London Sound Index - 16th-30th June
ICYMI — important to acknowledge that Kings Place, a venue we regularly list on LSI, was due to host a “security” conference sponsored by Lockheed Martin, weapons manufacturer and facilitator of (among other atrocities) the ongoing genocide in Gaza, until public outcry and pressure forced the venue to reconsider. Of course, the fact that the event was scheduled to take place there at all is a sad indictment of the widespread cohabitation of artistic and commercial, even warmongering, interests in music events across the UK (as recent boycotts of Great Escape Festival and SXSW London have shown). Moreover, the fact that Kings Place initially put out a statement explaining that nothing could be done about the conference, as it was arranged by a commercial entity distinct from the Music Foundation, only to scrub this from the web and withdraw from hosting after increased pressure, shows that something, after all, can be done about this.
To make our position clear: LSI will not list venues that take money from war profiteers. For their part, Kings Place claim to be developing “policies and frameworks which will put in place a procedure in case concerns ever arise in the future” — we look forward to learning what these will be, and how the venue will ensure that something similar won’t happen again. Read more here. Free Palestine.
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16th June (Mon)
Alien Nosejob, Middleman, Fatberg
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£14 + bf
BADBADNOTGOOD + Haseeb Iqbal
Royal Festival Hall ✅7+
SE1 8XX
SOLD OUT, wait list only
Florist
Union Chapel ♿️
N1 2UN
£24.75
SHAPE+ SHOWCASE: Dania + Lukas de Clerck + Paula Vītola + Eve Aboulkheir
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members
Multi-national bill of interdisciplinary sound art
17th June (Tue)
Contention, LongGoodbye, Kenya, Hour of Reprisal
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£12 + bf
"Straight-edge metalcore moshers from the US, Bali and the UK"
Hoy Chorale, Animal Soup
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£8
"post-Catalan, post-Americana moving ensemble"
Meilt + Semay Wu + Free Magic Show + Falling Cat Problem
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12; £10 adv; £6 members
"broken tape noise, field recordings, found sounds and feedback"
Vogues + FLOCO + Yuki
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
Various new UK electronic / folk / pop acts; "strange, shimmering energy"
18th June (Wed)
BURNING HARPSICHORD SALON: Bill Thompson's "Eleven" + Group Improvisation
The Hill Station Cafe ☑️
SE14 5TW
£10; £5 students
Drainolith + Bromp Treb (Neil 'Cloaca' Young) + Triple Negative
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£15; £13 adv; £8 members
solo project from AIDS Wolf "first-chair guitar[ist]" b/w 2/3 of Tristwch Y Fenywod
heka, Naima Bock, Aga Ujma
Total Refreshment Centre ⏳
N16 7UR
£12
Iron Lung + Bad Breeding + Frisk + Total Con + Casing
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£15.04; SOLD OUT, wait list only
LET FOREVER BE DELAYED: George Garford / Tara Cunningham / Caius Williams / Theo Guttenplan
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£12.50; £6.25 members
Terror, Jivebomb, No Relief
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£25 + bf
"Hardcore-core for the Keepers of The Faith"
19th June (Thu)
Claire Rousay Two-Day Residency (Day One): Claire Rousay Ensemble Work ft. Tara Cunningham, Hannah Marshall, Caius Williams
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£22; £20 adv; £15 members
Corbin
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB
SOLD OUT, wait list only
London Sacred Harp
Piehouse Co-Op ♿️
SE8 5HD
£13.70; £7.21 low income tickets
if you've never heard the songs of the sacred harp performed, prepare for a spine tingling evening. loadsa people singing together + four part harmony = ascension
Pyrex + Necron 9 + Cicada
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£12
wind tunnel hardcore from NY , Milwaukee
Youth Lagoon, Clara Mann
Islington Assembly Hall ✅
N1 2UD
£19.50 + fees
Zohastre + FOUDRE!
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
highly recommended frenetic drum/electronic freakout from France
20th June (Fri)
Claire Rousay Two-Day Residency (Day Two): Claire Rousay (solo) + Flora Yin-Wong
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£22; £20 adv; £15 members
EYG GETS TO WERK: CRAIC DAVID, Mia Moto, SANA, Louis, CON (UK), Andy
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
1st release £3.50; 2nd release £5
2000-0200 footwork
Horsegirl + Nightshift
Scala 📶
N1 9NL
£20 + fees; SOLD OUT, wait list only
also playing at Scala on 29/6 (not sold out at time of writing); excellent rock music from Chicago FFO the Clean, the Raincoats, Cate le Bon (who also produced their newest and best LP)
Kim Deal
Roundhouse ✅🅰️(<16)
NW1 8EH
£35
Max Eastley / Adrian Northover / Adam Bohman (trio) + Tom Ward / Adam Fairhall (duo) + Kate Carr / Cath Roberts (duo)
Christ Church Blackfriars Bridge (John Marshall Hall) ♿️🅰️
SE1 8NY
£10
improv
21st June (Sat)
5 GATE TEMPLE 10 YEARS: Covco, John T. Gast, Junior Loves, Mellowdramatics, NY Graffiti, Sister Marion, Solomon Garçon, Xterea
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£17.50 + bf final release
Creep of Paris + Brand New Flesh + Jackson Burton & Rory Salter + Max Ball + Sloughed + Petrichor + Swole
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£12
1900-0300 Leytonstone's top purveyor of harsh noise and other weird sounds -- expect "beguiling broken music", "harsh noisescapes of the body cyber", "two reprobates", "Burial and Jandek [in] a barfight", "bodybuilding themed wall noise"
Death in Vegas, Maxwell Sterling, Proteus
EartH Theatre ☑️
N16 8BH
£25 + bf
Ligeti Quartet perform Anna Meredith
Barbican Cinema 1 ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
from £22.50
Lower Slaughter + the Eurosuite
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
MILK A BULL: @, Insides, Claire Rousay, James Krivchenia
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£25 + bf
Curated by 4AD
STARING AT THE SUN: Musarc perform Joanna Ward and Reuben Esterhuizen, Heleen van Haegenborgh, Lin Chiwei
St Paul's Bow Common ♿️
E3 4AR
from £12
Contemporary choir's sixth annual midsummer concert which sees them "sing into the sunset on the longest day of the year"
Summer Solstice Party
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
4pm - 10pm. lineup seemingly mysterious. only clue on the poster: 'when the going is smooth and good'
Truthpaste, Speedial, Henry Coke, Pink Eye Club
Windmill Brixton ☑️
SW2 5BZ
£5
new and good guitar bands
22nd June (Sun)
BANQUET: NYSSA, Spike, Glass Eel, Rosey PM, Suep, Dudu, Kri, Emily Izen Row, El Gold
Piehouse Co-Op ♿️
SE8 5HD
£5-£10
an evening of music, art & magick to celebrate and summon summer'
KANTINE MUSIK: Peter Zummo, Zoot Lynam, Caroline Kraabel, Flora Curzon, Beanie Bhebhe, Bex Burch
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£17; £15 adv; £10 members
Méryll Ampe, Agata Genissel, birdsong inherited noise (Joe Davies), the Metal House, Rectal Reaper (Aga Ujma and Alex McKenzie)
Horse Hospital ☑️
WC1N 1JD
£6-10 sliding scale
1600-2000 "noise music matinée"
UNBOUND: Etudes Study Group + Laura Fudge / Isaac Robson / Phil Hollins / Charlie Folorunsho (quartet) + Freland Green / Pete Robson / Stuart Wilding / Sally Stamp / Jacqui Rozdoda (quintet)
Golden Goose Theatre ✅🅰️
SE5 0RR
£10 + bf
improv from Lofi workshop group
23rd June (Mon)
David Grubbs + Secluded Bronte
St Pancras Old Church ✅
NW1 1UL
£17
truly excellent double billing of prolific windy city guitarist, legendary collaborator and gastr del sol founding member, along with the south of england's finest (bohman bros + richard thomas)
Osees
Electric Ballroom ✅
NW1 8QP
£34.20
Rock Music!!!!! (also playing 24/6 at EARTH but that's sold out)
PREPARATIONS: Gentle Stranger, otta, Stanley Welch
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£15; £13 adv; £8 members
All acts on prepared piano
24th June (Tue)
Osees
EartH Hall ✅
N16 8BH
SOLD OUT, wait list only
also playing 23/6 at Electric Ballroom (that's not sold out at time of writing)
25th June (Wed)
FLIMFLAM: Colin Webster / Cauis Williams / Andrew Lisle (trio) + Tom Jackson / Daniel Thompson (duo) + Alan Wilkinson / Alex Bonney (duo)
Ryan's Bar 📶
N16 0UL
£8-£10
Maggie Nicols & Geoff Eales + Ashley Paul
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16; £14 adv; £8 members
the Hobknobs
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
Ft. members of incredible jank-straight-face-punk quartet Lewsberg
zerosome residency (night 1 of 3)
Windmill Brixton ☑️
SW2 5BZ
£10
First of three nights w Life is Beautiful-affiliated collective (home to Nwakke, Bianca Scout, Isaiah Hull, many others on LDN's digital fringe)
26th June (Thu)
Couch Sluts, Death Goals
Downstairs at the Dome ⏳
N19 5QQ
£20 adv
FAUX FANCY: Camberwell Group + wing! + Big Oil
The Ivy House ☑️
SE15 3BE
£8; £5 unwaged
a night of instrumental music
HER MODULO: Anneke Kampan, Paul Rekret, Louis Digital
TACO! ♿️
SE2 9FA
FREE
"The soft aspirations of a synthesised female voice resonate from a Muji wall-mounted CD player in a kitchen in the Bunkyo-ku district of Tokyo, Japan, 1999..."
Masma Dream World
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
from £20
my tiny room, scadenza, sevy verna, cosmic scream
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£6 + bf
hardcore / punk night
zerosome residency (night 2 of 3)
Windmill Brixton ☑️
SW2 5BZ
£10
See 25/6
27th June (Fri)
Beth Gibbons
Roundhouse ✅🅰️(<16)
NW1 8EH
SOLD OUT, wait list only
Elvin Brandhi / Severin Black / Mel Keane
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16; £14 adv; £10 members
"auto-tune blast beats" plus "sonic spectrums of ethereality and dissonance" plus "the immediate, microtonal and trance-inducing properties of pipe bands"
Extra Life, Seaming To
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£16.50
for-the-heads out-there experimental prog FFO John Zorn, Dirty Projectors, Guillaume du Machaut
KLSR + James Adrian Brown
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB
£15
MUSIC WE'D LIKE TO HEAR: Melanie Pappenheim, Maddie Ashman, Angharad Davies, others perform Laurence Crane, Thomas Stiegler, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Markus Trunk, Maddie Ashman, Chris Newman
St Mary-At-Hill✅🅰️
EC3R 8EE
from £11.55
"20th annual summer concert series of new, neglected and unfamiliar music"
the Hard Quartet (Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly, Jim White, Matt Sweeney) + Memorials + the Rebel
EartH Theatre ☑️
N16 8BH
£42.75
zerosome residency (night 3 of 3)
Windmill Brixton ☑️
SW2 5BZ
£10
See 25/6
28th June (Fri)
CONDITIONS PARTY: HARDCORE / LOVE with Arthur Jafa, Mark Leckey, TTB, Shauwdii
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
SOLD OUT, wait list only
Ensemble Modern perform Alex Paxton, Anthony Braxton, Anna Meredith, Tansy Davies, more
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
from £16
as part of Wigmore's 'Voices of Today' series -- Braxton is the oldest composer on the programme!
The Double (Jim White / Emmett Kelly) + Charles Hayward - '30 Minute Snare Drum Roll'
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18; £16 adv; £10 members
29th June (Sun)
Horsegirl + Sarah Meth
Scala 📶
N1 9NL
£20 + bf
see 20/6
Old Man of The Woods + Me Lost Me + Doom Club
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
Plus-Minus Ensemble perform Peter Maxwell Davies, Stravinsky, Francesca Fargion, Newton Armstrong, Alex Parton, Natacha Diels + Newton Armstrong
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members
30th June (Mon)
Roger Turner / David Toop / Phil Minton / Rhodri Davies (quartet)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16; £14 adv; £8 members
Titans of top-shelf weirdo liminal improv
kings place have been doing zionist programming for a long time, if you search ‘kings place israel’ plenty comes up. glad you are not listing them and thanks for the listings!