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Spoonfed Singles Club

The Spoonfed team review this week's new releases.

Pandora's Box at Arcola Theatre

In Pandora's Box, talented playwright Ade Solanke looks at Nigerian families who send their western-born children back to Nigeria for their secondary education and in doing so, she cleverly reminds us...

Heroes, Nazis and dreams: an interview with Humphrey Ker

Formerly known as ‘The Tall Guy from The Penny Dreadfuls’, sketch comic Humphrey Ker made a name for himself last August when he...

Clerkenwell braces itself for Design Week 2012

Clerkenwell celebrates its third annual design festival next week, with three days of exhibitions, workshops, talks and product launches showcasing...

Introducing Matador

'Matador' is Gavin Lynch - a techno producer residing in Dublin whose warped beats have landed him a signing on Richie Hawtin's techno megalith...

What's on Today

Visionquest 10-Hour Set

DJ Music @ Village Underground
06:00 pm

Visionquest are one of the hottest house labels of now. The DJs involved are all stars in their own right - Detroit natives who now reside in techno hotbed...

The Beekeeper

Theatre @ Waterloo East Theatre
07:30 pm

“Hope is the enemy of reason” says a Nazi to a Jew in Michael Ashton's The Beekeeper. It's a line which, for me, sets the focus o...

Gillian Wearing

Exhibitions @ Whitechapel Art Gallery
11:00 am

Swan song time for the YBAs? 2011 saw Emin at the Hayward, whilst this year is the year of Damien Hirst. Going a little under the radar is the Whitechapel's...

The Jezabels

Live Music @ Electric Brixton
07:30 pm

A group of Australians whose vintage sounding indie rock slips in nicely between the Dum Dum Girls reverb-laden rock and Lana Del Rey's Lynchian pop,...

Spector

Live Music @ Electric Ballroom
07:30 pm

Currently riding high on the success of two critically acclaimed singles, London pop experimentalists Spector are celebrating with a little shin-dig dow...

This Weekend

Brimstone and Treacle

Theatre @ Arcola Theatre
Saturday 19 th - 08:00 pm

So far the only casting announced for Brimstone and Treacle is Rupert Friend who'll play the good looking psychopath that weedles his way into the lives...

Tanlines

Live Music @ The Lexington
Friday 18 th - 08:00 pm

Drawing attention from the music press round the country for his single 'New Flowers', Tanlines produce choral dance/house music with latin beats a...

Bugged Out! present Night Slugs

DJ Music @ Jacks
Friday 18 th - 10:00 pm

Mighty mighty Night Slugs turn 4 with a line-up of such beauty my palms are already a-quiver in anticipation of being in the air for the entire night.I...

Jimmy Cliff

Live Music @ Indigo2
Friday 18 th - 06:30 pm

Reggae stalwart Jimmy Cliff has been producing hits since the sixties, and although he never achieved the international stardom of Bob Marley, he has been...

Pink Does Not Exist

Exhibitions @ Secret Location
Saturday 19 th - 12:00 am

Brand new contemporary art gallery Flat C launches in Stoke Newington this month, with an exhibition taking place in the curator's private flat. Pink Does...