Tickets

The bumper crop of gigs on sale this Friday includes the enigmatic-sounding Anna Calvi. See which other tickets you should be buying this week.

Whilst we scramble for seats in the Olympic ticket ballot it’s only fair we find out who’s getting tickets paid for by our taxes.

This week’s on-sales include an ageing showbiz legend, reunited indie-punkers – and a bespectacled ex-tea-shop-owning vegan.

Time to start working out your Olympic spectator schedule.

You’ll have six weeks to sign up, with tickets allocated by ballot and no advantage in applying early. Olympic bunfight neatly sidestepped.

Benedict Cumberbatch in After the Dance / photo by Johan Persson With Sherlock fever abounding, did you know there’s one day left to catch Benedict Cumberbatch in the National Theatre’s After the Dance? You may look at the website and see this acclaimed production of …

Ahead of their Reading and Leeds sets over August bank holiday weekend, the recently reformed, Libertines have announced their intentions to play a warm up show at The Forum on August 25. Although we’ve never quite understood the adoration they receive, enough of you do …

By Andy Wilkes A million people have now registered their interest in 2012 tickets in the 5 weeks since the sign-up launch. Despite concern about just how much information London 2012 and Ticketmaster wanted from us even at this stage and the fact that you’re …

This morning various current sporting celebs congregated at Trafalgar Square together with some 1948 Olympians (from the last time London hosted the Olympic Games). They were there to invite sports fans from across London and around the UK to ‘sign up’ for ticketing information for …

Will you be sitting here in 2012? Following forum style consultation with you, dear Londoners, the London Assembly today presented a document to LOCOG asking for clarification on 2012 ticket allocations, pricing, accessibility and availability. Specifically, the Assembly wants to know how many freebies will …