Every now and again we try and bring you the finer things in life. Sure, there's loads of indie, goth, electro and Viking death metal to talk about but what about music on the more classical end of the spectrum? Portico Quartet are currently touring their "inimitable" sound with Basquiat Strings and will headline a gig at the Union Chapel this Friday. We'll be there but we're not sure what to expect. They have......

As we mentioned on Wednesday, the opening kilometres of the Tour de France are coming to London from July 6th - 8th this year. While this weekend's Vive La France event at Olympia celebrates the culture of those who would have been Frenglish, the Tour organisers are staging an event of their own, a roadshow in front of the Ritzy Cinema, Brixton (LB Lambeth) from noon - 4.30pm this Saturday. The main thing to......

If you're running on a high of cultural experiences having been along to Carnival this weekend, then stay on that high, and spend an evening checking out the final UK date of what sounds like a cool and unusual night out tonight Moana & the Tribe are a Maori collective who bring song, Maori chants and haka together with film. The emphasis is on vocal harmonies and melodies and the mixture of indigenous instruments......

There's a slideshow with accompanying talk tonight at the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton. Which is hardly pant-wetting stuff when described like that but this is Andy Kirkpatrick's version of the slideshow - it won't be an evening of slides showing interesting bratwurst he ate while on a weekend break in Dusseldorf. Andy Kirkpatrick is a writer, photographer, film maker and one of the UK’s most accomplished mountaineers and ‘big wall’ climbers (big walls are......

We love Bank Holiday Mondays. They make the week go so quickly, we forget to arrange to do anything on the Friday. If you're as useless at reading a calendar as us, here's a couple of suggestions: Londonist favourite Fiona Bevan (whose debut EP we cited as one of our favourite records of 2005) plays tonight at one of our favourite venues: Bush Hall. She's on as part of the Buzz Night and she's on......