London Sound Index - 1st-15th September
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1st - 15th September Listings
1st September (Sun)
Binker Golding / John Edwards / Steve Noble (Trio)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£20 / £18 adv / £10 members
Sax / bass / drums free jazz shredding
Isidora Edwards (solo) + Dominic Lash / Daniel Thompson (duo) [MATINÉE]
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash
The Magnetic Fields perform 69 Love Songs
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
SOLD OUT
2nd September (Mon)
BOAT-TING: Roberto Bellatella + Mark Hewins / Kay Grant + Richard Hughes + Benedict Taylor / Chris Prosser + James O'Sullivan
Theatreship ⏳
E14 9SH
£10 / £7
Free improv ... on a boat!
Rory Salter, Lani Rocillo, Felix Taylor (solos)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12 / £10 adv / £6 members
"An exploration of sound and scent [...] [performers] will be responding to a scent composition of oakmoss, pine and bergamot"
The Body & Dis Fig
Oslo ♿️ 16+ 🅰️(16&17)
E8 1LL
£17.50
Cavernous sub-heavy avant-metal ffo Sunn O))), Zola Jesus, the Bug
3rd September (Tue)
Agriculture + Dawn Terry
The Black Heart 📶
NW1 0AP
£20; SOLD OUT (waiting list / resale only)
ecstatic black metal + (DT) "large scale minimalist landscapes"
Chant Electronique + A-Sun Amissa
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16
"ancient singing traditions and electronic music meet”
Jespfur, TAKA & Surprise Performer
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£13.80
DIY, somewhat experimental songs
Kipper Gillespie, Wholesale, Autobloom
The Ivy House ☑️
SE15 3BE
£5
"brooding, jangly guitars" with "spot of synth action”
Water From Your Eyes + Ebbb
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£23
"diy-core weird electronic pop with an edge"
4th September (Wed)
Albertina, Jwles, Isaiah Hull, LATE SHOW, ninafterdark (DJ)
Loki ♿️
SW9 7JJ
£13
UK debut show of LA based rapper on 10k imprint
Bill Mackay + C Joynes
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16 / £14 adv / £8 members
Weird folk guitar god double bill
Bonny Doon
Oslo ♿️
E8 1LL
£15
CS + Kreme, Flora Yin Wong (DJ)
Kings Place (Hall Two) ✅
N1 9AG
£16; £8 concessions
"slow" and "hallucinatory" duo heard on Trilogy Tapes label
Heather Roche / Ty Bouque / Dominic Lash
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash
Hello Mary, Lip Critic, Unlucky
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
£11.50
O.
Rich Mix ✅
E1 6LA
£16.75
drums + sax jazz-rock powerduo (?)
Simeon May Quartet
Ryan's Bar 📶
N16 0UL
£10 + bf
Jazz / improv / folk-blending quartet, part of Futureproof, a new monthly improv series at Ryans Bar on the first Weds of every month
zukovsthewrld, Vera Sacra, Harley Fletcher, Dear Nasir (DJ)
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£6
Hard-to-categorise raw freewheeling music like the meeting point between the Dead C and Spooky Black
5th September (Thu)
Beatrice Dillon
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£22.50
"makes ultra-modern dance music that is equal parts minimalist and dazzling". wheelchair users please contact orgas via link. fog/flashing lights.
Bridget & Kitty + Resonant Bodies
waterintobeer ☑️
SE4 2EW
£9.38
Split tape launch for two duos -- south London trad folk singers "drawn to songs about love, drinking and workers" alongside free folk dulcimer / nyckelharpa / electronic sonorities
Kali Malone (Day 1/2)
St Martin-in-the-Fields ♿️
WC2N 4JJ
£34
organ/brass/choral works from composer of sustained and precisely measured intonations -- also performing 6/9 (see below)
KINSHIP: Ku-Ro, Bindu&Dulce Gross, Kaneng Lolang, Ghost Mind
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£8.30
MERCURY AT GREAT WESTERN ELONGATION: Paul Purgas (DJ), Vanessa Bedoret (live), Saint Abdullah & Abbas Zahedi (live), Flora-Yin Wong (DJ), Finchittida Finch (initiation)
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£10.40
NAUGHTY LONDON ฿-Đ₳Ɏ Ɽ₳VɆ: ALESSIA ANDREI / Marieeea / PacMan / PALØ / TECHSIA
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
FREE
hard + fast + horny techno/acid/...
Nourished by Time
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£20.50
blend of New Wave, R&B, and Dance with Oneohtrix Point Never being a huge fan
OH WHAT FUN FEST (Day 1/4): Pyrex, Bridge of Sacrfiice, Can Kicker, Hellscape, Keno, Malignant Order
New River Studios ♿️ 16+
N4 1DN
£16.38; four-day pass £65.49
Wildly diverse (bill spans bands from at least two dozen countries I lost count) four-day DIY/punk festival courtesy of Cryptic Growth, runs from today-Sunday 8/9
ROBYN'S ROCKET: MF Tomlinson + Daylight Studios + Alex Ward / Robyn Rocket (duo) + live visuals by Rucksack Cinema and Samir
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£10 / £8 adv / £6 members
regular evening for and by artists with (and without) learning disabilities and autism
Salomé Wu, Gzi Wisdom, ava
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
"brand new music from around the city"
The Lemon Twigs + Tchotchke
Electric Brixton ⏳
SW2 1RJ
£27.50
Don Quixotes of high pop
6th September (Fri)
Cornelius + Ichiko Aoba
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
SOLD OUT; waiting list only
ECHENIQUE DUB CLUB: Amelita, Basti, Jibril, Kemosabi, Luigi, Isa
Loki ♿️
SW9 7JJ
early bird £6.50; 1st release £7.70
House / garage night / fundraiser for Yemen
EXPERT DEATH: Scratchclart, Sunil Sharpe, AYA, mi-el + Vladimir Riesz
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
GA £17.30 / adv. £13.80 / 3 Tix for £28.80
experimental club!
FREEBASE: Alex Naz, Satra-Sia, Shaii, Sophie Crystal, Art Dealer
the Haggerston ⏳
E8 4AA
£5 adv; FREE before 11
HIPJOINT: Shawn Cartier, Hardcore Babes, CITIZEN, ATST, Nencini b2b Lemon and Lime, Wilf
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
GA £11.50 / adv. £6
techno/hardcore/electro/...
Incapacitants Two-Day Residency (Day One): Incapacitants + Territorial Gobbing + Crystabel Efema Riley + Paul Hegarty (DJ)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
SOLD OUT
Kali Malone (Day 2/2)
St Martin-in-the-Fields ♿️
WC2N 4JJ
£34
see 5/9
Magnolia / Test Plan / Rampressure
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
£7
"noise, drum-banging"
OH WHAT FUN FEST (Day 2/4): Nekra, Lucta, Draümar, Stingray, Last Affront, Ikhras, Fevor Mortal, Mercy Room
New River Studios ♿️ 16+
N4 1DN
£19.65; four-day pass £65.49
see 5/9
7th September (Sat)
Dawn Landes with Peggy Seeger, Lail Arad, Bridgette Amofah, Maguire, Sylvie Lewis, Skylar Gudasz
Milton Court (Barbican) ✅🅰️
EC2Y 9BH
from £25
performing songs from "The Liberated Women's Songbook"
DIVERSION: Cleyra, MISH, Pasta Kebab, Pat Orburn, Heavy Petal, Rex Domino
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£12
GDANSE!: Excelsior Ruth, Frond, Planet R.A.F
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£5-£10
HEADTOPS: Darkstepper, Rae Dee, Shadobeni, Zest the Blaack Hippy
the Haggerston ⏳
E8 4AA
£5 adv; FREE before 11
"black electronic music collective bringing black blends"
Incapacitants Two-Day Residency (Day Two): Incapacitants + Petronn Sphene + Thorn Bug + Steve Underwood (DJ)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
SOLD OUT
London Improvisers Orchestra
OPEN Ealing Arts Centre ⏳
W5 2TD
£10 / £5 students and unwaged
est. 1998, twenty-strong ensemble "dedicated to the art of conducted improvisation"
MC Yallah & Debmaster
MOTH Club ☑️
E9 6NU
£18
Faster than lightning Ugandan MC
MUMS AGAINST DONK: Hannah Taylor / DJ Cis-Man / 3DMA / alterum / Holly Warcup
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
GA £15 / adv. £13.80
happy hardcore + donk focussing on queer + neurodiverse crowd
N.O. Moore / John Macedo / Matt Atkins + Slate Pipe Banjo / Draggers + James L. Malone / Tony Morton
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash
OH WHAT FUN FEST (Day 3/4): Flower, Subdued, Assistret Sjølmord, Tramadol, Lumpen, Factory City Children, Desintegración Violenta, Lame, Azijnpisser, Piñén, Teppebombe, Turbo (last show), Vøtiv, Traidora, Gimic, Skitter, Catastroph, Gïlt
New River Studios ♿️ 16+
N4 1DN
£35; four-day pass £65.49
see 5/9
8th September (Sun)
Don Letts / Rhoda Dakar (DJs) [MATINÉE]
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
from £8.24
DON’T vs I LOVE ACID: Decius feat Lias Saoudi / Wes Baggaley / Jerome Hill / Posthuman / d.phylleia / Rob Stow / Louise Plus One b2b Hughsee / Køemner & Max
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB
£13.5 now / £20 final release
"all about real, underground techno / celebrates the sound the the Roland TB303 / proper heads down clubbing, no phone cameras"
Evil Moisture, Jonathan Bergen, Knifedoutofexistence, Creep of Paris, Pale World, Gutter Carrion
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£12 adv
"SUNDAY NOISE DAY"; bill headed by very murky writhing walls of sludge from Paris France
Lea Bertucci + Bridget Hayden + Joanna Mattrey
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16 / £14 adv / £8 members
Mahogany Opera, Elaine Mitchener perform Rolf Hind
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
from £15
New opera by British pianist / composer of ambitious experimental new music
NOT EVEN: Amphia, Donna, MarcelDune, NARA
SET Vault ♿️
SE18 6BU
2nd release £11.50
OH WHAT FUN FEST (Day 4/4): Es, Pc World, Pleasure, Molbo, Sniffany and the Nits, Moist Crevice
New River Studios ♿️ 16+
N4 1DN
£12; four-day pass £65.49
see 5/9
PAUSE: Physical Therapy, DJ Python, Kit Seymour
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£13.80
Reyna Tropical
EartH Kitchen 📶
N16 8BH
£17.50
joyous afro-Mexican pop "investigating landscapes of the tropical diaspora"
Steve Noble / Alex Paxton + Steve Noble / Alan Wilkinson [MATINÉE]
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash
trombone/drums / clarinet/drums double duo w best improvising sticksman in the universe
William Tyler
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£24.21
Nashville guitarist (Lambchop; Silver Jews) playing instrumental music
9th September (Mon)
Jim White & Marisa Anderson + Billy Steiger
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£22 / £20 adv / £15 members
10th September (Tue)
Roar + gglum
Scala 📶
N1 9NL
£22.00
Fuzzy indie by “Magic: the Gathering: enthusiast” FFO Mt. Eerie, Swirlies, Sparklehorse
Suroor (Nabihah Iqbal / Dhangsha / Paul Purgas) (Live) + Suren Seneviratne (Live) + Sijya (Live) + Nisha Ramayya
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£20 / £18 adv / £12 members
11th September (Wed)
JOHN STEVENS - ANOTHER LITTLE LIFE: John Butcher / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell + Maggie Nicols / Dee Bynre / Caius Williams / Mark Wastell + Q&A, talks
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£15 / £12 adv / £10 members
Evening to celebrate the life of pioneering free improviser / Spontaneous Music Ensemble founder
Kiiōtō + Maria Chiara Argiró
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£24.21
12th September (Thu)
COUNTERFLOWS AT OTO: Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh + Wormhook + Rufus Isabel Elliott w/ Chihiro Ono
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12 / £10 adv / £6 members; full series pass £25 adv / £15 members
Exceptional violist and sound artist
FACTORY SETTING: Hector Plimmer / Simon Mós / DJ Counselling / kinga janicka
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
GA £10 / adv. £8.60 / entry b4 8pm £6
live electronic music! techno/modular synth/...
Fine, Insides, GB, Raisa K, Inês Malheiro
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£13
Suuns
No90 Hackney Wick ☑️
E9 5LN
£16.50
THE JUNGLE BOX: Napes, Silva Snipa, DJ Competition Winner, guests
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
early bird £10 / GA £12.50 / final £15
jungle, dnb
The Last Whole Earth Catalog, Sham, Kaspar Hauser
The Ivy House ☑️
SE15 3BE
£6.50
indie- + freak folk
13th September (Fri)
ACCIDENTAL MEETINGS: Astrid Sonne (DJ), Conor Thomas, Onya Dev, i-sha
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£7 / £10 / £12
COUNTERFLOWS AT OTO: Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor + Nakul Krishnamurthy + Conal Blake & Hannan Jones
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12 / £10 adv / £6 members; full series pass £25 adv / £15 members
GENERAL ECHO: DKB_San, George Younger
Walthamstow Trades Hall ☑️
E17 4RQ
£3 members; £5 guests and non-members; no adv tickets
Monthly reggae disco
Gum Takes Tooth + Nnja Riot & Bryn Wyrd
Two Palms ✅
E8 1EJ
£14
Mary Lattimore + Walt McClements
Hoxton Hall ♿️
N1 6SH
Miss Jay / Dusty Dan / smokey.t / Beaabea / Carbon Copy b2b Izzi / Theorist / DJ-HOTLINE 333
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
GA £10 / early bird £7
UK bass etcetc.
NUDIBRANCH: Syntax, Silva Snipa, Polyop, Damos Room, Ratomagoson, Macaulay Sulkin b2b Dulley
Loki ♿️
SW9 7JJ
£7.50 / £10 / £12.50
broad-ranging night "where no sub-genre rules" -- "anything fast-paced, heavy and percussive" -- "assortment of bass, jungle and dubby electronics"
RAVE2RAISE: Special Guest b2b Martelo / Lozzy / 24 Karat Kenz / Mrkst b2b Liam Be
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
GA £11.50 / adv. £8.60
(techno & house?) fundraiser for Gaza (eSims)
RHYTHM SECTION x PUBLIC POSSESSION: Bradley Zero / DJ City / James Pepper / Tereza
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB
£16.5 GA / £13.8 before 11pm
Munich X London based house/electro
The Jonny Halifax Invocation
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£7 adv
14th September (Sat)
Aba Shanti-I with Prince Malachi, full band
EartH Hall ✅
N16 8BH
£18 entry before 11pm; anytime entry (before 1am) £29.36
sound system
Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman + The Hardy Tree
The Lexington 📶
N1 9JB
£15
COUNTERFLOWS AT OTO: Maggie Nicols + Ali Robertson & Adam Green + Han
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12 / £10 adv / £6 members; full series pass £25 adv / £15 members
Donald WG Lindsay & Alasdair Roberts
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£15 cash
Drag City folk legend in duo tour with "creator of the 'Lindsay System' three-octave keyless chanter for the Scottish smallpipes" -- only 40 seats w no reservations so turn up early (doors 7:30)
Girl Ray
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
£18.65
North London’s own // gods of pop and the feels FFO Gorky’s, Chic
MAIDEN VOYAGE: Arca / Jeff Mills / Ecco2k / many many more
Burgess Park ⏳
SE5 0AL
£60-77
Electronic Music day fest w/ incl. some legends! Also check out different afterparty options at link
MATED: triage, Rat Section, Silv-o, Braden Wells
Loki ♿️
SW9 7JJ
£8.70 + bf
"experimental"
Objekt / Or:la / Benko
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
adv. £13.80 / final £20
UTOPIA: Roska / KISA / Oscillation / JJAMZ / D'Cruz
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
GA £8.50 / early bird £2 / final £12
UK funky, Tribal house, Afro-House, ...
15th September (Sun)
Ecka Mordecai, Emmanuele Waeckerlé, Douglas Benford & Tom Jackson [MATINÉE]
Hundred Years Gallery 📶🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash
MOPOMOSO: LUFT (Chris Hill, James O'Sullivan, Alan Newcombe) + David Ryan & Dominic Lash + Andrew Ciccone, Gina Southgate, Ivor Kallin & Bettina Shroeder
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£12 standard / £8 members & concessions
longest running free improv night in big smoke continues!!!
The Sonic Spider (Camilla Saunders, Charlie Beresford, Alun Anderson)
University House (UEL Stratford Campus) ♿️🅰️
E15 4LZ
FREE
As part of British Science Festival -- trio performing on "the world's first eight-legged musical instrument" -- all-day participatory performance/workshop "for interested local musicians to learn to play and inter-act with the spider" starts at 11AM
VOICEBOX: Patricia Auchterlonie, Hestor Dart, t l k, Oskar McCarthy, Sarah Parkin, Pascal Zurek
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL£12 / £10 adv / £6 members
bill of "advanced singers specialising in contemporary vocal performance" performing many new works