TIME AND PLACE:

Doors: 9pm – 3am

@ Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace Way
Wood Green
London, N22 7AY

Entry: £36.50 adv
Buy HERE or Gigsandtours.com

www.alexandrapalace.com

WIN 2 TICKETS TO THE SHOW – SEE DETAILS BELOW.

Two-time Grammy winning internationally respected artist/producer/DJ David Guetta has announced a massive headline, bank holiday weekend show at London’s Alexandra Palace. Now, with his fifth studio album Nothing But The Beat, Guetta takes his career to a frenetic new level marked by bigger hooks and more brain-bending beats. Although he’s a mainstream producer – Guetta knows how to throw a party that will get both street kids and  hardcore techno heads jumping around in harmony!

Following a massive tour around the world David Guetta is coming back to the UK for his biggest headline show in years.

We have 2 tickets for giveaway to 1 winner. To enter the competition answer the following question:
What is the name of David Guetta’s debut album?
Email your answer to: competitions@informedlondon.com (Place David Guetta in the subject line)
Competition closes on Friday, 25th May 2012.

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19:30 -LATE

@ Rich Mix
35-47 Bethnal Green Road,
London,
E1 6LA

Entry: £6 advance / £8 on the door

www.movimientos.org.uk
www.reversomusica.com
www.youtube.com/reversomusica

Grab a night with Latin flavour at the great music venue Rich Mix.

Reverso will be making their return from travelling the world and are back to tease your eardrums.

An exciting brass laden sound that brings together ska, reggae and soul with Latin rhythms and mestizo energy making a unique connection between Ecuador – Latin America and London

8.30pm
Poppy Perezz
Meixcan highlife style pop

9.30pm
Babilondon
Roots reggae band with a skanking good time vibe

10.30pm
Reverso

Thursday 16th August – Monday 27th August 2012

@ Somerset House,
The Strand, WC2R 1LA

For film screenings, doors open 6.30pm, DJs from 7pm, Film starts 9pm.

Single Bills: £14.50
Double Bills: £18.00 
Premieres £22.50

All ticket prices are subject to booking fees

Tickets are available from 10am FRIDAY 18TH MAY here
or by calling Ticketmaster on 0844 847 1715

Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House makes a welome return this summer with an incredible programme of exclusive premieres, slick double-bills and iconic films – including big blockbusters, experimental film, exploitation and art-house action. All films are presented in the spectacular setting of Somerset House’s 18th century courtyard on a giant 17 x 8 metre screen with full surround sound. Tickets go on general release on Friday 18th May and I suggest booking immediately to avoid disappointment as these special events are guaranteed to sell out.

Thursday 16 August | UK Premiere: On the Road
Friday 17 August | The Birds
Saturday 18 August | Double-Bill: Enter the Void & Chemical Brothers: Don’t Think
Sunday 19 August | People’s Premiere: The Watch
Monday 20 August | Apocalypse Now
Tuesday 21 August | Bicycle Thieves
Wednesday 22 August | Paris, Texas
Thursday 23 August | Pretty in Pink
Friday 24 August | Double-Bill: Boogie Nights and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Saturday 25 August | Double-Bill: Sexy Beast and Drive
Sunday 26 August | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Monday 27 August | UK Premiere: Lawless

The UK Premieres of the highly anticipated films, On The Road and Lawless (trailer below), bookend the season, fresh from their world premieres at Cannes Film Festival 2012. The People’s Premiere of The Watch is a first chance to see the hilarious comedy sci-fi from Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Britain’s very own Richard Ayoade (director of Film4′s Submarine).

Here are a few of my favourite clips and trailers displaying the variety of outstanding filmmaking on show this season at Film4 Summer Screen. Please click to open the player in YouTube.

For detailed information on Behind the Screen, illuminating talks offering a glimpse into minds of the directors, actors and industry insiders behind this year’s Film4 Summer Screen films, please click here.

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TIME AND PLACE

Friday 17th – Friday 24th August 2012

Doors open 6.30pm, talk starts 7pm

@ Somerset House,
The Strand, WC2R 1LA

£10 (includes glass of wine)
All ticket prices are subject to booking fees

Tickets are available from 10am FRIDAY 18TH MAY here
or by calling Ticketmaster on 0844 847 1715

20:00 – Late

@ HMV Forum
9 – 17 Highgate Road,
Kentish Town,
London,
NW5 1JY

Entry:£14.50 Super Early Birds, £17.50 Early Birds, £19.50 Advance
Buy Tickets

We are giving our readers a chance to win a pair of ticket to go see one of the World’s most renowned turntabilist DJ Yoda.

Just answer this Question

In what movies is Yoda a famous character in?

Send your answers to competitions@informedlondon.com
Place DJ Yoda in the subject line competition closes midday tomorrow.

Duncan Beiny aka DJ Yoda is no ordinary scratch DJ. His seminal How To Cut & Paste series showcased a tongue-in-cheek mixing style that prompted Q Magazine to declare him “one of the ten DJs to see before you die”, whilst Hip Hop Connection voted him “one of the top three DJs in the world”.

Originally a hip hop DJ, DJ Yoda has been steadily incorporating a myriad music styles into his shows with a view to create exhilarating musical collages, from reggae to drum’n’bass, kuduro to country music – and often at the same time! – concocting an intoxicating blend with one single aim in mind: to get the party going!

18:00 – 23:00

@ Graffik Gallery
284 Portobello Road,
London,
W10 5TE

Entry: £FREE

www.graffiklondon.co.uk

What’s your favourite Disney movie? Well be it your a fan of The Little Mermaid, Lion King or Beauty and the Beast this exhibition will have a different take on your favourite cherished animated movies.

Once upon a time in the kingdom of Portobello there was a contemporary arts venue named “Graffik Gallery”. D.I.Z.N.I. will be trespassing from 17 May – 3 June.

When we think of children’s stories, two entirely different kinds of tale come to mind. Disney publishes beautiful tales with kind fairies who grant wishes and sprinkle fairy dust. These stories stem from the Victorian period, an era when the Grimm brothers’ tales were sanitised.

Tales by the Grimm brothers or Hans Christian Andersen where the storyline is dark, gruesome, a little bloodthirsty, and the fairies are naughty little bastards who might attempt to steal your children are more riveting. Graffik Gallery finds the latter so compelling that it has organised the DIZNI exhibition.

By showcasing coquettish and controversial painted cartoon characters popular images will be be stripped from the constraints of reality and their cultural significance, known for generations.

Artists involved:
Alec Monopoly, Ron English, Tee Wat, Speedy Graphito, Andy Seize, Jason Busk, Dotmaster, Dom Pattinson, Milo, Nuno Raminhos, Menghu Chen, Eyesaw, Gregory Siff, DDS, Inkfetish, Leeks, Carleen de Sozer, Dom Pattinson, Valery Pannetier, Matt Keeling, Redlock Graham Smith and Saskia Hahn.

RSVP for the after party being held at The Supper Club: art@graffikgallery.co.uk.

Its almost the weekend why wait till then.

Screening 8.30pm followed by panel discussion with with Dr. Jonathan Aldred, author of The Skeptical Economist, and Dr. Marius Kwint, curator of the Wellcome Collection’s Brains Exhibition

@ Tricycle Cinema
269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR

Tickets £7 /£5 concessions here

DocHouse presents the UK premiere of SURVIVING PROGRESS, directed by Mathieu Roy & Harold Crooks, as part of its year-long festival showcasing the best international and UK documentaries. 

Featuring some of the world’s foremost contemporary thinkers SURVIVING PROGRESS is a crucial and compelling examination of global society, questioning our blind faith in progress, and the ‘progress traps’ which have led to the demise of past civilisations.

A host of modern luminaries – including Jane Goodall, Stephen Hawking, Margaret Atwood and David Suzuki – as well as scientists, financiers and activists, take on prevalent issues from untenable economic structures to deforestation, not shying away from controversial domains like political corruption and synthetic biology.

Inspired by Ronald Wright’s bestseller A Short History of Progress, with Martin Scorsese as an executive producer, this is a cinematic wake-up call – there is hope that our ingenuity and moral evolution can save the day but the clock is ticking…..

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20:00 – 01:00

@ Fabric
77A Charterhouse Street,
London,
EC1M 3HN

Entry: £5 Get Tickets

www.ninjatune.net
www.black-atlantic.com

In 2011 Tiger Beer launched the ‘Know The Not Known’ series of events that explored unknown venues, music scenes, artists, promoters and cultural scenes of the Capital. For 2012, Tiger Beer, in association with Black Atlantic, introduces ’Hidden Depths’ – a series of club and live events that explore a different side of some of the UK’s most innovative record labels.

The series of shows will blend live and club performances across the capital to provide each label the chance to explore the influences that informed their conception, present their current leading lights and offer a glimpse into their future musical movements. Each night will be curated by the labels as they look to reveal their hidden depths.

The series will launch at fabric on Wednesday 16th May with a takeover of Room 1 by the seminal London based label Ninja Tune, with a showcase of burgeoning new talent. The spectrum of imprints and artists they are involved with will be showcased, with the Ninja label itself taking centre stage. Sister labels Big Dada Records (Wiley, Roots Manuva) and Brainfeeder (Flying Lotus, The Gaslamp Killer) will also be represented to provide the audience with a night that delves into the depths of the Ninja Tune label.

TIME AND PLACE:

Doors: Tuesday – Sunday
11am – 7pm

@ STOLENSPACE GALLERY
Dray Walk
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London, E1 6QL

Entry: £Free

www.stolenspace.com

Belgium artist ROA is renowned for his unique portrayal of large scale urban wildlife, disquietly cohabiting city streets, hand painted in his distinctive black and white style. ROA has become famous from painting animals on derelict buildings, shutters & walls literally all over the world. He has also exhibited to much acclaim all over the world and was also included in the MOCA exhibition ‘Art In The Streets’ in LA.

‘Hypnagogia’ will be a 2 space exhibition, featuring installation work & originals on found objects. As well as outdoor work across east London.  To coincide with this show opening will also be the launch of ROA’s first artist book ‘Roa: ‘An Introduction To Animal Representation’ by Mammal Press.

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TIME AND PLACE:

Doors: 7pm onwards
Bombay Beach 7.15pm
The Island President 9.00pm

@ Riverside Studios
Crisp Road
London, W6 9RL

Entry: £9.50 (£8.50 concs.) for double bill
Buy HERE

www.riversidestudios.co.uk

About Bombay Beach:
Video artist and music video director, Har’el, crafts an adamantly atypical and critically innovative film looking at one of California’s poorest communities living on the shores of the manmade Salton Sea.

About The Island President (www.theislandpresident.co.uk):
After bringing democracy to his country President Mohamed Nasheed, the former President of the Maldives, the lowest lying country in the world, takes up the fight to keep his homeland from disappearing into the sea.

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