London’s Ultimate Music Calendar

OBL PRESENTS SOME UNMISSABLE BANDS, FOR 5 QUID, UPSTAIRS AT OURS.

It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual.

Communion ONE presents:

DIRTY THREE

Legendary independent New York-based rock label Equal Vision Records and Hail The Sun are excited to announce the release of cut. turn. fade. back., the brand new, highly-anticipated studio album from the acclaimed experimental California-based rock band (stream and purchase HERE).

Sam Eastmond - conductor/trumpet

- Chris Williams, Asha Parkinson, George Garford, Mick Foster - saxophones
- Noel Langley, Charlotte Keeffe - trumpet/flugelhorn
- Joel Knee - trombone
- Tom Briers - tuba
- Moss Freed - guitar
- Olly Chalk - paino
- Fergus Quill - bass
- Alasdair Pennington - drums

Following a sold-out show in 2024, we are excited to welcome back one of the most formidable live acts going, as Japan's Goat perform at the ICA this November.

MASTER BOOT RECORD (aka MBR) is a Computer Metal project founded in 2016 blending heavy metal with chiptune and demo scene music.

Love-Songs is a live band: drums, bass, and electronics interlock to create hypnotic, shimmering soundscapes.

Horse Lords were founded in Baltimore in 2010; they evolved from the experimental collective Teeth Mountain and began as a trio with drummer Sam Haberman, guitarist Owen Gardner, and bassist Max Eilbacher, soon adding alto saxophonist Andrew Bernstein to the core ensemble.

Obsidian rock is igneous, frequently dark, yet opaque. Hard edged and brittle, it’s often been used both for weaponry and alchemical pursuits.

Curated by Regan Bowering, the fifth event in the “space” series invites new work from international & London-based musicians and artists. Each event holds space for creative risk-taking and first-time collaborations spanning improvisation, composition & conceptually driven practices.

No further information available at time of listing.

MIRROR TV AND WEIRDBEARD PRESENT:

TOO MANY THINGS ARE Gloomy noise, politico-romantic psych by Marion Andrau and Jem Doulton. We are celebrating their tape release by Weirdbeard Records.

Club.The.Mammoth. presents:

Spike Hellis and

Special Live Guests TBC + DJs: Less Than Human, Evil Dust, Motion To Regret

Paris-based French-Iranian percussionist, composer and producer Cinna Peyghamy brings his experimental jazz to the Elgar Room as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival.

HOWL is a new experimental music and drawing series, exploring new works and free improvisations.

Maxine Funke is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most singular and internationally celebrated experimental artists.

Please note, this event will take place in a secret offsite location, two minutes walking distance from OTO. Please arrive at the venue before 14:30pm and we will walk to the event space together. Please wear waterproof clothes!

Join us for an afternoon with 3 sets in a special location close to OTO.

The Belgium based label and nomadic concerts organization KRAAK returns with a new artist showcase for Cafe OTO as part of a transcontinental collaboration with Infant Tree.

Robyn's Rocket with Laura Jurd, Little Kali and ATMoss with live visuals by Rucksack Cinema and Jade.

South London's premier new music night is back at The Ivy House with lottie + Viewfinder!

lottie (working title) is the new musical venture from lottie pendlebury aka goat girl. A completely new set of songs stemming from an ever developing experimental guitar led sound.

Flashback Presents exciting newcomers Vim bringing atmospheric, experimental electronica and Fu Yang serving up post-hardcore energy, melodic vocals and a sound that’s distinctly their own.

Drawing on his latest album, Movement, Gigi Masin presents a live work in which rhythm becomes architecture and sound becomes motion.

Baba Yaga's Hut present:

Ah! Kosmos & Hainbach + Sinemis at Vespers, November 19th. Gentle Hum is the second duo album by Berlin-based electronic music artists Ah! Kosmos and Hainbach.

Fragmented loops of sound shift and evolve in Jocelyn Campbell’s new work, lo-end. The unexpected combination of tuba (Nona Lawrence), double bass (Gwen Reed), and electronics (Campbell) shifts the ambient electronic genre into the analogue world.