London Sound Index - 1st-15th July
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1st July (Tue)
Cat Factory + Luce Rushton
The Ivy House ☑️
SE15 3BE
£5
latest in best London guitar pop courtesy of events series New Lands
Italia 90 + Qlowski - Fundraiser for WFFP Arrestee Legal Fund
Piehouse Co-Op ♿️
SE8 5HD
From £7, donations OTD
London post-punks come together to raise funds for the Workers For A Free Palestine arrestees (including one of our own LSI editors) facing very expensive legal fees. EARLY GIG! 8-10pm.
2nd July (Wed)
Aly Eissa
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash OTD
oud player, composer and improviser from Cairo (for more oud see 5/7)
Bill Callahan + Jerry David Decicca
EartH Theatre ☑️
N16 8BH
SOLD OUT; waitlist only
Brat, Eskrota, Jawless, Skrapper
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£17 + bf
"Barbiegrinding Bimboviolence from New Orleans" (their words) plus "Radical crossover thrashcore from Brazil"
CONCRÈTE-CORE: The Boxmen, JAWHARP, DR££@M $LUDG3, Gutter Carrion, Raxil 4, ecm, Jack Dove
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£6.50
"A bracing new night featuring Noise bands squaring up against Noise artists!"
Escape-ism (feat Ian Svevonius) + Crush + Jeanie and the White Boys
Downstairs at the Dome ⏳
N19 5QQ
£20
Marek Pospieszalski Two-Day Residency (Day One)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members
"stalwart of Polish contemporary jazz"
MPTL Microplastics + Nexus-0
the George Tavern ☑️
E1 0LA
£6.50
must-see octet playing "folk music for a polymer people" (also playing 5/7)
Tolstoys
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
slow featherlight indie from Slovakia FFO Big Thief, Grateful Dead
3rd July (Thu)
CONCRETE CULTURE: No Warning, Impunity, Mindless, Hitmen, Wiseguy
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£12
Hardcore !
CRUDO AUDIO: Alessandro Cocco (ASS3), BLIBI b2b DREIAN, nohexcode, DANI DE LARA b2b SBBS
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
from £5
2100-0200 "another Thursday of pure techno"
Destiny Bond, Big Laugh, Flesh Creep, Closed Hands
https://pit.live/events/destiny-bond-big-laugh
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£13 + bf
"Hard stomping queer hardcore"
Index for Working Musik, Worldpeace DMT, Siren, Mel Sorgan
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£8.50 - £15
buzzy LDN band signed to Tough Love recs "emerged from the depths of an East End bunker" -- event description references John Fahey, Polvo (never bad things!)
INSOMNIA x THE MOB RECORDINGS: Goya, Hunter, Ryan Licchelli
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB
2nd release £5.50; final release £9.20
2300-0400 weekly cheap-as-chips night taking in club of all stripes; free tix if your birthday is in July
Japanese Breakfast + Minhwi Lee
Brixton Academy ✅ 14+
SW9 9SL
from £39.23 incl fees
KickBoy, Doom Club, Information Cop
the George Tavern ☑️
E1 0LA
£6
"post punk / dance punk / garage funk / no wave"
Marek Pospieszalski Two-Day Residency (Day Two)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members
see 2/7
NEW YEAR: Laura Groves, Sasha Renkas, Elen Huynh, Reckonwrong (dj)
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£12
"smoke-filled arch of dreams" plus "slow, intimate, nighttime music" plus "exquisite explorations through borderlands of music and spoken word"
Salomé Wu, Sculpture Park, Kaspar Hauser, Snow at Seaside
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£6.50
Sister Midnight Presents: Isaiah Hull, Max Winter, RAEL
Piehouse Co-Op ♿️
SE8 5HD
£Pay What You Can
"Expect glitchy infused beats, experimental soundscapes and hard hitting words"
4th July (Fri)
Camila Nebbia / Colin Webster / Caius Williams / Andrew Lisle (quartet)
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£12.50; members, students, UC beneficiaries £8
"high energy free improvisation" quartet (also playing in Ealing on 5/7)
Distractfold Two-Day Residency (Day One): Hidden Mother perform Alexandra Solovkina-Nilsson, Monty Adkins, Sarah Hughes
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£20 adv; £12 members
UK contemporary music ensemble celebrates 15 years of activity w/ mini-festival "connecting geolocation with its sonic expression"; programme over the two days features performances for amplified 480 million yo limestone, explorations of "the sonic life of marine biomes", "the energy in a restrained scream"
FAX PARTY: Tea Es G, K9ty, Mixed Results
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£9
2200-0300 "dance music all night"
Fentanyl, Ikhras, Kute, Do One, Flesh Creep
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£14 + bf
"Bay Area hardcore explosions" ft members of World Peace, SPY
MUSIC WE'D LIKE TO HEAR: Juliet Fraser, Newton Armstrong, Kirke Gross, Louis Gardner and Lucy Havelock perform Tom Johnson, Cassandra Miller, Niels Rønsholdt, Lily Greenham, Leo Chadburn
St Mary-At-Hill✅🅰️
EC3R 8EE
from £11.55
20th annual summer concert series "of new, neglected and unfamiliar music" ; also on 11/7 at same venue
Osmura with Andy Martin, Tangela, DJ ojo and Caroune
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
2nd release £16; 3rd release £18
Veronika Eberle, Csaba Klenyán, Adrian Brendel and Dénes Várjon perform Messiaen
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
£20; £5 for under-35s
performing 'Quartet for the End of Time' !!
5th July (Sat)
AD-LIB: Barry Bazmatronic Edwards / Neil Metcalfe / Colin Somervell (trio) + Camilla Nebbia / Colin Webster / Caius Williams / Andrew Lisle (quartet)
OPEN Ealing Arts Centre ⏳
W5 2TD
£10 / £5 students and unwaged
"live improvised music of the highest order" (quartet also playing in East LDN on 4/7)
All Out War, Realm of Torment, Temple Guard
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£20 + bf
"Metal and hardcore legends, est 1991. Back in London for the first time in 10 years. What else is there to say?"
Distractfold Two-Day Residency (Day Two): Ute Wassermann, Sivan Cohen-Elias, Linda Jankowska & Jo Christman
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£20 adv; £12 members
see 4/7
FAMILY AFFAIR x VITALIZM: A For Alpha, Baby Rollén, Dyslecta, Syz, Will Hofbauer, Jay Duncan
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
general admission £10; £6 before midnight
raising funds for Medical Aid Palestine; "bass-bins beware..."
JUNGYALS AND GAYS: TYQ b2b chlow333, Tizla b2b Manuka, Dirtywaves b2b Lingz, Gullyteen, Rodney b2b Micky XOV
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£5.50 entry before 11pm; 1st release £11.50
"baile / techno / hardcore / bassline / jungle tek" 2200-0500
m3UNTITLED, GOMID
Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall) ✅7+
SE1 8XX
FREE
Dismantled Yorkshire club
Marcel Khalife
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
from £27
"legendary oud virtuoso" ! (for more oud see 2/7)
Marijn Cinjee & Julia Sinclair + House on the Strand
Grand Junction ✅
W2 5TF
£14 general admission; £11 early bird
soprano + electronic artist reimagine the music of Hildegard von Bingen plus "analogue synth tones, repurposed guitar and gnarled field recordings"
MPTL Microplastics, Omerta, Hedgehog
Piehouse Co-Op ♿️
SE8 5HD
£5-10, NOTAFLOF
Onyx Brass and Amersham Band perform Ailís Ní Ríain (4PM MATINÉE)
Southbank Centre (Queen Elizabeth Hall) ✅7+
SE1 8XX
FREE
performance in foyer -- world premiere of "bold, unconventional" work for brass and percussion "exploring our current geological epoch" (as part of Southbank's New Music Biennal -- lots more free music events listed on their site)
6th July (Sat)
Channel One Sound System
Village Underground ✅
EC2A 3PQ
£18.54
Monumental dub 1700-2300
Crosspiece (Theodora Laird & Caius Williams) + John Macedo (solo)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12; £10 adv; FREE for members
Steve Noble / Caius Williams (duo) + Steve Noble / Camila Nebbia (duo) (4PM MATINÉE)
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash OTD
King of improvised drumming always essential viewing
Vision String Quartet perform Webern, Dvořák (11:30AM MATINÉE)
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
£18; £16 concessions; FREE for under-25s (limited tix)
7th July (Mon)
ScHoolboy Q
Roundhouse ✅🅰️(<16)
NW1 8EH
£37.50
the Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis Two-Day Residency (Day One)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£30; £26 adv; £20 members
Joe Lally & Brendan Canty (Fugazi bass/drummer)'s "jazz punk jam" project
Xibalba, Extinguish, Mutagenic Host, Blood Gutter
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£20 + bf
"The most violent lineup in the UK in 2025" (their words!)
8th July (Tue)
12 Ensemble perform Stravinsky, Messiaen, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Isabella Gellis, Ravel
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
from £18; £5 for under-35s
Clémentine March w/ Radio Anorak & Curbside Lambsear
MOTH Club ☑️
E9 6NU
£11.40
Terminal Sleep, Spaced, Still In Love, Headstone
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£15 + bf
the Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis Two-Day Residency (Day Two)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£30; £26 adv; £20 members
see 7/7
The Sick Man of Europe + Doom Club + Saint Izaure
the George Tavern ☑️
E1 0LA
£8
heavy i think
9th July (Wed)
A YEAR OF DEEP LISTENING: Dan Johnson, Viv Corringham, Alex Goodall, John Bisset, Angharad Davies, Sylvia Hallett, Stuart Wilding, Caius Williams
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members
Performances of scores from a book commemorating the deeply influential sonic practice spearheaded by Pauline Oliveros
Cheap Feel (fka Wesley Gonzalez & Wild Garlic) + Hannah Hu
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
New project by exceptional / criminally overlooked songwriter and former Let's Wrestle frontman; torch songs w mangled synthesisers, vulnerable, funny and abrasive in equal measure
Jim Jarmusch & Jozef van Wissem + Gwenifer Raymond
the Clapham Grand ✅
SW11 1TT
£36
Will Stratton, Trippers & Askers, Jacken Elswyth
waterintobeer ☑️
SE4 2EW
£10.30; £5.15 unwaged
fingerstyle guitar/freeform banjo night
10th July (Thu)
DANCE PRACTICE: Shoko Yoshida, Pax, Be Lucky, Dream pig / Reverie (DJ)
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£6.50
DISCREPANT: Lagoss, Babau, Serpente
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members
as part of events series aiming to "deconstruct, distort and re-assemble the lore of (un)popular music around the world"; expect "Experimental Tropical improv" from Tenerife, Italian digital folklore, "jungle debris [and] dub tactics" via Portugal
Enga Perry (live), Shimz343, Bianca Scout, Isaiah Hull, Samra Mayanja, Riot
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
1st release £9.80; 2nd release £15
"Perry and friends meet in her 'fever-dream' like world” / first ever live performance in UK
INSOMNIA: AROHA, Memory Muscle, Luca Solis, GAIA, Tayler Made
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB
1st release £3.50, 2nd release £5.50, 3rd release £9.20
see 3/7
MOT LIVE x BIGSHIP: Junior XI, Mark Leckey, Agata Genissel, Frames (dj), di/di (dj)
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£6.50
Naima Bock + the Cindys
Omeara ♿️
SE1 1TE
SOLD OUT; waitlist only
11th July (Fri)
Bendik Giske (live) + Carmen Villain presents Music from the Living Monument (live) + Eivind Lønning plays Jim O’ Rourke’s Most but Potentially All (live)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£22; £20 adv; £15 members
GENERAL ECHO: Rasta Queen
Walthamstow Trades Hall ☑️
E17 4RQ
£6; £4 members, tix OTD
Legendary monthly reggae disco!!!!
MUSIC WE'D LIKE TO HEAR: Dafne-Vincent Sandoval, Mark Knoop, Ensemble Plus Minus perform Alvin Lucier, Laura Steenberge, John McGuire
St Mary-At-Hill✅🅰️
EC3R 8EE
from £11.55
see 4/7
Paolo Griffin, Open Union, David Zucchi
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£12 adv; £15 OTD; £6 / £8 adv concessions
"[placing] the listener in a kind of sonic microgravity"; Quatuor Bozzini collaborator FFO Morton Feldman
SUNDAY SCHOOL/ENTROPY: Catastrophe, Grim Harvest, Sublux, Scab, Ardent Pain + DJs
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£10 advance, £12 OTD
Some of the best heavy music around at the moment! Not to be missed.
VAMPIRE RECORDS presents THE ORIGINALS: Doc Scott, DJ Rap, Phil Source, Zero T, many many more
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB
£11.50
2300-0600 night of original drum and bass legends courtesy of ex-Source Direct pioneer
12th July (Sat)
Abul Mogard, NWAKKE, softshadow
St John's Church Waterloo ♿️
SE1 8TY
£17
as part of all-day Deep Listening workshop at same venue
Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash, Jennifer Pike and Anubrata Chatterjee perform Bach (3:30PM MATINÉE)
Wigmore Hall ✅🅰️
W1U 2BP
One of three events today featuring sarod master Bangash
club cetera: *secret headliner*, melba, Nectax, e-kitty, Princess Elf Bar, bemmeblu
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
1st release £10.40; 2nd release £13.80; Final release £15
"expect club beats, femme and FLINTA* centred aura, sexy sonics, fast bpm’s and contagious melodies."
DUSTY DAN 'N PALS: Dusty Dan, Lu2k, JPEG, Raq-L & Skari, Kutchi, Mithun
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
early bird £5; general admission £9
"Expect the sexiest percussive techno bass fusions and mental rhythms..." 2300-0530
Gustaf, the Pill, Pink Eye Club
The Dome 📶 14+ 🅰️(14-17)
NW5 1HL
£20 + bf
art punk
PADÀ DISCO: Fola & Galego (MogaDisco), Borge (Lemon Lounge), Leandro Fidelis
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£10
"Pan-African underground from past to present"
PLANET PEOPLE: Tim Reaper, Mantra, MJK b2b Oblig, basic chanel, chantz, Callum Asa, Gershon
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB
early bird £10; 1st release £15
"genre: bass" / "Forget your problems at the coatcheck and remember what made you hardcore"
SUNK: Lum Tin Wing, Xuanni, Kinga Janicka, Demodulator, Haddow
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
from £12; NOTAFLOF (message in advance)
"A night of beats and noise"
Yximalloo + Dhangsha
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£15; £13 adv; £8 members
LEGEND of outsider song / Half Japanese collaborator ; "works like a Japanese Jandek without the angst"
13th July (Sun)
Alkanna Graeca
??? 📶
N16
£19.12
Polyphonic Balkan / Black Sea vox trio at house gig in Stokey -- exact address revealed to ticket buyers only
Cascade Study Team (Clive Bell, Emily Shapiro, N. O. Moore, Douglas Benford)
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash OTD
Cloud Nothings, GENN
The Dome 📶 14+ 🅰️(14-17)
NW5 1HL
£22.50 + bf
HOSTING: Judith Hamann, On Yee Lo
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£5; £15 adv; £13 members
"a series of "socials" encompassing food, music and communal activities" -- adv booking necessary for three-course meal -- "live set and dessert" still included if u buy OTD after 9
John Butcher (solo) + Khabat Abas / Adam Bohman / Marjolaine Charbin / John Edwards / Sue Lynch / Steve Noble / Maggie Nicols / Adrian Northover perform 'Piece for large Ensemble'
St John's Church Waterloo ♿️
SE1 8TY
£8 - £12
improv !!!!!
Knumears, L'Idylle, Cady, Cainhurst, I'm Sorry Emil
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£10 + bf
"Emotional hardcore skramz from LA"
NRS Presents: Pollen Woollen, ECC Group, Olm Eyes
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£6
OPERA: Excelsior Ruth, Paul McGann, Cleyra
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£10 cash OTD
no event info -- famed Withnail & I actor in shock new turn as deconstructed club DJ?? (speculation / probably different person)
14th July (Mon)
Flower-Corsano duo + Tara Cunningham (solo)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£17; £15 adv; £10 members
GOATs of freewheeling out-of-body flowstate improv
15th July (Tue)
Last Dream of the Morning (John Butcher / Mark Sanders / John Edwards) Two-Day Residency (Day One)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 adv; £7 members
UK improvised music titans
Spike + Waterdeer + Rosey PM
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
new "idiosyncratic synth-pop" EP courtesy of Gob Nation -- and if it's Gob Nation (home of the Tubs, Sniffany and the Nits, Garden Centre, other highpoints to which all contemporary UK DIY measures itself), you must go!