Friends, Londoners, culture-lovers… lend me your ears (and eyes), because it’s Brutus Day, and that means it’s time to think on betrayal, treason, and disloyalty.

None of which are all that fun, really, and certainly not relevant to all the cultural to-do that’s going on in London today…

TODAY’S COMEDY CHOICES

Magic Night, Madam Jojos, 15 Mar
ThreeWeeks-praised magician and psychic Chris Cox, ‘cool’ card-trickster Rob James, famed cabaret queen Delores Deluxe and risque variety act Rayguns Look Real Enough are all part of tonight’s Magic Night circle, as is a very special, very ‘international’ guest. Details and tickets here.

Zoe Lyons – Pop-Up Comic, Soho Theatre, 15-16 Mar (pictured)
A fixed feature of the Edinburgh Fringe fest in past years, comedienne and honorary ThreeWeeks staff-writer Zoe Lyons ‘pops’ into the Soho Theatre to ply its patrons with a Friday-night mix of “silliness, satire and caustic one liners”. Details and tickets here.

TODAY’S MUSIC CHOICES

Johnny Marr, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, 15 Mar
Off on his first ever solo tour, ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr stops at Shepherd’s Bush to promote his new LP ”The Messenger’, and perhaps to play ‘How Soon Is Now’. Details and tickets here.