Best of July: Clubbing

Tippex Wedding Festival
3rd July
The lady behind one of London's best booking agencies is getting married, so a rare parade of eccentric experimentalists are helping to raise funds for the honeymoon (Hawaii if it goes well, Margate if not).
Best For: Dalstonians who see Barden’s Boudoir as an extension of their own living room

Toby Tobias 'Space Shuffle' Album Launch
3rd July
Already one of the secret ingredients making Radioslave's Rekids the label to go to for spaced-out, slo-mo techno, Toby Tobias launches his debut album.
Best For: People with beards and nice trainers

The Trailer Trash Shoreditch Pleasure Cruise
6th July
Ah, boat parties. Sipping a cocktail and sauntering round on deck while the sounds of Hannah Holland's bastard batty bass clash all around you. And all for a tenner!
Best For: Star-gazing and deck-staggering

Solexism
6th July
Lex Records celebrates a new lease of life thanks to recent signings like Gruff Rhys's Neon Neon project and the amazing heartbreak, possibly the UK's only live Italo-disco duo.
Best For: Style-conscious types who don’t do vapid

Pollinate Records
10th July 9pm - 2am
A new label pushing out-there electronics ropes in human blender DJ Rupture, as well as two of dubstep's most interesting outsiders, in order to help get noticed.
Best For: DJs who think they’re handy on the decks – it’ll be straight home for extra practice hours

FWD: Dusk and Blackdown album launch
13th July
Dusk and Blackdown's love letter to London's margins has got to be one of the more adventurous dubstep long-players released for a while; it's launched at this special edition of the genre-defining FWD night.
Best For: Anyone who’s ever driven through an industrial zone with ‘Dubstep Allstars’ on the stereo and thought, ‘This is London’

Noise Of Art
16th July
A hectic agglomeration of art and noise; tonight German electronica giants Booka Shade play live at this shiny looking mini-fest.
Best For: Pounding pounding techno music

Lovebox Weekender
19th - 20th July
A festival on your doorstep with musical globalista Manu Chao, The Young Blood Brass Band, Chicago house luminary Frankie Knuckles and more fun and games than you can shake a glowstick at.
Best For: Going barefoot and getting reacquainted with the hula hoop

Peace Not War
20th July
Party featuring the eclectic talents of international hip hoppers and lyrical impresarios intended to remind us what it's all about. Peace obviously.
Best For: Dropping the attitude and getting down with your brothers and sisters (man)

Lyrics Born
20th July
World famous and immensely excellent rapper Lyrics Born touches down at Dingwalls to show the good people of London a thing or two about rhyme.
Best For: American hip hop