For Thursday 5 November and Friday 6 November, a particularly coherent route runs through three East London rooms whose bills treat electronic music as a flexible working method. Actress, KMRU and Joy Guidry bring a festival-scale, cross-disciplinary programme to EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney); Lido Pimienta carries Afro-Indigenous rhythm, pop form and electronic production into Village Underground; then Cafe OTO moves further out, with Flora Yin Wong and Jerzy Mączyński heading an Accidental Meetings and Meakusma evening of electronics, improvisation and sound-system-minded detail. The thread is movement between club pressure, composed song and open-ended texture. It is a useful way to hear how expansive the city’s November calendar can become across two nights.[1][4][6]

Start at EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney) on Thursday at 7.30pm for Actress, KMRU and Joy Guidry, a bill presented within Pitchfork Music Festival London. Actress arrives shortly after Radical Frame, released in September: Ninja Tune frames the record through broken-down fragments, tightly cropped sound, and refracted dancefloor energy. That gives the headline set an immediate contemporary context without dictating its shape onstage. KMRU’s inclusion adds a practice associated with experimental electronic and classical music, while Guidry’s bassoon-led work has travelled between ambient, free-jazz and gospel vocabularies. The result is a three-artist programme built around distinct approaches to electronic sound, set inside EartH’s theatre space.[1][2][3]

Lido Pimienta at Village Underground, also Thursday at 7.30pm, brings a different kind of scale: songs whose materials draw together cumbia, electropop, dembow and chamber-music thinking. Her official biography places the Barranquilla-born, Toronto-based artist’s work in dialogue with Afro-Indigenous rhythms from Colombia and a DIY punk sensibility, while her 2026 album Caribenya extends that outward-looking approach. AMORE and Ms Ray round out the Village Underground bill, also part of Pitchfork Music Festival London. This is the night’s clearest entry point for listeners wanting vocal music and rhythmic lift alongside the wider experimental framing of the week.[1][4][5]

Lido Pimienta at Village Underground

Village Underground’s event page lists Pimienta with AMORE and Ms Ray from 7.30pm to 11pm, placing the show in a concise early-evening slot. Pimienta’s catalogue makes the pairing of Latin and electronic tags feel practical and grounded: her own account of Miss Colombia names cumbia, electropop, dembow and chamber music among its materials, while Caribenya follows the classically oriented La Belleza. For a Thursday route, that makes this a natural companion to Actress’s abstract electronic work: both bills sit within the same citywide festival, yet they reach the room through sharply different musical languages.[1][4][5]

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Flora Yin Wong and Jerzy Mączyński at Café OTO

On Friday at 7.30pm, Cafe OTO hosts Accidental Meetings and Meakusma’s dense six-part programme, led by Flora Yin Wong and Jerzy Mączyński and including Ibrahim Alfa Jnr, opo, Elijah Minnelli, plus i-sha and Meakusma on DJ duties. Cafe OTO describes Yin Wong as a label founder, artist and writer whose releases connect Modern Love, PAN and INA GRM, including a residency for the Paris institute’s 48-channel diffusion system. Mączyński, meanwhile, brings jazz training into a catalogue Cafe OTO characterises through kosmische music, prog, industrial techno and twentieth-century minimalism. Their pairing is the guide’s most direct encounter with formal experiment, though the full programme keeps changing the frame around them.[6]

The supporting cast makes Friday’s event feel less like a conventional headline concert and closer to a carefully sequenced listening environment. Cafe OTO identifies Ibrahim Alfa Jnr as a British-Nigerian producer and label founder shaped by minimalism, acid house and Detroit techno; opo’s practice centres sound, images, DIY technology, improvisation and collaboration; Meakusma works across a label, festival and radio broadcasts with an emphasis on experimental, electronic and improvised music. Those details make the event’s range concrete: separate lineages share a room, from electronic composition to saxophone-led genre collision, dub-informed bass focus and Afroelectronic experimentation.[6]

Plan the two-night route

Actress, KMRU and Joy Guidry begin at 7.30pm on Thursday 5 November at EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney). Lido Pimienta, AMORE and Ms Ray begin at 7.30pm the same evening at Village Underground. Flora Yin Wong and Jerzy Mączyński’s Cafe OTO programme begins at 7.30pm on Friday 6 November. Choose one Thursday room, then use Friday for the deeper ensemble bill at Cafe OTO. Recheck each venue’s official event page before travelling for tickets, entry requirements, accessibility information and any changeable running details.[1][2][4][6]

These concerts happened on 5–6 November 2026

The next dates at these venues: EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney) · Village Underground · Cafe OTO

Sources

  1. Pitchfork Festival London Adds More Names for 2026 — Pitchfork
  2. Actress + KMRU + Joy Guidry — EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney)
  3. Radical Frame — Ninja Tune
  4. Lido Pimienta + AMORE + Ms Ray in London at Village Underground — Village Underground
  5. About Lido Pimienta — Lido Pimienta
  6. Cafe OTO: Accidental Meetings & Meakusma present: Flora Yin Wong & Jerzy Maczynski + Ibrahim Alfa Jnr + opo + Elijah Minnelli + i-sha & Meakusma (DJ) — Cafe OTO