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.'
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
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
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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