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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___Flip Top Head @ The Castle £9.27 Dark Castle - An intimate gig from Brighton’s six-piece Flip Top Head, on the advent of their sophomore EP Trilateral Machine. With winding, melancholic passages and sprawling structures, the band ensure you won’t have heard anything like them. tickets
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___Lydia Lunch's Big Sexy Noise @ Corsica Studios £22 Baba Yaga's Hut - An extra night added for the No Wave pioneer Lydia Lunch’s group Big Sexy Noise, with support from London’s own noisecore quartet jawharp! Punk blues turned to sludge with amps dialled to 11, slashed at by Lunch’s emphysema snarls and dark, twisted stories. tickets
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___Test Plan @ Shacklewell Arms FREE Hideous Mink X Fierce Panda - London's noisy post-punk trio Test Plan pummel their audience, their songs centred around crazed chants where you can hear every vocal fold ripple and build up spit alongside cycling, off-kilter drums that hit like a mallet on a Whack-A-Mole (but you’re the mole). The bass does what bass does best, hammering home phat notes and dancing rhythms, while abrasive guitar textures build and build. Check out Mancunian support Martial Arts and their pugacious indie rock. rsvp
___CV Vision @ Hootananny Brixton £6 - Multi-instrumentalist Dennis Schulze makes music that is so unabashedly catchy, it may induce scepticism, but that has such a delicate depth of sound design and songwriting you can’t help but applaud. If you’re looking for something synthy and funky with all that nostalgic, hypnagogic wooze of band like Black Moth Super Rainbow, you’re in luck. Schulze is a devil behind the mixing desk, exploiting the minutiae of sudden bursts of surreal atonal blurs or synth bloops. tickets
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___Ulrika Spacek: Live + Signing @ Rough Trade East £12.5 / 31 - Ulrika Spacek celebrate the release of their 4th record, EXPO. Known for their indie jangles entwined with mathy guitar riffs, their songwriting formula has grown alongside the changing sonic approach of alt-rock indie-rock. EXPO is an exploration of the bands obsession with meshing analog and digital sounds together, making their own sound bank, from which they essentially “sampled themselves” from. tickets
___Autocamper @ Paper Dress Vintage £13.47 Precious Recordings of London - The fresh-faced Mancunian quartet promise they aren’t twee, “just pop”, but their bowl cuts say otherwise… With naïve chiming chords, a welcome disposition to melody, and no reliance on ‘big’ choruses, their minimalist sound ironically stands out. Even more excitingly, support comes from the late 80’s psychedelic jangle-pop extraordinaires and Cherry Red Records alumni 14 Iced Bears – what a bonus! tickets
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___The Smugler Song Circle #1 @ New River Studios £5 Smugler - Think; 14 musicians, 3 hours, and improvisation. What more could you want? If you get a kick out of dismantled, borderline chaotic approaches of creating music, this is for you, for those 3 hours will push band and audience into a world of unexpected motion. tickets
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___‘I Am Building A House’ by Evelyn Gray & Friends @ George Tavern £8 - Performing the songs written by songstress Evelyn Gray (of Tapir!), ‘I Am Building A House’ portrays the state of abandoned rooms of a building due for demolition. With no clue what to expect, this project sees a group of powerful London-based performers joining forces to create what one can assume to be an experience of true emotional turmoil and passion. tickets
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___Child of Prague @ Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes £8 Omen Magazine - Dublin outfit Child of Prague are one of the many great bands coming out of Ireland as of late. Saxes and midwestern riffs are scattered around beautiful vocals. Part of Omen Magazine’s “New Idols” series, Child of Prague is a band to keep an eye on and catch early whilst you can. tickets
___BLACK FONDU @ Windmill Brixton £8 Knee Jerk - What better way to spend Valentine’s Day than listening to noisy, maximalist rap from Pindrop’s favourite BLACK FONDU? His bombastic, physical live performances, dotted with uncontrolled Gabba-esque dancing, enthral his audiences. Ultra exciting is the support which comes from a one-off gig by Emil-Lifting, the combination of emos I’m Sorry Emil and junglegaze duo Shoplifting after their 2025 split EP. tickets
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___Yellow Swans @ Corsica Studios £20 Upset The Rhythm - The return of Oregon’s psychedelic harsh noise duo Yellow Swans has been greatly anticipated. Reuniting in 2023 after a 15-year hiatus, gigs from these guys are few and far between. Droning, flickering distortion, with tape loops and live guitar fed through echoing soundscapes and pulsing rhythms. With one night already sold out, don’t miss out!. tickets
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___Another Country $$$$ @ Windmill Brixton £11.03 Spinny Nights X FORM - Manchester Based electronic duo Another Country grace the capital to celebrate the release of their new EP Moth. Mixing stuttered and warped vocals with live drums, it can be hard to predict where their songs will go but it’s always in the right direction. tickets
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___Long Distance Runner @ Dream Bags Jaguars Shoes £7 Too Bright To See - The final part of their month-long residency at East London’s Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes, Long Distance Runner bring their ambient post-rock instrumentals that are littered with satisfying tension and release. Joining them are London newcomers Maiden with their mix of shoegaze and dreampop. studio20 are also on the bill, whose sound is hard to put a label on: catchy songwriting, glitchy synths mixed with hints of hardcore and emo - you’re not gonna want to miss them. tickets
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by JR
SE
___Habit Of You by Arthur Russell (US, 2004)
___War by Jazz Lambaux (France, 2025)
___Paper Thin Motel by Leonard Cohen (Canada, 1977)
MLT
___No One Will Fuck Me When I Wear Two Different Shoes by The Femcels (UK, 2026)
___If I Was Your Girlfriend by Prince (US, 1987)
___Rock n Roll Star by Kero Kero Bonito (UK, 2017)
EM
___Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple (US, 2005)
___Preto Mídia by Nigeria Futebol Clube (Brazil, 2025)
___This Time Dad You're Wrong by Arthur Russell (US, 2004)
MGB
___Miss Misery by Elliott Smith (US, 1997)
___Bumper by Silkarmour (UK, 2025)
___Air Force (Alternative Version) by Worldpeace DMT and Rowan Please (UK, 2025)
Pindrop is JR, SE, GKA, EM, JK, MGB, MLT, & PM
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