Music events to be on your radar in London this weekend: 29 October - 1 November 2026
It's Halloween this weekend and London's clubs have stretched the celebration across four days. There are warehouse parties in the Royal Docks, all-night sets in Canning Town, a singeli and batida night in Peckham and a Sunday daytime session that carries the weekend through to the evening. Here is what we would book.
Parable & Louder Halloween, E1
#FLODown: Colyn headlines the Friday at E1 in Wapping, joined by Henri Bergmann, Everything Is Art and a first back to back from Innerstice and Cast Lov. Melodic house and techno in the main warehouse space.
Date: Friday 30 October 2026. Location: E1, 110 Pennington Street, Wapping, London E1W 2BB. Price: from £29.30. Book now
The Cause: Halloween Festival
#FLODown: The largest of the Saturday parties, starting in the afternoon and going through to morning across multiple rooms. Modeselektor headline, with Adiel, Deetron back to back with Zenker Brothers, El-B, a live set from Frank Haag and Gabber Eleganza presenting The Hakke Show.
Date: Saturday 31 October 2026. Location: The Cause, 60 Dock Road, London E16 1YZ. Price: from £36.60. Book now.
fabric Halloween with Rødhåd and FJAAK
#FLODown: Eight hours across three rooms in Farringdon. Rødhåd, FJAAK and Desiree' take Room 1, Semi Delicious hosts Room 2 with Demi Riquisimo, Kamma & Masalo and B.Love, and Next Door Records takes Room 3.
Date: Saturday 31 October 2026. Location: fabric, 77a Charterhouse Street, Clerkenwell, London EC1M 6HJ. Price: from £11. Book now.
Origins: Roza Terenzi & D. Tiffany, FOLD
#FLODown: Origins returns to FOLD on Halloween night with Roza Terenzi and D. Tiffany playing the main room all night for the fourth year, while Mama Snake and THC take the Steam Room.
Date: Saturday 31 October 2026. Location: FOLD, Gillian House, Stephenson Street, London E16 4SA. Price: from £30. Book now.
Nikki Nair, I. JORDAN, Addison Groove and Jenny Sparks, Venue MOT
#FLODown: Put on by Columbo Music, MOT and OUTRO, four artists take over both rooms at MOT in New Cross, each playing all night long, across UK bass, techno, electro, jungle and juke. Addison Groove is the Bristol producer behind Footcrab, the 2010 track that helped bring Chicago footwork into UK bass music, and he has worked with DJ Rashad and with Nikki Nair, a US producer also on the bill. I. JORDAN plays house and techno, and Jenny Sparks plays bounce and chiptune.
Date: Saturday 31 October 2026. Location: M.O.T, Orion Business Centre, Surrey Canal Road, London SE14 5RT. Price: £15 to £30. Book now
LOCUS x Modern Funktion Halloween, The Cause
#FLODown: The Sunday option, and a daytime one, opening at midday. Twenty eight DJs across the whole venue including Archie Hamilton, Mella Dee, Rich NXT, Dr Dubplate and Luuk van Dijk, playing house and tech house.
Date: Sunday 1 November 2026. Location: The Cause, 60 Dock Road, London E16 1YZ. Price: from £68.20. Book now.
dnbtherapy: Mischief Night, TAC
#FLODown: The launch night for TAC in Tottenham Hale, the new club in the former Club360 and Archives space, with a new Funktion One system. The bill celebrates London jungle and drum and bass heritage, with Congo Natty, Ray Keith, Bailey, Marly Marl, Chopstick Dubplate and MCs including Navigator, Shabba D and MC GQ.
Date: Friday 30 October 2026. Location: TAC (Tottenham Arts Collective), Unit 10 High Cross Centre, Tottenham Hale, London N15 4QN. Price: from £20. Book now.
NEVERMIND Halloween, Phonox
#FLODown: p-rallel headlines both nights of NEVERMIND's Halloween takeover at Phonox in Brixton. Saturday brings Prozak, Casnova and Amy Os, with Friday adding Melé and Djammin. Phonox holds about 400, so it is one of the more intimate rooms of the weekend.
Date: Saturday 31 October 2026. Location: Phonox, 418 Brixton Road, London SW9 7AY. Price: from £20. Book now.
OINIMOD Halloween: Manga Yokai, Loft Studios
#FLODown: A west London warehouse party with a Japanese folklore theme, headlined by Subb-an. OINIMOD has a reputation for sound and room design over big names, which makes it one of the better Friday options away from the main circuit.
Date: Friday 30 October 2026. Location: Loft Studios, 77-81 Scrubs Lane, London NW10 6QU. Price: from £30.Book now.
In 2025, Hotel Arts Barcelona was reimagined by design and architecture powerhouses Meyer Davis and GCA Architects. Constructed in 1992, the year Barcelona held the Olympic Games, the 44-storey building is a landmark of the city’s skyline. Its distinctive steel exoskeleton remains untouched, but the hotel’s interiors have been entirely upgraded.
A solo exhibition by Italian artist Nicoletta Gatti, A Trace to Start, will open at Robertaebasta London on 5 November. The exhibition will focus on Gatti’s exploration of line, gesture and material through 15 important paintings and textile works. This will be the most extensive presentation of the artist in London to date and will run until 15 December…
An exhibition of recent paintings by the Jamaican-born British artist Anthony Daley is set to open at Varvara Roza Galleries on Duke Street in St James's from 10 to 28 November 2026. Curated by Isabel de Vasconcellos, Resonance brings together paintings made between 2023 and 2025..
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London has one of the largest collections of free museums and galleries in the world, and a lot of its most interesting shows cost nothing to see. Each month we pick two free exhibitions worth making time for. Here are our highlights for October.
This week in London (19 - 25 October 2026), Hokusai opens at Dulwich Picture Gallery and Freddie Mercury's wardrobe goes on free display at the V&A. Spiritland opens in the Barbican and Bubala opens in Covent Garden. Plus Critical Sound at Fabric, Carl Stone at Café OTO, two UK premieres at Sadler's Wells, and the clocks go back on Sunday.
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Morus Art Group, a London cultural initiative founded by Alya Entts, makes its first public appearance in the city on 15 October with Out of the Blue, an exhibition that follows an artistic career through its first phases, from early promise to a first award, guidance from others and the point at which an artist begins working independently…
Celebrating its 21st edition in 2026, Darbar Festival is the leading festival of Indian classical music in the UK. The five-day celebration of Hindustani and Carnatic music is themed The Shock of the New, and will feature many artists never heard before in the UK…
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The Hayward Gallery has announced the largest UK solo exhibition to date by Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei, which is to open in April 2027. The survey will chart her practice from the early 2000s to the present…
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Frieze London and Frieze Masters run from 14 to 18 October 2026 in The Regent's Park, marking the 24th edition of the contemporary fair and the 14th of its historical counterpart. Between them they bring 318 galleries to north London for five days, and with them the annual reordering of the city's cultural calendar that is Frieze Week…
Olympia has announced a 12-month partnership with the Design Museum, bringing a programme of free cultural activations to the West London destination across 2026 and 2027. Announced on 24 September, the collaboration draws on the museum's exhibitions and creative programme, positioning the 140-year-old site as one of the capital's newest cultural hubs…
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Artist Tschabalala Self unveiled her bronze sculpture Lady in Blue in Trafalgar Square, becoming the 16th commission for the Fourth Plinth since the programme began in 1998. The nine foot tall figure depicts an everyday young woman rendered in vivid blue…
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