What a week.

While the grand wizard of le cool London has been busy rocking and rolling all round town in his other guise, the rest of the team has been frantically preparing for our first foray into the world of radio.

Yes kids, this Saturday we will be recording our first show at London Fields Radio on Wilton Way. You will be able to download the podcast here and can learn more about the whole thing on the fassybook page which has lots of pix and links for you to click!

Hosted by the ever amusing Russell Porter and the first lady of le cool London - we hope to bring a weird and wonderful selection of events, interviews, music and laughs.

We'll be giving away a pair of VIP tickets to the upcoming Plaid and Red Snapper gig at Koko on 20 November. Send us a poem using  the words 'plaid' and 'red snapper' and the best one will win (and be read on-air).

Tune in say Chloe, Tom, Josh and Mat.

With Thursday and Friday nights’ performances sold out, theatre collective, Teatro Vivo’s production of Adventures in Wonderland is promising to be a different kind of treat for the Halloween weekend. Staged in Lewisham’s grand and stunning Grade II listed manor house, the interactive “play” is a synergy of Lewis Carroll’s most infamous stories which are so intricately eerie and uncanny, it is nothing but apt to display them on Halloween. Aimed at young and old, no two outings of the play will be the same as a series of twisting dramatisations, installations and games require the final contributor to be you, the audience. Unique and perplexing, get your ticket before they all sell out. / Sarah-Jayne Boyd 

We’re oh so busy being über-cool and cutting edge (and ironic) that businesses’ second branches / venues rarely get our pant juices flowing. Daddy Donkey is a justified exception. After serving up what is quite easily some of London’s best Mexican fare to those in the Leather Lane vicinity, from the 31st of October they will be parking  their second burrito mobile cuisine machine on Brick Lane and offering the same delicious fare to all you local cockneys. To commemorate this event, at midday on Sunday there will be a crazy parade marching to the sounds of a Mariachi band and then for an hour, from 1pm, they’ll be handing out FREE burritos. Be warned: the queue is likely to snake around E1 like a conga at a cobra’s wedding. / Eamon Downes

Not since St. Francis of Assisi, Linda McCartney and Dr. Dolittle all got together and threw that raucous Dracula shebang with a load of drugged up goats, has anyone come together so slickly to combine Halloween-themed hedonism with some hands on animal-loving surgery action as the folk from Last Legs Veterinary Clinic. If you love piecing broken animals back together more than Rolf Harris himself, but not so much that you'd sacrifice your weekend of debauched drinking to do so, then this three-day event will cater for all your cocktail and dance floor needs with live veterinary displays and appetising drinks such as Dog Conjunctivitis Medicine. Make sure you wear clobber that you don’t mind getting blood on. / Eamon Downes

Manchester is having a revival. Events, gigs and club nights have declared the city, the northern rival to London... again. Take The Warehouse Project. With their cutting-edge line-ups and über cool venues, we at le cool have been gutted that we haven’t been able to cover them due to geographical restrictions. Until now. Finally TWP sojourn to London for a Halloween adventure that includes some of the most frontier facing names in electronic music, including Delphic, Filthy Dukes and Kyrsko. AND LISTEN: WE HAVE G-LIST +1. Just email me five of your friends’ names to add to our Facebook to be in with a chance. BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. Winner emailed Friday morning. / Sarah-Jayne Boyd

Since the release of their debut Acolyte in January 2010, Mancunian band Delphic have been making sonic waves the world over. From Ewan Pearson’s production work on single Acolyte to the Samsung and E4 ads for a band that’s existed for no more than 3 years, they’ve done pretty damn well. Hell even Coldplay’s Chris Martin tried to get them signed to his mate's Island Records label. But no dice! Instead they created their own via Polydor Records. To finish off a very successful year the dance pop quartet are back to play their last London show for the year. For a +1 email me the city Delphic is from! / Jasmine Fool

Tom Ze's biggest fan comes in the form of Talking Heads legend, David Byrne. Not bad eh? In fact, Byrne brought the influential Brazilian Tropicália composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, once synonymous with the likes of Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, back to the forefront of musical appreciation when he discovered Ze’s unreleased Estudando o Samba album made back in the 1970's. Byrne then signed him to his Luaka Bop label. In honour of the inspirational music figure's lengthy and colourful career, a new Luaka Bop box-set has its launch tonight. The evening will include a screening of the documentary Tom Ze: Liberated Astronaut and will feature guest DJ John Armstrong of Guanabara/Futuro Flamenco fame and host of BBC Radio 2 show Viva Latino. Sweet samba and surrealism. / Sofi Goddard

Despite the fact that it’s only half way through autumn, we can’t remember the last time that we could feel our toes. We can’t afford to buy a nice warm coat and the radiator knob fell off during July’s heat wave. What is the answer? Get out the ski-wear and head to Battersea Power Station for the Relentless Freeze Festival where everyone will be embracing the chill on skis and snowboards. If sport is so not your thing, have no fear. There’s plenty of après-ski to be enjoyed (hopefully involving mulled wine), or you can dance until you sweat at the main stages to the likes of Mark Ronson, The Business International, Jaguar Skills and Dananananakroyd. If you’re still not sold, we have three final words for you: Jägermeister Ice Truck. / Ashleigh

Naughty, naughty, verrreeeeeee naughtyyyyyyyyyyy. Yes it is. Although to be honest I'm not entirely sure what it is. But you never really do with things that the mysterious artist Bert from Bert Industries does. From what I can work out, this is a month long interactive art show in the Truman Brewery car park showing her work, as well as long-term collaborator and photographer Nathan Gallagher, and is all about a bit of slap and tickle. Or rather, spank and tickle. Inspired by an anecdote about her own hand, she's created The Bottom Blusher - a hand shaped spanker, along with a handbag sized one called the Little Slapper.So go along if you fancy a quick one off the wrist and to enjoy a bit of art. / Josh Jones

Think about it, over the years the traditional instruments have been electrified, amplified and modified; but the performance techniques of strumming, blowing and hitting and remain the same. Now think about a note. Any note. Imagine, if through technological wizardry that note could be sublimated for all to hear. Too futuristic? Maybe, but on Friday (the not too distant future) Finn Peters, his lab-coat-clad musicians and computer scientists will play and think their way through an evening of tunes described as a mix of Kraftwerk and the illustrious Sun Ra Arkestra. Does this render trained musicians of old with their antiquated instruments of timber and steel obsolete? Well, we’ll see, but a teacher past once told me; “it’s not the instrument that enchants the soul, but the musician behind it”. Maybe the basics never change. / Hugo M

If I wasn’t already committed to going to another event, I’d be heading to the V&A like a shot tonight. As part of their regular ‘Lates’ series, they are putting on a night to celebrate the Shadow Catchers. The theme is to examine and unpick the science behind camera-less photographs. There are going to be lots of installations, lectures, performance and drinks involved. To list the amount of things you can do would far exceed the character limit imposed on these pieces, but you really should click on the link and take a look. The ones that catch my eye are the ‘Greenhouse of Human Shadows’, and Phillip Ball’s lecture on the concepts of camera-less photography. It certainly sounds fun, and not a mention of Halloween anywhere. / Jake Jones

Damn those Americans, infecting us with their “traditions". Now you can’t answer the door on Halloween for fear of an in-home mugging from local yoofs supposedly “trick or treating” but in reality casing your house for stuff to nick, meanwhile all you get down the supermarket are witches hats and impossibly hard pumpkins. Still, salvation is at hand, thanks to those lovely people from Winterwell and their Halloween extravaganza Victorian Villains. It is set in a warehouse transformed into Victorian London, except without the coal polluted air, raw open sewage and rife gonorrhoea. In case you failed history, the dress code is nineteenth century, so top hats and bodices, canes and stockings. Entertainment is a mix of cabaret, live performances and DJ's. So Sherlock ‘til you drop. / Simon Owen

Some years you brave the scrums of costume shops to run about town as Frankenstein. Other years you maybe don’t make that much effort and go for Simon Pegg a la Shaun of the Dead with red paint spattered on the work shirt, wielding the shovel and pint combo. Other years you just want to stay in and watch some good scary movies, skipping the horrific hangover and having to explain to Dad why his spade is missing. This exact inclination can be suped up with surround sound, 3D effects and back-to-back horror flicks at the BFI Imax this Saturday. The Hole, Piranha 3D, Resident Evil, Afterlife 3D, My Bloody Valentine and The Final Destination 3D will be shown for your night's terrifying viewing pleasures. Free prizes will be given out during the intervals along with tea and coffee. Sounds just lovely doesn’t it? / Sofi Goddard

Turn to the vestiges of bohemian culture in Primrose Hill for an alternative Halloween as it sets itself up as the scene for a bewitching music event. Join The Wheel for a ‘psychedelic Halloween experience’ at the headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. Highlights of the nine-hour celebration include live music from the Smoke Fairies, hip folkster Connan Mockasin and medieval rockers Circulus. There are spooky side-shows as well as bingo, crafty fun, apple bobbing, fortune telling and a hog roast. Besides the live music, Heavenly Jukebox, Django Django, Ross Allen and Betty and the Werewolves are on DJ duties. Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble – don’t miss the sunset masked procession down from the hill led by artist Matthew Cowan. / Maeve Hosea

Don’t be bored of Halloween people. Yes, it might originate in pagan or celtic culture, and yes, it might have been hi-jacked by nasty people in black suits with dollar signs behind their glasses, but occasionally it does allow us to nip down to the park, put on a silly costume and watch a film about a man with scissors for fingers. That’s right, our friends at the Lexi Cinema are putting on a pop-up screen for us all to enjoy. Not only will you get to watch this 1990 Depp classic, but you’ll be greeted at the bar by a gaggle of ghouls, given a chance to nip into a spooky poetry corner and the option of mixing it with bearded ladies, clowns and oddballs. Jake Jones

Dum ch dumbudum chch dum ch dubudum ch. That’s the best my beatboxing gets. Even written down it’s pretty crap. Shlomo, artist-in-residence at the Southbank Centre on the other hand is an amazing beatboxer (one of the world's best in fact), producing rhythms and making noises with his mouth you wouldn’t imagine were humanly possible. To celebrate his 4th anniversary at the Southbank Centre, he’s collaborating with fellow beatboxer Bellatrix, some of the UK’s most innovative spoken word artists, Charlie Dark , Polar Bear and Dizraeli & The Small Gods to present Music through Unconventional Means . Expect percussive plosives, fractious fricatives, glottal glory and lots of poetry made to be said, not read. / Johanna Derry

Many clubbers have lost their digital cameras to the night. Either they are never unclothed from their cases, furtively nicked from piled-high possessions or die an untimely death on a concrete dance floor. This is where resident club night photographers come in handy, and Vicki Parker is one such adept shutterbug. Tailing the folk of the “Shake It” club nights held in warehouses around East London, her collection of photographs will be shown at the City Arts and Music Project as part of the East London Photomonth from 28^th October to 9^th November. Ms Parker’s work stands out compared to most because in place of the sterilizing over-use of flash which drains the mood of unchecked revelry, she slips in amongst the throngs and with a slower shutter speed captures the blurred and intimate memories of clubbers losing themselves in the music. / Sofi Goddard

Oh, bless the sociopathic looks of Casey Affleck. It’s hard to believe he is the brother of Ben who has the square jaw and cruel air of the high school jock (perhaps why he was so good in Dazed and Confused). Yes, Casey is not as handsome but that just makes him more interesting. With the dead eyed charisma of Robert Mitchum and the fidgety demeanour of a career criminal, Casey was surely not born but created in a poorly lit basement specifically to star in slices of film noir like The Killer Inside Me. Playing at the Riverside Studios, the adaptation of the Jim Thompson novel stars Affleck as the homicidal sheriff of a small American backwater who gets his kicks murdering the citizens he has sworn to protect.  The Michael Winterbottom directed film will screen alongside Kiss Me Deadly as part of a double helping of film noir. / Justin Biggar

After a gap of twelve years, the award-winning choreographer Lea Anderson has created a new show, Edits, for her all-male dance company, The Featherstonehaughs. Staged in the Village Underground in Shoreditch, this contemporary piece is a translation of the conventions of film into live action. In other words, Lea Anderson has transformed scenes from classic films into a collection of dance sequences. All six of the dancers are dressed as women to embody different female characters from vintage movies, and all their costumes have been crafted by the three-time Oscar winner Sandy Powell. Set to be visually revolutionary, Edits will show you something you’ve never seen or experienced before. / Shanna Schreuder

It’s not often I see something worthy of my enthusiasm. Perhaps it’s because over excitement makes me feel sleepy afterward or maybe it’s because I do other things better, like, stare at people strangely. But, I’ve seen something that has made me as enthusiastic as a grad student in their first job. Never straying more than twenty miles from the Yangtze, Nadav Kander travelled along the whole river, taking the most exquisite photographs from mouth to source over a period of three years. I guess what I like most about his photographs is how he made his subjects, both people and objects seem so quiet, still and unaffected despite the scale of their surroundings. I loved it. Ok, now I need a nap. / Vanessa Morrish

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