London Sound Index - 16th-30th November
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16th November (Sat)
ANA x LABORATORIO PALESTRO: Severin Black + Living Gatlato + Tea Es G + Laboratorio Palestro + Gamba
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£12
club - seems experimental/latin/italian? leaning
Bassvictim
Studio 92924 ♿️
E9 5LN
£22
Hypnagogic EDM? FFO Farrah Abraham, 'the Life of Pablo', Hype Williams, Calvin Harris
David Alberman (violin), Louise McMonagle (cello) and Mark Knoop (piano) perform David Fennessy, Rufus Isabel Elliot, Barbara Monk Feldman, more
LSO St Luke's ✅🅰️
EC1V 9NG
£8 (£5 for under-18s) + bf
LSO Jerwood+ composer showcase -- very new work by young strange soundmakers mixed w older names
EALING EXTRANORMAL: Jason Kahn + Rotten Bliss + Tony James Morton + Dominic Matthews
OPEN Ealing Arts Centre ⏳
W5 2TD
£12/£15
monthly showcase for sonically adventurous experimental music - this time featuring a sci-fi opera! BYOB
Evicshen Two Day Residency (Day One): Evicshen / Will Guthrie (duo) + Evicshen (solo)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£17; £15 adv; £10 members
France + Gentle Stranger
Rich Mix ♿️
E1 6LA
£20
"Some say it's kraut, some say it's drone, some say it's traditional French music...." French/Belgian underground "juggernauts" + support by LSI associated cult rarity
HELLO NEIGHBOURS: M..E.L.T., the Electronic Audio Club, Subphonics
TACO! ♿️
SE2 9FA
FREE
Closing party of weird electronic responses to current exhibition at Thamesmead arts space
Matthew Grigg / Martin Hackett / Dominic Lash / Heather Roche
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 OTD cash only
noisy improvisers playing in solo, trio and quartet configurations
OK WILLIAMS UK HUN: BEARCAT, MISFYA, OK Williams
Colour Factory ⏳
E9 5EN
£15; £45 for four
2300-0400 first of four saturday shows for excellent London DJ / NTS resident (also performing 23/11, 30/11)
Pat Metheny
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
from £45; SOLD OUT, waiting list only
SERAPH FM: Nazar, DOUWANTTOMOVEBACKTOLDN, susu laroche x Mobbs, Mike Levitt, TLC23
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£14 + bf
Tara Clerkin Trio + Able Noise
EartH Theatre 📶
N16 8BH
£18.98
"miniature dub-folk symphonies held together by the kind of tacit understanding that remains the preserve of only the closest of family units" - supported by LSI adored live guitar&drums&tapes&.... duo
17th November (Sun)
Chris Hill / Alan Newcombe / James O'Sullivan / Matt Atkins / Dave Fowler / Iris Colomb / Ed Shipsey / James Muscatello (MATINÉE)
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10
improv
Evicshen Two Day Residency (Day One): Evicshen / Will Guthrie (duo) + Evicshen (solo)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£17; £15 adv; £10 members
Fabiano do Nascimento + Marysia Osu
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£28.18
Julien Baker (night 1/5)
EartH Hall ✅
N16 8BH
£36.16 (SOLD OUT; waiting list only)
Malibu, Qoq, seedy executive type
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£20 + bf
MOPOMOSO: Oren Marshall + Alan Wilkinson + Steve Noble / Lawrence Casserley + Pascal Marzan + Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg + Phil Wachsmann / Gus Garside + Danny Kingshill + Sylvia Hallett
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£13.20/£9 concession
free improv
NØELLE + Alien Alarms + Perry Frank + -rf * + VJs
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£8 or more OTD
hyperpop, breakbeats, psychedelic, .... + live visuals!
18th November (Mon)
Charles Tolliver + big band celebrate the music of Max Roach
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
from £25 + bf
100th birthday of one of the most important, wide-ranging jazz drummers ever
Julien Baker (night 2/5)
EartH Hall ✅
N16 8BH
£36.16 (SOLD OUT; waiting list only)
Melos Kalpa + Luce Mawdsley
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£15; £13 adv; £8 members
MJ Lenderman and The Wind + Hollow Hand
The Garage ♿️
N5 1RD
SOLD OUT - wait list only (£16)
2nd sold out gig on 19th
19th November (Tue)
Chris Cohen + Large Plants
The 100 Club 📶
W1D 1LL
£16
ex-Deerhoof hero song-and-parts genius / support by "hauntological fuzz-rock project"
Frise Lumière + Semay Wu + Dan Jones
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£10
solo bass, elctroacoustic cello, irish bouzouki fuckery
Julien Baker (night 3/5)
EartH Hall ✅
N16 8BH
£36.16 (SOLD OUT; waiting list only)
Milan Ring + Rosa Cecilia + Bumpy
Folklore ⏳
E2 7QL
£12
"leading in Australia’s "R&B renaissance," ... crafts ethereal vocal arrangements while centering the guitar, her second home"
MJ Lenderman and The Wind + Hollow Hand
The Garage ♿️
N5 1RD
SOLD OUT - wait list only (£16)
see 18/11
Seymour Wright / Pat Thomas / John Edwards / Steve Noble Three Day Residency (Day One)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £8 members
Good lord. Absolute creme de la creme dream team of free improvisation masters. Go be in the presence of greats -- with three days to choose from you've no excuse
The Slow Country, Lichen, Weaving in Purgatory
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
"jagged landscape of heartache and bliss"
TURN UP FOR GAZA: Rozi Plain, Tom Skinner, Betamax, Danalogue, Ruth Goller, Robyn Rocket, many others
Colour Factory ⏳
E9 5EN
general admission £25; low wage tix from £12 available
Xiu Xiu + Evicshen + John Lee Bird & Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo
HEAVEN ⏳
WC2N 6NG
£18.13
I don't know them well enough to do them justice - just know a significant LSI delegation is pulling up - one of them called it “industrial pop” - one of them refused to come to another gig because "19th is Xiu Xiu day"
20th November (Wed)
Billy Cobham with BBC Concert Orchestra
Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall) ✅7+
SE1 8XX
from £15
King of unbelievably fast mathematical grooves you know from Mahavishnu Orchestra / electric Miles celebrates 80th bday with full BBC orchestra
Clarissa Connelly + Fine
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£21.38
hard to describe ethereal in some way folk-y(??) magic!
Julien Baker (night 4/5)
EartH Hall ✅
N16 8BH
£36.16 (SOLD OUT; waiting list only)
Mary Jane Dunphe, Samba Jean-Baptiste, GB, Max Winter
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£16.5 now, 18 later
experimental pop?
Seymour Wright / Pat Thomas / John Edwards / Steve Noble Three Day Residency (Day Two)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £8 members
see 19/11
SKATE LATES: Kelly Moran, Village Cuts
Somerset House ✅
WC2R 1LA
from £15
Move and shake on tiny wheels to peculiar harmonic voicings of experimental NY pianist
The Dare
HEAVEN ⏳
WC2N 6NG
SOLD OUT
Indie-sleaze revival edgelord of charli's GUESS producer fame. actually really rocks... more sold-out dates on 26&27
Tony Njoku + feeo
St Matthias Church ☑️
N16 8DD
£17.60
British-Nigerian artist with angelic voice and some experimental leanings
21st November (Thu)
ATTEMPTING SOMETHING (1/3): Brendan Wells (Uranium Club), Megzbow & Vinegar Tom, No Home, Fiscal Harm
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£10/£5 + bf; more on the door
Three shows in three days across the south convened by essential reading monthly DIY/punk newsletter Another Subculture. All profits go to Free Kitchen Gaza and Medical Aid for Palestinians. This is night 1 of 3: "DIRECT INPUT"
Ben Frost + Lyra Pramuk
fabric ♿️
EC1M 6HJ
£22.50 + bf
Carlycore, LC, Forest Casual, Kelman Duran, Ans M
Loki ♿️
SW9 7JJ
£10 + bf
Hardcore techno / huayno fusion from Lima Peru
DÉCALÉ: Ashley Holmes & Jamal Sterrett, Arash Nassiri & Saint Abdullah, Edmund Hardy, Flora Yin-Wong, Olukemi Lijadu, Chooc Ly
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£13; £10 concession; £18 solidarity
Gloria Yehilevsky / Sam Norris / Aram Bahmaie
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£12 card/cash otd
Trio led by London-based "composer, percussionist and researcher"
Julien Baker (night 5/5)
EartH Hall ✅
N16 8BH
£36.16 (SOLD OUT; waiting list only)
Meyy
St Pancras Old Church ✅
NW1 1UL
£??? - sign up via mailing list
R&B with gorg (background) vocals and sometimes experimental production
Nuha Ruby Ra + KEG
Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall) ✅
SE1 8XX
FREE
London art-punk queen
Seymour Wright / Pat Thomas / John Edwards / Steve Noble Three Day Residency (Day Three)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £8 members
see 19/11
22nd November (Fri)
ATTEMPTING SOMETHING (2/3): Gimic, Gamma, Ritual Error, Sublux, Rubber, karaoke hosted by Sabrina the Teenage Bitch
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£10/£5 + bf; more on the door; FREE after 23:00
see 21/11. This is night 2 of 3: "LOUD NIGHT"
CTM x ICA (Night 1/2): —__–___ (Seth Graham & More Eaze), Rabih Beaini & Julian Sartorius, Lamb (fka LAMB K305), Stephen O'Malley
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£29.87
Two-day fest curated by highlighter of "new strains of club music and fringe sonic cultures". Come for "grainy, imaginative analogue techno", "a space where the boundaries of self and sound blur", "apocalyptic pop", "guitar abrasion and sonic pressure"
ORIENTATE: DJ Fart in the Club (4 hour set), John Xie b2b Seyer
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£17.50 + bf
2300-0500 let er rip
ORIGINS x SMALL TALK: Anz
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£20; £17.50 before midnight
2300-0600; "4x4 rollers, acid cuts, speed garage, and breakbeats"
Stable + Perpetua + Shearman
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£10
Glasgow noise + dungeon synth + "resident worm"
Three Trapped Tigers
Electric Ballroom ✅
NW1 8QP
£22.50 + bf
أحمد [Ahmed] + Elaine Mitchener & Neil Charles
Kings Place (Hall One) ✅
N1 9AG
from £9.50 + bfs
Craaaaazy double bill. Mitchener one of the most essential vocalists / composers working today + total bananas runaway steam train new jazz quartet
23rd November (Sat)
ATTEMPTING SOMETHING (3/3): R.Aggs, Holiday Ghosts, Dean Rodney Jr & the Cowboys, Vaiapraia, Marcel Wave, Grazia, Keno, Virvon Varvon, Benny Lager and the Tops
The Ivy House ☑️
SE15 3BE
£20/£10 + bf; under 18s FREE (must vacate by 8pm)
see 21/11; 1400-0000
Baggio, Tugboat Captain, Crazy Paving
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
£8.50
Big Songs of London triple threat!
BOUNDARY CONDITION: Dirar Kalash + Thomas Stone + Roxanna Albayati + Il Santo Bevitore & The Seer + more
St James Garlickhythe ♿️
EC4V 2AF
£18 (final release)
packed-fit-to-burst third anniversary event for ambitious "durational sonic immersion" series -- nine artists in a 12th century church draw from Iranian neoclassical music, Norse symbolism, Sardinian paganism, and numerous other strands. Also features "Generative Projection Mappings inspired by the work of Sergei Parajanov"
CTM x ICA (Night 2/2): Kuntari, Nídia & Valentina Magaletti, Loraine James, C Ghettão (DJ Danifox, DJ Firmeza, DJ N* Fox)
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£29.87
Dianaband, Vegetable Wife w/ JaeHyung Park, Li Song, Titus Barker
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£8, NOTAFLOF
very little info online but probably experimental, droning, definitely some from Seoul
Down The Well: Chloe Frieda+ Odd Spiral + DJ Decaf
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£10
Kathy Hinde & Konx-om-Pax
Kings Place (Hall Two) ✅
N1 9AG
£8.50-£20.00 + bf
"converting John Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale into Morse code" + more... sounds sick
OK WILLIAMS UK HUN: LEXII, Angelita, OK Williams
Colour Factory ⏳
E9 5EN
£15; £45 for four
see 16/11
Ríoghnach Connolly + Amy Hollinrake
Cecil Sharp House ✅🅰️
NW1 7AY
£20/10 u30
more irish trad songs!
SNEAKER SOCIAL CLUB: Christoph de Babalon, Appleblim, Horsepower Productions, mi-el
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£16; £30 for 'three peeps arriving together'
24th November (Sun)
ANOHNI sings Lou Reed
Royal Festival Hall ✅
SE1 8XX
£60-90 + bf
yesss it's way expensive but c'mon we have to tell u!
Evan Parker & Matthew Wright, with Pat Thomas, Hannah Marshall, Alex Ward, Robert Jarvis [MATINÉE]
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£17; £15 adv; £10 members
LA Timpa + Klein + Wisteria (DJ)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£21; £19 adv; £16 members
Brooklyn-via-Lagos riveting liminal song b/w Lewisham mind-bender / Great Composer Of Our Time
Mark Hewins / Ntshuks Bonga / Stuart Wilding (MATINÉE)
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash
Canterbury guitarist b/w South African jazz improviser b/w junk percussionist/lap harpist
SIKELELA: Thandi Ntuli / Thandiswa Mazwai + Bokani Dyer / Keenan Meyer / Tumi Mogorosi / Soweto Kinch + The Brother Moves On / Chelsea Carmichael / Zu
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
from £20 + bf
Show of contemporary avant-garde South African jazz practitioners to mark the country's 30th anniversary of democracy
Something in the Lake, Van Zon, Sharkpit
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
£8
courtesy of Big Richard records, prolific curators of UK new weird guitar music
25th November (Mon)
David Murray / Ingebrigt Håker Flaten / Paal Nilssen-Love Two Day Residency (Day One)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£40; £35 adv; £30 members
second wave free jazz legend b/w two mighty Norwegians, a two day engagement. Burly, yet sensitive!
26th November (Tue)
Bilderbuch + DONKEY KID
The Garage ♿️
N5 1RD
£22,50
Austria's biggest? best? - idk, but I know I'm hyped to see them! - poppy, sexy, groovy, stylish rock-band export of the last 10 years! They arguably got even better after their limelight moment in the mid-2010s
David Murray / Ingebrigt Håker Flaten / Paal Nilssen-Love Two Day Residency (Day Two)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£40; £35 adv; £30 members
see 25/11
Maria Somerville, Ydegirl, Planes, Grady Steele
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£15
Porridge Radio + The Umlauts
Electric Brixton ⏳
SW2 1RJ
£24.10
27th November (Wed)
FLIM-FLAM: Ed Williams + Anough Genthon / Kay Grant + Iam McLachlan + Daniel Thompson / Chris Dowding + Dave Amis + Ben Higham + Alan Wilkinson
Ryan's Bar 📶
N16 0UL
£10/8 cash OTD
"Monthly club night for Improvised Music running since 2001 on the last Wednesday of each month. This one features a clavichord and violin duo, a voice, trombone and acoustic guitar trio, and the brass trio Hard Edges joined by the host on reeds."
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) performs Debussy, Stockhausen, others
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
from £18; £5 for under-35s
Kiran Leonard + Sunglasz Vendor
Moor Beer Vaults ♿️
SE16 3RA
£13
the man himself - his live band is looking splendid too - come for tender & explosive songwriting, come for guitar shredding, come for lovely & powerful arrangements - come for the music-for-money deal of the month
Niamh Parsons
Cecil Sharp House ✅🅰️
NW1 7AY
£10
more irish songs!
Rasmus Östling + Teemu Ruissalo + On Yee Loo + Isto Rahkila + karaoke hosted by Ash Reid
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; FREE for members
Infant Tree brings Finnish artists, "anachronistic aproximación", "Cooking Instruments", "utilitarian and reductionist means of presentation through all intermedia"
the Folk Implosion
Oslo ♿️
E8 1LL
£22.50
Lou Barlow in the building!!!
28th November (Thu)
Aga Ujma
Longfield Hall ⏳
SE5 9QY
£12
London/Polands very own Sasando pop experimentalist celebrating her new EP release
Goat Girl + The New Eves
Electric Brixton ⏳
SW2 1RJ
£23
IKLECTIK x FAT OUT: Alpha / A- - -Z aka Anne Duffau, I Am Fya, ex.sses, Hypersea
The Glove That Fits ☑️
E9 6LH
£13.50
experimental music promoter celebrating 10th anniversary teams up w Salford-based experimental/queer fest
Ilan Volkov and London Symphony Orchestra perform Lachenmann, Beethoven
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
from £18 + bf
"two sound worlds, two centuries apart" - Lachenmann will break your brain, LVB famously rocks
Jali Bakary Konteh
Kings Place (Hall Two) ✅
N1 9AG
£7.50-£15.00
Gambian kora player from legendary family of Gambian kora players
Nwakke + Theadora + Afromerm + Abi Asisa + Shauwdii (DJ)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members
"dedicated to celebrating and uplifting women of colour in experimental music"
SUSPENDED OBJECTS: AM sin + happyhappyface + Pentu + Louis d'Heudieres + Lara Agar + AILSA + Deedee Licious
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£8-10
"immersive night of experimental music & live performance art, where modular synthesis & live vocals blend with real-time visuals." !
the Horrors
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£33.84
ШЩЦ x LEISURE FM: 639 Distortion, Perpetua, leisure fm, Scarby_2007, David Varhegyi
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£12 (£16 for two people) + bf
"electronic emo night [...] for edgy hearts, for what we love, to remember (¯`◕‿◕´¯)"
29th November (Fri)
@xcrswx + Pat Thomas (solo electronics set) + Vasco Alves + YPLO
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members
Strange sparse and faltering rhythms from duo of Crystabel Riley and Seymour Wright, plus Pat Thomas alert, plus "miminal and unstable processes which may include [...] the gaita de fole (portuguese bagpipes)"
Floating World Pictures + The Jonny Halifax Trio & tyroneisaacstuart
Two Palms ✅
E8 1EJ
£12
Jon Wilks + Duncan McTaggart + Nick Edward Harris
The Ivy House ☑️
SE15 3BE
£16
folk
London Sinfionetta and Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble perform Morton Feldman's 'For Samuel Beckett'
Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall) ✅7+
SE1 8XX
from £11
Metz + the None
EartH Hall ✅
N16 8BH
£21.22
QU JUNKTIONS x ORMSIDE: The Bug, MC Yallah & Debmaster, ML Buch, Still House Plants, Raime DJs, more
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
SOLD OUT; waiting list only
yunè pinku + Ebbb
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£17.98
30th November (Sat)
Andy Irvine + Milkweed + Brownwimpenny
MOTH Club ☑️
E9 6NU
£15
"one of the great Irish singers.... hailed as "a tradition in himself" + support by LSI favourite weirdo folk duo + support by Mancunian ragtag folk gigagroup upstarts
CHAOS THEORY: aya, AJA, Hesska, Riotmiloo, She The Throne, NNJA RIOT
Moor Beer Vaults ♿️
SE16 3RA
£26
"late night of experimental noisey dance sensationalism"
da Googie + Cara Tivey
Kings Place (Hall Two) ✅
N1 9AG
£9-£18
My Bloody Valentine bass player's solo project - blending bass lines " bass lines with more abstract noises and field recordings"
ECHOES: A Tribute to Ash Ra Tempel and Manuel Göttsching by Etienne Jaument and Nicolas Villebrun
Rich Mix ♿️
E1 6LA
£20
ML Buch + Alpha Maid
Union Chapel ♿️
N1 2UN
£25 (waiting list only)
OK WILLIAMS UK HUN: OK Williams (All Night Long)
Colour Factory ⏳
E9 5EN
£15; £45 for four
see 16/11
PRÍNCIPE LONDON: DJ Lycox, DJ Firmeza, DJ Narciso, Nuno
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£18 (final release)
TROPICAL WASTE x DRIFTING: Surusinghe, Mun Sing (live), Simo Cell, Sarra Wild
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£18.40; 2nd release £20.70
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
from £20 + bf
Rajasthani "desert slide" guitar (mohan veena) master
ZERO MINUS: Gary The Tall, Less Than Human & Hell Towne
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£8 early bird/£11.50 GA
"new beat, EBM, synth, acid house and leftfield electronica"