Gig Listings

Friday May 19
Fourth African Music Festival.To Sunday May 28. See Preview. Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, South Bank Centre (Embankment Tube) £free – £20
Ray Gelato: Swing singer who sounds like an ice cream. Has opened for Robbie Williams and serenaded Paul and Heather at their wedding. Bloomsbury Theatre (Euston Tube) £15

Saturday May 20
Princes Trust 30th Birthday Will Young + Sugababes + Pink + Lionel Richie + more: www.princes-trust.org.uk for tickets. You know the score. Lots of smiley people at the front, a good cause. Tower Bridge (Tower Hill Tube) £35-65
Talvin Singh – DJ Set: Bjork and Madonna collaborator. Jazz Café (Camden Town Tube) £12.50

Sunday May 21
Metronomy + Cold War Kids + Lovers Electric: One to go to. Lovers Electric – good looking Australians, while Metronomy is a disillusioned rock ’n’ roller. What’s not to love?
Luminaire (Kilburn tube) £6

Monday May 22
Dirty Pretty Things:
Also Tuesday and Wednesday. Carl Barat’s post-Libertines experiment. Forum (Kentish Town Tube) £14

Taking Back Sunday: Cali rockers, they are proper American rock, man. Astoria (Tottemham Court Rd Tube) £15

Tuesday May 23
Realta: Residency every Tuesday for the local boys who play guitar-led funk jazz. Progress Bar (Tufnell Park Tube) £5

Wednesday May 24
NME Tour: Boy Kill Boy + The Automatic + ¡Forward Russia! + Long Blondes. Electric Ballroom (Camden Town Tube) £Sold out.

Thursday May 25
Wreckless Eric + Dirty Little Faces: The faces are likeable blokes crashing through the modern-chav in an indie jacket routine. Some good tunes. Bull and Gate (Kentish Town Tube) £6

Orson: They can’t dance – so they say. Will you? KOKO (Mornington Cresent Tube) £12.50