1 Simple Minds, one of the most successful bands of their generation. Special guests Deacon Blue, Glasweigan popsters from the Eighties, will be supporting the band, 7.30pm (£35).

2 Remember When at Christmas, nostalgia show from Neil Sands and co adds up to a feelgood afternoon of festive music and comedy from the Forties, Fifties and Sixties, Memorial Hall, 2:30pm (£10).

3 Jamey Taylor/Alan Ladds Be-Bop Quintet, Picture House Jazz Club, Bar Abbey, Abbeydale Road, 8:30pm, doors and bar open from 7:30pm (£3).

4 World AIDS Day, public invited to join vigil organised by Sheffield's Centre for HIV and Sexual Health to remember lost loved ones and hear a performance by choir Out Aloud, as well as addresses from the Director for the Centre for HIV and Sexual Health, Steve Slack, and Coun Clive Skelton, Sexual Health Champion for Sheffield Council, Town Hall steps, 4pm.

5 Cafe Scientifique, Sheffield, the quest for ever larger astronomical telescopes discussed by Dr Richard de Grijs, Reader in Astrophysics at the University of Sheffield, Showroom Cinema bar, Paternoster Row, 7pm (free, emaill c.kuppuswamy@shef.ac.uk, www.sciencecafesheffield.org).

6 Folk night, New Barrack Tavern, Penistone Road, Hillsborough

7 The Witches of Eastwick, Lyceum Theatre, 7.30pm, (£18.50 – £32.50).

8 Chapeltown 50 plus Club, monthly session includes tea or coffee, a speaker, raffle and a chat, plus outings and weekly Scrabble club, Newton Hall, Chapeltown, 10.15am-12.15pm (Joan, 2400567).

9 5 Rhythms Community Dance Class, library room, old Sharrow Junior School, Southview Road off Sharrow Lane, 6.15pm-7.30pm ( £3/ £2, Shipshape health & wellbeing 2500222, email katt@ecomail.org, or text 07758 146130).

10 Discotek Killz, The Forum, Devonshire Street, 9pm (free).



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