London Sound Index - 1st-15th July
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JUST ANNOUNCED: Thu 14 Nov, Califone, The 100 Club 📶, W1D 1LL. £20.99
1st - 15th July Listings
1st July (Mon)
ANOHNI and the Johnsons
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
£40; £10 under 25s
Also performing 2/7
Bib, Ikhras, Dynamite, Catastrophe, Second Death
New River Studios ♿️🅰️
N4 1DN
£10
All ages hardcore show headed by punks from Nebraska
Lolina + LA Timpa
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£15
Ustad Noor Bakhsh - Two-Day Residency (Day One): Ustad Noor Bakhsh + Muslim Shaggan + DJ Chris Menist (Paradise Bangkok)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
SOLD OUT
Also performing 2/7
2nd July (Tue)
ANOHNI and the Johnsons
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
£40; £10 under 25s
Ustad Noor Bakhsh - Two-Day Residency (Day Two): Ustad Noor Bakhsh + Zayn Mohammed
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£22; £20 advance; £14 members
Watch Paint Dry / Ava / Baggio (solo)
The Ivy House ☑️
SE15 3BE
£5 adv
3rd July (Wed)
Babau, rainrainRainbow, Beachers
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£8
Borges Machado + Adriano Adewale
Cecil Sharp House ✅🅰️
NW1 7AY
£15; £10 under 30
Brazilian trio play field recording-heavy weird folk
Kilynn Lunsford + Stewart Home + the Rebel + the Pheromoans
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£9
Kit Downes / Tom Challenger / Tara Cunningham / Caius Williams / Andrew Lisle
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£10
fffreeeee mmmusssicccc (downstairs)
Leon Mitchener and Rrose play Charlemagne Palestine
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 advance; £7 members
Mdou Moctar
Electric Brixton ⏳ 14+ 🅰️(<16)
SW2 1RJ
£25 + bf
Radio Free Alice, Dreamwave, Sunglasz Vendor, Rowena Wise
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE (first come first serve entry)
new bands as part of Eat Your Own Ears recommends; in aid of Doctors Without Borders
4th July (Thu)
Anthony Moore Trio Obtram3 + friends
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16; £14 advance; £8 members
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow man + Olie Brice, John Butcher and more improv / noise / text heads
Apartment House perform Annea Lockwood and José Maceda
Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall) ✅7+
SE1 8XX
from £20
as part of Sound Within Sound festival
Caius Williams (solo) + Aga Ujma / Alex McKenzie (duo) + Tom Hardwick-Allan / Jamie Farrington (duo)
waterintobeer ☑️
SE4 2EW
£7 standard; £5 low/no waged; NOTAFLOF
freeeeee muuuusssiiicccccc
life is beautiful presents: SALIMATA
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£9/£13 + bf
The Marian Consort perform Ruth Crawford Seeger's Chants for Women's Chorus (two performances 7 and 9:30pm)
Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall) ✅7+
SE1 8XX
FREE (no ticket required)
as part of Sound Within Sound festival: pioneering early 'ultramodernist' American composer. Note this takes place in the foyer of the venue
Tiberius B, Will Lister, Black Fondu & Sydenham High Road
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£10.40/£14/£17 + bf
5th July (Fri)
CLUB BOOP: Bossman Wines, Ella Blou, Lina
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£13
HUMANITY: CHEF, Decibella, DJ Stretch, Equinox (UK), Hughsee, LMajor, Louise Plus 1, Mani Festo, Madcap, Warlock (MCs Illmatika, Shockin B and Shylo)
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£10 + bf
Jungle/dnb night, all donations go directly to MSF/Doctors without Borders
Maya Dunietz performs Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou
Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall) ✅7+
SE1 8XX
from £15
Deeply emotive piano music from the greatest nun to ever write for the instrument. FFO the scales and modes of Ethiopian jazz. part of Sound Within Sound festival
Thorby + Mutebody + Tommy Barlow
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£7
"hardware [...] with organic reactivity" ; "beautifully alienating and bass-heavy music intended for listening in dark spaces" ; "founder of farm grunge"
6th July (Sat)
BREAK GEN: x3butterfly, Syntax, Nectax, Cheetah, Zeldin, Shirley Temper, Son of Mothra
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£13.95 + bf
breakbeat experimental rave last entry 3am
Elif Yalvaç, Jono Podmore, Georgina Brett
Hundred Years Gallery ♿️🅰️
E2 8JD
£10/£8
Else Marie Pade (works TBA)
Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall) ✅7+
SE1 8XX
from £20
as part of Sound Within Sound festival: programme of works by early electronic music composer
Gülseven Medar Quartet + Tara Jaff, Mehdi and Adib Rostami
Kings Place (Hall One) ✅
N1 9AG
from £20
Anatolian folk specialist plus Iranian/Kurdish informed harp improv
MUSIC IS SOCIAL SPACE: Charles Hayward, Kamera Obscura, Tooth Adderley
The Albany ✅ 16+
SE8 4AG
£10-£12
This Heat/Camberwell Now drummer / hero performs Zigzag+Swirl solo set, plus Tokyo "anti-musical strategi[st]" / figure in Japan's 80s women's liberation movement, plus "new pop for the new now"
Pedro Vian (live!) + Ana Quiroga (live!) + Mana (live!)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 advance; £7 members
Hyperdub / Mego / Modern Obscure Music affiliated triple bill
People Drift with Paul St. Hilaire and Arthur
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£18 + bf
Quatuor Bozzini perform Ruth Crawford Seeger, Muhal Richard Abrams, Johanna Beyer
Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall) ✅7+
SE1 8XX
from £15
as part of Sound Within Sound festival
SECOND BORN: Noria Lilt, Proteus, Porter Brook, L. Douglas (live)
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£12 (or 3 tix for £30) + bf
2300-0600 post-techno
Siwan Rhys performs Galina Ustvolskaya
Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall) ✅7+
SE1 8XX
from £15
as part of Sound Within Sound festival: heavy heavy works for grand piano, expect many clusters and reaching into the body of the piano
UNIT OF NONE: Paladin, Lust Pattern
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£6.50
7th July (Sun)
Annea Lockwood: A Sound Map of the Housatonic River
Southbank Centre (Purcell Room) ✅7+
SE1 8XX
FREE (no ticket required)
As part of Sound Within Sound. "Follow the winding journey of New Zealand-born composer from river to sea, mapping the gentle sounds of waterways" [Southbank website does not elaborate on what this means -- a performance, a talk, a workshop?]
Last Dream of the Morning (John Butcher / Mark Sanders / John Edwards)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 advance; £7 members
Three improv GOATs
Quatuor Bozzini and Rhodri Davies perform Éliane Radigue
Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall) ✅7+
SE1 8XX
from £20
As part of Sound Within Sound: a chance to hear maybe the greatest instrumental pieces of this century; extraordinary audial hallucinations achieved by precise, oscillating frequencies. Nothing like it on this Earth
Steve Noble / Ute Kanngiesser + Steve Noble / Daniel Thompson
Hundred Years Gallery ♿️🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash
Double Noble (doors at 3:30pm)
8th July (Mon)
BleySchool (Pat Thomas / Dominic Lash / Tony Orrell)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 advance; £7 members
pat thomas alert!!! piano / bass / drums trio pay homage to Paul Bley
9th July (Tue)
Arooj Aftab
Omeara ♿️
SE1 1TE
£25; SOLD OUT waiting list only
INFINITE *KERP: XT (Seymour Wright / Paul Abbott) Three-Day Residency (Day One)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 advance; £7 members; series pass £30 (£18 members)
Semi-metronomic skronk, unsung heroes of London free music. Unmissable
10th July (Wed)
AM sin + happyhappyface
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
early bird £5
live modular
Attawalpa, For Breakfast, Caleb Kunle, Punchbag
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE (first come first serve entry)
new bands as part of Eat Your Own Ears recommends; in aid of Doctors Without Borders
INFINITE *KERP: XT (Seymour Wright / Paul Abbott) Three-Day Residency (Day Two)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 advance; £7 members; series pass £30 (£18 members)
One_Orchestra New
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£15; members £12.50; students & UC beneficiaries £10
Flexible, poss as large as two dozen-piece, ensemble of improvisers made up of women and trans / non-binary people. Convened by Caroline Kraabel, ft. lots of London improv luminaries (Charlotte Keeffe, Jacken Elswyth, Regan Bowering, Cath Roberts, Khabat Abas....)
11th July (Thu)
Eternal July perform Neil Luck, Catherine Lamb, Alvin Lucier
St Giles Cripplegate ♿️
EC2Y 8DA
£15
New piece by Luck where ensemble is "performing with furniture in reverberant spaces"
INFINITE *KERP: XT (Seymour Wright / Paul Abbott) Three-Day Residency (Day Three)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 advance; £7 members; series pass £30 (£18 members)
James Hesford
Horse Hospital ☑️🅰️
WC1N 1JD
donations £4-£10
opening of new exhibition by composer of "majestic classical and experimental compositions [and] radio broadcasts"
Mary Hurrell, Nordra, Komare and Hard Fantasy (DJ SET)
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£10 + bf
12th July (Fri)
GENERAL ECHO: Gabby Ochoa, Ray "the thinking man's skinhead" (of Ray's Records)
Walthamstow Trades Hall ☑️
E17 4RQ
£3 members; £5 guests and non-members OTD
Monthly reggae disco; "vintage Jamaican music from the 60s and 70s"
LABOUR residency (Day One)
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£13.80
first release; residency pass £23
site-specific show by Berlin electronic duo, "sonically activating parts of the building and performing in the centre's brutalist car park structure"
Limpe Fuchs / Mark Fell (Duo) + Limpe Fuchs (solo piano)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£17; £15 advance; £10 members
Rotherham’s finest rave-deconstructionist is, in an unexpected turn, paired with a solo pianist. Intrigue guaranteed.
The Bug (DJ) + One Leg One Eye
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB£22
Experimental heavy-beats man in dub mode + Ian from Lankum solo project opening
Viscount, Red Lady, Leigh Arthur (hosted by Claire Champagne)
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£8 OTD
13th July (Sat)
8TIMES8: Arden 907, Maxuca, AL[X], SHARKA, TECHSIA, Arts Diø
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£11.50
2300-0700 "With our amazing line up of hard techno DJs, be transported and free your soul"
CONSTRUCT FEST: Rachel Musson / Olie Brice / Will Glaser + People Like Us + Ania Psenitsnikova / David Toop + Khabat Abas + Phil Durrant / Cath Roberts / Bill Thompson / Mark Wastell
King Alfred Phoenix Theatre ☑️
NW11 7HY
£12, £8 concessions
"Electro // Acoustic // Visual // Movement mini-festival"
CRRDR, Hannah, Skari, CASE, ELI, Yasmine
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£7 first release; £9 second release
2300-0600 latincore night
FOR FUCK SAKE: Bailey Ibbs, Borai, DJ Cosworth, DJ Fingerblast, more
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB
1st release £10; 2nd release £15; GA £20
2300-0600 "massive fuck off rave"
LABOUR residency (Day Two)
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£13.80 first release; residency pass £2see 12/7
Lao San Yang + special guest
Hundred Years Gallery ♿️🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 early bird; £13.70 general admission
life is beautiful: Pretty V {aka Voldy Moyo}, #NOSTANDARDS, #2007Money
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
early bird £7, 1st release £9, 2nd release £13
14th July (Sun)
Nailbreaker, Spit, Nov LT, Elenwen
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
FREE
Rachel Musson / Phil Durrant / Roland Ramanan / Douglas Benford
Hundred Years Gallery ♿️🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash
improv
Regular Working Group (Muna Dajani + Yasamin + Bint Mbareh)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12; £10 advance; £6 members
15th July (Mon)
Ana Frango Elétrico + Clémentine March + Pedro Montenegro (DJ)
the Jazz Cafe ☑️
NW1 7PG
£15
Rosso Polare + Felisha Ledesma + Dania + Not Waving (DJ)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£17; £15 advance; £10 members