The sharpest local route across Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 September sits in one Lewisham High Street garden. The Fox and Firkin has paired two daytime events that make sense together without blurring their identities: Mutya Buena heads Saturday’s pop-and-garage bill, while Sunday places Lloyd Coxsone, Haseeb Iqbal and Linnet Kamala on the decks. Each starts early enough to give the weekend a different pace from London’s usual late-night club circuit.[1][2]

This is a compact two-day guide with a clear musical hinge: voices, hooks and UK garage on Saturday; selectors, dub plates and sound-system culture on Sunday. The venue’s listings give both programmes long afternoon-to-evening spans, making them useful destinations for listeners who want a full session with a defined beginning and finish.[1][2]

Saturday 5 September: Mutya Buena, Sweet Female Attitude and Heartbreakers Club

Saturday’s 2pm Garden Stage event puts Mutya Buena at the centre of a bill that connects early-2000s British pop to garage’s emotional pull. Buena came to prominence in the original Sugababes line-up, whose catalogue included “Overload”, “Freak Like Me” and “Round Round”; her solo work also included “Real Girl” and the Groove Armada collaboration “Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control)”. That history gives the afternoon a strong songbook focus before any nostalgia becomes the whole story.[1][4]

Sweet Female Attitude join with a DJ set and live PA, according to the venue, bringing “Flowers” into the frame. Heartbreakers Club completes the programme. The combination is specific: a lead singer associated with a durable British pop catalogue, a garage touchstone, and a collective presentation built around shared records. The Fox and Firkin lists the event from 2pm until 9pm, so an early arrival offers the fullest view of that sequence.[1]

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Sunday 6 September: Lloyd Coxsone’s living archive

Sunday begins at 1pm with Haseeb Iqbal’s Studio Crumb hosting Lloyd Coxsone and Linnet Kamala. The Fox and Firkin identifies Coxsone as a pioneer of UK reggae sound-system culture and says his sets are associated with exclusive Jamaican dub plates. The afternoon’s central appeal lies in that direct line between record selection, local dance-floor practice and the music’s movement through London.[2]

Coxsone’s place in that story has unusual institutional weight. Hackney Museum records that Lloyd Blackford settled in south-west London in 1962, operated Sir Coxsone Outernational from 1965, and held residencies at the Roaring Twenties and performances at the Four Aces. Its account also credits him with producing Louisa Mark’s 1975 lovers’ rock recording “Caught You in a Lie”. Sunday therefore frames a present-tense DJ appearance through a long, tangible London lineage.[3]

Linnet Kamala brings another crucial dimension. The venue describes her as a DJ, artist, academic, community organiser and creative producer, while recognising her place among the first women to DJ on a sound system at Notting Hill Carnival. With Haseeb Iqbal anchoring the day, the bill reads as a conversation among selectors with different relationships to the culture and its public spaces.[2]

Making the two-day route work

For the complete pairing, begin at The Fox and Firkin on Saturday 5 September at 2pm for Mutya Buena, Sweet Female Attitude and Heartbreakers Club; return on Sunday 6 September at 1pm for Lloyd Coxsone, Haseeb Iqbal and Linnet Kamala. Saturday is listed at £15–£88, while Sunday is listed at £8–£12, with booking fees indicated on some Sunday ticket tiers.[1][2]

The Fox and Firkin is at 316 Lewisham High Street, SE13 6JZ. Treat these as daytime plans with room to settle in: Saturday is scheduled through 9pm and Sunday through 7.30pm. Recheck the official event pages before travelling for current ticket availability, entry information, timings and any programme changes.[1][2]

These concerts happened on 5–6 September 2026

The next dates at these venues: The Fox and Firkin

Sources

  1. Mutya Buena + Sweet Female Attitude + Heartbreakers Club — The Fox and Firkin
  2. Lloyd Coxsone, Haseeb Iqbal, Linnet Kamala — The Fox and Firkin
  3. Lloyd Coxsone — Hackney Museum
  4. Mutya Buena Biography — Universal Music Japan