May 2025

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Sunday 18th May
BEVIS FROND - day 2 @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm £19.80adv  

EGGY / CHAMELEON LIME WHOOPIEPIE / GRINDING EYES @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7pm FREE  ​

NAMELSS FRIENDS / BLDSUGR / HAWXX @ The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington, 7pm, £9.15adv £10door 

THESE TOWNS / HEAL / RUNNING STANDARD @ New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, N4 1DN, 7.30pm, £8.80adv ​

'These Towns is a London free folk, improv, noise, electronics trio feat. members of UKAEA, Sly and The Family Drone, Abstract Concrete. Miserable/joyful music made by three people from these fucking towns, all of whom made a run for it, swapping inexorable economic decline and emptying town centres for the accelerating claustrophobic grind of the big city.​'

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Monday 19th May

ACOPIA @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm £18.70adv  

FLOUNDER / BRABBLE / DEBT @ Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate St, Hoxton, E2 9AG, 7.30pm, FREE  

HELLO MARY @ Moth Club, Valette St, Hackney, 7.30pm, £16adv 

Brooklyn trio Hello Mary 'multi-layered sound featuring unusual time signatures, careening feedback, and unconventional harmonies' 

SAY SUE ME / HAZY SOUR CHERRY @ 100 Club, Oxford St, 7pm £19.80adv 

Surf-inspired indie rock band Say Sue Me from Busan, South Korea

SPANISH HORSES / HOT STAMP / SKINSHIP @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, FREE 

TWENTY ONE CHILDREN / BLEECH / BED @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, Shoreditch, 7.30pm, FREE  

Tuesday 20th May 
THE GOLDEN DREGS / DOVE ELLIS @ 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, 7pm £15adv 
JAGGED BAPTIST CLUB @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, FREE   

PETER DOHERTY @ Pryzm, 154 Clarence St, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 1QP, 8pm, £12+adv 
PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS @ Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Rd, Shoreditch, 7.30pm, £20.43adv 
'sprawling psych-pop, prog rock and heavy garage riffs' from Australia’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets...

REDD / MARTI PERRAMON / CORBON AMODIO @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7pm £13.65adv 

Wednesday 21st May 
ARUSHI JAIN @ Corsica Studios, 4-5 Elephant Rd, SE17 1LB, 7pm £20adv 

BINO BAMES / ES.CHER / WING! @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, FREE  

BORDERLINE plus guests @ Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate St, Hoxton, E2 9AG, 7.30pm, £11.22adv    

BLURT / PIGLET @ The Victoria, Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, 7.30pm, £11.85adv 

Punk-Jazz trio BLURT 'play The Fish Needs A Bike and other eatly tracks, plus the new single The Meccano Giraffe'

DOUBLE VIRGO @ 100 Club, Oxford St, 7.30pm, £18.80adv 

ESTHER ROSE @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7pm £19.45adv 

GARDEN CENTRE / WILSHAW / SPIKE @ The Greyhound, 109 Peckham High St, SE15 5SE, 7.30pm, £6.12adv 
GAYE SU AKYOL / NOON GARDEN @ Moth Club, Valette St, Hackney, 7pm £22adv  

JENNY HVAL / THEA GRANT @ Islington Assembly Hall, 7pm £23adv 
LEYA / VANESSA BEDORET @ Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston, E8 3DL, 7.30pm, sold out  

Thursday 22nd May 

MISS KANINNA @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm £12adv  
SNÕÕPER @ Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, £21adv  

High-energy Nashville punk band, ​Snõõper, 'known for their rapid-fire songs & immersive gigs' 

TTSSFU @ The Blue Basement at Third Man Records, 1 Marshall St, W1F 9BA, 7pm, £10adv 
THE USED @ The Dome, 178 Junction Rd, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL, 7pm
VENDREDI SUR MER @ XOYO, 32-37 Cowper St, EC2A 4AP, 7.30pm, £22.50adv 

YAANG / THE NEW CUT / TELEFORME / SL4P @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, Shoreditch, 7.30pm, FREE  

YUUF @ Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Rd, Shoreditch, 7pm, £18.70adv 

'London-based band Yuuf brings together a diverse ensemble of musicians hailing from 4 different countries....Brought together by a shared passion for exploring global sounds, these artists fuse their cultural influences to create global psychedelia instrumental music.'

Friday 23rd May 

BASHT / KISSING ON CAMERA @ The Lexington, Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £14.20adv  
KNEECAP / PEACHES / CMAT / ENGLISH TEACHER / DANIEL AVERY / MANNEQUIN PUSSY / FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS / UGLY plus more - Wide Awake Festival @ Brockwell Park, Norwood Rd, Brixton, SE24 9BJ, from 12pm, £54adv  

THE LOVELY EGGS / DREAM NAILS @ Oslo, 1A Amhurst Rd, Hackney, E8 1JB, 7pm, £25.31adv 

Lancaster two-piece lo-fi psychedelic punk rock band, with support from London punk/riot grrrl trio, Dream Nails

MORCHEEBA @ Pryzm, 154 Clarence St, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 1QP, 7pm, £13adv 

O.R.k / THE PARADOX TWIN @ 229 Great Portland St, W1W 5PN, 7pm £18adv
'O.R.k. are an international progressive, alternative, and art rock supergroup' - info here  

PARLAY / LIGHTHAUS / TOM SCAMELL @ Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate St, Hoxton, E2 9AG, 7.30pm, £8.50adv 

SEVEN SISTERS & INTRANCED @ The Black Heart, 2–3 Greenland Place, Camden Town, NW1 0AP, 7pm, £12.50adv 

WAKEY WAKEY RISE & SHINE @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern Street, Shoreditch, 7.30pm, FREE 

WET LEG @ Brixton Academy, 7pm, £adv 

WILL PAQUIN @ Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7pm, £15.87adv    

Saturday 24th May 

BARTHOLOMEW @ Catford Library, Catford Centre, 23-24 Winslade Way, SE6 4JU, 2-3.30pm, FREE  

'Bartholomew makes experimental electronic music with a cinematic tinge. His live shows combine radical re-interpretations of his music with sonic exploration and improvisation – in one moment he might be sampling a frying pan into melody or looping the sounds of the magnetic waves surrounding him, before deftly integrating them into a live remix of one of his tracks.

Bartholomew will perform a live set, deliver his talk "An Introduction To Experimental Music", and have a Q&A session with audience members.'

CHERRY i / SWAMP / PAPER ANTHEM @ Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate St, Hoxton, E2 9AG, 7.30pm, FREE  

ELL KENDALL / ZARA HUDSON-KOZDÓJ + RIKHIL RAITHATHA with MIKE CRANNY - Daylight Music @ St John's Leytonstone, E11 1HH, 12.00-2.00 PM, FREE-£12adv 

KALADNRA / BRONTIDE / CATS AND CATS AND CATS / THE FIERCE AND THE DEAD / THE BRACKISH / OAVETTE / FLY FLY TRICERATOPS plus more - Portals Festival day 1 @ EartH Hackney, 11 Stoke Newington Rd, N16 8BH,  12.30pm, £99adv 

JON ALLEN & THE LUNA KINGS @ Bush Hall, Shepherds Bush, 7.30pm, £30adv 

PATIO / GLOOP UNIT / CIVIL PARTNERSHIP @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, Shoreditch, 7.30pm, FREE 

PEDESTRIAN BAND / WISH / GINGHAM @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, FREE   
SUNBRELLA / SHOPLIFTING / TOOTHPASTE @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm £14.32adv  

Sunday 25th May 

BED / BATHING SUITS / THE COWARDS @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, FREE   

THE CLOVERHEARTS @ The Black Heart, 2–3 Greenland Place, Camden Town, NW1 0AP, 7pm, £17.31adv 
GRAHAM REYNOLDS / DAISY RICKMAN @ Cafe Oto, Dalston, 8pm £18adv

"Acclaimed composer (A Scanner Darkly, Before Midnight, Hit Man) and musical maverick, Graham Reynolds releases his debut solo album for Fire Records ‘Mountain’ on March 21st"

JULIE CHRISTMAS / AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR / MOUSE ON THE KEYS / CATS AND CATS AND CATS / THE FIERCE AND THE DEAD / THE BRACKISH plus more - Portals Festival day 2 @ EartH Hackney, 11 Stoke Newington Rd, N16 8BH,  12.30pm, £99adv

PLEASUREINC. / LE JUNK / FRUIT @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, Shoreditch, 7.30pm, FREE 

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Monday 26th May 
TURIN BRAKES @ Banquet Records, 52 Eden St, Kingston, KT1 1EE, 6.15pm, £12+adv 

Tuesday 27th May 

CHANEL BEADS @ Loki, 302-304 Barrington Rd, Brixton, SW9 7JJ, 7.30pm, £17.50adv 

CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION / NERVES / HAEMOGOBLIN @ Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate St, Hoxton, E2 9AG, 7.30pm, FREE  
CLAMM @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, £14.20adv   
DEARY @ Moth Club, Valette St, Hackney, 7pm £15adv
wistful dream pop from London duo Deary

DRAAGS / MOIST CREVICE / SAINT TOILET @ New River Studios, Song's Kitchen, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, N4 1DN, 7pm, £8.80adv £10door 

'Draags - Leeds-based hyper-disassembled wonkcore, think Fantomas and Blood Brothers but bent through the lens of postmodern queer-leaning ultrapluralist political rage and joy'

JAMES CASPER / MAXIMILIAN / LANDO MANNING @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, Shoreditch, 7.30pm, FREE 
JASMINE.4.T / GRANDMAS HOUSE @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £12adv 

'jasmine.4.t’s music bursts with moments of love through its fingerpicked guitar, punk bombast, and raw vocal takes. She combines performance with activism and uses her platform to advocate for trans rights and marginalised groups.'

MORN / BED / TOMMY BARLOW / WING! @ The Social, 5 Little Portland St, 7pm, FREE 

MY FIRST TIME / PACK OF ANIMALS @ The Blue Basement at Third Man Records, 1 Marshall St, W1F 9BA, 7pm, £8adv  
THROWING MUSES @ Electric Ballroom, Camden, 8pm £28adv
"Kristin Hersh brings the Throwing Muses live show to Europe in Spring 2025. Their first tour since 2011, the ‘Muses will embark on a 2025 European tour as a three-piece, fronted by Kristin Hersh. Kristin Hersh remains one of the most unique and singular talents of her generation, a celebrated and gifted writer as well as relentlessly-touring musician. Throwing Muses-2025 finds Hersh going back to where it all began, with nearly 40 years of Muses-history behind them 2025 marks a new chapter in the project. A very rare opportunity to witness one of the great cult American rock bands, we look forward to presenting the ‘Muses on their intimate European adventure". (Bird on a Wire)

Wednesday 28th May 
ELLEN ARKBRO / LUCY RAILTON @ St James' Church, Sussex Gardens, W2 3UD, 7.30pm £24adv 

JULES SMITH (EP release) @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, Shoreditch, 7.30pm, FREE 

KEENAN O'MEARA @ The Blue Basement at Third Man Records, 1 Marshall St, W1F 9BA, 7pm, £8adv  
LAEL NEALE @ Omeara, 6 O'Meara Street, Borough, SE1 1TE, 7.30pm, £16adv
MAYA ONGAKU @ The Shacklewell Arms, Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7pm £15.90adv 
STEREOPHONICS @ Pryzm, 154 Clarence St, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 1QP, 6pm, £18+adv 

Thursday 29th May 

ALPHABET @ Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate St, Hoxton, E2 9AG, 7.30pm, £9.50adv   
GET DOWN SERVICES @ The Dome, 178 Junction Rd, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL, 7pm, £18adv  

KAIROS CREATURE CLUB @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7pm, FREE 
McLUSKY @ Electric Ballroom, Camden, 7.30pm £30adv
McLusky are, as we write this in December, a band of three, "don't worry, that's not a riddle or maybe it is? Who can say OR imagine why they'd be doing shows now (or then) or simply rearrange the following letters: nwe albmu", well that's what they were saying at the end of 2024...  "Mclusky were a band between 1999 and 2005, in which time they made a few friends and three albums. Slow-forward 16 years and, thanks to the uncanny pull of nostalgia and gravity, they have made more friends but no more albums. Originally persuaded to reform - like ham - to help save a local music venue and for other vaguely charitable reasons, Mclusky is the band but with Damien Sayell of The St. Pierre Snake Invasion playing bass and singing and is loads better (technical term) than it used to be, nostalgia be twatted directly in the eye".
MICHAEL GEORGIAN / LE JUNK / COLLECT CALL @ The Greyhound, 109 Peckham High St, SE15 5SE, 7pm, FREE 

'Georgians take on 90's Acid meets 80's Gothic Pop is made for the floor - and cemented by his televangelist preacher meets mental breakdown live show'

SKUNK ANANSIE @ Pryzm, 154 Clarence St, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 1QP, 8.30pm, £16+adv ​

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Friday 30th May 

THE DEAD SHOUT @ The Blue Basement at Third Man Records, 1 Marshall St, W1F 9BA, 7pm, £5adv  

FRANKIE & THE WITCH FINGERS @ The Shacklewell Arms, Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, £9.80adv  

HEAVY WILD / CURSER / BANG MARY @ Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate St, Hoxton, E2 9AG, 7.30pm, FREE  

NINA / NEW YORK / THE PLACE @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm £17.16adv  

QUINIE ('Forefowk, Mind Me' album launch) / HARRY GORSKI-BROWN / SOUND OF YELL (solo) @ St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Rd, King's Cross, NW1 1UL, 7.30pm, £10adv 

multi-disciplinary artist and singer Quinie in her own words, 'I sing Scots song and make work exploring language, landscape, tradition, identity, and alternative histories'

ROSEGARDEN FUNERAL PARTY @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern Street, Shoreditch, 7pm, £14.87adv 

SYLVAINE / OSI & THE JUPITER @ downstairs at The Dome, 178 Junction Rd, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL, 7.30pm, £25adv 

Norwegian black metal shoegaze from Sylvaine

TENGGER / MARINA MOORE @ Cafe OTO, Dalston, 7.30pm, £16adv 

Saturday 31st May 

DOG FOOD plus support @ Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate St, Hoxton, E2 9AG, 7.30pm, £12.50adv   
KŌENJI HYAKKE @ Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston, E8 3DL, 7.30pm, sold out  

MARSEILLE / SUBTERRANIA @ The Social, 5 Little Portland St, 2-7pm, £11.25adv 
SPLIT DOGS / ELECTRIC COWBOY CLUB / CHINESE JUNK / THE STRAIGHTJACKETS / MORREADORAS / THE PHOBICS - Shotgun Shack @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 2pm, £11.33adv   

'Dirty Water Records, Garageland Promotions & 14th Floor Music Distribution present... Shotgun Shack, an all-day festival of Outlaw Rock'n'Roll and Punk Rock'

​VAMPIRE / SHOVE / CATASROPHE / 1X1 / RÖT @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, Shoreditch, 7.30pm, £11.22adv   

'Double headliner from Australia. Anarcho Punk from Vampire & Frantic hardcore punk from Shove. Joined by London crust rippers Catastrophe.'







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