By Charlotte Cox
In the week that the Night Tube came into being, we suggest you go out and stay out. Here's where
MUSIC: Canary Wharf Jazz Festival
You wouldn't think that much happens at Canary Wharf that's a) cool and cultural, or b) doesn't involve the exchange of vast sums of money. Well, here it is, people! Two days full of envelope-pushing live jazz, all completely FREE. On Saturday you can catch experimental sounds from Eliane Correa & En el Aire Project and electronic fusion from Red Snapper, while Sunday sees Latin jazz/funk outfit J-Sonics and big-banders Beats & Pieces take the stage. Far cooler than watching the FTSE, you'll agree.
20-21 Aug; free
Canada Square Park, E14 5AH
FUN: Sky High Croquet
Nope, we're not talking about making knitted garments at altitude (for that, please move along to sky high crochet), or eating fried potato atop a summit (sky high croquette for that one). We are, of course, talking Sky High CROQUET – aka your chance to bash balls through hoops in an 800ft-high pop-up garden, at The View from The Shard. Sure, there's the amazing views right across the city. But here you'll also get top-of-the-range Jacques of London mallets and Pimm's Cups made with fruit and cider to drink on your way around. Two very elegant ways in which to get hammered, then…
Until 21 August; £29.50
The View from The Shard, Railway Approach, London SE1 9SG
ART: David Bowie – Unseen Photographs
We're not over it yet. You're not over it yet. And so the chance to take a look at intimate and previously unseen images from the very start of Bowie's career, taken by photographer Gerald Fearnley in 1967, archived for almost 50 years, and now on show for the first time at Snap Galleries, is sure to be an emotional – and unmissable – experience. Sob.
Until 24 Sept; free
Snap Galleries, 12 Piccadilly Arcade, SW1Y 6NH
POP-UP: Library x Urban Food Fest present Our Secret Little Garden
It's the classic weekend dilemma: should you go to a street-food market, head to a swanky members' club, or just kick back with a cult movie? Well, here's your chance to do all three, at once. Efficient. Because from this weekend and into September, St Martin's Lane members' club Library is transforming its courtyard into a summer garden, where you'll find street-food trucks (think Chick & Fish Shop, High Steaks or Bad Brownie, pictured), DJs (Andrew Ibi & Reference, Steve Runningman) and film screenings (Romeo + Juliet, Grease, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Godfather). Three nights out for the price of one? Sold.
Weekends from 20 Aug-11 Sept; from £20 for non-members
112 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4BD
FOOD: Pergola on the Roof
So we've had street food in warehouses, street food in parks and street food on pop-up beaches. You might struggle to remember the last time you ate street food in a street. But let's not get pedantic, folks, because we're going one weirder, and eating street food on the top of the former BBC Television Centre's multi-storey. Under a HUGE PERGOLA. Yup, where once you'd just have found boring ol' cars owned by Blue Peter presenters, you can now find charcuterie from Salt Yard, rotisserie from Le Coq, wild food from Rabbit and gourmet burgers from Patty & Bun – all under lush hanging foliage. Streets are overrated, anyway.
Until 28 Aug
Television Centre - Multi-storey Car Park, Wood Lane, W12 7RJ
DRINK: Vermouth on the Roof
If there's one thing that guarantees our attendance at an event, it's a rhyming name. If there's another, it's cocktails. So when it comes to Vermouth on the Roof – the terrace garden pop-up at at the Ham Yard Hotel, where £15 buys a two-hour cocktail tasting session and Italian antipasti bites? Well, we're in like Flynn.
Until 4 Sept; £15
Ham Yard Hotel, 1 Ham Yard, W1D 7DT
NIGHTLIFE: XOYO's Fourth Birthday
Shoreditch clubbing institution XOYO is turning four this weekend, and their logic goes: why have one birthday party when you can have five? We're not arguing. Especially when those parties feature electro mash-up wizards 2ManyDJs, post-dubstep innovators Mount Kimbie and enigmatic dance legend DJ Harvey – all guaranteed to get you throwing shapes into the wee small hours. We think we'll take the same approach to our birthdays from now on – Mr Harvey, you can expect our call.
17-21 Aug; from £13.50
32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A4
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