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London concert guides
Reported picks, venue stories and scene guides connected to the London concert calendar.
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Three nights of dance-music memory at Jazz Cafe
A rediscovered Ghanaian cassette, a London-born Ghanaian selector and a foundational New York house duo make a compact Camden route for the final full weekend of August.
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KOKO’s three-night turn: Eartheater, Paco Osuna and Mustard
A compact Camden run gives three very different readings of electronic music, beginning with Eartheater’s live set and closing with Mustard’s late-night session.
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Fabric’s Bank Holiday weekend: amapiano, Skream and the Appetite after-hours route
The Clerkenwell club’s upcoming Bank Holiday run draws a firm line through three different dance-floor communities: Piano People on Friday, then two Appetite afterparties across a.
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The club prelude to Carnival: Supa D and the London house continuum
Soca, bashment, R&B and hip-hop open Friday; a returning cast of UK funky, house and Afro-influenced selectors carries the thread into Sunday.
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A late-summer route through the Royal Vauxhall Tavern and Dalston Superstore
From Vauxhall’s historic stage to Dalston’s upstairs-bar-and-basement rhythm, these documented dates offer a focused way into two key queer venues.
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Free-improvisation lineages meet at Cafe OTO in August 2026
Two established circles of improvisers bring deep collaborative histories, changing combinations and a rare consecutive-night format to Dalston.
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Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn return to MOTH Club for three September nights
A 200-capacity former servicemen’s club on Valette Street sets the scale for a close-range run by two of British pop’s most enduring songwriters.
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Union Chapel in late summer: Roger Eno, John Scofield and Devin Townsend in a room built to be heard
A quiet piano-led evening, a jazz quartet and a solo heavy-music figure arrive at Islington’s working Grade I listed chapel, where the room remains an active part of every show.
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