Cocktail classes, rock concerts and dance parties, all happening this week.
Mon, Aug 31
CONCERT
Following the release of their second EP Gravity, Against the Current are back to perform their catchy pop-rock numbers.
DRINK
It’s not too late to sign up for cocktail workshops with A Week with Remy Martin. You’ll learn how to make the classics and cool showy cocktails, or learn to cook with Cognac.
Tue, Sep 1
CONCERT
Blu Jaz brings American noise rock outfit A Place to Bury Strangers to town for the very first time. Supporting the visitors is two-piece feel-good band, Beelzebud.
Wed, Sep 2
ART
An experimental installation by a French conceptual artist, Cabanons has aerialists, tightrope walkers and acrobats performing dangerous acts.
Or head to Wyn-Lyn Tan’s new exhibition The Blue of Distance, a series of paintings of seemingly endless horizons.
DRINK
Potato Head’s cocktail bar has a guest shift featuring London Cocktail Club’s bartender JJ Goodman, who was once lauded as the World’s Best Bartender.
MUSIC
Highlander’s Musicology live music series is back with resident band Accento and cocktails by Din Hassan.
Thu, Sep 3
MUSICAL
Dick Lee’s revamped show The Adventures of the Mad Chinaman UPSIZED recounts his musical journey from his childhood in the ’60s to the debut of his alter-ego, The Mad Chinaman.
FESTIVAL
Substation celebrates its anniversary with Septfest, a three week-long event with film screenings, art exhibitions and performances by local bands like TAJ and Typewriter.
PARTY
Overeasy’s Pops of the Top party is back with more Britpop and space-rock tunes with Kurt and KidG on the decks.
FILM
Cerebral film series Malaya Black and White has The Year of the Horse showing, the follow-up to the controversial Saint Jack filmed by Peter Bogdanovich.
Fri, Sep 4
MUSIC
Baritone Matthias Goerne, pianist Markus Hinterhauser and South African artist William Kentridge come together to perform Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, a story centered around a wanderer.
DANCE
Choreographed by Chie Ito and performed by two dancers, The Daily Life of Ms. D chronicles how a woman shuts herself off from tragic events in her own home.
PARTY
Before heading to the rave over F1 weekend, this Road to Ultra Countdown Party has DJs 4korners and Mel De Barge playing at Rakes.
