Going Out

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Music

Sia: The name may not be too familiar but this Australian songstress's (below) lyrical tones might ring a few bells.

Collaborator on Zero 7's recent Simple Things album and the voice of last year's Prokofievsampling hit single, Taken for Granted, her sound is a laid-back blend of hip hop, rich vocals and poetic melody. Tonight's gig is in aid of the Dandelion Trust's Castlefranc project, which takes Bosnian children for breaks in south-west France, and coincides with the release of her debut LP, Healing is Difficult. The Spitz, E1, 10, doors 8pm, 020 7392 9032.

Thalia Zedek: Zedek's intense, sloth-like drawl was the voice of cult American rockers Come.

Their celebrity fans included musical heroes such as J Mascis and the late Kurt Cobain. Now solo, Zedek has gone back to basics with a stripped-down set of bluesy laments that plum the depths of melancholy and work best in intimate settings such as the 12 Bar Club, WC2, doors 8pm, 6, 020 7209 2248.

From Tonight

Music

Sound City: Opening this year's season of new opera, the Almeida has teamed up with the London International Festival of Theatre to present a metropolis of music whose inhabitants range from the avant- classical to the electrocentric. Following two years of development, German composer Heiner Goebbels (who staged the multi-sensory Black on White at LIFT 99) directs this synthesis of sounds and musical formats - performed by a company of 26 - in an experimental work of panoramic improvisation evoking a city in flux.

Almeida at King's Cross, N1, 8pm, 8-12, 020 7359 4404.

Gil Scott-Heron: Multi-skilled poet/rapper/singer Gil's been slating the Establishment since the late Sixties, and while he may have lost some of his creative impetus, his laconic drawl is missing none of its spiky wit. Live shows are haphazard affairs with meandering monologues among the classic numbers such as the bluesy lament of Winter in America and the more upbeat Lady Day and John Coltrane. Accompanied by the longsuffering Amnesia Express band, it's when he's laying down his self-styled bluesology that he's truly in his element. Jazz Caf, NW1, doors 7pm, 17, 020 7344 0044.

From Tomorrow

Art The insider's guide to what's going on in London by Paul Clark The Show of the Summer: Three photographers, all dealing with the memory of places.

Tomoko Yoneda tracks down skeletons in the cupboard, snapping seemingly innocuous people and places whose past is tainted with best- forgotten Nazi connections; Camilla Koppen's Super 8 film features the demolition of a London housing estate; while, on more familiar ground, Sue Parkhill's work is more upbeat - she lovingly documents an intensely personal view of home in colour and black and white. Zelda Cheatle Gallery, W1, Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 11am- 4pm, 020 7408 4448.

High Summer: This is one garden party that's turned sour. John Goto draws on Arcadian landscapes by the likes of Claude Lorrain, but these rural scenes are far from idyllic. Goto digitally manipulates the neo-classical surroundings to give them a pixelated atmosphere of decline and fall, while modern-day tourists, dressed up to the nines, pick their way through the crumbling ruins. In the aftermath of mad cows and foot-and-mouth, Goto's end-is-nigh tidings seem particularly topical.

Andrew Mummery Gallery, EC1, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm, 020 7251 6265.

Exhibition

Remembering Luboml - Images of a Jewish Community: Including a selection of evocative artefacts, photographs (left) and cine footage, this exhibition portrays the people, places and pastimes from the small Jewish community of Luboml, one of the oldest shtetls in Poland. It was devastated in October 1942 by the German army and this collection has been assembled in an attempt to preserve and convey some of the history and vibrancy of the place and its once flourishing populace.

Jewish Museum, NW1, Monday-Thursday 10am-4pm Sunday 10am-5pm, 1.50- 3.50, 020 7284 1997.

Soul provider

Omar was Britsoul's great hope in the early Nineties, responsible for the monstrous smoocher, There's Nothing Like This, but his reputation for low-slung, groove-infused with a sassy retro spin, and his new single, Be Thankful, is yet more evidence of his enduring talent.

Cargo, EC2, tonight, doors 8pm, 7, 020 7729 3440.

songcraft never quite translated in the massive R'n'B market of the States and he slipped from label to label. In London he remains a demigod for lovers of quality soul

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