October 2025
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Wednesday 1st October
CALLINSICK @ Old Blue Last, Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, 7.30pm, £11adv
WENDY JAMES plus special guests @ 100 Club, Oxford, St, 7.30pm, £20.90adv
Wendy James (Transvision Vamp) kick starts UK tour in support of new album 'The Shape of History'
Thursday 2nd October
THE BETA BAND @ Roundhouse, Camden, 8pm, £39.50adv
FORTY FEET TALL @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, £10adv
MAGNETIC FIELDS @ Union Chapel, Islington, 7pm, sold out
SARAH DAVACHI / ANGHARAD DAVIES @ St Martins In The Field, Trafalgar Sq, WC2N 4JJ, 7.30pm, £24adv
YOUTH SECTOR @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £16.50adv
Friday 3rd October
THE BETA BAND @ Roundhouse, Camden, 8pm, £39.50adv
COTOBA @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £16adv
MAGNETIC FIELDS @ Union Chapel, Islington, 7pm, sold out
THEATRE OF HATE @ The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, Islington, 7pm, £34.25adv
Saturday 4th October
WAX HEAD @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, £11.40adv
Sunday 5th October
LERA LYNN @ Bush Hall, Shepherds Bush, 7.30pm, £27.50adv
MICHAEL J SHEEHY & THE HIRED MOURNERS / SUZANNE RHATIGAN @ Green Note, Parkway, Camden, 7pm, £15adv
Michael J Sheehey celebrating the release of brand new EP Don't We Deserve Some Kind Of Love ahead of a new album to be released early in 2026.
Tuesday 7th October
GLOIN @ The Shacklewell Arms, Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7pm, FREE
Gloin “make driving, dark post-punk” (BrooklynVegan)
Wednesday 8th October
BBBBBBB @ The Shacklewell Arms, Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, FREE
Debut London show for Japanese noise-hiphop band
Thursday 9th October
ADULT LEISURE @ Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate St, Hoxton, E2 9AG, 7.30pm, £11.50adv
MARTHA SKYE MURPHY @ St Giles' Church, Camberwell Church Street, Southwark, SE5 8TR, 7.30pm, £16adv
OGBERT THE NERD plus guests @ The George Tavern, 373 Commercial Rd, E1 0LA, 7.30pm, £5.62adv
New Jersey emo band Ogbert The Nerd
Friday 10th October
MCKINLEY DIXON @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £17.16adv
RYDER THE EAGLE @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, £12.47adv
Saturday 11th October
KINGMAKER / THEATRE ROYAL @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £24.20adv
SIR RICHARD BISHOP @ Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, E9 6DF, 7.30pm, £14adv
TRUTHPASTE @ The George Tavern, 373 Commercial Rd, E1 0LA, 7.30pm, £7.50adv
Sunday 12th October
CERYS HAFANA @ St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, N16 8DD, 5pm, £19adv
Monday 13th October
IONNALEE / IAMAMIWHOAMI @ Outernet, Charing Cross Rd, WC2H 8LH, 7pm, £32adv
JOSH KUMRA @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £22adv
Tuesday 14th October
EERA @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £15.58adv
MAGNETIC FIELDS @ Union Chapel, Islington, 7pm, £45adv
Wednesday 15th October
DAIISTAR @ Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB, 7pm, £16.45adv
EXPORT/IMPORT @ Corsica Studios, 4-5 Elephant Rd, SE17 1LB, 7.30pm, £10adv
HELLCRASH / OMINIOUS MOON @ Helgi's, 177 Mare St, Hackney, E8 3RH, 7.30pm, £11.33adv
Italian Metal trio Hellcrash are back with new album 'Inferno Crematörio' - more info here
MAGNETIC FIELDS @ Union Chapel, Islington, 7pm, £45adv
MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS @ Electric Ballroom, Camden, 6.30pm, £30adv
Thursday 16th October
BISHOPSKIN @ 100 Club, Oxford St, 7pm £14adv
'Bishopskin is a London-based project celebrated for eccentric live performances and a genre-defying blend of English pastoral folk, punk, 19th-century Romanticism, and mediaeval hymns.'
EADES @ Old Blue Last, Grt Eastern St, Shoreditch, 7.30pm, £16adv
ECHOBELLY @ Electric Ballroom, Camden, 7pm, £33adv
NAIMA BOCK @ St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, N16 8DD, 7pm, £19.43adv
THE UTOPIA STRONG / ANDREW LILES @ Cafe Oto, Ashwin St, Dalston, 7.30pm £20adv
Friday 17th October
3l3D3P @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £18.15adv
FINE @ St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, N16 8DD, 7.30pm, £14adv
'Fine is a Copenhagen-based singer-songwriter and producer whose music blends samples, acoustic and electric instruments into a groovy and ethereal crossover sound, both familiar and dreamlike.' (Bird on Wire)
NO JOY @ Moth Club, Valette St, Hackney, 7pm £18.70adv
Montreal shoegaze band No Joy, now solely composed of musician Jasamine White-Gluz
PUBLIC CIRCUIT @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, £11.33adv
Saturday 18th October
BONGRIPPER @ Dingwalls, Camden, 7.30pm, £32.05adv
Chicago instrumental doom metal band, Bongripper
HORSEBATH @ The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington, 7.30pm, £10adv
JOSIENNE CLARKE @ Bush Hall, Shepherds Bush, 7.30pm, £22adv
MAGIC SHOPPE @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, £17adv
SLOW CRUSH @ Oslo, 1A Amhurst Rd, Hackney, E8 1JB, 6.15pm, £20adv
WENDY JAMES @ Pryzm, 154 Clarence St, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 1QP, 7pm, £22adv
Sunday 19th October
HIBUSHIBIRE @ The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, 5pm, £15adv
YOB / CROUCH @ EartH Hall, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, N16 8BH, 7pm, £34.75adv
Monday 20th October
MCKINLEY DIXON @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £17.16adv
NATIVE SON @ The George Tavern, 373 Commercial Rd, E1 0LA, 7.30pm, £8adv
Tuesday 21st October
MCKINLEY DIXON @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £21.32adv
WEB @ The Greyhound, 109 Peckham High St, SE15 5SE, 7.30pm, £10adv
Experimental noise quartet Web "Web are on a mission to make music as heavy as they can. Partly in response to the wiry post-punk sound that has been de rigueur for the last few years around venues like The Windmill and Shacklewell Arms, their dark and visceral sound combines thrashing drums and guitar without ever quite becoming metal. Indeed, their music serves up surprises, at turns appealing to fans of jazz, prog, rock, pop, noise and beyond."
YHWH NAILGUN @ Scala, Kings Cross, 7.30pm £16.50adv
Wednesday 22nd October
IGORRR / MASTER BOOT RECORD / IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT @ Shepherds Bush Empire, 7pm £27adv
JUNK DRAWER plus more @ The Windmill, 22 Blenheim Gardens, Brixton Hill, SW2 5BZ, 7.30pm, £5adv
'Incorporating the imprint of Krautrock, post-punk, and psychedelia, Belfast's Junk Drawer's intuitively loose and idiosyncratic brand of indie rock mines anthems from their crate-digging tendencies.'
MARLA KETHER @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, £14.18adv
Thursday 23rd October
HOLDEN & ZIMPEL @ ICA, The Mall, 7.30pm, £26.95adv
RUTH LYON plus guests @ The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, 7.30pm, £11adv
SMOTE @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £16adv
'SMOTE, once a solo endeavor by Daniel Foggin, now expanded to a fuller ensemble blends traditional instrumentation — creaking strings, funeral drums, somber winds — with thunderous synth work and desolate guitar to craft drone and dirge.'
Friday 24th October
CODESPEAKER / PARTHOLÓN / THE GREY @ The Black Heart, 2–3 Greenland Place, Camden Town, NW1 0AP, 7.30pm £14adv
Emotional, bruising post-metal and sludge from Edinburgh's Codespeaker
FORGETTING THE FUTURE @ The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington, 7.30pm, £8adv
SWELL MAPS / VÄLVĒ @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £19adv
'Swell Maps emerged as a prominent figure in the post-punk movement of the late 1970s. Their unique sound blended elements of punk rock with experimental and avant-garde influences.'
WARRINGTON-RUNCORN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PLAN / JO JOHNSON @ Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Rd, Shoreditch, 7.30pm, £20adv
YOWIE plus guests @ Strongroom Bar, 120-124 Curtain Rd, EC2A 3SQ, 7.30pm, £20adv
'...rare UK performance, and a UK exclusive performance for St. Louis experimental rock pioneers YOWIE, to coincide with their upcoming new album. YOWIE push the boundaries of rhythm and structure, delivering an intense, angular, and mind-bending sonic experience. Their music is a labyrinth of interlocking patterns, where technical mastery meets raw energy.'
Saturday 25th October
JIM JONES ALL STARS @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £25.30adv
MERMAID CHUNKY @ ICA, The Mall, 7.30pm, £21.38adv
PADDY KEYES @ The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington, 7.30pm
THE TUBS / TRUST FUND / EX VÖID / GRAZIA / SUEP plus more - Gob Nation All-Dayer @ The Dome, Tufnell Park, 3pm, £18.30adv
Sunday 26th October
PROLAPSE @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, 7.30pm, £17adv
Monday 27th October
FROM FALL TO SPRING @ The Dome, 178 Junction Rd, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL, 7pm, £21adv
Tuesday 28th October
JESSICA WINTER @ The Lower Third, 26 Denmark Street, WC2H 8NJ, 7pm, £15.26adv
MARK WILLIAM LEWIS / TONY BONTANA @ Village Underground, Grt Eastern St, Shoreditch, 7.30pm £20.71adv
NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY @ Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Rd, Shoreditch, 7.30pm, £25adv
Wednesday 29th October
TITANIC @ ICA, The Mall, 7.30pm, £20.81adv
WENDY JAMES @ One NinetyFour, 194 Piccadilly, WIJ 9LN, 7.30pm, £28.15adv
Thursday 30th October
ATTILA CSIHAR @ The Old Church Stoke Newington, 7.30pm, £24.99adv
'Attila Csihar, born in Budapest, also sometimes known as Void, is a Hungarian extreme metal vocalist, best known for his vocal work in Norwegian black metal band Mayhem and American drone-doom project Sunn O)))'
THE YOUNG GODS @ The Garage, Highbury Corner, 7pm, £34.75adv
Friday 31st October
BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD @ Brixton Academy, 7pm £33adv
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