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Take me out: best events
By Richard Godwin, Evening Standard 01.12.06
The musically fab Klaxons will be wandering around the Tate Modern this weekend
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Tate Modern is inviting bands to find a work of art that inspired them, Sub Club hosts the welcome return of an old night and Punchdrunk tackle the Faust legend...
TATE TRACKS: KLAXONS VS DONALD JUDD
Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1. From Friday. 020 7887 8000
Between a rock and an art place, Tate Modern invited a series of bands, including the stupidly dressed but musically fab Klaxons, to wander about the gallery and find a work of art that inspired them. The New Rave torchbearers liked Donald Judd's aluminium and Perspex Stacks so much they wrote a song about it, which can be heard exclusively Bankside.
www.tate.org.uk/modern/tatetracks
AND DID WE MENTION OUR DISCO?
Sub Club, 2 Goulston Street, E1. Friday 10.30pm-5am
Here's a brand-new venue (check out the late licence!) hosting the welcome return of an old night, with a hardearned reputation as one of the capital's best electropunk/bastard pop parties. This week, the awesome Simian Mobile Disco and DJ Twitch rise to the challenge.
www.ourdisco.com
PUNCHDRUNK: FAUST
21, Wapping Lane, E1. 020 7452 3000
Unlucky to miss out at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards on Monday, the Punchdrunk company's take on the Faust legend is less conventional drama, more some brilliantly dark, sexy real-life computer game. Audience members put on masks and are free to roam the field of action - a five-floor converted warehouse - at will, interacting with the actors. It's just been extended until April - and it's a good bet that most of the tickets for those extra performances will be snapped up by people going back for more.
www.punchdrunk.org.uk
FAUST
ICA, The Mall, SW1. Friday 8.30pm. Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Road, SE17. Sunday 7pm
Lots of Faust-related stuff in London at the moment - must be some sort of pact. Here are the legendary German sonic terrorists of the 1970s who go under the name making two London appearances. At the ICA, original member Jean-HervÈ Peron introduces the film Nobody Knows It Ever Happened, a document of a nude, avant-garde happening the band orchestrated in 1996. On Sunday night, Faust get back together to bewilder the Electric Storm event in Elephant and Castle.
www.ica.org.uk; www.corsicastudios.com
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