The Spoonfed editorial team select the biggest and best events taking place in London this February.
Live Music
Hang on to your wallets people – London’s live scene is definitely kicking it up a notch this month. Disregarding shows from hotly tipped newbies Howler and Friends at The Lexington, the big news this February is the NME Awards Tour, which is serving up so much good stuff it makes us feel like we’ve died. With everyone from Cloud Control and Azealia Banks to Slow Club, Errors and Justice, now is the time to get your music fix. The other bit of good news is that Japanther are back! These guys sound like the Descendents mixed with Sonic Youth, sing through a telephone and are probably one of the best live bands ever! DH
Theatre
Just when you were starting to lose your faith in new writing, a swathe of stellar playwrights declare they'll be presenting new work as The Tricycle Goes Nuclear for Nicholas Kent's final season. David Elridge is also set to make a dent in the theatre landscape with In Basildon at Royal Court and the ever-clever Barbican present Improbable's Devil and Mister Punch. Meanwhile, the West End ushers in Freddie Fox and Olivia Colman for Hay Fever. The other big shows this month are, of course, Singin' in the Rain, The Lady from the Sea – with Joely Richardson – and Sadler's Well's Flamenco Festival. NK
Art
February sees a host of high-profile openings across London – from David Shrigley's big show at the Hayward to Yayoi Kusama's much publicised retrospective at Tate Modern, the National Portrait gallery's big show of Lucian Freud portraits, Tate Britain's Picasso exploration, and the Courtauld's Mondrian/Nicholson compare and contrast exercise. Meanwhile, New York's Eykyn Maclean launch their London space with a Cy Twombly show, and, over at Aubin Gallery, the completely brilliant Sarah Maple has a solo show that sees a shift of emphasis away from religion and towards issues surrounding gender. Oh, and don't miss the always bonkers Kinetica Art Fair. TJ
Lifestyle
The BFI are celebrating the works of cult director David Lynch this February with a month-long season dedicated to the Twin Peaks creator. Across the river at Somerset House, London Fashion Weekend features catwalk shows, sample sales, make-over opportunities and lots of other LFW related fun that you don't have to be an A-lister to enjoy. Otherwise, sip gin cocktails in your pyjamas at Bedtime Stories, or grab yourself a hot date for Valentine's Day at The Book Club for Last Night a Speed Date Changed My Life. TA
Clubbing
February packs a punch people. I suggest you kick off with the Earnest Endeavours party at CAMP with West Coast mastermind and Frite Nite boss Salva bringing the heat. Then there's' the Electric Roller Disco with all the disco alumni on wheels: Warm, Horse Meat Disco and Electric Minds. Skate while you're vogueing if you can. Rave staples Them bring the incredible Rustie to Corsica Studios for their third birthday and you can round off the month with Ecstasy, Passion and Pain at Scala – featuring French disco king Aeroplane, plus Lindstrom and Mylo, with our favourite disco boys, The Boogie Cartel taking over room three. LC
Comedy
If you didn't make it up to the Edinburgh Fringe last year, now's a good chance to catch some of the best shows it had to offer. Knockabout character comic Adam Riches – who won the Fosters Comedy Award in 2011 – comes to the West End, while 'Best Newcomer' winner Humphrey Ker performs a hilarious show about his grandfather's escapades as a WWII Nazi-destroyer. Inimitable Aussie and ex-heavy metal drummer Steve Hughes' tour lands in London, there are two quality Montreal showcases at the Pleasance for a fiver, a corker of a sketch and character line-up at the Roffle Club and a hot-looking charity bash at the Bloomsbury. The Horne Section is performing its biggest show to date to the Hackney Empire and don't forget the N2O comedy festival at the Battersea Arts Centre.
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