London Zine of Music, Arts and Miscellaneous Happenings. Monthly updates & seasonal physicals.
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1) adjective describing the silence produced when a performance leaves the audience speechless (ie: one could hear a pin drop)
2) verb to indicate the location of a particular happening
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___Pindrop Presents: Wing! @ Windmill Brixton £6 - Christmas comes early with Pindrop’s Xmas Party! Our headliners, Wing, are some of our favourites in the scene. Their deeply psychedelic triphop soundscape has been honed over months of improvising, making them truly one of the tightest bands London has got. Sink back into the folding, glitching textures as drums and bass ricochet. The Glowworms are on main support, bringing a beautiful marriage of folk and post-rock while Frank Lloyd Wleft (our favourite Lexington DJ) brings his internet-age beat poetry and Americana country twang with his ever so iconic orchestra. Last but not least, we have the solemn, solo slowcore project of Sharkpit. tickets
___ORII Jam: In Tribute To D’Angelo @ Colour Factory £8.5 - We’ve had our eyes peeled for this one. Absolutely no one is more suited to honour the immense musical legacy of D’Angelo than the seasoned veterans at ORII Jam. For the majority of people who would not have been able to see the goat of R&B, this will be an interpretation of his canon that you should not miss. tickets
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___Santa Claws 2025 @ Windmill Brixton £6 Blitzcat Records - A stacked lineup put on by an independent label that clearly has its finger on the pulse! Blitzcat celebrate the winter merriment with headlining soft-rockers big long sun, whose timeless, infectious songs could see them break into any era’s charts. ashnymph’s trippy, electroclash-inspired dance-pop will have you dancing like you’re in an iPod advert, while kiss gem.burn will throw you against the walls with their massive post-rock ensemble. If it wasn’t for the openers, London slowcore group Mry (fka Mary), it would appear Blitzcat only co-sign bands stylised in lower case! tickets
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___Loraine James @ Ormside Projects £17.15 Bird On The Wire - James’s unique mix of personality and technicality is not often seen in the oft-instrumental world of electronic music. Her passions and stories burst through the chopping and warping blend of IDM, neo-soul and drill, recounting angst with her perspective as a queer black woman remaining central. Catch this intimate show where exclusive unreleased numbers will be played… tickets
___Harvest Fest (Pecan Charity Fundraiser) @ Rough Trade East £10.3 - Raising money for Peckham’s Pecan Foodbank, which lost thousands last year after being burgled, West London’s indie icon Lava La Rue leads the charge with their infectious, unabashedly pop charm, perfect for anyone who needs a local surrogate for 2024’s “rediscovery” of MGMT and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Check out the opener, SE London’s tall child (their name and some inspiration taken from Mitski), whose beautiful debut EP Somehow You Grow came out earlier this year! tickets
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___BLACK FONDU EP Launch @ Bermondsey Social Club £6.18 - Pindrop’s favourite abstract grime artist and producer celebrates his debut EP, the aptly named BLACKFONDUISM, with a stacked lineup. His style live, if you haven’t read our reviews, is wild: half boxer – half crazed northern soul dancer, his energy is so infectious, even if it's your first time hearing his maximalist hyper-rap, you’ll come away changed. The EP seems to progress sonically from his debut singles in every direction possible: impossibly harsher, louder, yet catchier and more melodic (just compare ‘holla back girl’ with ‘#music’). Make sure to check out all the supports, but most notably the Manchester poet and underground legend Isaiah Hull. tickets
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___Dim Wizard @ New River Studios £9 / 14 Divine Schism - A pop wizard who knows no genre, David Combs, of the DC power-pop group Bad Moves, uses collaboration to unlock endless musical possibilities. The project spans alternative country, post-punk, hyper-pop and indie-folk, with different partnerships for every song. tickets
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___Daltons Fen & Jawharp “Piss Hat” Split EP Launch @ George Tavern £9 - What better way to end your weekend than with two of London’s wildest bands? Jawharp erupt with gargles, screams, and abrasive guitars, harkening to the darker, violent side of emo. Possessed by the mayhem, their gigs often develop into primal gymnastics as bodies wriggle and guitars lay strewn across the stage. Daltons Fen, on the other hand, turn down the volume with their absurd outsider pop, barking psychedelic stories over wiggling synths as if John Lydon had served a tour in the Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. How the two sounds will complement each other on their upcoming split EP, we will just have to see. tickets
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___Lost Property & Die Quieter Present: A Winter Ball [MISC] @ Rivolli Ballroom £13.7 - Combining the ersatz intellectualism of Lost Property, the literary glamour of Die Quieter Please, and the skittish, folky charm of south London’s favourite My New Band Believe, this winter ball goes beyond a simple gig experience into something more. Expect readings, sharp little lectures, and offbeat performances tucked inside London’s last surviving 1950s ballroom. tickets
___No Tags [MISC] @ ICA £12.5 - No Tags, a podcast-newsletter project from music writers Chal Ravens and Tom Lea, bring audiences a rare live show to celebrate the release of their second book. Covering everything from the foibles of Boiler Room sets to the ingredients of a perfect night out, this event is for audiences who want to dissect what music subculture means in 2025. tickets
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___A Hideous Christmas – All Dayer @ Windmill Brixton £15 / 20 Hideous Mink - 2pm til 2am. The party don’t stop. With only half the lineup announced as of yet (but half the tickets gone too!), make you sure you get moving or else you’ll be missing some of London’s loudest. Dog Race, Legss and Y are the bands to note, each encapsulating the new wave of “crankwave” in a different way – expect sprechgesang, unison riffs on the harmonic minor scale, and plenty of moshing. Don’t get caught waiting for the headliners to be announced! tickets
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___Our Dear Friends: Christmas Spectacular @ George Tavern £9.5 Our Dear Friends - A night of Christmas cheer and carols sung by a one-off choir/supergroup comprised of Abigail Morris (The Last Dinner Party), Clari FT (Mary in the Junkyard), Rowan Please (The Femcels), Ash Kenazi (Hank), Joseph Darley (The Slow Country) and more and more! A charity raffle will be held to raise money for the free homeless shelter Shelter From The Storm. tickets
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___Pindrop X Improv’s Greatest Hits: No Clique #10 @ Folklore Hoxton £6 OTD / £7 - We’re so excited to be collaborating with a project we’ve been following for quite some time. Improv’s Greatest Hits, organised by Harry “Iceman” Furniss (kingpin of the Bristol improvisational scene, free-genre cornet player, and collaborator with bands like LICE, Bingo Fury, and Glaxo Babies), have been setting up ‘No Clique’ nights, where one-night-only improv bands are given the space to conquer unknown territory. What each band will bring, no one knows; however, with the talented musicianship that lines the London underbelly, you’re in for a treat. tickets
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___New Year's Eve ft. Powerplant + More! @ 100 Club £17 Far From Presents - What a way to start your 2026! For your awkward New Year’s kiss/mosh-pit concussion, the frenetic synth-driven egg-punk of Powerplant will throw you in 2026 with their gothic, woozy infectiousness. And there’s far more raucousness where that came from! University, the frenetic emos from Crewe will pummel you with splanking chords and perfectly OTT drum fills; Leeds’ Bathing Suits will have you boogying to their harsh post-dance; Uncle Junior will rock you with their eclectic noise; and Baby Doll Dead Beat will open the night with their moody synth bangers. tickets
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___Black And White by The dB's (US, 1981)
___Expectations by Belle and Sebastian (UK, 1996)
___You Got to Have Money by The Exits (UK, 1967)
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___Remember the Time by Michael Jackson (US, 1991)
___A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing) by Romeo Void (US, 1992)
___The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers by Charles Mingus (US, 1972)
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___Lebanese Blond by Thievery Corporation (US, 2000)
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___Slow by My Bloody Valentine (Ireland, 1988)
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