The Girls at Cargo tonight at 7pm
A different façade on Hoxton Square

While patrons prep to network - and their protégés to nervously nibble canapés - at this weekend's corporate sponsored Frieze Art Festival in Regents Park, the underground art scene is hosting its own celebration in the area that spawned the Brit Art phenomenon.

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Noir funk Infadels, The Girls and hot Danish post-rockers Diefenbach at Cargo. 8pm-1am. 83 Rivington St, EC2. £7. 08700 600 100 or online.

Amazing double: Spektrum and !!! at Astoria. 7pm. 157 Charing X Rd, WC2. £12.50. 0870 154 4040 or here.

Two locations in Hoxton will play host to the exhibitions of six emerging artists, from the galleries of Kenny Schachter (Rove Projects - recently relocated from NYC) and agnès b (galerie du jour).

Highlights include Ryan McGinley's striking portraits of street life in New York's Lower East Side and Richard Woods' 'larger than life' colourful façade (Rove 1/galerie du jour), as well as Misaki Kawai's fashions dolls and Brendan Cass' large-scale landscape canvases (Rove 2).

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Experimental audio club for cutting edge electronica and sonic art Sprawl returns to Charterhouse. 7-11:30pm. 38 Charterhouse St, EC1. £4

Koko launches the Club NME showcase night. 10pm-3am. 1a Camden High St NW1. £6

Cultivating raw talent and extracting beauty from the strange and downright bizarre is the sworn mission of the Rove. So forget Frieze and head East for a peak into the future of cutting edge art in the capital.

Hoxton Square Art Fair October 13-17
Rove 1/galerie du jour, 33-34 Hoxton Square, N1
Rove 2 : 19-23 Kingsland Road, E2
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 11am-5pm - 07979 408 914

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The Girls at Cargo tonight at 7pm

Essential docs at Barbican's DocHistory festival. 6:45pm & 8pm. Silk St, EC2. £5.50. 020 7638 8891 or online.

See Simon Periton's collages at Sadie Coles HQ. 10am-6pm. 35 Heddon St W1. Free

Go shopping around Sloane Square tonight and support Breast Cancer Haven: Pink Ticket. 6-8:30pm. £20.
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