Top things to do in London: week of 30 March

British Summer Time kicks in this week so suddenly it is light at 7pm and everyone in London loses their mind. Rooftops open. Beer gardens fill. The Lido becomes a battlefield. Here is what is actually worth doing.

Monday — easy start

Mondays are still Mondays even when the evenings are bright. There is a panel at Newspeak House on AI safety policy on Monday — the audience usually has at least a few people from the Anthropic London office and a couple from Google DeepMind, which makes the Q and A genuinely interesting.

If you fancy a low-key dinner, Dishoom Carnaby is a touch easier to walk into on a Monday than the Shoreditch one.

Tuesday — AI Tuesdays

The Conduit runs an AI-themed evening on Tuesdays now and the talks have got better since they tightened the booking. Free if you are on the list, easy to get on the list if you have ever worked at a startup. Drinks after at the bar downstairs which is, despite being a members club, actually decent.

Wednesday — Frieze preview

Frieze is in Regents Park this week. Public days are heaving but if you can blag a preview ticket through a gallery, do. The work is the same, the crowd is half the size and you can actually see the booths. Bring comfortable shoes, the tents are massive.

If contemporary art is not your bag, Ronnie Scott's has a vocal jazz set on Wednesday that is properly good. Two sets, second one is the one to catch.

Thursday — pick a lane

Thursdays the calendar is genuinly a mess this week. The big things:

• A Stripe x Y Combinator founders mixer at Soho House (invite only, but ask around, half my friends got in last time).
• A talk at the FT building on financial journalism in the AI era. Smaller than it sounds, sharper than I expected.
• Late show at Soho Theatre — the comedy is consistently good on Thursdays now they have moved the WIPs to Sunday.

You can find a fuller list on the London events page — saves the doom-scroll.

Friday — Roundhouse and after

Roundhouse studio has a new-music night on Friday that has been on a streak. £15, three acts, the third one is usually the one to watch. After that, fabric is doing a more electronic-leaning night this week which means the queue will be alot more manageable than the techno weeks.

If clubbing is off the table, Hawksmoor Seven Dials does a late kitchen on Fridays now. The cocktails alone are worth the trip.

Saturday — daytime sun

Get out. Walk. The Heath, Victoria Park, Hyde Park — pick one. Pub lunch somewhere with a beer garden, then either a gig or a film. The Roundhouse has another thing on Saturday night that is worth a look. The Curzon Aldgate is doing a foreign-language film season that has been nicely programmed.

Sunday — Brockwell

Brockwell market is the answer. Open all day, food vendors that rotate weekly, fewer tourists than Borough, and you can actually sit on the grass. Walk it off through Herne Hill afterwards. There is a small free gig at the Shacklewell on Sunday evenings if you want to extend the day, and a Sunday roast at the Marksman in Hackney that books two weeks out but is worth it.

That is the week. Get outside. The clocks have moved, act accordingly.