SUNDAY 31ST OCTOBER
**DELIA SPARROW RECOMMENDS** TRAILER TRASH TRACYS, ONO PALINDROME, WILSON FISK - Oxjam @ The Lexington, 20.00
'Trailer Trash Tracys: A mix of girl-group pop and the reverb and drones of something more nasty - The Shangri La's meet the Stooges or Ronettes meet Ramones?'
ALICE COOPER @ Roundhouse, Camden, 19.30
ALIEN SEX FIEND, MECHANICAL CABARET plus DJs - Halloween Club Noir party @ Electric Ballroom, Camden, 19.30, £15
AVENGED SEVENFOLD & STONE SOUR @ Hammers mith Apollo, 18.00
BLANK DOGS, WETDOG, DIGNAN PORCH - Upset The Rhythm's Halloween Party @ The Luminaire, Kilburn, 20.00, £7
Lo-fi adventure from Blank Dogs and some post-punk agression from WetDog
COVERGIRL plus more @ The Others, Stoke Newington, 20.00
THE CRAYONETTES @ The Summerly Room, V&A Museum of Childhood 14.30-17.45, FREE
DEPARTMENT plus more - Gorefest @ The George Tavern, 20.00, FREE in costume or £3 without
THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER, ROBOTS IN DISGUISE @ Heaven, 19.00
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster kick off their UK "Enter The Savage BooHoo" Tour with their own Halloween Ball at Heaven, curated by the band themselves, and in support of new single "So Long, Goodnight"
FRANCIS DUNNERY'S BRAND NEW IT BITES @ Bush Hall, 19.30, £20adv
HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN, THE CORRESPONDENTS plus more @ The Dixie Queen Paddle Steamer, embarking Tower Pier, from 16.00 and returning to disembark St Katharine Docks at 22.00
HOUSE OF STRANGE, WE ARE GOOSE plus performances and more - HungaMunga's Halloween House of Horrors @ Bethnal Green Working Mens Club, 20.00, £6
KOPPERHED, XENOCHORD, FERAL, ACID TEMPLE @ The Gaff, Holloway Rd, 20.00, £6
NICHOLAS STEVENSON, SPECTRES, SUN DRUMS @ Old Blue Last, 20.00, FREE
MALEFICENT, TRES CAVALERS plus DJs @ Barfly Camden, 19.30, £6adv
MCALMONT, THE CESARIANS, STRANGEFRUIT, EILEEN DALY & THE COURTESANS - Flag & Monsta's Halloween Ball @ Dingwalls, Camden, 19.30, £10adv
'The Cesarians capture the urban zeitgeist via the junk shop instruments of old Europe. In their hands, a clarinet, tenor horn, trombone, piano, and drums beaten in waltz time, make raw and raucous rock and roll.' (ICA)
MOLOTOV JUKEBOX, CROWNS plus DJs - Closing Halloween weekend @ The Flowerpot, Camden, 20.00, FREE
MURDER MILE, PUSSYCAT AND THE DIRTY JOHNSONS, THE HYENAS, TALL STORIES, KFB, THE BREAD STEALERS, KITTYJUNKBROTHER, THE CONNECTORS plus more - Rock n Roll Cabaret @ Tommy Flynn's Camden, from 12.30, FREE before 14.00, £3before 19.00, £5after
MY PASSION @ Underworld Camden, 19.30, £8.50
NICHOLAS STEVENSON, SPECTRES, SUN DRUMS @ Old Blue Last, 20.00, FREE
'Celebrating the release of debut album ‘Phantom Sweetheart’, Nicholas blends the sounds of Elliot Smith and Bright Eyes.' (Idle Hands Club)
PETE LAWRIE, STEALING SHEEP, HANNAH AND THE HEARTBREAK, SUSIE CLARK @ The Macbeth, Hoxton, 19.30, £5
'Signed to Island Records, with his debut album half produced by Rollo Armstrong (Faithless & Dido) and the other half by Andy Green (Keane & Scouting for Girls) Pete's voice is bigger than all of them put together. He's like Ray Lamontagne's voice meeting Tom Waits' voice in a giant cave and have a BIG VOICE competition...set to beautiful Blues, Folk, Gospel music.'
PULL IN EMERGENCY plus guests @ The Borderline, 19.00
SLINFOLD, JOLEON DAVAENUE, SASHI & THE WILD BEANS, PAUL CHILD @ Hoxton Sq Bar & Kitchen, 20.00, £5door
SMOKE FAIRIES, CONNAN MOCKASIN, CIRCULUS plus more @ Cecil Sharp House, 19.30, £15.50adv - full info here
SPIRITWO, REX NEMO AND THE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENDERS, LONESOME COWBOYS FROM HELL - NO:ID Total Transparency @ NO:ID Gallery Vaults aka Ice Father Nation 33-35 Commercial Rd, 19.30
THE VAMP JAMMAGE, DIRTY NELLY, CORSAIR, MATT ADEY, DEAD LOVERS @ The Flowerpot, Camden, 20.00, FREE - cancelled
THE VINYL STITCHES, COWBELL, BETH AND THE BLACK CAT BONE @ Strongroom Bar, Curtain Rd, Shoreditch, 19.30, £6.66adv