forthcoming cultural highlights

This is a long shot, but in the unlikely event that you (a) are reading this, (b) live in London, (c) are free this Thursday and Friday and (d) don't already know about either or both of these gigs (or play in the band....), then you should know about the following:

1. 9pm, Thursday 23 March, the Fleapit, Columbia Rd, Hackney: heavy metal psychedelic ambient jazz combo Moist will expand your psychic universe with no admission fee (and might even buy you a drink, apparently). Read an interview with Moist.

2. 9:30pm (doors open at 8pm, food & drinks available), Friday 24 March, the misleadingly named "Jazzlive" at The Crypt, St Giles Centre, 81 Camberwell Church St, Camberwell: Guillermo Rozenthuler with Rioplatenses with what is billed as "a powerful, evocative, refined take on contemporary songs from Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and beyond". A bit more of an unknown quantity, but I heard Guillermo at WOMAD in 2004 and have been waiting to hear more, so I'll be there. Always good to have a night out with the diaspora anyway. Tickets: £6/ £4