| Event
|
Dates |
Venue |
Particulars |
| Pear Shaped
in Fitzrovia |
Every
Wednesday |
The Fitzroy
Tavern, 16a Charlotte Street, London, W1T 2NA |
Superb, Aussie-run
comedy night in a nice central boozer that's now been running for 5 years.
Master of ceremonies is Brian Damage, who keeps things moving along nicely
and also books most of the acts. There's a definite antipodean slant, with
loads of comics from down.... |
Rodigan's Reggae |
Every
Wednesday |
Mass, St.
Matthew's Church, London, SW2 1JF |
David ‘Ram Jam'
Rodigan's legendary reggae nights have recently decamped from their
spiritual Ladbroke Grove home and taken on a new lease of life in
Brixton's Mass. |
| The Comedy
Store Players |
Every Sunday,
Wednesday
|
The Comedy
Store, 1a Oxenden Street, London, SW1Y 4EE |
Every Sunday and
Wednesday at the Comedy Store is improvisation night. The store is the
spiritual home of stand up in the UK, and draws big crowds every night
|
| London
Skate |
Every
Wednesday |
Hyde Park
Bandstand, Near Serpentine, London, W1J 7JZ |
Organised in
association with Skatefresh, this free Wednesday night skate kicks off in
Hyde Park and takes in all the major sights of London and the West End.
It's very similar to the Friday Night Skate but run by a different bunch. |
Death Disco |
Every
Wednesday
|
Notting Hill
Arts Club, 19 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3JQ
|
Creation Records' Alan
McGee and Danny Watson are joined by live bands for Notting Hill Arts
Club's defiantly unfashionable punk night. Nothing clever, nothing trendy,
nothing ironic: just great live music, and three decades of white-hot punk
rock. |
Club NME
|
Every Friday
|
KOKO, 1a
Camden High Street, London, NW1 7JH
|
Ten years ago, Friday
nights at the Camden Palace were my favourite way to start the weekend.
Affordable even for a skint 16-year-old, frenzied and very, very loud, it
was one of the capital's nastiest rock nights. |
Friday
Night Skate
|
Every Friday
|
Duke of
Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner, London, W1J 7JZ
|
Every week (weather
permitting) hundreds and sometimes thousands of skaters take to the
streets for this marshalled run around London. There's a sound system
blaring out dance music on the back of a bike and a friendly, party
atmosphere. |
Popstarz
|
Every Friday
|
The Scala, 275
Pentonville Road, London, N1 9NL
|
Cool indie,
electroclash, alternative dance, bootlegs and classic pop are the music
policy at London's alternative gay night. |
| And Did We
Mention Our Disco? |
Every Friday
|
Plastic
People, 147-149 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3QE |
East London's favourite
trendy clubnight has gone from strength to strength since opening two
years ago. The mix of funk, phunk, no school, electro and mashed up house
is exactly what the Shoreditch crowd was crying out for. The Disco
combines a painfully fashionable m.... |
Nelson's
Funeral Flotilla
|
Friday 16th
September 2005 |
Starts
Greenwich (see map), Ends Whitehall, London, SE10 9NF |
Two hundred years ago,
in the final moments of the Battle of Trafalgar, the victorious Lord
Nelson was hit by a piece of shrapnel and killed. |
Swerve
|
Every
Wednesday |
The End, 18
West Central Street, London, WC1A 1JJ |
Jazzy D & B, seamlessly
mixed by Fabio and guests. |
| Buzzin Fly
|
Every Friday
|
Plastic
People, 147 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3QE |
Ben Watt's edgy East
London label have made a lot of waves this year with some crisp house and
electro releases and a clutch of excellent parties. |
| Camp Attack
|
Every Friday
|
The Astoria,
157 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EL |
70s and 80s on the main
dance floor, 90s in room two, but nothing except camp classics anywhere at
Friday's G-A-Y night |
| The Getdown
|
Every Friday
|
Bar Rumba, 36
Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 7EP |
Switched-on hip-hop
night with a furious party vibe. The Eclectic Breaks crew mix bouncy Old
Skool stylings with the freshest new Hip-Hop, Reggae, Bashment and RnB. It
gets VERY crowded for a couple of hours around midnight, but that's part
of the fun. |
| The
Offspring |
Friday 16th
September 2005 - Saturday 17th September 2005 |
Brixton
Academy, 211 Stockwell Road, London, SW9 9SL |
The Offspring's recent
release of a Greatest Hits album underlined just what a great band these
guys have been to have around for the last ten years. Their mid-nineties
counterparts have mostly gone off the rails, either selling out to the
laughable world of MTV |
| The
Trafalgar River Race |
Saturday 17th
September 2005 |
Ham Street,
Richmond (see map) to Island Gardens, Greenwich, London, TW10 7RS
|
As the rebranded Great
River Race glides into its eighteenth year this rowing marathon is firmly
established as a summer sporting highlight. Regarded as the rowing
equivalent of the London marathon this event is bursting with colour,
spectacle, intense competition. |
| Olympia
Musicmania |
Saturday 17th
September 2005 |
Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, W14 8UX |
From the same
organisers as the Wembley Music Fair, this rough-and-ready musical jumble
sale is paradise for retro-fanatics, vinyl junkies, music geeks and
bargain hunters. With sellers paying only 90 for their place in the show,
there's a massive range of CDs and vinyl. |
| The Far
Pavilions |
Thursday 24th
March 2005 - Saturday 17th September 2005 |
Shaftesbury
Theatre, 210 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8DP |
M. M. Kaye's lush
colonial romance was referred to in its day as the 'Gone With the Wind' of
the Raj. It tells the story of British officer Ashton Pelham-Martin, who
is called to escort Maharaja's daughter Anjuli to her marriage. |
