Spoonfed editors select the biggest and best events taking place in London this November.
Comedy
Tim Key: MasterSlut @ Arts Theatre – The Edinburgh Comedy Award winner brings his excellent second solo show to London, delivering amusingly pithy poems off pornographic playing cards, and musing on the merits of baths.
Laugh or The Polar Bear Gets It @ HMV Apollo – Top comedy stars including Stewart Lee, Tony Law, Ed Byrne, Danny Bhoy and Josh Widdecombe take part in a charity gig to raise funds for Friends of the Earth.
Live at the Chapel with Reggie Watts @ Union Chapel – A one-off Live at the Chapel special from the hilarious and unique 'loop machine' comedian Reggie Watts.
Greg Davies: The Back of My Mum’s Head @ HMV Apollo – Gifted storyteller Greg Davies returns with more rip-roaring anecdotes about his family, recapturing his youth at Glastonbury, his 'Top 5 Involuntary Noises' and a song about a bonsai tree.
Tim Minchin and Band @ The Coronet – Comedy rocker Tim Minchin performs a London warm-up gig ahead of Aussie festival Homebake, playing a selection of his greatest hits.
Clubbing
Spin Off w/ Frankie Knuckles @ XOYO – The Godfather of House returns to London with an accordingly good line-up of young talent in support.
Electric Minds Loft Party @ Secret Location – Numbers label boss Jackmaster and Hessle Audio's Ben UFO go back-to-back all night long for some weighty bass movements.
The Hydra presents Non Plus x Workshop @ Secret location – The Hydra continue bringing some of the best parties of the autumn/winter, this time teaming up with the Non Plus and Workshop labels. The brilliant Joy Orbison and Boddika headline.
Horse Meat Disco @ Dalston Superstore – Everyone’s favourite disco bears, Horse Meat Disco make a rare Saturday night appearance together, taking over both floors of the Superstore.
Hardlife w/ Citizen @ Moustache Bar – Rounding things off on the 30th are quality house peddlers Hardlife, with underground talent Citizen headlining the intimate confines of Moustache Bar.
Live Music
Death Grips @ Electric Ballroom – One of the coolest crews in hop hop, Death Grips is a five-headed enigma made up of founder Flatliner, head MC Ride, side-vocalist/lyricist Mexican Girl, Info Warrior and beat-junkie Zach Hill of Hella fame.
DIIV @ The Garage – Composed of Beach Fossils guitarist Cole Smith, Devin Ruben Perez, Andrew Bailey, DIIV make wonderfully dreamy indie pop that comes in halfway between Real Estate's experimental jams and old style spit and polish indie pop.
Holograms @ The Shacklewell – Like early synth pop pioneers Cabaret Voltaire before them, Holograms' sound synthesizes the drudgery of dismal existence with a lust for something better; echoing both the violent abandonment of punk as well as some of the electronic gloss of early 80′s new wave.
Purity Ring @ Scala – A brand new chillwave act from GOBBLE GOBBLE's Corin Roddick, Purity Ring combine dubstep and hip hop grooves into some of the best 'space-cadet' music we've heard in ages.
The Rolling Stones @ O2 Arena – Celebrating the remarkable achievement that is clocking up 50 years of being in a band, The Rolling Stones revisit some of their remarkable legacy with two shows at the O2 Arena this month.
Art
30 Minutes of Listening @ IMT – Mark Peter Wright explores our perceptions of time and space through film, sound, photography, object and text.
The Therapist @ Brick Lane Gallery – Strange and multi-exposure self portraits of the artist and his analyst reflecting a thin line between sanity and madness.
Now I Gotta Reason @ Jerwood – More a string of events than an exhibition in the traditional sense, Now I Gotta Reason is a new work by Marcus Coates that aims to reconnect art to its functional origins.
Death @ Wellcome Collection – A massive collection of art works, historical artifacts, scientific specimens and morbid ephemera from across the world.
Patricia Piccinini @ Haunch of Venison – Patricia Piccinini's first UK solo show explores modern man's never-ending search for homogenised perfection with surprising and sometimes disturbing results.
Theatre
The Serpent's Tooth @ Shoreditch Town Hall – For Shakespeare lovers and cynics alike, this sequel to King Lear looks at what happens after Lear and his daughters are dead.
Twelfth Night & Richard III @ Apollo Theatre – Stephen Fry and Mark Rylance performing Shakespeare in the West End. Get tickets while you can.
Golgotha @ Tristan Bates – Iqbal Khan, whose RSC production of Much Ado About Nothing just closed in the West End, is directing Nirjay Mahindru's new play.
Constellations @ Duke of York's Theatre – The phenomenally brilliant Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall star in this cleverly structured love story that combines romance, tragedy, quantum mechanics and bee-keeping.
The Architects @ The Biscuit Factory – If someone's mad enough to combine the minotaur myth and mass production of biscuits with labyrinthine theatre, you can rely on Shunt to do a great job. We have high hopes for this one.
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