A London concert cancelled back in March is still on sale for 4 October — and the full Russian-language listings for October

The Kaspiyskiy Gruz concert still being sold in London for Sunday 4 October is not happening. The venue's own listing calls the event "Kaspiyskiy Gruz – Cancelled", the price field reads "Cancelled", and the status line says it was cancelled and last updated on 5 March 2026. Several ticket resellers aimed at Russian-speaking audiences are nevertheless still selling it for 4 October.

What happened to the Kaspiyskiy Gruz concert in London?

Scala on Pentonville Road states it plainly on its event page: due to circumstances beyond the artist's control the show has been cancelled, and refunds should be claimed from the point of purchase. The date is still shown — Sunday 4 October 2026, doors 19:00 — but the word Cancelled sits beside it everywhere.

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The problem is that third-party ticket sites still list the show as live. A buyer pays, travels to the venue and finds the doors shut, then has to chase a refund from the reseller rather than the venue.

How do you avoid buying a ticket to a cancelled show?

One rule: before you pay, open the venue's own website and find the event there. Not an aggregator, not a mailing list, not a social media post — the venue itself, be it Scala, Brixton Jamm, indigo at The O2 or the Barbican. If the event is missing, or marked Cancelled, Postponed or Sold, do not buy, whatever the reseller's price.

Second: pay by card. If an event is cancelled, a UK bank must consider a chargeback claim, and for anything over £100 paid by credit card, section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act makes the card issuer jointly liable with the seller. Money sent by bank transfer to a private individual, or through a messenger app, is not recoverable.

Which Russian-language concerts are on in London in October 2026?

Verka Serduchka — Friday 23 October, indigo at The O2, Peninsula Square, SE10 0DX, doors 18:00. The venue confirms the show on its own site; AXS is the official seller. Under-3s are not admitted and under-16s must be with an adult.

Kavabanga Depo Kolibri, the Ukrainian trio on their European tour — Saturday 24 October at Brixton Jamm, 261 Brixton Road, SW9 6LH, £49–85, listed in the venue's programme. Manchester follows on 1 November.

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SadSvit, the Ukrainian synth-pop act's first UK show — Sunday 4 October at the same venue, £44, now marked as sold out.

Kirill Richter and RICHTER TRIO with the CHRONOS programme — Wednesday 14 October, 19:00, St Pancras Church, 165 Euston Road, NW1 2BA, from £30 on the official ticket page. Note that some listings still call this concert "Towards the Beloved City" — that was an earlier, different evening at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

What Russian classical music is on in London in October?

An unusually full month. This Sunday, 4 October at 11:30, Wigmore Hall has a morning concert with coffee: oboist Armand Djikoloum plays, among other things, the Poem for oboe and piano by Marina Dranishnikova, a composer rarely heard on British stages. £18, concessions £16, coffee or sherry included (concert page).

Later in the month: on 21 October the London Philharmonic plays Brahms and Tchaikovsky's "Manfred" symphony at the Royal Festival Hall with Julia Fischer and Edward Gardner, from £19.50. On 22 October the Philharmonia and Seong-Jin Cho give Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto and Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony, from £26. On 23 October the LPO performs Stravinsky's complete "Firebird" ballet score, while at the Barbican the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo plays Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto, from £22, with £12 tickets for 16–25s.

What Russian repertoire is on in theatre and ballet?

Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" opens today, 3 October, at the Harold Pinter Theatre and runs to 9 January, with Kristin Scott Thomas as Ranevskaya and Stephen Mangan in the cast, adapted by Conor McPherson and directed by Ian Rickson, from £20.

Turgenev's "A Month in the Country" at the Donmar Warehouse, by contrast, closes today: final performances at 14:30 and 19:30, with Sophie Okonedo. Standing places £15, under-35s £20.

English National Ballet tours Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" with a live orchestra: Liverpool Empire 15–17 October and the Palace Theatre, Manchester, 21–25 October; London has to wait until January. Their "Sleeping Beauty", filmed at the Royal Albert Hall, is in cinemas nationwide from 13 to 18 October. Covent Garden has no Russian repertoire in October — it is Wagner, Mozart, Handel and Bizet.

Film: the Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival runs in Glasgow from 6 to 11 October and in Edinburgh from 22 to 25 October on a pay-what-you-can basis of £4, £7 or £10, with Ukrainian, Georgian, Czech, Polish and Lithuanian films.

Is Soviet Underground playing in October?

No. The London band has no October dates: their official Songkick profile states that no concerts are scheduled for 2026, and Bandcamp lists none either. Their last shows were in September — 12 September at The Victoria in Hackney and 13 September at The Hope & Ruin in Brighton. We covered the band separately. New dates will go straight into our listings.

What is on this weekend, 3–4 October?

The Sunday liturgy at the Cathedral of the Dormition on Ennismore Gardens on 4 October is in English, according to the cathedral's October timetable, starting at 09:30. The Protection of the Mother of God on 14 October is also at 09:30.

Everything else for these two days is in our separate guides: London listings — the free Japan Matsuri on Trafalgar Square, heritage buses and harvest festivals — and the rest of the country, from free access to 25 historic buildings in York to the autumn fayre in Bath.