Ah, those Swedes - give them guitars and they'll give you magic. Take Herman Dune for example, forming with the idea of meshing Sonic Youth, Pavement and Neil Diamond together, they have succeeded in making a towering musical hybrid that is both sincere and urgent.
The jewel in the crown of Club Fandango's week of events - if you haven't seen these guys, then first what have you been doing for the last 2 years? And secondly, go to 229 and see this band, you silly, silly person.
After recent exjhibitions at Laura Bartlett and Marlborough Fine Art, contemporary artist Lydia Gifford now has a solo show at David Roberts Art Foundation. Expect work across video, installation and sculpture...
This winter Rollo Contemporary Art is playing host to the third and final installment in the critically-acclaimed exhibition series 'The Body in Women's Art Now'. The aim of the series is to review artworks...
Inspired by and in response to the work of Daniil Kharms, Clout theatre company present a physical theatre production that depicts a city of genius and nonsense where women are as delicate as porcelain...
Physical theatre and absurdist humour combine to create a land under surveillance. In this place where everything is recorded it's easy to erase a past and design a future.
Art gets topical this year, as Woolff Gallery play host to a series of new paintings by Oona Hassim. The works on show depict the various examples of urban disturbance that London witnessed in 2011 - from...
After three triumphant years, the UK's only fair dedicated exclusively to kinetic art returns this February. Kinetica Art Fair features all manner of computerised, mechanical and robotic art contraptions...
Cracking piss-up with slightly less dazzling karaoke at The Social, and one of the friendliest, liveliest crowds in London. We've attended this event a few times and have always been impressed by how awful...
Two simultaneous exhibitions this autumn and winter at the Wellcome Collection, under the title of Miracles and Charms. Infinitas Gracias - Mexican Miracle Paintings is the first major exhibition of Mexican...
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