Rock and pop
Dizzee Rascal Saturday Nov 22, The Forum, Kentish Town, NW5. After his triumphant showing on Newsnight (Obama's victory "all down to hip-hop", apparently), Dizzee promotes current, quite old school LP Maths + English.
Clinic Sunday Nov 23, The Scala, King's Cross, N1. The "Planetarium Of The Soul" tour sees the masked Liverpudlians do their minimal indie thing with assistance from live animation. New single Tomorrow: good.
Jarvis Cocker Weds Nov 26, Shepherd's Bush Empire, W12. The former Pulp frontman comes out to play, celebrating 30 years of Rough Trade records. Indie anthems from the genre's only aesthete.
Jazz
The Bays And The Heritage Orchestra Royal Saturday Nov 22, Festival Hall, SE1. Audacious collaboration in which the ideas of groove improvisers The Bays are rewritten in real time and fed to the orchestra.
Hugh Masekela/Angelique Kidjo/Bassekou Kouyate/Ami Sacko Weds Nov 26, Royal Albert Hall, SW7. South African musical legend Masekela shares the VSO organization's 50th anniversary.
Classical
Mitsuko Uchida Mon Nov 24, Royal Festival Hall SE1. Two Mozart concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, preceded by Stravinsky's Apollon Musagste.
The Tales Of Hoffmann Tues Nov 25, Fri Nov 28, Royal Opera House, WC2. Another revival for John Schlesinger's production, this time with Rolando Villazon as Hoffmann.
Clubs
Dirty Bingo Vs Loud And Quiet Saturday Nov 22, The Macbeth, N1. The indie night collides with the indie mag for a night of, er, indie, plus electro and punk japes, with live sounds from Screaming Tea Party and more.
Dollop Saturday Nov 22, The Old Blue Last, EC2. The Nottingham electro champs make another sojourn darn sarf with sets by the Juan Maclean and Portuguese kuduro merchants Buraka Som Sistema.
Late Of The Pier Presents Thurs Nov 27, Heaven, WC2. More Notts noise as Late Of The Pier play live with support from Metronomy and their ace live show. Plus the indefatigable decks of Erol Alkan.
Matter. Friday Nov 28, O2 Arena, SE10. More big names at London's newest mega venue. New York's disco finest Hercules And Love Affair play live with help from LCD's Pat Mahoney and Disco Bloodbath.
Plan B's 6th Birthday Friday Nov 28, Plan B, SW9. The Brixton DJ bar destination celebrates the start of Year VI with a set from Maseo – one-third of legendary hip-hoppers De La Soul, with Basement Jaxx next weekend.
Exhibitions
Turner Prize Shortlist Tate Britain, SW1. Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Cathy Wilkes and Goshka Macuga battle it out for the top spot.
GSK Contemporary Royal Academy of Arts, W1. Artists on the verge of a nervous breakdown; performances and installations.
Lucian Freud Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, SW1. Early portraits from 1940-58 by the mighty master of British painting.
Demons, Yarns And Tales The Dairy, WC1. From Bin Laden to global warming, artists stitch current affairs into tapestries.
This Is War! Barbican Art Gallery, EC2. Two great war reportage photographers, Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, are reunited.
Comedy
Dylan Moran Mon Nov 24 Hammersmith Apollo, W6; Weds Nov 26 The Forum, NW5; Thurs Nov 27 Indigo at O2 Arena, SE10. More daft tales, delivered (as always) as if from the bottom of a bottle of delicious red wine.
Anna Crilly & Katy Wix Sun Nov 23 Roundhouse, NW1. The promising duo behind Penny Spubb's Party return with more off-the-wall sketches.
Simon Day: What A Fool Believes Mon Nov 24 Epsom Playhouse, KT18. Fast Show star Day continues his first out-of-character stand-up tour, offering a mix of jokes, poetry and honest storytelling.
Rich Hall Weds Nov 26 Epsom Playhouse, KT18; Thurs Nov 27 KOKO. Inspirational storyteller and panel-show stalwart Hall returns, also appearing as his country rock singer alter ego Otis Lee Crenshaw in Epsom.
