May 2025

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Thursday 1st May

THE DSM IV / SPIRITS OF SATURN / LAURIE BLACK @ The Windmill, 22 Blenheim Gardens, Brixton Hill, SW2 5BZ, 7.45pm, £11adv 

THE ODES (Ted Milton & Sam Britton) / TOM MOODY @ The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, SE15 3BE, 7.30pm, £10door

"Odes" is Ted Milton's collaboration with laptop-musician Sam Britton, and groups Ted Milton's various solo-recordings and collaborations outside of Blurt in a new show.'

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Friday 2nd May 

BIG COUNTRY / PISTOL DAISYS @ 100 Club, Oxford St, 7pm, £33adv 

'Grammy-winning icons Big Country are set to storm London’s legendary 100 Club on Friday, 2nd, May, for an ultra-exclusive one-off show, marking the launch of their globe-spanning Eastworld World Tour'

BLACK BORDELLO / MANGO IN EUPHORIA / RED PERIL @ Paper Dress Vintage, 352a Mare Street, Hackney, E8 1HR, 7.30pm, £10adv
THE CRYSTAL TEARDROP / SCOTT HEPPLE AND THE SUN BAND @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm £15.40adv  

DREAMWAVE / SAN VITO RYDER @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7pm, £11.40adv 
INHUMAN NATURE @ downstairs at The Dome, 178 Junction Rd, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL, 7pm, £18adv

NEVER EASY @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern Street, Shoreditch, 7pm, £16.50adv   

Saturday 3rd May 

CONDOR / TRAMADOL / HITMEN / THE DOGS @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7pm, £11.33adv 

HEAVY LUNGS / EROTIC SECRETS OF POMPEII @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £17adv 
VISIONS OF WAR / ASHES OF DEATH plus more @ New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, 7pm, £10adv £12door

Sunday 4th May 

MEIN / BLACK MARKET KARMA / SKLOSS @ Moth Club, Valette St, Hackney, 7pm, £21adv 

POLLYPIKPOCKETZ / STEVES / LUKE EMMET / RAXIL 3 - A gig for Gaza @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7pm £11adv 
SNAKESKIN / THE LEAF LIBRARY @ Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7pm, FREE  

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Monday 5th May

JACK NAME / AOIFE NESSA FRANCIS @ Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7pm, £14adv    

Tuesday 6th May
MONDE UFO / PINK SHABAB @ Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7pm, FREE  
MUMBLE TIDE @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £13.75adv 

Wednesday 7th May 

AYA / MEAT STRAP @ Ormside Projects, Penarth Centre, 32 Ormside St, SE15 1TR, 7.30pm, £17adv 
FEDERICO ALBANESE @ Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 9AG, 8pm, £20adv
NAP EYES / ELIZA NIEMI @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £14.83adv
TOTAL TOMMY @ Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate St, Hoxton, E2 9AG, 7.30pm, £12.50adv  

Thursday 8th May 
THE 113 plus guests @ The Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3ES, 7.30pm, FREE 

CHRISTOF VAN DE VEN @ Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate St, Hoxton, E2 9AG, 7.30pm, £14.47adv 
INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIK @ The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7pm, £15adv  

MILKMAIDEN (‘Death of All Men’ EP Launch) @ VFDalston, 66 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XB, 7pm, £5+adv 

'MilkMaiden is your new favourite low–budget gaffa-tape goth queer cuntry music star. She is inspired by a legacy of divine, ethereal women such as Kate Bush, Courtney Love, and Dolly Parton with a big, crude and nude attitude. You might have seen her grace the stages of Sexquisite Cabaret as a resident act, and various dives throughout Manchester to London and New York to New Orleans. Opening for bands/artists like Skating Polly, Delilah Bon, and Crawlers. MilkMaiden is for the working grrrls, the dykes, and the dog. None of the above? Stand in the back x'
RIVAL CONSOLES @ Outernet, Charing Cross Rd, WC2H 8LH, 7.30pm, £28adv
'River Consoles is a London-based composer and producer using analog equipment to create his left-field electronic music.'
TRAMHAUS @ Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Rd, Shoreditch, 7pm, £15adv
'Tramhaus is the daring postpunk sensation from the restless and ever-innovative city of Rotterdam'
UGLY @ Village Underground, Grt Eastern St, Shoreditch, 7.30pm, £18.54adv 

Friday 9th May 

BROADSHEETS @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7pm, FREE  

MARGARITA WITCH CULT / LONGHEADS @ Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate St, Hoxton, E2 9AG, 7.30pm, £13.39adv  
ROLLER DERBY @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £13adv
WALLNER / FORGOTTEN GODS @ 229 Great Portland St, W1W 5PN, 7pm £18adv
'WALLNER is a ‘supergroup’ featuring a dazzling contingent of top-class prog musicians. Kalle Wallner (RPWL, Blind Ego) on guitars, John Jowitt (IQ, Frost*, Rain) on bass & backing vocals, Andy Edwards (IQ, Frost*, Robert Plant) on drums, Rob Groucutt (Rain, Tim Bowness, Freedom To Glide) on keys, guitar & backing vocals, and Charlie Bramald (Ghost of The Machine, Age of Distraction) on lead vocals.' - more info here

Saturday 10th May 

DAMIDGE / THE SIXX / FRACTURED @ Rooz Studios, 35 Corsham Street, N1 6DR, 7pm, FREE with pirate dress code / £10adv more on the door

'intense punk energy' from Damidge, 'dark, melodic rock' The Sixx and 'hard-hitting post punk' from Fractured, plus live DJ sets and after-hours performances... more info here 
THE MONOCHROME SET @ The Lexington, Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £19.80adv
THE PIST / THE MASOCHISTS / MORTAR @ Helgi's, 177 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH, 8pm, £10adv £12door info here
US Political Punk band, The Pist from Waterbury, Connecticut formed in 1992

THOUSAND YARD STARE @ 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, 7.30pm, £22.40adv 

Sunday 11th May 

CHIMERS / NOTHINGHEADS / GRINDING EYES @ New River Studios, Song's Kitchen, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, N4 1DN, 7pm, £8adv £10door 

visceral and urgent post punk due from Australia's Chimers, plus post punk, psych and doom from London's Nothingheads - more info here
DEATH VALLEY GIRLS / BELLA & THE BIZARRE @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £15adv 
'Death Valley Girls with a collage of scorching proto-punk riffs, earworm melodies, far-out lyrics, and lysergic auxiliary instrumentation'
ROSE CITY BAND @ The Garage, Highbury Corner, 7.30pm, £16adv

Monday 12th May
ADULT DVD @ Moth Club, Valette St, Hackney, 8pm £18.70adv  
Leeds based 6-piece Adult DVD 'have become known for their relentless output of infectious hooks and grooves with a euphoric live show that could be mistaken for a club night'
DICE @ The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, Islington, 7pm £21.45adv 

Tuesday 13th May
BANANAGUN / LUNA LAKE / THE STANFORD FAMILY BAND @ Moth Club, Valette St, Hackney, 7.30pm, £16adv
BRIA SALMENA @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £13adv 

PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7pm, £15.87adv   

Wednesday 14th May 
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE / CODEX SERAFINI @ 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, 7.30pm, £20adv
ARMLOCK @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £16adv 

'Australian duo Armlock play understated, contemplative indie rock to numb you from the weary world.'
CIRCUIT DES YEUX @ ICA, The Mall, 7.30pm, £20adv
'Circuit des Yeux is the moniker of Haley Fohr, a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter based in Chicago.'
DEAD PIONEERS @ The Dome, 178 Junction Rd, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL, 7pm, £13.75adv  

LUNA KILLS @ The Black Heart, 2–3 Greenland Place, Camden Town, NW1 0AP, 7pm, £11adv 
TVOD / PATCHE @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, FREE   

WINNETKA BOWLING LEAGUE plus guests @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern Street, Shoreditch, 7pm, £16.83adv     

Thursday 15th May
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE / THEE ALCOHOLICS @ Corsica Studios, 4-5 Elephant Rd, SE17 1LB, 7.30pm, £20adv  

BLOODY/BATH @ Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate St, Hoxton, E2 9AG, 7.30pm, FREE 

THE DARKNESS @ Pryzm, 154 Clarence St, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 1QP, 7pm, £21+adv 

SNAPPED ANKLES / SAINT ABDULLAH @ Fabric, 77A Charterhouse St, EC1M 6HJ, 7pm £25adv
TOBY LEE @ Bush Hall, Shepherds Bush, 7.30pm, £19adv

QUAL / SPIKE @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £16.50adv 

Friday 16th May

INSECURE MEN / ALIX FERNZ / ZAUM FOR STRANGERS @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7pm, £16.50adv 

Pop, rock, psychedelica & exotica from Saul Adamczewski & friends 

M(H)AOL @ George Tavern, 373 Commercial Rd, Stepney, E1 0LA, 7pm, £14.20adv 

Saturday 17th May
BEVIS FROND - day 1 @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm £19.80adv 

JEFF CLARK (Black Lips) plus more @ New River Studios, Song's Kitchen, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, N4 1DN, 7pm, £11adv  

MOHAMMAD SYFKHAN / SACRED PAWS @ Oslo, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL, 7pm, £15adv 

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

EGGY @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7pm FREE  ​

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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 

Tuesday 20th May 
THE GOLDEN DREGS @ 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, 7pm £15adv 
JAGGED BAPTIST CLUB @ 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 

ESTHER ROSE @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7pm £19.45adv 
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 £17adv 

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' 
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 

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

Friday 23rd May 

BASHT @ The Lexington, 96-98 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 @ 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, 7pm, 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  

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 @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern Street, Shoreditch, 7pm, FREE 
SUNBRELLA @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm £14.32adv  

Sunday 25th May 

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

Tuesday 27th May 
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'
JASMINE.4.T @ 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.'
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 
LAEL NEALE @ Omeara, 6 O'Meara Street, Borough, SE1 1TE, 7.30pm, £16adv
MAYA ONGAKU @ The Shacklewell Arms, Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7pm £15.90adv 

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".
 

Friday 30th May

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 @ 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 £24.99adv 
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'

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