London Sound Index - 16th-31st May
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16th May (Fri)
Horn of Plenty Presents: Jordan Deal + Allan Gilbert Balon + Zaheer Gulamhusein
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£15 / £13 adv / £8 members
PALESTINE FUNDS NETWORK: Solomon Garçon (live) + SPECIAL GUEST (live) + Josiane Pozi (live) + Bitter Gold (dj) + Rat Section (dj)
Loki ♿️
SW9 7JJ
£12.50
Sharon Gal / Sue Lynch / Yoni Silver (trio) + Adrian Northover / Bruno Gussoni / Marcello Maggliochi / Adam Bohman (quartet) + Phil Durrant / Marjolaine Charbin / Jackie Walduck (trio)
Christ Church Blackfriars Bridge (John Marshall Hall) ♿️🅰️
SE1 8NY
£8/£10 OTD, £10 adv
Sending out the Bohman bat signal courtesy of Horse Improvised Music Club
THE POOL: Charlotte Keefe (solo) + Shirley Smart / James Arben (duo) + Neil Metcalfe / Simeon May / George Garford (trio)
Tower Theatre ☑️
N16 7HR
£10 / £7
"A club presenting improvised music in the unique space of an underground swimming pool. Doors 7:30pm. The cat's away... the mice will play..."
TT x SLAGWERK: Safety Trance, Toma Kami, 96 Back, Otis, DJ Pitch,
Tek Lintowe, ewa awe, Axine M, Aircode, Madjestic Kasual
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB
£13.80 / £19.60 / £23 / £25.30
"Too stacked to crack. A night of Biblical Proportions. Be ready."
17th May (Sat)
EALING EXTRANORMAL: Mark Hanslip + Dolor Nocturno + Acoustic Survey / Flooded Access + Matt Atkins
OPEN Ealing Arts Centre ⏳
W5 2TD
£12 adv / £15 OTD
improv
Eimear Reidy + Xu Shaoyang + Beachers
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 OTD
Marc Ribot: Solo Guitar Improvisations – Day One
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
SOLD OUT
Mohammad Syfkhan + Sacred Paws
Oslo ♿️
E8 1LL
£17
HUGE , Kurdish bouzouki master plus London DIY pop stalwarts
The Hotel Presents... Bruce Gilbert + Henry Cyer + Jordan Deal
Horse Hospital ☑️🅰️
WC1N 1JD
£12
18th May (Sun)
Marc Ribot: Solo Guitar Improvisations – Day Two
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£35 / £30 adv / £24 members
NRS Presents: These Towns + Heal + Running Standard
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£8 adv / £10 OTD
"London free folk, improv, noise, electronics trio feat. members of UKAEA, Sly and The Family Drone, Abstract Concrete."
SONOMATECA: Marjolaine Charbin, Caroline Kraabel, Edward Lucas, Vanessa Mirza, Artur Vidal and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 suggested donation
3-6pm "a sitting déjà-vu" ; "An afternoon for listening to improvised music, warming up our bodies, going for a walk, conversing and sonic meditating."
Story Untold, Emi Jeen, Antoni Franco
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£14
WE IS HARE: plastique fantastique, Cowboy Builder, Frankie Roberts, and the Dark Reading Group (4PM MATINÉE)
Horse Hospital ☑️🅰️
WC1N 1JD
£5-10 NOTAFLOF
"An evening of sonic fictions, DIY sounds, word burgling and reading in darkness."
19th May (Mon)
IMPROVOX: Steven J. Fowler / Benedict Taylor + Saulius Bendoraitis / Tomas Mejer / Freland Green + Matteo Malquori / Mario Guarnieri / Stuart Wilding
Bridewell Theatre Bar ♿️
EC4Y 8EQ
CASH donations OTD
Improvised music and words
Infant Tree presents: Alanas Gurinas & Sholto Dobie (duo) + Billy Steiger (solo) + Stella (George Lynch & Andy Wyatt)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12 / £10 adv / £6 members
Pipe n wind legend joins forces with paper drone resonator, plus violin deconstructor and exciting new drone/spoken word duo. stacked monday nite lineup !!
Time X Heist, Uncertainty, Equals What, Try Hard
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£12
"Straight-edge hardcore from Colorado, first time in UK!"
20th May (Tue)
Anna Webber's Simple Trio
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£17 / £15 adv / £10 members
Whores, Help, Ritual Error
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£20
"Noise Metal Legends"
21st May (Wed)
Arushi Jain + Tom Furse
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB
£20
Ben Vince + R Elizabeth + Abi Asisa
Loki ♿️
SW9 7JJ
£10
Jenny Hval + Thea Grant
Islington Assembly Hall ✅
N1 2UD
£21.50 plus fees
LEYA / Vanessa Bedoret
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£19.04
Sevy Verna + My Tiny Room + Clementine + Cocaine User
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RW
£6
The Noonan Trio
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£10
WU LYF 3 Day Residency - Day 1
Horse Hospital ☑️🅰️
WC1N 1JD
SOLD OUT
22nd May (Thu)
DJ Scotch Egg Residency Day 1: Soulsick (DJ Scotch Egg / Elvin Brandhi) + Gum Takes Tooth + MANISDRON
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£20 / £17 members thru Oto site) / £50 series pass
Gameboy-gabber and -breakcore innovator comes to the caff joined by a host of exciting guests (Elvin Brandhi!!!) - should be a very fun residency
Hexa presents: Conrad Pack (SELN) + Mt Borracho (Natural Sciences) + Jordan Raymond
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£11.50
WU LYF 3 Day Residency - Day 2
Horse Hospital ☑️🅰️
WC1N 1JD
SOLD OUT
23rd (Fri)
DJ Scotch Egg Residency Day 2: 20 Years of KFC Core + Shitmat
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£20 / £17 members thru Oto site / £50 series pass
For those who missed Shitmat at Corsica recently, this is a must see!!!! One of a kind DJ
GALA '25 Official Afterparty - dBridge + Surusinghe + Cam Joon
The Carpet Shop ⏳
SE15 4ST
£15
Chance to catch drum n bass pioneer dbridge in an intimate setting
SLAGROOM TAKEOVER: Wilf Amis, Martin Hurych, Gobi_10K
TACO! ♿️
SE2 9FA
£5 OTD, NOTAFLOF
experimental electronics in Thamesmead; "an unhealthy menu of smoggy digital feedback, putrid microsound, terrible singing, and all round bad luck"
ÜNDERGØDS: Otis Marchbank + The Lunacy of Flowers + Lord Tusk + Balmainjeans
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£10-13
WU LYF 3 Day Residency - Day 3
Horse Hospital ☑️🅰️
WC1N 1JD
SOLD OUT
24th May (Sat)
DJ Scotch Egg Residency Day 3: Takkak Takkak (Nyege Nyege) + Lila Cita (Gamelan)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£20 / £17 members thru Oto site / £50 series pass
Jack Sheen conducts Explore Ensemble: Laure M Hiendl’s 'Seht meine Wunden'
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
£18 / £16
new piece "[dealing] with music as a spatial artform within the traditional concert setting. Its title and inspiration come from a disturbing line in Philosophy of World Relations, an essay by the Martinican writer, poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant."
KNOT#3: Rory Salter + Spencer + Blue Harbour + Titus Barker
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10-12 OTD
25th May (Sun)
Earworm Presents: Bootycall + Royal Spaceporn + Sissy Puss + Gutter Carrion
Piehouse Co-Op ♿️
SE8 5HD
£10Matinee event, doors 1600
Graham Reynolds + Daisy Rickman
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18
LUFT (Alan Newcombe / James O'Sullivan / Chris Hill) + Charlotte Keeffe + N.O. Moore / Paul Margree (duo)
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£8-10 OTD
MOPOMOSO: Musical Mudlarks (Adrian Northover / Phil Minton / Adam Bohman) + Kay Grant / Daniel Thompson / Ian McLachlan + Mike Walter / Gabriel Keen + Paul Pignon
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£12 / £8 members
2-5pm - Phil Minton AND Adam Bohman!!
Public Acid + Tramadol + Stingray + Traidora
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£10
26th May (Mon)
Earworm Presents Two Day Noise Series - Day 1: Terror Cell Unit + Distraxi + Natural Causes + Slow Murder & Ordeal By Roses + Gutter Carrion
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
SINGLE DAY TICKETS £16 for either 26th or 27th - TWO DAY TICKETS £25.
"Monday is the second of only two dates TERROR CELL UNIT will be playing in the UK, Tuesday is one of many CRAWL OF TIME dates in a UK tour...
With a blistering string of local and UK-wide supports, each night is a five-act night so with ten in two days this is bordering on 'noisefest' territory (but please don't call it that)."
Hawkwind
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
From £30
Space rock legends play new music from their 36th studio album, and from across their whole career.
Nicole Mitchell / Mark Sanders / Neil Charles (trio)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18 / £16 adv / £12 members
Flautist extraordinaire in trio w bassist/percussionist; will most likely blow ur sox off
PUNKS FOR PALESTINE: Death Goals, Fractured, InCaseYouLeave, M.I.C, leather.head, Smoked Poets, Tension, more
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£13 regular; £18 solidarity
raising funds for MAP
27th May (Tue)
Earworm Presents Two Day Noise Series - Day 2: Crawl Of Time + Minimum Sentence + Eros Catheter + Lover's Leap + Severance
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
SINGLE DAY TICKETS £16 for either 26th or 27th - TWO DAY TICKETS £25.
See 26/5
John Butcher / Chris Corsano / Florian Stoffner (trio)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£17 / £15 adv / £10 members
!!!
28th May (Wed)
Caspar Brötzmann Massaker – Day One
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£22 / £20 adv / £14 members
Curbside Lambsear + GUE + Gospel Ship dx
Horse Hospital ☑️🅰️
WC1N 1JD
£6-10 sliding scale
new duo from Magdalena McLean and Annabelle Mödlinger of the Umlauts and caroline -- "feels a bit like grit in the mouth and loves awkward poetry. Hear low sinewave humms and viola scratches over sample loops, collected from pretty much wherever. Often feels a bit sad, erratic and elated" - perhaps this word has lost meaning through frequent LSI usage, but this is another truly stacked lineup!!
Ellen Arkbro + Lucy Railton
St James's Church Sussex Gardens ♿️
W2 3UD
£24
organ
SAOM 23
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RW
£7 / £10
Experiments with sound
29th May (Thu)
Alan Sparhawk with Trampled By Turtles + Mess Esque
EartH Theatre ☑️
N16 8BH
£27.50 + fees
Caroline Kraabel and Bex Burch with Saadet Türköz, Olga Ksendzovska, Mark Sanders
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
Standard £15 / Vortex Members £7.50 / Students & UC beneficiaries £6
Caspar Brötzmann Massaker – Day Two
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£22 / £20 adv / £14 members
also playing 28/5
MATED LIVE @ Loki: NZE NZE + Nkisi + Suutoo + Rebbushka
Loki ♿️
SW9 7JJ
£8
NRS Presents: Draags, Moist Crevice, Saint Toilet
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£8 adv / £10 OTD - notaflof
30th May (Fri)
Actress x Suzanne Ciani present Concrète Waves + Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
SOLD OUT
Bex Burch, Caroline Kraabel, special guest and friends!
Horse Hospital ☑️🅰️
WC1N 1JD
£6-10 sliding scale
Improv!
Gazelle Twin
Kings Place (Hall One) ✅
N1 9AG
£25
Henry Prince, Tarek Elazhary, Maddie Ashman, Daniel Padgett
The Swiss Church ♿️
WC2H 9DY
£14
"contemporary music for string instruments" ; "microtonal guitar" ; ebows ; "pure versus impure harmony"
New Duos: Kate Carr / John Macedo + Phil Julian / Zheng Hao + Rie Nakajima / Tom White
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 OTD
Quinie + Sound Of Yell + Harry Gorski Brown
St Pancras Old Church ✅
NW1 1UL
£11.64
album launch for wicked Scottish unaccompanied trad vocalist
SPARRING VOL 2: Seizure + Oxhy + Nihal + Rat Section + Galerina Djs + Covco + Balmainjeans + Charles Verni
Loki ♿️
SW9 7JJ£12
TENGGER + Marina Moore
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16
31st May (Sat)
BRÅK #52: Cath Roberts / Gemma Bass + Colin Webster / Steve Noble + Tom Ward / Tom Challenger
waterintobeer ☑️
SE4 2EW
£8.25
Brilliant long running series of improv duos, Colin Webster and Steve Noble will be mind blowing!!
HOLYPHORIA - THE SOUL ROT: Giora + ALBXROTO + BJ Holy + ecolagbohrsac2021 [The Prince of This World] + Wounder + Mary Mousetrap + SALOME + CITYTRONIX (DJ)
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£10-15
"a night of Celestial poptimism, flugelhorn Rihanna, AI lips and photonic saliva, Balenciaga deepfake embroidery, Bottega Veneta voxel velvet, Vivienne Westwood anarcho-fiber as hyperrealist synovial fluid run down walls and Eucharist glitters glimmer to the hymnal remixes, angelcore reverb, seraphic melodies, cherubic distortion and messianic autotune in Sacrosanct BPM."
Kōenji Hyakkei
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£27.03 - SOLD OUT (join waiting list on DICE)
Moin + HONOUR + Voice Actor
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
From £22.50
No Computers XXI: George Garford / Julia Brüssel
Stoke Newington Old Church ♿️
N16 9ES
Free
1.30pm-4.30pm -- will take place in 'the Deck', a covered outdoor space behind the church itself -- "the format is a feature act followed by an open improvisation where anyone can play regardless of background, ability or status."
Złom: 639 distortion (live) + Conrad Pack (live) + leisure fm (live) + Medici Daughter (live) + Willow Swan (live) + omoo (dj)
Piehouse Co-Op ♿️
SE8 5HD
£10-12