a bore so she hooks up with Sinatra and Elvis for one last night of swinging 8pm £42.50/20 MARLBOROUGH THEATRE O Holy Night Interactive and absurdist Christmas theatre show 7.30pm £8.50/6.50 NEPTUNE Wynd Folk rock, of course 8.30pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Boogaloo Stu’s Pop Magic Christmas! The camp cabaret star hosts a ‘reality theatre’ show in the which the audience writes and performs their very own Christmas song 7.30pm/9.30pm £10/8 PAV TAV Open Mic Night & DJs Details tbc PRINCE ALBERT Marysia Band Polish band play traditional and modern folk music with a few Christmas songs thrown in 7.30pm £4 RANELAGH Simon Sparrow Blues guitarist 8.30pm £free REGENCY TAVERN Sunday Lunch Jerome plays the piano 1pm £free RIKI TIK Riki Fliks Film night showing classic movies and new shorts 7pm £free; The Lock In DJ night 9pm £free SIGNALMAN Open Mic Night 8.15pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Numberjacks Maths made fun with the help of cuddly integers 1pm/3.30pm £12.50-17.50 THOMAS KEMP Miss Mandy Jazz and swing duo 4pm £free; Tango Sessions Dance the early evening away 8pm £tbc WORLD’S END Professor Hard Times Old school jazz and blues DJ 8pm £free
monday 19th
ANCIENT MARINER Quiz Night 8pm £1 BEE’S MOUTH The Bee’s Mouth Jazz Forum Jazz jam with the house band 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Dirty House Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Brighton Stanza Poetry group 7pm £5; Surfers Against Sewage Xmas Surf films and festive fun 8pm £tbc COALITION Trash Mondays Filthy tunes for students and layabouts alike 10pm £5/3/free CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Romesh Ranganathan & Sean McLoughlin Double bill of rising stand-ups 7.30pm £5 CORN EXCHANGE Christmas Ball The age of ballroom dancing brought to life by the Berkeley Square Society Band 8pm £22.50/12.50 CUBE Hoi Polloi Northern soul for the masses Time tbc £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA The Trip 6.30pm FOUNTAINHEAD Open Mic Night 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Metal Mondays Full metal racket 7pm £free HAUNT Speakerbox Forward thinking UK garage night 11pm £tbc HED KANDI BAR Ooosh Commercial house, electro remixes, indie bootlegs Details tbc HYDRANT DOWN Rio Bravo Live music 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Shoe Baby Children’s puppet show based on Joyce Dunbar’s book with singalong tunes from Gomez’s Tom Gray 11am/2pm £9/7 KOMEDIA UP Glenn Tilbrook Solo set from the lead singer of Squeeze 7.30pm £17.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR Prehab, Choice, Linten Splinters Live music 8pm £4 LIFE Jailbait Hits from the 90s for those too young to remember the first time 11pm £2 MESMERIST Stroll On Mondays Rock and mod music with cult film screenings 8.30pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Boogaloo Stu’s Pop Magic Christmas! The camp cabaret star hosts a ‘reality theatre’ show in the which the audience writes and performs their very own Christmas song 10pm £10/8 PAV TAV Live Covers Band 9pm £tbc PRINCE ALBERT Born To Lose DJ night 8pm £3 QUADRANT Monday Night Comedy Club: Darren Walsh, Paul McCaffrey, Julie Jepson, Sami Stone Standup comedy 8pm £10/7.50 RANELAGH Krissy Matthews, Ben Poole Two bluesmen riffing 8.30pm £free SIGNALMAN Pub Quiz 8pm £1 STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Where Is My Mind? Music quiz 8pm £1; Sticky Mike’s Xmas Ho Down 7pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Numberjacks Maths made fun with the help of cuddly integers 11.30pm/2.30pm £12.50-17.50; Spamalot Marcus Brigstocke and Todd Carty sing from the diaphragm a lot in Eric Idle’s comedy musical 7.45pm £1745.50 VOLKS Strictly Reggae Dancehall, roots, revival 11pm £5/4.50 WORLD’S END Poker Night 8pm £tbc
Tuesday 20th
BEACHIGOGO Latin Fever Party Dance lessons followed by a tropical salsa club 8pm/10pm £3/1/free BEE’S MOUTH Roll ‘Dem Bones Blues, jazz and 60s tunes 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Totalled On Tuesday! Pop and dance 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW DJ Star DJ competition open to all 9pm £free BLACK LION Hit The Decks Open decks spin off (book
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a slot online) 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Jazz Jam Open session with house band 8pm £free COALITION Full Volume If your bass was this filthy you’d have to take it back to the fishmongers 10.30pm £2-5 CORN EXCHANGE Winter Ceilidh Kid-friendly dance show featuring The Sussex Pistols 7pm £8/5 DIGITAL CU Next Tuesday It’ll teach the universities to timetable lectures for Wednesday mornings 11pm £4/3 DUKE OF NORFOLK Open Mic 9pm £free FIDDLER’S ELBOW Quizness Time Are you a pub quiz whizz, or bit of a half-wit? 8pm £1 FOGG’S Quiz Night Prizes for those who have the foggiest 8.30pm £1 FRIEND’S MEETING HOUSE Chris T-T, Franz Nicolay Indie protest singer puts music to A.A. Milnes’ poetry in this family-friendly show 7pm £20/10/5 GLOBE Basement Cinema Underground films in an underground room 8pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Tarner Fundraiser 7.30pm £tbc; Hard Times They can take our disposable income, but they’ll never take our nowave disco! 11pm £free HED KANDI BAR Subtrkt Tuesday West Street’s new dance music club Details tbc HYDRANT DOWN Band Camp Christmas Party Live music 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Shoe Baby Children’s puppet show based on Joyce Dunbar’s book with singalong tunes from Gomez’s Tom Gray 11am/2pm £9/7 KOMEDIA UP Suspiciously Elvis Christmas Special Vegas era Elvis impersonator backed by a live band 8pm £20-42.50 LATEST MUSIC BAR You Cry Wolf, Tales Of George, My Element Live music 8pm £3 LIFE Drop Out Student night that’s almost as likely to ruin your degree as Tory education policy 11pm £2 LONDON UNITY Quiz Night Have your brain drained by a drag queen 8.30pm £1 LORD NELSON Pub Quiz Cash for questions 8.45pm £1 MESMERIST Conjurers’ Consortium It could be a magic night 7.30pm £free NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Boogaloo Stu’s Pop Magic Christmas! The camp cabaret star hosts a ‘reality theatre’ show in the which the audience writes and performs their very own Christmas song 7.30pm/9.30pm £10/8 OPEN HOUSE Jazz Work Shop Open jazz session 8pm £tbc PAV TAV Guerilla Rocks Club night for rock chicks, skater bois and indie kids 11pm £3/2/1 PRINCE ALBERT The Mess Around, Love Park Garage punk from Brooklyn 8pm £4/3 RED LION Challenging General Knowledge & Music Quiz 8pm £1 REGENCY TAVERN Mark’s Piano Bar Live music 1pm £free RIKI TIK Freaks DJs play poppy hip hop, poppy indie and pop 9pm £free SIDEWINDER Open Mic Night 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Numberjacks Maths made fun with the help of cuddly integers 11.30pm/2.30pm £12.50-17.50; Spamalot Marcus Brigstocke and Todd Carty sing from the diaphragm a lot in Eric Idle’s comedy musical 7.45pm £1745.50 THOMAS KEMP Poker Evening 8pm £tbc
wednesday 21st
BEE’S MOUTH Open Mic 8.30pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Now That’s What I Call A Party What did you call it before? 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Detention 8pm £free BLACK LION Acoustic Showcase Live bands and open mic night 8.30pm £free BRUNSWICK Live N Lauging Stand-up comedy 8pm £5 CHEQUERS Open Mic Session 8.30pm £free COALITION CoCo LoCo New housey student night 10.30pm £2-5 COWLEY CLUB Bald Knobbers Second Coming Live music 8pm £4 CUBE Cubed House to the power of three Time tbc £free DIGITAL The Poundance Like a coin operated dancefloor 11pm £4/3/1 DRUID’S ARMS We Change The Tempo! DJ plays international sounds 9pm £free DUKE OF NORFOLK Quiz Night 8pm £1 FISHBOWL The Mixer Men Reggae and hip hop DJ mash-up 10pm £free FOGG’S Open Mic Night Play for a pint 8.30pm £free FOUNTAINHEAD Student Night Indie rock tunes Time tbc £free GRAND CENTRAL Film Night Details tbc GREEN DOOR STORE Kidda Live music 7.30pm £free; The Jazz Store More live jazz, but with an open jam 11pm £free HED KANDI BAR Back To Love West Street’s new dance music club Details tbc HYDRANT DOWN The Reckless Christmas Party Live music 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Shoe Baby Children’s puppet show based on Joyce Dunbar’s book with singalong tunes from Gomez’s Tom Gray 11am/2pm £9/7 KOMEDIA UP Suspiciously Elvis Christmas Special Vegas era Elvis impersonator backed by a live band 8pm £20-42.50
LONDON UNITY Open Mic Night 8.30pm £free MARLBOROUGH THEATRE Open Mic 8.30pm £free MASH TUN Tin Cup Collective Live funk and soul band 9pm £free
MESMERIST Swing Ninjas Uptempo gypsy band 9pm £free
PRINCE ALBERT Cable Club Live music 8.30pm £4/3 RIKI TIK Hell On High Heels Sleazy rock and glam night 9pm £free
THEATRE ROYAL Numberjacks Maths made fun with
the help of cuddly integers 11.30pm £12.50-17.50; Spamalot Marcus Brigstocke and Todd Carty sing from the diaphragm a lot in Eric Idle’s comedy musical 2.30pm/7.45pm £17-45.50 THOMAS KEMP Open Mic 8.30pm £free VICTORY Open Mic 8pm £free VOLKS Switch Up Burning Of The Clocks Special Drum&bass and dubstep night 11pm £2/free
thursday 22nd
ANCIENT MARINER Charley Thearoux & Steve Lyons
Acoustic duo mixing Americana originals with covers of Dylan and Waits 8pm £free AUDIO Bastard Pop Musical mash-up 11pm £2/free BEE’S MOUTH Boondock Freylekhs, Horas, waltzes and polkas 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BAR Karaoke 9pm £free BELUSHI’S BELOW Fallout Live Live indie bands 10pm £3/2 BLACK LION Soul Casserole A melting pot of hot funk beats and soul grooves 9pm £free BRUNSWICK Fat Thursday Night: King Size Slim Monthly blues bash 8pm £free COALITION Secret Discotheque Replaying the soundtrack to your youth 11pm £4/3/2 COBBLER’S THUMB Analogue Underground Radio Open mic night that’s also a live radio broadcast 8pm £free CUBE Musicbox Project Live music Time tbc £free DOME The Nutcracker: A Happy Dream Classical ballet given a modern twist and reworked for kids 7.30pm £1028.50 DRUID’S ARMS Kraken Sessions: Monsters Build Mean Robots, Killington Fall, Angles Post rock xmas gig 8pm £free DUKE OF YORK’S CINEMA Les Enfants Du Paradis 6.30pm FIDDLER’S ELBOW Live Lounge Live music with a Christmassy touch 8.30pm £free FISHBOWL Residents Association DJs play hip hop, funk and world beats 10.30pm £free GLOBE Hang The Christmas DJ! A night of punter-picked playlists 9pm £free GREEN DOOR STORE Ed Lilo’s First Ever Eggnog Social This could feasibly be anything 11pm £free HED KANDI BAR Dubbed Hip hop, drumstep and drum&bass night Details tbc HONEY Exposed! Club night playing electro, dubstep and funky house 10.30pm £3.50/2 HOPE Communion Live music 7.30pm £tbc HOTEL PELIROCCO Synthesize Me Beautiful boings, bleeps and beats 8pm £free HYDRANT DOWN The Scam Punk rock covers band 8pm £free KOMEDIA DOWN Shoe Baby Children’s puppet show based on Joyce Dunbar’s book with singalong tunes from Gomez’s Tom Gray 11am/2pm £9/7 KOMEDIA UP Krater Christmas Kracker: Sean Collins, Phil Nichol, Stephen Grant Stand-up comedy with a three course meal and late night dancing 6pm £47.50 LIFE Porno Xmas Special Time tbc £2 LONDON UNITY Texas Hold Em Poker night for serious players 8pm £5 MASH TUN They Mostly Come At Night Indie, electro and hip hop tunes 9pm £free MESMERIST John Crampton One-man blues band 9pm £free RANELAGH CCTV Tapped Guitar and tap dancing duo 8.30pm £free REGENCY TAVERN Jazzy J Piano and double bass duo 8pm £free RIKI TIK Sizzurp Swaggy hip hop with added crunk 9pm £free PRINCE ALBERT Another Costume Party Live music 8.30pm £4/3 ST JAMES’ TAVERN Stay Sick, Turn Blue DJs play vintage soul, jazz and blues 8.30pm £free STICKY MIKE’S FROG BAR Catholic Discipline Noise rock, disco pop and acid folk from the Superheroes of BMX 8pm £free THEATRE ROYAL Numberjacks Maths made fun with the help of cuddly integers 11.30pm/2.30pm £12.50-17.50; Spamalot Marcus Brigstocke and Todd Carty sing from the diaphragm a lot in Eric Idle’s comedy musical 7.45pm £1745.50 VOLKS Soundwaves Records: Tyke, Robbie D, King L, Tombola, Lean, Haunt, Real Deal, Nemso, Hysteriks, Ezb, Rama, Assasinater, Ruthless, Livid, Oner, Speekah Drum&bass label takes over 10pm £5 WORLD’S END The Big Cash Quiz 8pm £tbc
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