King’s Place Festival
Building on the huge success of last autumn's opening festival, this unique event features a staggering 100 concerts in three days - with a genre-defying selection that brings together classical, contemporary, blues, avant-garde, world, folk, jazz and spoken word. Performers include the Classical Opera Company, London Sinfonietta, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and an appearance from the ensemble Endymion performing a new work by Philip Venables. There’ll be talks on Parisian Jazz in the twenties as well as Spitz’s variously raunchy, explosive and house-wrecking explorations of blues.

Cover to Cover
Cover tracks can be one of two things – genius versions that make you forget there ever was an original (Alien Ant Farm’s ‘Smooth Criminal’ proved Annie was just fine) and depressingly crushing renditions (nobody believed Britney actually loved Rock’n’Roll). So in that vein, Sean Rowley of Guilty Pleasures and Christian Laing of Buttoned Down Disco have joined forced for tonight’s launch of cover to cover, playing nothing but cover versions spread across countless musical genres. There’ll also be a DJ set by Beyond The Wizards, and live music from The Bikini Beach Ban – who’s guessing Itsy Bitsy, Teeny Weeny Yellow Polkadot will be on the menu?

Offset Festival
Offset Festival is a unique event that joins the dots between exciting new bands and the artists who influenced them, set in a beautiful forest just 30 minutes from London boasting rare wildlife, a zoo, lakes and amazing views. All this on the Central Line you cry? Why yes dear reader, all this and more. The event comprises 8 stages with over 200 artists, featuring The Slits, The Futureheads, Bombay Bicycle Club and The Horrors. In addition Nuke Them All will be hosting a dance tent, Clash magazine are curating a stage, and there'll be comedy, a Rare Breeds Farm, World Food Cafes, and a good old fashioned funfair.

Pestival
The creators of this bizarre celebration of all things creepy crawly clearly didn’t take the ‘creepy’ into account, as Pestival is a veritable homage to our insect friends. Events and installations include an enormous termite pavilion, a trailer masquerading as a kind of refugee site for displaced creatures from the Olympic building site, a Beecab containing a working hive, human-sized chrysalises, painting maggots, insect detectives (yes, really), and an Urban Insect Garden which’ll show you how to encourage the little blighters back into your city life without wielding the killer tea-towel and squealing “Is it on me? I feel like it’s ON me.” We’re already hopelessly brushing imaginary creepers off our bodies.

The National Youth Ballet Gala Evening
Like a scrumptious taster of dance tid bits, this evening’s bill is topped by a breathtaking rendition of the classic fairy tale Cinderella by choreographer Wayne Sleep and composer Paul Reade. Expect fabulous costumes, magical sets, mice and pumpkins which come alive under the ballet slippers of some of the country’s finest young dancers. Other performances on the programme include Colour Crazy, Fuego del Alma and Jiggery Pokery.

Secret Cinema Goes Outdoors
Open air cinema traditionally screams of drive-throughs and make-out scenes the likes of which would make the kids in Grease blush into their popcorn. Which is why we’re so excited for Secret Cinema’s first ever outdoor location. You won’t know what the film is until the credits begin to roll, and the location isn’t revealed until the day before, but damnit there will be smooching under the stars. Let’s hope it’s more of a rom-com night than a rendition of The Exorcist.