London Sound Index - 16th-31st July
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16th - 31st July Listings
16th July (Tue)
GOAT (jp) + Church Andrews & Matt Davies
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£24.21
London Improvisers Orchestra (feat. Terry Day)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 advance; £7 members
25-piece improvising orchestra ft among their number Adrian Northover, Steve Beresford, Charlotte Keeffe, Phil Minton, Adam Bohman
NEW LANDS: Misty Miller, Glass Eel, Emily Izen Row
The Ivy House ☑️
SE15 3BE
£5 + bf
"folky goodness in the heart of Nunhead"
17th July (Wed)
Daniel O'Sullivan + the No Show + Elephant House + Rose Keeler Schaffeler and Panni Simai (DJs)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16; £14 advance; £10 members
HERAH: House on the Strand, Grady Steele, Yewen Jin
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£6 + bf
Squirrel Flower + Maripool
The Lexington 📶
N1 9JB
£15 + fees
Stan/King/Greep Trio, Kiran Leonard, Knats
Windmill Brixton ☑️
SW2 5BZ
£9
new trio ft. black midi guitarist
TWEAKS + Vivian Forever + SHAUWDII
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£17 + bf
Vera Sacra, Atelophobia, etta97, Information Cop
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£6
"ethereal electronic sounds and cello" ; "London slowcore"
Zander + Ladylike + Gal Go + Naafi
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
as part of EYOE Recommends series of new bands; all donations go to Doctors Without Borders
18th July (Thu)
Facta + K-LONE / Tristan Arp / Surgeons Girl
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£21.50
live showcase for Wisdom Teeth label
futuretense: TaliaBle + 15 15
Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer) ✅
SE1 8XX
FREE
r&b, futuristic electronics, dancehall
Jacken Elswyth, John McGrath, Sullow
Hopscotch Taprooms 📶
SE19 1RX
£10
free folk / improv incl rare performance by tornado dust cloud trio of Shovel Dancers (banjo, drums, guitar)
Lol K, Mori.111111, Spresso, Bianca Scout, Necessary Leisure
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£10
STRANGE TRANSMISSIONS: Laurie Tompkins & Neil Luck (live) + Shortwave Collective (live) + Max Syedtollan (DJ)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12; £10 advance; £8 members
Evening of performances and discussions "mapping the spectrum of experimental radio practice today"; a collab between Wire mag and new avant-radio label World Service
19th July (Fri)
Attacca Quartet perform Philip Glass, John Adams, Caroline Shaw, Paul Wiancko
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
from £18; £5 for under-35s
Charlotte Keefe; IVY NOSTRUM / Lucia h. Chung; Thomas Carroll / A.J. Stillablower / Hello Spiral
Hundred Years Gallery ♿️🅰️
E2 8JD
£10
"solo trumpet and (maybe) flugelhorn" / "super-dynamic no-input mixing board energies" / "Leeds OG sound artist [b/w] very excellent voice guy" / "abstract, almost lower-case improvisation, kind of abstract and weird"
Eddie Prevost / Iris Ederer / N.O Moore + Caroline Kraabel / Rowland Sutherland / Sofia Vaisman-Maturana / John Edwards + Adrian Northover / Adam Bohman
Christ Church Blackfriars Bridge (John Marshall Hall) ♿️🅰️
SE1 8NY
£10/£8
Unbelievably stacked improv bill ft. AMM co-founder, lord chancellor of free double bass, Bohman, many others
FLASH IN THE PAN: Papa Nugs, Itoa, Dual Monitor, Carbon Copy
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
anytime entry £14; entry before 12am £10 (+ bfs)
2300-0600; "prog, percussive bass [...] shifting into footwork, jungle and turbo”
Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary + Hannan Jones + Bidimensional Gangsta (DJ)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 advance; £8 members
SERAPH FM: Crystabel Riley, HVAD, susu laroche, Flora Yin-Wong (DJ), special guest (STROOM) TBA
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£13.80
2200-0400
SOLIDARITY TAPES: leather.head + Zia Ahmed, Black Fondu, Smokeworld + Mica Coca, Another;Country , Cigotine / Ifeoluwa (DJs)
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£5 - £10
SE legends -- how can a band be angular and sludgy at the same time ?? -- celebrate new release "from the river, to the sea" in collab with poet/playwright -- all funds go directly to support Palestinian resistance both in Palestine and internationally. Plus speakers and stalls from other solidarity groups will also be there
SONIDO DE GDANZA: Bahamian Mor, Bossman 'Jefe' Wines, Non-Paying Buyer, DJ Joder
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£5 / £7 adv ; more OTD
“♪♪♪ [¡no me jodas!]”
Vex, Magnus Westell, Inkara
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£10
experimental/post-punk
20th July (Sat)
African Concert Series #1 (11:30AM MATINÉE): Rowland Sutherland, Rebeca Omordia and the African Cultural Group perform African Music for Woodwind
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
from £18; £5 for under-35s
Marriage of works for flute by composers from the West African School of Art Music with traditional music for Oja flute and percussion
African Concert Series #2 (3PM MATINÉE): Abdelkader Saadoun (mandola, darbuka), Rebeca Omordia (piano) and Ubuntu Ensemble perform "music from North Africa"
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
from £18; £5 for under-35s
ATRIUM: Bluetoof, Tañ B2B Charles Green, Nancy June
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£14 + bf
2300-late ; techno / acid / breaks
BLURT: Alan Fielden, Flo Ray, Hugo Hagger & Evelyn Wh-ell, NO
TACO! ♿️
SE2 9FA
FREE
"an evening of sonic experiments in text [...] live polyphonic encounters, failed duets, vernacular enquiries and other weird waves"
Cold, Scattsman, C.P Project, Seizure, ewa awe, Kyyberwall
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£8 / £10 / £12
"Return of the best steppers competition, edition II"
Fashion Tips, Remote Viewing, The Eurosuite
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£10, NOTAFLOF
"sasscore" / "upsetting sludge" / "atonal danceable post punk"
Moritz von Oswald
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£34; £30 advance; £24 members
Techno pioneer of Basic Channel fame presents new Varèse / Xenakis - indebted choral record
NO COMPUTERS: Sharon Gal & Yoni Silver
Stoke Newington Old Church ♿️
N16 9ES
FREE
improv improv improv improv
Tom Challenger / Rick Simpson / Will Glaser
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£15; members £12.50 ; students & UC beneficiaries £10
improv improv improv improv
21st July (Sun)
Blank Canvas Tentet perform Phil Morton's System 50:50 (MATINÉE)
Hundred Years Gallery ♿️🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash
music from 4pm: big group improv incl. Douglas Benford, Martin Hackett, Alan Newcombe, many others
Che Chen & Friends
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 advance; £7 members
As seen shredding guitar in 75 Dollar Bill, also playing on 24th at Hundred Years (see below)
MOPOMOSO: Chris Dowding, Brigitte Beraha, Dave O'Brien / Matt Rogers, Benedict Taylor / Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, Adam Bohman
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£12; members & concessions £8
special spoken word-themed edition of London's longest running monthly improv night // sending out the Bohman bat signal
The Heliocentrics + Betamax vs Bell & Wong + Doug Shipton (Finders Keepers) & Chris Menist (Paradise Bangkok) DJs
Fox and Firkin ☑️🅰️
SE13 6JZ
£25 ; FREE for under-15s
1300-2000 Outdoor summer party
22nd July (Mon)
Myra Melford - Two-Day Residency (Day One): with John Edwards, Mark Sanders, Chris Batchelor
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16; £14 advance; £8 members (series pass £25; £14 members)
O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra perform Messiaen, Takemitsu, Ravel, many others
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
from £18; £5 for under-35s
23rd July (Tue)
Attorneys General ft. Alex McKenzie, Mike O'Malley, Camera Picture
Horse Hospital ☑️🅰️
WC1N 1JD
£6 / £8 / £10
members of caroline and black midi participate in Matthew Byars' project, where improvisers are manipulated through a mixing board under his control. "Results vary from the transcendent to the disastrous"
Myra Melford - Two-Day Residency (Day Two): with John Edwards, Mark Sanders, Chris Batchelor
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16; £14 advance; £8 members (series pass £25; £14 members)
24th July (Wed)
10 YEARS OF MARIONETTE: Andrea Belfi + Max Loderbauer + Laurine Frost + Grimwig (DJ)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16; £14 advance; £8 members
Birdie, Tony Molina, Lightheaded, Hangover Lounge (DJs)
The Lexington 📶
N1 9JB
£14
Slumberland Records showcase
Che Chen / Bex Burch / Theon Cross
Hundred Years Gallery ♿️🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash
guitar / percussion / tuba (Chen also playing 21/7)
GRAIN: Maggie Nicols, Mark Wastell, Theodora Laird, Conal Blake, Li Song, Regan Bowering, Theo Guttenplan, others TBC
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£10/£8 OTD, NOTAFLOF
Great new monthly improv series at Avalon , particularly good at convening meetings between superb figures from earlier gens (Nicols) and exciting newer voices (Williams, Laird, Bowering)
I LOVE TO FEEL: MA.MOYO, Abi Asisa & the Narrator, Theadora & Shauwdii, special guests
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£6.66
"A night celebrating women of colour making experimental music"
Lou Terry, Lobby, Birthday Girl
Windmill Brixton ☑️
SW2 5BZ
£5
25th July (Thu)
futuretense: Cherrie B + twst
Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer) ✅
SE1 8XX
FREE
new hyperpop / deconstructed club artists
Julian Woods / Caius Williams / Steve Beresford / Tom Challenger / Theo Guttenplan
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£15; members £12.50 ; students & UC beneficiaries £10
Los Sara Fontan + Sam Barton
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
The Flame (Robert Mitchell / Mark Sanders / Olie Brice)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 advance; £7 members
bass / drums / piano heavy improv
26th July (Fri)
III人 (Daichi Yoshikawa, Paul Abbott, Seymour Wright)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12; £10 advance; £6 members
likely strange
Margareth Menezes & llê Aiyê
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
from £20
night of rhythm-heavy Afro-Brazilian music and dance from Bahia (northeast BR)
RAPTURE 2066: Zoe Pea, Yewen Jin, Front Left Life c-saw b2b sturd-y
SET Vault ♿️
SE18 6BU
early bird £8; 1st release £12
dub / club fundraising for SET Woolwich community cafe / food bank
27th July (Sat)
Amjad Ali Khan #1: sarod quintet with Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash, Zohaan Ali Bangash, Abeer Ali Bangash) (11:30AM MATINÉE)
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
from £18; £5 for under-35s
Sarod masters!!!!!
Amjad Ali Khan #2: with Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash, Sean Shibe (3PM MATINÉE)
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
£20; £5 for under-35s
Three sarods + guitar
Amjad Ali Khan #3: with Britten Sinfonia
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
from £18; £5 for under-35s
Future Islands, Baxter Dury, Julie Byrne, the Golden Dregs, Circe, Joon
Crystal Palace Bowl ✅ 14+ 🅰️(14-17)
SE19 2BA
from £43.70
from 2PM
Martha Skye Murphy + Damsel Elysium + Moin (DJ)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16; £14 advance; £10 members
excellent songwriter / producer / Claire Rousay and Roy Montgomery collaborator playing material from new record on AD93
Upset Stomach, JK Historian, Mountain Peaks, Guym
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£8 otd
math noise
28th July (Sun)
Asmâa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou
Kings Place (Hall One) ✅
N1 9AG
£21; £8.50 for under-30s
"foremost female ambassador of Gnawa music"
Kevin Drew + Zoon
The Social 📶
W1W 7JD
£27.50
Broken Social Scene man
Lifeguard
Oslo ♿️
E8 1LL
£15 + bf
Horsegirl-affiliated Chicago guitar rrrock
Pascagoula, Why Patterns
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
FREE
"Wound up hardcore" / "total filth"
Weston Olencki / Regan Bowering / Me, Claudius
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12; £10 advance; £6 members
29th July (Mon)
David Thomas Broughton
The Ivy House ☑️
SE15 3BE
£15
also playing 1/8 (waiting list only)
MACHAUT MASHUP: Lore Lixenberg + Federico Reuben + Ben Richter
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12; £10 advance; £6 members
Comp and improv around the work of Machaut, Hildegarde von Bingen "and the spiky truly avant-garde Notre Dame School of 1160 - 1250 mediated via live coding and AI"
30th July (Tue)
Shamica Ruddock + Bantu + Dushume + Dhangsha
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 advance; £7 members
31st July (Wed)
137 (Adrian Utley / Larry Stabbins / Seb Rochford / Jim Barr)
The Lexington 📶
N1 9JB
£18
John Glacier
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£18.54
Tendertwin
The Old Blue Last 📶
EC2A 3ES
FREE / RSVP