West End Area Guide

Following her critically-acclaimed sell-out debut Hole (‘AN IMPRESSIVE DEBUT FROM A COMPELLING PERFORMER’ ★★★★ Chortle), musical comedian HOLLY SPILLAR is returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe armed with a loop pedal and some ever growing dissonant rage.  Tall Child is a surreal but observational hour about the impossibilities of making professional art in an ‘age of insecurity’. In a cost of living crisis and a country defined by class, Holly Spillar is searching her pockets for low cost joy - from Caravan holiday parks to 2p machines. She's Bo Burnham if he didn't have the means, she's Kate Bush…if Kate Bush smelt of damp.

To celebrate the release of ‘The Insider's Guide to Inside No. 9’, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith will be taking to the stage for an informative and hilarious guide to the creation of their Bafta award-winning comedy anthology.

Enjoy a spectacular candlelight piano recital including Beethoven's masterpiece The Moonlight Sonata and other outstanding classical and romantic works.

Part of The London Intl Ska Festival 2025 JAH WOBBLE - METAL BOX IN DUB live at 100 Club, London W1 + DJ Wrongtom presenting Spiky Dread vol. 1 & 2 Saturday 19th April 2025. Doors 7.30pm. Tickets £35 advance +booking fee Free entry for London Intl Ska Festival 2025 wristband holders We are honoured to announce that, as part of The London Intl Ska Festival 2025, Public Image Limited's legendary bass player and music visionary Jah Wobble will be presenting PiL's hugely influential 1979 album - Metal Box in Dub, at London's iconic 100 Club on Saturday 19th April 2025. Jah Wobble is well known as one of the founding members and ultimately the back bone of Public Image Limited during the early years. Whilst working with John Lyndon, Keith Levene and Jim Walker, Jah's notoriously powerful low end bass, massively inspired by reggae and dub, created PiL's debut album Public Image: First Issue, which included the band's first Top 10 single as well as their prestigious second album Metal Box, which included the post-punk classic Death Disco. This 100 Club show see's Wobble revisit Metal Box, completely reinventing the ground breaking album as heavy yet sophisticated dub interpretations and mind-expanding productions. Since departing with PiL, Jah Wobble is now a prevalent solo artist with his band, Invaders of the Heart and was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize for his debut album, Rising Above Bedlam. He has worked with the likes of Primal Scream, Dolores ORiordan, Sinead OConnor, Chaka Demus & Pliers, Bill Laswell and most recently Horace Andy. His heavy, hypnotic bass lines defined the post punk era and have influenced many musicians over the last 47 years! Dont miss this iconic artist, performing an iconic album at this iconic venue! DJ for the evening is the acclaimed producer Wrongtom, who will be presenting Volume 1 and the soon to be released Volume 2 of his Spiky Dread compilation series, which shines a light on rare, yet brilliant late 70's/early 80's world of post punk dub and punky reggae. The London Intl Ska Festival, founded in 1988, returns to the capital for it's 37th anniversary year next Easter (17-20 April) to celebrate all things ska, and it's glorious evolution from rhythm and blues through to rocksteady, reggae, dub, 2 Tone and beyond. It's series of events are housed in iconic London venues including; 100 Club, the Dixie Queen paddle steamer, and Camden's Electric Ballroom, Assembly and Dublin Castle. LISF2025 wristbands ticket (which get you into all 4 days of the festival) are available from www.theskafestival.com

Offer Waterman is pleased to announce summer, autumn, winter & spring, a solo exhibition of twenty new paintings by artist Diarmuid Kelley. A previous finalist for the BP Portrait Award and acclaimed for his portraits including HRH the Duchess of Cornwall, this will be Kelley’s tenth exhibition with the gallery and follows his sell-out show in New York at the end of 2019. Best known for his distinctive, almost cinematic approach to the staging and composition of his portraits and still life scenes, Kelley’s work evokes the effect of light falling on his subjects. His most recent paintings reveal his increasing fascination with describing the surface of things. Kelley paints only from life, inviting his subjects to sit regularly over a period of months in a specially created ‘light chamber’ inspired by the 18th century painter Joseph Wright of Derby. The construction allows Kelley to control the effect of natural light on a subject and experiment with chiaroscuro. In a series of highly ambitious, large-scale portraits of Kelley’s regular sitters Bea and Max, the figure becomes part of a more complex tableau, in which the pattern of the Persian rug, or texture of a battered velvet chair, are as vividly described as the model’s luminous skin and hair. Inspired by the paintings of Ingres, Kelley revels in the depiction of fabrics - velvet, linen, damask, ermine – the precise character of each material instantly recognisable and visually remarkable.

A new murder mystery has landed! Meet our trio of fresh new suspects: Sir Thomas Banks, Lady Amelia Worthington and Dr Edward Fairfax. Do you have what it takes to solve a crime? Phileas J. Fogg invites you to a thrilling Victorian Murder Mystery, taking place at his Mayfair Residence. Amongst a magnificent backdrop of artefacts and antiquities from around the world, get ready to test your detective skills and help Inspector Fix solve the crime in this truly immersive experience.Get your tickets now for Mr Fogg's Murder Mystery in London!