ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC IN LONDON
ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC IN LONDON
Most Popular Alternative & Indie Music in London
Sat 23 Nov - Fri 20 Dec 2024
Thu 28 Nov 2024 - Fri 21 Feb 2025
Panchiko
Saturday 29 March 2025
The Nottingham indie band formed in 1998 but, unsigned, soon disbanded. It was only after a 4chan user found one of just 30 self-produced copies of their emo/industrial/dream pop single D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L in an Oxfam charity store in...
The Hoosiers
Saturday 29 March 2025
The Hoosiers are an English pop rock band formed in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The band consists of members Irwin Sparkes (lead vocals, lead guitar) and Alan Sharland (drums, percussion, vocals). Their first single "Worried...
You Me At Six
Wednesday 2 April 2025
Rising out of the British alternative underground, Surrey rockers You Me At Six released their debut full-length album Take Off Your Colours in 2008 through Slam Dunk Records and Epitaph Records. Celebrating early chart success, it was 2010...
You Me At Six
Thursday 3 - Friday 4 April 2025
Rising out of the British alternative underground, Surrey rockers You Me At Six released their debut full-length album Take Off Your Colours in 2008 through Slam Dunk Records and Epitaph Records. Celebrating early chart success, it was 2010...
David Gray
Thursday 3 April 2025
Multi-platinum British singer-songwriter David Gray is hitting the road in 2020 to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of White Ladder, his fourth studio album which sold seven million copies. Not only did it propel him into the mainstream, b...
Badly Drawn Boy
Thursday 3 - Friday 4 April 2025
Dunstable-born, Bolton-raised, Manchester-living Mercury-prize winning folk rocker Damon Gough has always been one to wear his heart on his sleeve, and his truly personal and heartfelt catalogue of glorious, colourful warming, honest pop so...
Ocean Colour Scene
Friday 4 April - Thursday 1 May 2025
In their 30 years together, multi-Platinum selling Birmingham indie legends OCS have enjoyed five Top 10 albums, six Top 10 singles and a mantelpiece full of awards. But behind all the swagger and the style there are great songs, with words...
Goodbye Mr Mackenzie
Friday 4 April 2025
One of Scotland's most iconic rock bands Goodbye Mr Mackenzie have reformed following on from the success of their 30th anniversary shows celebrating their debut album "Good Deeds and Dirty Rags". 2020 saw the band release a career retrospe...
Proud Mary
Saturday 5 April 2025
Celebrating 20 years of their classic album "The Same Old Blues", Manchester band Proud Mary are very pleased to announce a series of special anniversary gigs, including an unmissable homecoming set on 24th September. The five-piece will be...
GBH
Saturday 5 April 2025
UK punk legends back at the New Cross Inn for another year.+ Supports TBA...
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...
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,...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Soccer Mommy
Thursday 8 May 2025
Quietly catchy and surprisingly confrontational. Soccer Mommy is the indie pop project of Sophie Allison, a wise beyond her years young Nashville native and musical wunderkind. Her songs, which have confronted toxic relationships and infat...
David Gray
Friday 9 - Saturday 10 May 2025
Multi-platinum British singer-songwriter David Gray is hitting the road in 2020 to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of White Ladder, his fourth studio album which sold seven million copies. Not only did it propel him into the mainstream, b...
Alabaster DePlume
Friday 9 May 2025
Mancunian jazz poet-performer Alabaster DePlume (a.k.a. Gus Fairbairn), who plays the saxophone out of the side of his mouth, is now known across the globe as the saxophonist who creates wonderful, wordless music, however back home he's mos...
Elvana - Elvis Fronted Nirvana
Saturday 10 May 2025
The world's finest Elvis fronted tribute to Nirvana! Elvana tear through Nirvana's catalogue whilst splicing in grunged up sections of the king of rock'n'roll's finest moments, culminating in an audible explosion of overdrive and old school...
