Tonight start the week by going to see massive Swedish popstar Marit Bergman at Hoxton Bar & Grill. She's playing a one off UK gig in an attempt to get signed in the UK. (£6, here. Former Hefner frontman Darren Hayman teams up with fledgling band The Wave Pictures at The Luminaire (£8, here). Plus the awesome Cold War Kids play Shepherd's Bush Empire. On Tuesday, German dance kids Digitalism are at the Scala......

A night of clubbing is as much about the music you want to hear as it is the experience you hope to get out of it. Whilst there are endless opportunities to don your best threads and brave the night buses to see and be seen, we prefer to come as we are, get sweaty and get down. With their irresistible selection of post-punk and electro classics and obscurities, Our Disco ticks all our......

After following up a superb night with The Field by bringing Gui Boratto a few months later, Allez-Allez have fastly become one of our favourite club promoters. If we're not dancing to the best in minimal techno at one of their Plastic People events, then we're likely downloading one of the many installments in their excellent podcast mix series. This Wednesday, Sam and Steve return to Plastic People with techno superduo Supermayer (Superpitcher + Michael......

After numerous appearances on the Continent, as well as performances at such legendary festivals as MUTEK and Detroit's Electronic Music Festival, we were beginning to think perhaps we smelled bad. Why else wouldn't Gui Boratto come to visit our lovely island? Thankfully we no longer need to be concerned about our possibly poor hygiene, for the kind souls at Allez-Allez have once again teamed with the Kompakt label, this time to bring the Brazilian......

As a wise man once said, "Bloody hell, it's Soft Cell!" Well, actually, it's not Soft Cell. It's just Marc Almond solo. And the man wasn't all that wise. It was Alan Partridge. Either way, though, Monday gives you a chance to see Marc Almond of Soft Cell at Shepherd's Bush Empire. It's his 50th birthday party, so buy him something nice. For those whose prefer sax to synth, septuagenarian free jazz legend Ornette Coleman......

Though it hasn't been that well publicised, everyone's favourite electro indie kids Hot Chip had a new album out on Monday. It's called "DJ Kicks" and is a compilation that: "takes the listener on a sublime journey through the dusty crevices of Hot Chip’s 10-legged record collection it manages to take in wonky electro-pop, Detroit techno, off-kilter house, hip hop, mellifluous drum’n’bass, R’n’B, blues, jazz and Joe Jackson without ever sounding contrived or hackneyed.......

Tonight at Plastic People the creator of what is easily this year's best techno album makes his live UK debut. The Field (Stockholm's Axel Willner) will turn Shoreditch sublime with help from Kompakt labelmate Tobias Thomas (appearing in support of his new mix CD "Please Please Please") and Allez-Allez DJs. We've almost fallen in front of many a bus walking around the city lost in Willner's brilliant record. The safety of the club, and......

If there was a list of London's most influential clubnights over the last ten years, then Monday-nighter Trash would definitely be on it. Originally hosted at Plastic People (then on Oxford Street) in 1997, it set out to merge the boundaries between dance and rock music, and well, just play good stuff that everyone could dance to. Going via The Annex before arriving at current venue The End in 2000, promoter Erol Alken has played......

Last week, we wore ourselves out so much on Thursday night with JD Samson that we were disappointingly ill the rest of the weekend, and the shoes didn't get put to their full potential. There doesn't seem to be too much exciting new fun to be had this weekend, but if we do go out, these will probably be the places. Tonight we're torn between 2 very cool nights. If you're south of the river,......

Anyone who's been to a gig or club night in the last, say, hundred years or so, will have run the gauntlet of pastry faced youngsters thrusting Giant Oaks worth of tatty bits of paper into your hands. Some will be badly written, badly printed, and unreadable for unwatchable bands, others will tell you in shiny glossy four colour printing all about the shows you missed three months ago and a few others will......

Freeness looks to be Pop Idol minus everything but the music and with the added perk that the music is the artist's own, not just covers – so actually, not Pop Idol at all, but keep reading anyway. Freeness is hitting Plastic People on Curtain Road on January 26 (that's Wednesday for the calendar inept) for one night only. London is the first of 10 stops on its quest to help modern producers and......