What to do in London tonight

Listings divide between club nights, concerts, and comedy. Weeknight programming concentrates in Shoreditch, Dalston, and Soho, where Ronnie Scott's and The Jazz Cafe run seated shows most nights of the week. Weekends add the warehouse venues in Canning Town, Hackney Wick, and Tottenham, which hold the longest licences in the city.

Closing time is set venue by venue through borough licensing, so it varies far more than in Berlin or Lisbon. fabric opens 22:00 and closes 06:00 on Friday, opens 23:00 and closes 08:00 on Saturday, and runs 23:00 to 05:00 on Sunday. FOLD and a handful of other Canning Town and Tottenham venues hold longer licences. Most central clubs stop between 03:00 and 04:00.

The Night Tube runs all night on Friday and Saturday only, on the Victoria, Central, Jubilee, Northern, and Piccadilly lines plus the Overground Windrush line, roughly every 10 to 20 minutes. It does not run Sunday through Thursday, when night buses are the only public option. The warehouse venues in Canning Town and Tottenham usually need a bus or a cab in either direction.

fabric in Farringdon opened in 1999 and runs three rooms, the first built around a bodysonic floor. Ministry of Sound in Elephant and Castle opened in 1991 and is built around the sound system in The Box. FOLD in Canning Town programmes extended techno sets behind a long licence. XOYO in Shoreditch runs a residency series where one artist curates an entire season, and Phonox in Brixton gives its Saturdays to a single resident for months at a time.

Advance tickets for a headline club night generally run £15 to £30, and the larger bookings at fabric and Ministry of Sound go above that. Smaller rooms in Dalston, New Cross, and Hackney frequently charge £5 to £12, and several are free before a set hour. Jazz and seated concert tickets are priced per show rather than per venue.