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Pre Fest Best: Frisky and Mannish

Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, W6; Mon 26 Jul–Thu 29 Jul 9.15pm; £10

A musical comedy cabaret duo who stormed the Edinburgh Fringe with their sell-out 2009 debut School of Pop. They were nominated for a 2010 Chortle Award for Best Musical Act.

www.riversidestudios.co.uk;
020 8237 1111

Pre Edinburgh Festival comedy Riverside Studios

Ed Sheeran with Mark Hole and Sherika Sherard

The Elgin, 96 Ladbroke Grove, W11; Thu 29 July; 6.30pm; free

Ed Sheeran has worked with Julian Simmons (The Guillemots), MC Scorcher, supporting the likes of The Noisettes, Jay Sean, Just Jack and sporting celebrity followers including Goldie. South London girl Sherika Sherard won last year’s Musicians Benevolent Fund award for songwriting her style of folk music.

www.theelginnottinghill.co.uk;
020 7229 5663

An evening with author Graham Bowley: No Way Down

The Travel Bookshop, 13–15 Belnheim Crescent, W11; Sat 31 Jul; 7pm; £5

Published for the second anniversary of the disaster, No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 is the story of how 11 of the world's best mountineers lost their lives in a single day trying to conquer K2.

www.thetravelbookshop.com

Fantastic Mr Fox

Holland Park, Ilchester Place, W8; Mon 26, Thu 29 and Sat 31 Jul; Tue 3, Thu 5, Sat 7, Tue 10, Thu 12, Sat 14 Aug 3pm; £5, children £2.50

Opera Holland Park singers and members of the City of London Symphonia perform an operatic version of Roald Dahl’s classic in the park, using the Yucca Lawn as a backdrop. Suitable for all ages.

0845 230 9769

The Gentleman nobly steps into WLG’s Louboutins as this week’s guest blogger

So dear reader, WLG has taken my advice and has gone out of town, wafting her fragrant and exotic self in some fragrant and exotic destination (Brighton). Poor girl; she does work it so hard and needs some good R&R. Anyway, she has asked yours truly (the aforementioned luscious-locked gentleman she slighted in last week’s blog entry) to gallantly come to her aid and do a bit of part-time West London Gentleman blogging for you...