London Sound Index - 16th-31st July
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16th July (Wed)
7038634357 + Drumloop + Cremation Lily
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£14 + bf
JoeJas' Left Handed Bandit, retropxssy, Rimera, ACE CONWAY
the George Tavern ☑️
E1 0LA
£5.50
Outsider hiphop
Last Dream of the Morning (John Butcher / Mark Sanders / John Edwards) Two-Day Residency (Day Two)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members
UK improv titans (first day of residency is 15/7)
OK Doomer, Red River Dialect, Laura Loriga
Servant Jazz Quarters 📶
N16 8JN
£11, NOTAFLOF
17th July (Thu)
ETERNAL COMPOST COMMUNITY BAND: Nick Granata, Oliver Hamilton, Jack Cooper, Tara Cunningham
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 OTD
No event info but bill includes members of Shovel Dance Collective, Modern Nature and cutting-edge improvisers, so can only be good
Eternal Triangle (Trevor Watts / Veryan Weston / Jamie Harris)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16; £14 adv; £8 members
Fieldnotes: Adrienne Herr, Agnieszka Szczotka, Dan Rhys Wakefield, victor_a Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£3.50
"a new programme bringing together artists and writers working across sonic and textual terrains"
Marc Ribot Quartet "Hurry Red Telephone"
the Jazz Cafe ☑️
NW1 7PG
£34.50
Ning Feng (violin) and Yeol Eum Son (piano) perform Schnittke, Stravinsky, Szymanowski, Prokofiev
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
from £18; £5 concessions for under-35s
Plastic Factory presents: Rain Dogs + Faerybabyy + Alphabet
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
£8.76
STRATA 4: Laila Sakini, Partial Defrag, Onas Ueno, Castle Maol
the Engine Rooms ⏳
E3 4UR
£10.50
Expect "dynamic and textured environments", "space-optimised memories tainted with artifacts", experimental sound "like thoughts mid-formation"
Youssou N'Dour
Roundhouse ✅🅰️(<16)
NW1 8EH
£45
Maestro of Senegalese slow dance jams with the golden pipes
18th July (Fri)
Footnotes 07: Softi, TSUNIMAN, Devil's Daughter, Joab
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB
1st release £7
2300-0500 "A weighty lineup focused on late-night hypnosis and low-end pressure. Expect six hours of deep and trippy selections"
Gosh, son... (Mark Couzens, Richard Whitby and collaborators), Jennet Thomas, Kate Mahony, [grace+alex] (Grace Black, Alex McKenzie)
Horse Hospital ☑️
WC1N 1JD
£6-10 sliding scale, NOTAFLOF
"Shouting, improvisation, some costumes, projections, synths, voices and sonic mess"
Johnny Throttle, Punter, Morreadoras, Botox
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£10 adv; £12 otd
"anarco-dance-post-punk nutters" ?
Julia Brüssel / Isidora Edwards / George Garford / Benedict Taylor (quartet)
Tower Theatre ✅
N16 7HR
£10/8 cash OTD
Two sets of improv, early 6PM doors
Laenz + Xenia Xamanek + Yomi & Kelman Duran
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£15; £13 adv; £12 members
"classic oratorio and opera transformed into haunting sonic sketches" plus "work with radio modulation" with "newly built antenna"
MYSTERY PLANES: The Sha Sha Shanimals, Midnight Times, Major Trauma Sound System (DJ)
Walthamstow Trades Hall ☑️
E17 4RQ
£6 non-members; £5 members OTD only
"Kylie on a motorbike" plus "60s garage meets free jazz" plus "'glam attack' DJ'" = "eternal dream music for your Friday night"
Olie Brice Quartet (Olie Brice / Alexander Hawkins / Rachel Musson / Will Glaser)
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£17.50 standard; £15 members; students & UC beneficiaries £12.50
"melancholy ballads" and "pulsating free jazz" from group of Uk improv/jazz figureheads
Petronn Sphene + the Seer + Sgerbwd + Bodystalking
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£10
Unmissable "shrieking gabba noise" solo project from Guttersnipe / Tristwych Y Fenywod / To Live and Shave in L.A. guitarist -- as on the edge as it gets!!!
Toby Evans-Jesra Quartet / Big Oil / Oliver Collier
Lewisham Arthouse ✅
SE14 6PD
£6.12
night of guitar heavy SE ldn heavy hitters
19th July (Sat)
BAD VIBES JULY ALL-DAYER: Spanish Horses + Truthpaste + Daily Toll + Sunglasz Vendor + Wykin (fka Spoort)
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
Grandad, Do One, Priest Crippler, Carthage Must Be Destroyed
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£10
"Punk, hardcore, sludge, riffffs"
Haruomi Hosono
Royal Festival Hall ✅
7+
SE1 8XX
£30.50
Last few tickets!!!
KNOT: Colin Webster / John Macedo / Matthew Grigg (trio) + Graham Mackeachan / Zheng Hao (duo) + Brian Hingerty (solo)
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash/card OTD
Improv of sax, electronics, guitars, húlúsīs (a Chinese flute)
North Sea Radio Orchestra + The Witching Tale
St Matthias Church ☑️
N16 8DD
£20
Contemporary music ensemble and cross-disciplinary chamber orchestra
SERAPHIM 002: Speckman, Heartcoregirl, Alexis
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£12 general admission; £17.30 2nd release
2200-0300
TELSTAR: DJ Pitch / Aircode / DivPro & M.I.C / Bloxam
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£10; £12 second release
2300-0500 UK/US grime/dubstep
20th July (Sun)
AMOUR FOO SUMMER PARTY: Guy Blackman, the Male Gays, Sassyhiya, My Executive Dysfunction, Ironic Hill (1PM MATINÉE)
the Cavendish Arms ♿️
SW8 2HJ
£8
Melbourne songwriter -- "if Serge Gainsbourg, Tim Hardin or Kevin Ayers wrote songs set in gay saunas or on adult camming websites" -- making very rare UK appearance, plus "lesbian indie pop" from SE LDN, "angst-tinged PWL inspired party anthems for you to dance to whilst you cry"
INFLUXX ASSEMBLY: Adele Lazzeri & Toby Kidd, Dee Sada & guests, Yukako Tanaka, Subsignal, Poppy Cockburn, Saom, Charlie Guy
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12; £10 adv; £6 members
MOPOMOSO: Robin Foster / Matthew Grigg / Tom Ward (trio) + John Butcher / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell (trio) + Charlotte Keefe / N.O. Moore / Peter Cusack (trio)
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£12 standard; members & concessions £8
UK's longest-running improv night !!!
21st July (Mon)
Chime School + Autocamper
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
Daily Toll / Guy Blackman / The Spatulas
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£10
"nestled between the sonic worlds of folk song story telling and off kilter, angular rock"
Maggie Nicols
Horse Hospital ☑️
WC1N 1JD
FREE/donations OTD
First night of pioneer improvising vocalist's residency (scheduled to take place on the third Monday of every month up to October); event begins with a workshop at 6PM followed by performance
Pindrop: Bathing Suits, Kiosk, Newbuild, Dream Slugs
Windmill Brixton ☑️
SW2 5BZ
£5
THE UNBELIEVABLE MISTAKE: Labake Sabbath + mr aka Amazing + Gate Loops + Sly & the Family Drone
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12; £10 adv; £8 members
22nd July (Tue)
Freya, Rig Time!, Hour of Reprisal, Big Smoke
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£14 + bf
"Heavy, groovy metalcore ft. Earth Crisis frontman"
Seaming To + Tom Challenger + Xenia Pestova Bennett performs Annea Lockwood
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members
"mighty, caterwauling vocalist [...] magics up otherworldly textures in a hypnotic bubble bath for the ears" plus "virtuoso saxophonist" plus "spoken voice transduced through the piano adorned with ribbons, rocks and Chinese medicine balls"
23rd July (Wed)
Inner Space perform Sun Ra
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£15 standard; members £6; students & UC beneficiaries £6
Septet performing new arrangements from original piano scores
Life is Beautiful + Nova Varnrable + Elisabeth Mulenga
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£17; £15 adv; £13 members
Molch / Jawharp / Yurn / Superintendent
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£6.50
24th July (Thu)
Child3 / Silkarmour / Ex-Fantasy / MM'99
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£6.50
New fringe experimental groups play w boundaries of the rock band
Gloria Yehilevsky & G M&R + Alex Bonney
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£13
heka, Aga Ujma, elsas, Dana Gavanski, Sona Koloyan
Total Refreshment Centre 📶
N16 7UR
£12
Stacked multinational night of new London-based song
Stefan Christensen, Little Skull, UEVPD
Servant Jazz Quarters 📶
N16 8JN
£14.28
presented by World of Echo
the Listening Project and Search Engine Quartet perform Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Max Syedtollan, Regan Bowering, Graham Lambkin, May Kershaw, Nina Ryser, Grace Connolly Linden, Daniel Burley
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members
Evening of new and baffling contemporary music, ft many world premieres of pieces written especially for the groups -- "both offer eclectic sets rooted in a spirit of adventure and taking an expanded notion of the score as a jumping-off point"
25th July (Fri)
ALL CENTRE X KINDERGARTEN: Ma Sha, Sobolik, Alec Pace + Residents
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£12.70 first release; £16 general admission
HOW TO CATCH A PIG’S TRANS PRIDE RAGE RAVE: Piglet, Screaming Toenail, sadqueersclub, Liv Wynter, An0maly, Ella the Great + more TBA
Piehouse Co-Op ♿️
SE8 5HD
£10
We suggest to check out the full program of How To Catch A Pig Trans Pride Fest, from 22/07-25/07.
Nkisi, Buttechno (live), Conrad Pack, DJ Gonz
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£13.80 general; £16.90 last release
Rotation Policy 10th Birthday: Darryn Jones, Charlie Dark, Giles Smith, becks (2), Liminal People
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB
£17.30 2nd release; £19 3rd release; £25 final release
SPACE21 FESTIVAL (Day 1/2): Olivia Melkonian, Rim Irscheid, Hazem Jamjoum, Hardi Kurda, Gregory Dargent, Werner Hasler
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members; series pass £20 adv; £12 members
Festival of music, archival recordings, workshops and panel discussions -- explorations of "archival interventions and community practices in Kurdistan, Western Armenia and Palestine"
26th July (Sat)
BRÅK: Cath Roberts / Olga Ksendzovska (duo) + Colin Webster / Jan Hendrickse (duo) + Tom Ward / Matt Atkins (duo)
waterintobeer ☑️
SE4 2EW
£10 OTD / £8 adv / £5 low/un-waged
CHORUS (after TRANS PRIDE 2025): Hesse K, Dove Kirubi, Delia Detritius, Jennifer Walton (DJ), Cliché Toupée, Eden Alero, Jessie Darling, Willow Swan, Seán Being, Luisa D. Rozo (DJ), Oopie & Oisín Roberts
Horse Hospital ☑️
WC1N 1JD
£6-15 sliding scale
V unique ensemble performance for a chorus of 12 performers -- "extension of the intimate call and response between trans people facilitated by [the] counter-hegemonic protest [of the piece]" -- all £££ goes to Trans Legal Fund
Gimic / Lash / Rory White / Romeo Taylor
Piehouse Co-Op ♿️
SE8 5HD
£7.21 concession; £9.38 standard; £11.55 tip the guys
plus karaoke
Part Chimp, Rainbow Grave, Sly & the Family Drone and more
Number 90 ☑️
E9 5LN
£35 from 3pm; £10 club entry from 11pm
Baba Yaga's 19th bday all dayer of weird guitar and noise adjacent music.
Space21 Festival (Day 2/2)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members; series pass £20 adv; £12 members
see 25/7
27th July (Sun)
96 Back, Laenz (nyc), Mui Mui (nyc), ex.sses, Rizla Ops
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£13
Ariana Tikao
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£15; £13 adv; £8 members
"renowned practitioner and composer of taonga puoro, Māori traditional instruments"
Brigid Mae Power
secret venue 📶
N16
£20
Exact address revealed to ticket buyers only 🤔
SIGNALS: Trevor Mathison / Gary Stewart / Tansy Spinks
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£15; £12.50 concessions
SUEP / Rosey PM / 12 Apostles
the George Tavern ☑️
E1 0LA
£7
Bill of best outsider guitar/synth pop in the capital at present
28th July (Mon)
Deerhoof (Day 1/2)
Bush Hall ♿️
W12 7LJ
£20.40
icons of the game grace our fair city with their presence once more.
Larry Stabbins / Alexander Hawkins / Mark Sanders (trio)
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£15 standard; members £7.50; students & UC beneficiaries £6.25
Ogun Records night marking the release of archival live record by Stabbins with Keith Tippett and the recently departed Louis Moholo-Moholo -- night also serves as a tribute to him and Vortex regular Shirley Thompson
Zoh Amba - Three-Day Residency (Day 1/3): Zoh Amba (solo)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18; £16 adv; £12 members; series pass £40 adv, £30 members
Blazing new free sax from East Tennessee
29th July (Tue)
Deerhoof (Day 2/2)
Bush Hall ♿️
W12 7LJ
£20.40
see 28/7
GRAIN: Steve Noble (solo), Theodora Laird (solo), Downgraded (solo), Caius Williams (solo)
Horse Hospital ☑️
WC1N 1JD
£8-10 sliding scale
Kaspar Hauser, Freddie Firth, Hysterical Backslider
The Ivy House ☑️
SE15 3BE
from £4
a fundraiser show for Gaza Soup Kitchen
Slow Cooked, Rosie Alena
Servant Jazz Quarters 📶
N16 8JN
£9.50
"full throttle cello-led catharsis"
Zoh Amba - Three-Day Residency (Day 2/3): Zoh Amba / John Edwards / Mark Sanders (trio)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18; £16 adv; £12 members; series pass £40 adv, £30 members
see 28/7
30th July (Wed)
FLIMFLAM: Steve Beresford / John Edwards / Stale Liavik Solberg (trio) + Mark Hewins / Roy Dodds (duo) + Alan Wilkinson (solo)
Ryan's Bar 📶
N16 0UL
£10/8 cash OTD
Improv!!!!!
Jesse Darling VS Gentle Stranger, AMRA (Imran Perretta & Paul Purgas), Fondant, Semionightmarekatz
Horse Hospital ☑️
WC1N 1JD
£8-12 sliding scale
Night of music, performance and spoken word led by Turner Prize winner and uncategorisable experimental trio
Sota Seo, Aga Ujma, Pink Shabab
Servant Jazz Quarters 📶
N16 8JN
£9.27
Zoh Amba - Three-Day Residency (Day 3/3): Zoh Amba / Tara Cunningham / Delia Detritus (trio)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18; £16 adv; £12 members; series pass £40 adv, £30 members
see 28/7
31st July (Thu)
Chris Cohen + The Cindys
The Ivy House ☑️
SE15 3BE
£20.19; SOLD OUT, waitlist only
Flashback Presents: Nyssa
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
£6
Seiji Morimoto / Eric Wong (duo) + Tara Cunningham / Caius Williams (duo)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members
Another unmissable Infant Tree night redrawing the frontiers of your ears: small resonant, tabletop electronics and spatialised Bluetooth white noise and bass