London Sound Index - 1st-15th February
Hi — we took a short hiatus over Xmas / January but are now back to listing gigs. We will publish two newsletters a month, just like before. If you have a gig you’d like to list, or any feedback/accessibility updates (we are always looking to fill gaps in our field of vision/hearing), please e-mail londonsoundindex@substack.com .
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1st February (Sat)
AD-LIB: Caroline Kraabel / Neil Metcalfe / Daniel Thompson + Tilly Coulton / Douglas Benford / Ross Lambert
OPEN Ealing Arts Centre ⏳
W5 2TD
£10 (£5 students and unwaged)
Improv. Bring your own refreshments. "The line up for the February session features two flute trios"
Alan Wilkinson, John Edwards & Steve Noble (trio) + David Toop (solo) + Rie Nakajima (solo) + Alex Ward (short solo set upstairs)
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 per show / £25 for all three shows (cash or card)
Second of three dates raising funds for HYG recording equipment, capturing for posterity their absurdly high hit rate. Read this line up again and weep!!
Alexander Hawkins Three-Day Residency (2/3): Nicole Mitchell / Alexander Hawkins - At Earth School
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18, £16 advance, £12 members; residency pass £50 adv, £30 members
Superb pianist/organist in special duo with AACM stalwart / flautist
BUFFEE, SL4P, Tommy Barlow, the Cowards
the George Tavern ☑️
E1 0LA
£6
Various strains of new DIY for independent venue week
Blue Bendy + Web + Otala
MOTH Club ☑️
E9 6NU
£15
BLURT: Zara Joan Miller, Sophie Paul, Egg Meat, Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau
TACO! ♿️
SE2 9FA
FREE
new "experimental platform supporting artists to develop text-based works for live reading and performance", live in Thamesmead; new works of "iridescent vernaculars, rarefied utterances, rhythmic memories, and other weird waves"
Danalogue (the Comet is Coming, Soccer96), James Howard & John Johanna, Nuha Ruby Ra (DJ), secret headliner TBA
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£8 low income, £13 standard, £20 includes compilation cd
Laura Cannell
Kings Place (Hall Two) ✅
N1 9AG
£20 + bf
Brilliant violinist / single-reedist premieres new work for "12-string knee harp, delay pedal and sparse layering" inspired by Hildegard von Bingen
Luxury Apartments + Jeanie and the White Boys + the Gash
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
Great no-tuner-pedal punk with hooks
2nd February (Sun)
Alexander Hawkins Three-Day Residency (3/3): Rhodri Davies / Hamid Drake / Alexander Hawkins / Nicole Mitchell / Matthew Wright
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18, £16 advance, £12 members; residency pass £50 adv, £30 members
Caius Williams, Hannah Marshall & John Butcher (trio) + Sue Lynch & NO Moore (duo) + Luciano Maggiore (solo) + John Macedo (short solo sets upstairs) (3:30PM MATINÉE)
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 per show / £25 for all three shows (cash or card)
see 1/2
PUNK 4 +4 TRANSEXUALISM: Liv Wynter, piglet, leather.head, Living Underground, Gaba Oolong
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£10 suggested donation (NOTAFLOF)
Queercore / DIY night ft "soulful mournful woeful tones" / "violent poetry"
SUEP / Kissing Gate / Siblings / Casual Smart
the George Tavern ☑️
E1 0LA
£7
3rd February (Mon)
BOAT-TING: Tom Jackson / Benedict Taylor / Daniel Thompson + Jack Cooper / Tara Cunningham + Marilza Gouvea / Marcio Mattos / Adrian Northover
Theatreship ⏳
E14 9SH
£10 / £7
improv on a boat, improv on a boat
Jamaaladeen Tacuma / Pat Thomas / Orphy Robinson / Charles Hayward (quartet) + Jamaaladeen Tacuma / Massimo Magee (duo)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£24; £22 adv; £16 members
Calling all harmolodics fiends -- bassist from Ornette Coleman's Prime Time (an indescribable group. Ornette but it's fifth-dimensional ESG?) comes to town, performs w eye-popping quartet of living legends
4th February (Tue)
GRAIN: Theodora Laird & Charles Bullen (duo) + Caius Williams / Tara Cunningham / Theo Guttenplan (trio) + Ute Kanngiesser & Lauren Kinsella (duo)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members
JPEGMAFIA
Roundhouse ✅🅰️(<16)
NW1 8EH
SOLD OUT (wait list only)
5th February (Wed)
Agaskodo Teliverek + KAMIKAMIKAMI
Strongroom Bar ☑️
EC2A 3SQ
FREE
Elaine Mitchener and Ensemble Klang perform Thelonious Monk, Muhal Richard Abrams, Sarah Hennies, the Fall, more
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
from £18; £5 for under-35s
Mercury, Silica, Wisely, Kissing on Camera
Moor Beer Vaults ♿️
SE16 3RA
£10 OTD cash or card
PUNK / HARDCORE
Skydaddy, Dana Gavanski, the Best Believe
Omeara ♿️
SE1 1TE
£12.50 + bf
Tujiko Noriko + Mia Zabelka + Rie Nakajima / Max Eastley (duo)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16; £14 adv; £8 members
WHILE YOU'RE ONLINE: Sydenham High Road + Yorck Street + etta97
+ acceptyrfate
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£8.50
Slackgazey sounds FFO Dean Blunt, Bar Italia
6th February (Thu)
[something's happening] + Kate Carr + Nicola Woodham + Adaír
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£8.50
Elucid
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18 + bf; SOLD OUT (waiting list only)
ex.sses, ACTION, feeo, jb glazer, excel dj, Milk Eyed Sigh, Maya Vika (DJ)
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£10 / £12 / £15 (1st/2nd/3rd release)
Experimental club / downtempo night to celebrate new release by Cherche Encore-affiliated sound artist
7th February (Fri)
Brushhrunner (Breaka, Yushh & Dubrunner)
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£11.50
2300-0500 -- bass / dubstep -- "Get swept off your feet!"
Choi WonBin ( 최원빈( ), Skinship 스킨십, Pink Eye Club
Windmill Brixton ☑️
SW2 5BZ
£5
Hi-NRG rock from Korea
GET IN HER EARS: Thwack!, Gay Skeleton Club, Psycho Delia
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£9
Gimic, Rubber, Middleman, Blindness, Romeo Taylor (DJ)
the Stag's Head ⏳
N1 5RA
£10
Do you like punk rock music??
Holy Tongue meets Shackleton + Iggor Cavalera
Number 90 ☑️
E9 5LN
£20
Valentina Magaletti / Al Wootton / Susumu Makai trio + experimental electronic producer release strange propulsive collab record "Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now" on AD93 -- title gets to the essence of their specialties
JOHN RUSSELL "HOMMAGE CONCERT": Phil Durrant, Pascal Marzan, Daniel Thompson, Hannah Marshall, Kay Grant, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Paul Pignon
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 OTD cash or card
An occasion to remember John Russell on the 5th anniversary of his death. This event will be also the launch concert of Russell’s last issued CD 'Before the Wedding' recorded 12th april 2018 in Ljubljana
Trim + Mitsubishi Suicide + Nova Varnrable + Leo Gibbon (DJ) + Resimota (DJ)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18; £16 adv; £13 members
ex-Roll Deep MC + nu London slowcore + experimental echo beat
8th February (Sat)
Brother May + Zeynep Ağcabay + Solomon Garçon
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £10 members
dBridge & Madison Willing, mu tate, exlruth
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
First release: £17.50; Second release: £20.50; Final release: £23
Electronic-meets-classical live performance, featuring analogue hardware and a live piano.
Delphine Dora
St Giles Cripplegate ♿️
EC2Y 8DA
£22
Solo church organ
Landless + PEM
Bush Hall ✅
W12 7LJ
£19.25 (+£2.75 ticket handling fee)
4 piece traditional folk vocal group, based in Ireland. Doomy and beautiful, FFO Lankum
Ligeti Quartet performs Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros
Kings Place (Hall Two) ✅
N1 9AG
£22 + bf
Matt Atkins & Stuart Chalmers / Beachers / Lucia H Chung
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 OTD cash only
Don't know any of them very well but it sounds like it could be a real treat of a gig! No-input feedback noise meets ambient meets improv meets site specific knobbing around meets hi and lo fi sort of thing, I think?
Pye Corner Audio + Loula Yorke
Rich Mix ♿️
E1 6LA
£17.99
/low Adam Curtis arpeggiators intensify/ (this is them)
TERRA OBSUCRA: Carrier (live), Cosi b2b Caroune, McGregor (live), Avsluta
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£17.30
9th February (Sun)
Bent Blue, Major Pain, Without Love, Chainlink, Swear Down
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£12 adv / £15
San Diego CA melodic hardcore
Ensemble 50:50
Open Ealing Arts Centre ⏳
W5 2TD
£5 admission subs (suggested donation)
An afternoon of improv drawn from participants of Eddie Prevost's workshop and the London Improvisers Orchestra, among other groups. The ensemble welcomes new musicians! - "Members of the public not known to us are asked to attend one performance as an audience member, and then we will have a discussion about future participation." 15:30 - 18:00
Mary Ocher
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18; £16 adv; £13 members
Steve Noble with Caius Williams & Jamie Coleman (3:30PM MATINÉE)
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 OTD cash only
Percussion-led improv bonanza by the sound of it!
10th February (Mon)
Laughter, thistle., Shoplifting, kissgem.burn
Windmill Brixton ☑️
SW2 5BZ
£5
quadruple-hit of “noisy guitar bands”, “lofi junglegaze”, “abrasive walls of sound” courtesy of Pindrop zine
Tyshawn Sorey Trio
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
SOLD OUT
11th February (Tue)
Alan Wilkinson At 70 Two-Day Residency (1/2): Alan Wilkinson / Steve Noble (duo) + Darin Gray / Pak Yan Lau / Steve Noble / Alan Wilkinson (quartet)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16; £14 adv; £8 members
Ilford's number 1 multi-reedist / skronk god strips the paint from Oto's walls over two evenings
Festen (opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage)
Royal Opera House ✅🅰️(<16)
WC2E 9DD
from £33
Latest by worldleading writer of avant-garde opera (based on punishing Vinterburg film of same name). Also showing 14/2 (where there are cheaper tix still available), throughout Feb
Geneva Jacuzzi + Riki
MOTH Club ☑️
E9 6NU
£18.70
Synth-pop galore!
Most Things + Hank + Mary Elizabeth + Yorck Street
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
Propulsive drums n guitar twopiece Most Things shake the Shack; it's free gig for ya!
Niladri Kumar
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
from £20
Sitar master / collaborator with A R Rahman, John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain
12th February (Wed)
A BIGGER MOUTH: Mike Walter, Paul Taylor, Lu Edmonds, Mark Roberts, Gabriel Keen
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 OTD cash only
Alan Wilkinson at 70 Two-Day Residency (2/2): Mark Sanders / Pat Thomas / Alan Wilkinson (trio) + John Edwards / Mark Sanders / Pat Thomas / Alan Wilkinson (quartet)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16; £14 adv; £8 members
see 11/2
Ruthven
Hoxton Hall ♿️ 16+
N1 6SH
£19.37
Jai / A. K. Paul affiliate
Ynys, Cutty Shark, Zest Hope Successes
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£10 adv / £13
"Aberystwyth fuzz-pop"
13th February (Thu)
Able Noise + Jon Collin + Suzan Peeters
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £10 members
Strongly recommended triple threat of loping moreish bariguitar/drum miniatures w varispeed cassette accompaniment / Stockholm-via-Stockport guitar-and-strings improviser riding the high long tone tides / leading Belgian accordionist and vibrating fitness board player
AK/DK + Thick Richard & Angusraze
The Victoria ☑️
E8 3AS
£17
BBC Singers/Sofi Jeannin perform James Macmillan
Milton Court ✅🅰️
EC2Y 9BH
from £15
UK premiere of Macmillan's 'Ordo Virtutum', setting of a sacred music drama by Hildegard von Bingen -- "expect [...] the sound of the Devil who speaks but does not sing"
GREETINGS III: V + C, Dhangsha, Wildwood Daddy, black unicorn,
DKB_SAN + George
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£8.10 early bird / £9
Seems a fun eclectic lineup from the sonic scraps I could gather and this intriguing description: "embodied silence + dirtied melodies + gossamer balladry + liquefied incantations + wax love"
Kwake Bass presents BPM: BLOCK POWER MUSIC
The Albany ✅ 16+
SE8 4AG
£10; concessions £6; limited number of £1 tix available
Evening of live sequencing hosted by legendary SL producer: "For beatmakers in or out of the box!"
Leatherette
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
Durrant/Sanders + Stories Trio + LUFT
the Hamlet 📶
SW16 1DB
£8 adv / £10 otd
A night of improvised music on the Streatham High Road, featuring improv legends Phil Durrant and Mark Sanders in a duo
14th February (Fri)
Callahan & Witscher, Blues Angles
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
£9.27
Fragmentary / hilarious / polarising experimental duo present music from their first record of songs, FFO Negativland's anti-Pepsi concept album if it was about Boiler Room, Wonder Showzen, 100 gecs (sort of), Cake (why not)
Festen (opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage)
Royal Opera House ✅🅰️(<16)
WC2E 9DD
from £8
see 11/2
GENERAL ECHO LOVERS' ROCK SPECIAL: Riketté Genesis, Tara Mallen
Walthamstow Trades Hall ☑️
E17 4RQ
£5; £3 members
Monthly reggae disco in special Valentine's Day edition, spinning "lovers rock, romantic rocksteady, soulful ska and heartbreak in the echo chamber!"
Los Campesinos! (night 1/2)
Troxy ☑️
E1 0HX
cheap tix £10.05 (wait list only); upper circle seats £32.38 (still available)
Mermaid Chunky
The Bath House ♿️
E9 5JH
£20.76; SOLD OUT (wait list only)
Shit and Shine Two-Day Residency (1/2): Shit and Shine + Mt. Gemini
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18; £16 (dice); series pass £30
15th February (Sat)
Davóne Tines, Khari Lucas and John Bitoy perform Paul Robeson
Milton Court ✅🅰️
EC2Y 9BH
from £15
Interesting new work of experimental reinterpretation of / ode to one of the great singers and figures of the prev century
Eterna
Sebright Arms 📶
E2 9AG
£12.50 + bf
Addictive, weirdly angular / blasé at the same time rock-by-DAW from Barcelona
Ex-Vöid, Starter Car, Garden Centre
the George Tavern ☑️
E1 0LA
£10; SOLD OUT, wait list only
Unbelieeeevably stacked triple bill of the best in DIY punk and song. Hooks with hooks on them
FISH FINGERS LOVE ME: babyschön + Moskar + Grace Black
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£8 (+1.20 RA fee)
Post valentines grooves with the best of the best. "Love Letter delivery service available on site. Dress to impress ;)"
Jake Xerxes Fussell, Jennifer Castle
EartH Theatre 📶
N16 8BH
from £20.87
Los Campesinos! (night 2/2)
Troxy ☑️
E1 0HX
cheap tix £10.05 (wait list only); upper circle seats £32.38 (still available)
Mihai Cucos Trio + John Myers (solo)
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 OTD cash; £8 advance (no link?)
1980s New York noise scene + Glenn Branca affiliated acts!!
Negative Gears, Life Forms, Rubber, Grazia
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£12
It's v good aussie-punk from Negative Gears + all the shades of UK punk + Less Than Human's djset = FUN!
Shit and Shine Two-Day Residency (2/2): Shit and Shine + Louse
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18; £16 (dice); series pass £30
SUPER HEXAGON: Pinch, Marylou, J. Wiltshire, ASG
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£13.80 2nd release; £17.30 3rd release
So glad to have this back!! The best resource the city has