Archive for October, 2008

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1 December 2008

Screen
Beautiful Bitch, 2008 Festival of German Films
Curzon Theatre, 9:15pm £5 concession
Beautiful Bitch is sensitively told and magnificently played. Particularly Katharina Derr, in front of the camera for the first time, handles her role as ‘Bitch’ with great assurance.

Music 
Ho Hum Records Night – Blue Rose Code ~ How To Cure Dyslexia ~ The Willow ~ Jess Bryant 
The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton Street, EC1V 0DX, 8:00pm, £5.00
(http://www.wegottickets.com/event/38227) 
The London Electroacoustic Club hosts the Ho Hum Records Night at their regular venue and spiritual home in Clerkenwell.  Promises to be a night of beautiful music.    

Music 
Shelleyan Orphan ~ Caroline Weekes 
Monto Water Rats, 328 Grays Inn Road, WC1X 8BZ, 7:00pm, £12.00 
Formed in the early eighties, this alternative group took their name from a Percy Bysshe Shelley poem and a lot of their lyrics are influenced by romantic poetry.  Having reunited and recorded a new album, We have everything we need, they are set to impress once more with their extensive and experimental use of instruments.  Supported by Caroline Weekes (AKA Ginger Lee of Mercury Nominated band Bat For Lashes). 

2 December 2008

Music
This isn’t for you, curated by Matt Fretton
Hall Two, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 8:00pm, from £11.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
‘This is Tuesday’ series presents a collaboration between cellist Natalie Clein, sound artist Simon Fisher Turner, and composer Shiva Feshareki. Programme includes Shiva’s Crticial Distortions for cello and turntables and the folk-inspired solo cello sonata by Kodály.

Music
Soy Un Caballo ~ Tim and Sam’s Tim and the Sam Band ~ Rue Royale
The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton Street, EC1V 0DX, 8:00pm, £5.00 (http://www.wegottickets.com/event/37876)
The London Electroacoustic Club brings together an array of folky sounds at their regular venue and spiritual home in Clerkenwell.  Spanish duo Soy Un Caballo are followed by the curiously named instrumental band Tim and Sam’s Tim and the Sam Band and then husband and wife duo Rue Royal round the night off. 

3 December 2008

Music 
Classical Opera Company’s Mozart Week – pre-performance talk 
St Pancras Room, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 6:30pm, admission free (kingsplace.co.uk) 
Conductor Ian Page gives a pre-performance talk on Mozart in London 

Music 
Classical Opera Company’s Mozart Week – Mozart in London 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk) 
Sophie Bevan (soprano) Sigridur Ósk Krisjánsdóttir (mezzo soprano), Orchestra of the Classical Opera Company (leader Matthew Truscott) and Ian Page (conductor) explore Mozart’s childhood visit to London, combining two of his earlier symphonies with some of the works he was most influenced by during his stay.  

Music 
John Smith ~ Blue Rose Code ~ Jack Cheshire 
The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton Street, EC1V 0DX, 8:00pm, £10.00 (http://www.wegottickets.com/event/34873) 
The London Electroacoustic Club bring legendary folkster John Smith, alt-folk 3-piece Blue Rose Code and Jack Cheshire to their regular venue and spiritual home in Clerkenwell.    

Music 
Josh Rouse ~ It Hugs Back 
Union Chapel, The Vestry, Compton Avenue, London N1 2XD, 7:00pm, £18 
After hosting the likes of Glasvegas, Razorlight and Kasabian, Union Chapel have some great live acts lined up for December, including Josh Rouse, who opened for John Mayer in 2007, supported by It Hugs Back, the cuddlesome dream-pop makers.    

Music 
Department of Eagles 
The Borderline, Orange Yard, Manette Street, W1D 4JB, 7:00pm, £8.00 
US folk electronica outfit Department of Eagles come to London following some sell out dates in New York earlier this year.    

4 December 2008

Music
Classical Opera Company’s Mozart Week – pre-performance talk
St Pancras Room, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 6:30pm, admission free (kingsplace.co.uk)
Conductor Ian Page gives a pre-performance talk on Ascanio in Alba.

Music
Classical Opera Company’s Mozart Week – Ascanio in Alba, K.111
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
Ascanio in Alba was Mozart’s fifth opera, the dazzling achievement of a fifteen-year-old, which prompted Hasse to predict: “This boy will cause the rest of us to be forgotten”.

Music 
Fat Freddy’s Drop 
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH
7:30pm, £25.00 
Freddy’s fuse skanking urban Pacific roots, soul, dub, jazz and electronica into hypnotic and thunderous grooves.  No two Freddy’s gigs are the same as the midnight marauders improvise and jam each song into mystic supernovas of future funk, fakes and freaky sidesteps.  The seven-piece family of musicians originally emerged through a multitude of musical incarnations on the Wellington soundscape, from funk jam bands, reggae soundsystems and jazz improvisation cliques to live techno experiments. 

5 December 2008

Music
Classical Opera Company’s Mozart Week – The A-Z of Mozart Opera
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
This concert presents a brand new version of the Classical Opera Company’s hugely popular journey through Mozart’s operas, introduced from the piano by artistic director Ian Page.

Music 
Fat Freddy’s Drop 
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH
7:30pm, £25.00 
Freddy’s fuse skanking urban Pacific roots, soul, dub, jazz and electronica into hypnotic and thunderous grooves.  No two Freddy’s gigs are the same as the midnight marauders improvise and jam each song into mystic supernovas of future funk, fakes and freaky sidesteps.  The seven-piece family of musicians originally emerged through a multitude of musical incarnations on the Wellington soundscape, from funk jam bands, reggae soundsystems and jazz improvisation cliques to live techno experiments. 

6 December 2008

Music
Barrelhouse
The Hobgoblin, 73 White Lion Street, N1 9PF
Barrelhouse’s performance consists of original floor fillers packed with energy, which guarantees to get the audience moving. The perfect antidote to skinny-jeans-wearing indie droners, Barrelhouse aims to bring the British blues-rock scene into the 21^st century with their explosive raw sound. Not to be missed.

Music
Classical Opera Company’s Mozart Week – An Introduction to Ascanio in Alba Study Day
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 2:00pm, £14.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
The Classical Opera Company presents an entertaining and in-depth exploration of Mozart’s early ‘festa teatrale’ with well-known writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore and Ian Page.

Music
Classical Opera Company’s Mozart Week – Ascanio in Alba, K.111
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
Ascanio in Alba was Mozart’s fifth opera, the dazzling achievement of a fifteen-year-old, which prompted Hasse to predict: “This boy will cause the rest of us to be forgotten”.

7 December 2008

Music
London Chamber Music Series – Orchestra of St John’s Chamber Ensemble
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 6:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
A Piano Quintet of Huw Watkins is contrasted with Franck’s Violin Sonata and Schubert’s delightful Trout Quintet.

Music
Classical Opera Company’s Mozart Week – Desert Island Mozart, with Sir Thomas Allen
Hall Two, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 11:30am, £11.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
In conversation with Ian Page, world-renowned baritone Sir Thomas Allen talks about his career and introduces some of his favourite pieces of music.

Music
Bon Iver 
Victoria Apollo Theatre, Wilton Road, London, SW1V 1LL, 7:00pm, £18.50 
Art folker Bon Iver brings his haunting melodies to London for one night only at the Victoria Apollo.   

8 December 2008

Music
James Levy (solo) ~ Alice Mclaughlin ~ Moss & Jo
The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton Street, EC1V 0DX, 7:45pm, £5.00 (http://www.wegottickets.com/event/38616)
The London Electroacoustic Club showcases jazz pianist James Levy, rising star Alice Mclaughlin and experimental rock-folk duo Moss & Jo to their regular venue and spiritual home in Clerkenwell.   

Events
God/Death/Sex: An Evening of Woody Allen
Tutu’s, Macadam Building, Surrey Street, London WC2R 2NS, 7pm, £5 (concessions)/ £7 (standard) available through http://www.kclsu.org/ from Monday 1st Dec
Woody Allen’s concept of a trilogy of plays is completed and brought to life in spectacular fashion including comedy, jazz, dancing and drama by King’s Players.

9 December 2008 

Music 
The Sound Source: Annie Gosfield, EWA7 – Factory Music, curated by spnm (http://www.spnm.org.uk/) 
Hall Two, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 8:00pm, from £11.50 (kingsplace.co.uk) 
Part of the ‘This is Tuesday’ series, music meets machinery in EWA7, a concert-length work that incorporates sampled machine sounds, percussion played on industrial found metal, altered electric guitar and the recycled sounds of many factories.   

Music 
Haydn in London – Mr Haydn Comes to Town 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 
Part of the Haydn in London series, the Chilingirian String Quartet kick off this survey of the works from Haydn’s successful stay in London, with the first four Op. 64 quartets.   

Music
Jamie Woon plus special guests
The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton Street, EC1V 0DX, 8:00pm, £6.00 (http://www.wegottickets.com/event/37999)
The London Electroacoustic Club hosts home-grown talent Jamie Woon at their regular venue and spiritual home in Clerkenwell.   

10 December 2008 

Music 
Haydn in London – The Gypsy Rondo 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 
Peter Cropper (violin), Moray Welsh (cello) and Martin Roscoe (piano) in the first concert in a survey of Haydn’s late Piano Trios, including no. 25, with its irresistible and rightly famous Gypsy Rondo.   

Music 
Lewis Garland & The Kett Rebellion ~ The Cedar ~ More Story Fours ~ Tom Janssen 
The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton Street, EC1V 0DX, 8:00pm, £5.00 (http://www.wegottickets.com/event/37910) 
The London Electroacoustic Club welcomes the return of Lewis Garland & The Kett Rebellion to their weekly soiree at the Slaughtered Lamb, to be joined by The Cedar, More Story Fours and Tom Janssen.    

Music 
Jesse Malin 
Monto Water Rats, 328 Grays Inn Road, WC1X 8BZ, 7:00pm, £12.50 
New York rockster Jesse Malin, having been part of bands like D Generation, Heart Attack and The Finger, is coming to London on his solo acoustic tour to show us he’s still got it.    

11 December 2008 

Music 
Haydn in London – The Apponyi Quartets 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 
The Chilingirian Quartet continue their survey of Haydn’s late quartets with the ‘Apponyi’ Quartets.  These lively, extrovert works were composed specifically for the large London audience.   

12 December 2008 

Music 
Haydn in London – Trios for a Princess 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 
Peter Cropper (violin), Moray Welsh (cello) and Martin Roscoe (piano) in the second Haydn trio concert, performing a programme including two works dedicated to the Princess Maria Therèse Esterházy.   

13 December 2008 

Music 
Barrelhouse 
333 Mother Bar, Old Street, Hoxton, EC1V 9LE 
Barrelhouse’s performance consists of original floor fillers packed with energy, which guarantees to get the audience moving.  The perfect antidote to skinny-jeans-wearing indie droners, Barrelhouse aims to bring the British blues-rock scene into the 21^st century with their explosive raw sound.  Not to be missed.   

Music 
Haydn in London – Breaking out of the Chamber 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 
The Chilingirian’s final concert for the Hadyn in London series takes in Haydn’s magnificent Op. 74 quartets.   

14 December 2008 

Music 
London Chamber Music Series – Aurora Wind Ensemble & John York piano 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 6:30pm, from £9.50 
Including Mozart’s Quintet K452, Poulenc’s Sextet for Piano and Winds and works by Debussy, Goleminov and Mendelssohn.   

Music 
Haydn in London – Farewell to Lost Love 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 11:30am, from £9.50 
In their final Haydn Piano Trio concert for the Haydn in London series, Peter Cropper and friends present the composer’s latest, most heartfelt and profound trios.  

15 December 2008

Music
The Gadsdens ~ Vaughan King & His Riff Raff
The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton Street, EC1V 0DX, 7:45pm, £5.00 (http://www.wegottickets.com/event/38926)
The London Electroacoustic Club gathers the beautiful Gadsdens and Vaughan King & His Riff Raff for a supreme night at their regular venue and spiritual home in Clerkenwell.   

16 December 2008 

Music 
The Multiplier Series, curated by Graham Fitkin 
Hall Two, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 8:00pm, from £11.50 
Part of the ‘This is Tuesday’ series, Graham Fitkin’s Multiplier Series continues with another mix of homogenous ensembles based on single timbres.  Central to the programme is a rarely heard Steve Reich tape piece.  Also includes Joby Burgess, the Fell Clarinet Quartet and Joanna Bailie’s specially formed ensemble works lofi and hifi.   

Music and Literature 
Roald Dahl Revolting Rhymes Schools Musical 
Foyer, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 12 noon, free 
Local schools perform musicals based on Roald Dahl’s most popular and subversive poems.   

Music 
Sweet Sixteen: Mozart in 1772 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 
Simon Callow presents an evening exploring Mozart as a teenager, with readings from Mozart’s letters and performances of music written largely during those years.  The concert culminates in a performance of Mozart’s youthfully brilliant 12^th Piano Concerto. 

Music & Nightlife
Frightened Rabbit
Brixton Windmill, 8pm.
OK we’re warning you, this is the third and currently, the final opportunity you have to see this band before Christmas. And this time it’s in the delectably intimate surroundings of Brixton’s Windmill. Go now before it’s too late.

17 December 2008

Music and Literature
Roald Dahl Revolting Rhymes Schools Musical
Foyer, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 12 noon, free
Local schools perform musicals based on Roald Dahl’s most popular and subversive poems. 

Music
Mahler, Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50
Two of Britain’s most popular singers dip into Mahler’s treasure trove of songs, touched with child-like naivety and profound folk wisdom.   

Music
Stornoway ~ Telegrams ~ Victoria & Jacob 
The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton Street, EC1V 0DX, 8:00pm, £5.00
(http://www.wegottickets.com/event/37911) 
The London Electroacoustic Club welcome Stornoway, Telegrams and Victoria & Jacob to their weekly folkfest at their regular venue and spiritual home the Slaughtered Lamb in Clerkenwell.    

Music 
Rose Kemp 
Astoria, 157 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0EN, £17.00 
‘Twisted to perfection’ Rose Kemp joins New Model Army at the Astoria with songs from her new album Unholy Majesty recorded with Foo Fighters’ Chris Sheldon.    

Music 
F*cked Up with special guests the King Blues 
Underworld, 174 Camden High Street, NW1 0NE, £8.50, 7:00pm 
Canadian Punk shockers F*cked Up bring their live show to the UK for a tear up at Underworld.    

18th December 2008

Arts
Quentin Blake-We all Join in
Kings Place, 90 York Way, 6.15pm, admission free
Most famous for his iconic illustrations for Roald Dahl, artist Quentin Blake explores how an illustrator approaches the craft of storytelling. Using a variety of visual sources, including his own drawings, he invites the audience’s reactions as what makes an illustration memorable. 

Music 
Fairy Tales and Goblins Dancing 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 
A concert that interleaves comic writing for children with a colourful programme of music by Debussy, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Saint-Saëns.   

19 December 2008

Music 
Sweet Sixteen: Mendelssohn in 1825 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 1:00pm, from £9.50 
Talented young players from the LSSO join the Dante Quartet, while the Taliesin Ensemble perform Mozart’s serene Piano and Wind Quintet K452.   

Music 
Stereolab 
KOKO, 1a Camden High Street, NW1 7JE, 7:00pm, £15.00 
Home-grown post-rock talent Stereolab descend on KOKO for an influential Friday night gig.    

Music 
Roald Dahl Gala Concert – Taliesin Ensemble 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 
This special gala concert features the world premiere of James Brown’s comic setting of ‘The Grand High Witch’s Speech to the Society of English Witches’ from Dahl’s The Witches.  Plus Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals and Paul Patterson’s Little Red Riding Hood.   

20 December 2008 

Music 
Aleksandar Madzar plays Tchaikovsky 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 1:00pm, from £9.50 
The distinguished Serbian pianist, Aleksandar Madzar, performs Pletnev’s transcription of Tchaikovsky’s epic ballet score, The Sleeping Beauty.   

Music 
The Child’s Eye – Taliesin Ensemble 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 9AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk) 
A seasonal concert including Britten’s enchanting A Ceremony of Carols and Paul Patterson’s musical dramatisation of Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood.   

21 December 2008 

Music 
London Chamber Music Series – Dante Quartet 
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 6:30pm, from £9.50 
To round off his anniversary year, Vaughan Williams’s String Quartet No.2 is performed with Haydn’s Lark Quartet and Beethoven’s late great String Quartet Op.130.   

22 December 2008 

Music
Leila Adu
The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton Street, EC1V 0DX, 8:00pm, £5.00 (http://www.wegottickets.com/event/38226)
The London Electroacoustic Club brings New Zealand singer/songwriter/pianist Leila Adu to their regular venue and spiritual home in Clerkenwell. 

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1 November 2008

Music & Nightlife
Haunts + Bear Hands
ULU, doors 5pm
The brooding, not-quite-punk-but-almost band Haunts are on tour promoting their forthcoming eponymously titled debut album released on 17^th November. Support comes from Brooklyn experimentalists Bear Hands.

Music
London Guitar Festival in the Fall presents Gerardo Núñez Quintet: Reunion Flamenca, Elemental flamenco passion
Kings Place, 90 York Way, 8pm, £19.50, £27.50, £34.50 Saver Seat £9.50
Hailed the greatest flamenco guitarist active today, Núñez’s striking show features two powerful singers and a spellbinding flamenco dancer playing homage to the ‘flamenco fiesta’, the music party where artists gathered to perform.

Music
London Guitar Festival of the Fall presents Electric Lady Land
Kings Place, 90 York Way, 4pm, £6.50
Beginner and intermediate level female guitarists welcome at ‘Girls Rock Camps’ classic rock workshop for all ages. Set list includes riffs from Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Foo Fighters and Led Zeppelin.

3 November 2008

Music, Night life & Arts
PLATS Art Collective presents Scribble & Stomp
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, 6pm-2am, £3 before 8pm, £4 after
Draw, drink & dance at the launch party of PLATS international art collective’s unique club night at the celebrated Notting Hill Arts Club. Be part of our interactive sculpture as we build & decorate miniature cardboard houses, assembling our very own cityscape before cranking up the music & stomping all over it! In the aftermath of the destruction they’ll be plenty of time to peruse the PLATS exhibition and enjoy the musical treats we have lined up for you. Live music from The Title Sequence, Lime Headed Dog & Clockwork Boy & The Ticks, followed by DJ sets from the Rockfeedback crew and DJ’s Charlie Sheen & Mabel.

Events
Student Media Day
ULU, Malet Street, 10am-5pm, £10 entry
London Student is once again teaming up with NUS to bring you the Student Media Day which gives you an opportunity to network and attend workshops that will develop your skills. There will be speakers from the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), Time Out, Broadcasting Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU), Amnesty International, Camden Journal, Independent and the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES).
Music
Aldeburgh Highlights at Kings Place – Stravinsky and Dushkin
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 9AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
Anthony Marwood (violin) and Thomas Adès (piano) present their acclaimed Stravinsky programme for violin and piano, inspired by the composer’s relationship with violinist Samuel Dushkin.

4 November 2008

Nightlife
Fancy Footwerk Spotlight Aerobics
Electricity Showrooms, 39a Hoxton Square, 6:45pm-7:45pm £5 entry in ‘80s gym wear
Scrunch down your legwarmers, find that leotard you swore never to wear again, and grapevine down to the disco-tastic basement for an old school aerobics class.

Music
This isn’t for you, curated by Matt Fretton
Hall Two, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 8:00pm, from £11.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
Part of the ‘This is Tuesday’ series, a programme at Kings Place with works for flute at its centre, from Bach to Maurizio Kagel’s Atem for flute & tape. Daniel Parkin will be joined by Sally Price, Adrian Ward and Dmitri Murrath for a programme including works by Britten, Takemitsu and Debussy.

Music
Aldeburgh Highlights at Kings Place – The Rape of Lucretia (concert performance)
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
Soloists from the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme come together under the baton of David Parry for a performance of Britten’s first chamber opera.

5 November 2008

Nightlife
Dirty Little Secret
Madame JoJo’s, 10 Brewer St, Soho, 7:30pm-2am £7 on the door, £5 in advance
Three hot bands line up with three of the UK’s most sizzling burlesque vixens, the two worlds colliding to ignite the stage in a starburst of decadence and downright dirty rock ‘n’ roll fun. With a few little extra tricks or treats up their sleeves, expect a dynamite climax to a magical evening!

Music
Aldeburgh Highlights at Kings Place: Aronowitz Ensemble – Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
The Aronowitz Ensemble, founded during an Aldeburgh Residency, bring an exciting programme of chamber music by Britten, Mahler, Mozart and Shostakovich.

6 November 2008

Music & Nightlife
Ninja Tune presents the 20^th anniversary of Solid Steel
The End, 18 West Central Street, 9pm-3am
The seminal label present the similarly iconic show with a birthday bash like no other. With label darlings and friends DJ Kentaro, DJ Food, Hexstatic, Bonobo and The Herbaliser all due to make appearances this is your last chance to experience this London institution in this Central club with a sprung floor before it closes in January.

Events
Ice Rink and Christmas Fair
Natural History Museum, 10am-10pm £11.50 admission (off-peak)
Whether you’re an expert or a novice, a glider or a slider, skating in the open air is a magical and exhilarating experience. As the winter evenings draw in, the Natural History Museum’s east lawn will be transformed once again into a magical setting.

Music
Aldeburgh Highlights at Kings Place – EXAUDI – James Weeks (director)
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
The unique EXAUDI vocal ensemble counterpoint modern works by Scelsi, Rihm and Nono, with those by Monteverdi, Byrd and Lassus.

7 November 2008

Music
Faster Than Sound
Kings Place, 90 York Way, 8pm, from £11.50
‘A sonic experiment exploring the space between musical genres.’ Musicians from the contemporary classical scene collaborate with figures from the world of electronica with Mira Calix, C
Camberwell Composers’ Collective, Tim Exile and Hauschka.

8 November 2008

Events
Fireworks and German Bier Fest
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green, 4:30pm-11pm £4 admission
A range of exciting entertainment includes a top class Oompah band with a Bavarian waitress service of authentic German Bier and food, live music, indoor and outdoor funfairs and the indoor ice rink. The evening ends with a special guest appearance from ‘Queen On Fire’.

9 November 2008

Nightlife
Work @ Plan B
418 Brixton Road, Brixton, 9pm-3am free entry before 11:30pm
A new Sunday night giving you soulful and uplifting to funky and cosmpolitan house. DJs NG, Sharma & Scandal ease you into Monday morning.

Music
London Chamber Music Series – Florilegium
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 6:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
An evening with the celebrated Early Music ensemble (soprano, recorder, violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord) including music by Purcell, John Blow, William Croft, Baltzar and Eccles.

10 November 2008

Stage
2012 by Bill Aitchison
Apocryphal Festival, Camden People’s Theatre, 8pm £6 concessions
In the performance 2012, independent researcher, Dr Aitchison, reveals a sequence of facts covering Mayan astronomy, the war on terror, dog cloning, Saddam Hussein’s novels and the end of the world.

11 November 2008

Film
Seven Days (Se-beun De-i-jeu)
London Korean Film Festival, Barbican Centre, 8:45pm £7.50 online
Desperately searching for her kidnapped child amongst Seoul ‘s dark alleys and dilapidated tenements, Ji-yeon finds herself caught in a deadly conspiracy that stretches from Korea’s savage underworld all the way to City Hall. Starring ‘Lost’ favourite Kim Yun-jin.

12 November 2008

Exhibitions
Fashion V Sport
V&A, South Kensington, 10am-5:30pm £3.90 concessions
Recent developments have seen an increasing number of collaborations and hybrids, from fashion designers producing collections with sportswear brands to sports personalities heading fashion campaigns or even designing their own collections.

13 November 2008

Events
Film Café @ Rich Mix Café/Bar
35-47 Bethnal Green Road, 6:30pm-7:30pm free entry
As part of GFest 08 gayWise LGBT Arts Festival. Informal discussion with Topher Campbell: A noted programmer, director of films, television and theatre with an extensive experience of LGBT arts, Topher to lead the session.

14 November 2008

Exhibitions
Darwin
Natural History Museum, South Kensington, 10am-4:30pm £9 admission
Discover the man and the revolutionary theory that changed our understanding of the world and our place within it. Darwin is a celebration of Charles Darwin’s ideas and their impact, giving new insight into the achievements of this brilliant observer of nature.Music

Music
Barrelhouse
Storm, 28a Leicester Square, WC2H 7LE, 8:00pm
Barrelhouse’s performance consists of original floor fillers packed with energy, which guarantees to get the audience moving. The perfect antidote to skinny-jeans-wearing indie droners, Barrelhouse aims to bring the British blues-rock scene into the 21^st century with their explosive raw sound. Not to be missed.

Music
Scene Norway – London Sinfonietta featuring Arve Henriksen
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:00pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
Scene Norway opens with the world premiere of new commissions by UK saxophonist-composer Iain Ballamy and Norwegian electronics guru Jan Bang, written for the evocative trumpet and voice of Arve Henriksen and the London Sinfonietta.

Music
Scene Norway – Ice Music with Terje Isungset and Lena Nymark
St Pancras Room, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 6:20pm, from FREE (kingsplace.co.uk)
An extraordinary performance on ice instruments by pioneering percussionist Terje Isungset and vocalist Lena Nymark, incorporating a soundscape of recordings taken from glaciers and moving ice in Norway.

15 November 2008

Nightlife
Work It Block Party
Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, SW1Y, 10pm free entry
Take a trip down memory lane and reminisce on the 90s. Complete with movie screening, hula hooping, double dutch, photo booth and more. Brush the dust off your Air Max and bump’n'grind to the sounds of the Work It DJs spinning the freshest hip hop and R&B.

Music
Scene Norway – Mari Boine & Isglem
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
Mari Boine has brought her individual vision of the music of the Sami people to a worldwide audience for over two decades. Terje Isungset and Karl Seglem’s duo Isglem combine elemental percussion and sounds from the mountains.

Music
Scene Norway – Bugge’s Room: Bugge Wesseltoft & Friends
Hall Two, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 10:00pm-1:00am, from £11.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
The legendary keyboard player and composer Bugge Wesseltoft brings his very own Bugge’s Room to London in a late night special. Guests include Waldhorn player and electronics master Hild Tafjord and percussionist Thomas Strønen.

Music
Scene Norway – Ice Music with Terje Isungset and Lena Nymark
St Pancras Room, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 5:00pm, FREE (kingsplace.co.uk)
A second chance to catch Ice Music, an extraordinary performance on ice instruments by pioneering percussionist Terje Isungset and vocalist Lena Nymark, incorporating a soundscape of recordings taken from glaciers and moving ice in Norway.

16 November 2008

Music & Nightlife
One Man Melt presents.. Lonely Drifter Karen + Morrison Steam Fayre + The Heart Strings
Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, Hoxton Square, doors 6pm, £7 on the door, £4 NUS
This popular student shindig presents three up-and-coming bands at a steal of a price in a trendy East London venue. Headliner Lonely Drifter Karen, of Clark’s TV advert fame, is a group drawn from all over Europe with a delightfully twee sound.

Music
London Chamber Music Series – Angell Piano Trio
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 6:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
The Angell Piano Trio perform Brahms’s Piano Trio in B Op.8 and Peter Fribbins’s Piano Trio (2004), plus Grieg’s Violin Sonata in C minor.

Music
Scene Norway – Susanna and In the Country
Hall Two, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 8:00pm, from £11.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)A double-bill curated by keyboardist Morten Qvenild that includes a new trio featuring pianist and vocalist Susanna K. Wallumrød (from Susanna and the Magic Orchestra), Helge Sten on guitar and Pål Hausken on drums, plus Qvenild’s own trio, In the Country.

17 November 2008

Screen
Arab Labour +Q&A, UK Jewish Film Festival 2008
Institute of Contemporary Arts, 6:15pm £9 concessions
From renowned writer Sayed Kashua, comic Israeli TV series Arab Labour (Avoda Aravit, Hebrew slang for sloppy workmanship) has managed to burn more than a few holy cows, winning great acclaim and legions of fans along the way.

Music
London Jazz Festival: Barry Green
The Gallery at Ray’s Jazz at Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, 6pm-6.30pm free admission
Original music from classy young British pianist who has worked with the likes of Ingrid Laubrock, here launching his New York trio.

18 November 2008

Music & Nightlife
Frightened Rabbit
Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, Hoxton Square, 7pm
Scottish band Frightened Rabbit are in the capital for a few dates this autumn, this being their first. If you like The Arcade Fire, Bon Iver or Ed Harcourt you’ll like these guys.

19 November 2008

Music & Nightlife
Death Cab For Cutie + Frightened Rabbit
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green, doors 7pm, £20
Most bands in DCFC’s position charge upwards of £25 for gigs (Kaiser Chief’s £27.50 – are you kidding?), so this gig is a steal. You get the legendary American indie group – fresh from supporting the equally legendary Neil Young on his American tour – and support from one of Scotland’s freshest exports, Frightened Rabbit. See you there.

20-22 November 2008

Music
Scene Norway – PUNKT UK
Hall One & Two, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £17.50 for an evening ticket (kingsplace.co.uk)
PUNKT UK is a three-day ground breaking festival bringing together Norway’s finest and most original contemporary musicians. A mind-expanding collision of acoustic and electronic sound masterminded by Jan Bang and Erik Honoré.

20 November 2008

Stage
The Late Bus excerpts
Spitalfields Canopy, 1pm free admission
Join the travellers on THE LATE BUS… A collection of odd characters who tried to escape their mundane and miserable lives, only to end up in purgatory…travelling in circles, for unspecified times to unknown destinations. All aboard…

21 November 2008

Exhibitions
Tantalising Women, Muse or Sorceress?
The Courtauld Gallery, 1:15pm-1:30pm
Be inspired by The Courtauld Gallery’s lunchtime talk series as Greg Salter leads the gallery lunchtime talk on ‘Tantalising Women, Muse or Sorceress?’ with Roger Fry’s ‘Portrait of Nina Hamnett’ as a feature.

22 November 2008

Screen
Rose-Tinted Spectacle
Sainsbury Wing Theatre, The National Gallery, 2:30pm £3 concessions
In this masterly adaptation, Hitchcock transfers to screen Daphne du Maurier’s captivating mix of swooning romance and gothic menace. He captures the convincing and surprising way in which the central characters evolve.

23 November 2008

Events
Bhangra Grooves Workout
Pineapple Studios, Covent Garden, 4pm-5pm £8 admission
A Bhangra choreographed dance class with a twist of Bollywood and Street styles, to the latest Bhangra remixes as well as pure Desi Bhangra tunes! This beginner’s drop-in class might be just what you need to tone up after those pints and kebabs…

Music
London Chamber Music Series – Wihan Quartet
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 6:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
The famous Wihan Quartet in a programme featuring native Czech masterworks by Dvorak (Op.105) and Martinu (Quartet No.2) and opening with Mozart’s sublime G major quartet.

24 November 2008

Arts
New English Art Club
Mall Galleries, SW1, 10am-5pm £2.50, concessions £1.50
The opening day for this event, Mall Galleries present you all with the perfect opportunity to surround yourself with creativity, with contemporary figurative painting, drawing and printmaking activities for your viewing enjoyment.

25 November 2008

Music
Sean Pol @ The Players Bar
Villiers Street, 11pm-closing free entry
On Tuesdays, Sean Pol treats you to a range of musical styles from jazz and modern to popular show tunes. Also, if you’re blessed with a singing voice you will have the opportunity to share it with the rest of the clientele with their ‘open mic’ philosophy. 

Music
Ricordi – Beyond 200, curated by Ricordi Music
Hall Two, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 8:00pm, from £11.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
Part of the ‘This is Tuesday’ series, a showcase of works by Ricordi Music composers Liza Lim, Enno Poppe and Franco Donatoni, performed by the virtuosic Australian contemporary music ensemble ELISION. The evening includes the UK premiere of Wild winged-one, which draws from Liza Lim’s The Navigator, an opera about ‘desire’ and alchemical transformation.

26 November 2008

Exhibitions
Post-Identity and Difference
Auditorium, Tate Britain, 6:30pm-8pm £5 concessions
In this lecture, the second in the series of The Status of Difference, Tawadros will offer critical insight into the shifting nature of ‘difference’ by drawing on her ongoing engagement with artistic and curatorial practices in the UK, Europe and Southern hemisphere. Book on 020 7887 8888. 

Music and Film
Beethoven Unwrapped on Film, The ‘Eroica’
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:00pm, £7.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
Part of the Beethoven Unwrapped eight week festival at Kings Place, this is a showing of three short films: Bernstein conducts, In search of Beethoven (III) and Rafael Kubelik conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’.

27 November 2008

Music
Tomorrow People Stage: institute of Contemporary Music
Kings Place, 90 York Way, 1pm, admission free
The Tomorrow People Stage is a series of lunchtime concerts featuring emerging young classical and acoustic guitarists, and singer-songwriters. Students from Europe’s leading school of modern music will be performing across a range of styles.

28 November 2008

Screen
The Room
Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, 7pm free entry
The Room is the first event in an ongoing series of collaborations by three artists. 16mm films by Luke Fowler and Peter Todd are intertwined with live guitar improvisation by Keith Rowe. The filmmakers work independently, recording in different rooms, then bring the films together for each unique performance.

Music
Beethoven Unwrapped – Beethoven Piano Sonatas (2)
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
Jean Bernard Pommier (piano) in his second concert in a complete cycle, reaches the three sonatas of Op. 10 and the first sonata to achieve enduring popularity, the tempestuous and beautiful Pathétique.

29 November 2008

Nightlife
Guilty Pleasures @ KOKO
Camden, 9:30pm-3am £16.50 pre-order tickets
It’s theme time folks. Hold back your ears and pull up a pew. This month, they’re going for a ‘Heroes and Villains’ theme, so whilst you max out on Bonnie Tyler and Enrique Iglesias, have a muse over whether to come as Lara Croft or David Beckham. 

Music
Beethoven Unwrapped – Study Day
St Pancras Room, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 11:30am, £39.50 inc refreshments (kingsplace.co.uk)
Professor Barry Cooper examines the composer’s orchestral works, beginning with the concertos, the first three symphonies, and, in separate sessions, the next five symphonies and the crowning and radical finale, Symphony No. 9.

Music and Film
Beethoven Unwrapped: The Beethoven Legacy – an evening of talks and film
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 7:00pm, £11.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
How big is the gap between the myth of Beethoven and the reality? Where does he sit in our cultural Pantheon? Looking back at two weeks of Beethoven performances, Iain Burnside invites guests from the worlds of theatre, painting and literature to discuss his legacy with musicians who are performing the works at Kings Place. Followed by Beethoven Unwrapped on Film, including Celibidache Conducts and Symphony No. 9.

30 November 2008

Music
London Chamber Music Series – Rosamunde Trio
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 5AG, 6:30pm, from £9.50 (kingsplace.co.uk)
Schubert’s serene Notturno D.897 is presented with Tchaikovsky’s epic Piano Trio in A minor and Beethoven’s tour de force, the Ghost Trio.

Events
Ice Skating @ Somerset House
Strand, 10am-10:15pm £7.50 concessions
Skate at Somerset House – the most glamourous outdoor venue in London this winter. The grand 18th century setting, the glittering Tiffany Tree, the romance of skating on ice all add up to a unique experience.