Past events in London.
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Coming up
2026 season.
January 2026 10 events
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Giant: UK Gala Screening
Picturehouse Central, West End
Pierce Brosnan and Amir El-Masry presented Giant, Rowan Athale’s film of the boxer Naseem Hamed and his trainer Brendan Ingle, at a gala screening in the West End.
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – World Premiere
BFI IMAX, South Bank
Nia DaCosta’s sequel to 28 Years Later had its world premiere at the BFI IMAX, with Cillian Murphy, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland among its makers on the carpet.
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The Beauty: UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe West End
Ashton Kutcher and Evan Peters brought The Beauty, Ryan Murphy’s thriller about a virus that confers physical perfection, to Leicester Square for its UK premiere.
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Is This Thing On? UK Gala Screening
Odeon Luxe West End
Laura Dern and Will Arnett returned to London with Bradley Cooper for a UK gala screening of Is This Thing On?, his comedy of a marriage ending and a stand-up career beginning.
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Shelter: UK Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Jason Statham led the UK premiere of Shelter, Ric Roman Waugh’s thriller of a former assassin on a Hebridean island, in Leicester Square.
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The Decorative Fair, Winter 2026
Evolution London, Battersea
The Decorative Fair’s winter edition filled Battersea Park with some 130 dealers in January 2026, a mezzanine of antique rugs and a first-time exhibitor with a dinosaur skull.
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The Wrecking Crew: UK Special Screening
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista presented The Wrecking Crew, an action comedy of two estranged half-brothers in Hawaii, at a special screening in Leicester Square.
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Crime 101: European Gala Screening
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry and Mark Ruffalo brought Bart Layton’s Crime 101, a Los Angeles heist thriller from a Don Winslow novella, to its first screening in Leicester Square.
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Louis C.K.: Ridiculous
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Louis C.K., the creator and star of Louie and a six-time Emmy winner, played three nights of his tour Ridiculous at Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.
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Send Help: UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Sam Raimi, Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien presented Send Help, Raimi’s survival thriller of an office rivalry stranded on a desert island, in Leicester Square.
February 2026 17 events
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Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf
Alexandra Palace Theatre, Wood Green
Stewart Lee, co-writer of Jerry Springer: The Opera, played his show Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf at Alexandra Palace Theatre over two weeks in February.
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Russell Howard: Don’t Tell The Algorithm
The London Palladium, West End
Russell Howard, host of The Russell Howard Hour, played four nights of his tour Don’t Tell The Algorithm at The London Palladium in February.
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Wuthering Heights: UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, with Margot Robbie as Catherine and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, had its UK premiere in Leicester Square.
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Solomun at Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
Solomun, founder of Diynamic and the Pacha Ibiza residency Solomun +1, played two sold-out nights in the Great Hall, his Alexandra Palace debut.
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England v Wales, Guinness Men’s Six Nations 2026
Allianz Stadium, Twickenham
The meeting of the championship’s two most decorated sides opened the 2026 Six Nations at Allianz Stadium, and a Henry Arundell hat-trick settled it by half-time.
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Fred again.. USB002 at Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
Fred again.. closed his ten-week USB002 residency with four sold-out nights in the Great Hall, each with a different line-up of collaborators.
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Rob Beckett: Giraffe
The London Palladium, West End
Rob Beckett, the voice of Celebs Go Dating and co-host of Parenting Hell, played his tour Giraffe at The London Palladium over two weeks in February.
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Florence + the Machine: Everybody Scream
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Florence + the Machine, the London band whose singer Florence Welch headlined Glastonbury in 2015, celebrated the album Everybody Scream with two nights at The O2 arena.
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Fatboy Slim: Acid Ballroom
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
Fatboy Slim brought his Acid Ballroom tour to the Great Hall for a two-night residency that marked 40 years of his music.
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Abbey Road After Hours
Abbey Road Studios, St John's Wood
Soulwax curated the first rave inside Abbey Road’s Studio One, with 2manydjs, Erol Alkan, Nadia Ksaiba and Laima Leyton playing to 300 guests chosen by ballot.
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England v Ireland, Guinness Men’s Six Nations 2026
Allianz Stadium, Twickenham
One of the founding fixtures of the championship, England against Ireland at Allianz Stadium in 2026 marked Maro Itoje’s 100th cap and ended in a 42-21 Irish win.
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EE BAFTA Film Awards 2026
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
The British Academy gave One Battle After Another six awards at the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards, held at the Royal Festival Hall.
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Young Sherlock: World Premiere
Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank
Guy Ritchie’s Young Sherlock, with Hero Fiennes Tiffin as a nineteen-year-old Holmes at Oxford, had its world premiere at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
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Collect 2026
Somerset House, Covent Garden
Collect turned towards collectible design in 2026, its first fair under a new director, with forty galleries and a strong showing of lacquer.
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Dara Ó Briain: Re:Creation
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Dara Ó Briain, the Irish comedian who hosted Mock the Week, played two nights of his tour Re:Creation at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.
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The Bride! World Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, a gothic romance after Bride of Frankenstein with Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, had its world premiere in Leicester Square.
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PAWSA at Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
PAWSA, the London tech house producer and Solid Grooves co-founder, played a sold-out Alexandra Palace debut that closed the Great Hall’s February.
March 2026 16 events
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Greg Davies: Full Fat Legend
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Greg Davies, host of Taskmaster and Mr Gilbert in The Inbetweeners, played six nights of his tour Full Fat Legend at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.
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Modern Visionaries: The Roger and Josette Vanthournout Collection Evening Sale
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie's sold the Roger and Josette Vanthournout Collection on King Street for £40.3 million, led by Picasso's Nu debout et femmes assises at £7.0 million.
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The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale 2026
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie's 25th Art of the Surreal Evening Sale sold all 26 lots on King Street for £43.0 million, led by Magritte's Les grâces naturelles at £8.5 million.
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London Design Week 2026
Design Centre Chelsea Harbour
London Design Week ran at Chelsea Harbour in March 2026, and the Design Emporium Collective opened on the fifth floor with 19 interior brands.
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Project Hail Mary: London Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Ryan Gosling brought Project Hail Mary, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s film of Andy Weir’s novel, to its premiere in Leicester Square.
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The Cheltenham Festival 2026
Cheltenham Racecourse, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Willie Mullins and Paul Townend won the Champion Hurdle, the Queen Mother Champion Chase and the Gold Cup at Cheltenham in 2026.
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David Hockney: A Year in Normandie
Serpentine North Gallery, Kensington Gardens
David Hockney's first exhibition at the Serpentine brought his panoramic iPad frieze A Year in Normandie, built on the model of the Bayeux Tapestry, to London for the first time.
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Nightmares on Wax: In A Space Outta Delight
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Nightmares on Wax reworked Smokers Delight and In a Space Outta Sound with a live band, strings and a choir for one night at the Royal Albert Hall.
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Siegfried
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Barrie Kosky's Ring cycle reached its third opera, with Antonio Pappano conducting and Andreas Schager as Wagner's hero who has never learned fear.
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Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale March 2026
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie's March evening for Modern British and Irish art made £11.6 million on King Street, led by Frank Auerbach's Christmas Tree at Mornington Crescent.
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Hildur Guðnadóttir: Where to From
Barbican Centre
Hildur Guðnadóttir staged her album Where to From for the first time, with strings, voices and light design, 20 years after her first solo record.
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Carabao Cup Final 2026
Wembley Stadium
Manchester City beat Arsenal 2-0 in the Carabao Cup Final at Wembley, where two Nico O’Reilly goals in four minutes ended Arsenal’s hopes of four trophies.
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The Magic Faraway Tree: UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy led the UK premiere of The Magic Faraway Tree, Ben Gregor’s film of Enid Blyton’s books, in Leicester Square.
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Fuze: London Premiere
Odeon Luxe West End
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James brought David Mackenzie’s Fuze, a heist thriller set around an unexploded bomb in Paddington, to its London premiere.
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Cecily Brown: Picture Making
Serpentine South Gallery, Kensington Gardens
Cecily Brown made her first UK institutional solo show in twenty years for Serpentine South, painting new work directly out of the Kensington Gardens setting around it.
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Chris Ramsey: Here Man
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Chris Ramsey, co-host of the podcast Shagged.Married.Annoyed with his wife Rosie, played his new stand-up show Here Man at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.
April 2026 24 events
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Basement Jaxx Plus Special Guests
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Basement Jaxx brought their full live show to the Royal Albert Hall, a year after it returned at Coachella.
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Chris Stussy at Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
Chris Stussy headlined the Great Hall for the first time with a night of deep, rolling house.
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The Boat Race 2026
The Championship Course, Putney to Mortlake
Oxford’s women won the Boat Race for the first time since 2016 in 2026, on a rough and windy Thames, while the Cambridge men held on to their title.
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Aisling Bea: Older Than Jesus
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Aisling Bea, the BAFTA-winning writer and star of This Way Up, brought Older Than Jesus, her first stand-up tour, to the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.
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Max Cooper Live at Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Max Cooper played an audiovisual retrospective of his whole catalogue at the Royal Albert Hall, the largest show of his career, with HAAi in support.
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Glenrothan: UK Special Screening
Ham Yard Hotel, Soho
Brian Cox brought Glenrothan, his first film as a director, a comedy-drama of two estranged brothers and a Scottish distillery, to a special screening in Soho.
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The Randox Grand National Festival 2026
Aintree Racecourse, Aintree, Merseyside
I Am Maximus won the 2026 Randox Grand National at Aintree, regaining a title he first took in 2024, the first horse to do so since Red Rum.
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Matt Rife: Stay Golden World Tour
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Matt Rife, the American stand-up whose crowd-work clips made him a Netflix headliner, played the first of two Stay Golden nights at The O2 arena.
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Tyson Fury v Arslanbek Makhmudov
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Tyson Fury returned from his fifth retirement to fight Arslanbek Makhmudov in north London, the first step towards his long-delayed meeting with Anthony Joshua.
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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy: Special Screening
Venue TBC, London
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, the Evil Dead Rise director’s reimagining of the monster as a story of possession, was listed for a special screening in London.
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Michael: UK Multimedia Screening
Cineworld at The O2, Greenwich
Antoine Fuqua’s Michael, with Jaafar Jackson as his uncle Michael Jackson, was shown to press and guests at a UK multimedia screening in Greenwich before its British release.
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Salon Privé London 2026
Royal Hospital Chelsea
Salon Privé returned to the Royal Hospital Chelsea in April 2026 after a year’s postponement, and a 1970 Monteverdi 375L took the Prix d’Honneur at its Concours de Vente.
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John Mulaney: Mister Whatever
The London Palladium, West End
John Mulaney, the Emmy-winning comedian and former Saturday Night Live writer, played two nights of Mister Whatever at The London Palladium.
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Oneohtrix Point Never + Malibu (DJ set)
Barbican Centre
Oneohtrix Point Never brought his album Tranquilizer to the Barbican Hall with live visuals, opening the NTS 15th-anniversary programme.
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Sammy Virji at Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
Sammy Virji played the biggest UK headline shows of his career over two nights in the Great Hall, the first added because of demand.
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Goodwood 83rd Members' Meeting 2026
Goodwood Motor Circuit, Chichester, West Sussex
The 83rd Members' Meeting ran for the Goodwood Road Racing Club in April 2026, and Jenson Button won the Phil Hill Cup in his own Jaguar E-type.
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Max Amini
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Max Amini, the Iranian-American comedian who headlined Madison Square Garden, played The O2 arena in North Greenwich.
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Wayne McGregor: Alchemies
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Wayne McGregor's triple bill paired the world premiere of Quantum Souls with Yugen and Untitled, 2023, the work he made with the artist Carmen Herrera.
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The Devil Wears Prada 2: European Premiere
Leicester Square, West End
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci returned to their roles of 2006 for the European premiere of The Devil Wears Prada 2 in Leicester Square.
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Matt Rife: Stay Golden World Tour
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Matt Rife returned to The O2 arena for the second London night of his Stay Golden World Tour, twelve days after the first.
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Nurse John: Off the Clock
OVO Arena Wembley
Nurse John, the Montreal emergency nurse turned comedian, brought Off the Clock, a one-night arena special about life on the ward, to OVO Arena Wembley.
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The Prodigy with very special guest Carl Cox
OVO Arena Wembley
The Prodigy played two nights at OVO Arena Wembley on their 2026 arena tour, with Carl Cox opening each night on three decks of vinyl.
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Billie Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour – UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
James Cameron and Billie Eilish presented their 3D concert film of her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour at its UK premiere in Leicester Square.
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Mortal Kombat II: European Fan Event
BFI IMAX, South Bank
Lewis Tan, Tati Gabrielle, Adeline Rudolph and Martyn Ford brought Mortal Kombat II to the BFI IMAX for its European fan event, eight days before the sequel opened.
May 2026 30 events
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Kruder & Dorfmeister at the Roundhouse
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm
Kruder & Dorfmeister marked 30 years of their DJ-Kicks mix with a bespoke audiovisual show in the Roundhouse Main Space.
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Al Murray: All You Need Is Guv
The London Palladium, West End
Al Murray, the comedian behind the Pub Landlord, brought his tour All You Need Is Guv to The London Palladium on a Saturday in May.
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Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition: World Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Bruce Dickinson, Adrian Smith, Dave Murray and Nicko McBrain walked the carpet in Leicester Square with Eddie for the world premiere of Iron Maiden’s documentary.
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MARS Badminton Horse Trials 2026
Badminton Estate, Badminton, Gloucestershire
Lordships Graffalo won Badminton for a third time in 2026 under Ros Canter, the first combination to do so in the event’s 77-year history.
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Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu: UK Fan Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver and Jon Favreau met fans in Leicester Square for The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first Star Wars film in cinemas in more than six years.
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Tame Impala: Deadbeat
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Tame Impala, Kevin Parker’s one-man psychedelic project from Perth, took the Deadbeat tour to The O2 arena, where Dua Lipa joined him for two songs.
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MTRNM Presents: Night at the Museum
Natural History Museum, South Kensington
MTRNM brought its Night at the Museum from Los Angeles to the Natural History Museum, with Marten Lou headlining beneath the blue whale skeleton in Hintze Hall.
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BAFTA Television Awards 2026
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
BAFTA crowned Adolescence with four awards at the 2026 Television Awards with P&O Cruises at the Royal Festival Hall.
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Rivals, Season Two: World Premiere
BFI IMAX, South Bank
David Tennant, Aidan Turner and the Rivals cast brought the second season of the Jilly Cooper adaptation to the BFI IMAX, with Stanley Tucci among the guests.
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The Decorative Fair, Spring 2026
Evolution London, Battersea
The Decorative Fair's spring edition filled its Battersea Park marquee in May 2026, and a foyer potting shed marked the 160th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth.
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RÜFÜS DU SOL plus special guest SG Lewis
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
RÜFÜS DU SOL brought their Inhale / Exhale world tour to The O2 arena for one London night, with SG Lewis as special guest.
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British Motor Yacht Show 2026
Swanwick Marina, Swanwick, Hampshire
The thirteenth British Motor Yacht Show closed on the Hamble in 2026 with record attendance and more than £10 million in confirmed sales.
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Firsts: London's Rare Book Fair 2026
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea
Firsts chose Revolution as its theme for 2026, and about 100 dealers at the Saatchi Gallery answered it from the Book of the Dead to Electric Ladyland.
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London Original Print Fair 2026
Somerset House, Covent Garden
The London Original Print Fair returned to Somerset House for its forty-first edition in 2026, and its acquisitions award went to two Paula Rego etchings.
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Photo London 2026
Olympia London, West Kensington
Photo London moved to Olympia for its eleventh edition in May 2026, and Steven Meisel showed his first London portraits as Master of Photography.
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Royal Windsor Horse Show 2026
Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire
Luxembourg rider Victor Bettendorf won the Rolex Grand Prix at the 2026 Royal Windsor Horse Show, going first in a five-horse jump-off in Windsor Castle's private grounds.
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Chris McCausland: Yonks!
The London Palladium, West End
Chris McCausland, the first blind winner of Strictly Come Dancing, brought his stand-up tour Yonks! to The London Palladium.
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Josh Widdicombe: Not My Cup Of Tea
Hackney Empire
Josh Widdicombe, co-host of The Last Leg and the podcast Parenting Hell, played two nights of Not My Cup Of Tea at the Hackney Empire.
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The Elite London 2026
Wycombe Air Park, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
The Elite London returned to Wycombe Air Park in May 2026, pairing its luxury brand halls with the Private Flyer show and a flying display over the field.
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Emirates FA Cup Final 2026
Wembley Stadium
Manchester City beat Chelsea 1-0 in the 145th FA Cup Final at Wembley, where Antoine Semenyo’s flick won the club its eighth FA Cup.
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026
Royal Hospital Chelsea
The Campaign to Protect Rural England won the top garden prize at Chelsea in 2026 with a garden of drystone walls, native planting and a fallen tree carved into a guardian.
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Glyndebourne Festival 2026
Glyndebourne, Lewes, East Sussex
Glyndebourne gave its 2026 Festival to two operas the house had never staged, Tosca and L'Orfeo, alongside Ariadne auf Naxos and three returning productions.
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Black Coffee: Live with Orchestra
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Black Coffee brought his orchestral show to Britain for the first time, playing a three-hour set with a 12-piece orchestra on a 360-degree stage.
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Wigmore Hall 125th Anniversary Festival
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
Wigmore Hall marked 125 years with a fourteen-day festival of twenty-four concerts, opened by a reimagining of its inaugural programme of 1901.
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Garsington Opera Festival 2026
Garsington Opera at Wormsley, Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire
Garsington Opera’s 2026 festival ran from Verdi and Strauss to Monteverdi and Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest, in the Chilterns.
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith + London Contemporary Orchestra
Barbican Centre
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith played new music and earlier work with the London Contemporary Orchestra, conducted by Robert Ames, in two sets.
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Masters of the Universe: UK Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Nicholas Galitzine and Camila Mendes brought Masters of the Universe to Leicester Square for its UK premiere, in the city where the film was shot.
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Toy Story 5: UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack brought Pixar’s Toy Story 5 to Leicester Square for its UK launch, the first stop on the film’s global tour.
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Doja Cat: Tour Ma Vie World Tour
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Doja Cat, who went from a teenage SoundCloud uploader to a Grammy winner with two US number ones, played The O2 arena on the Tour Ma Vie World Tour.
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Betfred Challenge Cup Final 2026
Wembley Stadium
Wigan Warriors beat the holders Hull KR 40-10 at Wembley to win a record-extending 22nd Challenge Cup, after their women’s side had won the day’s first final.
June 2026 50 events
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Alice and Steve: UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe West End
Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement introduced Alice and Steve, a British comedy about a lifelong friendship turned feud, at its UK premiere in Leicester Square.
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John Constable: Views of Nature
The British Museum, Bloomsbury
John Constable reshaped English landscape painting from the fields of his native Suffolk, and the British Museum marked his 250th birth anniversary with a free show of his late drawings and prints.
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Office Romance: UK Premiere
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein brought Office Romance, the Netflix romantic comedy Goldstein wrote with her in mind, to BFI Southbank for its UK premiere.
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Savage House: World Premiere at SXSW London
Barbican Centre
Claire Foy brought Savage House, Peter Glanz’s satire of a ruined Georgian family in which she stars opposite Richard E. Grant, to the Barbican for its world premiere.
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Disclosure Day: UK Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Steven Spielberg brought his alien thriller Disclosure Day to Leicester Square, with Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor and Colin Firth beside him on the carpet.
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England v New Zealand 2026
Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood
England beat New Zealand by 115 runs in the first Test at Lord’s in June 2026, on a pitch the ICC later rated unsatisfactory.
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Kraftwerk: Multimedia Tour
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Kraftwerk, led by founder Ralf Hütter, brought their Multimedia Tour to the Royal Albert Hall for three shows across two nights in June 2026.
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Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait
National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square
Marking what would have been Marilyn Monroe's hundredth birthday, the National Portrait Gallery traced the photographers and artists, Warhol among them, who built and reinterpreted her image.
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Chestertons Polo in the Park 2026
Hurlingham Park, Fulham
Team Riyadh won Chestertons Polo in the Park for a third year running in 2026, and England took the Olympic Trophy from South Africa at Hurlingham Park.
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Hot Since 82 at Horizon 22
Horizon 22, City of London
Hot Since 82 opened a weekend of fabric nights at Horizon 22, the free viewing platform on the 58th floor of 22 Bishopsgate.
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Nikki Glaser: The Stunning Tour
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Nikki Glaser, the first woman to host the Golden Globes alone, brought The Stunning Tour to the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith for one night.
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The Betfred Derby Festival 2026
Epsom Downs Racecourse, Epsom, Surrey
A wet Epsom in 2026 gave Aidan O’Brien a fourth successive Derby with Christmas Day, a day after his son Joseph won the Oaks.
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Gabriel Iglesias & Jo Koy
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Gabriel Iglesias, the first comedian to headline Dodger Stadium, shared a one-night bill with Jo Koy at The O2 arena in North Greenwich.
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Indira Paganotto presents Psy-Techno at Horizon 22
Horizon 22, City of London
The Spanish techno DJ brought her Psy-Techno show to Horizon 22 for fabric, and later posted the full set as Psy-Techno Above London.
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House of the Dragon Season 3: World Premiere
Odeon Luxe West End
Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke led the cast of House of the Dragon at the world premiere of its third season in Leicester Square.
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London Concours 2026
Honourable Artillery Company, City of London
The London Concours marked its tenth edition in the City in June 2026, and a 1976 Lamborghini Countach LP400 Periscopio took Best of Show.
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Pride
National Theatre, South Bank
Pride, the musical built around Mark Ashton's 1984 founding of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, had its London premiere at the National's Dorfman Theatre this summer.
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Your Fault: London: UK Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Asha Banks and Matthew Broome returned as Noah and Nick for the UK premiere of Your Fault: London, the second film of Mercedes Ron’s Culpables trilogy, in Leicester Square.
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Harry Styles: Together, Together
Wembley Stadium
Harry Styles earned a Guinness World Records title with 12 nights of Together, Together at Wembley Stadium, the longest single run by an artist there.
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Hepworth in Colour
The Courtauld Gallery, Strand
The Courtauld's first exhibition devoted to Barbara Hepworth's use of colour set her painted 1940s carvings beside the drawings and bronzes that carried the idea into her later work.
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Ministry of Sound Classical 2026
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Ministry of Sound Classical returned to the Royal Albert Hall for its biggest run yet, with the London Concert Orchestra playing dance anthems under lasers.
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Trooping the Colour 2026
Horse Guards Parade, Westminster
The Grenadier Guards trooped their Colour before the King on Horse Guards Parade on 13 June 2026, and the Red Arrows closed the day above Buckingham Palace.
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Bassem Youssef: The Belly of the Beast
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Bassem Youssef, the heart surgeon turned satirist who hosted Al Bernameg in Egypt, played his new show The Belly of the Beast at the Royal Albert Hall.
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Cartier Queen’s Cup Final 2026
Guards Polo Club, Windsor, Berkshire
Balanz Capital won the 2026 Cartier Queen’s Cup on their debut, beating Aureus 17-7 in the final at Guards Polo Club in Windsor Great Park.
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Jackass: Best and Last: UK Special Screening
BFI IMAX, South Bank
Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius and the director Jeff Tremaine brought Jackass: Best and Last, the final film in the series, to the BFI IMAX for a UK special screening.
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The Men's HSBC Championships 2026
The Queen's Club, West Kensington
Francisco Cerúndolo became the first Argentine to win at Queen’s in 2026, beating Tommy Paul in the longest final in the tournament’s history.
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Anish Kapoor
Hayward Gallery, South Bank
Anish Kapoor, one of the most influential sculptors of his generation, returns to the gallery where he first became a name, filling the Hayward to Sunday 18 October 2026.
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Royal Ascot 2026
Ascot Racecourse, Ascot, Berkshire
Royal Ascot, founded by Queen Anne in 1711, ran from 16 to 20 June 2026, and Scandinavia beat the holder Trawlerman by a head in the Gold Cup.
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Zach Bryan: With Heaven On Tour
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Zach Bryan brought With Heaven On Tour to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for two nights, with Dijon and Fey Fili on the bill.
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Supergirl: UK Fan Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Milly Alcock and Jason Momoa brought the DC Universe’s Supergirl to Leicester Square for a fan premiere, four days before the film’s premiere in Brooklyn.
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Wilton Legends 2026
Wilton House, Wilton, Wiltshire
Wilton House opened its park to the first Concours des Légendes, a collector-car show with sixty speakers, among them Nick Mason and Brian Johnson, on stage.
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Arcadia in the West End
Duke of York's Theatre, Covent Garden
Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, named by the Royal Institution one of the best science-related works ever written, transferred from The Old Vic to the Duke of York's Theatre, reconfigured into the round.
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Gallagher PREM Final 2026
Allianz Stadium, Twickenham
Northampton Saints came from behind to beat Exeter Chiefs 26-17 in the Gallagher PREM Final at Twickenham and took their third English title.
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Gorillaz: The Mountain Tour
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Gorillaz brought The Mountain Tour to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for one night, with Sparks supporting and a long line of guests on stage.
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How to Live on Earth: World Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Benedict Cumberbatch presented the world premiere of How to Live on Earth, a documentary about people working with nature, on the first night of London Climate Action Week.
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Ride or Die: UK Special Screening
Ham Yard Hotel, Soho
Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer, who play two best friends on the run across Europe, brought the Prime Video series Ride or Die to Soho for a special screening.
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Giorgio Armani Tennis Classic 2026
The Hurlingham Club, Fulham
Jannik Sinner made his debut at the 32nd Giorgio Armani Tennis Classic in 2026, and Novak Djokovic beat Tommy Paul in three sets.
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The Boodles 2026
Stoke Park, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire
The Boodles, begun in 2002 as match practice before Wimbledon, played in scorching heat at Stoke Park in 2026, with Arthur Fils returning from injury.
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Treasure House Fair 2026
Royal Hospital Chelsea
The fourth Treasure House Fair gathered some fifty dealers at the Royal Hospital Chelsea and marked ninety years of British Surrealism with forty works from Southampton.
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Beyond Ordinary: Works from the Zabludowicz Collection 2026
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie's sold 53 works from the Zabludowicz Collection on King Street for £15.4 million, led by Philip Guston's Mirror Head at £3.9 million.
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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026
National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square
Britain's long-running portrait painting prize, founded in 1980 and free of its old oil-company sponsor since 2024, showed its 2026 shortlist at the National Portrait Gallery to 7 October.
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Anyma at Silverworks Island
Silverworks Island, Royal Docks
Anyma brought the ÆDEN audiovisual show to the Royal Docks for two days, his first London dates in four years.
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Bad Bunny: DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS World Tour
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Bad Bunny played two nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, his only UK venue on the tour, reported as the first stadium headline in Britain by a Latin artist.
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BST Hyde Park: Garth Brooks
Hyde Park
Garth Brooks opened BST Hyde Park 2026 with his first UK show in almost 30 years, to a sold-out crowd of 65,000.
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BST Hyde Park: ATEEZ
Hyde Park
ATEEZ played their first UK festival headline show at BST Hyde Park, a UK exclusive with Taemin, Bazzi and FLO on the bill.
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The Championships, Wimbledon 2026
The All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon
Jannik Sinner kept the gentlemen’s trophy in 2026 after a near four-hour final, and Linda Nosková won her first major after five missed Championship points.
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Henley Royal Regatta 2026
Henley Reach, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
A record 862 entries came to Henley in 2026, and Great Britain met Italy in straight finals for both premier eights trophies.
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I puritani
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Richard Jones's new staging of Bellini's last opera, set in the English Civil War, brought Lisette Oropesa to Covent Garden as Elvira.
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Old Masters Evening Sale June 2026
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie's Old Masters Evening Sale made £38.9 million on King Street, with records for Lawrence's portrait of the Duke of Wellington and two van Huysum still lifes.
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The Exceptional Sale: Masterworks Across Cultures 2026
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie's Exceptional Sale made £11.8 million on King Street, led by an Old Kingdom Egyptian pair statue and a first edition of Wuthering Heights.
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Grand Prix Ball 2026
The Peninsula London, Belgravia
The Grand Prix Ball gathered 500 guests at The Peninsula London in British Grand Prix week 2026, with Pixie Lott headlining for Rays of Sunshine Children’s Charity.
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Old Master & 19th Century Paintings and Sculpture Evening Auction July 2026
Sotheby's, Mayfair
Sotheby's summer Old Master evening made £37.7 million on New Bond Street, with a Rembrandt at £8 million and a record for Landseer's Scene in Braemar.
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Def Leppard
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Def Leppard, the Sheffield band behind Hysteria and Pyromania, played a double bill with Extreme at The O2 arena on a UK and European tour.
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Above & Beyond at Silverworks Island
Silverworks Island, Royal Docks
Above & Beyond, the London trance trio behind Anjunabeats, played their Bigger Than All Of Us production at Silverworks Island.
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BST Hyde Park: Maroon 5
Hyde Park
Maroon 5 made their Hyde Park debut at BST, opening the second weekend after sets from OneRepublic, Jess Glynne and Ella Eyre.
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Formula 1 British Grand Prix 2026
Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Northamptonshire
Charles Leclerc took his first Silverstone victory in July 2026, ahead of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton, in a race that ended under the Safety Car.
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BST Hyde Park: Mumford & Sons
Hyde Park
Mumford & Sons played a homecoming headline set at BST Hyde Park, and Shania Twain joined them on stage as a guest.
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BST Hyde Park: Duran Duran
Hyde Park
Duran Duran closed the second weekend of BST Hyde Park on a disco bill with Scissor Sisters, Nile Rodgers & CHIC and Groove Armada.
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BTS: Arirang World Tour
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
BTS returned to London with two nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, their first UK shows in seven years and their first tour since military service.
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The Odyssey: World Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Christopher Nolan opened The Odyssey in Leicester Square, with Matt Damon, Zendaya, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway and Robert Pattinson on the carpet for the world premiere.
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Henley Festival 2026
Leander Club, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
Boy George and Culture Club opened the 2026 Henley Festival on its Floating Stage, and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra closed it with Laura Mvula.
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My Chemical Romance: Long Live The Black Parade Tour
Wembley Stadium
My Chemical Romance marked 20 years of The Black Parade with three nights at Wembley Stadium, the biggest shows the band had played in Britain.
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Goodwood Festival of Speed 2026
Goodwood House, Chichester, West Sussex
The 2026 Festival of Speed took rivalry as its theme, and Romain Dumas won a third Timed Shoot-Out in a row in the Ford Super Mustang Mach-E.
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O2 Silver Clef Awards 2026
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
The O2 Silver Clef Awards marked fifty years of raising money for music therapy with a first evening at the Royal Albert Hall in 2026, where P!NK took the headline award.
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BST Hyde Park: Pitbull
Hyde Park
Pitbull headlined BST Hyde Park, Kesha joined him for “Timber”, and the crowd set a world record for the most people in bald caps.
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Aziz Ansari: Hypothetical Tour
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Aziz Ansari, who won two Emmys writing Master of None, played his Hypothetical Tour at the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington for one night.
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BST Hyde Park: Lewis Capaldi
Hyde Park
Lewis Capaldi closed BST Hyde Park 2026 with the two biggest UK shows of his career, with Sam Fender and Luke Pritchard as guests.
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FISHER at Silverworks Island
Silverworks Island, Royal Docks
FISHER, the former professional surfer from the Gold Coast, sold out Silverworks Island with a bill that included Gordo and Denis Sulta.
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Tiësto at Silverworks Island
Silverworks Island, Royal Docks
Tiësto returned to London for his first headline show in eight years, an open-air set at Silverworks Island.
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System of a Down at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
System of a Down played two nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with Queens of the Stone Age and Acid Bath, their first UK shows in nine years.
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A Year in London: UK Premiere
The Arzner, Bermondsey
Flaminia Graziadei brought A Year in London, her Anglo-Italian love story set in the city’s fashion world, to the UK’s only LGBTQ+ cinema for its UK premiere.
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Bruno Mars: The Romantic Tour
Wembley Stadium
Bruno Mars played six nights of The Romantic Tour at Wembley Stadium, his first visit to the stadium since the 2017 Summertime Ball.
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Cleansed
Almeida Theatre, Islington
Sarah Kane's Cleansed, inspired by Roland Barthes's comparison of a rejected lover to a concentration-camp prisoner, closed the Almeida's summer season under Rebecca Frecknall's direction.
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Junction 2 x fabric
Boston Manor Park, Brentford
fabric took its techno to Boston Manor Park for a day with Junction 2, with Jeff Mills headlining The Bridge, the stage beneath the M4 motorway.
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Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam
Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair
The Royal Academy shows Richard Dadd, the Victorian painter who made his most exacting work inside Bethlem and Broadmoor, in the Sackler Wing to 25 October 2026.
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Monet and Renoir: Painting Side by Side
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square
The National Gallery reunited Monet's and Renoir's paintings of the same Seine afternoon, a pairing historians credit with helping spark Impressionism.
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How the Other Half Loves
The Old Vic, Waterloo
Roger Allam and Dorothy Atkinson led Alan Ayckbourn’s breakthrough 1969 farce How the Other Half Loves at The Old Vic, restored to the in-the-round staging it was written for.
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Marianela: Timeless
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Marianela Nuñez curated a summer programme of Robbins, Ashton and classic divertissements, danced with colleagues from The Royal Ballet.
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day: UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Tom Holland and Zendaya brought Spider-Man: Brand New Day to Leicester Square for its UK premiere, with Florence Pugh and Marisa Tomei on the carpet.
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Thievery Corporation at the Roundhouse
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm
Thievery Corporation brought their live band and their mix of dub, bossa nova and downtempo to the Roundhouse Main Space.
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Luke Combs: My Kinda Saturday Night Tour
Wembley Stadium
Luke Combs became the first solo country artist to headline Wembley Stadium, playing three nights to 90,000 fans each.
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The Kooks: Inside In / Inside Out 20 Year Anniversary
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
The Kooks marked twenty years of Inside In / Inside Out with a sold-out Friday at the Old Royal Naval College, opening the 2026 Labyrinth on the Thames series.
August 2026 27 events
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Dom Dolla on the Thames
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Dom Dolla curated a sold-out Saturday at the Old Royal Naval College, with SG Lewis, Jordan Brando and Carla Martinez on his bill.
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Jet Lag: The Game Japanorama: World Premiere
Picturehouse Central, West End
Sam Denby, Ben Doyle and Adam Chase opened the Japan season of their Nebula travel game show with a world premiere at Picturehouse Central, joined by Tom Scott.
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Peggy Gou on the Thames
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Peggy Gou headlined a sold-out Sunday at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, with Prospa, Kelly Lee Owens and MPH on a bill she chose herself.
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Dave Chappelle: Pulling Up
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Dave Chappelle, creator of Comedy Central’s Chappelle’s Show, returned to the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith for two nights of his tour Pulling Up.
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Curated by Sammy Virji
Finsbury Park
Sammy Virji headlined a day of garage, speed garage and bassline at Finsbury Park, on a bill of artists he chose himself.
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Overmono present Pure Devotion on the Thames
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Overmono brought Pure Devotion to a sold-out Friday at the Old Royal Naval College, playing live over sunset with a bill they chose themselves.
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Peter Kay Live
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Peter Kay, the Bolton comedian behind Phoenix Nights and Car Share, played a final charity night at The O2 arena, with every penny of profit going to 12 cancer charities.
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Adriatique present X on the Thames
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Adriatique brought X, their own audiovisual series, to the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich for their only London show of 2026, with Mahmut Orhan, Samm and TSHA.
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krankbrother presents: Four Tet All Dayer
Finsbury Park
Four Tet curated an all-day bill at Finsbury Park for Krankbrother, opening the day himself and closing it with a four-hour set.
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Anjunadeep Open Air on the Thames
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Anjunadeep, the London label founded by Above & Beyond, returned to the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich for a sold-out afternoon of its own artists.
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krankbrother presents: Adam Port + &ME
Finsbury Park
Adam Port and &ME, two founders of Keinemusik, headlined the last of Krankbrother’s five August days at Finsbury Park.
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The Weeknd: After Hours Til Dawn Tour
Wembley Stadium
The Weeknd played five nights of the After Hours Til Dawn Tour at Wembley Stadium, on one of the biggest stages ever built there.
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Moby Live on the Thames
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Moby played a sold-out live show at the Old Royal Naval College on a Saturday in August, a highlight of the 2026 Labyrinth on the Thames series.
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Michael Bibi on the Thames
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
East Londoner Michael Bibi closed the 2026 Thames series at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich with an extended sunset set, sold out before the line-up was announced.
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Matthew Bourne's The Car Man
Sadler's Wells Theatre, Angel
Matthew Bourne's dance thriller moves Bizet's Carmen to a 1950s American garage-diner, and New Adventures closed the Sadler's Wells summer with it in August 2026.
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The Dog Stars: World Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Ridley Scott premiered The Dog Stars in Leicester Square, with Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin and Margaret Qualley from his post-apocalyptic thriller on the carpet.
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All Points East: Jorja Smith and Tems
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets
Jorja Smith and Tems opened All Points East 2026 together, with Dave joining Tems for “Raindance” and Loyle Carner joining Smith for “Loose Ends”.
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fabric x Sennheiser: Sven Väth at The View From The Shard
The View from The Shard, London Bridge
Sven Väth opened fabric and Sennheiser’s 2026 series at The View from The Shard with a sunset set above London, then carried the night on to fabric.
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All Points East: Lorde
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets
Lorde headlined the second night of All Points East 2026, after Zara Larsson, who brought out PinkPantheress for “Stateside”.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's Globe, Bankside
Shakespeare's "merry war" of wit between Beatrice and Benedick closes the Globe's open-air season on Bankside this autumn.
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Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution London Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Craig Fairbrass returned as Pat Tate in Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution, the seventh film in the British crime series, at its London premiere in Leicester Square.
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Practical Magic 2: European Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman returned as the Owens sisters for the European premiere of Practical Magic 2, twenty-eight years after the original.
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Proms 2026: Ultimate Calm
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Erland Cooper presented a late-night Prom of classical and ambient music inspired by Radio 3 Unwind’s Ultimate Calm, with two world premieres.
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The Story
National Theatre, South Bank
Tracey Scott Wilson's newsroom thriller, inspired by a real Pulitzer Prize scandal, receives its West End premiere in the National's Olivier auditorium this autumn.
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All Points East: Tyler, The Creator
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets
Tyler, The Creator headlined two days at All Points East, on bills with Turnstile, Clipse, Baby Keem and Denzel Curry.
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All Points East: Twenty One Pilots
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets
Twenty One Pilots closed All Points East 2026 with their only UK show of the year, a 30-song set that ran for more than two hours.
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LIDO Festival: Maribou State
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets
Maribou State headlined and curated the sold-out 2026 LIDO Festival day in Victoria Park, moved from June to the August bank holiday Monday.
September 2026 78 events
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Claude Chabrol: Elements of Crime
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Claude Chabrol, the New Wave critic who became cinema's connoisseur of bourgeois malice, had a twenty-film retrospective at BFI Southbank in autumn 2026.
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Kevin Bridges: Here If You Need Me
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Kevin Bridges, the Scottish comedian known from Live at the Apollo, played three sold-out nights of his tour Here If You Need Me at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.
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Pressure: European Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Brendan Fraser, Andrew Scott and Damian Lewis brought Pressure, the drama of the weather forecast behind D-Day, to Leicester Square for its European premiere.
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Salon Privé Blenheim Palace 2026
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Founded in 2006 by brothers inspired by Amelia Island and Villa d'Este, Salon Privé grew into Britain's only concours judged across every marque by a professional jury.
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Defender Burghley Horse Trials 2026
Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire
Horse trials at Burghley House have run since 1961, and the CCI5* is now one of only seven events the FEI ranks among the world's leading three-day trials.
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Emma Reyes: Preview
White Cube Mason's Yard, St James's
Nearly six decades into her career, Emma Reyes had her first solo presentation in Britain, previewed at White Cube’s Mason’s Yard on Thursday 3 September 2026.
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Thelma & Louise
Young Vic, Waterloo
Callie Khouri's Oscar-winning road movie becomes a new stage musical, with songs by Neko Case, in its world premiere at the Young Vic.
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Bon Jovi: Forever Tour
Wembley Stadium
Bon Jovi closed the Forever Tour with three nights at Wembley Stadium in September 2026, the band's first run since Jon Bon Jovi's vocal-cord surgery.
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Concours of Elegance 2026
Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey
The Concours of Elegance, begun inside Windsor Castle in 2012, returned sixty invited historic cars to the Fountain Court gardens at Hampton Court Palace in September 2026.
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JAY-Z: 30
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
JAY-Z marked thirty years since Reasonable Doubt with his only UK dates of the year, two nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in September 2026.
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Man to Man
Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square
Tilda Swinton returns to Manfred Karge's Man to Man at the Royal Court from Saturday 5 September to Saturday 24 October 2026, nearly forty years after she first played it.
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Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger: UK Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Liam and Noel Gallagher walked the Leicester Square carpet together for the UK premiere of the Oasis reunion film, written by the Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
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Gala Season Opening Concert: Nadine Sierra
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
Nadine Sierra, the soprano who fills the Met and La Scala, opened Wigmore Hall's season with its annual gala concert on Tuesday 8 September 2026.
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Golden Boy
Almeida Theatre, Islington
Clifford Odets' Depression-era drama of a violinist who chooses boxing for the money returns to the Almeida with Josh O'Connor in the lead.
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National Television Awards 2026
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
The public alone decides the National Television Awards, and the 31st ceremony was broadcast live from The O2 this September.
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Sam Smith: To Be Free, London
London Coliseum, Covent Garden
Sam Smith, who took four Grammy Awards in one night for In the Lonely Hour, played an eight-night To Be Free residency at the London Coliseum in September 2026.
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Our Eyes Looking for God
Barbican Centre
TD Moyo's new opera on Black British identity and state violence, made from her own play Caspers, opened the Barbican's classical season this September.
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San Francisco Ballet: Mere Mortals
Sadler's Wells Theatre, Angel
Aszure Barton's Mere Mortals, which recasts Pandora's box as a story about artificial intelligence, brought San Francisco Ballet and Floating Points to Sadler's Wells.
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CHANEL, le19M and The King's Foundation Métiers d'Art Fellowship Exhibition 2026
The Garrison Chapel, Chelsea
A fellowship between CHANEL, le19M and The King's Foundation trains British artisans to the standard of the Paris ateliers, and its 2026 graduates showed at The Garrison Chapel.
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Don Giovanni
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Mozart and Da Ponte's most unresolved antihero returned to Covent Garden in Kasper Holten's staging, the production this house brings back rather than replaces.
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Víkingur Ólafsson: Bach, Beethoven and Schubert
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
Víkingur Ólafsson, whose recordings have passed a billion streams, played his Bach, Beethoven and Schubert programme at Wigmore Hall three times in one week, from 10 to 12 September 2026.
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Christie's Lates: Marr's Guitars
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie’s opened King Street after hours for Marr’s Guitars, built around the ninety-odd instruments Johnny Marr used to write and record across four decades, from the Smiths onward.
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Gordo at KOKO
KOKO, Camden
Gordo, the rolling-house project Diamanté Blackmon built after retiring his festival alias Carnage, played a rare headline set at KOKO's Theatre in September 2026.
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Mo Gilligan: The Mo You Know
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Mo Gilligan, the BAFTA-winning host of The Lateish Show, played two nights of his world tour The Mo You Know at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.
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Annie Mac: Before Midnight
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
Annie Mac, who presented flagship Radio 1 shows for seventeen years, brought her phone-free Before Midnight night to the Great Hall at Alexandra Palace in September 2026.
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Diljit Dosanjh: Aura World Tour
Wembley Stadium
The first Indian artist to perform in Punjabi at Coachella, Diljit Dosanjh took the Aura World Tour to Wembley Stadium, the tour’s only stadium date on an otherwise all-arena European run.
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fabric x Sennheiser: Goldie at The View From The Shard
The View from The Shard, London Bridge
Goldie, whose album Timeless helped bring drum and bass to a wider audience, played the second date of fabric and Sennheiser’s 2026 series at the Shard.
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Jean-Guihen Queyras: Bach Cello Suites
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
Jean-Guihen Queyras, who has recorded Bach's Cello Suites twice, played all six in a single sitting at Wigmore Hall on Saturday 12 September 2026.
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Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny
The London Palladium, West End
Jimmy Carr, the host of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, played two filmed nights of Laughs Funny at The London Palladium, with an early and a late show on each.
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Last Night of the Proms 2026
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
The one Proms concert that reaches listeners outside classical music, the Last Night brought Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra to the Royal Albert Hall, with Yuja Wang and Nicky Spence.
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London Design Festival 2026
V&A South Kensington
The 24th London Design Festival ran from 12 to 20 September 2026, hubbed at the V&A with the commissioned programme V&A x LDF26: Awakenings.
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Allan Clayton: Schubert Die schöne Müllerin
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
Allan Clayton, the tenor whose Peter Grimes redefined his career, performed Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin complete at Wigmore Hall on Monday 14 September 2026.
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Focus/26
Design Centre Chelsea Harbour
Focus/26 gathered a week of the world’s interior-design houses into their own Chelsea Harbour showrooms rather than a fair’s temporary stands, from 14 to 18 September 2026.
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Walpole Book of British Luxury 2026/2027 Launch
Hotel Café Royal, Piccadilly
Walpole, the trade body for 270 British luxury brands, launched its 2026/2027 Book of British Luxury at Hotel Café Royal this September.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: New Works
Sadler's Wells Theatre, Angel
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater opened its September visit to Sadler's Wells with New Works, three UK premieres and a Judith Jamison duet from the company's newest repertoire.
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Christian Tetzlaff: Beethoven, Dvořák and Smetana
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff and Kiveli Dörken closed the opening week of Wigmore Hall's new season with Beethoven, Dvořák and Smetana on Tuesday 15 September 2026.
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Gabriel Orozco, Chronotopic: Preview
White Cube Bermondsey
White Cube Bermondsey previewed Gabriel Orozco’s Chronotopic, a survey of about 200 works curated by Briony Fer, on Tuesday 15 September 2026.
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Sense and Sensibility: World Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles opened Georgia Oakley's Sense and Sensibility, a new film of Jane Austen's first novel, at its world premiere in Leicester Square.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Legacy
Sadler's Wells Theatre, Angel
Classics from almost seven decades of Alvin Ailey's repertoire, from Cry to Revelations, the most widely seen modern dance work in the world, filled Sadler's Wells in September.
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An Anatomy of Melancholy
Barbican Centre
One of the leading countertenors of his generation, Iestyn Davies sang Dowland in The Pit, in Netia Jones's staging of melancholy after Robert Burton.
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Angela Hewitt and the Dunedin Consort
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
Widely regarded as the Bach pianist of her generation, Angela Hewitt played fortepiano with members of the Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall: Haydn, CPE Bach, Martínez and Mozart.
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Frieze Sculpture 2026
The Regent's Park
The only free, unticketed strand of Frieze week, Frieze Sculpture spreads eleven international artists across The Regent's Park this autumn.
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Shadows of Beirut: UK Premiere
Regent Street Cinema, Marylebone
Tina Gharavi and Tala Calil brought Shadows of Beirut, their drama of a woman returning to her dying father after 25 years, to Regent Street for its UK premiere.
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War: World Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Dominic West and Sienna Miller premiered War, George Kay’s legal drama for Sky and HBO about two London law firms fighting a film star’s divorce.
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ANOTR Live at Ally Pally
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
ANOTR made their Alexandra Palace debut with two September nights in the Great Hall, their biggest UK headline shows, as their third album Withness arrived.
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Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials 2026
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Blenheim Palace's four-star Horse Trials, run since 1990 as the proving ground for riders moving up to Badminton and Burghley, filled the Sheepwalks for four days of eventing.
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Editions Evening Sale
Phillips Berkeley Square, Mayfair
Bridget Riley, Julie Mehretu and Yoshitomo Nara anchored Phillips’s Editions Evening Sale, prints priced at a fraction of the artists’ unique work, at 30 Berkeley Square.
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Ema Nikolovska and Jonathan Biss: Schubert
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska, Wigmore Hall's artist in residence, and pianist Jonathan Biss gave an all-Schubert recital there on Thursday 17 September 2026.
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London Fashion Week September 2026
180 The Strand
London Fashion Week's larger season, where the British Fashion Council's NEWGEN scheme puts first collections on a runway, showed at 180 The Strand in September 2026.
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Queen at Sea: Preview and Q&A with Juliette Binoche
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Juliette Binoche joined BFI Southbank's preview of Queen at Sea, Lance Hammer's Silver Bear-winning second feature, eighteen years after his debut Ballast.
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Goodwood Revival 2026
Goodwood Motor Circuit, Chichester, West Sussex
For three days in September 2026, the Goodwood Revival turned its circuit entirely back to the eighteen seasons it raced before closing in 1966.
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Jack Dee & Friends: 40 Years in Comedy
The London Palladium, West End
Jack Dee, the chair of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, marked 40 years in stand-up with a charity gala of friends at The London Palladium.
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Boris Brejcha: Reflections Tour
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
Boris Brejcha, who coined the term high-tech minimal and performs behind a joker mask, made his Alexandra Palace debut with the largest UK show of his career.
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Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists
National Theatre, South Bank
Tiago Rodrigues brought his politically charged play to the Dorfman Theatre for its UK premiere, Saturday 19 to Saturday 26 September 2026.
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David Hockney
Phillips Berkeley Square, Mayfair
Phillips gave its Editions department a whole afternoon for David Hockney at 30 Berkeley Square, the first single-artist sale of his prints since the artist’s death in June 2026.
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Kurtág's Játékok: An Exploration in Three Breaths
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
Pierre-Laurent Aimard gave a day at Wigmore Hall to Kurtág's Játékok, the lifelong book of miniatures, dividing a selection across three recitals from morning to night.
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Morton Feldman: Unsettled Memory
LSO St Luke's, Old Street
The quietest composer of the twentieth century, Morton Feldman had three decades of his work given at LSO St Luke's by Eliza McCarthy, Juliet Fraser and Apartment House.
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Vox Luminis: Monteverdi Vespers
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
A Belgian ensemble built on one voice to a part, Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier brought Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine to Wigmore Hall.
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Elisabeth Leonskaja: Schubert
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
Elisabeth Leonskaja, trained in the circle around Sviatoslav Richter, played an all-Schubert recital at Wigmore Hall's Autumn International Piano Festival on 22 September 2026.
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Goldsmiths' Fair 2026
Goldsmiths' Hall, City of London
The City’s own hallmarking hall held a fortnight-long fair for Britain’s independent goldsmiths and jewellers, vetted and sold under the roof that assays them.
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Roomful of Teeth with Gabriel Kahane
Barbican Centre
An eight-voice ensemble built on singing techniques Western training leaves out, Roomful of Teeth brought their genre-crossing sound to the Barbican with the singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane.
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The Royal Film Performance and World Premiere of Digger
Leicester Square, West End
Two-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu premiered Digger, starring Tom Cruise, at the Royal Film Performance, the Film and Television Charity's annual gala.
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Danish String Quartet: Schubert and Thomas Adès
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
Schubert’s late String Quintet met the UK premiere of a Thomas Adès work written for the players performing it, at Wigmore Hall.
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British Art Fair 2026
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea
London's only fair devoted wholly to Modern and Contemporary British art filled the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea from 24 to 27 September 2026.
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English National Ballet: Rhythm Riot
Sadler's Wells Theatre, Angel
English National Ballet, founded to take ballet beyond Covent Garden, brought its score-driven new bill Rhythm Riot to Sadler's Wells this autumn.
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The Mozartists: Sturm und Drang
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
Ian Page and The Mozartists marked 250 years of Sturm und Drang at Wigmore Hall, closing on Haydn’s Farewell Symphony as the players leave the stage one by one.
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Verity: UK Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett brought Verity, the thriller adapted from Colleen Hoover’s novel, to the Curzon Mayfair for its UK premiere.
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Belcea Quartet: Beethoven
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
The Belcea Quartet restored Beethoven’s Op. 130 to its original, forbiddingly difficult ending, the Grosse Fuge, at Wigmore Hall.
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East of Eden UK Premiere
BAFTA, St James's
Florence Pugh and the writer Zoe Kazan brought East of Eden, Netflix’s seven-part adaptation of John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel, to BAFTA on Piccadilly for its UK premiere.
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fabric x Sennheiser: Kölsch at The View From The Shard
The View from The Shard, London Bridge
The Danish DJ behind “Calabria” played a sunset set at The View from The Shard, the third date of fabric and Sennheiser’s 2026 series.
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Friday Night is Music Night with Joe Stilgoe: A Jazz Club Symphony
Alexandra Palace Theatre, Wood Green
Joe Stilgoe brought his own big-band edition of the long-running Friday Night is Music Night to Alexandra Palace Theatre with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
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Laver Cup 2026
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Tennis played as a team game rather than an individual one, the Laver Cup pitted Europe against the World at The O2 in September 2026, with Alcaraz and Zverev among the eight billed.
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BIGBANG 20/26 World Tour
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Winners of the inaugural MTV Europe Music Award for Best Worldwide Act, BIGBANG brought their 20/26 World Tour to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium twenty years after their 2006 debut.
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Art Cure
Young Vic, Waterloo
Epidemiologist Daisy Fancourt brought her case that the arts measurably improve health to the Young Vic stage for a single afternoon in September 2026.
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Jamie Cullum
Blue Note London, Covent Garden
Jamie Cullum previewed his tenth studio album in Blue Note London’s launch season, at a fraction of the scale his arena and hall dates command.
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The Decorative Fair, Autumn 2026
Evolution London, Battersea
Founded in 1985 to unite the antiques and interior design trades, the Decorative Fair opened its tented Battersea Park showground for the first of three 2026 editions in the autumn.
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The Social Reckoning London Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
Aaron Sorkin brought The Social Reckoning, his companion piece to The Social Network about the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, to Curzon Mayfair with Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White.
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The Yellow Tie UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Serge Ioan Celebidachi’s The Yellow Tie, a life of his father, the Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache, with John Malkovich and Ben Schnetzer, had its UK premiere in Leicester Square.
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Martin Guerre
The Old Vic, Waterloo
A four-centuries-old imposture trial becomes a semi-staged new musical from the writers of Les Misérables, played in the round at The Old Vic.
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Parsifal
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Wagner's last opera, deliberately the slowest music in the repertoire, receives a new Royal Opera staging from Evgeny Titov this October.
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Tenzing London Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
Jennifer Peedom’s Tenzing, the first ascent of Everest told from Tenzing Norgay’s side, had its London premiere at Curzon Mayfair with Genden Phuntsok and Tom Hiddleston.
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Niall Horan: Dinner Party Live on Tour
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
The One Direction member whose solo albums have topped the charts in the United States, Ireland and Britain, Niall Horan brought Dinner Party Live on Tour to The O2 arena in October 2026.
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Jamie Jones Presents Voyager
Ironworks, Silvertown
Jamie Jones, the Welsh DJ behind Hot Creations and a decade of Ibiza’s Paradise, opened Ironworks’ first season in Silvertown with his two-set Voyager format.
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fabric x Sennheiser: East End Dubs at The View From The Shard
The View from The Shard, London Bridge
East End Dubs, the DJ behind the Eastenderz parties, played a Sunday set at The View from The Shard, the fourth date of fabric and Sennheiser’s 2026 series.
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Indianapolis Colts v Washington Commanders, NFL London Games 2026
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Now a fixture of the NFL international calendar, the Indianapolis Colts hosted the Washington Commanders at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in October 2026, the first of three London games that autumn.
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Whalefall: UK Gala Screening
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Brian Duffield’s Whalefall, with Austin Abrams as a diver swallowed by a sperm whale and Josh Brolin as his father, had its UK gala screening in Leicester Square.
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The Strokes: Reality Awaits
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
A quarter-century after Is This It reset New York guitar rock, The Strokes brought Reality Awaits, their seventh album, to The O2 arena in October.
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Bad Day at the Office: London Premiere
Cineworld at The O2, North Greenwich
John Hannah leads Chee Keong Cheung’s Bad Day at the Office, an action thriller told from its hero’s point of view, was listed for a London premiere ahead of its October release.
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BFI London Film Festival 2026
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Britain's largest public film event returns to the South Bank for a seventieth edition, twelve days of premieres and festival highlights every October.
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Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2026
De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, Covent Garden
The annual honours of classical recording, first presented in 1977, were named at tables in the Grade II* listed De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms on Great Queen Street.
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Don Black's From The Heart
Garrick Theatre, West End
Oscar-winning lyricist Don Black brings his revue of new songs and Bond themes to the Garrick Theatre for 15 performances, with a surprise guest at each.
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Hatfield House Music Festival: Celebrations
Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire
The Hatfield House Music Festival turned fifteen with Sir András Schiff, The Sixteen and a new work by James MacMillan, built around John Dowland four centuries after his death.
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St John's Hospice Gala 2026
V&A South Kensington
St John's Hospice, which has provided free palliative care across London since 1984, held its annual gala at the V&A, with dinner in the Raphael Court, on Thursday 8 October 2026.
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ALIVE: Afem Syko
E1, Wapping
A former boxer from northern Germany turned Berlin techno producer, Afem Syko brought his trance-led turn from hard techno to the ALIVE night at E1 in Wapping.
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Eli & Fur at Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound, Elephant and Castle
The London duo Eliza Noble and Jennifer Skillman, whose vocal, melodic house runs from “You’re So High” to Dreamscapes, played their first headline night at Ministry of Sound.
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Swimming Paul at KOKO
KOKO, Camden
The Paris-born producer who keeps his face out of frame, and whose “Fading” and “VHS RAVE” made him one of house music’s fastest-rising names, headlined KOKO.
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Cliveden Literary Festival 2026
Cliveden House, Taplow, Berkshire
Julian Barnes, Robert Harris, Michael Connelly and Kemi Badenoch were among the speakers at the Cliveden Literary Festival, in the house above the Thames on 10 and 11 October 2026.
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Eric Prydz at Ironworks
Ironworks, Silvertown
Eric Prydz, whose HOLO and EPIC shows turned deep house into large-scale production, returned to London for the first time in six years at Ironworks in Silvertown.
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Decorex 2026
Olympia London, Kensington
Established for the top of the interior design profession, Decorex gathered designers, architects and their private clients at Olympia London in October 2026.
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Philadelphia Eagles v Jacksonville Jaguars, NFL London Games 2026
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
The Jacksonville Jaguars, the franchise most at home in London, hosted the Philadelphia Eagles at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in October 2026, the second of three London games that autumn.
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The Martinez Brothers: Six-Hour Set
fabric, Farringdon
The Bronx brothers who made their name on the DC-10 terrace returned to fabric for a six-hour set, the long form their house music was built for.
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Cindy Sherman: Fabric Matrons, Opening Reception
Hauser & Wirth London, Mayfair
Cindy Sherman brought Fabric Matrons to London, new photographs of women draped in fabric, several made with Chanel’s tweeds and jewellery at the house’s invitation.
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Firenze Lai, North and True North: Preview
White Cube Mason's Yard, St James's
Firenze Lai's first exhibition in Britain, new paintings made in her London studio, arrived at White Cube's Mason's Yard as Frieze week opened.
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Georg Baselitz: The Heroes 1965–66, Opening
Thaddaeus Ropac London, Mayfair
Georg Baselitz’s Heroes of 1965 and 1966, the ragged giants of his breakthrough year, reached Ely House in the first British exhibition devoted to the series.
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PAD London 2026
Berkeley Square, Mayfair
Design bought and sold on its own terms, PAD London occupies a Berkeley Square pavilion this October with a century of work judged to one standard.
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20th/21st Century: London
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie's gives Frieze week to its 20th/21st Century series at 8 King Street, 14 to 21 October 2026, led by Mondrian's Composition III and Kandinsky's Das bunte Leben.
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Frieze London & Frieze Masters 2026
The Regent's Park
London's contemporary and historical art trade share one park for Frieze week, close to 300 galleries from 48 countries across two tents.
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Ghosts: The Possession of Button House: World Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
The six writers behind the BBC sitcom Ghosts brought their first feature film to Curzon Mayfair for its world premiere, nine days before it reached British cinemas.
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Kevin Bridges: Here If You Need Me
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Kevin Bridges returned to the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith for three added October nights of Here If You Need Me, a 75-minute set that opened on Donald Trump.
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Kid Francescoli at Electric Brixton
Electric Brixton
Mathieu Hocine's Marseille electro-pop project, the source of the slow-burning “Moon (And It Went Like)”, played a London headline at Electric Brixton.
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1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2026
Somerset House, Covent Garden
The world's only fair dedicated wholly to contemporary African art, 1-54, fills Somerset House's eighteenth-century rooms for its London edition this October.
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Contemporary Evening Auction
Sotheby's, Mayfair
Sotheby's held its Contemporary Evening Auction on New Bond Street on Thursday 15 October 2026, the Thursday of Frieze week.
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Fontaines D.C. in aid of CALM
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm
Fontaines D.C. marked the eve of their fifth album, Dopamine Chamber, with a benefit night at the Roundhouse whose net proceeds go to the suicide-prevention charity CALM.
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Khalid: It’s Always Summer Somewhere Tour
British Airways ARC, West Kensington
The singer behind “Location” and “Eastside”, Khalid brought the It’s Always Summer Somewhere Tour to British Airways ARC, the new arena at Olympia.
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London Invitational 2026
The Chancery Rosewood, Mayfair
A boutique fair born in Dallas brings twelve invited galleries to The Chancery Rosewood for its first London edition, in the week of Frieze.
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Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
Phillips Berkeley Square, Mayfair
Phillips tested its identity anew in Frieze week, when its Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale pitted a Gerhard Richter against a painter in her forties on Berkeley Square.
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Tyla: The A*POP World Tour
O2 Academy Brixton
The Grammy-winning voice of popiano, Tyla brings The A*POP World Tour to O2 Academy Brixton behind her second album.
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ALIVE: Clara Cuvé
E1, Wapping
The Munich-born, Berlin-based DJ, trained on classical piano and known for hard techno that runs into breakbeat and jungle, headlines the ALIVE night at E1 in Wapping.
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amfAR London 2026
The Chancery Rosewood, Mayfair
amfAR, the foundation Elizabeth Taylor helped found to fight AIDS in 1985, holds its second London gala at The Chancery Rosewood on Friday 16 October 2026, honouring Philip Treacy and Jeremy Irons.
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Angel's Bone
London Coliseum, Covent Garden
Du Yun's Pulitzer-winning opera about human trafficking, scored across plainchant, punk and pop, receives its first English National Opera staging this October.
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Hasan Minhaj and Ronny Chieng: A Debate to the Death
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Hasan Minhaj and Ronny Chieng, both alumni of The Daily Show, staged their comic tour A Debate to the Death at the Royal Albert Hall for one night.
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Hernan Cattaneo at KOKO
KOKO, Camden
Argentina’s best-known DJ, a progressive house figure since the Clubland and Cream years, plays an extended set in the Theatre at KOKO.
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Seven Lions at Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound, Elephant and Castle
Jeff Montalvo, the Californian producer who set trance chords against the weight of dubstep, plays back to back with Trivecta at Ministry of Sound.
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4.48 Psychosis
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Philip Venables's operatic setting of Sarah Kane's fragmented last play about clinical depression makes its Linbury Theatre debut this October.
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Chris Avantgarde: Hyperreal
Outernet Live, West End
Chris Avantgarde, the composer behind “Consciousness” and “Eternity” with Anyma, brings the world of his debut album Hyperreal to Outernet Live.
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Harry Enfield and No Chums!
Soho Theatre Walthamstow
Harry Enfield, the creator of Loadsamoney and Kevin the Teenager, looked back on 40 years of comedy in Harry Enfield and No Chums! at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.
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Indira Paganotto Curates at The Cause
The Cause, Canning Town
The Spanish DJ who fused psytrance and techno into a sound of her own curates a full day at The Cause, with Lee Ann Roberts and Estella Boersma on her bill.
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Michael Bibi at KOKO
KOKO, Camden
The Londoner behind Solid Grooves makes his debut in KOKO's Theatre, a rare intimate hometown headline after his return to the largest stages in electronic music.
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Parra for Cuva at the Roundhouse
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm
Nicolas Demuth, the Berlin producer who builds house music from piano, kalimba and steel drums, headlines the Roundhouse Main Space in Chalk Farm.
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Paul van Dyk: London Homecoming
Studio 338, Greenwich Peninsula
The Berlin DJ who twice topped the world poll of DJs and helped define trance in the 1990s heads London Homecoming, a day-into-night programme at Studio 338.
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Qatar Racing British Champions Day 2026
Ascot Racecourse, Ascot, Berkshire
British flat racing’s richest day closes the season at Ascot under a new title sponsor, with five Group 1s among seven races worth £4.35m.
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Skream & Benga: Spotify DIA/LOG
Drumsheds, Meridian Water
Dubstep pioneers Skream & Benga headline the first DIA/LOG at Drumsheds, a day of UK bass, garage, grime and jungle created by Spotify with the venue.
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The British Museum Ball 2026
The British Museum, Bloomsbury
The British Museum, free to enter since 1753, holds its second annual Ball on Saturday 17 October 2026, under Es Devlin's artistic direction, in aid of its Masterplan redevelopment.
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Houston Texans v Jacksonville Jaguars, NFL London Games 2026
Wembley Stadium
The stadium that proved the NFL could sell out London hosts the Houston Texans against the Jacksonville Jaguars this October, the last of three London games this autumn.
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J. Cole: The Fall-Off Tour
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
The Dreamville founder and Roc Nation’s first signing, J. Cole brings The Fall-Off Tour to The O2 arena, his first solo headline run in five years.
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Alison Moyet: Songs of Yazoo, the minutes & Other
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Alison Moyet returns to the Yazoo songbook and her electronic albums with Guy Sigsworth, a set built around one of the defining voices of British synth-pop.
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Clayface European Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
James Watkins’s Clayface, the DC Universe body horror with Tom Rhys Harries as the disfigured actor Matt Hagen, receives its European premiere at Curzon Mayfair.
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Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine
Barbican Centre
Julia Bullock sings Tyshawn Sorey’s setting of Joséphine Baker’s life at the Barbican, staged by Peter Sellars with interludes by the poet Claudia Rankine.
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Amy Winehouse Back to Black 20
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm
Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi reunite with the Amy Winehouse Band to perform Back to Black in full, twenty years after the album, for one night at the Roundhouse in Camden.
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Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie's holds its Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale at 8 King Street on Wednesday 21 October 2026, the week after Frieze.
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Beth Orton
Alexandra Palace Theatre, Wood Green
Beth Orton, whose blend of folk song and electronic texture shaped British music in the 1990s, brings her new album The Ground Above to the restored Victorian theatre at Alexandra Palace.
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GoldFish Live at Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound, Elephant and Castle
The Cape Town duo who set saxophone, double bass and flute against house rhythms bring their live show to the Box for their first headline night at Ministry of Sound.
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Melanie C
O2 Academy Brixton
Melanie C, Sporty Spice turned solo artist and DJ, celebrates Sweat, the highest-charting solo album by any Spice Girl, with one London night at O2 Academy Brixton.
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RAYE: This Symphony May Contain Hope
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
RAYE performs her number-one album This Music May Contain Hope in full with The Heritage Orchestra, a symphonic return to the Hall where her 2023 orchestral night was filmed.
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Themba at KOKO
KOKO, Camden
The South African DJ who left the name Euphonik behind to become Themba brings his percussive Afro house to the Theatre at KOKO.
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CamelPhat at Ironworks
Ironworks, Silvertown
CamelPhat, the Grammy-nominated Liverpool duo behind “Cola”, take over Ironworks in Silvertown for a single-artist session of melodic techno and progressive house.
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Shanti Celeste at KOKO
KOKO, Camden
The Chilean-born DJ and Peach Discs co-founder, a fixture of Bristol’s house scene before London, celebrates her birthday with a headline night at KOKO.
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The Hydra Presents Autechre
Magazine London, North Greenwich
Autechre, the Rochdale duo who have recorded for Warp since 1992, return to London for a 90-minute live performance in total darkness at Magazine London.
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Gillian Anderson in Conversation
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Gillian Anderson, Dana Scully in The X-Files and Margaret Thatcher in The Crown, looks back on four decades of film, television and theatre in an hour on stage at BFI Southbank.
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Ballon d'Or 2026
The London Palladium, West End
The award for the world's best footballer leaves Paris for the first time, crowning its 70th winners at the London Palladium in tribute to Stanley Matthews.
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Manipulation: UK Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
David Balda’s Manipulation, a European conspiracy thriller with James Faulkner and Heino Ferch, has its UK premiere at Curzon Mayfair ahead of its November release.
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Steve Hackett: Best of Genesis & Solo Gems
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Steve Hackett, lead guitarist of Genesis through its classic 1970s albums, returns to the Royal Albert Hall with Genesis songs and his own solo work.
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Corinne Bailey Rae
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Twenty years after a debut that went straight to number one, Corinne Bailey Rae performs the album in full at the Royal Albert Hall, with Laura Mvula as her guest.
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LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair 2026
Berkeley Square, Mayfair
Founded in 1974, LAPADA vets every object on its Berkeley Square stands before the doors open, backed by a trade body that can expel a dealer who cannot substantiate one.
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D-Block Europe
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Signed by Jadakiss to build D-Block’s only branch outside America, D-Block Europe return to The O2 arena this October.
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nimino at Outernet Live
Outernet Live, West End
The British producer behind “I Only Smoke When I Drink” and “Opening Credits” plays two headline nights at Outernet Live, with Montee in support.
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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping: Fan Screening
Westfield London, Shepherd's Bush
Francis Lawrence’s Hunger Games prequel, with Joseph Zada as the young Haymitch Abernathy, is listed for a London fan screening ahead of its release in November.
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fabric x St Paul’s Cathedral presents The Cinematic Orchestra
St Paul's Cathedral, City of London
The Cinematic Orchestra played St Paul’s Cathedral with Patrick Watson and Heidi Vogel, opening fabric’s four-year contemporary music partnership with the Cathedral.
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Royal Hospital Chelsea Art Dinner 2026
Royal Hospital Chelsea
The Royal Hospital Chelsea opens its State Apartments and their Old Masters for a dinner with the sculptor Hywel Pratley at work, raising money for the Chelsea Pensioners.
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Bonhams Golden Age of Motoring Sale 2026
Bonhams New Bond Street, Mayfair
Bonhams offers The Somerset Hoard, seven veteran cars hidden since the Second World War, at its Golden Age of Motoring Sale on the eve of the Veteran Car Run weekend.
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Flux Pavilion
Hootananny Brixton
Flux Pavilion, the dubstep producer behind “I Can’t Stop”, headlines SYN LDN’s Halloween weekend night at Hootananny Brixton, with Leotrix and Dr. Ushūu.
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Halloween at KOKO: Arodes and Marten Lou
KOKO, Camden
Two of melodic house’s rising producers, the Spaniard Arodes and the German Marten Lou, share the headline on the first night of KOKO’s Halloween weekend.
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John King Brain Tumour Foundation Gala Ball 2026
The Dorchester, Mayfair
The John King Brain Tumour Foundation, set up by the widow of a Dorchester-trained chef who died of the disease, holds its gala ball at The Dorchester on Friday 30 October 2026.
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Macklemore & Friends
OVO Arena Wembley
Macklemore, the Seattle rapper behind “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us”, closes a three-city European run of benefit concerts for Palestinian causes at OVO Arena Wembley.
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MESTIZA present SACRO
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm
The Spanish duo who fused flamenco with electronic music bring SACRO, the show that has travelled from the Eiffel Tower to Coachella, to the Roundhouse for Halloween.
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Caiiro x Da Capo x Enoo Napa Halloween B3B
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm
Three of South Africa’s leading afro house DJs share one five-hour set in the Roundhouse Main Space, a Halloween reunion of the trio first heard together in London last summer.
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Cassius: Last Ever Live Show
Outernet Live, West End
The Paris duo behind “Cassius 1999”, “The Sound of Violence” and “I <3 U So” close their story with a final live show at Outernet Live on Halloween night.
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Duran Duran: Halloween 2026
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Duran Duran stage their Halloween party in London for the first time, with covers, hits and rarely played songs in the spirit of their 2023 album Danse Macabre.
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Groove Armada (DJ Set) at Ironworks
Ironworks, Silvertown
Andy Cato and Tom Findlay, the London duo behind “At the River” and the Grammy-nominated “Superstylin’”, play a Halloween DJ set at Ironworks in Silvertown.
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Halloween at KOKO: Ahmed Spins
KOKO, Camden
The Casablanca-born producer behind the Anchor Point EP and Deep House Bible headlines the second night of KOKO’s Halloween weekend with afro and melodic house.
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RM Sotheby's London 2026
The Peninsula London, Belgravia
The world's largest collector-car auctioneer calls its London sale from The Peninsula on Grosvenor Place, timed each year to the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.
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The Hydra: Honey Dijon, Extended Set
Magazine London, North Greenwich
Honey Dijon, the Chicago house DJ turned Grammy winner and fashion-house fixture, plays an extended Halloween set at Magazine London for The Hydra.
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Charlotte de Witte at Ironworks
Ironworks, Silvertown
Charlotte de Witte, the Belgian techno artist behind KNTXT, closes Ironworks’ opening season in Silvertown with her only UK date this year.
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London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 2026
Hyde Park
The world's oldest motoring event, the Veteran Car Run sends cars built before 1905 from Hyde Park to Brighton on Sunday 1 November 2026.
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Olivia Wilde in Conversation
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Olivia Wilde, director of Booksmart and Don’t Worry Darling, talks through her craft behind the camera and her new film The Invite in an hour on stage at BFI Southbank.
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Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint: World Premiere
Picturehouse Central, West End
John Bradley led Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint, a British Christmas comedy with Celia Imrie and Richard E. Grant, to its world premiere at Picturehouse Central.
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Cat Power
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm
Cat Power revisits The Greatest, the Memphis soul record that turned Chan Marshall's career, in full at the Roundhouse twenty years after its release.
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Cunk on Cinema: TV Preview and Q&A with Charlie Brooker and Diane Morgan
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Diane Morgan and Charlie Brooker present the first two episodes of Cunk on Cinema, Philomena Cunk’s turn on film itself, and take questions afterwards.
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Madam
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Madam, the Royal Ballet's two-performance portrait of Ninette de Valois, the woman who built it, plays the Linbury Theatre this November.
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Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Stevie Wonder plays Songs in the Key of Life in full at The O2 arena, fifty years after the album that remade his career.
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The Spear's Awards 2026
Raffles London, Whitehall
Spear's presents its annual awards for private banks, wealth managers and family advisers at Raffles London on Whitehall on Tuesday 3 November 2026.
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Korn: Euro Tour 2026
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Korn, the Bakersfield band whose 1994 debut founded nu metal, return to the UK for a London headline night at The O2 arena with Architects and Youth Code.
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fabric x Sennheiser: Takuya Nakamura at The View From The Shard
The View from The Shard, London Bridge
Takuya Nakamura, the Japanese trumpeter and producer, closes fabric and Sennheiser’s 2026 series with an intimate hybrid set at The View from The Shard.
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ALIVE: Paolo Ferrara (All Night Long)
E1, Wapping
The Italian DJ behind TechnoMetal and the HEX movement plays his first solo all-night set for ALIVE at E1, moving from hard bounce and hard techno into hardcore.
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Rosey Gold at Night Tales
Night Tales, Hackney
Rosey Gold, the afro house DJ backed by Black Coffee and Damian Lazarus, plays a solo headline set at Night Tales in Hackney.
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Skepta: The Fork and Knife Tour
The Cause, Canning Town
The Mercury Prize-winning MC behind Konnichiwa brings The Fork and Knife Tour, named for his sixth album, to The Cause in Canning Town.
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Suede & Manic Street Preachers
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Two bands that shaped British guitar music in the 1990s, Suede and Manic Street Preachers, share a co-headline bill on a UK arena tour.
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January 2025 9 events
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Get Away: UK Premiere
Picturehouse Central, West End
Nick Frost presented Get Away, the horror comedy he wrote and stars in, at its UK premiere in the West End with Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft and Maisie Ayres.
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William Tell: London Premiere
Ham Yard Hotel, Soho
Claes Bang and Nick Hamm brought William Tell, a retelling of Schiller’s Swiss folk hero, to its London premiere in Soho with Connor Swindells and Ellie Bamber.
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A Complete Unknown: UK Premiere
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Timothée Chalamet brought James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, the story of Bob Dylan’s first four years in New York, to its UK premiere at BFI Southbank.
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The Brutalist: UK Special Screening
Picturehouse Central, West End
Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce presented Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, the story of a Hungarian architect in post-war America, at Picturehouse Central.
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The Decorative Fair, Winter 2025
Evolution London, Battersea
The Decorative Fair opened its 2025 year in Battersea Park with some 130 dealers, a mezzanine of antique rugs and textiles, and architectural drawings as its backdrop.
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Dan and Phil: Terrible Influence
The London Palladium, West End
Dan and Phil, the YouTube duo Daniel Howell and Phil Lester, brought their stage show Terrible Influence to The London Palladium for three days, with two shows on the Sunday.
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Food For Thought: World Premiere
Royal Geographical Society, South Kensington
Peter Egan hosted the world premiere of Food For Thought, Dan Richardson and Giles Alderson’s documentary on the vegan movement, in aid of two animal charities.
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Peter Kay: Better Late Than Never
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Peter Kay, the Lancashire comedian behind Phoenix Nights, played his first London night of 2025 at The O2 arena on his tour Better Late Than Never.
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy: World Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant opened the fourth Bridget Jones film, Michael Morris’s adaptation of Helen Fielding’s 2013 novel, in Leicester Square.
February 2025 19 events
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September 5: UK Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro and Leonie Benesch presented September 5, Tim Fehlbaum’s drama of the Munich hostage crisis seen from a television control room, in Mayfair.
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My Fault: London: UK Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Asha Banks and Matthew Broome brought My Fault: London, the British remake of the Spanish romance Culpa Mía, to its UK premiere in Leicester Square.
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Caribou + Ela Minus
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm
Caribou played three nights in the Roundhouse Main Space with his four-piece live band, with late DJ sets after the last two.
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Jason Manford: A Manford All Seasons
The London Palladium, West End
Jason Manford, the Salford comedian and former 8 Out of 10 Cats team captain, played two nights of his tour A Manford All Seasons at The London Palladium.
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England v France, Guinness Men’s Six Nations 2025
Allianz Stadium, Twickenham
Le Crunch, the fixture that has measured the championship since France joined it in 1910, went England’s way at Allianz Stadium in 2025 on a converted try in the final play.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Covent Garden
Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell played Benedick and Beatrice in Jamie Lloyd's staging of Shakespeare's comedy at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
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Richard II
Bridge Theatre, London Bridge
Jonathan Bailey played the title role in Nicholas Hytner's staging of Shakespeare's Richard II at the Bridge Theatre, with designs by Bob Crowley.
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Festen
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Mark-Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall's opera from Vinterberg's film Festen had its world premiere at Covent Garden and won the Olivier for best new opera production.
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Justice at Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
Justice played two February nights in the Great Hall on the Hyperdrama tour, with a different support bill each night.
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Captain America: Brave New World: UK Special Screening
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Brave New World, Anthony Mackie’s first film in the title role, was celebrated at a UK special screening in Leicester Square.
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Mickey 17: World Premiere
Leicester Square, West End
Robert Pattinson and Bong Joon Ho opened Mickey 17, the director’s first film since Parasite, at its world premiere in Leicester Square.
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Maribou State plus special guests United Freedom Collective
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
Maribou State played three nights in the Great Hall over Valentine’s weekend, the third added on demand, as their album Hallucinating Love arrived.
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EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
The British Academy gave Conclave four awards, Best Film among them, at the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards at the Royal Festival Hall.
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London Fashion Week February 2025
180 The Strand
London Fashion Week's autumn/winter 2025 season ran on a trimmed-down schedule from 180 The Strand, and Burberry closed it at Tate Britain.
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England v Scotland, Guinness Men’s Six Nations 2025
Allianz Stadium, Twickenham
The Calcutta Cup, the oldest trophy in international rugby, came back to England at Allianz Stadium in 2025, won by a single point after four years in Scottish hands.
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Peter Kay: Better Late Than Never
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Peter Kay, the co-writer and star of Phoenix Nights, returned to The O2 arena for a February night of Better Late Than Never, his first tour in 12 years.
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Collect 2025
Somerset House, Covent Garden
Collect held its 21st edition at Somerset House in 2025, with forty galleries, more than 400 living artists and eight newcomers to the fair.
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The Seagull
Barbican Centre
Cate Blanchett played the actress Arkadina in Thomas Ostermeier's staging of Chekhov's The Seagull in the Barbican Theatre.
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Leigh Bowery!
Tate Modern, Bankside
Tate Modern traced Leigh Bowery from the Taboo club of 1985 to his performances and Looks, with work by Lucian Freud, Nick Knight and Fergus Greer, in an exhibition made with his Estate.
March 2025 24 events
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Marching Powder: World Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Danny Dyer reunited with Nick Love, who directed him in The Football Factory, for Marching Powder, a comedy that had its world premiere in Leicester Square.
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The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale 2025
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie's annual Art of the Surreal sale made £48.1 million on King Street, led by René Magritte's La reconnaissance infinie.
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Katherine Ryan: Battleaxe
The London Palladium, West End
Katherine Ryan, creator and star of the Netflix series The Duchess, played three nights of her stand-up tour Battleaxe at The London Palladium.
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Sub Focus: Circular Sound
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
Sub Focus played a new version of his Circular Sound live show in the Great Hall, billed as the biggest show of his career to that point.
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Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square
The National Gallery reunited scenes from Duccio's Maestà and panels of Simone Martini's Orsini polyptych in a survey of Sienese painting in the early fourteenth century.
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England v Italy, Guinness Men’s Six Nations 2025
Allianz Stadium, Twickenham
Italy, the championship’s one addition in ninety years, met England at Allianz Stadium in 2025, and seven English tries took the home side second in the table.
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London Design Week 2025
Design Centre Chelsea Harbour
London Design Week filled the Design Centre Chelsea Harbour in March 2025 with 130 showrooms, more than 30 House Guests and a hundred talks and workshops.
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Black Bag: UK Special Screening
Curzon Mayfair
Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender presented Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag, a spy drama about a marriage inside British intelligence, at Curzon Mayfair.
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The Cheltenham Festival 2025
Cheltenham Racecourse, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Cheltenham’s 2025 Festival turned on two upsets, Golden Ace in the Champion Hurdle and Inothewayurthinkin, added at the last minute, in the Gold Cup.
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Edvard Munch Portraits
National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square
The National Portrait Gallery staged the first UK exhibition on Edvard Munch as a portraitist, forty works on family, bohemia, patrons and friends.
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The Alto Knights: European Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
Robert De Niro, who plays both Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, presented Barry Levinson’s The Alto Knights at its European premiere at Curzon Mayfair.
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Fabio & Grooverider and the Outlook Orchestra: A History of Jungle and Drum & Bass
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Fabio and Grooverider played orchestral versions of drum and bass classics with the Outlook Orchestra, in what was billed as their biggest show to date.
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Paddy McGuinness: Nearly There
The London Palladium, West End
Paddy McGuinness, the host of Take Me Out and former Top Gear presenter, brought his first stand-up tour in eight years to The London Palladium.
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Carabao Cup Final 2025
Wembley Stadium
Newcastle United beat Liverpool 2-1 in the Carabao Cup Final at Wembley and won their first major domestic trophy since the 1955 FA Cup.
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London Original Print Fair 2025
Somerset House, Covent Garden
The London Original Print Fair reached its fortieth edition in 2025, with more than forty galleries, publishers and studios filling Somerset House with prints from six centuries.
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Peter Kay: Better Late Than Never
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Peter Kay, whose previous tour set a Guinness world record for stand-up, played a March night of his monthly residency at The O2 arena in North Greenwich.
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Tom Segura: Come Together
OVO Arena Wembley
Tom Segura, the American comedian behind five Netflix specials and the Your Mom’s House podcast, brought his Come Together tour to OVO Arena Wembley.
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Alan Walker at Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
Alan Walker, the masked Norwegian producer behind “Faded”, made his Alexandra Palace debut in the Great Hall on his Walkerworld tour.
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Really Happy Someday: UK Premiere
BFI Southbank, South Bank
J Stevens’ Really Happy Someday, the story of a trans musical-theatre singer learning his voice again, had its UK premiere at BFI Flare, the London LGBTQIA+ film festival.
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Shane Gillis Live In London
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Shane Gillis, the creator and star of the Netflix series Tires, played his only London show of 2025 at The O2 arena, his biggest date in Britain to that point.
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MobLand: Global Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Guy Ritchie launched MobLand, a series about a London crime family at war, at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square.
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Time Travel Is Dangerous: Gala Premiere
Everyman Muswell Hill
Time Travel Is Dangerous, Chris Reading’s sci-fi comedy about two Muswell Hill shopkeepers and a time machine, held its gala premiere in the neighbourhood it was shot in.
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A Minecraft Movie: World Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Jack Black and Jason Momoa opened A Minecraft Movie, Jared Hess’s film of the best-selling video game, at its world premiere in Leicester Square.
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The Amateur: European Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Rami Malek, Laurence Fishburne and Caitríona Balfe presented The Amateur, James Hawes’s espionage thriller, at its European premiere in Leicester Square.
April 2025 20 events
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John Bishop: Back At It
The London Palladium, West End
John Bishop, the Liverpool comedian who played Dan in Doctor Who, brought his stand-up tour Back At It to The London Palladium for one night.
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Paul Chowdhry: Englandia
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Paul Chowdhry, the stand-up known from Live at the Apollo and Taskmaster, brought Englandia, billed as his biggest tour yet, to The O2 arena in North Greenwich.
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The Penguin Lessons: UK Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce brought The Penguin Lessons, Peter Cattaneo’s film of Tom Michell’s memoir of 1970s Argentina, to its UK premiere in Mayfair.
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The Randox Grand National Festival 2025
Aintree Racecourse, Aintree, Merseyside
Willie Mullins trained the first three home in the 2025 Randox Grand National, led by the 33-1 winner Nick Rockett and his amateur jockey son Patrick.
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Peter Kay: Better Late Than Never
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Peter Kay, the writer and star of Peter Kay’s Car Share, played an April night of his tour Better Late Than Never at The O2 arena in North Greenwich.
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Katherine Ryan: Battleaxe
The London Palladium, West End
Katherine Ryan, the Canadian comedian and star of UKTV’s Parental Guidance, returned to The London Palladium for three more nights of her tour Battleaxe.
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The Last of Us Season 2: UK Premiere
Vue West End
Bella Ramsey and Isabela Merced led the cast of The Last of Us at the UK premiere of its second season, the HBO drama drawn from the Naughty Dog game.
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Cartier
V&A South Kensington
The V&A traced how Cartier became the jeweller of kings through more than 350 objects, from the Williamson pink diamond brooch to the Crash watch.
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Goodwood 82nd Members' Meeting 2025
Goodwood Motor Circuit, Chichester, West Sussex
The 82nd Members' Meeting ran for the Goodwood Road Racing Club in April 2025, and a Ferrari 206S won the Gurney Cup after starting from the back.
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Nate Bargatze: Big Dumb Eyes World Tour
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Nate Bargatze, the clean-comedy headliner who was the highest-grossing stand-up of 2024, brought his Big Dumb Eyes World Tour to the Eventim Apollo for two shows.
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The Boat Race 2025
The Championship Course, Putney to Mortlake
Cambridge swept the Boat Race in 2025, the women’s crew taking an eighth straight win after a restart and the men’s crew defending their title by five and a half lengths.
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Sinners: European Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan brought Sinners, a 1930s Mississippi story of twin brothers, music and vampires, to its European premiere in Leicester Square.
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Another Simple Favour: UK Special Screening
Ham Yard Hotel, Soho
Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick brought Another Simple Favour, Paul Feig’s Capri-set sequel to A Simple Favour, to a special screening at the Ham Yard Hotel in Soho.
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Havoc: World Premiere
BFI IMAX, South Bank
Tom Hardy and the Welsh director Gareth Evans presented Havoc, a crime thriller shot in Wales as an American city, at its world premiere at the BFI IMAX.
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Adriatique at the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Swiss duo Adriatique made their Royal Albert Hall debut with a four-hour set in the auditorium.
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Yann Tiersen + Andert Tysma
Barbican Centre
Yann Tiersen gave the live premiere of his album Rathlin from a Distance | The Liquid Hour, solo on piano and electronics, in the Barbican Hall.
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Thunderbolts*: European Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Florence Pugh led the cast of Thunderbolts*, Marvel Studios’ film about a team of reluctant antiheroes, at its European premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square.
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Chris Eubank Jr v Conor Benn
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn, sons of the two fighters who defined British boxing in the early 1990s, met before a sell-out stadium crowd in north London.
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KAYTRANADA: TIMELESS tour 2025
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
KAYTRANADA brought his TIMELESS tour to the Great Hall for a Sunday night, with his brother Lou Phelps on the support bill.
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Sarah Silverman: Postmortem
The London Palladium, West End
Sarah Silverman, the two-time Emmy winner from Saturday Night Live and The Sarah Silverman Program, played Postmortem, a show about loss and grief, at The London Palladium.
May 2025 29 events
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Die Walküre
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Barrie Kosky's Die Walküre, the second chapter of the Royal Opera's new Ring, opened at Covent Garden with Antonio Pappano conducting.
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Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road
The British Museum, Bloomsbury
The British Museum gave Hiroshige its first exhibition on him, the first in London for over twenty-five years, from his Edo landscapes to Van Gogh and Julian Opie.
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Katherine Ryan: Battleaxe
The London Palladium, West End
Katherine Ryan, the comedian seen on Live at the Apollo and the Netflix specials In Trouble and Glitter Room, played a third run of Battleaxe at The London Palladium.
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fabric at the British Museum
The British Museum, Bloomsbury
fabric took over three rooms of the British Museum for an evening of ambient and experimental sets from A Guy Called Gerald, Anna Wall and NIGHT manoeuvres.
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The Decorative Fair, Spring 2025
Evolution London, Battersea
The Decorative Fair's spring edition filled its Battersea Park marquee for six days in May 2025, with garden statuary to the fore and The House Directory Live added upstairs.
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MARS Badminton Horse Trials 2025
Badminton Estate, Badminton, Gloucestershire
Ros Canter won Badminton for the second time in 2025 on Lordships Graffalo, taking the title by one penalty when Oliver Townend lowered a rail.
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Kevin Hart: Acting My Age
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Kevin Hart, the Philadelphia comedian and star of the Jumanji films, played two nights of his Acting My Age tour at the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington.
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fabric x Sennheiser: Joris Voorn at The View From The Shard
The View from The Shard, London Bridge
Joris Voorn played fabric’s first night at The View from The Shard, a sold-out sunset set on the 72nd floor, then took over fabric all night long.
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BAFTA Television Awards 2025
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
BAFTA honoured Mr Loverman, Blue Lights and Baby Reindeer at the 2025 Television Awards with P&O Cruises at the Royal Festival Hall.
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British Motor Yacht Show 2025
Swanwick Marina, Swanwick, Hampshire
The twelfth British Motor Yacht Show drew record attendance to the Hamble in 2025, with a world premiere and a run of UK debuts afloat.
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Firsts: London's Rare Book Fair 2025
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea
Firsts took Books in Bloom as its theme at the Saatchi Gallery in 2025, with more than 100 dealers and the Chelsea Physic Garden beside them.
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: UK Premiere
Leicester Square, West End
Tom Cruise brought his final outing as Ethan Hunt to Leicester Square for the UK premiere of The Final Reckoning, the eighth Mission: Impossible film since 1996.
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Photo London 2025
Somerset House, Covent Garden
Photo London marked its tenth edition at Somerset House in May 2025 with a 30-photographer exhibition on the city it was made in.
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Royal Windsor Horse Show 2025
Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire
Gregory Wathelet won the Rolex Grand Prix for the second time at the 2025 Royal Windsor Horse Show, by six hundredths of a second, in the private grounds of Windsor Castle.
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Peter Kay: Better Late Than Never
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Peter Kay, the comedian behind Phoenix Nights and Car Share, played The O2 arena on the first of three extra 2025 dates of his tour Better Late Than Never.
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The Elite London 2025
Wycombe Air Park, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
The Elite London put aircraft, supercars, golf and more than 150 luxury brands on one Buckinghamshire airfield in May 2025, with the Air-Britain fly-in beside it.
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Emirates FA Cup Final 2025
Wembley Stadium
Crystal Palace won the first major trophy in their history at Wembley, beating Manchester City 1-0 in the 144th FA Cup Final with an Eberechi Eze goal.
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Julian Clary - A Fistful of Clary
The London Palladium, West End
Julian Clary, the camp comedian of Sticky Moments, brought the second run of his Western-themed stand-up show A Fistful of Clary to The London Palladium for one night.
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Russell Peters: Relax World Tour
OVO Arena Wembley
Russell Peters, the Canadian comedian who made the first Netflix original stand-up special, brought his Relax World Tour to OVO Arena Wembley.
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025
Royal Hospital Chelsea
The Royal Horticultural Society gave its top garden prize in 2025 to a Japanese tea garden built around the art of ikebana, while every show garden left the showground for a permanent home.
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Ballerina: World Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Ana de Armas and Keanu Reeves opened Ballerina, Len Wiseman’s spin-off from the John Wick series, at its world premiere in Leicester Square.
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Chelsea Handler: An Abroad Broad
The London Palladium, West End
Chelsea Handler, the host of Chelsea Lately and a six-time New York Times best-selling author, brought her stand-up show An Abroad Broad to The London Palladium.
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Field Day 2025
Brockwell Park, Herne Hill
Peggy Gou headlined Field Day in its first year in the Brockwell Park summer series, closing a sold-out day of house, techno and bass music.
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Kylie Minogue: Tension Tour
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Kylie Minogue, the Australian soap actor turned pop star with number ones in four decades, brought her Tension Tour to The O2 arena for four nights.
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F1: The Academy: UK Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
F1: The Academy, the Netflix series on the all-female F1 Academy championship, held its UK premiere in Leicester Square with its driver Bianca Bustamante on the carpet.
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Garsington Opera Festival 2025
Garsington Opera at Wormsley, Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire
Garsington Opera’s 2025 festival at Wormsley paired a new Queen of Spades and a new Rodelinda with Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and Beethoven’s Fidelio.
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The Ballad of Wallis Island: UK Premiere
Ham Yard Hotel, Soho
Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden and Tim Key brought their comedy of a folk duo reunited on a remote island to the Ham Yard Hotel for its UK premiere.
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Pete Tong Ibiza Classics: Celebrating The Best Of 10 Years
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Pete Tong and Jules Buckley brought Ibiza Classics back to the hall where it began, for four nights in the show’s tenth year.
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Mo Gilligan: In The Moment
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Mo Gilligan, the BAFTA-winning host of The Lateish Show, brought his world tour In The Moment home to The O2 arena in North Greenwich.
June 2025 43 events
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London Concours 2025
Honourable Artillery Company, City of London
The ninth London Concours filled the Honourable Artillery Company’s walled garden in June 2025, and a 1993 Bugatti EB110 SS took Best in Show.
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Deep Cover: World Premiere at SXSW London
Barbican Centre
Orlando Bloom, Bryce Dallas Howard and Nick Mohammed opened Tom Kingsley’s London comedy Deep Cover in the Barbican Hall, as a world premiere at SXSW London.
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Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter Tour
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Beyoncé played six sold-out nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on the Cowboy Carter Tour, setting the stadium’s records for tickets and gross.
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Chestertons Polo in the Park 2025
Hurlingham Park, Fulham
Team Riyadh retained the Chestertons Polo in the Park title at Hurlingham Park in 2025, beating Punta Cana 10-5 in the final of its 15th edition.
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LIDO Festival: Massive Attack
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets
Massive Attack opened the first LIDO Festival with a day they curated, a battery-powered stage and a 90-minute set from an eight-piece line-up.
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The Betfred Derby Festival 2025
Epsom Downs Racecourse, Epsom, Surrey
Aidan O’Brien won both Classics at Epsom in 2025, Minnie Hauk taking the Oaks and Lambourn the Derby, a day apart.
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Betfred Challenge Cup Final 2025
Wembley Stadium
Hull KR won the Challenge Cup for the first time since 1980, beating Warrington Wolves 8-6 at Wembley with a converted try in the closing minutes.
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LIDO Festival: Jamie xx
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets
Jamie xx curated and headlined the first day of the first LIDO Festival, with back-to-back sets alongside Skrillex and Nia Archives.
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The Life of Chuck: UK Premiere
Barbican Centre
Tom Hiddleston and Mike Flanagan brought The Life of Chuck, the Stephen King adaptation that won the People’s Choice Award at Toronto, to the closing night of the first SXSW London.
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Echo Valley: UK Premiere
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Sydney Sweeney and Julianne Moore brought Echo Valley, Michael Pearce’s thriller about a mother and her troubled daughter, to BFI Southbank three days before its release.
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Greg Davies: Full Fat Legend
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Greg Davies, the host of Taskmaster and Mr Gilbert in The Inbetweeners, played his stand-up show Full Fat Legend at the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington.
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Greg Davies: Full Fat Legend
OVO Arena Wembley
Greg Davies, the host of Taskmaster, played a sold-out night of Full Fat Legend, his first tour in seven years, at OVO Arena Wembley.
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Jeff Dunham: Artificial Intelligence
OVO Arena Wembley
Jeff Dunham, the ventriloquist whose Spark of Insanity tour set a Guinness record for comedy ticket sales, brought Artificial Intelligence to OVO Arena Wembley.
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Morgan Jay: The Goofy Guy Tour
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Morgan Jay, the American comedian whose auto-tuned crowd songs found millions of followers on TikTok, brought The Goofy Guy Tour to the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.
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Evita
The London Palladium, West End
Rachel Zegler played Eva Perón in Jamie Lloyd's revival of the Lloyd Webber and Rice musical Evita at the London Palladium.
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Gallagher Premiership Rugby Final 2025
Allianz Stadium, Twickenham
Bath ended a 29-year wait for the English title at Twickenham, holding off Leicester Tigers 23-21 in the Premiership final to complete a treble.
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LIDO Festival: Charli xcx
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets
Charli xcx curated and headlined a day of the first LIDO Festival in Victoria Park, a year after Brat made her the summer’s defining pop star.
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Trooping the Colour 2025
Horse Guards Parade, Westminster
The King’s Birthday Parade ran on Horse Guards Parade on 14 June 2025, and the Coldstream Guards trooped their Colour in the regiment’s 375th anniversary year.
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Cartier Queen’s Cup Final 2025
Guards Polo Club, Windsor, Berkshire
Park Place beat La Dolfina/Marques de Riscal 9-8 in the 2025 Cartier Queen’s Cup Final, and Hilario Ulloa scored the winner in the last four minutes.
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krankbrother presents: Keinemusik
Gunnersbury Park, Acton
Keinemusik played a UK-exclusive extended summer set at Gunnersbury Park, a year after their sold-out London day with Krankbrother.
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LIDO Festival: London Grammar
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets
London Grammar curated and closed the last day of the first LIDO Festival in Victoria Park, with Róisín Murphy and Celeste on their bill.
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The Men's HSBC Championships 2025
The Queen's Club, West Kensington
Carlos Alcaraz won his second Queen’s Club title at the 2025 men’s HSBC Championships, the first under that name, beating Jiří Lehečka in three sets.
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Jurassic World Rebirth: World Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey opened Gareth Edwards’s Jurassic World Rebirth in Leicester Square, the seventh film in the series begun by Jurassic Park in 1993.
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025
Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair
The Royal Academy's open-submission Summer Exhibition filled the Main Galleries with more than 1,700 works, coordinated by the architect Farshid Moussavi RA.
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Royal Ascot 2025
Ascot Racecourse, Ascot, Berkshire
Royal Ascot, founded by Queen Anne in 1711, ran through June heat in 2025, and Trawlerman won the Gold Cup by seven lengths in a course record.
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28 Years Later: World Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland returned to the world they opened with 28 Days Later, premiering its sequel in Leicester Square with Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes.
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Nine Inch Nails: Peel It Back Tour
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails, the Cleveland industrial band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020, played The O2 arena on the Peel It Back Tour.
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Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism Tour
Wembley Stadium
Dua Lipa brought the Radical Optimism Tour home to Wembley Stadium for two nights, and Jamiroquai joined her on the first for “Virtual Insanity”.
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Peter Kay: Better Late Than Never
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Peter Kay, the comedian whose stand-up DVDs have sold more than 10 million copies, played a June night of his tour Better Late Than Never at The O2 arena.
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Chris Brown: Breezy Bowl XX
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Chris Brown played two sold-out nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on the European leg of Breezy Bowl XX, the tour that marked 20 years since his first album.
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F1 The Movie: European Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Brad Pitt brought Joseph Kosinski’s Formula One drama to Leicester Square for its European premiere, with Lewis Hamilton as producer and Tom Cruise among the guests.
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Trevor Noah: London 2025
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Trevor Noah, the former host of The Daily Show, played six nights of all-new stand-up at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.
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Giorgio Armani Tennis Classic 2025
The Hurlingham Club, Fulham
The 31st Giorgio Armani Tennis Classic ran for five days at The Hurlingham Club in 2025, and Jack Draper beat Holger Rune 10-4 in a deciding tie-break.
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The Boodles 2025
Stoke Park, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire
The Boodles, the pre-Wimbledon exhibition founded in 2002, brought Andrey Rublev and Alex de Minaur to the grass at Stoke Park for five days in 2025.
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Guns N' Roses: Because What You Want & What You Get Are Two Completely Different Things
Wembley Stadium
Guns N’ Roses played Wembley Stadium on their 2025 European tour, a set of more than three hours with new drummer Isaac Carpenter behind them.
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Treasure House Fair 2025
Royal Hospital Chelsea
The third Treasure House Fair filled the Royal Hospital Chelsea with some seventy dealers and a non-selling display of Bugatti cars, bronzes and furniture.
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BST Hyde Park: Olivia Rodrigo
Hyde Park
Olivia Rodrigo opened BST Hyde Park 2025 with a 19-song set for 65,000 people, and Ed Sheeran joined her for “The A Team”.
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BST Hyde Park: Zach Bryan
Hyde Park
Zach Bryan played two nights at BST Hyde Park to a combined 130,000 people, and Dermot Kennedy joined him for “Hey Driver”.
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Jeff Mills: Blue Potential
Barbican Centre
Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills marked 20 years of Blue Potential with the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Christophe Mangou in the Barbican Hall.
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Kiefer / Van Gogh
Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair
Anselm Kiefer's paintings hung beside Van Gogh's in three rooms at the Royal Academy, the first exhibition to trace the older painter's hold on him.
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Linkin Park: From Zero World Tour
Wembley Stadium
Linkin Park played their only UK headline show of 2025 at Wembley Stadium, reported as the biggest headline show of their career.
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Semele
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Handel's Semele returned to the theatre where it was first heard in 1744, in a new staging by Oliver Mears with Pretty Yende in the title role.
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The Championships, Wimbledon 2025
The All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon
Wimbledon replaced its line judges with electronic calling for the first time in 2025, and Jannik Sinner and Iga Świątek each won a first title on the grass.
July 2025 37 events
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Heads of State: UK Special Screening
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Idris Elba, John Cena and Priyanka Chopra Jonas brought Ilya Naishuller’s action comedy Heads of State to BFI Southbank on the eve of its worldwide release.
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Henley Royal Regatta 2025
Henley Reach, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
Henley Royal Regatta drew a record British entry in 2025, added its first women’s event in the Intermediate category and saw sixteen records fall.
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Old Masters Evening Sale July 2025
Christie's King Street, St James's
A Canaletto view of Venice made £31.9 million at Christie's King Street, the highest price paid at auction for the artist, in an Old Masters evening that totalled £55.2 million.
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RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025
Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey
The Royal Horticultural Society’s summer festival at Hampton Court Palace, first held in 1990, gave its Best Show Garden award in 2025 to The Subaru Cocoon.
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Grand Prix Ball 2025
The Peninsula London, Belgravia
The Grand Prix Ball marked its fifteenth year at The Peninsula London in July 2025, with Alexandra Burke on stage and Make-A-Wish International as its charity.
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O2 Silver Clef Awards 2025
JW Marriott Grosvenor House, Mayfair
The O2 Silver Clef Awards, the music industry’s gala for music therapy since 1976, moved to an evening for the first time in 2025 and honoured David Gilmour.
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Old Master and 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction 2025
Sotheby's, Mayfair
Sotheby's Old Master evening on New Bond Street made £14.5 million from 31 lots, led by Lorenzo di Credi's Saint Quirinus of Neuss at £2.7 million.
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Superman: UK Fan Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult met fans in Leicester Square for James Gunn’s Superman, the first film of the new DC Universe.
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50 Cent, Mary J. Blige & A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
New York stars 50 Cent and Mary J. Blige shared a one-off bill at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie opening.
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Lana Del Rey: UK and Ireland Tour 2025
Wembley Stadium
Lana Del Rey played two nights at Wembley Stadium on her first UK and Ireland stadium tour, opening on an unreleased song from a replica clapboard house.
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BST Hyde Park: Noah Kahan
Hyde Park
Noah Kahan played his biggest show to date to 65,000 people in Hyde Park, with Lewis Capaldi, Gracie Abrams and Gigi Perez as guests.
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Formula 1 British Grand Prix 2025
Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Northamptonshire
Silverstone hosted the British Grand Prix in July 2025, and Lando Norris won a wet-dry race before a record weekend crowd of 500,000.
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BST Hyde Park: Sabrina Carpenter
Hyde Park
Sabrina Carpenter headlined two sold-out nights at BST Hyde Park, and Duran Duran joined her on the second for “Hungry Like the Wolf”.
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Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Stewart Lee played his show The Man-Wulf, in which he shares the stage with a werewolf comedian, over two weekends at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank.
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Bill Burr Live
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Bill Burr, the American comedian known for his Monday Morning Podcast and roles in Breaking Bad and The Mandalorian, played a night of stand-up at the Eventim Apollo.
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Henley Festival 2025
Leander Club, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
Henley Festival, Britain’s only black-tie festival, opened its 2025 edition with Diana Ross on the Floating Stage and closed it with Jamie Cullum.
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Emily Kam Kngwarray
Tate Modern, Bankside
Tate Modern showed eighty works by Emily Kam Kngwarray together in Europe for the first time, made in her late seventies and eighties in the Utopia homelands.
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England v India 2025
Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood
England beat India by 22 runs in the third Test at Lord’s in July 2025, after Ravindra Jadeja’s unbeaten 61 took the chase to the last wicket.
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Goodwood Festival of Speed 2025
Goodwood House, Chichester, West Sussex
The 2025 Festival of Speed marked 75 years of the Formula 1 World Championship, and Romain Dumas won the Timed Shoot-Out in the Ford Supertruck.
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Taylor Tomlinson: Save Me Tour
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Taylor Tomlinson, the Netflix comedian and host of After Midnight on CBS, brought her Save Me Tour to the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith for two nights.
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps: UK Fan Premiere
BFI IMAX, South Bank
Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby and Joseph Quinn brought Marvel’s First Family to the BFI IMAX, with the film’s musical suite premiered in Hyde Park the same evening.
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BST Hyde Park: Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts
Hyde Park
Neil Young headlined BST Hyde Park with the Chrome Hearts, playing “Cinnamon Girl” and “Harvest Moon” on a bill with Van Morrison and Yusuf/Cat Stevens.
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Jimmy O. Yang: Big & Tall Tour
OVO Arena Wembley
Jimmy O. Yang, known as Jian-Yang in Silicon Valley and from Crazy Rich Asians, brought his Big & Tall Tour, billed as his biggest yet, to OVO Arena Wembley.
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BST Hyde Park: Stevie Wonder
Hyde Park
Stevie Wonder closed BST Hyde Park 2025 with “Sir Duke”, “Isn’t She Lovely” and a duet with Corinne Bailey Rae.
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Smurfs: UK Special Screening
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Rylan Clark and Jon Richardson, the British voices of Vanity and Grouchy Smurf, presented Paramount’s animated Smurfs at Cineworld Leicester Square.
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Stray Kids: dominATE World Tour
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Stray Kids played two sold-out nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on the dominATE World Tour, reported at 125,000 across both shows.
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Oleksandr Usyk v Daniel Dubois II
Wembley Stadium
Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois met for the undisputed heavyweight championship, the first such fight on British soil in more than a century.
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Kendrick Lamar and SZA: Grand National Tour
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Kendrick Lamar and SZA closed the UK leg of the Grand National Tour with two nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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The Naked Gun: UK Premiere
Cineworld Leicester Square, West End
Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson brought Akiva Schaffer’s revival of The Naked Gun to Leicester Square, with Neeson inheriting the Drebin name from Leslie Nielsen.
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Imagine Dragons: Loom World Tour
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Imagine Dragons ended the European leg of the Loom World Tour with two sold-out nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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Oasis Live ’25: Wembley
Wembley Stadium
Oasis played seven nights at Wembley Stadium on their first UK shows in 16 years, to more than half a million fans across the run.
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Peter Kay: Better Late Than Never
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Peter Kay, whose 2010 tour played to 1.2 million people, closed his 2025 run of London dates at The O2 arena on his tour Better Late Than Never.
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Alanis Morissette: Triple Moon Tour
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Alanis Morissette, whose Jagged Little Pill made her the youngest winner of the album of the year Grammy at the time, closed the European leg of her tour at The O2 arena.
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Qatar Goodwood Festival 2025
Goodwood Racecourse, Chichester, West Sussex
The 2025 Qatar Goodwood Festival ran for five days above Chichester, and Qirat won the Sussex Stakes at 150/1 with the 1/3 favourite beaten into fourth.
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Wednesday Season 2: World Premiere
Methodist Central Hall Westminster
Jenna Ortega returned as Wednesday Addams at the global premiere of the series’ second season, staged under the dome of Central Hall in Westminster.
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Black Coffee on the Thames
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Black Coffee became the first DJ to headline the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, with two sold-out nights on the Thames in July and August 2025.
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Freakier Friday: UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan returned to London with Freakier Friday, the sequel to their 2003 body-swap comedy, on a green and purple carpet.
August 2025 27 events
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krankbrother presents: Ben Böhmer
Finsbury Park
Ben Böhmer, the melodic house producer, headlined the first of Krankbrother’s five summer days at Finsbury Park.
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Cowes Week 2025
The Solent, Cowes, Isle of Wight
The 199th Cowes Week lost a day of racing to Storm Floris in 2025 and ended with more than 400 boats running downwind under spinnakers.
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Empire of the Sun on the Thames
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Empire of the Sun played their first London show in more than six years at a sold-out Old Royal Naval College, in the first Labyrinth on the Thames series.
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krankbrother presents: ANOTR
Finsbury Park
ANOTR, the Amsterdam house duo, headlined the second of Krankbrother’s five summer days at Finsbury Park.
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Catfish and the Bottlemen at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Catfish and the Bottlemen played the biggest show of their career at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with James and DMA’S as special guests.
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The Inheritance: London Premiere
The Ned, City of London
Elizabeth Hurley launched The Inheritance, Channel 4’s game of wills in which she plays a benefactor summoning thirteen strangers to her stately home, at The Ned.
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FABRICLIVE: Mike Skinner (The Streets) at The View From The Shard
The View from The Shard, London Bridge
Mike Skinner of The Streets took FABRICLIVE 800 feet above London with a late DJ set at The View from The Shard, joined by Oneman and ESC.
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Longines Global Champions Tour London 2025
Royal Hospital Chelsea
The Longines Global Champions Tour brought world-ranked show jumping to the Royal Hospital Chelsea in August 2025, where Christian Kukuk and Checker 47 won the Grand Prix.
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Solomun 5 Hours on the Thames
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Solomun played a five-hour set at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, his only London show of summer 2025, and the date sold out.
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Fisher on the Thames
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Fisher headlined a sold-out Saturday at the Old Royal Naval College in the first Labyrinth on the Thames series, with Loco Dice and LF System on his bill.
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krankbrother presents: Honey Dijon
Finsbury Park
Honey Dijon headlined the fourth of Krankbrother’s five summer days at Finsbury Park, on a house and disco bill with Kerri Chandler.
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Anjunadeep Open Air
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Anjunadeep Open Air closed the first Labyrinth on the Thames series with a sold-out Sunday at the Old Royal Naval College, with Yotto, Marsh, and James Grant and Jody Wisternoff on the bill.
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CamelPhat at Finsbury Park
Finsbury Park
CamelPhat headlined the last of Krankbrother's five summer days at Finsbury Park on Sunday 10 August 2025, which closed the park's major events season for the year.
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All Points East: SAULT
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets
SAULT opened All Points East 2025 with their second live show, a five-hour joint performance with Cleo Sol and Chronixx on the East Stage.
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BLACKPINK: 2025 World Tour
Wembley Stadium
BLACKPINK became the first K-pop girl group to headline Wembley Stadium, with two nights that closed the European leg of their 2025 world tour.
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fabric: David August (Live) at The View From The Shard
The View from The Shard, London Bridge
The Hamburg-born composer and pianist David August brought his live show to the 72nd floor of The View from The Shard for a late fabric session.
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All Points East: Chase and Status
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets
Chase & Status closed a day of drum and bass, garage and bassline at All Points East, with Overmono and Sammy Virji on the stages before them.
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Martin Garrix at Gunnersbury Park
Gunnersbury Park, Acton
Martin Garrix, the Dutch producer five times ranked number one in the world, played his largest UK headline show to 25,000 at Gunnersbury Park.
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Shawn Mendes: On the Road Again
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Shawn Mendes, the Toronto singer who grew from Vine covers into a four-time chart-topping album artist, played his only UK date of 2025 at The O2 arena.
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Caught Stealing: UK Gala Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz joined Darren Aronofsky for the UK gala of Caught Stealing, his crime caper set in the New York of the late 1990s.
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The Thursday Murder Club: World Premiere
Leicester Square, West End
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie opened Chris Columbus’s film of Richard Osman’s bestselling mystery in Leicester Square.
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All Points East: Barry Can't Swim
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets
Barry Can’t Swim played his first major festival headline at All Points East on his birthday, opening with the first track of his album Loner.
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Coldplay: Music of the Spheres World Tour
Wembley Stadium
Coldplay played ten nights at Wembley Stadium, the longest residency in its history, on what became the most-attended tour of all time.
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All Points East: RAYE
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets
RAYE headlined a sold-out Saturday at All Points East with an orchestra and choir, after sets from Tyla, JADE and FKA twigs.
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All Points East: The Maccabees
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets
The Maccabees closed All Points East 2025 with a homecoming reunion show, their first tour after an eight-year break, with Bombay Bicycle Club as guests.
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Salon Privé Blenheim Palace 2025
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Salon Privé marked its twentieth edition at Blenheim Palace in August 2025, where a 1936 Mercedes-Benz 500 K Spezial Roadster took Best of Show.
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The Roses: UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch brought The Roses, Jay Roach’s new telling of The War of the Roses, to Leicester Square the night before its release.
September 2025 34 events
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale World Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
The Crawleys took their last bow on the big screen as Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, the third and final film of Julian Fellowes' saga, premiered in Leicester Square.
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Defender Burghley Horse Trials 2025
Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire
Ros Canter and Lordships Graffalo won Defender Burghley again in 2025, and he became the first horse to win both Burghley and Badminton twice.
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Arijit Singh at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Arijit Singh became the first Indian artist to headline a UK stadium, with his only European date of 2025 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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Concours of Elegance 2025
Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey
The fourteenth Concours of Elegance brought 75 invited cars to Hampton Court Palace in 2025, and their owners crowned a 1926 Rolls-Royce known as The Phantom of Love.
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Jim Jefferies: Son of a Carpenter
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Jim Jefferies, the Australian comedian and host of The 1% Club, brought his Son of a Carpenter tour to the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith for two nights.
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Queen Charlotte’s Ball 2025
One Whitehall Place
Queen Charlotte’s Ball, the debutante ball George III began in 1780 for his queen’s birthday, presented its 2025 debutantes at One Whitehall Place.
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A Single Man
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Jonathan Watkins made Isherwood's novel of a day of grief into a ballet for the Linbury Theatre, with John Grant singing George's thoughts and Ed Watson dancing his body.
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Matthias Goerne and David Fray: Schubert
Wigmore Hall, Marylebone
Matthias Goerne opened Wigmore Hall's 125th-anniversary season with Schubert's Schwanengesang and B flat Sonata, with David Fray at the piano.
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National Television Awards 2025
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
The public alone decides the National Television Awards, and in 2025 it gave Adolescence the New Drama prize and Gary Lineker the TV Presenter award at The O2.
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell brought Kogonada's romantic fantasy A Big Bold Beautiful Journey to Leicester Square for a UK premiere in aid of the Film and TV Charity.
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Swiped European Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
Lily James brought Swiped, Rachel Lee Goldenberg's film of the Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, to Curzon Mayfair for its European premiere.
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Tosca
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Oliver Mears's new staging of Puccini's Tosca opened at Covent Garden with Anna Netrebko in the title role and Jakub Hrůša conducting.
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Goodwood Revival 2025
Goodwood Motor Circuit, Chichester, West Sussex
The 2025 Goodwood Revival marked sixty years since Jim Clark's greatest season, and brought his Lotus 32B, 33, 35 and 38 together for the first time.
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John Summit at The O2
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
John Summit, the former accountant from Illinois, headlined The O2 arena for more than 20,000 people, his biggest show in the United Kingdom.
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Last Night of the Proms 2025
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Elim Chan conducted her first Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, where Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor joined an orchestral “Bohemian Rhapsody”.
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London Design Festival 2025
V&A South Kensington
The 23rd London Design Festival ran for nine days in September 2025, with the V&A as its hub and Lee Broom lighting the Royal Festival Hall plaza.
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Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller's Neo-Impressionists
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square
The National Gallery showed the Neo-Impressionist collection assembled by Helene Kröller-Müller, with Seurat's Chahut and Vincent van Gogh's The Sower in the Sainsbury Wing.
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One Battle After Another London Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Leonardo DiCaprio and Paul Thomas Anderson brought One Battle After Another, the film that went on to win Best Picture, to Leicester Square for its London premiere.
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Steve UK Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
Cillian Murphy led the UK premiere of Steve, Tim Mielants' film of Max Porter's novella Shy, set over one day at a reform school in the mid-1990s.
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Frieze Sculpture 2025
The Regent's Park
Frieze Sculpture gave The Regent's Park fourteen international artists in autumn 2025, under a first overarching theme, In the Shadows.
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Pauline Karpidas: The London Collection Evening Auction 2025
Sotheby's, Mayfair
Sotheby's sold all 55 lots of Pauline Karpidas's Surrealist and design collection on New Bond Street for £73.2 million, led by Magritte's La Statue volante.
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Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials 2025
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Blenheim Palace hosted the 2025 European Eventing Championships, where Laura Collett won individual gold on London 52 and Germany took the team title.
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Kerry James Marshall: The Histories
Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair
Seventy paintings by Kerry James Marshall, the largest showing of his work outside the United States, filled the Royal Academy's Main Galleries.
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Post Malone: Big Ass Stadium Tour
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Post Malone ended the first leg of the Big Ass Stadium Tour with two nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Jelly Roll as his special guest.
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Dave Chappelle: Live
O2 Forum Kentish Town
Dave Chappelle, the co-creator of Chappelle’s Show and a six-time Grammy winner, played three sold-out nights of stand-up at O2 Forum Kentish Town.
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Goldsmiths' Fair 2025
Goldsmiths' Hall, City of London
Goldsmiths' Fair filled the City's hallmarking hall for two weeks in 2025 with 136 independent makers, and an exhibition paired David Watkins with Wendy Ramshaw.
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Dave Chappelle
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Dave Chappelle, twice an Emmy winner for hosting Saturday Night Live, returned to the Eventim Apollo for an extra London date added due to demand.
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British Art Fair 2025
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea
The 2025 British Art Fair drew more than 13,000 visitors to the Saatchi Gallery and sold a Ravilious watercolour on its first market appearance.
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Hamlet
National Theatre, South Bank
Hiran Abeysekera played the Prince of Denmark in Robert Hastie's staging of Shakespeare's tragedy in the National Theatre's Lyttelton.
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The Woman in Cabin 10 London Premiere
BAFTA, St James's
Keira Knightley led the London premiere of The Woman in Cabin 10, Simon Stone's adaptation of Ruth Ware's thriller, at the British Academy's home on Piccadilly.
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The Lost Bus UK Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera brought Paul Greengrass's drama of the 2018 Camp Fire school bus rescue to Mayfair for its UK premiere.
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Lady Gaga: The Mayhem Ball
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Lady Gaga, who turned a Grammy-winning pop career into an Oscar-winning one, brought The Mayhem Ball to The O2 arena for four nights of gothic pop theatre.
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Sigur Rós performing with London Contemporary Orchestra
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
Sigur Rós played four autumn nights with the London Contemporary Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, raising money for War Child along the way.
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The Decorative Fair, Autumn 2025
Evolution London, Battersea
The Decorative Fair, founded in 1985, filled Battersea Park’s tented halls for six days in autumn 2025 with more than 130 dealers in antiques, design and art.
October 2025 69 events
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Charlotte de Witte at The View From The Shard
The View from The Shard, London Bridge
Charlotte de Witte opened four days of London shows ahead of her debut album with an early-evening set at The View from The Shard, promoted by fabric.
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Lee Miller
Tate Britain, Millbank
Tate Britain staged the most extensive retrospective of Lee Miller yet seen in the UK, about 250 prints from Surrealist Paris and Vogue fashion to the war and the desert.
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Dom Dolla at Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
Dom Dolla, the Australian tech house producer with a Grammy nomination, made his Alexandra Palace debut in the Great Hall after sold-out Drumsheds nights.
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Jack Dee: Small World
The London Palladium, West End
Jack Dee, the deadpan host of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, brought his tour Small World, about the small things of daily life, to The London Palladium.
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John Bishop: 25
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
John Bishop marked a quarter of a century in stand-up with his tenth tour, John Bishop: 25, and brought it to The O2 arena for one London arena night.
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Charlotte de Witte at Magazine London
Magazine London, North Greenwich
Charlotte de Witte, the Belgian techno DJ and founder of KNTXT, played Magazine London on the third day of a four-day London run before her debut album.
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Peggy Gou: Gou Talk
Drumsheds, Meridian Water
Peggy Gou, the Incheon-born DJ and label founder, brought her Gou Talk showcase to a sold-out Drumsheds with a day of invited selectors.
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Minnesota Vikings v Cleveland Browns, NFL London Games 2025
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
The 40th regular-season NFL game played in London opened the 2025 season in Tottenham, where the Minnesota Vikings beat the Cleveland Browns with 25 seconds left.
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BFI London Film Festival Opening Night Gala: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Daniel Craig returned as Benoit Blanc for the international premiere of Rian Johnson's third Knives Out mystery, which opened the 69th BFI London Film Festival on the South Bank.
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Pete Davidson
The London Palladium, West End
Pete Davidson, the Saturday Night Live alumnus and star of The King of Staten Island, played one London night of stand-up at The London Palladium.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: Ballad of a Small Player
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Colin Farrell brought Edward Berger’s Macau gambling drama Ballad of a Small Player to the BFI London Film Festival for its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall.
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BFI London Film Festival Premiere: A Private Life
Curzon Mayfair
Jodie Foster presented A Private Life, Rebecca Zlotowski's Paris mystery and her first leading role in French, at its London Film Festival screening in Mayfair.
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Hatfield House Music Festival 2025
Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire
The Hatfield House Music Festival gave Rachel Podger, Imogen Cooper and the Doric Quartet a Jacobean setting, and ended with Handel and Tavener in St Etheldreda’s Church.
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Ricky Gervais: Mortality
The London Palladium, West End
Ricky Gervais, the creator of After Life, played 14 nights of his stand-up show Mortality at The London Palladium and filmed it there for Netflix.
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St John's Hospice Gala 2025
The Wallace Collection, Marylebone
St John's Hospice, which opened in St John's Wood in 1984, held its 2025 gala at the Wallace Collection and raised almost £200,000 to take its care into patients' homes.
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BFI London Film Festival Cunard Gala: Jay Kelly
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
George Clooney played a film star taking stock of his life in Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly, whose UK premiere was the Cunard Gala of the 69th BFI London Film Festival.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: Bugonia
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos brought Bugonia, their fourth feature together, to the BFI London Film Festival for its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall.
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BFI London Film Festival Premiere: Moss & Freud
Curzon Mayfair
Kate Moss attended the world premiere of Moss & Freud, James Lucas's account of the months she sat for Lucian Freud in 2002, with Ellie Bamber and Derek Jacobi.
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DJ Snake at Drumsheds
Drumsheds, Meridian Water
DJ Snake, the Paris producer behind “Turn Down for What” and “Lean On”, played Drumsheds in his first London show for more than three years.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: After the Hunt
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield brought Luca Guadagnino’s campus drama After the Hunt to the BFI London Film Festival for its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: It Was Just an Accident
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, the Palme d’Or winner he shot without a permit in Iran, played among the galas of the 69th BFI London Film Festival.
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BFI London Film Festival Mayor of London's Gala: Hamnet
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley brought Chloé Zhao's Hamnet, her adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel of Shakespeare's family, to the BFI London Film Festival's Mayor of London's Gala.
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BFI London Film Festival Premiere: The Testament of Ann Lee
Curzon Mayfair
Amanda Seyfried brought Mona Fastvold's The Testament of Ann Lee, a musical portrait of the Manchester-born founder of the Shakers, to the festival's Official Competition.
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BFI London Film Festival Premiere: The Thing with Feathers
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Benedict Cumberbatch presented The Thing with Feathers, Dylan Southern's adaptation of Max Porter's novel of grief and a visiting crow, at its London Film Festival screening.
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Cliveden Literary Festival 2025
Cliveden House, Taplow, Berkshire
Salman Rushdie, Jung Chang, Richard E. Grant and Emily Maitlis were among the speakers at the Cliveden Literary Festival, held in the house above the Thames in October 2025.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: Sentimental Value
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård brought Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value, winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, to a gala at the BFI London Film Festival.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: The Choral
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Ralph Fiennes led the cast of The Choral, Nicholas Hytner and Alan Bennett's film of a Yorkshire choir in the First World War, at a BFI London Film Festival gala.
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BFI London Film Festival Patrons' Gala: H Is for Hawk
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson brought H Is for Hawk, Philippa Lowthorpe's film of Helen Macdonald's memoir of grief and falconry, to the BFI Patrons' Gala.
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BFI London Film Festival Premiere: Hedda
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Tessa Thompson, Imogen Poots and Nina Hoss presented Nia DaCosta’s Hedda, a 1950s reimagining of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, in the festival’s Official Competition.
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Decorex 2025
Olympia London, Kensington
The 48th Decorex filled Olympia London in October 2025 with more than 280 brands and a talks programme that returned to sustainability and craft.
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Denver Broncos v New York Jets, NFL London Games 2025
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
In the second of three NFL games in London in 2025, the Denver Broncos beat the New York Jets 13 to 11 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on the strength of nine sacks.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: Frankenstein
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Guillermo del Toro brought his long-imagined adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, to a gala at the BFI London Film Festival.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: The Mastermind
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Josh O'Connor starred as a carpenter turned art thief in Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind, which had its UK premiere at a BFI London Film Festival gala.
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BFI London Film Festival Premiere: Hamlet
Curzon Mayfair
Riz Ahmed brought Aneil Karia's Hamlet, which moves Shakespeare's tragedy into a wealthy British South Asian family in present-day London, to the festival's Dare strand.
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Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Katy Perry, the pop star whose Teenage Dream yielded five US number ones, brought The Lifetimes Tour to The O2 arena for two nights, her first UK tour in over seven years.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: Is This Thing On?
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Bradley Cooper’s third film as director, a divorce comedy drawn from John Bishop’s life, had its international premiere at the BFI London Film Festival’s Royal Festival Hall.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: Roofman
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst brought Derek Cianfrance’s true-crime romance Roofman to the BFI London Film Festival for its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall.
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BFI London Film Festival Premiere: & Sons
Venue TBC, London
Pablo Trapero’s & Sons, his first film in English, adapted by Sarah Polley from David Gilbert’s novel, screened in the Love strand of the 69th BFI London Film Festival.
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BFI London Film Festival Premiere: Anemone
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Daniel Day-Lewis returned to the screen after eight years in Anemone, his son Ronan’s first feature, and brought it to the BFI London Film Festival for its UK premiere.
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PAD London 2025
Berkeley Square, Mayfair
PAD London held its seventeenth edition in a Berkeley Square tent in October 2025, with 67 galleries from 20 countries and eleven of them new.
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20th/21st Century: London 2025
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie's 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale made £106.9 million on King Street during Frieze week 2025, led by Peter Doig's Ski Jacket.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: No Other Choice
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Park Chan-wook and Lee Byung-hun brought No Other Choice, a black comedy about a laid-off paper expert who murders his rivals, to the festival’s galas.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Jeremy Allen White plays Bruce Springsteen making Nebraska in Scott Cooper’s film, which reached the BFI London Film Festival with Springsteen himself on the carpet.
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Frieze London & Frieze Masters 2025
The Regent's Park
Frieze London and Frieze Masters filled The Regent's Park in October 2025 with more than 280 galleries from 45 countries, and Gagosian sold out its Lauren Halsey booth within hours.
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Hofesh Shechter: Theatre of Dreams
Sadler's Wells Theatre, Angel
Hofesh Shechter's dreamscape for dancers and live musicians, nominated for an Olivier Award, returned to Sadler's Wells Theatre for four nights.
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1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2025
Somerset House, Covent Garden
The contemporary African art fair 1-54 held its thirteenth London edition at Somerset House in October 2025, with more than 50 galleries showing over 100 artists.
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BFI London Film Festival American Express Gala: Rental Family
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Brendan Fraser, the Academy Award winner for The Whale, brought Hikari's Tokyo comedy-drama Rental Family to London as the festival's American Express Gala.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: Blue Moon
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Richard Linklater's Blue Moon, with Ethan Hawke as the lyricist Lorenz Hart and a Silver Bear-winning Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers, screened as a London Film Festival gala.
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BFI London Film Festival Premiere: The Chronology of Water
Curzon Mayfair
Kristen Stewart presented her directing debut, The Chronology of Water, adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir and led by Imogen Poots, at its UK premiere in Mayfair.
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Contemporary Evening Auction 2025
Sotheby's, Mayfair
Sotheby's Contemporary Evening Auction made £47.6 million on New Bond Street in Frieze week 2025, led by Francis Bacon's Portrait of a Dwarf.
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Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale 2025
Phillips Berkeley Square, Mayfair
Phillips' Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale made £10.3 million on Berkeley Square in Frieze week 2025, led by Jean-Michel Basquiat's Untitled (Pestus).
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Spellbound: The Hegewisch Collection, Part I 2025
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie's King Street sold 50 of 54 lots from Klaus Hegewisch's collection of prints and drawings for £8.9 million, led by a Picasso study for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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amfAR London 2025
The Chancery Rosewood, Mayfair
amfAR, the AIDS research foundation formed in 1985, held its first London gala at The Chancery Rosewood in 2025, honouring Tracey Emin and raising $2.1 million.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: Christy
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Sydney Sweeney plays the boxer Christy Martin in David Michôd’s biopic Christy, which she brought to the BFI London Film Festival for its UK premiere.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: Die My Love
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Jennifer Lawrence joined Lynne Ramsay for the UK premiere of Die My Love, Ramsay's portrait of a young mother coming apart in rural Montana, as a London Film Festival gala.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: Pillion
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling brought Harry Lighton's Cannes prize-winning debut Pillion, a Bromley love story on two wheels, home to London as a festival gala.
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BFI London Film Festival Gala: The History of Sound
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor brought Oliver Hermanus’s The History of Sound, a romance told through American folk song, to the BFI London Film Festival.
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QIPCO British Champions Day 2025
Ascot Racecourse, Ascot, Berkshire
QIPCO British Champions Day ran at Ascot on 18 October 2025, and Powerful Glory won the Sprint at 200-1, the longest-priced Group 1 winner in Britain.
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The British Museum Ball 2025
The British Museum, Bloomsbury
The British Museum's first Ball took its colour from Ancient India: living traditions, drew nearly 900 guests to Bloomsbury and raised more than £2.5 million.
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BFI London Film Festival Closing Night Gala: 100 Nights of Hero
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank
Emma Corrin, Maika Monroe and Felicity Jones closed the 69th BFI London Film Festival with Julia Jackman’s fairytale 100 Nights of Hero.
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Los Angeles Rams v Jacksonville Jaguars, NFL London Games 2025
Wembley Stadium
At Wembley, the ground where the NFL proved London in 2007, the Los Angeles Rams beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 35 to 7 in 2025 on five Matthew Stafford touchdown passes.
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Elis & John: That Feels Significant: Live
The London Palladium, West End
Elis James and John Robins, of the BBC Radio 5 Live show and podcast, took That Feels Significant: Live to The London Palladium with Dave Masterman.
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The Line of Beauty
Almeida Theatre, Islington
Michael Grandage directed Jack Holden's stage adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel at the Almeida Theatre.
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Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale 2025
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie's Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale made £17.3 million on King Street, led by Barbara Hepworth's The Family of Man (Figure 9, The Bride).
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Asian Art in London 2025
V&A South Kensington
The twenty-eighth Asian Art in London opened with a joint private view in the V&A’s Dome and ran across the trade until 6 November 2025.
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Predator: Badlands UK Special Screening
BFI IMAX, South Bank
Elle Fanning and director Dan Trachtenberg brought Predator: Badlands, the seventh film in the franchise, to the BFI IMAX for its UK special screening.
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LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair 2025
Berkeley Square, Mayfair
The autumn fair marked a hundred years of Art Deco with its dealers in a marquee wrapped in a bespoke botanical commission.
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Paintings from the Personal Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan 2025
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie's sold 95 Indian and Persian paintings from Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan's collection for £45.8 million, led by Basawan's family of cheetahs.
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Ricky Gervais: Mortality
OVO Arena Wembley
Ricky Gervais, the co-creator of The Office, played three arena nights of his stand-up show Mortality at OVO Arena Wembley, alongside his Palladium run.
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England v Australia, Quilter Nations Series 2025
Allianz Stadium, Twickenham
England opened their 2025 autumn at Twickenham by beating Australia 25-7, regaining the Ella-Mobbs Trophy and stretching their winning run to eight Tests.
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RM Sotheby's London 2025
The Peninsula London, Belgravia
RM Sotheby's London sale grossed £23.7 million at The Peninsula in November 2025, led by a Ferrari FXX-K Evo, on the eve of the Veteran Car Run.
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The Global Gift Gala London 2025
Kimpton Fitzroy London, Bloomsbury
María Bravo’s Global Gift Gala held its twelfth London edition at the Kimpton Fitzroy in November 2025, with Emilia Clarke and her mother as honorary chairs.
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London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 2025
Hyde Park
The 129th Veteran Car Run left Hyde Park at dawn in November 2025 with 384 pre-1905 starters, and 340 of them reached Madeira Drive in Brighton.
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Malice: UK Premiere
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Jack Whitehall and David Duchovny presented Malice, James Wood’s psychological thriller about a tutor who charms his way into a wealthy family, at BFI Southbank.
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The Makropulos Case
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Janáček's opera of a singer who has lived for three centuries received its first Royal Opera staging, directed by Katie Mitchell and conducted by Jakub Hrůša.
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The Running Man UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Glen Powell led the UK premiere of Edgar Wright's The Running Man, the second screen adaptation of Stephen King's 1982 novel of a lethal game show.
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Nuremberg UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Rami Malek led the cast of Nuremberg, a drama about the American psychiatrist sent to examine Hermann Göring before the war-crimes trials, at its UK premiere in Leicester Square.
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DSWF Wildlife Ball 2025
The Dorchester, Mayfair
The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation’s Wildlife Ball honoured its founder at The Dorchester in November 2025 and raised more than £170,000 for wildlife in Africa and Asia.
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Daniel Avery at the Barbican
Barbican Centre
Daniel Avery played the live show for his album Tremor in the Barbican Hall, with Ruthlss in support.
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England v Fiji, Quilter Nations Series 2025
Allianz Stadium, Twickenham
Fiji led England at Twickenham in the second of the 2025 autumn Tests before a second-half surge carried the hosts to a 38-18 win and a ninth straight victory.
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Wilkinson presents NIRVA
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
Wilkinson gave his new live production, NIRVA, its first showing in the Great Hall, his Alexandra Palace debut and the biggest show of his career.
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Natalia Osipova at the Linbury Theatre
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Natalia Osipova, a principal of The Royal Ballet, danced a programme of duets by Ratmansky, Khan and Strømgren in the intimate Linbury Theatre.
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The Booker Prize 2025
Old Billingsgate, City of London
The Booker Prize, awarded for fiction in English since 1969, named David Szalay's Flesh its 2025 winner at Old Billingsgate, with Roddy Doyle chairing the jury.
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Walpole British Luxury Awards 2025
The Dorchester, Mayfair
Walpole’s British Luxury Awards filled the ballroom at The Dorchester in November 2025, and Gusbourne was named British Luxury Brand of the Year.
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Wicked: For Good European Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande closed their Wicked story in London, at the European premiere of Jon M. Chu's film of the musical's second act.
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Opera Holland Park Gala Dinner 2025
Drapers' Hall, City of London
Opera Holland Park, founded in 1996 before the ruins of Holland House, held its one black tie evening of 2025 at Drapers' Hall, with its principals singing over dinner.
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The Family Plan 2 World Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
Mark Wahlberg and Kit Harington opened The Family Plan 2 in the city where much of it is set, at its world premiere in Mayfair.
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Christmas Karma: World Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
Gurinder Chadha and Kunal Nayyar launched Christmas Karma, a Bollywood-inspired musical retelling of A Christmas Carol, at Curzon Mayfair.
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Hyde Park Winter Wonderland Preview Night 2025
Hyde Park
The Royal Parks held its charity Preview Night in Hyde Park on the eve of Winter Wonderland opening to the public in November 2025.
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Stranger Things 5 UK Premiere
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, West End
Millie Bobby Brown and the cast of Stranger Things came to Leicester Square for the UK premiere of the fifth and final season of the Duffer Brothers' series.
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Chain of Hope Gala Ball 2025
Natural History Museum, South Kensington
Chain of Hope, the children’s heart charity Sir Magdi Yacoub founded in 1995, held its annual Gala Ball at the Natural History Museum in November 2025, hosted by Rory Bremner.
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Champions03 Gala Dinner 2025
The Dorchester, Mayfair
England's 2003 Rugby World Cup winners reunited at The Dorchester for the Champions 2003 Foundation's annual dinner, and a live painting in gold leaf marked the night.
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Conor Benn v Chris Eubank Jr II
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Conor Benn reversed his April defeat to Chris Eubank Jr, ending a family rivalry that began when their fathers first fought in 1990.
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England v New Zealand, Quilter Nations Series 2025
Allianz Stadium, Twickenham
England came from 12-0 down to beat New Zealand 33-19 at Twickenham in November 2025, their first win over the All Blacks at the ground since 2012.
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Eternity: UK Premiere
The Cinema in the Power Station, Battersea
Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller brought Eternity, David Freyne’s romantic comedy set in the afterlife, to Battersea Power Station for its UK premiere.
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Royal Variety Performance 2025
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
The Royal Variety Performance filled the Royal Albert Hall in November 2025, with Jason Manford hosting before the Prince and Princess of Wales.
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The Macmillan Ball 2025
Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington
Macmillan Cancer Support held its annual ball inside the Victoria and Albert Museum in November 2025, and the night raised £475,000.
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Four Tet at Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace, Wood Green
Four Tet returned to the Great Hall for two November nights and played alone from doors to curfew on both.
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Willow Ball 2025
The Dorchester, Mayfair
Willow, founded by Bob and Megs Wilson in memory of their daughter Anna, held its charity ball at The Dorchester in November 2025 and raised £163,000 on the night.
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England v Argentina, Quilter Nations Series 2025
Allianz Stadium, Twickenham
England completed a clean sweep of their 2025 autumn Tests by holding off an Argentina fightback to win 27-23 at Twickenham, their eleventh victory in a row.
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Zootropolis 2 UK Premiere
Picturehouse Central, West End
Idris Elba and Ke Huy Quan joined Jason Bateman and Ginnifer Goodwin at Picturehouse Central for the UK premiere of Zootropolis 2, Disney Animation’s return to its city of mammals.
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Ella McCay London Premiere
Picturehouse Central, West End
Jamie Lee Curtis and Emma Mackey walked the carpet at Picturehouse Central for Ella McCay, James L. Brooks’s first film as a director in fifteen years.
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Hania Rani: Non Fiction: A Piano Concerto In Four Movements
Barbican Centre
Hania Rani gave the world premiere of her first piano concerto, Non Fiction, over two nights with Manchester Collective as a 45-piece orchestra.
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Tusk Conservation Awards 2025
The Savoy, Strand
Tusk held its 2025 Conservation Awards at The Savoy, where the Prince of Wales honoured three conservationists from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya.
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Tinsel Town World Premiere
Vue West End
Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson premiered Tinsel Town, a Yorkshire-shot Christmas comedy about a Hollywood star cast in a village pantomime, in Leicester Square.
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Turner & Constable
Tate Britain, Millbank
Tate Britain hung more than 170 works by Turner and Constable side by side in the 250th year of their births, among them the Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons.
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La Discothèque with Purple Disco Machine
Drumsheds, Meridian Water
Purple Disco Machine made his Drumsheds debut at a La Discothèque night billed as his biggest UK show, with Basement Jaxx playing before him.
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Noah's Ark Winter Ball 2025
The Dorchester, Mayfair
The Winter Ball, run by a committee for more than three decades, raised over £520,000 for Noah's Ark Children's Hospice at The Dorchester in 2025.
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Trevor Noah: London Encore
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Trevor Noah, the South African comedian and author of Born a Crime, returned to the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith for three encore nights after his June run there.
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The Fashion Awards 2025
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington
The British Fashion Council's annual ceremony filled the Royal Albert Hall in 2025, and Jonathan Anderson won Designer of the Year for the third consecutive year.
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Old Masters Evening Sale December 2025
Christie's King Street, St James's
Christie's December Old Masters evening made £12.7 million on King Street, led by Gerrit Dou's The Flute Player at £3.8 million.
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The Winter Egg and Important Works by Fabergé from a Princely Collection 2025
Christie's King Street, St James's
Fabergé's Winter Egg sold for £22.9 million at Christie's King Street, the highest price paid at auction for a work by the house.
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Goodbye June London Premiere
Curzon Mayfair
Kate Winslet premiered Goodbye June, her first film as a director, written by her son Joe Anders, at Curzon Mayfair with Toni Collette and Timothy Spall.
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Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction December 2025
Sotheby's, Mayfair
Sotheby's December Old Master evening made £30.7 million on New Bond Street, led by a reattributed Rembrandt and a late-medieval triptych from Sherborne.
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Spartacus: House of Ashur International Premiere
Everyman at The Whiteley, Bayswater
Nick E. Tarabay and the creator Steven S. DeKnight launched Spartacus: House of Ashur, a new chapter of the gladiator saga, at its international premiere in Bayswater.
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HMS Pinafore
London Coliseum, Covent Garden
English National Opera revived Cal McCrystal's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, with Mel Giedroyc making her ENO debut as the Cabin Boy.
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Last Days
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Oliver Leith and Matt Copson's opera after Gus Van Sant's film about a musician modelled on Kurt Cobain returned to the Linbury Theatre with Jake Dunn as Blake.
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The Hydra: DJ-Kicks 30th Anniversary
Drumsheds, Meridian Water
The Hydra marked 30 years of the DJ-Kicks mix series with a 30-artist night at Drumsheds, led by a Moderat DJ set and 15 back-to-back pairings.
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Ariodante
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Jetske Mijnssen made her Royal Opera debut with Handel's Ariodante, the first opera he wrote for Covent Garden, with Emily D'Angelo in the title role.
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The Night Manager Series 2: London Premiere
BFI Southbank, South Bank
Tom Hiddleston returned as Jonathan Pine at the London premiere of the second series of The Night Manager, eight years after the first.
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Avatar: Fire and Ash UK Premiere
BFI IMAX, South Bank
Sigourney Weaver led the cast of Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third film in James Cameron’s Pandora saga, at its UK premiere at the BFI IMAX in Waterloo.
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Pete Tong Presents Ibiza Classics 2025
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Pete Tong marked ten years of Ibiza Classics with two December nights at The O2 arena, joined by Jules Buckley, The Essential Orchestra and guest singers.
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Drumsheds presents Paul Kalkbrenner
Drumsheds, Meridian Water
Paul Kalkbrenner performed his album THE ESSENCE live at Drumsheds, at the head of a three-room day bill with ZHU and Stephan Bodzin.
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The Emeralds and Ivy Ball 2025
Raffles London, Whitehall
Cancer Research UK’s flagship gala, hosted by Ronan and Storm Keating, went to the Emerald City at Raffles London in 2025 and raised £860,000 for its cancer nurses.
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Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny
The O2 arena, North Greenwich
Jimmy Carr, the host of The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, played his tour Laughs Funny at The O2 arena, part of his first arena tour of the UK and Ireland.
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London International Horse Show 2025
ExCeL London, Royal Docks
The London International Horse Show closed 2025 at ExCeL with Max Kühner winning its World Cup jumping leg, the first Austrian to do so since 1989.
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Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny
OVO Arena Wembley
Jimmy Carr brought Laughs Funny and a bill of special guests to OVO Arena Wembley, two nights after his date at The O2 arena.
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Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504
Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair
The Royal Academy set Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael side by side in Florence around 1504, with the Taddei Tondo, the Burlington House Cartoon and drawings for the Palazzo Vecchio murals.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
National Theatre, South Bank
Max Webster's staging of Oscar Wilde's comedy at the National Theatre's Lyttelton starred Sharon D Clarke as Lady Bracknell and Ncuti Gatwa as Algy.
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