ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC IN LONDON
ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC IN LONDON
Most Popular Alternative & Indie Music in London
Thu 28 Nov 2024 - Fri 21 Feb 2025
Sat 23 Nov - Fri 20 Dec 2024
Fri 4 Apr - Thu 1 May 2025
Kate Nash
Wednesday 9 April 2025
Kate Nash is a BRIT Award-winning London-born singer-songwriter, musician and actress known for her fearless approach to music and unapologetic storytelling. A platinum selling indie popartist with a career spanning over a decade, she ha...
Heather Nova
Wednesday 9 April 2025
Bermudian folk rock singer-songwriter and poet Heather Nova first hit the radio in 1994 when her breakthrough album "Oyster" charted worldwide and put her firmly on the indie pop map. Her cool, infectious songs, critically acclaimed albums...
Primal Scream
Thursday 10 April 2025
Primal Scream's career could in many ways be read as a microcosm of British indie rock in the '80s and '90s. Bobby Gillespie formed the band in the mid-'80s while drumming for noise-pop pioneers The Jesus and the Mary Chain. Primal Scream p...
Slowdive
Thursday 10 April 2025
Sonic pathfinding Reading shoegazers Slowdive are a band whose reach goes far beyond just influencing music. With tracks which are simultaneously expansive and direct, their stargazing alchemy helped their debut album"Just for a Day" (with...
The Zutons
Thursday 10 April 2025
Back together for their first album in 16 years, recorded with legendary songwriter and producer Nile Rodgers and the band's original producer, Ian Broudie, the multi-platinum selling Liverpool band scored nine UK Top 40 singles be,tween 2...
Peach Pit
Friday 11 April 2025
If friendship had a sound, it would be Peach Pit. The wistful grooves, glassy guitars, and sun-kissed melodies feel like they could only be made by musicians who have spent close to a lifetime (or at least half of their lives) together. ...
Jim Bob (Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine)
Saturday 12 April 2025
More topical than an episode of Newsnight, with songs about Putin, the Taliban and whoever "Billionaire in Space" is about, the album-chart smashing Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine's fiery frontman returns. It's not all doom and gloom ...
Father John Misty
Tuesday 15 April 2025
Internationally acclaimed, UK Top 10 charting indie folk star Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, sounds and acts a bit like solo-era John Lennon, Scott Walker, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, and Dory Previn, while taking more than a few cue...
Porches
Wednesday 16 April 2025
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Peter Hook & the Light
Friday 18 April 2025
The legendary Joy Division and New Order bassist performs New Order's "Get Ready" live and in full, plus an additional set of Joy Division and New Order's greatest hits. The Mancunian bass player, musician, singer, DJ, nightclub owner,...
Manic Street Preachers
Friday 18 - Saturday 19 April 2025
If ever a band seemed unlikely to become respected elder statesmen of alt rock, it's the Manics. When the Welsh quartet surfaced in the late '80s, they seemed more likely to quickly implode, especially with their promise to split up after o...
Manic Street Preachers
Friday 18 - Saturday 19 April 2025
If ever a band seemed unlikely to become respected elder statesmen of alt rock, it's the Manics. When the Welsh quartet surfaced in the late '80s, they seemed more likely to quickly implode, especially with their promise to split up after o...
JAWS
Thursday 24 April 2025
With their hook-laden, impressive and artful songs that have been featured in the unlikely cross section from Made In Chelsea, and Hollyoaks to Match Of The Day, and Rocksmith 2014 computer game, Birmingham dream pop prodigies JAWS displa...
Mxmtoon
Thursday 24 April 2025
The Oakland-born, Brooklyn based social media sensation delivers bedroom pop which she calls "rhyming diary entries": an off-the-cuff account of her most private thoughts and feelings, straight from her brightly lit brain. With her disarmin...
The Man From Delmonte
Friday 25 April 2025
After a 34 year hiatus, 1980s Manchester indie art pop favourites The Man from Delmonte return. One of best kept secrets of the "Madchester" era, they even boasted Inspiral Carpets and 808 State as support acts. Classically trained, they to...
The Flaming Lips
Saturday 26 April 2025
Celebrating the 20th anniverary of their tenth studio album the Oklahoma psychedelic rockers perform their UK Platinum-selling Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in full. Featuring the hit singles 'Do You Realize??', 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink...
Fat Dog
Saturday 26 April 2025
Described by the NME as "2023's wildest live band", South London indie act Fat Dog's music has been described as containing elements of dance, punk and klezmer. ...
Squid
Saturday 26 April 2025
Reaching no.4 in the UK album charts with their 2021 debut "Bright Green Field", Brighton 5-piece indie band Squid deliver towering scope and ambition that has seen them become loved by fans and critics alike, from BBC Radio 6 Music who h...
Charlie Cunningham
Saturday 26 April 2025
Charlie Cunningham has emerged as a truly under-the-radar success story. He has headlined London's iconic Queen Elizabeth Hall and has become a regular fixture in Europe's most prestigious concert halls. Splitting his time between piano and...
IAMX
Tuesday 29 April 2025
IAMX is the solo musical project of Middlesbrough-born Chris Corner after the hiatus of his former band Sneaker Pimps. With a focus on the experimentation of visual art, musically, IAMX spans across multiple genres ranging from electronic r...
Alice Phoebe Lou
Friday 2 May 2025
Indie folk artist Alice Phoebe Lou's fiercely independent approach to her music has given the singer songwriter a creative confidence that shines through in her captivating vocals and stripped back music. Born in South Africa and having dev...
Skegss
Friday 2 May 2025
Australian duo of Ben Reed (vocals, guitar) and Jonny Lani (drums) have enjoyed #1 albums on their homeland Australia ARIA Albums Chart. They bring a newly heightened creative energy to every aspect of their explosive yet introspective form...
China Crisis
Friday 2 May 2025
Eddie Lundon and Gary Daly are the founder members of the band which started in Kirkby, Merseyside back in 1979. China Crisis found major success in the UK with five Top 40 singles, ten Top 50 singles and three Top 40 albums and hits across...
Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer + Professor Elemental
Friday 2 May 2025
Safe As Milk Promotions presentsFollowing from their staggering sold out show in May 2024, we are thrilled to bits to announce the return of two of the country's most celebrated wordsmiths: Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer and Professor Elemental...
Aurora
Saturday 3 May 2025
Self-taught Norwegian electro-pop artist known for her melancholic music Singer-songwriter AURORA, full name Aurora Aksnes, was compelled to craft music from a young age. Shortly after she was born in Stavenger, Norway, her parents moved to...
The Pogues
Saturday 3 May 2025
Following the death of frontman Shane MacGowan in 2023, Celtic punk legends The Pogues return in 2025 for their first UK Tour since 2012 to celebrate 40 years of 'Rum Sodomy & the Lash'. Featuring James Fearnley, Jem Finer, Spider Stacy and...
Ian Prowse & Amsterdam
Saturday 3 May 2025
Amsterdam are a pop/rock group from Liverpool. Formed in 1999, they had their first UK Top 40 single with "The Journey" in February 2005. The current band members are Ian Prowse (vocals/guitar), Johnny Barlow (lead guitar), Tony Kiley (per...
Dan Sealey (Ocean Colour Scene & Merrymouth)
Saturday 3 May 2025
Dan started his career with folk rock band Ocean Colour Scene and toured the world, played headline slots at major festivals for over a decade and co-founded the band Merrymouth with Simon Fowler. Merrymouth featured award-winning musici...
Pet Needs
Saturday 3 May 2025
Colchester's PET NEEDS play fractured party music. With explosive live performances of singalong anti-anthems, they began smashing sets on stages throughout the UK, screaming stories of disastrous job interviews, self-destruction and headi...
Purple Hearts
Sunday 4 May 2025
Mod Legends Purple Hearts celebrate the 45th anniversary of their seminal debut LP 'Beat That!'. Purple Hearts were formed in 1978 after the demise of The Sockets, their previous band. The band's debut single 'Millions Like Us' hit the ...
Pet Needs
Sunday 4 May 2025
Colchester's PET NEEDS play fractured party music. With explosive live performances of singalong anti-anthems, they began smashing sets on stages throughout the UK, screaming stories of disastrous job interviews, self-destruction and headi...
Nap Eyes
Wednesday 7 May 2025
NAP EYES still bring to mind the bucolic ennui?of the?Silver Jews and Daniel Johnston?s jittery na?vet?, but the sheen and maturity they boast lends?a wide-angle appeal. Nap Eyes? metamorphic fifth long-player collects a cache of nine fasci...
