This week's pick of the music gigs around town. And it's all rock, rock, rock.
Arcade Fire announce a new London date at Hyde Park this June.
Casualty, Holby City, Doctors, Young Doctors, Flying Doctors...it seems that our capacity for medical melodrama is infinite. Nina Raines, award-winning writer of critically acclaimed plays including last year’s Tribes, adds to the canon with her latest play Tiger Country.
American theatre artists Geoff Sobelle and Charlotte Ford bring their hugely entertaining, dark satire on corporate life, office politics and human nature to the Barbican as part of the 2011 London International Mime Festival.
The excellent Lost Musicals seasons returns to Sadler's Wells this summer with The Band Wagon, Coco and Mexican Hayride.
A collection of pub signs goes on show in Holborn.
Fast becoming a London annual staple, the 50-Hour Improvathon returns to Hoxton Hall in Shoreditch.
Is this credit crunch theatre? No, this is Joe Bone’s thrilling one man show which boasts car chases, gun fights and a rampaging monster.
A sculpture of a goat standing atop packing crates now graces the western entrance to Spitalfields. What does it all mean?
And that's just for starters. A curious run of events at Treadwells bookshop also includes Ethical Psychic Vampirism and pagan BDSM.
Local musicians stage a benefit gig to protest against local council cuts and help save Artsdepot on Sunday 30 January.
A culturally and historically significant portrait of freed slave, Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, goes on display today at the National Portrait Gallery, following a temporary export bar and international negotiations over its future.
A new way of listening to music is taking over the Hanbury Arms in Islington once a month.
Last night, the preview evening of the 23rd annual London Art Fair opened the doors of the Islington Business Design Centre to several hundred well-heeled art lovers who were able to enjoy a vast selection of modern and contemporary, mostly British art.
Sculpture, two Swan Lakes, Scissor Sisters and Shakespeare: just some of the shows opening in London this week. Plus a few gentle reminders for things that are closing. Just so you don't miss out.
Coming on like a neophile's wet dream, Dalston's Arcola Theatre has kickstarted the new year by rising from the ashes at a new venue with a new specially commissioned play based on the life of JMW Turner, the famous nineteenth-century painter.
Banjo or Freakout is Alessio Natalizia, a London-based Italian solo artist with an album of floaty electronic pop on the way and a buzz building steadily around him. If laidback guitar dreaminess is your cup of tea, watch for his album's release on 21 February.
As You Like It is one of the Bard's comedies that ticks several Elizabethan mirth-making boxes; love at first sight, cross dressing, plain speaking fools and flirty freedoms when courtly townspeople head out to the countryside. Director Michael Boyd has added a dash of darkness to the proceedings too...
A comedic examination of language at the British Library, with Richard Herring, Arthur Smith, Susan Murray, Doc Brown and the inimitable Ida Barr.
Stick some UCL academics on a stage, get them to talk about their work, and insist on a bit of humour. Hey presto, the surprisingly entertaining Bright Club returns tonight.
Sherlock Holmes is back. Again! But this time he's all official and everything.
Kings Go Forth blow away the January blues with a red-hot bill of funk at the Jazz Cafe.
If you still think classical music is stuffy, expensive and uninteresting, try Night Shift on Wednesday at Queen Elizabeth Hall for informal, "No-Rules" classical music.
The Go! Team are back with a new single, album and a gig at Heaven next month.
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