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SUMMARY:SOPHIA DJEBEL ROSE + SHE THE THRONE | Upset The Rhythm
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nSOPHIA DJEBEL ROSE\nSHE THE THRONE\nSaturday 17 October\nThe Horse Hospital\, Colonnade\, London\, WC1N 1JD\n7.30pm | £11 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/hf9055210b2d \nSOPHIA DJEBEL ROSE is a Franco-Moroccan artist who distills a singular music. Blending folk\, noise\, experimental song\, and avant-garde poetry\, she invents a new language of her own. Born into the perpetual exile of a childhood divided between two countries\, Sophia has turned wandering into her greatest strength. As a modern poetess\, she now takes the stage alone\, armed with an electric guitar\, to sing of the beauty of the lands she has ceaselessly left behind. Her live performances intertwine Mediterranean music with ecological and feminist themes\, all of it carried by a syncretic approach that merges into a mysticism meant as an invitation to break the course of things and to reclaim one’s strength. Her latest album\, Sécheresse\, released in february 2025 unveils nine mesmerizing & genre-defying tracks imbued with magnetic allure. Austere yet baroque\, dark yet luminous\, raw yet refined\, this work escapes all categorization: it is an act of faith. To class among the unclassifiable\, Sophia Djebel Rose lays the foundations for an oeuvre that follows in the lineage of avant-garde women who never ceased to challenge and expand the limits of style. \nhttps://sophiadjebelrose.bandcamp.com/ \nSHE THE THRONE are a ritual noise duo from Manchester UK. They aim to bring forth an ancient latent rhythmic union merging themselves\, the space they play with the audience who listens\, urging them to remember. Musically incorporating elements of industrial music and harsh noise with the darker melody of bands like Portishead\, fused to the backbone of experimental hip hop. Since the release of their 2023 album\, “NUNTIS” on Trepanation Recordings\, they have shared line ups with a diverse range of artists such as: The Body & Dis Fig\, Wolf Eyes\, METH\, AYA\, Dälek\, Greet\, SATORI\, Collosloth and more. \nhttps://shethethrone.bandcamp.com/
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/sophia-djebel-rose-she-the-throne-upset-the-rhythm/
LOCATION:The Horse Hospital\, Colonnade\, Bloomsbury\, London\, WC1N 1JD
CATEGORIES:Events in London,Live Music,Music
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SUMMARY:The Long Play Sessions | Kevin Dettmar: In Conversation & Book Signing with Jon King (Gang Of Four)
DESCRIPTION:Punk In Fifty Pieces with Kevin Dettmar and special guest Jon King (Gang of Four)\n\n\n\nFifty years after punk exploded into public consciousness\, Punk in 50 Pieces revisits the songs\, artists and moments that transformed popular music forever.\n\n\n\nKevin Dettmar joins The Long Play Sessions and in his engaging new book\, explores 50 defining tracks that chart punk’s emergence and its evolution into post-punk and new wave. Beginning with the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy in the U.K.”\, he traces the revolutionary impact of artists including Patti Smith\, The Ramones\, Iggy Pop\, Joy Division\, Siouxsie and the Banshees\, Talking Heads\, Blondie\, Devo\, The Clash\, Public Image Ltd\, X-Ray Spex\, The Cure\, The B-52s\, The Go-Go’s and many more.\n\n\n\nBoth an accessible introduction and a richly informed cultural history\, Punk in 50 Pieces examines how a five-year burst of creativity reshaped rock music and left an enduring influence on popular culture. Combining insightful criticism with an expertly curated soundtrack\, it stands alongside classic works such as Please Kill Me\, Lipstick Traces\, Rip It Up and Start Again and England’s Dreaming as an essential exploration of one of music’s most influential movements.\n\n\n\nKevin Dettmar is the author of Is Rock Dead? and the acclaimed 33⅓ volume on Gang of Four’s Entertainment!. He is also co-editor of Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay-Z and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-long-play-sessions-kevin-dettmar-in-conversation-book-signing-with-jon-king-gang-of-four/
LOCATION:ICMP\, Queen’s Park Campus\, 76-78 Salusbury Road\, London\, NW6 6PA\, ICMP Queen's Park Campus\, London\, NW6 6PA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Community Events,Events in London,History,History,Literature,Music,Writers
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SUMMARY:Talk 90s To Me x The Long Play Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Journalist and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer brings her smash hit podcast Talk ’90s to Me to the prestigious ICMP London for the podcast’s first ever live event! Yasi Salek\, host of the much-loved US music podcast Bandsplain\, joins Miranda on the sofa for this special evening to discuss a huge figure who exemplifies the ’90s perhaps better than any other\, Courtney Love. \nFew people command as much intrigue and interrogation as Courtney Love\, from her time as Hole frontwoman\, relationship with Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and the fallout after his suicide\, to her experience of becoming a mother\, admirable film career\, history with drugs and tumultuous relationship with the public and press – not to mention Kurt’s bandmates and any other celebrities who have wrongfully crossed her path. Yasi\, a friend and huge admirer of Courtney\, will bring personal experience and excellent anecdotes to the evening\, as she and Miranda explore why Courtney’s controversial feminism has been reassessed over the years\, how she has continued to dominate headlines\, and why generation upon generation are captivated by her untamed spirit and style. \nJoin Miranda\, Yasi and a live audience at ICMP on Thursday 15th October to celebrate Courtney’s wild and lasting contribution to ’90s culture and beyond. \nThis show will be recorded and broadcast on all Talk ’90s to Me channels later in the year.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/talk-90s-to-me-x-the-long-play-sessions/
LOCATION:ICMP\, Queen’s Park Campus\, 76-78 Salusbury Road\, London\, NW6 6PA\, ICMP Queen's Park Campus\, London\, NW6 6PA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events in London,History,History,Music,Shows,Writers
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SUMMARY:The Long Play Sessions | Steve Mason: In Conversation and Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Scottish singer-songwriter and Beta Band founder Steve Mason joins The Long Play Sessions to discuss his long-awaited memoir\, Failure Is Always an Option – a candid\, hilarious and deeply personal account of one of British music’s most fascinating and uncompromising careers.\n\n\n\nFrom the Beta Band’s genre-defying rise in the late 1990s to sold-out tours with Radiohead\, critical acclaim and spectacular self-sabotage\, Steve reflects on the highs\, lows and chaos of a life lived entirely on his own terms. Blending sharp wit with remarkable honesty\, he explores youth culture\, creativity\, addiction\, failure\, success and redemption\, setting the record straight—or\, as he puts it\, “straight-ish.”\n\n\n\nCelebrated by contemporaries including Oasis\, Primal Scream\, The Chemical Brothers\, The Verve and Radiohead\, the Beta Band became one of Britain’s most influential cult bands\, renowned for their fearless experimentation and unforgettable live performances. Following their acclaimed reunion and sold-out return to the stage\, Steve now looks back on the extraordinary story behind the music in what promises to be an unforgettable evening.\n\n\n\nThe event includes an in-depth conversation with Steve and acclaimed author and journalist Travis Elborough\, an audience Q&A\, and a book signing\, with copies of Failure Is Always an Option available to purchase on the night. \n\nWhether you’re a lifelong Beta Band fan or simply love great stories from the world of music\, this is a rare opportunity to hear from one of Britain’s most original and enigmatic artists.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-long-play-sessions-steve-mason-in-conversation-and-book-signing/
LOCATION:ICMP\, Queen’s Park Campus\, 76-78 Salusbury Road\, London\, NW6 6PA\, ICMP Queen's Park Campus\, London\, NW6 6PA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Events in London,Music,Writers
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SUMMARY:THE YUMMY FUR - album launch! + BRUNO BOF | Upset the Rhythm
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nTHE YUMMY FUR – album launch!\nBRUNO BOF\nFriday 9 October\nThe Lexington\, 96-98 Pentonville Rd\, Angel\, London\, N1 9JB\n7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Eb344d50313e \nTHE YUMMY FUR’s first album of new material in over 25 years is seductive and ambiguous; a fast-paced flip through scenes from art\, myth\, life and fantasy; a witty whole made from glittering scraps. The band’s original incarnation – fronted by singer\, songwriter and guitarist John McKeown from 1992 to 1999 – morphed from making quick-hit cartoon-art songs to Eno and Cale-influenced creepers\, populated by characters from McKeown’s life in Glasgow and the films\, books and poetry that he lived a parallel life through. Everybody Talks About The Weather (out on Sep 24th through Upset The Rhythm) delights in using every past iteration of the band as potent collage material: a melee of sounds and ideas existing at once\, revealing themselves then dipping back into hiding. \nRecorded by the original core trio of McKeown\, Brian MacDougall (guitar) and Paul Thomson (drums)\, Everybody Talks About The Weather comes 17 years after the band reformed for sporadic live shows\, and seven years after the release of their sorta-greatest hits compilation Piggy Wings (Rock Action). Ten tracks long with nothing to spare\, it is as condensed and vital as their best songs\, with a new clarity of sound that allows their ambiguities to come into the light.\nhttps://theyummyfur.bandcamp.com/album/piggy-wings \nBRUNO BOF accompanied by live band playing songs heretofore unheard! The once pre-teen punk prodigy has finally grown up\, in so much as he and his Outrageous Methods Of Presentation release their debut single proper – the double AA sided single featuring two songs of completely different styles that work well together\, each clocking in at around 1 minute 30 seconds. Bruno says of them: “Tire Iron is an anarchistic salutation from a parallel universe where the king of rock ’n’ roll’s name is misspelled Hasil Adkins. This is all of the truth in the universe; the sound of angels kissing”. “You Know I Love You’ is a paean to the eternal salvation of love\, albeit one that comes off like a disturbing Chinn and Chapman song”. In the current climate it’s often only kids from affluent backgrounds that can afford to be creative. Bedminster’s Bruno Bof breaks that mould and his voice is authentic and passionate. \nhttps://linktr.ee/brunobof \n 
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-yummy-fur-album-launch-bruno-bof-upset-the-rhythm/
LOCATION:The Lexington
CATEGORIES:Events in London,Live Music,Music
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SUMMARY:The Long Play Sessions: Stephanie Phillips (Big Joanie): In Conversation & Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music\n\n\n\nStephanie Phillips joins The Long Play Sessions and discusses We Were Here as she rewrites the story of rock ’n’ roll and alternative music\, placing Black artists at the heart of a history they’ve always helped shape. \n\nFrom pioneering figures such as Sister Rosetta Tharpe\, Little Richard\, Jimi Hendrix\, Tina Turner\, Betty Davis\, Poly Styrene and Bad Brains to today’s trailblazing musicians\, Stephanie Phillips reveals the profound influence of Black creativity on alternative music across nearly a century.\n\n\n\nExploring why Black artists have continued to embrace alternative music despite being marginalised by the mainstream industry\, Phillips makes a compelling case that there is no alternative music without Black innovation. Looking ahead\, she celebrates a new generation of Gen Z musicians redefining the possibilities of punk\, metal\, hardcore and indie\, and shaping the future of the genre.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-long-play-sessions-stephanie-phillips-big-joanie-in-conversation-book-signing/
LOCATION:ICMP\, Queen’s Park Campus\, 76-78 Salusbury Road\, London\, NW6 6PA\, ICMP Queen's Park Campus\, London\, NW6 6PA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Community Events,Events in London,History,History,Literature,Music,Writers
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SUMMARY:EARTHBALL + CLASSIC FORM MORF (Charles Hayward & Nathan Greywater)
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nEARTHBALL\nCLASSIC FORM MORF (Charles Hayward & Nathan Greywater)\nTuesday 25 August\nThe Lexington\, 96-98 Pentonville Rd\, Angel\, London\, N1 9JB\n7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Y653a0c64eb6 \nEARTHBALL are an avant/noise/rock wrecking ball of a band from Nanaimo\, Canada. Rooted in total improvisation\, free expression\, and a deeply psychedelic sensibility\, EarthBall operate on pure instinct. They hurtle onwards in a combustion of spontaneous composition\, shooting from the hip\, as they fall out of the sky ablaze. The group encompass Isabel Ford (vocals\, bass)\, John Brennan (drums\, percussion)\, Jeremy Van Wyke (vocals\, guitar\, trumpet)\, Kellan Maclaughlin (guitar\, talkbox)\, and Liam Murphy (saxophone). Each member brings a rich and varied musical history\, with past and present projects including Shearing Pinx\, Plan Your Future\, Kamikaze Nurse\, Eschatons\, and Psychedelic Dirt. Collectively and individually\, they have collaborated with artists such as Deerhoof\, Raven Chacon\, Chris Corsano\, and William Hooker\, deepening the band’s exploratory reach and collective language. \nSince forming in 2019\, EarthBall have released six cassettes and three fervently received LPs on Upset The Rhythm\, including November’s widely acclaimed Outside Over There. Their latest release\, Actual Earth Music – Volume 3 & 4 (out June 26th)\, follows the first instalment in the series and captures two mind-quaking highlights from last winter’s European tour. This is EarthBall plunging to full fathom five\, transforming into something rich and strange – channeling the fleeting moment as it fractures\, erupts\, and dissolves into the unknown. Actual Earth Music – Volume 3 & 4 marks another ascent in EarthBall’s ever-expanding\, totemic discography\, an ecstatic storm of raw immediacy and unfiltered expression. EarthBall came\, conjured and opened the portal! Blink and it’s gone. What was that? Actual Earth Music! \nhttps://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/outside-over-there \nCLASSIC FORM MORF is an experimental duo featuring avant-garde drumming legend Charles Hayward\, electric bassist/sound artist Nathan Greywater and two radios. The project specialises in wild\, improvised live sets where the duo plays alongside and against live broadcasts from classical music and talk radio stations. Charles Hayward is a founding member of the experimental rock groups This Heat and Camberwell Now. Since the late 80’s he has concentrated on solo projects and collaborations including Massacre (with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith)\, Monkey Puzzle Trio\, Albert Newton (with Pat Thomas and John Edwards) and This Is Not This Heat which toured the UK\, Europe\, USA and Japan between 2016-2019 performing expanded versions of This Heat’s oeuvre to unfaltering critical acclaim. Hayward’s latest group\, Abstract Concrete\, formed from London players from a diversity of European underground scenes\, released its self-titled debut album in November 2023. Nathan Greywater has been on the London experimental and improv scene for over a decade now\, initially as an electronic musician with Harmergeddon\, and more recently focussing on electric bass. He currently runs the free-improv open mic night\, Skronk as well as playing in Joe Plastic and engineering for acts such as Abstract Concrete\,Jaw Harp and Meat Strap. \nhttps://linktr.ee/charleshayward
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/earthball-classic-form-morf-charles-hayward-nathan-greywater/
LOCATION:The Lexington
CATEGORIES:Events in London,Live Music,Music
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SUMMARY:Linda Smith & Band + Trash Kit  + Stuart Moxham
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nLINDA SMITH & BAND\nTRASH KIT\nSTUART MOXHAM\nThursday 20 August\nThe Lexington\, 96-98 Pentonville Rd\, Angel\, London\, N1 9JB\n7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/X7d766a04577 \nLINDA SMITH is a pioneer of home recording who self-released her music originally on cassette starting in 1987. In the early 90’s\, indie labels Slumberland and Harriet Records expanded her reach with the release of two seven inch eps. Recently\, Brooklyn label Captured Tracks has reissued two complete albums on vinyl\, and she has begun to tour in the US and internationally for the first time. Upset The Rhythm released a recent split single between Smith and The Smashing Times last year too. Paste magazine called Linda Smith “a hidden treasure of America’s pop underground”\, while Jangle Pop Hub has written that “essentially this is the best bedroom pop you are ever likely to hear\, directly from an age that did not really know what to do with it”. For this rare UK show Linda will be joined by her live band. \nhttps://lindasmith2.bandcamp.com/ \nTRASH KIT are Ray Aggs (guitar\, vocals)\, Rachel Horwood (drums\, vocals) and Clémentine March (bass). Three deeply creative individuals who play in a multitude of other groups including Bas Jan and Sacred Paws\, not to mention their solo outings. Their songs\, once succinct\, patchwork post-punk numbers of an honest diary-like nature\, now tussle more with long-form songwriting\, expeditious polyphony and cascades of sung-spoke vocals. Although Trash Kit have their forebears in bands like Sleater Kinney\, The Ex and The Raincoats\, their sound is still very much their own take on facing forwards and relies as much on the naturalism of an internalised folk music as on their sincerity of vision. Since forming in 2009\, Trash Kit have released three albums for Upset The Rhythm and a selection of singles. Trash Kit’s approach to life as with music is one of openness\, inclusion and potential\, and their most recent album ‘Horizon’ has this in dutiful abundance. \nhttps://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/horizon \nSTUART MOXHAM requires little introduction. Few artists arrive as compellingly yet elusively as did Stuart Moxham upon the startling debut of Young Marble Giant’s sole studio album\, Colossal Youth (Rough Trade\, 1980). Initial excitement was thrust upon the young Alison Statton\, who sang songs written by Stuart with a couple of exceptions. The unaffected tone of her voice was in steep contrast to the typical goings-on in that still quite punk time\, but it was what she sang that fully sold it. Moxham’s lyrics were both intensely personal and woefully oblique. There seemed to be a sort of story in there. After those YMG days\, Moxham worked on a project called The G!st and released an album and several singles also on Rough Trade. Since the mid-80s Moxham has focused mainly on solo acoustic work\, releasing 17 albums to date\, including one by songwriting duo Moxham & Halliday. Stuart Moxham is a composer of the upper echelon of innate talent who combines avant-garde ideas with deceptively forthright personal lyrics\, solid hooks\, ambience and vaguely off-centre instrumentation which defies the casual marketplace as confoundingly as it ever did to the underground. Last year Tiny Global Productions released Moxham’s most recent album ‘Winter Sun’\, featuring Linda Smith on backing vocals.\nhttps://stuartmoxham.bandcamp.com/
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/linda-smith-band-trash-kit-stuart-moxham/
LOCATION:The Lexington
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Concerts,Live Music,Music
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SUMMARY:JEFFREY ALEXANDER & THE HEAVY LIDDERS + CHRISTINA CARTER 
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nJEFFREY ALEXANDER & THE HEAVY LIDDERS\nCHRISTINA CARTER\nSaturday 8 August\nCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL\n7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/yfbbe41cc761 \nJEFFREY ALEXANDER has been frittering around the edges of the psychedelic underground for decades\, evolving his own musical space that overlays dusty folk\, cosmic jazz\, deep psych\, free improv\, and even (gasp!) indie rock. He’s been called a “psych rock lifer” (UNCUT)\, crafting “digressive jams that meander through free-form jazz\, bluesy kosmische” (PROG) and “extremely highgrade psych” (MOJO). Convened in 2019 on Alexander’s relocation back to his native east coast\, Philadelphia’s Heavy Lidders are the latest hard-touring expression for the guitarist’s music\, joining a vast and tangled discography (and tape list) that includes the beloved long-running west coast Dire Wolves Just Exactly Perfect Sisters Band and\, before them\, the Iditarod and Black Forest/Black Sea\, as well as a bushel of solo play-all-the-instruments projects\, a stint with Jackie-O Motherfucker\, sessions with Kemialliset Ystävät and Avarus and others. \nhttps://jeffreyalexander.bandcamp.com/ \nCHRISTINA CARTER was born in the bayou city of Houston\, Texas in November of 1968\, and co-founded the group Charalambides there in December of 1991. Ever since she has deeply mined her own vein of sound-as-music with voice\, guitar\, harmonica\, and piano. For the past several years\, Christina has utilized extended improvisational guitar passages within and without song structures and investigated ‘the song’ as a thing unto itself\, specifically concentrating on ‘the word’- both in her own lyric writing and her interpretations of the work of other lyricists. In addition to performing extensively in the US\, UK and Europe as a solo artist\, Christina has played and recorded in various groups and duos with Jeffrey Alexander\, Maria Chavez\, Loren Connors\, Spencer Dobbs\, Sandy Ewen\, Julia Hungerford\, Alistair Lingren\, and Joe McPhee\, amongst others. \nhttps://christinacarter.bandcamp.com/ \nFor more info\, click HERE
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/jeffrey_alexander__the_heavy_lidders_christina_carter/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Live Music,Music
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T223000
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SUMMARY:The Long Play Sessions : Stuart Braithwaite with Spaceships over Glasgow
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an intimate and electrifying evening with Stuart Braithwaite\, founding member of Mogwai\, as he discusses Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai\, Mayhem and Misspent Youth — a raw\, funny and deeply honest memoir of music obsession\, life on the road\, and the strange magic of live sound. \nThis event forms part of The Long Play Sessions\, ICMP’s curated series celebrating artists and writers who shape how we experience and understand music culture. Each session explores the stories beneath the noise — where creativity\, identity and lived experience intersect — offering audiences a rare chance to engage directly with the people who make and document the music that defines generations. \nIn Spaceships Over Glasgow\, Braithwaite traces his journey from a music-obsessed childhood in Scotland to the global stages of one of the world’s most influential post‑rock bands. With warmth\, self‑deprecation and startling candour\, he recounts formative gigs\, life‑changing records\, chaotic tours and the friendships that sustained Mogwai through decades of relentless volume and evolution. \nSet against the backdrop of Glasgow’s fertile underground scene\, the book is both a love letter to live music and an unfiltered account of the realities of life in a band — the exhilaration\, exhaustion\, excess and uncertain balance between creativity and survival. From teenage discovery of Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine\, to tinnitus‑inducing shows and international acclaim\, Braithwaite captures what it means to build a life around sound. \nFar more than a rock memoir\, Spaceships Over Glasgow reflects on youth\, belonging\, and the ways music can serve as escape\, identity and salvation. It speaks to anyone who has ever stood in a crowd and felt their life rearranged by noise — or dreamed of stepping onto a stage and making that feeling happen for others. \nWhat to Expect \n\nAn intimate talk from Stuart\, exploring the stories\, memories and moments behind the book\nInsight into Mogwai’s journey\, Glasgow’s underground music culture\, and the realities of long‑term life in a band\nDiscussion of creativity\, obsession\, touring\, friendship and the sustaining power of loud music\nReflections on youth\, risk\, resilience and the transformative experience of live performance\nAudience Q&A\, offering the chance to engage directly with Braithwaite about writing\, music and Mogwai’s legacy\nBook signing — bring your copy or purchase one at the event\n\nWe look forward to welcoming you to The Long Play Sessions for a candid\, joyful and uncompromising evening celebrating music as a lifelong force — told by someone who has lived it\, loudly and without filter.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-long-play-sessions-stuart-braithwaite-with-spaceships-over-glasgow/
LOCATION:ICMP\, Queen’s Park Campus\, 76-78 Salusbury Road\, London\, NW6 6PA\, ICMP Queen's Park Campus\, London\, NW6 6PA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Community Events,Events in London,Gigs,Literature,Music,Writers
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260618T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260618T223000
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SUMMARY:The Long Play Sessions: Simon Reynolds - Still In A Dream with Rudy Tambala
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Long Play Sessions for an immersive and intellectually charged evening with acclaimed music critic and cultural historian Simon Reynolds\, as he discusses ‘Still in a Dream: Shoegaze\, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock\, 1984–1994′. \nIn Still in a Dream\, Reynolds picks up where Rip It Up and Start Again left off\, tracing the underground explosion that followed post‑punk: the rise of shoegaze\, noisepop\, slacker rock and grunge. Drawing on his first-hand experience as a journalist embedded in the scene\, Reynolds captures a moment when guitar music turned inward and expansive at once — when distortion\, volume and texture became vehicles for emotion\, alienation and altered states. \nFrom the shimmering dreamworlds of Cocteau Twins and Slowdive\, to the visceral noise of Sonic Youth\, My Bloody Valentine\, Dinosaur Jr. and Pavement\, Reynolds explores how this music reflected the psychic climate of the time: youth disaffection\, political conservatism\, and the last flourish of analogue culture before the internet remade everything. Both a personal memoir and a cultural analysis\, the book is as much about how music felt as about how it sounded. \nFar more than a scene-by-scene history\, Still in a Dream examines why this era continues to echo through contemporary music\, fashion and attitudes — and how its ethos of experimentation\, withdrawal\, intensity and beauty reshaped the possibilities of rock music for decades to come. \nWhat to Expect \n\nA talk from Simon Reynolds exploring the ideas\, emotions and cultural forces behind the book\nDeep discussion of shoegaze\, underground guitar music and alternative culture from 1984–1994\nInsight into Simon’s writing process\, music journalism career and experiences documenting the era as it unfolded\nReflections on youth\, alienation\, escapism\, politics and the changing role of music media\nAudience Q&A\, offering the chance to engage directly with Reynolds on music history\, criticism and legacy\nBook signing — bring your copy or purchase one on the evening\n\nWe look forward to welcoming you to The Long Play Sessions for a rich\, reflective and exhilarating exploration of this defining period of modern music history. \nAbout The Long Play Sessions \nThis event is part of The Long Play Sessions\, ICMP’s curated series spotlighting transformative writers\, artists and cultural voices who shape the way we understand music\, identity and creative expression. Each session opens a window into the stories behind the art — blending conversation\, cultural history and lived experience.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-long-play-sessions-simon-reynolds-still-in-a-dream-with-rudy-tambala/
LOCATION:ICMP\, Queen’s Park Campus\, 76-78 Salusbury Road\, London\, NW6 6PA\, ICMP Queen's Park Campus\, London\, NW6 6PA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Events in London,History,Literature,Music,Writers
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260602T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260602T223000
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SUMMARY:The Long Play Sessions: Paul Sexton with Rock Goes to College (Special performance from Freya Everest)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening with Paul Sexton\, acclaimed music journalist\, author and broadcaster\, as he explores his latest book Rock Goes to College — the definitive\, untold story of the UK university gig circuit that launched a generation of legendary artists. With an opening performance by talented singer-songwriter Freya Everest\, this one is not to be missed!  \nIn Rock Goes to College\, Sexton traces the rise of Britain’s student gig circuit during the late 1960s and 1970s. This grassroots touring network became a proving ground for emerging artists during the explosion of rock music and the album era. As new universities and polytechnics opened across the UK\, bands criss-crossed the country in battered vans\, playing student unions\, honing their sound and chasing the dream of a record deal. \nDrawing on extensive original interviews and his unrivalled access to artists and industry figures\, Sexton tells remarkable early-career stories of acts including Pink Floyd\, Led Zeppelin\, The Who\, Queen\, Elton John\, Fleetwood Mac\, Genesis\, Nick Drake\, AC/DC and Dire Straits — as well as the student promoters and social secretaries who booked them\, many of whom would go on to shape the modern music industry themselves. The book also reveals how Paul McCartney and Wings returned to this circuit post-Beatles to road-test a new band from the ground up. \nPart music history\, part social history\, Rock Goes to College captures a vital moment when higher education\, youth culture and live music collided — shaping careers\, communities and the future of British rock. \nWhat to expect\n\nAn in-depth conversation with Paul Sexton on the stories and research behind Rock Goes to College\nInsight into the UK’s university gig circuit and its role in developing iconic artists\nDiscussion on music journalism\, biography and documenting cultural history\nAudience Q&A\nA live and intimate acoustic performance from Freya Everest\nBook signing opportunity — bring your copy or purchase one on the night\n\nWe look forward to welcoming you to The Long Play Sessions for an entertaining\, insightful and nostalgia-rich evening uncovering one of the most influential — and least documented — chapters in British music history. \nAbout The Long Play Sessions\nThis event forms part of The Long Play Sessions\, a curated series hosted by ICMP Music School\, celebrating influential writers whose work has shaped how we understand music\, culture and creative history. Each session brings landmark books to life through live conversation\, historical context and deep industry insight.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-long-play-sessions-paul-sexton-with-rock-goes-to-college-special-performance-from-freya-everest/
LOCATION:ICMP\, Queen’s Park Campus\, 76-78 Salusbury Road\, London\, NW6 6PA\, ICMP Queen's Park Campus\, London\, NW6 6PA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Community Events,Events in London,Gigs,History,Literature,Live Music,Music,Performing Arts,Writers
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260528T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260528T223000
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SUMMARY:The Long Play Sessions: A Sound So Very Loud • The story of Oasis with Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an unmissable night celebrating the music\, madness\, and enduring legacy of Oasis — one of Britain’s most explosive and influential bands.\nThrough the lens of A Sound So Very Loud — the definitive new book by acclaimed music journalists Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain — this immersive evening dives deep into the songs\, stories\, and chaos that defined a generation. \nThe evening will be hosted by Daniel Rachel\, former musician-turned-award-winning and bestselling author whose previous works include: Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters\, Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music & Politics of Rock Against Racism\, 2 Tone and Red Wedge and most recently This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music\, The Swastika and The Third Reich (nominated for The Penderyn Music Book prize). \nTickets available here and currently on a limited 2-4-1 offer – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-long-play-sessions-live-forever-the-story-of-oasis-tickets-1984712337027?keep_tld=true \nThe night includes:\n🎤 Book Talk & Q&A\nGo behind the music with two writers who were there from the start. From Supersonic to Champagne Supernova\, uncover the real stories behind Oasis’s biggest hits and the creative friction that made them legendary. Signed copies of A Sound So Very Loud will be available for purchase. \n🎧 Listening Party\nLose yourself in the anthems\, deep cuts\, and hidden gems that shaped the Britpop era. Expect nostalgia\, sing-alongs\, and maybe even a surprise or two. \n👥 About the Authors\nHamish MacBain\nA former writer at NME from 2004 to 2010\, MacBain had a front-row seat to the breakup of Oasis. He penned the words in the band’s final official tour programme and was en route to review their last UK show when it was cancelled. He co-authored Any Road Will Get Us There (If We Don’t Know Where We’re Going) with Noel Gallagher in 2018\, and his sleevenotes for the Be Here Now reissue were featured in the Chasing the Sun: 1993–1997 Oasis exhibition. \nTed Kessler\nKessler was on staff at NME from 1993 to 2003 before joining Q magazine\, where he worked for sixteen years\, including four as editor. He first interviewed Oasis in 1994 around their debut single Supersonic\, and his final interview with the band was in Amsterdam in 2009\, just before their split. Since then\, he’s written five Liam Gallagher cover interviews and remains one of the most trusted voices on the band’s legacy. \nThe Long Play Sessions\nThis event forms part of The Long Play Sessions\, a curated series hosted by ICMP celebrating some of the most influential voices writing about music today. Each session goes beyond the page\, offering live conversation\, cultural context and creative insight into the stories that shape music history. \nWe look forward to welcoming you to The Long Play Sessions for an essential evening exploring one of the loudest\, boldest and most influential moments in British music history.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-long-play-sessions-a-sound-so-very-loud-the-story-of-oasis-with-ted-kessler-and-hamish-macbain/
LOCATION:ICMP\, Queen’s Park Campus\, 76-78 Salusbury Road\, London\, NW6 6PA\, ICMP Queen's Park Campus\, London\, NW6 6PA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Events in London,Literature,Music,Writers
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SUMMARY:The Long Play Sessions: Dan Jennings with Paul Weller Dancing Through the Fire
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an intimate and expansive evening with award‑winning broadcaster and journalist Dan Jennings\, as he discusses DANCING THROUGH THE FIRE: The Authorised Oral History of Paul Weller\, the first fully authorised and definitive oral account of one of Britain’s most influential and enduring musical figures. \nThis event forms part of The Long Play Sessions\, ICMP’s curated series celebrating transformative writers\, artists and cultural voices who shape how we understand music\, identity and creative expression. Each session opens a window into the stories behind the art — blending conversation\, cultural history and lived experience. \nHosting the evening will be acclaimed author Daniel Rachel and joining as a guest will be Go! Discs founder Andy Macdonald. \nIn DANCING THROUGH THE FIRE\, Jennings traces the extraordinary creative life of Paul Weller\, from the explosive urgency of The Jam\, through the ambitious sophistication of The Style Council\, to a prolific and uncompromising solo career spanning more than three decades. Built from over 200 hours of interviews with more than 250 contributors\, including Weller himself; the book offers an unprecedented\, collective portrait of a musician whose influence has defined generations. \nDrawing on unique access to Weller’s inner circle of family\, friends\, bandmates\, producers and collaborators\, Jennings reveals the drive\, discipline and restless creativity behind a career that continually resisted nostalgia and commercial complacency. The result is candid\, generous and richly revealing — capturing not just the myth\, but the man at the centre of one of British music’s most remarkable artistic journeys. \nFar more than a standard biography\, DANCING THROUGH THE FIRE explores the realities of longevity\, reinvention and creative survival. It reflects on class\, culture\, fandom and the personal cost of sustaining artistic integrity in the public eye\, while charting how Weller became one of the very few artists to achieve Number One albums across five consecutive decades. \nPaul Weller’s story — creative\, uncompromising and continually evolving\, speaks to anyone who cares about music as a cultural force. It asks what it takes to remain vital\, curious and true to yourself when the world expects you to stand still. \nAlready hailed by critics as a landmark work of music journalism\, DANCING THROUGH THE FIRE is being recognised as the definitive account of one of Britain’s greatest artists. \nTickets available here and currently on a limited 2-4-1 offer – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-long-play-sessions-dan-jennings-paul-weller-dancing-through-the-fire-tickets-1987599404323?aff=oddtdtcreator \nWhat to Expect\n\nA talk from Dan Jennings exploring the making of DANCING THROUGH THE FIRE\, the interview process\, and the challenge of capturing a living legend through many voices\nIn‑depth discussion of creativity\, longevity\, reinvention and artistic integrity across five decades of British music\nBehind‑the‑scenes insight into Jennings’ unprecedented access to Paul Weller and his closest collaborators\nReflections on class\, fandom\, cultural legacy and why Weller’s music continues to resonate across generations\nAudience Q&A\, offering the chance to engage directly with Jennings about his research\, the writing process and Paul Weller’s cultural impact\nBook signing — bring your copy or purchase one on the night\n\nWe look forward to welcoming you to The Long Play Sessions for a thoughtful\, energising and unforgettable evening celebrating one of modern music’s most vital and uncompromising creative figures. \n\n\n\nLocation\nThe Venue\, ICMP (Queens Park Campus)\, NW6 6PA
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-long-play-sessions-dan-jennings-with-paul-weller-dancing-through-the-fire/
LOCATION:ICMP\, Queen’s Park Campus\, 76-78 Salusbury Road\, London\, NW6 6PA\, ICMP Queen's Park Campus\, London\, NW6 6PA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Events in London,Literature,Music,Writers
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260509T223000
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SUMMARY:The Long Play Sessions: Scott Rowley with Stay Alive: The Life and Death of Stuart Adamson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a powerful and deeply human evening with author and music journalist Scott Rowley as he discusses STAY ALIVE: The Life and Death of Stuart Adamson — the first fully co‑operative and definitive account of the life\, legacy and tragic death of one of Scotland’s most influential and enigmatic musicians. \nThis event is part of The Long Play Sessions\, ICMP’s curated series spotlighting transformative writers\, artists and cultural voices who shape the way we understand music\, identity and creative expression. Each session opens a window into the stories behind the art — blending conversation\, cultural history and lived experience. \nIn STAY ALIVE\, Rowley traces the remarkable rise and haunting decline of Stuart Adamson\, founder of both The Skids and Big Country. Drawing on unprecedented access to Adamson’s family\, bandmates\, private writings and never‑before‑seen material\, Rowley paints a vivid portrait of a man whose talent\, turmoil and working‑class pride helped define a generation of post‑punk and alternative rock. \nFrom the chaotic energy of late‑70s Scotland\, to global fame with Big Country\, to the battles with addiction\, trauma and depression that shadowed his later years\, Rowley’s narrative is unflinching\, tender\, and profoundly revealing. Far more than a music biography\, STAY ALIVE explores the weight of expectation\, the wounds we carry from childhood\, and the quiet struggles that fame can magnify rather than soothe. \nAdamson’s story — tragic\, inspiring and heartbreakingly human — resonates far beyond his era. It asks what it means to be an artist\, a father\, a survivor… and what happens when the world sees only the legend\, not the man. \nWith praise from critics and musicians alike\, this long‑overdue book is already being hailed as a definitive work on one of Scotland’s most compelling creative figures. \nTickets available here and currently on a limited 2-4-1 offer – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-long-play-sessions-scott-rowley-with-tony-butler-stay-alive-tickets-1987598655082?aff=oddtdtcreator \nPurchase the book here:\nhttps://bit.ly/stayalivescottrowley \nWhat to Expect\n\nA talk from Scott Rowley exploring the making of STAY ALIVE\, the revelations uncovered\, and the emotional weight of telling Adamson’s story\nIn‑depth discussion of creativity\, trauma\, addiction\, fame\, and the pressures placed on artists in the post‑punk and alternative rock scenes\nBehind‑the‑scenes insight into Rowley’s research\, interviews and unprecedented access to Adamson’s family and archives\nReflections on legacy\, working‑class identity and how one man’s music resonated across generations\nAudience Q&A\, offering the chance to engage directly with Rowley about Adamson’s life\, the writing process and the cultural impact of The Skids and Big Country\nBook signing — bring your copy or purchase one at the event\n\nWe look forward to welcoming you to The Long Play Sessions for a moving\, honest and unforgettable evening centred on one of Scotland’s most important — and most misunderstood — musical icons. \n\n\n\nLocation\nThe Venue\, ICMP (Queens Park Campus)\, NW6 6PA
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-long-play-sessions-scott-rowley-with-stay-alive-the-life-and-death-of-stuart-adamson/
LOCATION:ICMP\, Queen’s Park Campus\, 76-78 Salusbury Road\, London\, NW6 6PA\, ICMP Queen's Park Campus\, London\, NW6 6PA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Events in London,Gigs,Music,Writers
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SUMMARY:Uncovered – The Electric Rock Experience
DESCRIPTION:Duran Duran’s Dom Brown leads a virtuoso group\, capturing the essence and energy of amazing classic rock songs. \nImagine seeing all your favourite bands on one stage on the same night\, but playing the songs you actually want to hear\, not that experimental track from the difficult 17th album. Welcome to Uncovered – The Electric Rock Experience\, a virtuoso group featuring Duran Duran’s Dom Brown\, who\, with great passion\, captures the essence\, unique qualities and energy of what made these classic songs so amazing in the first place. \nUncovered – The Electric Rock Experience are a London based band with a stellar CV performing a variety of songs by artists such as Led Zeppelin\, Pink Floyd\, Jimi Hendrix\, Prince\, David Bowie\, The Who\, Rolling Stones\, Tina Turner\, Aretha Franklin\, AC/DC and The Beatles\, amongst others. \nWhilst staying true to the original vibe\, these incredible musicians stamp their own interpretation and style onto a select choice of Classic Rock songs.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/uncovered-the-electric-rock-experience-2/
LOCATION:The Exchange Theatre Twickenham\, 75 London Rd\, Twickenham\, TW1 1BE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Entertainment,Live Music,Music
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251207T213000
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SUMMARY:World Premiere: Requiem Mass – Judge Smith (founder member of Van der Graaf Generator)
DESCRIPTION:Beautiful\, soaring and moving. Judge Smith’s Requiem Mass combines rock opera\, symphonic\, and choral music to thrilling effect. Recorded in 2016\, this is its world premiere live performance. Exciting\, bracing and original. \nPaul Patterson’s heroic Magnificat Op 75 is set for choir\, organ\, brass octet and two percussionists. \n\nAlastair Brookshaw tenor\nRock Band\nLondon Orchestra da Camera Brass & Percussion Ensemble\nRufus Frowde organ & piano\nHertfordshire Chorus\nDavid Temple conductor
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/world-premiere-requiem-mass-judge-smith-founder-member-of-van-der-graaf-generator/
CATEGORIES:Events in London,Live Music
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ORGANIZER;CN="Hertfordshire Chorus":MAILTO:hertschorusmarketing@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251205T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251205T233000
DTSTAMP:20251117T042330Z
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SUMMARY:Grapes of Wrath Presents… Punk/Hardcore/Post-Hardcore/Noise
DESCRIPTION:GRAPES OF WRATH PRESENTS:\nFriday 5th December\, 7pm\nWalthamstow Trades Hall\, 61-63\nTower Hamlets Road E17 4RQ\n \n\nGrapes of Wrath presents the best hand-picked punk acts from all over the UK\, this month we have: Ritual Error (noisy punk from London)\, Value Of Nothing (radge post hardcore from Lestah) and Louse (London d-beat/crust/hardcore). \n\n\nTickets from £10 (16+):\nVisit https://wegottickets.com/f/14468
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/grapes-of-wrath-presents-punk-hardcore-post-hardcore-noise/
LOCATION:Walthamstow Trades Hall\, 61-63 Tower Hamlets Rd\, London\, E17 4RQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Arts,Cheap Tickets,Concerts,Events in London,Gigs,Live Music,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T230000
DTSTAMP:20250923T152647Z
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SUMMARY:LANDE HEKT
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nLANDE HEKT\nWednesday 15 October\nThe Lexington\, 96-98 Pentonville Rd\, Angel\, London\, N1 9JB\n7.30pm | £12.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/fbcab145bcce \nLANDE HEKT’s music is born out of self-reflection\, social and political awareness\, and her capacity for evocative storytelling. Having explored this personal song-writing approach with her former band\, Muncie Girls\, with their punchy yet tender punk-flecked songs\, Lande released her debut solo record Going To Hell in 2021 via queer and trans run independent label Get Better Records. Going To Hell presents its raw honesty amongst understatedly luminous melodies and candid\, unpretentious lyrics which contemplate\, among other things\, her experience coming out as gay. Lande’s music sits beautifully alongside such essential artists as The Wedding Present\, The Sundays\, The Replacements\, Sleeper and Sharon Van Etten. \nWith her debut album barely a year old\, 2022 saw Lande armed with a whole new collection of song-form vignettes and musings on her life and experiences with her second album\, House Without a View (partnering again with Get Better Records and Prize Sunflower Records in the UK). Kicking off where the last record left off\, House Without a View continues to explore ideas of queer identity\, as well as her changing relationship with gender\, dealing with childhood trauma\, and confronting the isolation and period of adjustment brought by the pandemic. Lead single ‘Gay Space Cadets’ daydreams about a life of excitement and adventure instead of being “forced to buy into capitalism and become a pathetic\, losing player in a game that you hate.” Although there’s darkness and sadness within the record\, there’s also some shining beacons of positivity and a lighthearted side\, albeit with a side of frustration. \nLande has toured in the UK\, Europe\, Canada and Australia supporting the likes of Alvvays\, Laura Jane Grace\, The Beths\, Throwing Muses and the legend that is Tricky. She has also played at Glastonbury festival\, as well as events for The Big Issue and Corbyn’s Labour Party. \nhttps://landehekt.bandcamp.com/
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/lande-hekt/
LOCATION:The Lexington
CATEGORIES:Live Music,Music
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SUMMARY:MICHAEL BEACH + EXPIRY + CAROLINE NO
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nMICHAEL BEACH\nEXPIRY\nCAROLINE NO\nFriday 1 August\nThe Lexington\, 96-98 Pentonville Rd\, Angel\, London\, N1 9JB\n7pm – 10.30pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/uc37b4f150b4 \nMICHAEL BEACH is a Melbourne-based and Californian-born musician. On his fifth LP\, Big Black Plume\, Beach reveals the vitalizing power of connection in an often hostile world. Equally informed by the songwriting of Bill Fay and Peter Laughner\, the minimalism of Tony Conrad and Terry Riley\, and the rock and roll heart of the Goner Records roster\, Big Black Plume provides deliberate compositions adorned with genuine madness. The songs on this album range from spare\, textural ballads\, to spiraling psychedelic overtures connected to a propulsive cosmic pulse. \nThe songs here aren’t stick-and-poke songs that will dry and fade on the skin\, aimless prayers for jams; Beach has been making deliberate things for decades. Big Black Plume is a record about connections\, mercurially curated\, transforming individual contributions into something strikingly communal. For years\, Beach has been carefully fostering musical connections – for Big Black Plume is out July 25th\, 2025\, on vital independent labels Poison City (Australia) and Goner Records (US / Rest of World). Beach will support Big Black Plume with headlining tour dates and festival appearances in Australia\, the United States\, and Europe\, including Gonerfest in Memphis\, TN\, Rising in Melbourne\, Dark Mofo in Tasmania\, and Binic Folks Blues Fest in France. \nhttps://michaelbeach.org/ \nEXPIRY are a 5 piece band based in London. Centred around the songwriting of Australian expat Louis Forster (formerly of The Goon Sax) the band began as a two piece with Sonny Barrett (Adulkt Life) in 2022. From early shows that featured primitive drum beats played off phones the band has evolved slowly into a roaring five piece complete with duelling guitars\, piano and brothers. \nhttps://www.instagram.com/expiry__/ \nCAROLINE NO is a psychedelic-folk project based in London and built around the songwriting of Caroline Kennedy. Recordings of the group have been described as commanding in their nonchalance\, allowing the listener to feel like they are living within the open boundaries of the song. A “unique\, beguiling sound sits somewhere between archetypal Dunedin pop and languorous\, textural improvisation” (Students of Decay) and “no-fi\, anti-folk ditties that channel an anarchic spirit” (Chris Cobcroft 4ZZZ). Caroline No have released three albums No Language (World News / Students of Decay)\, Swimmers (King Crab) and Caroline No (Grapefruit Record Club). \nhttps://carolinenohello.bandcamp.com/album/no-language \n 
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/michael-beach-expiry-caroline-no/
LOCATION:The Lexington
CATEGORIES:Live Music,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250721T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250721T230000
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SUMMARY:DAILY TOLL + GUY BLACKMAN + THE SPATULAS
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nDAILY TOLL\nGUY BLACKMAN\nTHE SPATULAS\nMonday 21 July\nAvalon Cafe\, Juno Way\, London\, SE14 5RZ\n7.15pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/h3d18b073edc \nDAILY TOLL are nestled between the sonic worlds of folk song story telling and off kilter\, angular rock. They are a Sydney-based band born from a curious seed\, the self taught project of artist Kata Szász-Komlós alongside Jasper Craig-Adams and Tom Stephens. Seemingly coming with an unmistakable charm and yearning. Mapping the band’s existence through their recorded output is to bear witness to the flux of three people learning to respond to one another and gently ossify into a collective vision. Early recordings reflect a band imagining themselves into being whilst new release\, A Profound Non-Event (Tough Love)\, observes a clear shift in conviction.\nhttps://dailytoll.bandcamp.com/ \nGUY BLACKMAN is a songwriter’s songwriter. His deftly constructed songs deal frankly with issues of love\, sexuality and commitment. If Serge Gainsbourg\, Tim Hardin or Kevin Ayers wrote songs set in gay go-go bars or on adult camming websites\, you might get close to an idea of Guy’s approach. ‘Out Of Sight’ is Guy’s first solo album in nearly 20 years (out June 13th)\, a belated follow-up to his well-loved 2008 album Adult Baby. Guy is also the co-founder of the very excellent label Chapter Music.\nhttps://guyblackman.bandcamp.com \nTHE SPATULAS share a percussive\, unshadowed presence\, a steady\, clear-voiced clop. Every note on their debut record ‘Beehive Mind’ (out now on PPM) is a little bit sad on its own but then they’re organized in a way that you don’t actually notice. The songs breathe in warmth and patience\, they are immediate and sweet. And then they start to meander. To address the weight of the world without speaking of weariness. To march the song to breathlessness but loosen your grip when the band wanders. To tell all your secrets but shield your loved ones from vulnerability. To dress up in the charm and temptation of the pop song but maintain a core of peculiarity\, of a single voice trying to navigate this world. This is the project of the Spatulas. Think of the few songwriters who know they’re the only ones in the world who could write their songs. The ones who sing in the confidence that the song couldn’t exist without them: Peter Jefferies\, Jenny Mae\, Ron House\, Heather Lewis. Jonathan Richman? Put Miranda Soileau-Pratt of The Spatulas on this list. Miranda will be performing solo at this show.\nhttps://mirandaspatula.bandcamp.com/
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/daily-toll-guy-blackman-the-spatulas/
LOCATION:Avalon Cafe\, Juno Way\, London\, SE14 5RZ
CATEGORIES:Live Music,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250603T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251118T160000
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SUMMARY:Kurt Cobain Unplugged - Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:The story behind one of music’s most iconic guitars. \nVisit the Royal College of Music Museum as one of the most famous acoustic guitars in rock history — Kurt Cobain’s Martin D-18E — goes on display. \nThe exhibition explores Nirvana’s groundbreaking MTV Unplugged performance and also reunites the guitar with another piece of rock history: Cobain’s famous olive-green mohair cardigan. This marks the first time these two legendary items have been displayed together. \nThe Museum will be running a series of events alongside the exhibition.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/kurt-cobain-unplugged-exhibition/
LOCATION:Royal College of Music Museum\, Prince Consort Rd\, SW7 2BS
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Events in London,Exhibitions,History,Live Music,Museums,Music,Performing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250507T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250507T230000
DTSTAMP:20250411T131253Z
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SUMMARY:NAP EYES + ELIZA NIEMI
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nNAP EYES\nELIZA NIEMI\nWednesday 7 May\nThe Lexington\, 96-98 Pentonville Rd\, Angel\, London\, N1 9JB\n7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/p590cef01f9d \nNAP EYES still bring to mind the bucolic ennui of the Silver Jews and Daniel Johnston’s jittery naïveté\, but the sheen and maturity they boast lend a wide-angle appeal. Nap Eyes’ metamorphic fifth long-player collects a cache of nine fascinating songs recorded over the four years since their last album. ‘The Neon Gate’ reveals classic touchstones (the uneasy interplay of physics and philosophy\, perambulatory meditations\, self-interrogating soliloquies\, apertures of surreality\, and video games) but also evidence of divergent impulses toward nonlinear abstraction and long-form improvisational composition (resulting in their most discursive\, deconstructed\, and deliquescent songs to date) and narrative and lyric formality\, imparting the sense that Nap Eyes have transmuted\, as has their understanding of what a song is\, what it can do\, where it might go.\nhttps://napeyes.bandcamp.com/ \n  \nELIZA NIEMI is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter currently based in Toronto. On her new album Progress Bakery (out now on Tin Angel)\, Eliza knows to leave some questions alone—to let juxtaposition and tension be the proof. She playfully slip-slides through words\, sounds\, and images\, delighting in surprise\, skimming ideas like stones cast across clear water\, touching down briefly with uncommon grace. \nhttps://elizaniemi.bandcamp.com/album/progress-bakery
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/nap-eyes-eliza-niemi/
LOCATION:The Lexington
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Concerts,Events in London,Live Music,Music
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SUMMARY:EVIL SWORD + SHAKE CHAIN + SPLIT APEX
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nEVIL SWORD\nSHAKE CHAIN\nSPLIT APEX\nSaturday 5 April\nNew River Studios\, 199 Eade Rd\, Harringay\, London\, N4 1DN\n7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/B1970de44fb0 \nEVIL SWORD are Kate Ferencz and Ben Furgal from Philadelphia\, USA. Their chaotic live shows combine elements of noise\, cryptic metal overtones\, performance art\, and gallows humor and feature macabre props\, flashing lights\, stage sets and costumes. There are hardly any instruments in this group\, but they make such a racket you’d never know it. The bass and the percussion sound like they’re having a great time\, telling each other jokes. Then the words come in and it all locks together in these strange\, hypnotic rhythms. I just listen to the stories and laugh and cry and get scared and wonder what they were ever thinking.\nRecent album ‘Basket Fever’ (Magic Pictures\, 2023) features electrocuted bells\, backwards parts\, rusty horns; I’m pretty sure I even heard a clarinet in there somewhere. There’s this one part where it all seems to come back around\, where they took some gang vocals from the very first demo they ever recorded and slowed it way down. When they first started; I thought they were some goofy kids making music about the end of the world\, back when that seemed a little further away\, like it was going to be fun. They were all laughing and making these funny ghost sounds\, but now everyone’s older and the ghosts are real\, a great whoosh of bygone spirits and cold air. It’s bone chilling. There’s plenty to be upset about\, but it’s not really an Evil Sword song until that grimace has been twisted up into a smile. \nhttps://evilsword.bandcamp.com/album/basket-fever \nSHAKE CHAIN have been busy demolishing audiences and expectations for the best part of the last five years. Vocalist Kate Mahony sets that standard by anything from crawling through the audience’s legs in a bright yellow raincoat to crying and washing her hands in a nearby toilet\, as the rest of the band start the set. The four-piece from London are completed by Robert Eyres (Synth/Guitar)\, Chris Hopkins (Bass/Synth/Samples) and Joe Fergey (Drums). Shake Chain are built of nervy bass lines\, twitchy guitars that jolt and jerk and tack sharp drums\, overridden by screeching vocal slurs and sampled television. Kate’s singing is a unique embrace of flights of atonal fancy\, head-first repetition and ecstatic frenzy. Opinion-dividing arguably\, but singular in making Shake Chain dauntingly brilliant. The band’s debut album ’Snake Chain’ was released by Upset The Rhythm. \nhttps://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/snake-chain \nSPLIT APEX are Jussi Palmusaari (guitar\, electronics and percussion) and Peter Blundell (voice and bass). On their self-titled cassette (out now) release they combine restless sonic textures\, oddball phrasing within barely-contained song structures held together by moth-woven threads. Seemingly governed by an unknowable gravitational pull that tugs hither and yon\, the duo lays out their statement of intent through a brief suite of intimate nocturnes. The release marks the first work for Palmusaari since leaving his native Finland where he played with the band\, Preesens\, in the late-90s/early-00s. For Blundell\, this new project exists adjacent to his current work with Dominic Goodman as Komare and previous endeavours in the band\, Mosquitoes. \nhttps://tinyurl.com/n8cf2jhf \n 
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/evil-sword-shake-chain-split-apex/
LOCATION:new river studios\, 199 Eade Road\, London\, N4 1DN
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Events in London,Live Music,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250327T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250327T230000
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SUMMARY:Six Organs of Admittance + Bill Mackay - Concert
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… a Drag City showcase with: \nSIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE\nBILL MACKAY\nThursday 27 March\nMetronome London\, 41 Commercial Road\, London\, E1 1LA\n7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Gb5ecad0f987 \nSIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE have built a prolific and diverse body of work over the last 20+ years. Ben Chasny’s project is an experimental amalgam of new folk\, drone music\, percussion and strange textures\, with Chasny delivering an outpouring of eclectic releases in the early 2000s for various small labels before finding a longstanding home on Drag City. In 2003\, Chasny began an association with Comets on Fire\, which led to him becoming a full-time touring and recording band member. After recording and touring extensively with Comets on Fire in 2004\, Chasny returned to the studio and issued the moving and beautiful School of the Flower on Drag City in January 2005. Sun Awakens and Shelter from the Ash arrived in 2006 and 2007. After touring and a break in 2008\, Six Organs began what would become a prolific return to force\, releasing 18 astonishing records up to the current time. First was the release of the sonically expansive – and very electric – Luminous Night\, followed by the double-disc retrospective RTZ\, both of which appeared on Drag City. Chasny also plays in 200 Years alongside Elisa Ambrogio (of Magik Markers)\, with Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards) in the project New Bums\, and is also a member of tightly-wound improv unit Rangda\, accompanied by Sir Richard Bishop and Chris Corsano. \nChasny more recently developed a card-based creative system called Hexadic for making music. He released several related albums before resuming his primary project with new work like 2021’s The Veiled Sea and the 2024 Shackleton collaboration Jinxed by Being. This year\, Six Organs also released a solo album\, Time Is Glass\, consisting of haunted\, unsettled rural folk sounds. With Time is Glass\, Six Organs of Admittance is captured once again in the intricate tangle of the fretboards\, soaring in open skies above. Like lens flare cutting through the speakers\, spiderwebs cracking the windshield that holds back all the onrushing reality. Blowing the dust away\, cutting a new path for cognition.\nhttps://sixorgansofadmittance.bandcamp.com/ \nBILL MACKAY is a Chicago guitarist\, improviser\, composer\, and singer. An accomplished collaborator with projects that include Katinka Kleijn (Stir\, 2019)\, Nathan Bowles (Keys\, 2021)\, and Ryley Walker (SpiderBeetleBee\, 2017)\, MacKay is also a solo artist creating multi-dimensional works such as Esker (2017)\, Fountain Fire (2019) Scarf (2020)\, and Locust Land (2024)\, all released on Drag City Records. Bill’s music is a visceral crackling where it meets the air\, and Locust Land can’t help but reflect its era more than any other in his discography. A restless energy and urgency are repeatedly felt — in the driving momentum of “Keeping in Time\,” “Glow Drift\,” and “When I Was Here” — while a dogged persistence radiates from the tone colours and percussion of “Oh\, Pearl.” The sense of searching\, displacement and longing in vocal tracks “Keeping in Time\,” “Half of You\,” and “When I Was Here” speak literally to the tumult of current vibrations. Within the arrangements\, there’s also a departure from previous norms — in addition to the brilliant guitar work for which he is known\, Bill plays a variety of keyboards\, from piano to organ to synth\, extending his music with the available voicings\, while enriching the sound field without abandoning his signature brevity. For fans of his singing\, following in the recent tradition of Fountain Fire and his collaboration with Nathan Bowles\, Keys\, Locust Land expresses an increased vocal presence — and heightened engagement\, with Bill’s words and melodies drawing us closer.\nhttps://billmackay.com/
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/six-organs-of-admittance-bill-mackay-concert/
LOCATION:Metronome London\, 41 Commercial Road\, London\, E1 1LA
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Concerts,Events in London,Gigs,Live Music,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241208T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241208T230000
DTSTAMP:20241106T085243Z
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SUMMARY:NIGHTSHIFT + MARY CURRIE & ROBERT SOTELO + ANNELIES MONSERÉ
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nNIGHTSHIFT\nMARY CURRIE & ROBERT SOTELO\nANNELIES MONSERÉ\nSunday 8 December\nThe Lexington\, 96-98 Pentonville Rd\, Angel\, London\, N1 9JB\n7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/pcd6fe8e5f9b \nNIGHTSHIFT are a Glasgow music collective whose new album ‘Homosapien’ just came out on Chicago’s Trouble In Mind Records. Notably\, the band has lost some members\, gained a new member & shuffled some roles; former drummer Chris White (Spinning Coin) is now on guitar. His distinctive playing delivers a countrified energy that is central to the album\, leading the song structures into more succinct and colorful places\, matching the upbeat and playful nature the band has always drawn strength from\, only more so now under his stylish approach. Primary vocalist & keyboardist Eothen Stearn’s lyrical gifts illuminate the group’s output with an optimistic urgency that is unmatched. On ‘Homosapien’ she wears her heart on her sleeve\, but even in the song’s darkest moments\, the words create a sense of hope and potential.\nhttps://nightshiftgroup.bandcamp.com \nMARY CURRIE & ROBERT SOTELO have a forthcoming 7” EP coming out on Upset The Rhythm this October entitled ‘Dream Songs’. Introduced via a mutual friend\, Robert Sotelo approached Mary Currie (Flaming Tunes/Officer!) about collaborating on four songs he was constructing with Glasgow based producer/sound guru Joe Howe. Performing live with a set-up that will reconfigure these four compositions into a minimalist bass\, drum machine and keys dynamic the duo (and band) will also look at recreating some cuts from the Flaming Tunes era also\, focusing quite heavily on a anything could happen approach.\nhttps://robertsotelo.bandcamp.com/ \nANNELIES MONSERÉ has been playing music solo since 2000. Initially the music was piano-based and mostly instrumental. Once she ‘discovered’ her voice\, vocals became a main focus. The early songs had very simple structures and melodies\, and the words were sparse and introvert. Her debut album ‘Helder’ (released by BlueSanct) was described as “a delicate album\, complete with beautiful cracks and loads of tape-hiss.” Recorded at home in Gent between 2016 and 2023\, Annelies new album ‘I Sigh\, I Resign’ (Horn of Plenty) retains the intimacy of previous LP ‘Mares’ with it’s close-mic’d keyboards and vocals that capture every breath. Folk and early music are at the core of her sound but the palette of piano\, organ\, bass guitar\, cello\, synth and drum machine make it very much a document of the here and now.\nhttps://anneliesmonsere.bandcamp.com/
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/nightshift-mary-currie-robert-sotelo-annelies-monsere/
LOCATION:The Lexington
CATEGORIES:Events in London,Live Music,Music
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241205T230000
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SUMMARY:THE SMASHING TIMES + SPECIAL GUESTS (TBA)
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nTHE SMASHING TIMES\nSPECIAL GUESTS (TBA)\nThursday 5 December\nMOTH Club\, Old Trades Hall\, Valette St\, London\, E9 6NU\n7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/va3aba677211 \nTHE SMASHING TIMES are a psychedelic twee freakbeat group from a Baltimore basement. Instruments played by humans\, bare feet touching the ground. Wrinkled button-downs\, sweaters filled with holes\, music audibly and sometimes visibly made by humans. Can you change the strings on your guitar? Maybe\, can you buy me dinner? Lock up your Rickenbackers; Thee Jasmine Monk is coming to town; can they stay on your couch? The recent album ‘Bloom’ was released by Meritorio Records\, featuring fractious\, chiming riffs and Dan Treacy meets Stephen Pastel style vocals and an impressive collection of genuinely memorable tracks. The Smashing Times’ new album ‘Mrs Ladyships and the Cleanerhouse Boys’ will be coming out on K Records in November. \nThe Smashing Times are your new favourite MOD heartthrobs. Is there a new Merseybeat Revolution? How many times can you watch The Blow-Up alone in your room? Why don’t you venture out the front door and take a bite of the real thing? The Smashing Times are a mainstay in the indie pop underground. The group mistrals the new modern life perfectly\, the sharper world. \nhttps://thesmashingtimes.bandcamp.com \n 
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-smashing-times-special-guests-tba/
LOCATION:MOTH Club\, Valette Street\, Hackney\,\, London\, E96\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events in London,Live Music,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241130T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241130T220000
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SUMMARY:Carnaby Army – 60s British Invasion!
DESCRIPTION:A two-hour set spanning Mod\, Rock\, Rhythm & Blues and Soul.\n\n\n\n\nCarnaby Army’s electrifying live show\, The British Invasion and Beyond\, celebrates the very best of 60s music with a two-hour set spanning Mod\, Rock\, Rhythm & Blues\, and Soul. \nFeaturing era-defining hits from the biggest bands of the decade\, including The Beatles\, Rolling Stones\, Small Faces\, and The Kinks\, this stellar\, six-piece band presents an evening of unadulterated entertainment that has been wowing audiences across the country. \n 
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/carnaby-army-60s-british-invasion-2/
LOCATION:The Exchange Theatre Twickenham\, 75 London Rd\, Twickenham\, TW1 1BE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Arts,Cheap Tickets,Concerts,Entertainment,Events in London,Family Activities,London Musicals,London Theatre
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SUMMARY:CHRIS COHEN + LARGE PLANTS - Concert
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nCHRIS COHEN\nLARGE PLANTS\nTuesday 19 November\n100 Club\, 100 Oxford St\, Oxford Street\, W1D 1LL\n7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ob8ce6dd7dbc \nCHRIS COHEN was always a quiet kid. This introversion was one reason he began playing music as a toddler—to communicate without speaking to identify with others without directly representing words. It has worked\, too\, with Cohen’s terrific stint in the mighty Deerhoof and his captivating art-rock act The Curtains\, preceding production and session work for the likes of Weyes Blood\, Kurt Vile\, Le Ren\, and Marina Allen. Somewhere along that long way\, Cohen started writing lyrics. He found that\, though it didn’t come naturally\, the process offered a new sense of self-discovery and reckoning\, a way to see himself and the world from unexpected angles. His three twilit albums of casually complicated pop during the last decade radiated these epiphanies: handling family strife\, navigating advancing age\, and understanding social woes. \nBut Cohen has never had as much to sing so directly as he does on ‘Paint a Room’\, his first album in five years and his debut for Hardly Art. Suppose Cohen’s meanings have previously lurked inside the tessellated musical layers he built alone. In that case\, they are newly clear and resonant here\, animated and underscored for the first time by a band playing in real-time. There is the endless miasma of state violence on the subversively melodious opener “Damage\,” the existential exhaustion of modernity on the horn-traced jangle “Laughing”. With ‘Paint a Room’\, Cohen’s music feels like a warm spring breeze\, easy to love and gentle to feel. But it often carries something heavy\, as if it is blowing in from some unseen storm cloud. \nhttps://chriscohen.bandcamp.com \nLARGE PLANTS is the hauntological fuzz-rock project of Jack Sharp\, former singer-guitarist from psych-folk luminaries Wolf People. In 2022 the band dropped an acid-rock cover of Madonna’s ‘La Isla Bonita’ on the Ghost Box label\, followed swiftly by their debut LP ‘The Carrier’\, described by Shindig as “A succinct distillation of folk-rock magnificence”. Now a formidable live act\, having toured with Mudhoney and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Large Plants are currently working on their third album.\nhttps://largeplantsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-death-of-pliny-digital-single \n 
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/chris-cohen-large-plants-concert/
LOCATION:The 100 Club\, 100 Oxford St\, Oxford Street\, W1D 1LL\, London\, W1D 1LL
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SUMMARY:Shannon and the Clams + Mock Media + Pozi - Live Bands
DESCRIPTION:-Upset The Rhythm presents… \nSHANNON AND THE CLAMS\nMOCK MEDIA\nPOZI\nTuesday 5 November\nIslington Assembly Hall\, Upper St\, London\, N1 2UD\n7pm | £20 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/i36cc53102af \nSHANNON AND THE CLAMS are from Oakland\, California and comprise of Shannon Shaw (vocals\, bass)\, Cody Blanchard (vocals\, guitar)\, and Ian Amberson (drums\, vocals). Sounding like a prom band from 1964 getting dosed with acid and having the sweetest lovelorn freakout\, Shannon And The Clams defy expectations. Imagine a brawling Etta James\, backed up by the 13th Floor Elevators\, singing Shangri La’s tunes. Shannon has a voice that can go from a sweet girl group croon to a bluesy\, ballsy growl before you realize you’re headed for the (dance) floor. It’s total punk rock bop\, brimming with doo-wop glory delivered to your door by the Homecoming Queen and Kings of weirdo rock ‘n’ roll. \nShannon & The Clams’ sonics go from black and white to technicolour on their new album\, The Moon Is In the Wrong Place\, produced by longtime collaborator Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. Faced with the unimaginable sudden loss of Shannon’s fiancé\, the project is a holistic exploration of grief and celebration of life coupled with the most expansive\, exciting songs and arrangements of their celebrated catalogue. The Moon Is In the Wrong Place marks Shannon & The Clams’ 7th studio album together and is now via Easy Eye Sound. \nhttp://shannonandtheclams.com/ \nMOCK MEDIA\, Canada’s new supergroup\, contains members Evan Aasen (Painted Fruits)\, Garnet Aronyk Muhammad (Crack Cloud)\, Austin Boylan (Pottery)\, and Bennett Smith (N0V3L). Mock Media originated in Vernon\, British Columbia\, a small farming town surrounded by a blue lake and majestic mountain ranges. Such wholesome beginnings naturally sparked a heady wanderlust and DIY spirit within its founding members.\nMock Media’s debut LP Mock Media II\, out Nov 17th\, captures this firebrand four-piece’s head-on plunge into enthralling existential contradictions: songs that explore the darkest corners of humanity yet come out at the other end with the unwavering joy that marked their genesis. It’s an album of sneak eclecticism; the high-wired punk rock stylings serve as Mock Media’s framework to clad their agog explorations into pop\, electronic\, and world folk music.\nhttps://mockmedia.bandcamp.com/album/mock-media \nPOZI is a band that tackles the creative cycle of deconstruction and rebuilding with relish. The second album ‘Smiling Pools’ is a testament to that. An LP that sees them at their most expansive yet\, it follows a gradual swelling of their sound across two EPs preceding the urgent\, self-enforced minimalism of their debut album\, PZ1\, in 2019. The trio of Toby Burroughs\, Rosa Brook\, and Tom Jones quickly established something of a foundational template on that first album: a hyper-skeletal sound palette of drums\, bass and three distinct vocals disrupted by Rosa’s churning violins\, from which emerged biting social observations and political angst. These hallmarks haven’t fully gone away over time\, but from that urgent energy\, greater confidence\, and a playful desire to push further out of the loose genre tag of post-punk have emerged. \nhttps://poziband.bandcamp.com
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LOCATION:Islington Assembly Hall\, Upper Street\, London\, N1 2UD\, United Kingdom
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