Our Guest Editor this week dedicates her next album to… LOVE.

We're talking about saxophonist YolanDa Brown. The tour with her 10-piece jazz band culminates on 15 November with a concert and album launch at the Barbican featuring guest vocalist Shingai Shoniwa of The Noisettes.

The two-time winner of the MOBO award has worked with musicians Jools Holland, reggae legend Bob Marley's son Julian Marley, Billy 'Loverboy' Ocean, and even The Temptations. The winter nights are closing in. Time for some lovin', baby! Writer Ava Szajna-Hopgood interviews YolanDa on the art of making sweet jazz.

In our Magazine section we hear from three leading performing arts visionaries.

Now recognised as one of the world's premier artist-led festivals of radical live work, the largest SPILL Festival to date runs from this Wednesday to Sunday. Artistic Director Robert Pacitti writes an exclusive article for Run Riot on shaking things up.

'Londoners are crying out for something more visceral and immersive, something which sets the pulse racing' says Adam Spreadbury-Maher, co-director of the new immersive adaptation of Trainspotting now running at The Vaults. Here he writes for Run Riot about how theatre can engage with Britain's vulnerable club scene.

Writer, performer and Artistic Director of HighRise Theatre, Dominic Garfield shares his views on an often hostile city, and how grime, theatre and politics have come together in his new production at Camden People's Theatre.

For a bunch of the finest-dressed, messiest, scariest, outright-wild Halloween 'do's' - check out our Best of the rest.

For more culture gems and competitions - browse our Offers page. As for the rest - rummage through our genre-bending pages where you'll find plenty of haut happenings!

Here's to wishing you an utterly hedonistic week dear Players! Bottoms up! RRxx

PS. Don't forget - an extra hour in your love-nest this weekend. Clocks go back!