London Sound Index - 16th - 31st March
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16th March (Sun)
Ignorance, Victim Unit, Mincer, Sublux, Dead Name
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£10 OTD
"Hardcore and raw punk all night"
JUDGEMENT HALL FESTIVAL (Day 2/2): Dis Fig (Felicia Chen), Donna Haringwey, Renata, Choronzon, Thom of Rats
St Barnabas Dalston ♿️
E8 2EA
£35; weekend pass £69
avant-garde heavy metal weekender in Dalston -- night 2 seems to be turntable and dance-noise heavy
Kieran Daly, Luciano Maggiore & Rory Salter, Ash Reid
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14, £12 adv, Free for members
OTO debut for American composer Kieran Daly, whose work "focuses on a skeptical, first-principles approach applied across multifarious formal contexts using iterative processes, microtuning and sliding, and pulse salience as morphological determinants"
Mopomoso Matriarchal March: Les Petroleuses, Noisy Women
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£12, £8 members and conc.
Night of improvised music, Noisy Women ensemble features the great Maggie Nichols! Doors 2pm, Music 2:30
MULTIPLE MELODICAS: Steve Beresford, Georgina Brett, Olga Ksendzovska, Martin Hackett, Marie Roux, David Grundy & Douglas Benford (melodicas)
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 Cash OTD
starts 4pm. "an evolving all-star ensemble of melodica players"
Raisa K, Rocheman, TONE, 15 Love DJs
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£14
Launch for keyboard wiz Raisa K’s (former Micachu Shape/ current Good Sad Happy Badder) solo album 'Affectionately'
Spirit ࿓ Pause ❘❘ : Special Guest, Bake & Kit Seymour
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£12.70
intriguingly minimal description on RA, but something tells me this will be good
17th March (Mon)
Rhodri Davies Residency: Day 1
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16, £14 adv, £8 members - Series pass: £45, £28 members
First of four nights from the experimental harpist, featuring works written especially for him, "by artists associated with Fluxus, pioneering french composer Éliane Radigue and maverick composer Joseph Kudirka." The Index stresses that Rhodri's transcendent Radigue pieces are not to be missed!!!!
18th March (Tue)
Rhodri Davies Residency: Day 2
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16, £14 adv, £8 members - Series pass: £45, £28 members
Night 2: Rhodri presents two of his own compositions, "including one where the brilliant pianist Siwan Rhys performs a durational piece featuring all the Amen cadences from his father’s hymn book."
19th March (Weds)
Ben Lukas Boysen + Kayla Painter
Corsica Studios ✅
SE17 1LB
£18
Brainpunk, Heartcoregirl, Soulgem (DJ), DJ antimanifesto, TBA (Live)
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£6.50
GRAIN Residency: Daniel O'Sullivan, Steve Noble, Caius Williams, Mosquito Farm, Theodora Laird, Theo Guttenplan, more TBC
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£10 / £8 conc. OTD
Another stacked lineup for this excellent improv series, let’s cross our fingers for the Steve Noble and Mosquito Farm collab sparked from this outing, such stuff as dreams are made of…
Rhodri Davies Residency: Day 3
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16, £14 adv, £8 members (Live stream £3, free for members) - Series pass: £45, £28 members
"a sounding of the early Welsh bray and horsehair harps" - Performance will be live-streamed.
20th March (Thu)
Andrew Lisle w. James Allsop, Alex Ward, Caius Williams
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£14 / £9 conc.
Multi-directional lightnin' fast drummer, composer and improviser extraordinaire comes to the caff with a new group
Ben Frost 'Scope Neglect' feat. Greg Kubacki
Earth Hackney ✅
N16 8BH
£22.50
Bonney/Dunmall/Sanders
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
Standard £15 / Vortex Members £7.50 / Students & UC beneficiaries £6
Murky electroacoustic explorations
Haywire, Mindless, Public Domain, Power Failure
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£13 + bf
LUXE, afromerm, Sybil
ICA ✅
SW1Y 5AH
£21.98
"a dynamic, immersive experience, featuring a string quartet, harp, electronic percussion, flute, piano, vocals, and spoken word"
Odda presents: Kirk Barley, Fohn, Thea HD and Anton Spice
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£10
"Kirk Barley celebrates the launch of his third album Lux, along with a debut London performance from producer Fohn. DJ sets from Anton Spice and Thea HD."
Rhodri Davies Residency: Day 4
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16, £14 adv, £8 members - Series pass: £45, £28 members
"Night 4 ends the residency with a re-visiting of material from his Wound Response album and a free improvisation."
Stuart Wilding / Barbie Mukoda / Brian Webb / Pete Robson (quartet) + Livia Garcia / Caroline Kraabel / Lisa Elde / Sue Lynch (quartet)
Christ Church Blackfriars Bridge (John Marshall Hall) ♿️🅰️
SE1 8NY
£8/10 adv or OTD (suggested)
Improv!!!
21st March (Fri)
From the Lips to the Moon
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14, £12 adv, £7 members
"An electrifying long-form improvisation of music and words by live-electronic music wizard Pouya Ehsaei and voice-shifting performer-writer Tara Fatehi."
ALLAN: ft Anatole Muster, Tom Ford, Stan Woodward & King David Ike-Elechi
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
Standard £15 / Vortex Members £12.5 / Students & UC beneficiaries £10
Young jazz musicians play the music of unique prog guitarist Allan Holdsworth (note, there are 2 separate shows in one evening)
Hainbach + Sara Mokrani
Old Church Stoke Newington ✅
N16 9ES
£23
MATED : Shauwdii, Kamixlo, Kyyberwall, Xterea , nunguja
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£11.30 - £15.20
experimental club fare - live and DJ sets
Shit Creek, Ancient Weakling, Titus Barker
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10
The Horse Hospital: Come Back (Day 1/2): Germ Lattice, Meat Strap, Luisa D. Rozo, Anastasia Freygang, George Lynch & Andy Wyatt ( stella ), Adam Gallagher
The Horse Hospital ☑️ 🅰️
WC1N 1JD
£5-10; weekend ticket £10-18
Central London's most vital experimental venue returns resplendent post-renovation, rearing its head with a stacked two day lineup of micro and macro-noises, performances and instigations. Featuring noise drum/guitar duo Meat Strap, fantasy-language incantator Anastasia Freygang, and the third (?) return of post-post-clowns Gentle Stranger, among many others… Not to be missed!!!!
22nd March (Sat)
Arthur Jeffes (Penguin Cafe)
King's Place ✅
N1 9AG
£12.50 - £25
"solo piano versions of Penguin Cafe music plus other original compositions."
Florian Hecker + Tom Mud
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£20, £17 adv, £12 members
Computer music double billing, one for the 1s+0s heads. Very rare UK live outing from Hecker aka 'if u know u know' master of cold+digital sonics. Supported by a London homecoming show from Mudd and his mind warping physical modelling experiments (incomprehensibly large/small/winding guitars and trumpets)
JACK Quartet: Philip Glass, Heinz Hollinger and more
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
£18, £16 conc., £5 under 35s
The contemporary classical string quartet present an all day bonanza, playing pieces by Glass, Hollinger, Boulez, Webern, Elliott Carter, Helmut Lachenmann, Eva Maria Houben, Eduardo Aguilar and more!! NOTE: there are three separate events, 11.30am, 3pm, 7.30pm, see website for details
Kneejerk: Export Import, Scarlett Woolfe, Oral Habit, Dead Reckoning
Windmill Brixton ☑️
SW2 5BZ
£7
London's most underrated and confounding live act, Export Import, return to the mill
KNOT#1: Sam Andreae / Ciaran Mackle / Zheng Hao
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£6-£10 OTD
MODERN ERA (Day 1/2): Heart of a Coward, Defences, Continents, Asleep at the Helm, After Smoke Clears, Inretrospect, Loveletter, Break Fifty, Assurance, Virtue in Vain
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£25; weekend ticket £40
Weekender of metalcore, nu-core, modern hardcore (new and heavy)
The Horse Hospital: Come Back (Day 2/2): Gentle Stranger, Jackson Burton, Hannah Taverner, Mr Aka Amazing, Labake Sabbath
The Horse Hospital ☑️ 🅰️
WC1N 1JD
£5-10; weekend ticket £10-18
see 21/3
Unbound presents: object blue [live], Metrist, NVST & DJ Winggold
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£15 - £20
"The vanguard of the global electronic music scene is represented here, with object blue headlining with a rare live set which will feature glimpses of her long-awaited debut album."
USA Nails All Dayer: USA Nails, Fashion Tips, Algernon Cornelius, Ghost Car, Bo Gritz & Ritual Error
Strongroom Bar ♿️
EC2A 3SQ
Free (Waiting list)
Noise rock all dayer
ZEOBAT X GODDEZZ - SPRING EQUINOX: FAFF, Alexis, Advent Children, Suren Seneviratne, Blue Ringed Baby & Kamī (live), Dj Ojo & yingtuitive
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£17.30 - £20
23rd March (Sun)
Canter, Luce Mawdsley, Kasper Hauser
Windmill Brixton ☑️
SW2 5BZ
£5
"pleasant and tasteful music in a Bossanova-Canterbury style" - uniquely joyous winding music
Egg & Crisp, Adam Bohman, Georgina Brett, Douglas Benford, Iris Colomb, Mario Guarnieri
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10/£8 OTD
3:30-6:30pm. Bohman alert.
free movements - equinox: dudù kouate (percussion), secret guest (dj), mika oki (dj), bare bones, lay low (live), qigong w/ bones tan jones, talk: music in palestinian resistance w/ ayed fadel & amir ashkar, dan nicholls (keyboards), lou zon (video)
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£12 - £20
Dan Nicholls' day party returns to Ormside, "embracing the ethos of DIY rave and freeparty culture, their events invite us to be part of the spontaneous creation of rave-spaces which encourage freedom, creativity and resistance"
FUJI|||||||||||TA + Yoni Silver
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£20, £18 adv, £12 members
Two master manipulators of air; needless to say, this will be very special
HORSEHAIR: Flora Yin-Wong (live), Caius Williams / Ute Kanngiesser (duo), Isidora Edwards / Luigi Marino (duo), Pietro Bardini, Julia Dèng Hànzú (live)
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£7
Stacked bill of "experimental string and electronic music"
MODERN ERA (Day 2/2): Oceans Ate Alaska, Exist Immortal, Overthrone, Within Reach, Scatter the Tribe, Acolytes, Glass Grave, Aleya, Chvpters
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£25; weekend ticket £40
See 22/3
MPTL Microplastics, Vogues, Ash Kenazi
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
24th March (Mon)
Luke Fowler / David Grubbs + new work from Brunhild Ferrari
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16, £14, £8 for members
Artist, filmmaker and musician Luke Fowler joins with David Grubbs, (of Gastr Del Sol, Squirrel Bait and countless other groups/collabs) for a night of film screenings, a duo performance, a new work by Brunhild Ferrari
25th March (Tue)
David Keenan’s 'Volcanic Tongue' launch night – Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Richard Youngs (solo), Evan Parker (solo)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£20, £18 adv, £12 members
"the launch of David Keenan’s 'Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide to 20th Century Underground Music' with a bill curated by Keenan that features some of the key musical and subcultural touchstones that have informed the book." Richard Youngs AND Evan Parker!
Jeremy Jay, Dubais, Suep, DJ Jon Slade
Windmill Brixton ☑️
SW2 5BZ
£5
26th March (Weds)
GLARC at OTO: Lene Otis Finn, }Ï{, Finton Coin, Masa Nazzal
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14, £12, £7 members
"Glasgow’s favourite cassette label GLARC gather four steaming hot new acts from their roster for a night including hand-forged improvised bells, unpronounceable keyboard symbols, imaginary organ ensembles, and abolitionist sonic ethnography."
Noughty Fingers - Second Date: hellocatfood, Lolita, BIIG CHIICK, #pastagang, trampbunny, subsignal
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£8.10 - £11.50
"There will be lots of things happening, from live coded techo beats, performance art, a whole gang of pasta, uk bass, semi-intelligent dance music, and so much more." Something for everyone on a wednesday nite- come for the beats, stay for the pasta
SAOM 20
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£10 / £7 NOTAFLOF
"Experiments in sound in 6 acts" - mystery experimental music encounters!! "Anyone is welcome to perform, and we keep slots aside each month for queer, femme, trans, POC and working class performers."
Spiritualized: Pure Phase
Barbican Hall ✅
EC2Y 8DS
from £40
"The orchestral space rockers play their seminal 1995 album Pure Phase in its entirety for a rare performance."
27th March (Thu)
eavesdropping festival: Sarah Saviet, Aya Metwalli
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£15, £12 adv, £9 members (series pass £72, £54 members)
"eavesdropping returns to Cafe OTO for another four-day festival, curated by Juliet Fraser, which includes four evening double-bill events and a weekend-long forum (at Vortex Jazz Cafe) of provocations exploring 'Experiments in Magic' - The programming within each set is artist-led: repertoire is only announced on the night."
Bad Breeding, Scab, Middleman, Catastrophe
The Lexington 📶
N1 9JB
£14.30
deathcrash
The Black Heart 📶
NW1 0AP
£17.31
Life Is Beautiful - a thursday meander (pt.6): Multiple People, mimiko, Matthew Muli, Hywel Pryer, r4g, aloisius (dj)
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£7 - £9
Pefume Genius
ICA ✅
SW1Y 5AH
SOLD OUT (join the DICE waiting list)
Six Organs of Admittance, Bill Mackay
Metronome ⏳
E1 1LA
£18
Drag City folk drone legend
Spiritualized: Pure Phase
Barbican Hall ✅
EC2Y 8DS
from £40
see 26/3
The Tubs
Oslo ✅
E8 1JB
£17
28th March (Fri)
eavesdropping festival: Stephanie Lamprea, Anna Zaradny
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£15, £12 adv, £9 members (series pass £72, £54 members)
see 27/3
ORMSIDE presents: Beneath, Peverelist, Nkisi
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£17.30
Hemlock and Livity Sound dub negotiator Beneath, mastermind of the legendary No Symbols nights, returns to Ormside with Livity alum Peverelist and para-techno wiz Nkisi
Phase Group: TC LK (live), DJ Peanut, Rick Shiver
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£11
29th March (Sat)
eavesdropping festival: Isidora Edwards, Rachel Musson
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£15, £12 adv, £9 members (series pass £72, £54 members)
see 27/3
C-WOT, John Bisset & George Garford, Subphonics
Lewisham Arthouse ⏳
SE14 6PD
£10 Cash OTD
Eclair Fifi & Finn
Carpet Shop ☑️
SE15 4ST
£11.50 - £15
FESTIVAL MAYBE: Yan Jun, Luciano Maggiore, Shuoxin Tan, Rory Salter, Bei Shan Q Nan, Carys Mai
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£12 OTD
starts 17:30
No Computers 20: feat Viv Corringham + Iris Garrelfs
Stoke Newington Old Church ♿️
N16 9ES
Free
Free free improv! After the featured act, participation is open to everyone, regardless of ability. 1:30 - 4:30
30th March (Sun)
eavesdropping festival: Hyelim Kim + Madison Greenstone
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£15, £12 adv, £9 members (series pass £72, £54 members)
see 27/3
Lori Goldston
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£14
Cellist and collaborator with Nirvana, Earth, Mik Quantius and Lonnie Holley to name a few, performs live experimental film scores
Nonlinear Memories: Two Round Robins, Lesjamusic and Mosaic Tapes
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£4
Bargain sunday drones
Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez - Pli selon pli
Barbican Hall ✅
EC2Y 8DS
£12.50 - £46
"An evening-long tribute to the limitless creative mind of Pierre Boulez, culminating in a rare performance of his five-movement epic masterpiece Pli selon Pli."
Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez - The Second Piano Sonata
Milton Court Concert Hall ✅
EC2Y 9BH
£15
"Boulez’s shattering Second Piano Sonata, and two extraordinary works for solo clarinet, performed by the talented musicians of the Guildhall School and introduced by BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson."
31st March (Mon)
Bitmap and Music from the Sri Lankan Diaspora: Seth De Silva, Suren Seneviratne, TOULIP WONDER
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14, £12, £7 members
"An evening of boundary-pushing audiovisual performances, showcasing the work of three experimental Sri Lankan diaspora artists whose practices explore and deconstruct pixel art, archival mac software, and sound."