Ciullos is a small Italian on Balham High Road and I’ve been going there for 10 years. I just love the food and the atmosphere. The staff are great and the food cheap, but superb.

Do you have any secret London tips for us?

The pop-up restaurants and bars and secret private cocktail places are superb. I’ll give ONE away. The Whistling Shop near Old Street tube. Oh, and Brunswick House in Vauxhall for food. That’s all I’m saying!

pubs and you can’t go wrong with food from the market.

something new and interesting.

Any London secrets to share?

There’s a little café/kitchen in Angel called Kipferl that does authentic Austrian cuisine, lovely if you fancy something different.

Anyone with a passion for beautifully designed art books should also head to the Serpentine gallery’s book shop. There’s always

What’s your favourite outdoor spot?

The Heronry at Regent’s Park because it’s my favourite park and I love herons!

What’s next for you?

I’m working with a couple of new studios at the minute, broadening my skillset a little and starting to dip back into a bit more illustration work, so am constantly looking for new commissions and bits of work on the side.

See more at: vickybarlow.co.uk

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Mathew Horne has been a regular in comedy series such as The Catherine Tate Show but is probably best-known for his titular role in hit BBC comedy Gavin and Stacey. Now he’s making a change – into a dress, no less – as Fancourt Babberley in the superb farce Charley’s Aunt, which runs until November 10 at the Menier Chocolate Factory. menierchocolatefactory.com

CRIME AND THE CITY SOLUTION + SAVAGES

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Friday 26 October Queen Elizabeth Hall

+ Hudson Taylor + Alys Gibson Wednesday 5 December Royal Festival Hall

Crime & The City Solution perform their only UK date as part of their world tour with one of the hottest young bands of the moment – Savages.

Mercury Prize-nominee Michael Kiwanuka is one of the UK’s fastest rising soul stars and his debut album Home Again made an instant impression.

THE MAGNETIC NORTH Thursday 22 November Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

Singer-songwriter Erland Cooper grouped together his Erland & The Carnival band mate Simon Tong and singer/orchestral arranger Hannah Peel to form The Magnetic North.

TRANSATLANTIC SESSIONS Featuring Aly Bain, Jerry Douglas & special guests Wednesday 6 February 2013 Royal Festival Hall

Fresh from the success of last year’s sold-out tour are musical directors fiddle maestro Aly Bain and dobro legend Jerry Douglas, with the ultimate house band.

MYSTERY JETS

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

Following the release of their critically acclaimed fourth album Radlands, the boys from Eel Pie Island return to London.

The Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III returns to Royal Festival Hall for the third year running.

Thursday 29 November Royal Festival Hall

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Upcoming highlights

Aimee Mann The Divine Comedy Michael Nesmith Mike Scott Phronesis London Jazz Festival The Unthanks

EVAN DANDO AND JULIANA HATFIELD Tuesday 4 December Royal Festival Hall

Nineties alt-rock stars Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield perform together at Royal Festival Hall.

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Halloween is here again, and London is preparing to shiver with the chill of its ghoulish goings-on. Whether you’re after horrifying hedonism or something fun to take the kids to, our big preview has everything to help you make the macabre most of the year’s scariest celebration

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FFrightening rightening ffun un Halloween can inspire a grim fascination with the human anatomy, especially dissection.

If this floats your boat, the Museum of London is hosting a late night event alongside its ongoing Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men exhibition on October 31, where visitors will be able to try a range of activities including wax modeling body parts.

But perhaps you want to stray even closer to the ‘other side’ –

possibly even have a chin wag with a ghost. If so, the folks at The Last Tuesday Society in Hackney can hook you up with a connection to answer those burning questions that only the dead can answer, with a full-blown séance on October 30.

Or head down there the following night if you’d rather watch skeletons dance across walls in a phantasmagoria display using the dark art of magic lanterns.

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The llittle terrors There’s no better time of year to visit the chilling chambers of the enormously fun London Dungeon.

Just for Halloween (until November 4), the resident motley crew of nefarious characters have added a new companion to their line-up: The Trickster. He’ll be dishing out sweets and scary surprises as visitors make their way through recreations of the most bloody and brutal corners of London’s past.

If that sounds a little too fearsome for your family, there’s calmer fun to be had at Fortnum & Mason’s pumpkin-carving

competition on October 31, where there’ll be lots of tasty treats on offer, and all proceeds going to the Prince’s Trust.

The Old Operating Theatre Museum in London Bridge is another prime Halloween stop, where you and the littl’uns will be able to witness the horrors of 19th century surgery – amputations and all. Expect to squirm and scream your way through their half term demonstrations, from October 29 to November 4.

The London Eye is also getting in on the Halloween action, holding

Jaw bone Halloween fun at The Last Tuesday Society

If it’s close connections of the living, loving kind that you’re after, go costume crazy at the Queen of Hoxton’s fancy dress singles night on October 29.

At the nearby Book Club, there’s the chance to star in your very own scary silent horror movie on October 29, courtesy of the esteemed folk at School of Slapstick. And on October 30 Charlie ‘Tuesday’ Gates will stage live taxidermy.

Finally, over in Hackney, at Gallery One and a Half, artist Marc Hagan-Guirey is holding Horrorgami, an exhibition of stunning paper constructs of iconic horror movie buildings from films such as The Shining and Psycho. museumoflondon.org.uk thehendrickslectureseries.co.uk queenofhoxton.com wearetbc.com one-and-a-half.com

Stop looking out of the window and concentrate Witch Academy at the London

its own ‘Witch Academy’ for younger visitors (October 27 – November 4). Courageous kids will learn spells and solve puzzles while High Witch Annabella regales them with scary stories on their flight.

The bravest broods might want to head down to the Fright Night Challenge at Widehorizons Environment Centre in Eltham, where there’ll be some creepy camping for the whole family on October 27. Expect a frightening night packed with witch hunting in the woods, campfire tales and bouncy castles.

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And there are spooky sailing adventures to be had at London Canal Museum on Regents Canal on October 27 and 28. Make sure you hold on as you journey through the sinister Islington Tunnel on a custom barge, accompanied by a witch, some scary tales, face painting and a stash of devilishly delicious sweets. the-dungeons.co.uk fortnumandmason.com thegarret.org.uk ondoneye.com widehorizons.org.uk canalmuseum.org.uk scoutlondon.com Scout London

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If there’s one demographic that loves Halloween more than kids, it’s clubbers. The nightlife schedule is always packed with ‘ghoulish gatherings’, ‘revolting raves’ and the like, with more excuse than normal to end the night looking like the undead.

A couple of this year’s biggest events are The Last Tuesday Society’s two Halloween Balls. The masked soirée in tunnels beneath the Strand is sadly sold out. But there are still tickets for Satan’s Rout at the Coronet in Elephant & Castle on October 26, which will

feature more than 150 performers and musicians across five spaces, each themed according to one of classic literature’s most debauched parties.

If the notorious hedonism of 19th century Paris is more your thing, head to the Monmartre-themed madness of La Belle Epoche at Village Underground in Shoreditch on October 27, where absinthe, art and acrobatics will blur into a night of decadent debauchery.

The production should be similarly elaborate at Loft Studios in Kensal Green, where the

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The Rooftop Cinema Club is hosting special screenings of ghoulish classics including Ghostbusters, Shaun of the Dead and The Lost Boys at the Round Chapel in Clapton on October 30 and 31. And they’ll be staging a special screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Netil House in London Fields on October 28.

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28 and 31, where you’ll be able to complement a screening of Tim Burton’s horror-comedy Beetlejuice with matching food, smells and textures.

Fancy a night in Frankenstein’s Castle? Look no further. On October 27, the beautiful Gothic Union Chapel in Islington will be transformed for an interactive night of cinema and creepy comedy, with a screening of Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein and plenty of other

I don’t mean to be big headed, but... The Winterwell Halloween party

Winterwell crew will be staging one of their renowned Halloween bashes, shipping in acts including The Nextmen for an event that promises to transport you on a “bone-jarring journey to hell” on October 27.

We’re also taken by the theme at Die Freche Muse’s event on October 27, where party-goers are asked to come as dead stars of the silver screen – and preferably at the precise moment they croaked it. The party is at a “very secret location in Hackney”, where there’ll be burlesque, performance art and DJs

into the early hours.

Finally, if you’re more of the leather trousers and live snakes persuasion, legendary rocker Alice Cooper is staging a Halloween gig at Wembley Arena on October 28, also featuring Ugly Kid Joe and the new outfit of former Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan. Truly a case of the dead rising. acuriousinvitation.com belleepoqueparty.com winterwell.co.uk/halloween diefrechemuse.co.uk/halloween wembleyarena.co.uk

Here’s Johnny! Jack Nicholson in The Shining

entertainment alongside.

There’s also the chance to see one of the scariest movies ever back on the big screen. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining has been digitally re-mastered and had new footage added, making it a whole 24 minutes longer. It will be on general release across the capital from November 2.

And if that just sounds too damn terrifying, you can add a heavy dose of humour to your horror

at a fancy dress-tastic sing-a-long screening of camp classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square on October 26. There’ll also be pre-film vocal coaching and various prizes to be won. experiencecinema.com aubincinema.com unionchapel.org.uk singalonga.net/rocky-horrorpicture-show

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Theatrical thrills Theatres are purportedly some of the most haunted buildings in London, so how better to spend Halloween than with a spooky show? With a whopping 23 years in the West End, The Woman In Black is undoubtedly the daddy of London’s horror theatre offerings.

Performed solely by two actors, it’s a genuinely chilling experience, and considerably better than the recent film adaptation.

The London Horror Festival at Etcetera Theatre in Camden and Wilton’s Music Hall in Shadwell promises a jam-packed lineup

Wicked W icked walks There’s nothing like a stroll around an evocative part of town, accompanied by the terrifying tales of an expert ghost guide, to get you into the spooky spirit.

“Master of the macabre” Richard Jones is widely considered the king of London ghost walks.

An expert storyteller, author and general authority on the city’s supernatural side, his tours are among the best you’ll find.

of new writing, comedy and alternative theatre, all united by a shared love of the gruesome and ghostly (until November 7).

Also taking horror to new heights, with explorations of everything from Aleister Crowley’s supernatural influences to the anatomy of giants, is the 13th Hour Horror Festival at Leicester Square Theatre. Running from October 14 to November 4, it promises two weeks of exciting lectures, plays by torchlight, zombie stand up, live bands and much more.

Yeah, talk to the hand, buddy Terror at Soho

There are more theatrical thrills at Soho Theatre’s Terror, a strictly 18-and-over season of short plays that returns for its ninth year of uncompromising, boundarypushing stage horror.

The Space theatre, out in the appropriately forbidding Isle of Dogs, is staging a new play called Nightmare, based on one of horror’s most time-honoured premises: a young couple move into their dream home (a converted chapel – go figure) in a rural village only to find that it’s already home to some rather unwelcoming

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supernatural squatters (October 23 – November 4).

And from October 31 to November 3, celebrated Polish theatre company TR Warszawa will stage a production of the Dracula-inspired Nosferatu at the Barbican. thewomaninblack.com londonhorrorfestival.com leicestersquaretheatre. com/13th-hour-horror-festival sohotheatre.com space.org.uk barbican.org.uk

Where angels fear to tread A Boo Tours ghost walk

If it’s thespian spirits that you’re interested in, Diane Burstein leads a highly-regarded Haunted Theatreland walk, traversing the cobbled back alleys of Covent Garden and St James’s.

Another of the city’s most respected ghost walk companies is Boo Tours, which will be holding a night of Elizabethan-themed terror at Bankside’s Rose Theatre on October 28 and 29, before

leading visitors off on a tour of Shakespeare’s old (and new) haunts. Bring a candle to ward off unwanted friends.

And you’ll be regaled with similarly unsettling stories on the London Execution Walk, which reveals the violence, murder and execution that befell famous historical figures, such as William Wallace (Braveheart), in seemingly unassuming public spaces.

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Terrifyingly plausible or utter nonsense? However you feel about ghosts, they’re a key part of British folklore and sewn into the story of London itself. We’ve consulted experts from the forthcoming London Ghost Conference to find the most haunted parts of the city

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Don’t go upstairs The most haunted residence in London

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50 Berkeley Square, Mayfair Ever get a little creeped-out when you’re at home alone? Well just try spending a night at this Georgian town house in Mayfair. Actually, don’t. Seriously! Long held as the ‘most haunted residence in London’, there are scary stories galore associated with this building – now a Maggs Bros bookshop – and with its dreaded attic in particular.

Quite what it is that is said to haunt the top floor, no one is sure.

All that is known is that several people left alone there at different times in the 19th century all went mad with fright, and one young man who unwisely decided to spend the night to investigate what all the fuss was about was found stone dead minutes after

ringing a bell in distress. Another famous story involves two sailors who broke into the house to spend the night when it was empty in the 1870s. Details about what they saw are sketchy, but something led one of them to bolt out of the house in terror and the other to throw himself to his death out of one of the top floor windows.

Some say the spirit is that of a young girl who committed suicide there after being abused by her uncle. Others talk of a Mr Myers, who moved into the house in the 1880s shortly after he was jilted at the alter by his fiancé, and thereafter turned into a recluse.

Either way, it’s one of the most notoriously nefarious buildings in the capital.

Enter at your peril The Tower of London – one of the most haunted places in the UK

The Tower of London It should come as little surprise that the Thames’s imposing riverside fortress is often cited as the most haunted place in Britain.

From brutal murders to gruesome executions, the entire site is steeped in the trauma of unnatural death, and the tragic recipients of such fates seem reluctant to move on.

Both Anne Boleyn and Lady Jane Grey – two queens beheaded at Tower Hill – are known to revisit the site of their demise. As is Margaret Pole, a 72-year-old woman who was executed simply because Henry VIII couldn’t get his hands on her treacherous son. She

apparently made the executioner chase her around the scaffold, screaming as she went – a spectacle that her ghost purportedly still re-enacts to this day.

And then there’s the Bloody Tower – the clue’s in the name. It was here that the suspected murder of the ‘two princes’ took place in June 1483, probably on the orders of their uncle, Richard III. Witnesses have since described seeing the whimpering wraiths of the two young boys, supposedly clutching each other in fear as they melt away into a wall of the room where they were last seen.

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The dead rising The supposedly vampire-inhabited Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery Another prime candidate is north London’s famously overgrown and tremendously creepy gothic cemetery, where one of the city’s most contemporary spectres is said to have stalked the living. The story of the Highgate vampire was huge news in the early 1970s, fuelled by suspected occult behaviour in the cemetery and, bizarrely, two rival ‘exorcists’ who went to great lengths to out-do each other in

Soldier’s misfortune The Grenadier pub

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Wronged woman Elizabeth Barton

their efforts to hunt and kill the bloodthirsty ghoul. The fangedfigure was said to be a resurrected European nobleman, whose coffin was brought to Highgate in the 19th century, and the story eventually led to a mass vampire hunt in March 1970, in which a mob of stake-wielding wannabeVan Helsings flooded into the cemetery all baying, ironically, for the vampire’s blood.

The Grenadier pub, Belgravia Virtually every pub in the city has a ghost story of some sort (and, of course, alcohol plays no part in many of these ‘sightings’). But few can claim to be as consistently creepy as The Grenadier, tucked away in a small mews near Hyde Park.

Dead queens and wronged women are classics in London’s haunting chronicles, and this churchyard near St Paul’s has them both. The Queens of Edward I and II were both buried here, as well as Lady Alice Hungerford, who was hanged for poisoning her husband in the early 16th century, and Elizabeth Barton, the ‘Holy Maid of Kent’, who was executed for crossing Henry VIII. All of these strong female characters have been seen walking in the churchyard. More disturbingly, the wife of Edward II (Queen Isabella) and Lady Alice Hungerford were once seen together – bickering no less.

Supernatural activity has been comparatively regular and taken many forms at this otherwise lovely little pub. Things have gone missing, mysterious footsteps have been heard pacing around, an icy chill has been felt hanging in the air, a low moaning has been heard coming from the basement and a solemn figure has been seen moving slowly through the rooms – and always in September.

This apparently relates to the month in which a young soldier was caught cheating during a game of cards at the pub and beaten so severely for it that he died of his injuries. The exact year of the incident is unknown, but all the subsequent spectral goingson have been attributed to this young man.

Stage fright The supposedly-haunted Theatre Royal

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Actors are a superstitious lot, and seemingly more prone to seeing ghosts than the rest of the population – hence why, next to pubs, theatres seem to be some of the most haunted buildings in the world. The ‘man in grey’ at the Theatre Royal is probably London’s most famous thespian ghoul. And the theatre has fair claim to being the most haunted in Britain.

Its legendary spectre is usually seen during rehearsals, and his appearance is, believe it or not, taken as a good omen for the production in question.

According to description, he cuts quite a dashing figure – slim, handsome, dressed in a smart

jacket, grey cape, riding boots and a three cornered hat...ok, the fashion isn’t quite on-point, but he’s apparently quite a looker.

He is known to appear in the same place on each siting – the first seat of the fourth row in the upper circle, from where he walks to the side and disappears into a wall. There has been much speculation about his identity, fuelled by a grim discovery in 1848. Building work was taking place in the theatre, during which a skeleton was discovered, still with a dagger stuck in its ribs, in an old, boarded-up passageway. Could this have been the body of the mysterious man in grey?

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Ghost of a healthy economy The Bank of England

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In 1811 a young man called Philip Whitehead who worked at the Bank of England was caught forging cheques and executed.

His sister, Sarah Whitehead, was so shocked by her brother’s death that she became psychologically unhinged and thereafter took to visiting the bank every day to ask after her late brother. This continued into old age, through which time she always wore a black hooded robe.

There are various versions of how the story continues, but all end with her pitiful and traumatised spirit returning to the area after dark, sometimes to the Bank’s courtyard and sometimes to Threadneedle Street itself, still dressed in her black robe, earning her the nickname ‘The Black Nun’.

Some have even heard her whimpering: “Have you seen my brother?”

Whistle while you haunt An old whistling cleric is said to haunt St Paul’s Cathedral

St Paul’s Cathedral

As one of London’s most historic and iconic buildings, St Paul’s is a prime candidate for haunting.

Its resident spirit is known only as Whistler, and appears in the Lord Kitchener Chapel (previously known as All Soul’s Chapel).

Rather than being the spirit of Lord Kitchener himself, the ghost is that of an elderly cleric, dressed in old-fashioned robes, with flowing grey hair. As the name suggests, he is famous for whistling as he moves through the chapel. Though, perhaps rather irritatingly, he’s always out of tune.

After gliding through the chapel, he always disappears through the same section of wall, which hides its own secret. During building work shortly after the First World War, a hidden staircase was discovered behind the wall, leading to a secret room that no one knew existed.

Stone dead The Lord Kitchener Chapel

Covent Garden Tube

The dark tunnels and well-worn Victorian platforms of the Tube network are prime real-estate for London’s phantoms. Among the most famous of the spectres is William Terriss, a famous British actor in the late Victorian era, who had his career cut short by a deranged fellow actor who murdered him outside the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897. Ever since, tube workers and travellers have reported seeing his theatricallydressed ghost in the station and tunnels around Covent Garden.

Clucking mad Paranormal poultry haunts Pond Square in Highgate

Pond Square, Highgate A London ghost that manages to be both horrible and humorous is that which haunts Pond Square at Highgate. It stems from the death of Francis Bacon, a politician, writer and keen scientist (not the painter), who had come up with the idea of preserving meat by freezing it – wacky, right?

In order to test his theory, he journeyed to Highgate in the dead of winter in 1626 and bought a chicken from a local man (Waitrose was shut).

After it had been plucked and gutted, he stuffed it full of

snow, and basically created the world’s first frozen chicken. But alas, he didn’t live long enough even to patent the idea. He caught a severe chill during the experiment and died soon after.

Thereafter, residents have reported seeing not Mr Bacon himself, but... drumroll... a featherless spectral chicken running around the square – presumably looking for the sod who stuffed snow up its jacksie.

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Thespian spirit Actor ghost William Terriss

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Going the distance Could London get its own NFL team? Ahead of a major game at Wembley, Oliver Pickup looks at the growing popularity of American football in London

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merican football was, for decades, treated in Britain with suspicion and, more often than not, derision.

“Rugby-esque madness with exaggerated padding,” sums up how many viewed it. And it didn’t help that it was the preserve of our jumped-up cousins from across the Atlantic, who accompanied their national pastime with predictably garish emblems of excess: pompoms, giant squirty bottles, massive foam hands and all the rest.

How things change. Since 2007, when the National Football League (NFL) first brought gridiron to London, interest in the sport has arced ever higher. In the five years since the New York Giants defeated the Miami Dolphins 13-10 in front of 81,176 people at Wembley – before going on a hot streak which climaxed in Super Bowl glory – UK television audiences for Sunday games and the Super Bowl have shot up 154 per cent and 74 per cent respectively.

And it’s a mutual love-in. After the success of the past few years, there is now talk of holding two NFL matches in London every year, and in August it was announced that the Jacksonville Jaguars would play at the ‘home of football’ (ie Wembley) every October from next year to 2016, with scope for extension.

This year’s clash, the sixth of its kind, will be

held on Sunday (October 28), pitting the mighty New England Patriots – three-time Super Bowl winners in the last decade – against the youthful St Louis Rams. David Tossell, Director of Public Affairs for NFL in Europe, predicts another glorious evening for the sport that will help boost its popularity even further.

“We sell out every year, and most people who attend rate it as the best sporting experience they have ever had,” he tells Scout London.

“In terms of the popularity of the sport in the UK, it has expanded multiple times since the first time Wembley hosted an NFL game in 2007 – and we see this in website hits, satellite viewers and merchandise sales. The games at Wembley give the UK’s growing interest in American football a focal point.”

Tossell isn’t surprised that the UK has finally started to embrace the sport.

“It can connect with people on multiple levels,” he says. “If it’s a day out you’re looking for, our event is great. We put on pre-show entertainment three hours before the game starts – cheerleaders, music, all the players talking, great food and drink.

“But then we also have a high-calibre sport – top athletes showing great skill and tactics.

People who really like sport appreciate the strategic element.”

Give us an L Cheerleaders at last year’s Wembley game

In your face Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Chicago Bears at Wembley last year

As for the game itself, he’s looking forward to a hard-fought battle with high stakes.

“Both teams are doing very well at the moment – the Patriots have a pedigree and the Rams are a young team who are certainly on the up. It should be a highly entertaining match-up as the two sides will be vying for play-off spots.

“And it’s exciting for the players too – they love coming over, in part because it has the feel of a ‘big-game’; a play-off match. If the sport continues to be successful over here, on multiple platforms, there’s no reason why we can’t host more games here.

“There has even been talk about reaching a point where we might look seriously at whether it would be feasible to have an NFL team in London. That’s a way down the track yet, but we feel we’re making the steps to get there.”

New England Patriots vs St Louis Rams, October 28, £45-£100, Wembley Stadium, nfllondon.net scoutlondon.com Scout London 17

HMS Belfast Morgan’s Lane, Tooley Street, SE1 2JH London Bridge From May 18, Mon-Sun 10am-6pm, last adm 5pm, closed Jun 3, Dec 24-26, £12.70, child FREE, OAP/disabled/NUS/unwaged £10.15, disabled carer FREE, children must be accompanied. A tour of the warship allowing visitors to explore the Captain’s bridge, decks, galley, gun turrets, sick bay and punishment cells.

Until Dec 31.

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

The Collection Of Tompkins & Bush: Michael Jackson Wardrobe at Westfield Stratford City Shopping Centre, Montfichet Road, E20 1EJ Stratford: Mon-Fri 10am-9pm, Sat 9am-9pm, Sun 12noon6pm, ends Nov 4, £10. A display featuring personal and concert tour costumes worn by the late singer. Until Nov 4.

Historical Tours at Wilton’s Music Hall, Graces Alley, off Ensign Street, E1 8JB Aldgate East Mon 6pm, Sat 4pm, £6. A look at the history and previous uses of the building. Until Dec 17.

Up At The O2 (Over 10s) at The O2, Peninsula Square, SE10 0DX North Greenwich Jun-Sep, Mon-Fri 12noon-8pm, Sat & Sun 10am-6pm, Oct-May, MonFri 12noon-6pm, Sat & Sun 10pm-4am, £22, adv booking recommended. Climb to the central observation platform to enjoy panoramic views of London. Until May 31.

MONDAY OCTOBER 22

THURSDAY OCTOBER 25

Paddy Ashdown: Talk at Waterstones, Kensington, 193 High Street Kensington, W8 6SH High Street Kensington £5 inc drink, 7pm-8.15pm. The author discusses his book A Brilliant Little Operation: The Cockleshell Heroes And The Most Courageous Raid Of World War II. Seduced By Art: Dreams And Visions In Paintings And Early Photography: Talk at The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN Leicester Square FREE, 1pm-1.45pm. Speaker Karly Allen discusses how artists depict dreams and visions.

Halloween House Week at National Trust: Sutton House, 2-4 Homerton High Street, E9 6JQ Hackney Central FREE, plus admission £3, child £1, family £6.90, 2pm4pm. Themed tours and games.

Life Drawing: Workshop at Primrose Hill Community Centre, 29 Hopkinson’s Place, Fitzroy Road, NW1 8TN Chalk Farm £5, 7pm-9.30pm. Improve your drawing skills and understanding of the human body.

Night Of The Story Teller at The Miller, 96 Snowfields, SE1 3SS London Bridge £5, 7.30pm, doors 7.15pm. Themed short stories by Sarah Rundle, Debs Newbold, Stephe Harrop, Cat Gerrard and Giles Abbot.

War Surgery 1914-18: Lecture at National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, SW3 4HT Sloane Square FREE, 12.30pm. Tom Scotland and Steve Heys discuss how surgical procedures were carried out.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 23 The Global Drug Wars: Talk at London School Of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE Temple FREE, 6.30pm8pm. With speakers Professor David Courtwright, Nigel Inkster, Dr William B McAllister and Dr Ethan Nadelmann.

Rockstars Say The Funniest Things: Talk at The Garage, 20-26 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD Highbury & Islington £18.50, 7.30pm. Readings, questions and music with former Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 24 Creating Canary Wharf: Talk at Museum Of London Docklands, West India Quay, Hertsmere Road, E14 4AL Canary Wharf FREE, 1pm-2pm. Author Kevin D’Arcy discusses the origins of the financial centre.

French Canada And The American Civil War: Lecture at The British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB Euston £7.50, concs £5, 6.30pm-9pm. Assistant Professor DC Belanger discusses how the conflict affected the region and the Frenchspeaking communities of the American Northeast.

The V&A Illustration Awards: Talk at Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL South Kensington FREE, 1pm-1.45pm. Journalist Sally Williams discusses the awards and the judging process.

Transport for London travel update

Bakerloo line: No service Paddington to Elephant & Castle on Saturday.

Central line: No service Newbury Park to Grange Hill Wed to Fri. No service Leytonstone to Woodford, via Newbury Park all weekend.

Circle line: No service on Saturday.

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FRIDAY OCTOBER 26

District line: No service Mansion House to Whitechapel on Saturday.

Hammersmith & City line: No service Liverpool Street to Barking on Saturday.

Metropolitan line: No service Moorgate to Aldgate on Saturday.

Northern line: Camden Town to Mill Hill East and High Barnet, closed until 8.30am southbound and 9am northbound on Sunday.

Piccadilly line: No service Acton Town to Uxbridge all weekend.

London Overground: No service Richmond to Willesden Junction on Sunday.

Tramlink: No service Sandiland to Reeves Corner all weekend.

For the latest information visit tfl.gov.uk

A Lunchtime Literary Salon With Will Young at Waterstones, 203-206 Piccadilly, W1J 9LE Piccadilly Circus £8, £16 inc copy of Funny Peculiar, 12.30pm. The singer discusses his autobiography Funny Peculiar.

Culture Now: Steven Berkoff: Talk at ICA, 12 Carlton House Terrace, The Mall, SW1Y 5AH Charing Cross £5, mems FREE, 1pm. The actor, writer and director discusses his career.

Dawn French: Oh Dear Silvia at Criterion Theatre, 218-223 Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, W1J 0TR Piccadilly Circus £15 inc signed copy, adv tickets from www. whsmith.co.uk/Support/InStoreSignings. aspx, 6pm. Hosted by Sue Perkins.

Last Tuesday Society at The Coronet, 28 New Kent Road, SE1 6TJ Elephant & Castle £20, adv £15, 10pm-late. A Halloween ball and author Suzette Field signing copies of her book.

Michael Palin: Book Signing at Waterstones, Gower Street, 82 Gower Street, WC1E 6EQ Goodge Street FREE, 1pm. The author signs copies of his book Brazil.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 The Baby Show at Earls Court, Warwick Road, SW5 9TA Earl’s Court £20, adv £13.50 & £14.95, under 12s FREE, 9.30am-5.30pm. Products and advice for parents and parents to be. Until Sun.

Katie’s Picture Show Book Signing at The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN Leicester Square FREE, 11.30am, 3.30pm. Author and illustrator James Mayhew signs copies of his books.

Lomography Workshops at Museum Of London, 150 London Wall, EC2Y 5HN Barbican £12, concs £10, mems £9, adv booking required, 1.30pm-3.30pm.

Lomography experts will show how to achieve vibrant results with old school cameras and film.

Retro Game Design: Workshop (Ages 13-18) at British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG Russell Square FREE, adv booking required, 11am, 2.30pm.

Create a retro-style platform game.

TNT Travel Show at Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, N1 0QH Angel FREE, register at tnttravelshow.com, £2 at door, 9.30am-5.30pm. Travel deals.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 28 Diwali On The Square at Trafalgar Square, WC2 5DS Charing Cross FREE, 2pm7pm. Celebrate the festival of lights with special activities for families and children.

Telling Tales at The Green Note Cafe, 106 Parkway, NW1 7AN Camden Town adv £9, 9pm, doors 7pm. Storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton tells stories based on storytelling traditions.

Time Travellers Go... Ghosts & Ghouls at English Heritage: Eltham Palace, Court Yard, Eltham Off Court Road, SE9 5QE FREE, plus admission £9.60, child £5.80, concs £8.60, family £25, 11am-4pm.

Trombone Day: Talk at Royal Academy Of Music, Marylebone Road, NW1 5HT Regent’s Park £15, mems £10, 10am.

Talks and discussions about the instrument.

Witch Academy (Ages 4-9) at The London Eye, Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7PB Waterloo £25.50, child £15, family £81, under 4s FREE, inc 30-minute ride on The London Eye, 1.30pm, 2.30pm, 3.30pm, 4.30pm, 5.30pm. Thirty-minute storytelling session with riddles to solve.

The Yoga Show at Olympia, Hammersmith Road, W14 8UX Earl’s Court Fri £7, concs £5, Sat & Sun £10, concs £8, under 16s FREE, 11am-6pm. With over 150 yoga trade stalls, yoga and pilates products and yoga classes and demonstrations.

Until Sun.

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Doctors and Dissection @ late Wed 31 Oct, 7-9.45pm Discover our new exhibition, Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men, after dark this Halloween. Immerse yourself in macabre activities and performances inspired by the world of the early 19th century body snatchers and the surgeons they supplied.

Book in advance £10 (concs £9, Friends FREE) Book your tickets now: visit www.museumoflondon.org.uk/late or call 020 7001 9844 Barbican, St Paul’s, Moorgate

The Gravy Train Few things can compete with delayed trains for inciting rage, but the overpriced, second-rate grub on offer while you wait is certainly up there. Thankfully, London’s mainline rail hubs have been upping their game of late, as Ben Norum discovers

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Culinary commuters New wine bar C&B Cabin at Waterloo

station! In the adjoining Renaissance Hotel, you’ve even got Marcus Wareing’s The Gilbert Scott and The Booking Office Bar. Down at Waterloo, a whole new mezzanine level has been built to accommodate offerings including Italian deli Carluccio’s and popular bistro-style restaurant Benugo. Even high-end wine importers Corney & Barrow are getting in on the act, adding to their profile of City bars.

There’s now a Champagne bar in Paddington Station, and a new food hall will follow once the Crossrail refurb is over. London Bridge is undergoing a similar overhaul and will boast the highest of high-end bars when it gets a direct link to the top of The Shard next year. Station food is well and truly on the up.

Much of this trend is being driven by small

Tasteful travel Burrito from Benito’s Hat at King’s Cross

London chains who are taking their first tentative steps into stations. And, indeed, they’re being actively encouraged to. David Biggs, director of property at Network Rail, explains the transformations of King’s Cross and Waterloo as “part of our wider retail strategy to create destination stations for both rail passengers and non-travelling customers, providing a sustainable source of income which can be re-invested directly into the railway”.

Introducing good food onto their concourses is a much more palatable way to raise funds than increasing fares. And, by all accounts, it seems to be a winning formula all round. Food and drink outlets within stations are pretty much unique in having consistently increased their revenue over the past year, completely bucking the ongoing gloominess of the high street.

Perhaps it’s a natural progression from the increase in quality food we’ve seen in shopping centres such as the Westfields or One New Change at St. Paul’s, where both Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay have restaurants.

Either way, it’s nice that at least one part of our railway experience is showing solid signs of improvement.

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e all remember the dark days: an interminable wait for an endlessly delayed train, with only bottomof-the-barrel sustenance options for company. Macky D’s or a dried-out sandwich from a dubious corner shop named Xpress (without an ‘e’)? Hmm, just a Snickers then please.

But how times change. Railway stations might have spent years ruled exclusively by patchy fast food options, but it seems that they are finally pulling their culinary socks up – and, in some places, quite seriously so.

Nowadays, if you arrive early for your train at the newly-refurbished King’s Cross station, you’ll be met with plenty more options than M&S - which not so long ago was about as good as it got. Now you can enjoy a Lebanese wrap or a mezze plate at Yalla Yalla, grab a burrito from Benito’s Hat, tuck into a freshly made salad or soup from Leon, or have anything from breakfast to a burger at Giraffe.

Next door, St Pancras is a step further ahead, with Searcys Champagne Bar, posh ice-cream place Gelato Mio and Sourced Market’s daily farmer’s market. A farmer’s market...at a railway

Fit for kings Middle Eastern mezze at Yalla Yalla in King’s Cross

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Top Ten martinis

1

Dukes Ian Fleming’s original inspiration.

Allegedly. SW1A 1NY Green Park

2

The Seven Stars Yes it’s a pub, yes it’s only £7.

WC2A 2JB Holborn

3

Purl Made with liquid nitrogen, served at -50 degrees. W1U 7HX Baker Street

4

69 Colebrooke Row Grape seed extract gives astringency. N1 8AA Angel

5

Artesian Bar Choose from a selection of vermouths. W1B 1JA Oxford Circus

6

American Bar The full Martini glamour, at a price.

WC2R 0EU Charing Cross

7

The Donovan Bar Chocolate truffle Martini, anyone?

W1S 4BP Green Park

8

Connaught Bar Play around with the Martini trolley.

W1K 2AL Bond Street

9

Rules Legendary. And served by an open fire.

WC2E 7LB Charing Cross

PAUL KHERA

& Hollingsworth Speakeasy with style.

10 Bourne W1T 1JF Goodge Street

The Burlington Social Club by Pret A Diner Piccadilly Circus £££ A friend once described pop-up restaurants as being like one night stands: they come packed with fun and gusto, they offer up an unashamedly good time and then they go. There’s no attempt to convert you into a regular or woo you with traditionally good service, it’s all about packing as much punch into one evening as possible and leaving nothing more than a hazy, illicit memory.

With that in mind, Pret A Diner is a total slut.

Wielding the dubious chat-up line of “this is not a pop-up restaurant, this is a dining experience”, it travels Europe combining food, art, design and fashion into sensuous shortlived events, never to be repeated. In London alone they’ve seduced us by hijacking the Old Vic tunnels to create a hellish lair of fine dining with Nuno Mendes, and most recently by setting up an edible art installation in a St. James’ Street mansion with Italian maestro Giorgio Locatelli in the kitchen.

This latest project sees the team get uncharacteristically sentimental, pairing versions of their best dishes over the years with innovative cocktails in a celebration of their past conquests.

It’s also their most intimate experience yet, with a central ‘kitchen’ flanked by scaffolding that houses both chefs and mixologists, surrounded by bar seating and the prying eyes of what can’t be more than 30 diners at a time.

Set in a ballroom-style space with a high ceiling, low chandeliers and scruffy wallpaper,

there’s an entirely appropriate sense of squatter chic that accompanies the artsy intros from the bohemian team, who greet us like old friends.

But there’s a nagging worry that Pret A Diner is a case of style over substance, and at £55 for the smallest three course menu (including matching cocktails), you want to be sure of what you’re getting. But be reassured. Dishes such as teriyaki ox cheeks paired with a trufflesmoked old fashioned, chorizo popcorn, grilled watermelon and bouillabaisse tea, and a fir tree crumble are certainly out to cause a stir, but they’re much less sensationalist than they seem on paper.

The earthy tones of the ox cheek match perfectly with those of the truffle and bourbon, and it’s softened by a velvety parsnip mash on the side. Another dish of horseradish, quinoa and mixed vegetables is the perfect partner for a deconstructed Bloody Mary, where it’s the food – not the drink – which gives the kick.

It’s this intricate pairing of food and cocktails, done with an attention to detail that few other restaurants can lay claim to, which makes Pret A Diner well worth the dosh. They are designed not as separate entities but as intertwined couples, each matching, contrasting, heightening and mellowing the other – which is pretty damn sexy.

Just make sure you get a date before November 17, because they won’t be hanging around. BN 6 Burlington Gardens, W1S 3EX Piccadilly Circus scoutlondon.com Scout London 21

Mari Vanna Knightsbridge £££

Death By Burrito Shoreditch ££

Opening up a residential door in Knightsbridge and ending up in a Russian hallway complete with hatstand, nic nacs and even a bike, Mari Vanna knows how to make a first impression. With a clutterfilled dining room fit for a Soviet Granny, a live accordion player and an instantly delivered selection of freshly baked breads and homespiced butter, they also know how to follow it up. Rich and sumptuous aubergine caviar, some particularly good pickled herring and meaty dumplings stuffed to the point of bursting are highlights of an enticing menu. While a selection of small plates won’t break the bank, some of the not-much-larger mains seem a little steep at around £15.

Thankfully, there’s a set lunch menu for £25 for those of us who don’t lead a caviar lifestyle. BN

Just as Shoreditch really doesn’t need any more cool, neither does London really need another burrito joint. DBB brings us both of those things but we’re not really complaining. Set in the rowdy limbo of one side of a once very grotty and still fairly sticky pub, there’s little about the atmosphere that’s particularly appealing. Thankfully, the food ably makes up for it. Big fat burritos packed with duck breast, pig cheek and crackling or spiced fish and slaw defy you not to make a mess.

Just go with it, and get some of the homemade blue tortilla chips to help soak it up. The selection of pretty potent tequila-based cocktails, priced at a very reasonable £6.50 each, have the ability to get things messy in a whole other way – try the tray of tequila shots, tomatoes and spiced salt for a dangerous kind of DIY sangrita. BN

Wellington Court, 116 Knightsbridge, SW1X 7PJ Knightsbridge

CATCH, 22 Kingsland Road, E2 8DA Shoreditch High Street

Sodo Pizza Café Clapton £

The Rib Room Knightsbridge ££££

The wrong side of Clapton roundabout is starting to come good, with the arrival of gems like Sodo. Simplicity is key here, from the stripped-back wooden benches, bare bulbs and brickwork to the wafer-thin sourdough base itself. With only a handful of options, top marks go to the Lorena, a tasty combination of feta, butternut squash, pine nuts and rosemary, and the weekly special, Shroom Pig, with juicy garlic-roasted chestnut mushrooms and crispy slivers of pancetta, sliced in house. The tomato sauce also deserves a mention – sweet, fresh and abundant. Dessert is either a little glassful of excellent tiramisu or affogato made with Nude espresso. As good as their homemade ginger ale is, you can also enjoy some decent wines, prosecco and London Fields or Beavertown beers. Farah Shafiq

One of those London institutions that’s been around for yonks, The Rib Room is no doubt mourning the decline in expense account dining as much as anyone. This is good news for punters as they pull out all the stops to try and woo a new crowd with special set menus, offers and tasting plates. Their namesake roast beef rib is supposed to be one of the best in London, and is indeed a good try, served juicy and pink with an almighty crisp Yorkshire by its side, while a scallop prelude served with a sweetened raisin purée and a lime caramel sauce is again well executed. The problem is that there’s just some excitement lacking. We’d rather eat this kind of food down our local and pay a whole lot less for the privilege, and while we’ve got no beef whatsoever with special occasion dining, we’re not sure that this place warrants such special occasion prices. BN

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Jumeirah Carlton Tower, SW1X 9PY

Knightsbridge

CENTRAL Bittersweet 4 Kingly Court, W1B 5PW Piccadilly Circus Bar ££ Given that the Dirty Martini bars have their fair share of detractors (unlike our top 10 Martinis), the name of this new bar from the same team may be all too accurate. With extended happy hours running from 5pm until 10pm every day except Saturday, there’s the potential to be won over, though.

Baroque 14 Old Park Lane, W1K 1ND Hyde Park Corner Bar £££ The latest project from Gerry Calabrese, the man behind The Hoxton Pony and the son of Playboy Club’s cocktail master Salvatore Calabrese.

This venue comes complete with ‘infusion jars’, Champagne towers and a lot of unabashed decadence.

Radio ME London Hotel, 336-337 The Strand, WC2R 1HA Charing Cross Bar ££ Swanky new rooftop bar for yet another swanky hotel. On the last Thursday of the month, Radio will play host to Frequency, an evening of cocktails, canapés and live DJs.

Love & Liquor 34 Kilburn High Road, NW6 5UA Kilburn High Road Bar ££ Cocktails and Champagnes set the backdrop to a host of events and DJ nights at this new late bar in an area that could really do with one.

EAST Edwin’s French Wine Bar 18 Phipp Street, EC2A 4NU Old Street French £££ Not the most inventive name for a restaurant, but a worthy concept all the same. Well-priced French wines are paired with classic French dishes from a short, weekly changing a la carte menu. Expect the likes of cassoulet and tartiflette.

AVEQIA London 2 St Bride Street, EC4A 4AD City Thameslink DIY £££ Fresh from Sweden, a country known for flatpack furniture among other things, comes this DIY restaurant concept giving you the chance to spend the evening cooking your own dinner with guest-star chefs from the city’s top restaurants.

The Factory House 10 Lime Street, Leadenhall Market, EC3M 7AA Monument British £££ Inspired by Victorian industrialism, you’ll need to clock-in when you enter this new below-ground City restaurant and bar. Inside, traditional British cooking is paired with cocktails by Fluid Movement, the guys behind Marylebone’s Purl bar.

Bonnie Gull Seafood Shack 21a Foley Street, W1W 6DS Goodge Street Seafood ££ A permanent home for the guys behind the Bonnie & Wild and Bonnie-On-Sky pop-ups. A ‘raw bar’ serving shellfish and cocktails will accompany a main restaurant menu focused on being “affordable, responsibly sourced and 100% British”.

Bibigo 55-58 Great Marlborough Street, W1F 7JY Oxford Circus Korean ££ This first London venture for CJ Foods, Korea’s biggest food company, comes with Kim Yong Hwan at the helm – former head chef at Roka Canary Wharf. The menu includes traditional dishes such as bibimbap along with more modern interpretations.

Garufin 8b Lambs Conduit Street, WC1R 4RH Holborn Argentine £££ Newly born sister to the popular Garufa in Highbury, authentic regional Argentine cuisine is served alongside an abundance of wines available by the glass thanks to a well loaded enomatic machine.

NORTH Chooks 43 The Broadway, N10 3HA Highgate Chicken ££ It’s fried chicken but not as you know it. Choose from grilled chicken, buttermilk fried chicken with mash and gravy, wings and Philly chicken sub sandwiches.

Simply Fish 4 Inverness Street, NW1 7HJ Camden Town Seafood £££ Doing exactly what it says on the tin, Simply Fish is all about fresh fish and a good variety of daily changing dishes. Sherif Hassan, previously of Kensington Place, Sketch and The Savoy, is heading up the kitchen.

Naamyaa Angel Building, 407 St John Street Islington, EC1V 4AB Angel Japanese ££ A new Bangkokinspired eatery from restaurant royalty Alan Yau, the man responsible for both Hakkasan and Yauatcha as well as Wagamama. Noodles will be the focus, and will be available all throughout the day.

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Dishoom 7 Boundary Street, E2 7JE Shoreditch High Street Indian ££ New Eastern outpost of this Anglo-Indian Bombaystyle cafe. Comes complete with an outdoor courtyard, an on-site bakery and a separate bar. Bring on the bacon naans.

SOUTH Craft Beer Co. 11-13 Brixton Station Road, SW9 8PD Brixton Pub £ Another great beer pub has hit Brixton, following in the footsteps of The Crown & Anchor. Craft Beer Co. have pedigree, with other haunts in Clerkenwell, Pimlico and Brighton. Their philosophy? The best beer from all around the world. Simple.

CABLE 8 Brixton Rd, SW9 6BU Oval Cafe / Bar £ Sister caff to ScooterCaffe on Waterloo’s Lower Marsh, CABLE blends bohemian cool with Parisian chic to create a place you could stay all day, whether its for the coffee, some vino, a slice of cake or even just the WiFi.

Jam Tree 13-19 Old Town, SW4 0JT Clapham Common Gastropub ££ Following in the footsteps of their two pubs out west, Jam Tree heads across the river to Clapham. British gastro fare is joined by a ping pong table and a roomy garden.

WEST Honky Tonk 6 Hollywood Road, SW10 9HY West Brompton American £££ New York inspired bar from the founder of Supperclub. There’s live music, lots of bourbon and tobacco infused drinks, and food in the vein of ribs, meatballs and sliders.

Apero The Ampersand Hotel, 10 Harrington Road, SW7 3ER South Kensington Mediterranean ££ Channeling the sunny spirit of aperitivo no matter what the London weather is like, Apero serves small plates specially designed by chef Chris Golding to match the sizeable cocktail menu. Both food and drink lists focus on Italian classics, but with a good few twists.

Bodo’s Schloss 2a Kensington High Street, W8 4RE High Street Kensington Austrian £££ Sitting below the Royal Garden Hotel, this curious new bar boasts a secret doorway directly into the Kensington Palace. Ski chalet style decor is matched by Austrian food and beer and a much more British “old fashioned disco”.

The Hampshire Hog 227 King Street, W6 9JT Hammersmith Gastropub ££ A haven for the greedy with good taste, The Hampshire Hog has everything necessary for a real pig out. Do the restaurant deal in the main room, or – as we like to – just head to the bar and nibble on delicious meaty snacks like merguez and saucisson.

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Launched earlier this year as part of Bacardi’s 150th birthday celebrations, Bacardi OakHeart is perfect for Halloween. Coming in a fantastically Gothic bottle (the Bacardi bat has never looked so sinister), the new spiced rum comes with a range of autumnal cocktail recipes to make the most of the season, including Treacle Treat, made with OakHeart, angostura bitters, treacle sugar and apple juice. Devilish, and definitely not for kids.

Leon roared onto the scene eight years ago, challenging Londoners preconceptions of what fast food could be.

They’ve also launched four well-received cookbooks, including the brand new Family & Friends. Focusing on the simple concepts of Today (easy meals), Tomorrow (groups and events) and Yesterday (nostalgic recipes), the book is full of culinary gems. Our favourite: Things on Toast.

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Little shop of horrors Soup-up your scare tactics with these fun and freaky Halloween accessories

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SCREAM MACHINE Give your trick or treaters a scare with this clever box that emits the sounds of things that go bump in the night. Halloween Sound Machine, £8.99 from Lakeland

A coffin clutch bag seems the most appropriate accessory for the season.

Coffin Clutch Bag, £11.99 from Angels Fancy Dress

DO THE MONSTER MASH It’s a mummy. On a skateboard. That sings. And dances. Your Halloween is complete. Skateboarding Mummy, £10 from Sainsbury’s

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Modern masterpieces The National Gallery will open its first ever photography exhibition next week, using images such as the ones shown here to explore the influence of classic painters on modern photographers 28 Scout London scoutlondon.com

 Blow-Up Untitled 5 2007,

by Ori Gersht, © Courtesy of the Artist and Mummery + Schnelle, with inset The Rosy Wealth of June 1886, oil on canvas, by Ignace-Henri-Théodore FantinLatour, © The National Gallery. 132nd Ordinary Meeting of the Conference 2004, by Luc Delahaye, courtesy Luc Delahaye and Galerie Nathalie Obadia.  Man with Octopus Tattoo II 2011, by Richard Learoyd, © Richard Learoyd, courtesy McKee Gallery.  Jasmijn in Mary Quant 2008,

by Richard Learoyd, © Richard Learoyd, courtesy McKee Gallery.  Keep Them Sweet 2010, by Maisie Maud Broadhead, © Maisie Broadhead.

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or many years – almost 200 of them, in fact – the National Gallery’s temporary exhibition programme has been dominated by the works of some of the most incredible painters in history. But not any more…or, at least, not exclusively.

The gallery’s new exhibition, Seduced By Art, is the first major photography exhibition ever to be held at the Trafalgar Square institution.

But it isn’t just a soft-focus overview of this everyman art form. With some of the most exquisite paintings in the world at its disposal, the gallery is looking at the relationship between

the artworks of the old masters and the images captured by top art photographers over the past 150 years. In short, how historical painting and its fine art traditions have influenced its younger sibling.

“There are real connections between the history of painting and photography, which are the key to this exhibition,” explains curator Hope Kingsley. “But rather than it being a ‘greatest hits’ display, we explore key periods. Firstly, the first 30 years of photography, beginning in 1839 when it was formally announced. And then the last 30 years of photography – the most recent

period, where we’ve moved into the digital era.

We’ve left aside the exhaustive and exhausting middle period.”

Broken down by genre, such as landscapes and nudes, the exhibition displays paintings next to relevant photography, and invites visitors to inspect the relationship between the disciplines.

As the images we’ve selected here show, the debt photographers owe to the old masters is often easy to spot.

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Bronze at Royal Academy Of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BD Green Park £14, OAP/disabled/NADFAS/Art Fund mems £13, NUS £9, unwaged £5, ages 12-18 £4, ages 8-11 £3, under 8s/disabled carer FREE, family £30, inc. gallery guide, Until Dec 9. More than 150 bronze sculptures from Asia, Africa and Europe, spanning 5,000 years.

Advert, Insert, Cover, Headline at Bischoff/Weiss, 14a Hay Hill, W1J 8NZ Green Park FREE, Until Nov 17. An exhibition hoping to reveal the commonalities, mysterious to this day, that connect two regions: London and the Lake Geneva region.

Art Of Change: New Directions From China at Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX Waterloo £9, OAP £8, concs £7, ages 12-18 £6.50, Until Dec 9.

Installations and performances by artists including Chen Zhen, Yingmei Duan and Gu Dexin.

The Cartoon Museum at Cartoon Museum, 35 Little Russell Street, WC1A 2HH Holborn £5.50, NUS £3, concs £4, mems/under 18s FREE, Until Dec 31.

Showcase of British work including artwork on loan from The Beano, The Dandy and Topper.

Designed To Win at Design Museum, 28 Butlers Wharf Shad Thames, SE1 2YD London Bridge £10, NUS £6, concs £9, under 12s FREE, Until Nov 18. A celebratory exhibition which looks at the way design and sport have combined successfully.

Juan Downey at Tate Modern, Bankside, Holland Street, SE1 9TG Southwark FREE, Starts Tue, Until Oct 26. Video sculptures and interactive installations.

East Wing X Collection: Material Matters at The Courtauld Institute Of Art, Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 0RN Temple FREE, Until Jul 27. A group show featuring contemporary artists re-interpreting traditional forms of artistic representation.

A Family In Wartime at Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ Lambeth North FREE, Until Dec 31.

Artefacts, images and testimonies which look at how ordinary Londoners dealt with the Second World War. Art Now: Jess Flood-Paddock: Mindless, Mindless at Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG Pimlico FREE, Until Jan 6. An installation of over-sized leather bicycle saddles commenting on the current financial situation.

Bruce French at Scream, 27-28 Eastcastle Street, W1J 6QX Oxford Circus FREE, Starts Fri, Until Nov 24. Paintings of amorphous, androgynous figures.

Richard Hamilton: The Late Works at The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN Leicester Square FREE, Until Jan 13. Major paintings and digital images by the artist, some of which were specially commissioned for the show and were not completed before the artist’s death in 2011.

The Household Cavalry Museum at The Household Cavalry Museum, Horse Guards Whitehall, SW1A 2AX Charing Cross £6, child £4, family £15, Until Dec 31. Take a look behind the scenes at this living museum of the Royal Household Cavalry Regiment, and see a working stable and military artefacts including Faberge silver and uniforms, and changing of the guard.

Robert Indiana: Sculptures at Waddington Custot Galleries, 11 Cork Street, W1S 3LT Green Park FREE, Until Nov 3. Works by the American artist, exploring universal themes of love, peace and food.

William Klein/Daido Moriyama at Tate Modern, Bankside, Holland Street, SE1 9TG Southwark £12.70, concs £10.90, National Art Pass/Art Fund mems £6.35, concs £5.45, Until Jan 20. A chance to compare photographs and films by the artists.

Marilyn Monroe: A British Love Affair at National Portrait Gallery, 2 St Martin’s Place, WC2H 0HE Embankment FREE, Until Mar 24.

Photographs documenting the iconic actress’s connections with Britain.

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.

Nelson Mandela at Belgravia Gallery, 45 Albemarle Street, W1S 4JL Green Park FREE, Until Nov 2. Lithographs of Robben Island, alongside photographs of Mandela.

Federico Beltran-Masses: Fantasy, Nocturnes And Portraits In The Jazz Age at Stair Sainty Gallery, 38 Dover Street, W1S 4NL Green Park FREE, Until Nov 9. Paintings and photographs offering imaginings of 1920s escapist cinema and studies of Hollywood and European cultural figures of the 1920s and 30s.

RA Now at Royal Academy Of Arts At 6 Burlington Gardens, 6 Burlington Gardens, W1S 3ES Green Park FREE, Until Nov 11. A major exhibition and auction featuring works by living Royal Academicians and international Honorary Royal Academicians.

Chris Smith: Muhammad Ali: Speedball at Alon Zakaim Fine Art, 30 Cork Street, W1S 3NG Green Park FREE, Until Nov 23. British sports photographer’s first solo show.

Turner Prize 2012 at Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG Pimlico £10, concs £8.50, Until Jan 6. Contemporary works entered for the prestigious prize.

The Unilever Series: Tino Sehgal at Tate Modern, Bankside, Holland Street, SE1 9TG Southwark FREE, Until Oct 28. Installation by the London-born artist.

Zevs at The Outsiders, 8 Greek Street, W1D 4DG Tottenham Court Road FREE, Until Nov 10. Politically charged graffiti paintings.

NORTH Breeder at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, 11 Church Street, NW8 8EE Marylebone FREE, Until Nov 10. Works in various media by artists including Sarah Bridgland, Pius Fox and Saad Qureshi.

Small Object Of Desire at Artisan80, 80 Harlesden Road, NW10 2BE Dollis Hill FREE, Until Oct 27. Prints, jewellery, painting, ceramics, glass and photographs by local artists.

The Stephen’s 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 Stephen’s, the inventor of writing ink in 1832. The museum is set in the house owned by Henry, and features the laboratory where he experimented with inks.

Melanie Stidolph: The Fall at Campbell Works, 27 Belfast Road, N16 6UN Stoke Newington FREE, Until Nov 4.

Contemporary photography and projections.

Happy Birthday, Mr Punch at The V&A Museum Of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9PA Bethnal Green FREE, Until Dec 9. Photographs and historical artefacts marking the 350th anniversary of Mr Punch.

Freddy Dewe Mathews: Bouvetoya at Space In Between, Unit 26 Regents Studios, 8 Andrews Road, E8 4QN Cambridge Heath FREE, Until Oct 27.

Sculptures, archive material and an audio installation inspired by the Antarctic island.

Bob & Roberta Smith & Jessica Voorsanger at Eleven Spitalfields, 11 Princelet Street, E1 6QH Aldgate East FREE, Until Oct 26. Works in various media.

Jesse Wine: The Practice Of The Wild at Limoncello, 15A Cremer Street, E2 8HD Old Street FREE, Until Nov 17. Ceramics and photography.

SOUTH Abel Auer at Corvi-Mora, 1a Kempsford Road, SE11 4NN Kennington FREE, Starts Thu, Until Dec 21. Contemporary dreamscape paintings by the German artist.

Rashid Johnson: Shelter at South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH Elephant & Castle FREE, Until Nov 25.

An installation marking the first solo show in London of the New York artist’s work.

Venus And Adonis: Unveiled at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, SE21 7AD West Dulwich £5, OAP £4, concs FREE, Until Jan 13. A significant work by Titian, retrieved from storage and restored to its former glory, it is now on display once again.

Young London 2012 at V22 Workspace, Block F, 100 Clements Road, SE16 4DG Bermondsey FREE, Until Nov 11. A group show featuring works across a range of disciplines, by 25 young London artists.

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Everyday Encounters at William Morris Gallery, William Morris Gallery Forest Road, E17 4PP Walthamstow Central FREE, Until Feb 3. Crafts in a variety of media by 28 shortlisted members of the Society Of Designer Craftsmen, whose work explores Morris’s passion for merging functionality with beauty in design

Ariel 1 at Science Museum, Exhibition Road, SW7 2DD South Kensington FREE, Until Oct 28. Scale models and artefacts celebrating the 50th anniversary of the launch of the satellite.

Rosemary Clunie: Safari Of Dreams at Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, W6 9RL Hammersmith FREE, Until Oct 31. Paintings exploring the relationship between mood, material and myth.

Hollywood Costume at Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL South Kensington £14, OAP £11, NUS/ ages 12-17/unwaged/disabled £9, family of 3 £23, family of 4 £37, under 12s/mems/ disabled carer FREE, Until Jan 27. Over 100 costumes covering 100 years of films.

Museum Of Brands, Packaging And Adverstising at Museum Of Brands, Packaging And Advertising, 1 Colville Mews, W11 2AR Westbourne Park £6.50, child £2.25, concs £4, family £15, Until Dec 31. Collections include toys, newspapers, comics and fashion.

James Ostrer: The Romance Of Perfection at Merchant Archive, 19 Kensington Park Road, W11 2EU Ladbroke Grove FREE, Until Jan 2.

Photographs of San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Maria Kochetkova.

Victoria Revealed at Kensington Palace State Apartments, Kensington Gardens, W8 4PX High Street Kensington £14.50, child FREE, concs £12, Until Feb 28. Mixed works and historical artefacts exploring the life of Queen Victoria.

Mel Bochner at Whitechapel Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX Aldgate East FREE, Until Dec 30. Installations, wall drawings and paintings from the last 50 years.

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If music be the food of laughter

Ever wanted to see a great comedian accompanied by a top swing band? Well the wait is over.

Chris Beanland chats to The Horne Project

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t has taken us a while, but Scout has finally got the Horne. As indeed did Alex Horne and his wife nine months ago – because they’ve just had their third son.

Ok, that’s about as lazy and obvious as a pun can get. But it’s entirely in the spirit of Horne’s oeuvre. The Horne Section, like 60s radio show Round The Horne before it, is a brilliantly simple bit of pub wordplay elongated into an entire variety show. But the Horne Section wasn’t conceived in the pub. It was conceived in the playground.

“It kind of came about because me and Ben [Reynolds, drummer] and Joe [Auckland, trumpeter] went to primary school together,” reveals Horne, his voice flushed with the sleepy pride of recent fatherhood. “We always said we should pool our talents – 10 years later we booked a room at Edinburgh and did.”

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The premise is a simple yet hilariously effective one. Horne invites comedians and other performers that he likes to conduct a show accompanied by his musically-dexterous, swing-style band. Rather than just adding a new element to their rehearsed stand-up, the format frequently sends performers off in wholly unexpected directions – as it did with the likes of Tim Key and Greg Davies. The result is one of the most unpredictable and madcap comedy shows going.

“I feel like I’m not just boasting about myself when I talk about this,” says Horne. “It’s about the six of us. Me and them mucking about, and our comedy guests mucking about.”

Some of the biggest names in British comedy now queue up to

take part, and the show recently enjoyed its very own Radio 4 series. But it all began as a drunken late night variety show at Edinburgh’s Festival Fringe.

“We were never specific with the guests about what we wanted them to do,” says Auckland. “There have been some car crashes. Literally anything could happen. You’d have a five minute chat with someone and then they’d go on.”

The idea has always been to use the backing band to take the comedy up a notch – with inevitably mixed results. But, more often than not, comedians really rise to the occasion.

“Josie Long played grade four clarinet,” recalls Auckland. And pianist Joe Stilgoe, son of lyricist and TV chat-show stalwart Richard, remembers: “Harry Hill asked if he could rehearse. That doesn’t normally happen. He does a mean ukulele and performed this silly ukulele song. His energy level and concentration were just fantastic.”

Now the affable clan is making the leap to the fancier surrounds of the Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room for a four-night run.

The only guests we’re allowed to reveal are Dave Gorman and Bruce Airhead – the rest are surprises. We also know that it will be tighter than some of their previous, notoriouslyelongated shows.

“But there’ll still be plenty of improvisation,” insists Stilgoe. “You want to retain the screwball element while also keeping it structured.”

After the Southbank run, Horne will “go back to being a dad and working on a new stand up show with no projector”.

More intriguingly, he’ll be de-camping to his sofa bed-furnished shed to finish his first novel.

And what’s it all about?

“It’s about a man who sees a flying horse.”

Seems like we won’t be short of puns for the next interview either.

The Horne Section, October 30 – November 2, £20, Southbank Centre, southbankcentre.co.uk

ONGOING

Daniel Sloss: The Show at Brady Arts And Community Centre, 192-196 Hanbury Street, E1 5HU Whitechapel From Oct 11, Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat 10.30am-5pm, ends Oct 30, FREE. Youthful stand-up.

Until Oct 30.

Shappi Khorsandi: Dirty Looks And Hopscotch at Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road Tue-Sat 8pm, ends Nov 3, Tue £10, Wed & Thu £15, concs £12.50, Fri & Sat £17.50, concs £15. Standup from the Iranian-born comedian. Until Nov 3.

Simon Munnery’s La Concepta at Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road Mon-Thu 7pm, 8pm, 9pm, Fri & Sat 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm, extra perfs Oct 23-25, 5pm, 6pm, Oct 28, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm, ends Oct 28, £15-£20. Interactive comedy, with an exclusive non-dining restaurant experience.

Until Oct 28.

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 Oct 31.

Comedy Knights at Archangel, 11-13 Kensington High Street, W8 5NP High Street Kensington 8pm-12midnight, adv £3. With Bobby Carroll, Luke Graves, Stuart Laws, Paul F Taylor and Anna.

Festival Of The Spoken Nerd: Are You Sci-Curious? at The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH Marylebone 7.30pm, £8, concs £6. With Helen Arney, Matt Parker and Steve Mould.

The Good Ship Comedy Club at The Good Ship, 289 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR Kilburn 8pm, £5, w/flyer £4. With Tony Law, Jonny Awsum and Martin Croser.

The Hideaway Comedy Club at The Hideaway, 114 Junction Road, N19 5LB Archway 8pm-11pm, FREE. With Gatis Kandis, Arabella Younger, Danny Callaghan, Mark Sallis, Tom Mayhew, Colin Mitchell, Stu Turner, Louise Beamont, Alison Levinson, Jeremy Davies and MC Johnny Armstrong.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 23 BBC Radio 2 New Comedy Award: London Semi Final at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square 8pm, £8. With MC Patrick Kielty.

Comedy Bin at The Rhythm Factory, 16-18 Whitechapel Road, E1 1EW Whitechapel 8pm-12midnight, FREE. With Jimbo, Chris Gau, Nick Barber, Andy Storey, Mihai Antoci, PatsyPat, Pete Dobbing, Gareth Morinan, Trev Tokabi, Bill Stickers and MC Gwilum Argos.

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Comedy Slam! at Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX Waterloo 7.30pm, £20 & £35, concs £10 & £17.50. With Jo Brand, Nina Conti, Imran Yusuf, Robin Ince, Daniel Simonsen, Nick Revell and Stewart Francis.

Joan Rivers: The Now Or Never Tour at Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP South Kensington 8pm, £25 & £37.50. Outrageous wit and snappy humour.

Milton Jones: Work In Progress On The Road at Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road 9.30pm, £12.50. Surreal one-liners.

Luisa Omielan: What Would Beyonce Do? at Comedy Cafe, 66-68 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY Liverpool Street 8pm, FREE, ticketed. Contemporary standup and improv.

Party Piece at Shaker & Company, 119 Hampstead Road, NW1 3EE Euston 8pm, FREE. Open mic night with MC Tom Webb.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 24 John Bishop: Rollercoaster at The O2 Arena, Peninsula Square, SE10 0DX North Greenwich 8pm, £30. Cheeky Liverpudlian stand-up.

Bright Club at The Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AH Euston 7.30pm, £8. With David Trent, Gemma Angel, Angela McShane, Tom Manly, Chris Arridge, Steven Gray and MC Andrew O’Neill.

Bec Hill Is More Afraid Of You Than You Are Of Her at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square 9pm, phone for prices.

Bec Hill is back with a brand new show all about her biggest fear: You. Pear Shaped In Fitzrovia at Fitzroy Tavern, 16a Charlotte Street, W1T 2NA Goodge Street 8.30pm, £5. With Becky Fury, Quint Fontana, Stephen Di Placito, Matthew Baylis, Rhodders, Asa Johnson, Stu Turner, Leo Kearse, Katy Poulter and MCs Brian Damage & Krysstal and Anthony Miller.

Sketchercise Halloween Special at Ginglik, Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12 8PH Shepherd’s Bush 8pm-11pm, £7, adv £5, mems £4. With Two Episodes Of Mash, Cariad Lloyd, Ben Target, Sam Fletcher, Allnutt And Simpson, Jenny Fawcett, Damien Slash and MCs Clever Peter.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 25 The Best In Stand-Up at Comedy Store, 1a Oxendon Street, SW1Y 4EE Piccadilly Circus 8pm, £18, concs £13. With Jeff Innocent, Jimmy McGhie, Adam Bloom, Lloyd Langford and MC Roger Monkhouse.

John Bishop: Rollercoaster at The O2 Arena, Peninsula Square, SE10 0DX North Greenwich 8pm, £30. Cheeky Liverpudlian stand-up.

Dara O Briain: Craic Dealer at HMV Apollo, Queen Caroline Street, W6 9QH Hammersmith 8pm, £25. Fast-paced stand-up.

The One To Watch Competition at Up The Creek, 302 Creek Road, SE10 9SW Greenwich 8.15pm, £4. Every Thursday up to 15 comic acts have just five minutes to win over the crowd.

Top Secret Comedy Club at The Africa Centre, 38 King Street, WC2E 8JT Covent Garden 8.15pm-10.45pm, £5, NUS £4. With Eric Lampaert, Sally-Anne Hayward and Maureen Younger.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 26 Banana Cabaret at The Bedford, 77 Bedford Hill, SW12 9HD Balham 9pm, Fri £14, concs £11, Sat £16, concs £13. With John Moloney, Tony Law, Steve Williams and Sean Percival.

The Boat Show at Tattershall Castle, Victoria Embankment, SW1A 2HR Charing Cross 8pm, £10 & £13.50, concs £11. With Neil Delamere, Jimmy McGhie and MC Craig Murray.

Foster’s Comedy Live at Highlight, Camden Lock, Middle Yard Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AB Camden Town 8.15pm-10.15pm, £17 & £18. With Rudi Lickwood, Brendan Dempsey, Sam Avery, Dana Alexander and Tez Ilyas.

Jongleurs Comedy Show at The Sports Cafe, 80 Haymarket, SW1Y 4TE Piccadilly Circus 8.30pm, doors

6.30pm, last adm 7.30pm, £12. With Gary Delaney, Andy Askins and Jeff Innocent.

Piccadilly Comedy Club at The Comedy Pub, 7 Oxendon Street, SW1Y 4EE Leicester Square 8.30pm, £15, adv £10. With Paul Sinha and Duncan Edwards.

Soho Comedy Club at The Casino At The Empire, 5-6 Leicester Square, WC2H 7NA Leicester Square 8pm, £15, adv £10.

With Alistair Barrie, Dana Alexander, Kate Smurthwaite and MC David Mulholland.

Margaret Cho: Mother at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square 7.30pm, Fri-Sun £26.50, Mon-Wed £23.50. Intelligent and provocative humour from the American stand-up.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 Big Night Out at Rumba, 36 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 7EP Piccadilly Circus 8pm-10pm, £9.99-£26. With Phil Butler, Martin Beaumont and Markus Birdman.

The Funny Side...Of Covent Garden at The George, 213 Strand, WC2R 1AP Temple 8pm, £12.50. With Tom Craine, Shazia Mirza, Gary Delaney and MC Jonny Freeman.

Andi Osho: All The Single Ladies at The Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AH Euston 8pm, £15, concs £13. The stand-up discusses the pitfalls of dating.

Soho Comedy Club at The Casino At The Empire, 5-6 Leicester Square, WC2H 7NA Leicester Square 8pm, £15, adv £10. With Nick Wilty, Quincy, Sunna Jarman, David Mulholland and MC Kate Smurthwaite.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 28 Hairy Bikers: Larger Than Live at New Wimbledon Theatre, 93 The Broadway, SW19 1QG Wimbledon 7.45pm, £25.

Anecdotes and cookery from the TV duo.

Robin Ince: Pointless Anger Righteous Ire 2 at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA Aldgate East 8pm, £10, concs £8. Intelligent rants inspired by audience suggestions. Also featuring Josie Long and Dr Ben Goldacre.

Russell Kane: Posturing Delivery at HMV Apollo, Queen Caroline Street, W6 9QH Hammersmith 6.30pm, £17.50. Fastpaced and intelligent stand-up.

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Boo Lingerie! at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square 3pm, £8, concs £7.

An adult comedy duo performing with sock puppets.

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After recovering from a severe career dip, Ben Affleck is shaping up to be a big Hollywood player. Susan Griffin discovers a man whose flops are far behind him 34 Scout London scoutlondon.com

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en Affleck was only 25 when he and childhood friend Matt Damon won screenwriting Oscars for Good Will Hunting in 1998.

“We were like a caricature of these precocious guys who took themselves way too seriously. We did 16 plays through high school and read lots of books,” he recalls.

While Damon went on to win critical acclaim for shrewdly-chosen film roles, Affleck went down the blockbuster avenue with the likes of Armageddon and Pearl Harbour.

Not long after came a string of appallinglyreceived flops, including Paycheck and Gigli, with then fiancée Jennifer Lopez – a partnership known fondly by the public as ‘Bennifer’.

The relationship ended in 2004, around the same time that his career appeared to be hitting the skids. But just when the world had written him off, Affleck put in a sterling performance as ill-fated actor George Reeves in the 2006 noir drama Hollywoodland.

A year later he followed it up with his directorial debut, the brooding thriller Gone Baby Gone that starred his brother Casey in the lead role (its UK release was delayed until summer 2008 because of similarities in the story to the Madeleine McCann case).

As well as directing the film, Affleck also cowrote the script, adapted from Dennis Lehane’s novel of the same name, and received more praise for his behind-the-camera work than he had for the vast majority of his acting roles.

“I don’t think I’m a better actor than director, or better writer than actor. I just try to make movies and to me these things are all comingled,” he says.

In 2010 he penned, acted in and directed heist thriller The Town, which earned Jeremy Renner a best supporting actor Oscar.

And screenings of his latest offering, Argo, are already garnering critical acclaim, to the extent that many are already tipping him for Academy glory come spring.

Self-assured, engaging and smart, with his professional reputation at an all-time high and three children by actress wife Jennifer Garner, the 40-year-old seems to be in a good place.

“I was looking for another movie,” he recalls about Argo. “The studio [Warner Bros] called and said, ‘We’re going to send you our best script’. I thought they were just saying it but it was a true page-turner.”

The film is based on real events that took place during the Iranian revolution in 1979.

When militants stormed the US Embassy in Tehran, six Americans managed to escape and find refuge in the home of the Canadian Ambassador. Knowing it was only a matter of time before they were discovered, Canada and America asked the CIA to intervene.

Affleck stars as the CIA’s top ‘exfiltration’ specialist, Tony Mendez, who hatched an

audacious plan for the six Americans to pose as a Canadian filmmaking team on a location scout, so they could simply fly out of the danger zone.

“Tony was friends with a famous make-up artist and knew it was a viable prospect for movie people to be travelling around, checking out different locations,” says Affleck.

Part thriller, part pastiche of 70s Hollywood, one of the biggest challenges the film posed Affleck as a director was its juxtaposition of lifeor-death drama and dry comedy.

“The humour was an important part of the script,” he says, “but it was the hardest line to

remembers it being “a very lonely major”.

“Everyone was studying the Soviet Union, but it turned out my degree was even more relevant to our lives than I knew at the time.”

The young wannabe-actor actually left for LA before graduation, and was promptly cast in a Danielle Steel movie called Daddy.

“I made $20,000 and thought, ‘That’s it! I won’t have to work again’,” he laughs.

Two years later he starred in cult hit Dazed and Confused, playing detestable high school bully Fred O’Bannion. But it didn’t lead where he had hoped.

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walk. My main concern was making sure the laughs did not jeopardize the sense of urgency or realism.”

Luckily, he had the likes of Alan Arkin and John Goodman handling most of the comedy.

“They say directing is 90 per cent casting and it’s in evidence here. Everybody really knew what they were doing. And often they came up with ideas that were more interesting than mine,” he admits.

Believability was the watchword of the entire production, but Affleck says it was never his intention to make a documentary.

“I didn’t want it to feel like a history lesson because who wants to see that?” he says.

Affleck’s something of an expert in the subject, having studied Middle Eastern affairs at university – a subject he felt would be more useful than a degree in acting. But he

Damon was having an equally trying time, which is why they decided to write their own screenplay, and Good Will Hunting was born.

“We saw it essentially as our acting reel,” admits Affleck, who played the best friend of Damon’s titular character.

Initial reactions to the screenplay were mixed at best, but then director Gus Van Sant and Hollywood heavyweight Robin Williams signed on, and the rest, as they say, is history.

If the Argo hype turns out to be true, Affleck might soon be adding a Best Director gong to his Oscar collection.

But, side-stepping the topic, he says: “Right now I’m more interested in humans coming out and buying tickets!”

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Skyfall (12A) The past comes back to haunt M (Judi Dench) in the action-packed 23rd mission for Ian Fleming’s secret agent, which neatly coincides with the 50th anniversary of Bond on the big screen. Skyfall finds the man from MI6 in dire straits: presumed dead after a thrilling pre-credits action sequence in Turkey, then redeployed to hunt cyber terrorist Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem) before the deliciously camp villain strikes at the heart of the British Secret Service. Skyfall is the sharpest installment of Daniel Craig’s tenure, paring back the action to concentrate on rich characterisation and plot. The film dazzles during verbal jousts, whether it’s M discovering Bond in the shadows of her London apartment (“You’re bloody well not sleeping here!”) or Silva fondling Bond’s inner thighs and asking what regulation training suggests he do next. “What makes you think it’s my first time?” 007 cheekily replies. Unfortunately, director Sam Mendes gets high on nostalgia and spends too long looking back and not enough looking forward, so stumbles with a somewhat lacklustre final showdown.

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Room 237 (15) A sparkling new digital transfer of the extended 144-minute cut of Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece, The Shining, screens across London for the very first time this Halloween.

To whet our appetites, Rodney Ascher’s artfully composed documentary provides a forum for five fans and scholars to expound their theories on the film’s continuity errors and subliminal imagery, spinning fantastical conspiracies including one runaway train of thought that posits a connection to the Apollo moon landings. Ascher keeps his contributors off screen and constructs each narrative thread with a mosaic of Kubrick’s work spliced with other films, illustrations and digital trickery. The director’s method is the perfect accompaniment to their madness. DS

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Visually arresting, snow-laden landscapes and strong, naturalistic performances underpin Ursula Meier’s engaging family portrait, which has been deservedly fêted on the festival circuit. A Swiss ski resort provides rich pickings for 12-year-old urchin Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein), who pilfers expensive equipment and supplies then sells his booty back down the valley, before returning to the cramped apartment he shares with his flighty sister, Louise (Léa Seydoux).

Writer-director Meier succinctly conveys the divide between the holidaymakers up the mountain and the impoverished locals at the other end of the cable car, who live hand to mouth and steal to survive. Klein and Seydoux are both excellent, their complex relationship sketched in precise strokes. DS

ALSO SHOWING

London International Animation Festival 2012

The Silence of the Lambs (18)

The dark days when animation was regarded as the poor cousin of live action are thankfully long gone. Three of this year’s biggest films – Brave, Ice Age 4 and Madagascar 3 – are triumphs of digital artistry, and there’s more dazzling creativity and originality on show at this year’s London International Animation Festival. The 10-day event opens with Charlie Paul’s film No Good Reason (pictured), featuring Johnny Depp, followed by an on-stage discussion with the film’s charismatic subject: seminal British artist Ralph Steadman (Oct 25).

Visually stunning highlights include Keita Kurosaka’s dystopian sci-fi fantasy Midori-ko (Oct 27), Tomáš Lunák’s stunning rotoscopic, black and white film noir, Alois Nebel (Oct 28), and unseen pilot episodes from the iconic Klasky Csupo Studio (Oct 30). DS Oct 25-Nov 4, times vary, £6-£11.50 Barbican Centre and various venues, EC2Y 8DS

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Jonathan Demme’s nail-biting adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs was the last film to collect the Oscars Holy Grail of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay.

It’s hard to fault his tautly paced, colour-bleached vision, galvanized by mesmerising performances from Jodie Foster and Sir Anthony Hopkins as the fledgling FBI agent and cannibalistic serial killer respectively, who trade verbal blows in the search for the elusive Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine). Scriptwriter Ted Tally’s one liners, torn from the pages of Thomas Harris’s novel, are lip-smacking (“I do wish we could chat longer, but I’m having an old friend for dinner.”). Tonight’s double-bill kicks off at 6.30pm with Manhunter, Michael Mann’s stylish 1986 version of Harris’s Red Dragon, starring Brian Cox as the deliciously creepy Dr Lecter. DS Oct 22, 8.45pm, £6.50, concs £4; double bill with Manhunter £12, mems £7 The Prince Charles Cinema, WC2H 7BY

Leicester Square

Les Diaboliques (12A)

Frozen River (15)

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s riveting 1955 thriller was remade 40 years later as Diabolique, starring Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani. That cinematic carbuncle pales next to this masterclass in sustained tension, which famously ends with an on-screen plea to nervejangled audiences to keep the ending a secret. Michel Delassalle (Paul Meurisse) is the cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school owned by his wife (Vera Clouzot). He treats his spouse with disdain and enjoys an affair with teacher Nicole (Simone Signoret), who he bullies just as badly. The two women conspire to kill Michel and then pass off his demise as a drowning accident in the school’s swimming pool. Except, when the water is drained, the headmaster’s lifeless body is missing... DS

Melissa Leo deservedly claimed an Oscar nomination as Best Actress for her tour-de-force portrayal of an embattled single mother in Courtney Hunt’s indie thriller. The actress plays abandoned wife Ray Eddy, whose no-good husband disappears without trace after gambling away the family’s money including the deposit on a new trailer home. Unless Ray can drum up the missing cash, she and her two sons – 15-year-old T.J. (Charlie McDermott) and five-year-old Ricky (James Reilly) – will lose the deposit and have to make do with their old home and its cracked pipes. So Ray risks her life to smuggle immigrants across the Canadian border for cash-in-hand, via a nerveracking drive on the frozen St Lawrence River that will have you biting your nails down to the cuticles. DS

Oct 27, 8.40pm, Nov 5, 6.10pm, £5-£10, concs/mems £5-£8.50 BFI Southbank, SE1 8XT Waterloo

Oct 22, 7.30pm, £5 Roxy Bar & Screen, SE1 1LB

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Extras Here Come The Girls

Meet Zozia Mamet: actress, Anglophile and scene-stealer in hotly-anticipated new US show Girls. By Katie Wright

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ozia Mamet’s character might be to blame for the many comparisons made between Girls and Sex And The City.

The 24-year-old – familiar to Mad Men fans as Peggy’s lesbian friend Joyce – plays ditzy virgin Shoshanna in the US comedy drama, which finally lands on our shores this week (October 22).

Shoshanna is obsessed with the show, and has a big poster of Carrie and Co. on her wall.

Only life in Girls isn’t just one big long brunch date, and much of the comedy arises from its frank portrayal of young womanhood, complete with awkward sexual encounters, humiliating drunken escapes and botched eyebrow makeovers.

Mamet was bowled over when she read the script, and when she watched show creator Lena Dunham’s film Tiny Furniture, on which Girls is partly based.

She recalls: “I thought it was really different to anything I’d ever read. And then I watched her movie and that just sort of sealed the deal and I said, ‘I have to work with this human’.”

Having been ill on the day she had to film her audition tape, Mamet admits she didn’t rate her chances to land the role.

But, with her 100mph delivery of Shoshanna’s chatter, it’s obvious why she did, and she gets some of the funniest lines of the series.

Mamet’s own tastes in TV comedy were formed by a rather bohemian upbringing with her Pulitzer Prize-

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winning playwright father David Mamet and actress mother Lindsay Crouse.

“I wasn’t allowed to watch television growing up,” she reveals, “so I grew up watching old British television shows on DVD, like Fawlty Towers and Ab Fab. It was, therefore, a “dream come true” for Mamet when she got the role of Saffy in an American pilot of Absolutely Fabulous, but a full series didn’t follow.

Mamet is confident that Girls will have transAtlantic appeal, partly because it shares certain British characteristics. She compares Girls to The Office, saying: “It’s not afraid to make people uncomfortable.”

With the second series of Girls already wrapped, Mamet is keeping schtum about any spoilers. She’s equally secretive about another stint on Mad Men. Joining the cast of such a well-established franchise was somewhat daunting for Mamet.

“Having experienced being a series regular, you really become a family and you get so entrenched in this world. It’s hard to be an outsider going into that, but [on Mad Men] they welcomed me with open arms.”

Mamet says her own family were “very supportive” of her chosen career, which is handy as she believes she was born, almost literally, into acting.

“My mother was pregnant with me on stage, so I was a goner from the womb,” she quips.

Girls launches with a double bill on Sky Atlantic on October 22 at 10pm

Alison Williams is Marnie Michaels, Hannah’s beautiful, glossy-haired flatmate and best friend. Paying all the bills in their apartment, Marnie supports Hannah as much as her parents do.

Zosia Mamet plays Shoshanna Shapiro, a university student and by far the most innocent girl in the group. But, she claims, she’s “like, the least virgin-y virgin ever.”

Jemima Kirke is the only nonnative in the cast, playing Jessa Johansson, Shoshanna’s hippy British cousin. Kirke provides another link between Girls and Sex And The City: her mother’s New York vintage boutique Geminola supplied SATC with many of its outfits.

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Girl gone wild

Lena Dunham stars as Hannah Horvath, a wannabe writer who is forced to contemplate leaving her unpaid internship at a publishing house when her parents reveal in the first episode they will no longer support her financially.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (15)

Available on iTunes, Blu-ray and DVD now

A snappy title that promises much but delivers only sporadic, slowmotion thrills and (blood) spills as director Timur Bekmambetov re-imagines the American Civil War as a fight between the Union and the vampire-riddled Confederacy. Benjamin Walker as Lincoln is a bland, unappealing hero, almost completely devoid of humour and charm. Balletic, gravity-defying action sequences arc the blood of the undead at the camera as the script lollops through 45 years in Lincoln’s life, culminating in The Battle of Gettysburg. The elaborate, overblown stunts, including a ludicrous sequence aboard a railroad train and a stampede, are a welcome distraction between yawns. DS

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Portlandia

Available on Netflix

This award-winning satire sketch show developed by comedy duo Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live) and Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney) that is a cult hit in the States is now arriving in Britain. The stars of the show take on various local characters that make fun of residents in Portland, Oregon – a place that takes its liberal credentials VERY seriously.

Think Little Britain for the Yanks.

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Chernobyl Diaries (15) Available on ITunes, Blu-ray and DVD now

Shot in a documentary-style by director Bradley Parker, replete with juddering handheld camerawork and ambient sound, Chernobyl Diaries is a predictable horror that keeps most of the gore off-screen. Dialogue is largely improvised, which accounts for the repetition of bland phrases, and the cast affect an impressive array of gasps, whimpers and blood curdling screams. Most of the seven-strong cast are marked for death from the opening frames and the script clearly telegraphs the order of their demise.

Characters repeatedly find excuses to put themselves in harm’s way, stumbling over rickety bridges or racing through claustrophobic tunnels, without any obvious escape route. Every time one of them wanders off alone, they are severely punished. Truly, there is safety in numbers. DS

House – The Final Season Boxset out now

It’s the end of a long and winding road for Dr Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) as the curmudgeonly yet brilliant medic solves more tricky cases with protégée Dr Chi Park (Charlyne Yi) and helps best friend Dr Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) come to terms with his cancer diagnosis. The last episode, Everybody Dies, is a fitting farewell.

Readers with very deep pockets are prescribed the hefty 46-disc box set comprising all eight series. DS

Recce iTunes App store, iPhone and iPad FREE

While most people were coming to terms with the new Apple Maps – often with hillarious consequences – Scout was zooming around London using Recce. This app takes location based discovery to a completely new level. By using multiple data sources to create immersive 3D cities on the go, Recce gives users a 3D experience that –

in our humble opinion – outstrips the competition. The buildings of London are portayed in retro video game style, complete with animated cars, buses and trains.

Social media functions are built in and nifty options like finding your closest Tube station or coffee stop are a touch away. RL

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“It’s so much more fun over here”

They've played at two major London tourist attractions and are bigger here than in their own home town – no wonder Scissor Sisters call the UK their "spiritual home".

Ahead of two sold-out London dates, we quiz singer Ana Matronic on her favourite aspects of the city

What’s the best show you’ve ever had in London?

Ooh, a tough one. We’ve had a lot of really good shows in London, but if I had to pick one I’d say our first Halloween gig at Brixton Academy, where we dressed up as characters from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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crowd screamed when they saw what we were wearing and I screamed because about 95 per cent of the audience were dressed up in costume. It was amazing.

So is the Academy your favourite London venue?

I do love Brixton Academy because it’s a great blend of big and small. You feel like you’re in a big venue but you also really feel like people can hear you and you can touch people. We’re also one of what can’t be many bands who’ve played both the Tower of London and Trafalgar Square. Not

many bands can say that, so that’s pretty amazing. I love looking at the Tower of London and going, ‘Yeah, I played that…whatever’.

You must get stopped in the street quite a bit. Do you have a favourite time that a London fan has approached you?

No, that doesn’t happen. People expect to see me dressed up as the cartoon character that I appear as on stage, but I can slip under the radar when I want to. My husband and I have been to Glastonbury a few times just as punters, and I’ve never been

recognised. I’m a master of disguise – think Alias, the TV show.

If I don’t want to be recognised, you will not see me – I won’t be the droid you’re looking for.

Ok, so when you’re in disguise in London, which nightspots do you like to frequent?

I’ve always had really good times at Dalston Superstore. Horse Meat Disco is always always always fun. And I love Madam JoJo's.

I’ve been to a lot of nights there and DJed there – it’s a nice blend of dancefloor and hangout space.

a different flavour, where you can spend the whole night sweating and dancing your feet off. Those kinds of places don’t exist in New York anymore. It’s really sad.

What’s the craziest thing to have happened on one of your nights out in London?

Gee, I don’t know. I once got a piggyback ride from Beth Ditto. Ooh, I know: we performed with Pete Burns at The Cock shortly after the first record came out, and there was a guy there who would not leave him alone – this was before Celebrity Big Brother and all that. He was really bothering Pete, so I saw Pete literally take this kid by the scruff of the neck, take him to the back door, open the door onto the kid’s face and then throw him out the door. It was at that moment that I thought, ‘God damn, I am so glad that Pete is in my corner and I know never ever to cross him’. And then we danced and had a great rest of the night.

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And one final thing that you love about London?

I love the general appreciation of eccentricity. In the States

What other areas do you like to hang out in?

Portobello Market and Spitalfields Market, I love both of those areas.

And I love Brixton, partly because it reminds me of Brooklyn. The same with Shepherd’s Bush.

That’s where my friend Johnny lives and where I stay when I come to London independently.

I love the different cultures and ethnicities that you see there.

Those areas get a bad rap, but I’ve always lived in what people might classify as dangerous or seedy neighbourhoods. Maybe I gravitate towards them.

Do you have a favourite museum?

Definitely: the V&A. They have a very eclectic permanent exhibition but I also love the temporary exhibits they bring through, they’re so beautiful and inspiring.

One I loved not so long ago was a collection of clothing from the Russian Royal Family. And I went with [band mate] Babydaddy to see one that was futuristic design in the 60s, which was really interesting and well-thoughtout. Ooh, and I love the Science Museum too – saw a great Alchemy exhibition there.

Is there a specific area where you think London has the edge Landmark performance Ana Matronic on stage with bandmate Jake S over New York? at the BT River of Music concert at the Tower of London in July That’s easy: nightlife.

Hands down. [Former New York Mayor] Rudy Giuliani saw weirdness is seen as threatening, to it that the nightlife/club scene in but over here it seems to be New York was seriously hindered, treated as interesting, and you so we don’t have nearly as many cherish those people as ‘eccentric’ balls-out, hands-in-the-air, shirts- rather than just weird. Our success is living proof of your off nights as you do in London. It’s embrace of eccentricity. so much more fun over here. There are great irregular parties that Scissor Sisters, October 23 & happen in New York, but we don’t 24, returns only, Roundhouse, have big spaces like Fabric, where roundhouse.org.uk there are multiple rooms, all with scoutlondon.com Scout London 41

Just keep moving Gaz Coombes is happy going it alone, with a new collection of very different songs. Andy Welch meets the former Supergrass frontman

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great music doesn’t change – but there will be compromises where there once weren’t.”

The 2010 decision to disband Supergrass wasn’t one any of the band took lightly. But from Coombes’s explanation, it sounds totally necessary.

“I was very unhappy at the end of Supergrass,” he says. “I think we all were, in different ways. I wasn’t happy with the quality of the music we were making, I didn’t think it was strong enough.”

The band were in the middle of recording their unreleased seventh album Release The Drones when they opted to tour one last time and call it a day.

“It should be brilliant, being in a band, hanging out with mates and playing music all day,” says Coombes, “so when it doesn’t feel like that, you have to knock it on the head.

There’s no part of me that wishes the band hadn’t split up.”

After the break-up, Coombes soon started writing again and was pleased with the sketches of songs that came out.

“I could’ve easily had a divorce-like period where I disappeared up my own arse and wrote a load of rubbish. But I think this is some of

the best stuff I’ve ever written, and [producer] Sam Williams came over to listen and started jumping up and down and reassured me that I had to finish the songs and release them.”

The result was his first solo album, Gaz Coombes Presents… Here Come The Bombs, released earlier this year.

It certainly doesn’t pick up where Supergrass left off. He’s aware that some fans would have wanted exactly that, but pleasing himself was his only criteria.

“It was a really liberating experience to be on my own, to find out what I can do and what my particular voice would be,” he says. “Other people’s expectations weren’t in my mind. I didn’t really care. And it was important for me to leave Supergrass alone as well.”

The resulting album is bold if not radical.

Guitars are used sparingly, and in come electronic sounds and exciting new textures.

“It feels a little bit like washing clean,” he adds. “I might not have the youthful exuberance I once did, but I couldn’t be happier.”

Gaz Coombes Presents… Here Comes The Bombs is out now. He plays XOYO on October 24

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s the frontman of Supergrass, Gaz Coombes always cut an iconic figure.

With his outlandish sideburns, distinctive vocals and wondrous way with a chorus, he stood out from the crowd. And the vision of Coombes and former bandmates Mick Quinn and Danny Goffey prancing around in the video for signature hit Alright is one of the Britpop era’s most enduring images.

Sitting in the offices of his record label in west London to talk about his forthcoming solo tour, he barely looks any older than when Supergrass released that first batch of singles, back in 1994 and 1995.

“I’ve never really had a proper job,” says Coombes, who was only 18 when it first all kicked off. “Well, I worked at a garden centre, but got fired for smoking in the rose bushes.”

However he looks, at 36, he is now a very different person: calmer and more measured, and very much enjoying stepping out on his own after so many years of being in a band.

“I’ve got two kids now, so other things are happening. When you’re young in a band, you’re free and easy to do as you please, and I still think I’m as driven as I was – the drive to make

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Jennifer Lopez October 22, The O2 Arena, £50-£75

Muse

October 26 & 27, The O2 Arena, £47.50-£55 The barons of bombast are back. And, it must be said, with their collective reputation somewhat dented by the overblown absurdity of their official Olympic Games anthem. Still, we all crumple under the pressure sometimes, and why should Devon’s biggest export since clotted cream be any different. Thankfully, they’re following single, Madness, was a vast improvement. And they are still, without question, one of the best live acts in the world.

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Is there nothing this woman can’t do? She’s an acclaimed actress who charges around $15m per movie, an award-winning singer who’s sold more than 70m records, a skilled entrepreneur with successful perfume and clothing lines, and now, following her departure from the American Idol judges’ panel, there’s even talk of a move into politics. Show off!

Currently touring her Dance Again greatest hits compilation, the ‘Bronx Barbie’ has been mobbed by adoring fans at every stop. And, let’s face it, who can blame them?

She’s almost superhuman!

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Freeze 2012

October 26 & 27, Battersea Power Station, £40 or £65 for both days The combination of high-octane snowboarding and skiing stunts with big name hip-hop and dance acts has made Freeze an increasingly popular fixture in the London live calendar.

This year’s headline slots are weighted in favour of grizzled veterans over young gunslingers (DJ Shadow, Public Enemy and Grandmaster Flash among them). But there’s still plenty to please the fresh-faced bassheads: Stanton Warriors, Jacob Plant, Shy FX and many more.

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Delilah & Wiley October 28, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £16.50

It says much about this young Hackney girl’s rocket-propelled journey to stardom that she’s headlining the Empire above one of the godfathers of grime.

Happily, the success is thoroughly deserved. Debut album From The Roots Up is deliciously textured and one of the most accomplished releases of the year.

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Alex Clare Oct 25, KOKO, £17.50, phone for availability Band Of Horses Nov 20, HMV Apollo, £22.50 Bat For Lashes Oct 29 & Oct 30, HMV Forum, adv £20 Benjamin Francis Leftwich Oct 24, KOKO, £15 Cameo Oct 22-Oct 26, The Jazz Cafe, £32.50 Crime & The City Solution Oct 26, Southbank Centre, £15 & £20 Everything Everything Oct 23, Village Underground, £13.50 Giants Of Lovers Rock Oct 27, IndigO2, £20-£60 Grizzly Bear, Villagers Oct 22, O2 Academy Brixton, £22.50 Hackney Colliery Band Oct 25, Hackney Attic, £7 Huey & The New Yorkers Oct 25, Rough Trade East, phone for prices Immortal Technique, Lowkey, Mazzi, Oct 25, Electric Brixton, £20 Kate Rusby Oct 23, Southbank Centre, £12.50-£25 Lionel Richie Oct 28 & Oct 29, The O2 Arena, £40-£65 Lisa Stansfield Oct 23, XOYO, £29.50 Newton Faulkner Oct 22 & 23, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, adv £19 Reverend & The Makers Oct 26, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £15 Rick Astley Oct 24, O2 Academy Islington, £25

Peter Doherty, The New Cut Gang, Florida Room, MC iPod Oct 24, Nambucca, £20 Simian Mobile Disco Oct 27, Fire, phone for prices Tenacious D Oct 24, HMV Apollo, £35 The Herbaliser, Belleruche Oct 27, HMV Forum, £17.50, adv £12.50 The Proclaimers Oct 25, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £26.50 The Tallest Man On Earth Oct 22, HMV Forum, £18.50 Tim Burgess, Hatcham Social Oct 24, Union Chapel, adv £15

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2:54 Nov 7, XOYO, adv £9 ABC Dec 18, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, £35-£75 Absolva Nov 9, The Underworld, adv £10 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 Aimee Mann Jan 28, Southbank Centre, £15-£25, concs £7.50-£12.50 Alabama 3 Dec 8, HMV Forum, £20 Alabama Shakes Nov 16, The Coronet, adv £18.50; Nov 17, HMV Forum, £18.50 Alanis Morissette Nov 28, The O2 Arena, £35 & £45 Alex Cornish Nov 30, Bush Hall, £10 All Time Low Feb 14, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £22.50 Amy Can Flyy, Everybody Looks Famous, Falling Faster Nov 7, O2 Academy Islington, £6 An Cafe Nov 7, O2 Academy Islington, adv £22 Ana Silvera Dec 5, The Green Note Cafe, adv £10 Andrew Bird Nov 8, Roundhouse, £22.50 Animal Collective Nov 4, Roundhouse, £22.50, adv £20 Archive Dec 4, Heaven, £15 Asia Dec 22, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £22.50 Aslan Nov 17, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £24.50 Athlete Nov 10, The Albany, £21 Band Of Skulls Dec 7, O2 Academy Brixton, £17.50 Ben Folds Five Dec 4 & Dec 5, O2 Academy Brixton, £37.50 Beth Hart Nov 16, HMV Forum, £22.50 Big Sean Nov 26, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £22.50 Bloc Party Feb 22, Earls Court, adv £29.50 Bobby Womack Nov 25, HMV Forum, £27.50 & £32.50 Boris Dec 6, The Scala, adv £15 Bryan Adams Oct 29, Royal Albert Hall, £75 Buckcherry Dec 6, Electric Ballroom, £16 Caravan Palace Nov 21, KOKO, £19, adv £16 Carter USM, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin Nov 10, O2 Academy Brixton, £25 Charli XCX Nov 15, XOYO, £10 Chas & Dave Dec 8, IndigO2, £20-£45 Christmas With Steps Dec 2, London Palladium, £22.50-£50 Citizens! Nov 20, XOYO, £10 Clairy Browne And The Bangin’ Rackettes Dec 20, The Lexington, adv £7 Claudia Brucken Nov 5, The Borderline, £23.50 Conor Maynard Oct 29, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £18.50 Corina Piatti Nov 2, Southbank Centre, FREE Crystal Castles Nov 24, O2 Academy Brixton, £17.50 DJ Yoda Nov 10, HMV Forum, £19.50£22.50 Dark Tranquillity, Keep Of Kalessin, Warbringer, Dawn Heist, Reign Of The Architect Nov 22, O2 Academy Islington, £17

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Day Of The Dead Festival Oct 31-Nov 3, The Old Vic Tunnels, day ticket £41, adv £31 Destroyer Nov 13, Village Underground, £14.50 Dexter Strangeways, Gary Thomas, The Boobytraps, The Late Yetis Oct 31, Dublin Castle, £6, concs £4.50 Diana Krall Oct 30 & Oct 31, Royal Albert Hall, £37.50-£75 Django Django Oct 31, Nov 1, Heaven, £12 Dodgy Dec 14, O2 Academy Islington, adv £17.50 Dog Is Dead Nov 7, The Scala, adv £10 Dry The River Nov 1, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £12 Elbow, Here We Go Magic Dec 2, The O2 Arena, £29.50 & £32.50

Amy MacDonald Nov 6, Southbank Centre, £22.50-£35 Electric Discharge Machine Nov 24, The Barfly, Camden, adv £5 Electric Six Dec 15, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, phone for prices Elvis Costello & The Imposters Jun 4 & Jun 5, Royal Albert Hall, £45 Emeli Sande Nov 11, Royal Albert Hall, £22.50-£37.50 Enfant, I Am A Camera Nov 2, The Sebright Arms, £8, adv £6 Eric Clapton May 17, May 18, May 20, May 21, May 23, Royal Albert Hall, £70 & £85 Eugene McGuinness Nov 14, 100 Club, adv £8.50 Evan Dando And Juliana Hatfield Dec 4, Southbank Centre, £17.50 & £20, concs £8.75 & £10 Example Feb 23, Earls Court, £28.50 Father John Misty Nov 22, XOYO, £12 Fear Factory Dec 18, KOKO, £16 Feeder Nov 23, O2 Academy Brixton, £23 Fink Nov 27, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £17.50 Finley Quaye Nov 16, The Jazz Cafe, £17.50 First And Forever Festival: Tribes Nov 15, The Barfly, Camden, FREE, ticketed, apply online at http://store.drmartens.co.uk/ t-festival.aspx Gary Numan Dec 7, HMV Forum, £28 Glasvegas Dec 1, The Garage, £18 Godspeed You! Black Emperor Nov 4 & Nov 5, HMV Forum, £20 Gotye Nov 12 & Nov 13, HMV Apollo, £26.50 Grasscut, David A Jaycock, Moon Ate the Dark Nov 3, Union Chapel, FREE Graveyard, Spiders Dec 6, O2 Academy Islington, £12.50

Gregory Alan Isakov Oct 29, The Slaughtered Lamb, £11 Hank Wangford And The Lost Cowboys Dec 16, Half Moon, Putney, £10 Happy Mondays Dec 19 & Dec 20, Roundhouse, adv £32.50 Heaven 17 Nov 3, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £22.50-£27.50 Hey Nov 25, The Scala, £25, adv £20 Horse Nov 22, Bush Hall, £17, concs £15 Horse Feathers, Crooked Fingers Nov 19, The Borderline, £11 Hot Club Of Cowtown Nov 6-Nov 10, The Hippodrome Casino, £27.50-£35 How To Dress Well Nov 5, XOYO, adv £11.50 Huey Morgan & The New Yorkers Nov 7, Bush Hall, £16.50 I Am Kloot Nov 20, Islington Town Hall, £20 Ian Prowse And Amsterdam Nov 23, Monto Water Rats, £12 Imicus Nov 17, Nambucca, £5 InMe Dec 9, The Garage, £13 Inspiral Carpets Mar 22, KOKO, adv £19.50 JJ Grey & Mofro, David Ford Nov 9, O2 Academy Islington, £17.50 Jack White Nov 2 & Nov 3, Alexandra Palace, adv £30 James Taylor Quartet Dec 22, Islington Town Hall, £30 Jane Birkin Jan 31, Cadogan Hall, £18£40 Jason Mraz Dec 1, The O2 Arena, £32 Jessie J Mar 9 & Mar 10, The O2 Arena, £25 & £33.50 Joan Armatrading, Chris Wood Nov 23 & Nov 24, IndigO2, £20-£45 Joe Jackson And The Bigger Band, Regina Carter Nov 8-Nov 10, Cadogan Hall, £30 & £35

Florence + The Machine Dec 5 & Dec 6, The O2 Arena, £29.50 Joey Bada$$ Nov 14, XOYO, adv £12 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Dec 3, Electric Ballroom, £18.50 Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra Nov 30 & Dec 1, Royal Albert Hall, £17.50-£43 Julian Cope Nov 8, Rough Trade East, £8 Justin Bieber Mar 4, Mar 5, Mar 7, The O2 Arena, £50 & £60 Kaiser Chiefs Mar 1, O2 Academy Brixton, adv £27.50 Katzenjammer, Ben Caplan Oct 31, O2 Academy Islington, £14.50 Keane Nov 30, The O2 Arena, £27.50 & £45 Kindness Nov 7, Heaven, £10.50

Ellie Goulding Dec 12, O2 Academy Brixton, £25 Kool & The Gang Nov 29, Electric Brixton, £35 Kris Kristofferson Dec 7, Southbank Centre, £35 & £40, concs £17.50 & £20 Kurt Vile & The Violators, Lower Dens, Dark Dark Dark Dec 6, HMV Forum, adv £15 Ladyhawke Nov 14, HMV Forum, £16 Lambchop Nov 9, Cadogan Hall, £23.50 Laura Cheadle Nov 8, Monto Water Rats, £6 Lawson Nov 6, KOKO, £13 Levellers, Citizen Fish Nov 24, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, adv £25 London Guitar Festival: Maria Camahort Nov 25, Southbank Centre, £12, concs £6 London Jazz Festival: Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade Nov 17, Barbican Centre, £10-£50 London Jazz Festival: Flavia Coelho Nov 15, Southbank Centre, £10 & £20 London Jazz Festival: Herbie Hancock Nov 12, Southbank Centre, £10-£45 London Jazz Festival: Lucinda Williams Nov 10 & Nov 11, Southbank Centre, £10£45, concs £5-£22.50 London Jazz Festival: Patti Austin, The Ronnie Scotts All Stars Nov 10, Ronnie Scott’s, £40-£60 Loudon Wainwright III May 3, Southbank Centre, £25-£35, concs £12.50-£17.50 Lucy Rose Nov 22, Electric Brixton, £11 Macy Gray Nov 28, KOKO, £30 Madness Dec 14 & Dec 22, The O2 Arena, £29.50-£47.50 Marc Almond, Jeremy Reed Nov 23, National Portrait Gallery, FREE Mark Knopfler May 27-Jun 1, Royal Albert Hall, £37.50-£52.50 Mark Lanegan Band Dec 4, HMV Forum, £18.50 Martha Wainwright, AroarA Dec 2, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £28.50 & £30 Maximo Park Nov 7, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, adv £17.50 Melanie C, Molly McQueen, 5 4 3 2 1 Nov 6, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £17.50 Mika Dec 13, Roundhouse, £25 Mono Dec 8, Village Underground, £15 Mystery Jets Nov 29, Southbank Centre, £15 & £17.50, concs £7.50 & £8.75 Nicki Minaj Oct 30, The O2 Arena, £40 & £46 Noisettes Nov 13, KOKO, adv £16 Ocean Colour Scene Feb 25 & Feb 26, Electric Ballroom, £28.50 One Direction Feb 22 & Feb 23, Feb 23 & Feb 24, The O2 Arena, £25 & £33.50

Classical

Britten Sinfonia/Britten Sinfonia Voices Oct 27, Barbican Centre, £8-£32 Andrea Bocelli Nov 14 & Nov 15, The O2 Arena, £45-£120 Choir Of St Martin-In-The-Fields Oct 27, St Martin-In-The-Fields, £10 Exaudi Dec 6, The Temple Church, £10-£20 Jeremy Denk Nov 7, Wigmore Hall, £10 Katherine Jenkins, National Symphony Orchestra Dec 10, Royal Albert Hall, £29-£70

London Philharmonic Orchestra Oct 24, Southbank Centre, £9-£39 London Lawyers’ Symphony Orchestra Nov 10, St James’s Church, £12 Matthew Long & Elizabeth Kenny Nov 2, National Portrait Gallery, FREE Michael Nyman Dec 10, Islington Town Hall, £35 Philip Glass Ensemble Dec 15, Union Chapel, adv £20 Postgraduate Pianists Nov 2, Guildhall School Of Music & Drama, FREE Prague Symphony Orchestra Nov 16, Cadogan Hall, £18-£39 Rosie Coad Oct 26, Royal College Of Music, FREE, ticketed The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra Nov 2, Royal Albert Hall, phone for availability

Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment Oct 25, Southbank Centre, £9-£38

Dappy Dec 20, HMV Apollo, £18.50 Orbital Dec 14 & Dec 15, O2 Academy Brixton, £30 P!nk Apr 24, Apr 25, Apr 27, Apr 28, The O2 Arena, £42.50-£55 Paloma Faith Feb 7, HMV Apollo, £22.50£29.50 Passion Pit Nov 20, HMV Forum, £16 Patrick Watson Nov 4 & Nov 5, Village Underground, £14 Paul Carrack Oct 31, IndigO2, £15-£32.50 Plan B Feb 9, The O2 Arena, £30 Richard Hawley Nov 21, St John At Hackney Church, phone for prices Rizzle Kicks Nov 15, Roundhouse, £17.50; Nov 16, O2 Academy Brixton, £17.50 Rob Zombie/Marilyn Manson: Twins Of Evil Tour Nov 26, The O2 Arena, £30£37.50 Robyn Nov 1, O2 Academy Brixton, £20 Rodrigo Y Gabriela Nov 29, HMV Forum, £25 Rufus Wainwright Nov 18, HMV Apollo, £37.50-£50 Ryan Sheridan Nov 29, Monto Water Rats, £8 Saint Etienne Dec 14, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £22.50 Sandi Thom Nov 1, O2 Academy Islington, £17.50 Sandpilots, The Loop Nov 1, 93 Feet East, £6.50, adv £5 Seal Nov 6, HMV Apollo, £35-£55 Sebastien Tellier Dec 5, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £17.50 Seether, Heavens Basement Nov 15, Electric Ballroom, £16.50 Sham 69, Menace, Phobics Nov 24, The Borderline, £15 Sigur Ros Mar 7-Mar 9, O2 Academy Brixton, £30 Skunk Anansie Dec 1, O2 Academy Brixton, £25 Snarky Puppy, Hyperpotamus Nov 12, XOYO, £15 Soulwaxmas Dec 21, O2 Academy Brixton, £27.50 Space, Dollface Nov 17, O2 Academy Islington, £17.50 Spector, Splashh, Swim Deep, Luls Nov 10, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £12.50 Squeeze, Paul Heaton Dec 12, HMV Forum, £37.50 Status Quo, Bonnie Tyler, Eddie & The Hot Rods Dec 19, The O2 Arena, £38.50 Steve Vai Dec 2, HMV Apollo, £28.50 The Black Keys Dec 12 & Dec 13, The O2 Arena, £30 The Dandy Warhols Nov 22, Heaven, £24.50

The Divine Comedy Nov 7, Southbank Centre, £15-£25, concs £7.50-£12.50 The Hives Dec 14, Roundhouse, £18.50 The Killers, Tegan And Sara Nov 16 & Nov 17, The O2 Arena, £35 & £45 The Maccabees Nov 23, St John At Hackney Church, phone for prices The Overtones Nov 26, HMV Apollo, £19.50-£35 The Pogues Dec 20, The O2 Arena, £45 The Polyphonic Spree Oct 31, HMV Forum, £22.50 The Rasmus, The Dirty Youth Dec 14, Electric Ballroom, £14 The Raveonettes Dec 3, Village Underground, £14.50 The Tide Nov 1, The Roadhouse, £7, FREE before 10pm The Wedding Present Nov 23, KOKO, £16 The Wonder Stuff, Pop Will Eat Itself, Jesus Jones Dec 19, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, phone for prices The X Factor Live Tour 2013 Feb 7, The O2 Arena, £32.50 The XX Dec 16, O2 Academy Brixton, adv £25 Therapy? Dec 7, KOKO, adv £17.50 Tower Of Power Nov 18, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £26 Tulisa Nov 17, G-A-Y Bar, w/wristbands £4 Tyler James Nov 21, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £12 Voices Nov 29, The Hideaway, £10 Vreid Nov 4, The Underworld, adv £12 Wax Tailor Dec 4, KOKO, £15

Robbie Williams Nov 22-Nov 24, The O2 Arena, £50-£90 We Butter The Bread With Butter Nov 12, The Garage, £8 Wednesday 13 Oct 31, KOKO, £16 Wild Nothing Nov 28, The Lexington, £9 Wye Oak Dec 11, The Scala, adv £12 Yeasayer Dec 4, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £17 Yellowcard Feb 26, KOKO, £15 Yiannis Ploutarhos Nov 18, HMV Forum, £35 & £45 Yolanda Brown Mar 14, Millfield Arts Centre, £20, adv £19, concs £17, adv concs £16 Young And Lost Club Nov 1, The Lock Tavern, FREE Young Man Nov 12, The Borderline, £6 Zappa Plays Zappa Nov 10, Roundhouse, £31.50-£36.50

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MONDAY OCTOBER 22 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.

Pacha Rocks at Pacha, Terminus Place, SW1V 1JR Victoria £5, adv £4, 10pmlate. Resident DJs play funky house, dance and pop.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 23 Chocolate Tuesdays at Gem, 10 Beak Street, W1F 9RA Oxford Circus £5, 9pm-1am. DJs play Latin soul, Kizomba, salsa, reggae, samba and groove to accompany dance classes.

Desire at Covert, 65 Albert Embankment, SE1 7TP Vauxhall £8, w/flyer £6, 3am11am. DJs Steven Geller, Bruno Nouer and Sven Jon spin house and electro records.

F.I.S.H. at Covert, 65 Albert Embankment, SE1 7TP Vauxhall £8, w/flyer £5 before 1am, 11pm-late. Resident DJs play house, disco and minimal techno.

Juicy London at Proud Camden, The Horse Hospital, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AH Camden Town £3, FREE before 9pm, £1 before 10pm, 7.30pm-2.15am. Residents spin hip hop, classic R&B and bashment.

Panic at The Roxy, 3-5 Rathbone Place, W1T 1HJ Tottenham Court Road £5, NUS/w/flyer £3, guestlist w/flyer FREE before 10.30pm, 10pm-3am. Max Panic, Gaz Panic and That Perfect Fumble spin indie, electro, retro and pop.

Paradox Tuesdays at Egg, 200 York Way, N7 9AX King’s Cross St Pancras £15, £12 before 1am, adv/NUS/mems £8, 11pm6am. Resident DJs spin house and techno.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 24 Absolutely Lucky at Storm, 28a Leicester Square, WC2H 7LE Leicester Square guestlist FREE, 10.30pm-2am. Bengee spins house and techno.

Disco Paradise at Joiners Arms, 116-118 Hackney Road, E2 7QL Old Street FREE, 11pm-2am. Jo Public plays rare groove, disco, soul and rock’n’roll.

Roda De Samba at Guanabara, Parker Street, WC2B 5PW Holborn FREE, 5pm-late. DJ D.Vyzor and Thakosta spin Latin, pop, funk and soul, plus a live performance from Rebecca Vallim And Rio Samba.

XXL Wednesdays at Pulse, 1-4 Invicta Plaza, SE1 9UF Blackfriars £3, mems FREE, annual m’ship £10, 9pm-3am. DJs Christian M and Alex Logan play funky house in the main room, while Joe Egg spins retro in the Fluff Bar.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 25 Bad Sex at Proud Camden, The Horse Hospital, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AH Camden Town £7, £5 before 10pm, guestlist NUS £5, NUS FREE before 10pm, 8.30pm-1.15am. Mayton DJs and Fin Munro spin house, electro, indie and floorflillers, with special guests Minature Cities and Laces.

Chick Habit at Candy Bar, 4 Carlisle Street, W1D 3BJ Tottenham Court Road FREE, 9.30pm-late. DJs Amy B and CeCe spin pop and classics from the 1990s, plus music by girls in the basement.

Faith Live at East Village, 89 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3HX Old Street £10, £7 before 12midnight, FREE before 11.30pm,

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5pm-11pm. Resident DJs Terry Farley, Stuart Patterson, Roual Galloway and Jimmy P spin house and disco records.

Speakeasy at Proud Cabaret, 1 Mark Lane, Fenchurch Street £49 EC3R 7AH inc meal, 8.30pm-late. Resident DJs spin swing, jazz and electro, plus live burlesque and cabaret performances from Coco Dubois, Jolie Papillon, Beau Rocks and Pippa The Ripper.

Underdog at Pacha, Terminus Place, SW1V 1JR Victoria £7, adv £5, 10pmlate. Kris Harris and DJ Valente spin house in the main room, while Hidden.Outside.The. Box play indie, electronic, dance, and nudisco in the Global Room.

Vinyl at Eagle, 349 Kennington Lane, SE11 5QY Vauxhall £3, FREE before 10pm, mems £2, 6pm-2am. DJ Screwpulous spins pop hits from the last three decades.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 26

The Gallery at The Ministry Of Sound, 103 Gaunt Street, SE1 6DP Elephant & Castle £14, 11pm-6am. John O Callaghan, Aly & Fila, Max Graham, Sneijder, Tall Paul, Gavyn Mytchel, Cole Jonson, Steve Murrell, Jayson Smythe, Franzo Kolms, Andre Crash, Audio Fusion and Nic Sol spin trance, dance, house and electro.

19 Years Of Jungle Mania at The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL King’s Cross St Pancras adv £14.50, 10pm-6am. Jungle, drum’n’bass, old skool garage and funky house across three arenas, courtesy of Congo Natty, Micky Finn, Brockie, Kenny Ken, Nicky Blackmarket, Jumping Jack Frost, DJ Kane, DJ Guv, Annix, Propz, Rowney, Jayline, DJ Inter, DJ S.O, Gunman, Judah, Whitey, Raggo, Kezman, DJ Kure, Magnum, Dubplate Alabye, Slim Dee, Brown B, Unity, C-Jamma, Dubzee, Mikey D and Master J, plus MCs Tenor Fly, Ragga Twins, Fearless, Speach, Kombo, Deefa, Hyperactive and Lipton.

Big In Japan at The Book Club, 100-106 Leonard Street, EC2A 4RH Old Street £5 after 9pm, 8pm-2am. Disco, house and hip hop courtesy of Kid Who, Sophie Lloyd, Leftside Wobble, Capita and Jay Karim.

Circus Ldn at Egg, 200 York Way, N7 9AX King’s Cross St Pancras adv £13 & £15, 11pm-7am. DJs Yousef, Luca Bacchetti, Jon Rundell, Guy J, Bruni And Danielle, Lock Eyes, Roberto Amo and Unai Trotti spin house and techno.

Dancar E Jantar at Floripa, 91-93 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3HZ Old Street FREE, 5pm-2am. DJ Gringo Da Parada spins samba, swing, rock’n’roll, hip hop, punk, Britpop and electronica.

An Evening With Billion Dollar Boogie at Bar Music Hall, 134-146 Curtain Road, EC2A 3AR Old Street £3, FREE before 10pm, 9pm-3am. Resident DJs spin discojazz, electro funk and house.

Fabriclive at Fabric, 77A Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6HJ Farringdon £18, adv £17, £22 In CD, NUS £13 before 12midnight, mems £13, £8 after 3am, 10pm-6am. DJ Hype, Pascal, Hazard, Grooverider, Brookes Brothers, Sub Zero, Taxman, Prolix, IC3, GQ, Evil B, Funsta MC, 2Shy and Felon spin drum’n’bass, electronica and jungle in room one, while LTJ Bukem, Fabio, Doc Scott, Furney, Dynamite MC, GQ and Warren G play house and drum’n’bass in room two.

Room three boasts dubstep courtesy of Joe Syntax, Synkro, Stray, Villem, Anile, Codebreaker and Bassline Girls Allowed: Ladies Takeover at Love & Liquor, 34 Kilburn High Road, NW6 5UA Kilburn High Road £10, £7 before 12midnight, FREE before 9pm, ladies guestlist £5, FREE before 11pm, 8pm-3am. DJs Kayper and Krystal Roxx spin hip hop, soul, funk and jungle.

Horse & Groom & Emmanuelle’s’ Party Bucket Birthday & Halloween Bash at Horse And Groom, 28 Curtain Road, EC2A 3NZ Shoreditch High Street early bird £3, 8pm-5am. DJs Cut And Shut Disco, Neil Thornton, Steve Taylor, The Cosmic Kids, Crazy P (DJ set), Death On The Balcony, Helen B, Brooke Johnston and Bobby Pleasure spin house and disco.

Hot Creations Presents Halloween Fright Night at Secret Location, E1 adv £18 & £20, 10pm-6am. DJs Lee Foss, Richy Ahmed, Robert James and Mark Jenykins play house and techno, plus Anabel Englund performs live.

Jubilee at The Barfly, Camden, 49 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AN Chalk Farm adv £5, 10pm-late. Resident DJs play indie, pop and rock’n’roll, plus live performances from The Damn Jammage and Porn Disco.

Krankbrother Halloween at Secret Location, W9 adv £25, 10pm-6am. DJs Magda, Josh Wink, Gavin Herlihy and Krankbrothers spin house and minimal techno, plus a live performance from Marc Houle and Nhar.

Push & Run Label Party at The Nest, 36 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XJ Dalston Kingsland £7, 9pm-4am.

MJ Cole, Ifan Dafydd, Pedestrian, Bodhie and Roosevelt spin garage, with liver performances from Visions Of Trees and Danglo.

Onyx: New Era at Area, 67-68 Albert Embankment, SE1 7HD Vauxhall adv £6, adv £12 inc A:M Afterhours at Fire, 11pm-5am. Per QX, Terry Bryan, Matt Bogard, Lady Lloyd, Tasty Tim, James St James, Tuomo Fox, Kartel Brown and Maximus Crown spin house, pop, R&B, garage and funk across three areas.

Popstarz at Hidden, 100 Tinworth Street, SE11 5EQ Vauxhall £7, £5 before 11pm, 10pm-late. Resident DJs spin indie, pop and R&B across three rooms every week.

Propaganda at O2 Academy Islington, N1 Centre, 16 Parkfield Street, N1 0PS Angel £5, 10.30pm-3.30am. DJ Dan and guests spin an eclectic mix of indie, electro, pop, dance and drum’n’bass.

Push The Button at Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY Vauxhall £6, 9pm-3am. DJs Hits and Mrs and Dog At A Disco spin the best of the Minogue sisters classic hits along with an array of Aussie pop, dance and disco hits.

Regulate 2nd Birthday Halloween Special at Covert, 65 Albert Embankment, SE1 7TP Vauxhall early bird £6, 10pm-6am. DJs Breakage, Mele, Mickey Pearce, Mak And Pasteman, South London Ordnance, Mista Men, Slimzee, Wonder, Pedro123 and Checan spin dubstep, drum’n’bass, grime and bass music, plus MCs LX-One, Illaman and Prof D. Sextape: Creepy Halloween Dress Up Party at The Macbeth, 70 Hoxton Street, N1 6LP Old Street FREE, 7pm-late.

DJs Chris Cuff, Miz, Karistocat, Ro Sham Beau, Killary Bankz and Stronglook spin hip hop, rap, R&B and pop.

The Sizzle Suite Halloween Special at Ginglik, Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12 8PH Shepherd’s Bush £9, guestlist £7 before 10pm, mems FREE, 7pm-3am. DJ Count Sizzle, Duke Skeleton and Natty Bo play swing, ska, jive, funk, soul and blues, plus a live performance from Alexia Coley.

Space Halloween: The Zombie Mansion at Pacha, Terminus Place, SW1V 1JR Victoria £12, 11pm-6am. DJs Dirty Stop Outs, Move the House, Jason Feist, Jay W and Neil Page play funky house, electro and dance.

Stush Masquerade Ball: 18th Birthday Party at Hidden, 100 Tinworth Street, SE11 5EQ Vauxhall £15, adv £10, 10pm-6am. DJs Matt Lamont, Mikee B, Mike Llloyd, Norris Windross, Ramsey And Fen spin house and old skool in the main room, while Jumping Jack Frost, Kenny Ken, Marley Marl, Charlie Brown and Ray Keith mix drum’n’bass and jungle in room two, plus Mark Radford, Sef Kombo and Funky Smith play house in room three.

Tonker at Eagle, 349 Kennington Lane, SE11 5QY Vauxhall £6, FREE before 10pm, mems £5 after 10pm, 9pm-3am.

Resident DJ Tim Jones and guest play house, chart and dance.

Too Cute To Puke at White Rabbit, 125 Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 0UH Stoke Newington £4, 9pm-late.

Lucy Watusi spins 1960s girl groups, pop, garage, punk, indie pop, northern soul, new wave, Motown, ska, diy, all by female singers.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 6 Years Of Ketoloco at Cable, 33A Bermondsey Street, SE1 2EG London Bridge £15-£20, adv £12.50, 10pm-6am. DJs Solomun, Hot Lunch, Ketoloco, Adam Saville, Quantize & Bad

Onemore Halloween Fancy Dress Night at Hearn Street Car Park, Hearn Street, EC2A 3LS Old Street £20, adv £17.50, earlybird £10 & £13, 10.30pm-6.30am. The venue is transformed into a spooky dungeon as Steve Lawler and Livio & Roby spin house and techno supported by residents Antonio De Angelis, Raymundo Rodriguez and Outart. .

Apple, Buckley, Chris Stanford, Dave Coleman, Josef Lupo, S T Ruggs and Dave Harbour spin disco-house, techno and dance tracks across two rooms.

Audio Sushi at The Dogstar, 389 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8LQ Brixton £5, FREE before 10pm, 9pm4am. Jeffrey Disastronaut plays reggae, electro, funk jungle, pop, indie and dubstep.

The Breakfast Club at Club 414, 414 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8LF Brixton £5, 7am-11am. Resident DJs Dean G and Toasty spin uplifting house, trance, progressive house, techno and psychedelic trance.

Club De Fromage: Halloween A Grave Affair at O2 Academy Islington, N1 Centre, 16 Parkfield Street, N1 0PS Angel £10, 7pm-late. Resident DJs spin old school and indie, plus live performance from rock band Lucifer’s Grandmother.

Crossfire Halloween Massacre at Bay Sixty 6 Skate Park, 65 Acklam Road, W10 5YU Westbourne Park adv £15, 8pm-late. Eddy Temple Morris, Stereotype, Sweet Dreams, Johnny Doom And Matt Stocks, Talita Two Shoes, The Crossfire Sound System and Phoebe Winter spin classic rock, hip hop, bass, dubstep, drum’n’bass and party classics.

Discophobia at The Russian Bar, 267 Kingsland Road, E2 8AS Old Street £6, FREE before 12midnight, w/flyer £4, 10pm-5am. DJs Julian Neumann, Monika Ross, Anya Freespirit and Hearz spin house and techno.

Drumcode Halloween Fright Night at Great Suffolk Street Warehouse, 29 Great Suffolk Street, SE1 0NS Southwark adv £20, 10pm-6am. DJs Adam Beyer, Joseph Capriati, Alan Fitzpatrick, Nick And Jack, Jack Doyle And NPD, Pan-Pot, Nicole Moudaber, Magma, Mark d’Ground, Gavin Rayner and Steve Kurz play house and techno across two rooms, plus a live performance from Maetrik.

Duckie at Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY Vauxhall £6, 9pm-2am. Resident DJs spin pop and indie hosted by the inimitable Amy Lame, plus cabaret performances.

Elixir Of Life: Halloween Special at Electric Brixton, 1 Town Hall Parade, Brixton Hill, SW2 1RJ Brixton £15, 10pm-7am. DJs Neelix, Headroom, Tristan, Avalon, Regan And Ans, The Orb Sound System, Mike Maguire, Shane Gobi, Liquid Ross, Disco Stu, Aliji, Slackbaba, Monk3ylogic, Tongue And Groove, Hamish, Nuno, Mebjar, Simon Baring, Renegade DJ, Wiz, Llamaleaf and Ade spin psychedelic trance.

Get Some! at Floripa, 91-93 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3HZ Old Street £10, £5 before 10pm, FREE before 9pm, 5pm-2am. Vintage rock’n’roll, indie and electronica courtesy of DJ Deany Seagulls.

Halloween in the Dark! The Zombies Attack! at Lala Lounge, 1 Blacks Road, W6 9DT Hammersmith adv £12, early bird £10, 10pm-6am. Jay Sun Bailante, Shakit, Dtee, Mr General and Djorn mix soca, dancehall, Afrobeat, R&B, hip hop, funky house, reggae and zouk.

Halloween Day Of The Dead at Zigfrid, 11 Hoxton Square, N1 6NU Old Street £7 & £10, adv £5, 10pm-3am. Chilangos and Maritza spin Mexican electro and house DJs, plus a live performance from Poppy Perezz.

Hollywood Forever Halloween at Egg, 200 York Way, N7 9AX King’s Cross St Pancras £20, adv £15, 10pm-11am. David Penn, Pablo Ceballos, Rae Egg, Audiowhores, My Digital Enemy and Femi B spin house, techno and deep.

Hot Boy Halloween Spot at Dalston Superstore, 117 Kingsland High Street, E8 2PB Dalston Kingsland £5, 10pmlate. House, techno and electronica courtesy of The Lovely Jonjo, Hello Mozart, Drums Of Death and Anal House Meltdown.

I Love Acid - Halloween Rave at Ginglik, Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12 8PH Shepherd’s Bush £8, £6 before 12midnight, 9pm-4am. DJs Altern-8, Mark Archer, AGT Rave Cru and Strangius Dudus spin acid, techno and hardcore.

Lemonade Takeover: Forgive Me Lord For I Have Synth at The Nest, 36 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XJ Dalston Kingsland £5, FREE before 10.30pm, 9pm-4am. KRL, Wolf Music, Slothboogie and ThatJohnAlbot spin electro and disco.

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.

Low Life at Corsica Studios, 4-5 Elephant Road, SE17 1LB Elephant & Castle adv £12 & £15, 10pm-6am. DJ Strangefruit, Legendary Children, Frank Broughton, Matthew Burgess, Michael Cook and Bill Brewster spin house, garage and Balearic beats.

Mellophonik at Gigalum, 7 Cavendish Parade, Clapham Common South Side, SW4 9DW Clapham South FREE, 5pm-12midnight. DJ Klousde, Hilton Caswell, Flipe Neves, Miley and Miss DX spin techno and house, with a Halloween fancy dress theme.

Mint Social- Halloween at Mayfair Exchange, 34 Brook Street, W1K 5DN Bond Street £10, 8.30pm-3am. DJ Rachel Harvey and DJ Sistah Cee spin old skool, 1980s, 1990s, R&B and commercial.

Monster at Candy Bar, 4 Carlisle Street, W1D 3BJ Tottenham Court Road £5, mems £3, FREE before 10pm, 9pm3am. Chart hits, dance and pop classics hosted by DJ Lady Bex or Sandra D on alternate weeks.

The Paradise Show at Paradise By Way Of Kensal Green, 19 Kilburn Lane, W10 4AE Kensal Green £5 after 9pm, 8pm-2am.

Jim Sharp plays funk, soul and rocking vintage blues.

Phantasmagoria at The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL King’s Cross St Pancras £29.99, adv £19.99, 9pm-4am. Vintage jazz, rock’n’roll, showtunes, party tunes and electro-swing courtesy of DJ Jamie Moon and Jean-Paul Seculaire.

The Red Hot Grind Show at The Bedroom Bar, 62 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY Old Street £7, adv £5, 9pm-3am. DJs Rumble, Crash And Burn and Mandera Verde spin pop and rock’n’roll, with a live performance from The Bikini Beach Band.

Reel Music at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, Basement Of Tavistock Hotel, Tavistock Square, WC1H 9EU Russell Square £7, 8pm-3am. Resident DJs play pop, rock and retro hits from film soundtracks.

Ride at Proud Camden, The Horse Hospital, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AH Camden Town £10, guestlist £10, £8 before 10pm, guestlist FREE before 9pm, 7.30pm-2.15am. Residents Filthy Few and Broken Jam spin Motown, commercial, house, indie, electro, alt pop and garage, with special guest Sophie Lloyd.

Scary/ Sexy Halloween Party at The Cavendish Arms, 128 Hartington Road, SW8 2HJ Stockwell FREE, 7pm2am. Indie pop, old school garage, rave, drum’n’bass and Halloween favourites courtesy of DJs Dex Lutha, Kalamity Kate, Sallymondo and Ambers Are Hot. Seduktion Halloween Special at Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY Old Street £15, adv £10, 6pm-late. DJs Colin Chiddle, Ollie Gibson, Rob Charles, Lewis James and Alex Chapman spin house and disco.

Silver at The Underworld, 174 Camden High Street, NW1 0NE Camden Town £6, NUS/w/flyer £5, 11pm-3am. DJ Jo Bliss plays indie and electro.

Troupe Halloween Party at XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A 4AP Old Street £8, 9pm-late. DJs Boddika, Shadow Child, Klose One and the residents spin dubstep and electronica.

Smoke & Mirrors at The Barfly, Camden, 49 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AN Chalk Farm £5, £3 before 11pm, 10pmlate. DJs Auto De Fe, Trenchfoot, Rock Hunter and DJ John Downfall play folk, rock and indie.

Thriller Night! at Drink, Shop & Do, 9 Caledonian Road, N1 9DX King’s Cross St Pancras £8, fancy dress £5, 6pm-2am. Residents spin dance, electro, R&B, indie, pop and disco.

Vagabondz at Plan B, 418 Brixton Road, SW9 7AY Brixton £8-£12, 10pm6am. DJs Wookie, Eliphino, Flako and Rum spin house, soul and UK funky.

Vive Le Halloween! at The Garage, 20-26 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD Highbury & Islington £12, 10.30pmlate. Themed pop and rock anthems played courtesy of DJs Urban Voodoo Machine, Severed Limb, Banjoey Ramone, Dalston Fisting Club, Mamzelle Fifi, Zora Viperaz and Vive Le Rock.

Wiggle Halloween Howler at Paramount, Centre Point, 103 New Oxford Street, WC1A 1DD Tottenham Court Road adv £15, early bird £12, 11pm-7am. DJs Nathan Coles, Evil Eddie Richards and Samantha Blackburn spin tech house records, plus a live performance from Saytek.

Zombie Soundsystem Presents A Cadenza Halloween Special at Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Road, W10 5JJ Westbourne Park adv £8£15, 9pm-4am. DJs Shane Watcha, Clint Less, Mirko Loko and Lee Van Dowski spin house and techno records.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 28 Beyond 3am at Area, 67-68 Albert Embankment, SE1 7HD Vauxhall £10, 3am-12noon. DJs Steve Pitron, Sharp Boys, Rob Sykes, Paul Heron, Fat Tony, HiFi Sean, Paul Christian, Jamie Head, The Oli, Jonny M and guests spin house, electro and techno across three rooms.

Halloween Banquet at The Windmill, Windmill Drive, SW4 9DE Clapham Common £44.95 inc meal, £35.00 early bird, 7pm-12midnight.

DJ Stork plays pop and dance, plus entertainment from The Dinner Show.

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 on rotation.

La Dolce Vita at Gigalum, 7 Cavendish Parade, Clapham Common South Side, SW4 9DW Clapham South FREE, 7pm-late. Balearic, house and dance courtesy of Darren James, Leroy Taylor, Smashbox and DJ Waity.

Missing at 333, 333 Old Street, EC1V 9LL Old Street £8, £5 before 10pm, ladies FREE, 8pm-2am. Deep techno and house courtesy of Jordan Rutter, Daniel Mitchell and Kemi Oshi.

Riot! Halloween Spooktacular at Hidden, 100 Tinworth Street, SE11 5EQ Vauxhall adv £5-£13, 12noon-9pm.

DJs Ian M, BK, Pete Wardman, Anne Savage, Scott Attrill, Andy Farley, Karim, Kevsey D, Generator, Lee Haslam, Phil Reynolds, Brett Wood, Charlie Bradley, Tobie Allen, The Real Tony Montana and Darkmatter spin hard house and trance across three rooms.

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on Wednesday last week – is the culmination of four years work for the duo, having begun as a Youth Music Theatre production in Bracknell in 2009, before graduating to the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds this summer.

It is inspired by Bourne’s post-Busted punkpop band, Son of Dork, and their 2005 album, Welcome to Loserville.

Davis, who’s previous work includes the critically acclaimed musicals Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi and Best Friends and Butterflies, met Bourne when they were living in the same block of flats.

“I was working a lot in the music industry and we just hooked up really,” he explains. “James had written the Son of Dork album, which was the inspiration for the whole thing, so we took four or five of those songs and then wrote new songs together.

“I listened to the album and wrote a document called ‘clues on the album’ to come up with the storyline. Then it was a case of connecting the dots to make it into a show.”

Going from writing pop albums to theatre music might seem like quite a leap, but Bourne says he found the process easier than writing for Busted and Son of Dork.

“It’s a lot easier to write musicals as you’re given a lot more information from the start. It’s like if you’re given a crossword and some of the answers have already been filled in for you, it makes it easier to complete. Whereas if you’re writing from scratch it can be a completely jumbled Rubik’s Cube.”

Whatever analogy you favour, the pair have certainly cracked their puzzle. Loserville is an energetic and genuinely entertaining show that is winning over audiences of all ages.

“Because of the time it’s set in, the adults get things like the Star Wars references,” says Davis.

“I wanted the show to be like a Pixar movie, where marks on the world. kids get it on one level Geek at heart James Bourne Both co-writers say the themes and adults can enjoy it on are close to their hearts. And it’s a different level.” the sci-fi fixated character, Lucas Lloyd, who And taking the show to the West End is “a Bourne most identifies with. dream come true,” he says.

“Lucas sees his nerd power as the ability to “It’s not Pinter, it’s not Shakespeare, it’s write science fiction,” he says. “He sees it as a mass entertainment, and the West End is the way to get girls. He’s the one who tells Michael, ultimate home for it. Seeing a real age spread ‘no, your nerdiness and knowledge of computers responding to it every night, that’s the most can lead a path to girls’. It reminds me of when I humbling thing about it.” was 11 at school and learning guitar – I saw that as my path to girls,” he laughs.

Loserville, until March 2013, Garrick The show – which opened in the West End Theatre, loservillemusical.tv

“G

eeks really do inherit the earth,” says James Bourne enthusiastically. “It’s not a secret, it’s open knowledge.

The biggest winners are geeks.”

Celebrating this fact is Loserville, a new West End musical written by Bourne – formerly of teen rock-pop band Busted – and his musical theatre partner Elliot Davis.

It tells the story of a 1970s American highschool geek called Michael Dork, who dreams of making computers “talk to each other”, and his motley crew of similarly socially-challenged pals as they try to work out how to make their nerdy

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Well, one of them went on to write the West End’s newest hit musical. Laura Martin chats to James Bourne and his Loserville co-creator Elliot Davis

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Scrooge The Musical London Palladium October 24 – January 5, £32-£70

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And so it begins. The tidal wave of Christmas shows kicks off this week with this new production of Leslie Bricusse’s musical version of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.

Stage veteran Tommy Steele will return to the title role (he also played Scrooge in the 2005 London production), a part originally made famous by Albert Finney in the 1970 film.

Filling the gap at the Palladium between Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Wizard Of Oz and Sam Mendes’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it’s one of the West End’s safest if least imaginative bets for the Christmas feel-good factor.

October 25 – November 24, £10-£28 While Jez Butterworth’s The River is grabbing the headlines in the Royal Court’s upstairs theatre, a new play about grabbing headlines will be taking place downstairs.

NSFW is the latest offering from talented young writer Lucy Kirkwood, and will star Mighty Boosh actor Julian Barratt as the editor of a struggling lads’ mag.

A stark and comedic look at the world of magazine publishing, the production also stars Janie Dee, Sacha Dhawan and Kevin Doyle, and is directed by Simon Godwin.

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Bunnies New Diorama Theatre October 23 – November 3, £10.50-£12.50

October 25 – February 16, £38.50-£76 Two productions of Chekhov’s late 19th century classic are to arrive in the West End within a week of each other, this being the first and most high-profile.

It sees Anna Friel return to the West End stage for the first time since her celebrated turn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 2009. Joining her in the humorous tale, which is set around a Russian estate and the frustrations and 50 Scout London scoutlondon.com

disappointments of its staff, will be TV and film star Ken Stott (Rebus, The Hobbit), Downton Abbey’s Laura Carmichael and Sam West, who was nominated for an Olivier for his leading role in Enron.

The production will be directed by awardwinning West End veteran Lindsay Posner.

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Kieran Lynn’s new black comedy uses a farmer’s quest to rid his land of ‘non-native species’ (the grey squirrel, the Siberian chipmunk and so forth) as a way of looking at contemporary xenophobia and racially-motivated extremism.

A hit at Exeter’s Bike Shed Theatre last year, it comes to the New Diorama with a Peter Brook Empty Space award under its belt and plaudits from reviewers.

Horrible Histories – Barmy Britain Garrick Theatre October 27 – January 6, £10-£14.50 After taking a break to tour the Middle East, Birmingham Stage Company’s theatrical adaptation of the allconquering Horrible Histories franchise returns to the Garrick just in time for half term.

Singling out some of British history’s most idiosyncratic people and practices, not to mention its grossest and grisliest moments, this wellreviewed hour-long show acts as a

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humorous history lesson wrapped up in a far more palatable jolly day out package.

However kids feel about their history lessons, they’re unlikely not to be enthralled by everything from the Saxons to the Somme in this tried and tested, fun first format.

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October 23 – November 10, £10-£13

October 24 – November 10, £6-£12

The challenges of trying to succeed as a black actor – a ‘blackta’ – are the subject of this caustic new satire from writer Nathaniel Martello-White.

Directed by Young Vic Artistic director David Lan, the production stars Anthony Welsh, who won acclaim for his performance in boxing drama Sucker Punch at the Royal Court, and Javone Prince, star of E4’s PhoneShop.

Transplanting classic Shakespeare into a contemporary London setting, complete with gang violence and social networking, is hardly a new trick. But it can be surprisingly effective, particularly when trying to attract younger audiences.

Othello is the latest of the tragedies to get this treatment, courtesy of Culturcated Theatre Company, at this lovely Brockley playhouse.

What kind of covert activities does our government get up to in the countryside in the dead of night? That’s the question at the heart of Clare Bayley’s new political thriller, which journeys into a murky world of isolated airports and secret midnight landings.

The widely celebrated Pentabus theatre company will stage this world premiere, with direction from Elizabeth Freestone.

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A Chorus Of Disapproval booking until Jan 5 2013, The Harold Pinter Theatre, 6 Panton Street, SW1Y 4DN Piccadilly Circus £10-£53.50, Premium Seats £85, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm, no perfs Dec 2426, 31, extra mat perf Dec 28, 2.30pm.

Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy about an amateur opera company’s back stage problems surrounding the imminent staging of The Beggar’s Opera.

The 39 Steps booking 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.

Billy Elliot - The Musical booking until Dec 21 2013, Victoria Palace, Victoria Street, SW1E 5EA Victoria £19.50-£65, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm.

An adaptation of the film.

Blood Brothers booking until Nov 10, Phoenix Theatre, 110 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0JP Leicester Square £20-£65, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Thu 3pm, Sat 4pm. Willy Russell’s musical.

Cabaret booking until Jan 19 2013, Savoy Theatre, Savoy Court, Strand, WC2R 0ET Charing Cross £35-£85, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm, no perf Dec 25. Will Young stars in Rufus Norris’s award-winning production of Kander and Ebb’s musical.

Chariots Of Fire booking until Feb 2 2013, Gielgud Theatre, 35-37 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6AR Piccadilly Circus £26-£55, Premium Seats £85, MonSat 7.45pm, mats Wed, Sat 3pm. Mike Bartlett’s stage version of the race to compete in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games.

Damned By Despair booking until Nov 7, National Theatre: Olivier, South Bank, SE1 9PX Waterloo £12-£32, OAP £22, Oct 26 & 27, Nov 6 & 7, 7.30pm, mat Oct 27, 2pm. A new version written by Frank McGuinness, of Baroque Spanish writer Tirso de Molina’s drama.

Dreamboats And Petticoats booking until Jan 19 2013, Wyndham’s Theatre, Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0DA Leicester Square £10-£75, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu 3pm, Sat 4pm, except Dec 24, 3pm only, no perfs Dec 25 & 26, Jan 1, extra mat perfs Dec 28, Jan 2, 3pm. Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran’s musical.

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Ghost - The Musical booking 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.

Hedda Gabler booking until Nov 10, Old Vic, 103 The Cut, SE1 8NB Waterloo Oct 1-31, Nov 1-10 £11-£50, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm. Henrik Ibsen’s classic drama about a young woman’s yearning for independence, adapted by Brian Friel.

Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain! (Over 6s) Starts Sat, booking until Jan 6 2013, Garrick Theatre, 2 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0HH Charing Cross £10£14.50, From Oct 27, Thu & Fri 1pm, Sat 10.30am & 12noon, Sun 2pm & 4pm. A look at all the nasty, crazy things British people have done to each other over many years.

Jersey Boys booking 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, 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.

Jumpy booking until Nov 3, The Duke Of York’s, St Martin’s Lane, WC2N 4BG Leicester Square £15-£52.50, student £25, OAP £29.50, adv OAP £32.50, Premium Seats £75, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm. April De Angelis’s family drama, featuring Tamsin Greig.

Les Miserables booking until Oct 26 2013, Queen’s Theatre, 51 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6BA Piccadilly Circus £20-£85, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm, no perf Dec 24 & 25, extra mat perf Dec 27, Jan 3, 2.30pm. Musical drama.

Let It Be booking until Jan 19 2013, Prince Of Wales Theatre, 31 Coventry Street, W1D 6AS Piccadilly Circus £20, £40, £60, Mon, Wed-Sat 7.30pm, Sun 5pm, mats Thu, Sat 3pm. Marking 50 years since the release of their first single, The Beatles are celebrated in this musical-narrative.

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

London 2012 Cultural Olympiad: Timon Of Athens booking until Nov 1, National Theatre: Olivier, South Bank, SE1 9PX Waterloo Oct 1-31, Nov 1 £12-£32, child £12-£22, Wed 2pm OAP £12, £22, Oct 22-25, 29-31, Nov 1, 7.30pm, mat Oct 25, 2pm. Shakespeare’s fable on consumption, ruin and debt, with Simon Russell Beale in the title role.

Loserville booking until Mar 2 2013, Garrick Theatre, 2 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0HH Charing Cross Oct 17-31, Nov 1-30, Dec 1-31, Jan 1-31, Feb 1-28, Mar 1 & 2 Mon-Thu £10-£45, Fri & Sat £10£49.50, Tue & Wed 3pm & 7.30pm family £32.50, Oct 1-16 previews £10-£29.50, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 3pm.

Musical about a computer geek, set in 1971 written by Elliot Davis and James Bourne.

Mamma Mia! booking until Apr 13 2013, Novello Theatre, 5 Aldwych, WC2B 4LD Covent Garden Mon-Fri £15-£64, Sat £15-£67.50, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Thu, Sat 3pm. Musical comedy.

Matilda: The Musical booking until Dec 22 2013, Cambridge Theatre, Earlham Street, WC2H 9HU Covent Garden Oct 25 2011-Dec 22 2013 £19-£58.50, disabled £28.75, Tue-Thu under 18s £19-£48.50, 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 Showstoppers booking until Dec 23, Charing Cross Theatre, The Arches, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NL Embankment £17.50-£27.50, Sun 7pm, mats Nov 4, Dec 16, 3pm. Improvised musical comedy from the acclaimed troupe.

Michael Clark Company: Barbican New Works Programme booking until Oct 27, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS Barbican £16-£42, Tue-Sat 7.45pm.

The acclaimed dancer-choreographer presents new works.

The Man On Her Mind booking until Oct 27, New Players Theatre, The Arches, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NL Embankment £17.50 & £29.50, MonSat 7.30pm, mats Sat 3.30pm. Comedy drama about two people who meet in their dreams, written by Alan Hruska.

The Mousetrap booking 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.

Agatha Christie’s murder mystery.

Much Ado About Nothing booking until Oct 27, Noel Coward Theatre, 85-88 St Martin’s Lane, WC2N 4AU Leicester Square £15-£59.50, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2pm.

Shakespeare’s comedy of feuding lovers starring Meera Syal.

The Mystery Of Charles Dickens booking until Nov 10, Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, WC2N 5DE Charing Cross £15-£55, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm. Peter Ackroyd’s one-man drama, starring Simon Callow.

NSFW Starts Thu, booking until Nov 24, Jerwood Theatre At The Royal Court, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS Sloane Square Mon £10, Tue-Sat 7.30pm £12, £20, £28, under 25s £8, Thu, Sat 2.30pm/concs £15, £23, From Oct 25, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 2.30pm, Nov 15, 22, 2.30pm (press night Oct 31, 7pm). A sharp comedy by Lucy Kirkwood, on power games in the media and elsewhere.

One Man, Two Guvnors booking 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.

Our Boys booking until Dec 15, Duchess Theatre, 3-5 Catherine Street, WC2B 5LA Covent Garden Oct 3-31, Nov 1-30, Dec 1-15 £20, £45, £65, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.45pm. An account of the trials and terrors faced by young injured soldiers, written by Jonathan Lewis.

The Phantom Of The Opera booking until Oct 26 2013, Her Majesty’s Theatre, 57 Haymarket, SW1Y 4QL Piccadilly Circus £22.45-£85, MonSat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long running musical, celebrating its 27th year.

The River booking until Nov 17, Jerwood Theatre At The Royal Court, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS Sloane Square Mon £10, Tue-Sat 7.45pm £20, Thu, Sat 3.30pm/available until Oct 27 concs £15, no tickets available for advance purchase; all tickets on sale on day of performance, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Thu, Sat 3.30pm (press night Oct 26, 7pm, no mat perf Oct 25). A bewitching tale set in a remote cliff-top cabin, written by Jez Butterworth.

Rock Of Ages booking until Feb 17 2013, 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, no perf Dec 25, Dec 31, 3pm & 7pm, extra mat perf Dec 27, 3pm. Chris D’Arienzo’s musical celebrating Los Angeles rock culture.

The Royal Ballet: Swan Lake Ends Nov 24, Royal Opera House, 45 Floral Street, WC2E 9DD Covent Garden phone for prices, Oct 23, 25, Nov 6, 9, 15, 22, 7.30pm, Oct 27, Nov 10, 24, 7pm, mats Nov 10, 24, 1.30pm. Tchaikovsky’s lyrical ballet, with choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.

Scrooge The Musical Starts Wed, booking until Jan 5 2013, London Palladium, 8 Argyll Street, W1F 7TF Oxford Circus £27-£69, child £22£53, From Oct 24, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 3pm, Dec 28, 3pm (press night Nov 6, 7pm, no perf Dec 24-26, Jan 1).

Leslie Bricusse’s musical based on Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.

Shakespeare’s Queens & The Madness Of King Lear booking until Nov 3, Arts Theatre, 6-7 Great Newport Street, WC2H 7JB Covent Garden Oct 16-31, Nov 1-3 £16.50-£28.50, MonSat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm. Two short Australian plays, from Straylight Australia and CW Productions.

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Shrek - The Musical booking until Feb 24 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, Dec 24, 31, 3pm. Musical based on the computeranimated film.

Singin’ In The Rain booking until Sep 1 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, Oct 1-Aug 31 2013, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mat Oct 1-Aug 31 2013, Wed, Sat 2.30pm, no perf Dec 24 & 25, 31, Jan 6, Dec 26, 5pm, extra mat perf Dec 27 & 28, Jan 3, 2.30pm.

Musical based on the MGM film about the end of silent movies.

Stomp booking until Dec 22 2013, Ambassadors Theatre, West Street, WC2H 9ND Leicester Square £20-£49.50, Mon, Thu-Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm, mats Thu, Sat & Sun 3pm, no perf Dec 25, no eve perf Dec 24, Jan 1. Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell’s show.

Tape booking until Nov 10, Trafalgar Studios, 14 Whitehall, SW1A 2DY Charing Cross Oct 12-31, Nov 1-10 £27.50, concs £24.50, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Thu, Sat 3pm. Stephen Belber’s suspenseful drama, featuring Marc Elliott as Vince.

This House booking until Dec 1, National Theatre: Cottesloe, South Bank, SE1 9PX Waterloo Oct 1-31, Nov 1-30, Dec 1 £12-£32, Mon-Fri 2.30pm & 7.30pm under 18s £12-£20, Wed & Thu 2.30pm OAP £12-£22, Oct 22 & 23, 29-31, Nov 16 & 17, 19 & 20, 26-30, Dec 1, 7.30pm, mats Nov 17, 29, Dec 1, 2.30pm. A political drama set during the year of 1974, written by James Graham.

Top Hat - The Musical booking until Sep 28 2013, Aldwych Theatre, 49 Aldwych, WC2B 4DF Covent Garden £20-£65, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm, no perf Sep 4-5, Dec 25, extra mat perf Dec 30, 2.30pm. Irving Berlin’s romantic musical.

Uncle Vanya Starts Thu, booking until Feb 16 2013, Vaudeville Theatre, 404 Strand, WC2R 0NH Embankment £38.50-£76, From Oct 25, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm (press night Nov 2, 7pm). Anton Chekhov’s comic tale on the tribulations of the human condition.

War Horse booking until Oct 26 2013, New London Theatre, 166 Drury Lane, 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 booking until Mar 23 2013, Dominion Theatre, 268-9 Tottenham Court Road, W1T 7AQ Tottenham Court Road Mon-Fri £27.50-£55, Sat £27.50-£60, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 2.30pm, Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 26, Jan 31, Feb 27, 2.30pm, no perf Dec

24 & 25, extra mat perf Dec 27 & 28, 31, Jan 1-4, 2.40pm. Musical.

Wicked booking 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, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm, extra mats Feb 16 , Jul 26, Oct 25, Dec 27 & 28, 30, Jan 3, Feb 21 2013, 2.30pm, no perf Jul 27, Dec 25, Dec 2629, 2.30pm & 7.30pm, Dec 30, 2.30pm.

Musical.

The Time Out Starts Tue, booking until Nov 4, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS Barbican £12, Oct 23, 25, 27, 30 & 31, Nov 3, 7.45pm, Oct 26, Nov 2, 7.15pm & 9pm, Oct 27 & 28, Nov 3 & 4, 2pm & 5pm. A personal interactive performance set in a swimming pool’s changing rooms.

Presented by non zero one.

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

Adaptation of Susan Hill’s ghost story.

Yes, Prime Minister booking until Jan 12 2013, Trafalgar Studios, 14 Whitehall, SW1A 2DY Charing Cross £26.50, £46.50, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm. Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn’s comedy.

OFF WEST END 55 Days Ends Nov 24, Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU Swiss Cottage Oct 22-31, Nov 1-24 Mon £22, Tue-Sat £29, concs £15, MonSat 7.30pm, mats Sat 3pm, Wed 2.30pm (press ngiht Oct 24, 7pm, no mat perf Oct 24). Howard Brenton’s historical drama, with Mark Gatiss as King Charles I. 9 To 5: The Musical Ends Oct 27, New Wimbledon Theatre, 93 The Broadway, SW19 1QG Wimbledon £15-£42, Oct 22-27, 7.30pm, mats Oct 25, 27, 2.30pm. A musical comedy based on the 1980 film, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton.

All That Fall Ends Nov 3, Jermyn Street Theatre, 16B Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6ST Piccadilly Circus Mon-Thu £18, Fri & Sat £20, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 3.30pm. Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins star in Samuel Beckett’s radio play, directed

by Trevor Nunn.

London 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Lear Ends Nov 3, Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, N1 1TA Highbury & Islington £8-£32, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mat from Sep 15, Sat 2.30pm.

Jonathan Pryce plays Shakespeare’s doomed monarch.

Dangerous Lady Ends Nov 17, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Gerry Raffles Square, E15 1BN Stratford Oct 24-Nov 17 £5-£20, concs £5-£15, Fri & Sat eve £12£24, concs £10-£18, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 2.30pm (Oct 23, captioned mat perf Nov 10, audio described & signed mat perf Nov 17, gala night eve perf Oct 24, post show talk eve perf Nov 8). Adaptation of Martina Cole’s gangster novel.

Dead On Her Feet Ends Nov 3, Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL Dalston Junction Mon-Sat 7.30pm £20, concs £14, Sat 2.30pm £18, concs £12, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 2.30pm.

A physical tale written by Ron Hutchinson, set around a dance marathon, famous in the 1930s.

Desire Under The Elms Ends Nov 10, Lyric Hammersmith, Lyric Square, King Street, W6 0QL Hammersmith £12.50-£35, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed 1.30pm, Sat

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2.30pm. A rare stating of Eugene O’Neill’s drama of lust and redemption, featuring Morgan Watkins as Eben Cabot.

Dr Korczak’s Example Ends Nov 13, Unicorn Theatre, 147 Tooley Street, SE1 2HZ London Bridge Oct 24, Nov 1, 8 & 9, 7pm, Oct 23, 25, Nov 10, 5pm, mats Nov 1-3, 8-11, 2pm, Sep 25-28, Oct 2325, 1.30pm, Nov 9, 11am, Sep 25, . David Greig’s drama telling the true story of a Polish doctor.

The Kingdom Starts Wed, ends Nov 17, Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road Oct 24-26 £10, Oct 27-31, Nov 1-3 £12.50, concs £10, Nov 5-17 £15, concs £12.50, From Oct 24, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Sat 4pm (press night Oct 29, no mat perf Oct 27). Colin Teevan’s lyrical drama which draws on the myths of ancient Greece.

Lord Of The Flies Ends Oct 28, Broadway Theatre, Rushey Green, SE6 4RU Catford £11 & £14.50, child/OAP/ concs £8 & £11, Wed-Sat 7.30pm, Sun 3pm, mats Wed & Thu 2pm. Cameron Jack directs an adaptation of the novel.

Red Riding Hood And The Magic Purse: Clydebuilt Theatre (Ages 3-7) Tricycle Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR Kilburn £7, adv £6, Oct 27, 11.30am & 2pm. Children’s puppet show with an adventurous heroine.

Charley’s Aunt Ends Nov 10, The Menier Chocolate Factory, 53 Southwark Street, SE1 1RU London Bridge Sep 20-23 previews £25, £33.50 inc meal, Sep 26-30, Oct 1-31, Nov 1-11 £31, £39.50 inc meal, concs £25, Tue-Sat 8pm, mats Sat & Sun 3.30pm. Mathew Horne features as Lord Fancourt Babberley, in Ian Talbot’s production of Brandon Thomas’s comedy.

Sealand Starts Tue, ends Nov 10, Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL Dalston Junction £14, concs £12, From Oct 23, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Sat 2.45pm, no perf Nov 5. Luke Clarke’s drama about one man’s obsession with utopia.

Sophie Tucker’s One Night Stand Starts Wed, ends Oct 25, Artsdepot, 5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner, N12 0GA Finchley Central £15, concs £13, Oct 24 & 25, 7.30pm, mat Oct 25, 3pm.

Solo musical show telling the story of the Jewish-American singer.

Terror 2012 Ends Nov 3, Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road Oct 18-28 £15, concs £12.50, Oct 30 & 31, Nov 1-3 £17.50, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, extra perf Oct 28, 7.30pm.

Dark cabaret and chilling tales to celebrate Hallowe’en.

The White House Murder Case Ends Nov 10, Orange Tree Theatre, 1 Clarence Street, TW9 2SA Richmond Oct 12-31, Nov 1-10 Mon eves £14.50, concs £12.50, Sat mats £14.50, concs £12.50, Tue-Thu eves £16.50, concs £14.50, Fri eves £20, concs £18, Sat eves £22, Thu mats £11.50, MonSat 7.45pm, mats Thu 2.30pm, Sat 3pm, no mat perf Nov 8, audio described eve perf Oct 30, audio described mat perf Nov 3. Revival of cartoonist Jules Feiffer’s political satire.

FRINGE Almost, Maine: St Mary’s University Of Minnesota Starts Tue, ends Oct 27, Tara Theatre, 356 Garratt Lane, SW18 4ES Earlsfield £13, concs £9, Oct 23-27, 7.30pm. The amateur company presents a romantic drama set in a mythical town.

Autumn Music Starts Tue, ends Nov 11, Pentameters Theatre, Three Horseshoes, Heath Street, NW3 6TE Hampstead £12, concs £10, From Oct 23, Tue-Sat 8pm, Sun 5pm, press night Oct 25. Comedy about a widower who refuses to grow old gracefully.

Belvedere Starts Tue, ends Nov 11, White Bear Theatre, 138 Kennington Park Road, SE11 4DJ Kennington £14, concs £10, From Oct 23, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, Sun 6pm, press night Oct 25. A witty drama by AnaMaria Bamberger about the battle between the head versus the heart.

Boy George’s Taboo Ends Dec 23, Brixton Clubhouse, 467 Brixton Road, SW9 8HH Brixton £10, £25, Meal Deal with top price ticket only £32.50, Tue-Sun 7.30pm, mats Sat & Sun 3pm. Boy George’s romantic musical set during the era of the New Romantics Bunnies Starts Tue, ends Nov 3, The New Diorama Theatre, 15-16 Triton Street, NW1 3BF Great Portland Street £12.50, concs £10.50, From Oct 23, TueSat 7.30pm, mats Sat 3.30pm. A darklycomic play written by Kieran Lynn. Contains swearing and violence.

Call Me Madam Ends Oct 27, Union Theatre, 204 Union Street, SE1 0LX Waterloo £18, concs £15, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, Sun 6pm, mats Sun 2pm, extra mat perf Oct 27, 3pm. Lucy Williamson stars in Irving Berlin’s musical.

Forever Crazy Ends Dec 24, South Bank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX Waterloo standing £35, silver ticket £45, gold ticket £55, platinum ticket £65, Tue-Sun 7pm & 9pm. The Parisian cabaret Crazy Horse presents its entertaining cabaret show.

The Horror! The Horror! Starts Wed, ends Nov 7, Wilton’s Music Hall, 1 Graces Alley, off Ensign Street, E1 8JB Aldgate East £17.50, Mon-Sat 7.30pm & 9.30pm. Something nasty has been unearthed in this site-specific horror show at this atmospheric former music hall.

The Kitsch Lounge Riot James Bond Special Cafe De Paris, 3-4 Coventry Street, W1D 6BL Piccadilly Circus 3 course dinner and show £45, standing £15, drinking tables of 10 £150, Oct 25, 8pm. The acclaimed London cabaret show celebrates 50 years of the greatest film spy franchise.

The Last Session Ends Oct 27, Tristan Bates Theatre, The Actors Centre, 1a Tower Street, WC2H 9NP Leicester Square £18, concs £16, Tue-Fri 7.30pm, Sat 8pm, mats Sat & Sun 3pm. Musical drama based on composer Steve Schalchlin’s experiences, set in 1996.

Lucy And The Hawk Ends Oct 27, Oval House Theatre, 54 Kennington Oval, SE11 5SW Oval £14, concs £8, under 26s £10, Oct 9 preview £7, Tue-Sat 8pm.

Comedy drama exploring loneliness and relationships.

The Marvellous Adventures Of Mary Seacole Ends Oct 28, Rosemary Branch Theatre, 2A Shepperton Road, N1 3DT Old Street £10, NUS £8, Oct 28, 3pm.

Solo drama based on the true story of a pioneering nurse.

The Monk Ends Nov 4, Barons Court Theatre, The Curtain’s Up, 28A Comeragh Road, W14 9HR Barons Court £12, concs £10, Tue-Sun 7.30pm. Matthew Lewis’s Gothic drama is adapted by Benji Sperring. Contains nudity and scenes of a sexual and violent nature.

Nightmare Starts Tue, ends Nov 10, The Space, 269 Westferry Road, E14 3RS Mudchute £15, concs £12, From Oct 23, Tue-Sat 7.45pm, mats Oct 27, Nov 10, 4pm. Peter Snee directs Roger Moss’s horror thriller.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest: Tower Theatre Starts Tue, ends Oct 27, Upstairs At The Gatehouse, Hampstead Lane, N6 4BD Highgate £14, concs £13, adv/mems £12, adv concs £11, adv mems £10, Oct 23-27, 7.30pm, mat Oct 27, 4pm.

Amateur production of Dale Wasserman’s adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel.

Peter Starts Tue, ends Nov 10, LOST Theatre, 208 Wandsworth Road, SW8 2JU Stockwell £12, concs £10, From Oct 23, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat & Sun 2.30pm. A drama about the grownup namesake for J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, written by Stacy Sobieski.

Quills Ends Nov 11, White Rabbit, 125 Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 0UH Stoke Newington £12, concs £10, Wed-Fri, Sun 7.30pm, Sat 7pm, mat Nov 10, 3pm. Doug Wright’s award-winning drama, a re-imagining of the Marquis de Sade’s stay at the Charenton insane asylum.

Ring Of Envy: Intermission Youth Theatre Starts Thu, ends Nov 17, The Intermission Theatre, St Saviour’s Church, Walton Street, SW3 1SA Knightsbridge £12, concs £8, From Oct 25, Wed-Sat 7.30pm, press night Oct 26. Former British heavyweight boxing champion, Julius Francis, makes his acting debut in this drama based on Shakespeare’s Othello.

Clockheart Boy: Dumbshow Theatre Company (Over 6s) Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, SE10 8ES Greenwich £9, child £7.50, family £28, Oct 28, 2pm.

Children’s drama about a boy with no heart.

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Berenice Ends Nov 24, Donmar Warehouse, 41 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LX Covent Garden Oct 2-31, Nov 1-24 £10-£32.50, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm. Alan Hollinghurst’s new version of Jean Racine’s play.

Blackta Starts Fri, ends Nov 17, Young Vic, 66 The Cut, SE1 8LZ Waterloo £10, £15, From Oct 26, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.45pm (press night Nov 5, 7pm, no mat perf Oct 26, 31). A satirical drama on the highs and lows of making it as a black actor, by Nataniel Martello-White.

Blue Sky Starts Wed, ends Nov 10, Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU Swiss Cottage £12, concs £10, From Oct 24, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Sat 3.15pm (press night Oct 25, 7.15pm).

A fast-paced thriller which questions as to what might be happening in the English countryside during the night.

Cross Purpose Ends Nov 11, King’s Head, Islington, 115 Upper Street, N1 1QN Angel £10-£25, Sun & Mon 7.15pm, mat Nov 11, 3pm. French author Albert Camus’s absurd tragedy is translated by Stuart Gilbert.

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