An ideal place to sample the famous London nightlife. A cavernous bar/club under brick railway arches in Shoreditch, an unpretentious, friendly bar with an amazingly diverse music policy. Cargo is the place to sample some of London's amazing musical creativity from algerian folk to house nights, hotly tipped indie bands, MC battles and world music festivals Cago has it all.

If that's not enough you can recover on Sunday afternoons with brunch (their sweet potato chips are the best hangover cure around) in their garden.

Rivington Street
Shoreditch

Old Street tube
www.cargo-london.com

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For drinkers, diners and dancers alike.

5 Parkway, Camden Town; Tube: Camden Town; www.jazzcafe.co.uk/

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A useful webguide about the nightlife in London!

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The ultimate night spot if, drinking, dancing and having a good time is your type of thing. This club offers a cultural blend of the hottest popular music in the world, including the likes of Arabic, Spanish, dance and R'n'B. If you're not completely fulfilled after all of this; you can book a table, order a meal and smoke the shisha until you "get some satisfaction". (Guestlist starts from £10)

9 Hanover Street, London W1S 1YFContact the promoter Delly Raheem on: 07887 592 929

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This fortnightly reggae/soul/dub club is unpretentious, friendly, fun and cheap (usually about £5 cover charge). But the best thing is, everyone goes there for the music, because the music is so good! The club is run by Soul Jazz Records which puts together some classic Studio One compilations, among other albums. But at the club you'll see the best of what's happening in this scene now - DJs, MCs and a crowd that happily skanks along in a cosy garage space.

Electrowerkz, 7 Torrens Street
Nearest tube: Angel

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Spot big stars from the UK Grime scene dressed down and competing for the microphone at this most intimate of nights, representing 'dubstep' (Grime's dancefloor-orientated strand). The rolling residents
include J Da Flex, Kode 9 and Slaughter Mob, all well versed in keeping the beats futuristic, the bass heavy and ensuring a hardcore following on the dancefloor month after month.

@ Plastic People, first Thursday of each month
147-149 Curtain Road, London, EC2
(020) 7739 6471
10pm - 2am
Price £5

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I ended up at one of these parties a while ago, led by rascally young friend of mine from Brixton. It's an all night party over three rooms with secret line-ups, a secret location and two of the UK's best labels (Matthew Herbert's Accidental Records, and Brixton's Werk Discs). Four Tet, Anthony 'Shake' Shakir and Herbert himself have all played there. Sniff out the next one on December 3rd. I'll definitely be there.

@ a secret location in south London
Contact: 07990 970 267
soundslike_werk@bigfoot.com

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