PlaceConcerts
Jazz Cafe, Camden
Live music gives this Camden room an evening to build around the artist on the bill.
Good things are out there
Follow your curiosity.
A name, a neighbourhood, a mood. Start somewhere.
EventConcerts
Central – Youandewan b2b Liquid Earth, Laurine + Ron Obvious
Central brings Youandewan back to back with Liquid Earth, plus Laurine and Ron Obvious, for a full night of house-led club music in Shoreditch.
EventActivities
Hamlet Hail to the Thief
Shakespeare’s tragedy meets a reworked Radiohead score in a theatrical production with actors and live musicians.
GuideCulture
London, with room to wander
A painting, an object, a path through the park. Three free places to give a London day a little direction without filling every hour.
EventActivities
David Shrigley: Creative Writing
David Shrigley discusses his comic prose in an Intelligence Squared conversation at Kings Place.
RestaurantLondon
Murano
An Italian restaurant in Mayfair suits an evening centred on the table and the menu.
PlaceExhibitions
The Photographers’ Gallery
Photography exhibitions, a print-sales gallery and a bookshop make this Soho address a focused stop for contemporary image-making.
PlaceActivities
Chiswick House and Gardens
A Palladian villa sits within landscaped gardens that make Chiswick a destination for architecture, walking and a quieter stretch of west London.
EventConcerts
DESIREE at KOKO
DESIREE takes over KOKO for a Saturday house session running through to Sunday morning.
EventConcerts
Sigma: Daytime at KOKO
Sigma brings drum and bass to KOKO in an afternoon-to-evening session that leaves the rest of Saturday open.
EventActivities
Blindboy: The Blindboy Podcast Live
Blindboy takes his podcast into the Barbican Hall for a live evening with a surprise guest.
EventConcerts
Sibelius, Vaughan Williams and Dubugnon with Janine Jansen
Janine Jansen joins Antonio Pappano for Richard Dubugnon’s new violin concerto, alongside Sibelius’s The Swan of Tuonela and Vaughan Williams’s Sinfonia antartica.
EventExhibitions
Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now
More than 200 works by 27 artists trace the range of post-war and contemporary Japanese photography at The Photographers’ Gallery.
PlaceConcerts
Electric Ballroom
A Camden High Street live venue for touring bands and club events, immediately useful when an evening is built around a particular gig.
EventConcerts
Drake Music Artist Showcase 2026
Kindred Prisms, Manukai, Stottie, Ant Lightfoot and VVN bring new work spanning folk, dark pop, indie pop and spoken word to LSO St Luke’s.
EventActivities
LuAnna: The Big Party at Troxy
LuAnna brings The Big Party to Troxy with a daytime performance and a separate evening session.
PlaceOutdoors
Lloyd Park
A Walthamstow park pairs open space with the cultural streets around Forest Road.
EventCulture
Ben Okri and Rosemary Clunie at Friday Lates
Poetry and painting meet in a book conversation at the National Gallery’s Pigott Theatre.
Free entry
PlaceActivities
National Gallery
A free collection on Trafalgar Square. Choose a handful of paintings and give them the time a whole museum sometimes steals.
PlaceOutdoors
St James’s Park
A central-London walk around the lake, linking Westminster with the royal parks and giving a busy sightseeing day some breathing room.
PlaceOutdoors
Chelsea Physic Garden
A walled garden devoted to useful plants, tucked beside the Thames in Chelsea and scaled for a more intimate botanical visit.
PlaceConcerts
London Palladium
A West End venue with a long variety-theatre history, still a place to choose around a particular show or performer.
EventExhibitions
Sabine Moritz: Lie Down in Green Pastures
Plant life, remembered landscapes and abstract painting meet in Sabine Moritz’s first UK museum exhibition.
RestaurantBritish
St. JOHN: Smithfield
A Smithfield restaurant with a changing British menu. Choose lunch or supper deliberately: the dining room has separate service windows.