48 Hours in London: Halloween Weekend, What's Actually On (30 Oct–1 Nov 2026)

Macklemore at Wembley on Friday, Duran Duran at The O2 on Halloween night, The Kid LAROI in Hammersmith on Sunday, and a Shoreditch pub party that costs nothing. Twenty verified events, real prices where we could read them.

Friday evening

The Friday most people have already booked is Macklemore & Friends: Free Palestine Tour — OVO Arena Wembley, Fri 30 Oct, 6pm, price on the door / ticketer (tickets). Standing is over-14s; proceeds go to named charities. Eat at Boxpark Wembley on the walk from Wembley Park (££, street-food hall, Badbird's fried chicken); you won't make a table in town and doors.

Rather laugh at the news? Jonathan Pie: The End Of The World According To Jonathan Pie — Eventim Apollo, Fri 30 Oct, 7.30pm, price on the door / ticketer (tickets) is the ranting-reporter act, second night Sat 31 Oct. Pub-fight folk? The Mary Wallopers — O2 Academy Brixton, Fri 30 Oct, 7pm, price on the door / ticketer (tickets) has Cliffords supporting and an A4 bag limit. Early-finish house? MESTIZA presents Sacro Halloween — Roundhouse, Fri 30 Oct, 6pm, from £55 (tickets) runs 6pm to 11pm, last entry 9pm.

Down to your last fiver? Spinimana's Spun House Halloween free party — Horse and Groom, Fri 30 Oct, 8pm, free (details) is house and disco in a Shoreditch pub on Curtain Road, £6 cocktails all night, and the only free thing on this page.

Friday late

Milkshake Presents: The London Halloween Ball — Electric Brixton, Fri 30 Oct, 11pm, from £10.92 (tickets) runs 11pm to 4am, last entry 1am; the cheaper tiers were selling out on 21 Oct 2026. It's the cheapest ticketed night this weekend, and pairs with the Mary Wallopers. The Victoria line runs all night at weekends, so 3am home is a tube.

Saturday

Halloween is the Saturday this year, so the daytime is busy. elrow Horroween Festival — Drumsheds, Sat 31 Oct, 1pm, from £66.95 (tickets) is the Spanish confetti party back after two years, last entry 5pm; only general admission final release was left on 21 Oct 2026. Drumsheds is a former IKEA at Meridian Water, a train from Stratford. Same genre, a third of the price? Garage Nation Halloween Indoor Festival — Ministry of Sound, Sat 31 Oct, 1.30pm, from £17.91 (tickets) is UK garage at Elephant and Castle, last entry 5.30pm, and leaves you central for the evening; I'd still take elrow.

Football? West Ham v West Bromwich Albion — West Ham United at London Stadium, Sat 31 Oct, 3pm, price on the door / ticketer (tickets) is in Stratford, 20 minutes from The O2 on the Jubilee line. Rugby and fewer people? Saracens v Newcastle Red Bulls — StoneX Stadium, Sat 31 Oct, 3pm, price on the door / ticketer (tickets) is Premiership rugby in Hendon. Indoors? Ramses and the Pharaoh's Gold: The Exhibition — Neon at Battersea Power Station, Sat 31 Oct, 10am, from £16.59 (tickets) is timed entry all weekend; 10am Saturday is the slot we verified.

Saturday night

The one most people are here for: Duran Duran — The O2, Sat 31 Oct, 6.30pm, price on the door / ticketer (tickets). Halloween night, 20,000 seats, on sale since July 2026: check the seat map before you book a train. The strip under the dome has Five Guys, Nando's and Gordon Ramsay Street Burger (££), rammed from 5pm, so eat at 4.30pm or in town first.

Not an arena person? I'd book Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club — Playhouse Theatre, Sat 31 Oct, 7.30pm, from £41 (tickets) and stop thinking about it: the theatre is rebuilt as a 1930s Berlin club, seats ran £41 to past £300 on 21 Oct 2026, the only West End price we could read. Dishoom on Upper St Martin's Lane (££, Bombay café, the prawn pathia) is eight minutes' walk. Radiohead fan? Hamlet Hail to the Thief — Barbican Theatre, Sat 31 Oct, 7.45pm, from £29.25 (tickets) is Shakespeare cut to the 2003 album, and the cheaper of the two.

Three more if not. Broadway voice? Leslie Odom, Jr. — The London Palladium, Sat 31 Oct, 7.30pm, price on the door / ticketer (tickets) is Hamilton's original Aaron Burr; there's a 2.30pm matinee too. Ragga metal on a hill? Skindred - You Got This Tour — Alexandra Palace, Sat 31 Oct, 6.30pm, price on the door / ticketer (tickets) has Alien Ant Farm and Spineshank first, over-16s; W3 bus from Wood Green. Egyptian pop? Tamer Hosny — OVO Arena Wembley, Sat 31 Oct, 6pm, price on the door / ticketer (tickets) is Macklemore's room one night on.

Saturday late

Out of the theatre by 10pm? Garth Marenghi - This Bursted Earth — Leicester Square Theatre, Sat 31 Oct, 9.30pm, price on the door / ticketer (tickets) is the horror-parody author's late show, 400 seats, five minutes from the Playhouse. Want to dance until 4am? I Love Reggaeton - Halloween - London's Biggest Reggaeton Party — Electric Brixton, Sat 31 Oct, 11pm, from £49.74 (tickets) is Saturday's Halloween night in Friday's Milkshake room at nearly five times the price; one Brixton club night, make it Friday's. From The O2 it's 35 minutes via Waterloo.

Sunday

Sunday is one gig. The Kid LAROI - A Perfect World Tour — Eventim Apollo, Sun 1 Nov, 6.30pm, price on the door / ticketer (tickets) is an arena-sized act in a 5,000-cap hall, Nate Sib and WizTheMc supporting; under-15s need an adult. The shopping centre next to the Apollo has chain cafés for a cheap pre-gig eat. Slower Sunday? Ramses runs all weekend.

If you only do one thing: Duran Duran — The O2, Sat 31 Oct, 6.30pm, price on the door / ticketer (tickets). Halloween night with the band that wrote Danse Macabre. Cabaret runs for months; this is one night.

The practical bit

Trains from the north land at King's Cross, St Pancras or Euston, ten minutes from the West End. Heathrow is 35 minutes on the Elizabeth line; Gatwick is 30 to Victoria. Tap in with a contactless card.

The O2 is North Greenwich on the Jubilee line, 15 minutes from London Bridge; the platform after a show is slow: leave before the encore or wait it out. OVO Arena Wembley is ten minutes on foot from Wembley Park (Jubilee and Metropolitan lines). Eventim Apollo is on Hammersmith station, Electric Brixton five minutes from Brixton tube, Drumsheds a train from Stratford to Meridian Water.

Budget: nine prices here are confirmed, from free (Spun House) and £10.92 (Milkshake) up to £66.95 (elrow); the arenas sell at whatever the seat map says. Count on £300–£450 per person for two nights with one arena ticket, one theatre or club night, food and tube; the hotel is the swing factor.

FAQ

What's on in London this Halloween weekend (30 Oct–1 Nov 2026)? Macklemore at OVO Arena Wembley and Jonathan Pie at Eventim Apollo on Fri 30 Oct; Duran Duran at The O2, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, elrow Horroween at Drumsheds and Skindred at Alexandra Palace on Sat 31 Oct; The Kid LAROI at Eventim Apollo on Sun 1 Nov. Twenty verified events in all.

Is there anything free in London this weekend? One thing: Spinimana's Spun House Halloween free party at the Horse and Groom, Shoreditch, Fri 30 Oct from 8pm. Cheapest ticketed night: Milkshake's London Halloween Ball at Electric Brixton, same night, from £10.92.

How do you get to The O2 for Duran Duran on Sat 31 Oct? Jubilee line to North Greenwich, two minutes from the arena. Doors 6.30pm; leave central London by 5.30pm.

Planning around a different city? See what's on across Manchester, Glasgow and Dublin the same weekend.

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