Why not check out weekly film club 'Short and Sweet'? Held at AKA in Holborn from 6.45pm you can expect a mixture of short films and music videos put together by film loving Julia who hosts this weekly event. Recent work has been from a mixture of established directors such as Michel Gondry & Jonathan Glazer as well as hot new undiscovered talent. And as an added bonus, you can order from a selection......

Morrissey starts the first of a string of six dates at the Roundhouse on Monday night, playing every night except Thursday until next Sunday. As you'd expect, tickets are all gone, but you may be able to find a few last minute spares floating around. Londonist favourites Sons and Daughters play The End's first Birthday, and Stephen Fretwell plays his melodic melancholy at the Luminaire - a few tickets left at £12.50 from WeGotTickets......

One of our favourite UK bands, Sons & Daughters are back with a new album and tonight they'll be showing it off for free. To celebrate the release of their new single 'Darling', the Scottish indie stars will be performing and signing cds at Fopp on Shaftesbury Avenue. The performance starts at 6pm but it could be pretty crowded so get there a little bit early. But if you miss them this time round......

About 18 months ago a band called Cazals had one spiky indie hit that we loved playing dancing to in the indie discos. It was called Poor Innocent Boy and then we never heard anything about them again. Friends with Doherty (boo) and Bloc Party (woo), we forgot about them entirely until an email appeared telling us they were supporting the mighty Daft Punk in Japan this week. Rather than just wallowing in indie obscurity......

If you were up in Edinburgh for the first week of the festival or are just back from that hedonistic week away then you’re probably feeling the pinch. You’ll not be able to go naughty Monday indie clubbing at Durr at The End. You can’t fork out to go to Cadogan Hall and watch the Charlie Chaplin triple bills with live music and celebrity hosts. Neither will you be getting a last minute ticket......

In addition to being the mad mastermind behind one of the best albums of the year so far, Dan Deacon is also the hardest working freak in the business. While even after witnessing his live performance and listening to his record numerous times, we're still not exactly sure what that business is, we do know it involves whimsical pop sensibilities battling against an impressive array of twisted electronics. And countdowns. Dan likes counting. Amidst......

About half an hour ago this week’s Mercury Music Prize nominees were announced. As could be expected, they included a selection of some of this year’s biggest records along with a few more obscure ones that will keep everyone guessing. At the moment William Hill have last year’s winners Arctic Monkeys and also Amy Winehouse as joint favourites to win (at 4/1), though with the Mercury's you never know who could win. Jamie T, Amy......

Still don't think you've found the new Tracey Emin? Take a look at these exhibitions at Free Range and you might just come across the 'next big thing'. RAW EDGE Who? Thurrock & Basildon College (Textiles) What? DESIGN (2D & 3D) Where? Dray Walk Gallery Forming emotion Who? Northumbria University What? DESIGN (2D & 3D) Where? Brick House Ravensbourne Graduates 2007 Who? Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication (Textiles) What? DESIGN (2D & 3D)......

We all love and hate the Tube, don’t we? On one hand it is an indispensable, magic, under earth fun-bus that transports us to all the wonderment and wide-eyed beauty that is London and its environs. On the other hand it is a fetid, overcrowded mess of the sinful and weary plebs that will sneeze on you, play their music too loud on their iPods or wait until it’s really crowded and try and......

Tonight is the 10th birthday party for world-famous London clubnight Trash, and as mentioned a little while back, it's to be its last. Tonight, Trash bows out after a decade. It seems fitting that after 10 years, we should seal the lid on something which has been extremely special. Closing it at one of it's peaks is in honour of the special times we have all shared together. Erol will be leaving his residency to......

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......

Friday, Friday Fabric Live: Tonight dear old Fabbers is taken over by riotous Liverpool club Chibuku programming all three rooms. If the likes of Pendulum, London Elektricity and the Scratch Perverts isn't enough, then prepare to join a very long queue of people, upon realising producer-god Mark Ronson is playing live. Having recently worked on Lily Allen, Christina Aguilera and Amy Winehouse's new albums, you never know who could show up as a guest......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. The Beckett Centenary Celebration continues this week with a season of his shorter works at the Bookshop Theatre, A Piece of Monologue on Tuesday ("the summing up of the last two and a half billion seconds of a man's life") and The End on Wednesday (One man’s testament to the lack of care in......

Waking up mid-afternooon on both Saturday and Sunday last week left us content that we had fulfilled any clubbing needs we had. This is true in particular of Saturday night, which saw us go to 3 different clubs across London all in one night. We are crazy party animals. Fact! Tonight though we finally feel we've recovered and so we're off to see former Skunk Anansie frontwoman Skin doing a PA at our regular......

With all this book reading, tv viewing, lecture attending, film watching and Ken chasing, we at the Londonist towers have realised we've forgotten to do one vital thing. We've forgotten to dance! Upon this realisation we immediately rushed to the nearest Office and bought ourselves a pair of comfortable, yet stylish dancing shoes. We've just put them on and by heck we're going to use them. Ladies and Gentlemen of London, beware, the Londonistas are......

Alfie - Crying At Teatime Following Alfie through their career feels a little like watching someone grow up. Indeed, in our recent interview, front-man Lee Gorton described the band's journey from their folky acoustic beginnings to their current incarnation as 'growing up in public'. EP collection and first album If You Happy With You Need Do Nothing showed the happy naivety of a band learning their trade, demonstrating childlike charm. If the music was......

There's a serious amount of lurrrve for Alfie in the Londonist Music Dungeon at the moment. A great new album is out in a couple of weeks and the trailing single Your Own Religion is out now. We don't normally buy singles if we're going to buy the album (and you will want to buy the album) but it's worth buying the CD single because it also contains the excellent video. Aural and visual......