Make a bid for this pair of Gold 501®. All proceeds are donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust
Playing with fire

Every year people from across the globe gather to marvel at each other's piercings and tattoos usually whilst wandering around in the blazing heat with little or no clothing.

Done in the name of self-reflection and the unconscious power of dreams, the resulting third degree burns do little to dissuade the participants that the cosmic energy and banging techno aren't doing them the world of good.

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Pre-Xmas savings: Red Dot and Evisu sample sale at 2 Floors Bar, 3 Kingley St, W1.

Who else? Kinki presents the Grand Christmas Debauch @ the Marquee Club. 7:30pm. One Leicester Sq, WC2. £10. 08700 600 100 or online.

DWS menswear sale. 10am-8pm. 45 Balfe St, N1. £2.

Turntable artistry at the Tate Modern: Christian Marclay's The Sounds of Christmas. Late night with DJ session at 8:30-10pm. Bankside, SE1. £8. 020 7887 8888 or online.

Now you too can shed the shackles of the real world as this Saturday the Burning Man relocates to the slightly less inspiring location of Leytonstone. Expect films, barbecues, massages, hot tubs, mind-boggling art, radical self-expression and, of course, that winning party trick: fire.

As with its American cousin, those coming to 'Decompression' are asked not to spectate, to bring no money and to abide by no rules which sounds remarkably like the average tube journey in rush hour but with less nipple rings.

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Our favourite cult band The Darkness plays at Wembley. 7pm. Empire Way, HA9. £24. 0870 154 4040 or here.

Cell Project Space previews inew group exhibition: Grate Britain. 6.30-9.30pm. 258 Cambridge Heath Road, E2.

Things will, no doubt, heat up when the obligatory wooden man is set on fire at the end of the night's proceedings. Clothing is advised though.

Decompression
8pm Saturday December 11 - 8pm Sunday Dec 12
491 Gallery, 491 Grove Green Rd, Leytonstone, E11
email: informant@euroburners.org
£10 donation - ticket line on 07747 60765

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Make a bid for this pair of Gold 501®. All proceeds are donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust

Chinese celluloid cool at the Firecracker Showcase 2004. this w/e. 99 Shaftesbury Av, W1. £8.50. 020 7734 2255.

See the award winners from the Portobello Film Festival at Westbourne Studios. 6pm 242 Acklam Rd, W10. Free.

Yr Mum and Ya Dad liven up the Kashpoint ChriSmash at Central Station. 9pm-4am. Wharfdale Road, N1. £10.

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