[IMG: Finger On The Pulse] I love live music, which is why I used to produce a television show on the San Francisco bay area's music scene. Now that I'm in London, I look forward to exploring the music scene here and will be listing the London shows I am excited about seeing on this page. You can check out the list of San Francisco shows I went to from 2005-2007 to get a sense of my tastes.

Listings: TimeOut Last.fm(all) Last.fm(popular) DrownedInSound IndieLondonGigGuide TheWire WeGotTickets(London) Flavorpill Londonist ents24 SonicLiving LondonGigGuide LiveNation MeanFiddlerGuide ResonanceFM SortedTechnoEvents SeriousWorldMusic LondonNet VirtuallyAcoustic/OpenMic

Venues: 100Club 12BarClub 229Club 333 606Club 93FeetEast Ain'tNothingButTheBlues AmershamArms Astoria Astoria2 Barbican BardensBoudoir Barfly(Camden) BetseyTrotwood TheBigChill BlackGardenia BloomsburyBowlingLanes Borderline BrixtonAcademy BrixtonJamm BuffaloBar BullAndGate BullsHead BushHall CafeOto Cargo CellarDoor Coronet CorsicaStudios TheCrossKings Dingwalls DirtyWaterClub DublinCastle EarlsCourtExhibitionCentre ElectricBallroom Electrowerkz TheFly Forum TheFridge Garage Ginglik GoodShip Gramaphone TheGrosvenor HalfMoon HalfMoonPub HoxtonSquareBar ICA IndigoO2 IslingtonAcademy JazzAfterDark JazzCafe Koko LockTavern TheLuminaire TheMacbeth MadameJojo's Marquee Metro MinistryOfSound MonarchBar Monkeychews MontoWaterRats Nambucca TheNave NottingHillArtsClub O2 OldBlueLast PizzaExpress Proud PunkSoho PureGrooveRecords RhythmFactory Roadhouse RonnieScotts RoughTrade Roundhouse RoyalAlbertHall Scala ShepherdsBushEmpire TheSocial SohoRevueBar SouthbankCentre Spitz ULU TheUnderworld UnionChapel Vortex Wembley WhitechapelArtGallery WilmingtonArms Windmill Works(Kingston) AllVenuesAtLemonrock

Promoters/Theme Nights: AllTomorrow'sParties Artrocker ABadgeOfFriendship Be BetterWeirdThanDead ClubAC30 ClubFandango ComeDownAndMeetTheFolks CoronaryCrumpage DanceMagicDance DanceTillYouDie Durrr EatYourOwnEars ElectroAcousticClub FilthyFew GooniteClub Licks TheLocal MuchaMarcha MusicTouristBoard MyAutumnAlmanac NewSlangKingston NoSignal NonClassical NotInKansasAnymore PineappleFolk PowPowPow PushClub RiffsAndFragments Rockfort RockNRollCinema RoundOurGaff ShotByBothSides SickOfNature SoftestVoice SonicCathedral SoundCrash SoundUK SpiltMilk TapeThis Tantrums ThisIsMusicLondon ThisIsn'tForYou TweeAsF*** UpsetTheRhythm WeatherClub WhitechapelLateNights WhiteHeat WhiteLight

Tickets: WeGotTickets Gigantic TicketWeb SeeTickets CuriousGeneration TicketMaster ClubTickets ViewTickets StarGreen TicketLine KeithProwse LastMinute

Please let me know (email to sarahatfingeronthepulsedotorg) if you observe any errors in these listings or if you have a link for an artist/venue that I do not have a link for. Note that sometimes things change after I list a show, so always double check with the venue or artist's website that the info is correct:

October 2008

  • Friday, October 24, 2008: Blood Red Shoes @ Astoria 2. 10GBP, 7pm.
  • Thursday, October 16, 2008: Foals @ Brixton Academy. 15GBP, 7pm.
  • Sunday, October 5, 2008: Opening festivities @ Kings Place. 2.50GBP per show.

    September 2008

  • Wednesday, September 17, 2008: The Local presents Shearwater, Constantines @ Bush Hall. 7:30pm,
  • Friday, September 5, 2008: Lates presents jazz @ British Museum. 6:30pm, free.
  • Thursday, September 4, 2008: BBC Proms presents Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time @ Royal Albert Hall. 10pm, 5GBP.

    August 2008

  • Sunday, August 24, 2008: Retreat! presents Meursault, John Egdell @ The Scottish Scullery, St John.s Church Hall, Edinburgh. 3GBP, 8pm.
  • Friday, August 22, 2008: Edge Festival presents Midnight Juggernauts, Dollskabeat @ Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh. 8GBP, 8pm.
  • Friday, August 22, 2008: Edinburgh International Festival presents Pavel Haas Quartet performing Haas String Quartet No 3, Prokofiev Quartet No 1, and Janacek String Quartet No 2 @ The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. 11am, 7GBP-25GBP.
  • Monday, August 18, 2008: Anna Wendy Stevenson, Ewan McPherson @ National Museum of Scotland. 12:45pm, free.
  • Saturday, August 16, 2008: The Warlocks, The Koolaid Electric Company, The Falling Spikes @ The Duchess, York. 7:30pm, 8GBP.
  • Saturday, August 2, 2008: Club AC30 presents A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Working For A Nuclear Free City, Epic45 @ The Luminaire. 7:30pm, 6GBP.

    July 2008

  • Monday, July 14, 2008: Baba Yaga's Hut presents Parts And Labor, Screaming Tea Party, The International @ Corsica Studios. 7GBP, 7:30pm.
  • Saturday, July 12, 2008: Brainlove and La Route Du Rock present Laetitia Sadier, Poni Hoax, Adam Kesher Floukids DJs @ The Luminaire. 6GBP, 7:30pm.
  • Thursday, July 10, 2008: The Magnetic Fields, Darren Hanlon @ Cadogan Hall. 7:45, 22.50GBP.

    June 2008

  • Sunday, June 29, 2008: Why?, SJ Esau, My Sad Captains @ Madame Jojo's. 8GBP, 6:30pm.
  • Friday, June 27, 2008: Ethiopiques featuring Mahmoud Ahmed, Mulatu Astatqe Getatchew Mekurya, Alemayehu Eshete, Either Orchestra @ Barbican. 15-25GBP, 8pm.
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2008: Radiohead, Bat For Lashes @ Victoria Park. 42GBP, 4pm.
  • Thursday, June 19, 2008: BBC Singers conducted by Kaspars Putnins perform Rachmaninov's Liturgy of St John Chrysostom @ St Paul's Church. 7pm, free (but must have tickets).
  • Wednesday, June 18, 2008: Black Kids, Cut Off Your Hands, Collapsing Cities @ ULU. 10GBP, 7:30pm.
  • Tuesday, June 17, 2008: Liars, Deerhunter, High Places @ Koko. 13.50GBP, 7:00pm.
  • Sunday, June 15, 2008: London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink featuring Felicity Lott(soprano) perform Mozart Symphony No 25 in G minor, K183/K173db; Strauss Orchestral Songs; Strauss Ein Heldenleben @ Barbican. 6-30GBP, 7:30pm.
  • Thursday, June 12, 2008: The Mules, Micachu, Broadcast 2000 @ Hoxton Square Bar. 5GBP, 7:30pm.
  • Monday, June 9, 2008: The Sleeping Years, Sam Kills Two, Catriona Irving @ 12 Bar Club. 7:30pm, 6GBP.
  • Thursday, June 5, 2008: The Dusa Orchestra, Three Beards @ Cafe Oto. 8pm, 5GBP.
  • Monday, June 2, 2008: The Dodos, Magic Arm, Emit Bloch @ Hoxton Square Bar. 6.50GBP, 7:00pm.

    May 2008

  • Sunday, May 25, 2008: Eat Your Own Ears presents Adem, Laura Marling, Mechanical Bride @ Union Chapel. 11.50GBP, 7pm.
  • Thursday, May 22, 2008: Einsturzende Neubauten, Otto Von Schirach, White @ The Forum. 16.50GBP, 7pm.
  • Monday, May 19, 2008: The Most Serene Republic, The Ruby Suns @ Hoxton Square Bar. 7GBP, 7:00pm.
  • Sunday, May 18, 2008: [no.signal] presents Swedish Outsiders with Hans Appelqvist, Henrik Rylander, Joe Williamson, Phil Durrant, and David Stackenas, Wildbirds And Peacedrums, David Stackenas with Johan Berthling @ Cafe Oto. 6pm, 6GBP.
  • Thursday, May 15, 2008: Acoustic Ladyland, Fulborn Teversham, Normal Gimbel @ The Luminaire. 8pm, 10GBP.
  • Tuesday, May 13, 2008: Goodbye Faithful Kingdom! presents Buttonhead, Monroe Transfer, Bela Emerson @ The Macbeth. 8pm, 5GBP.
  • Monday, May 12, 2008: Too Pure Singles Club and White Heat present The Octopus Project, Kaputt, It Hugs Back @ Madame Jojo's. 7:30pm, 5GBP.
  • Saturday, May 10, 2008: Sonic Recycler presents Blevin Blectum, David Toop, Sean O'Hagan, Aleksander Kolkowski, Simon Bookish with DJs Laetitia Sadier, Iris Garrelfs @ Watermans. 8-10GBP, 4pm.
  • Thursday, May 8, 2008: A Place To Bury Stranges, Cheveu, The Pity Party @ The Legion. 8pm, 5GBP.
  • Sunday, May 4, 2008: Organ recital by Andrew Scott @ Westminster Abbey. Free, 5:45pm.
  • Thursday, May 1, 2008: New Slang presents Crystal Castles, James Yuill @ The Works. 5GBP, 9pm.

    April 2008

  • Sunday, April 27, 2008: Debussy and Dvorak performed by Skampa Quartet and @ Wigmore Hall. 11:30, 10GBP.
  • Friday, April 25, 2008: Eat Your Own Ears presents Metronomy, Junior Boys, Kelley Polar, Prinzhorn Dance School with DJ Morgan Geist @ Indigo O2. 7pm, 12.50GBP.
  • Wednesday, April 23, 2008: John & Jehn, Joe Gideon & The Shark, Duke Garwood @ The Luminaire. 8pm, 5GBP.
  • Friday, April 11, 2008: Twee As F*** presents Fanfarlo, A Classic Education, Hong Kong In The 60s @ Buffalo Bar. 5GBP adv, 6GBP door, 9pm.
  • Thursday, April 10, 2008: Shout Out Louds, The Brunettes @ Bush Hall. 7:30pm, 9.50GBP.
  • Wednesday, April 9, 2008: Clinic, Threatmantics @ 229. 7:30pm, 10GBP.
  • Sunday, April 6, 2008: The Low Lows, Simon Breed, Johnny Parry Trio, Show Without Punch, Laura Sings Liver, Urb Scrunting @ Windmill. 5pm, 5GBP (includes free BBQ!)
  • Saturday, April 5, 2008: Drowned In Sound presents Broken Records, Vessels, Fireworks Night @ Notting Hill Arts Club. Free. 4pm.
  • Wednesday, April 2, 2008: The Artic Cirlce presents Efterklang, Our Broken Garden, Wildbirds And Peacedrums @ Queen Elizabeth Hall. 7:30pm, 12.50 GBP.

    March 2008

  • Sunday, March 30, 2008: London Jazz Orchestra @ Vortex. 8:45pm, 8GBP.
  • Thursday, March 27, 2008: Fife Kills presents Leafcutter John, Rob St John, Tisso Lake, The Wee Rogue @ The Nave. 7:30pm, 7GBP.
  • Tuesday, March 25, 2008: White Heat presents Slow Club, Jonquil, House Of Brothers @ Madame Jojo's. 8pm, 5GBP.
  • Tuesday, March 18, 2008: Artrocker presents Bretton, Fury Of The Headteachers, Model Horror, Lawrence Wasser @ Buffalo Bar. 8:30pm, free for registered members (see Artrocker website), 5GBP otherwise.
  • Wednesday, March 12, 2008: Fryars @ Soho Revue Bar. 7:30, 7GBP.
  • Saturday, March 8, 2008: The Oscillation, Kelpe @ Gramaphone. 9pm, 5GBP.
  • Tuesday, March 4, 2008: Electroacoustic Club presents Anton Barbeau, Christian Silva, Half Wolf Half Crow, Snakey Brown @ The Slaughtered Lamb. 5GBP, 8pm.
  • Sunday, March 2, 2008: This Is Music London presents Frightened Rabbit, Kyte, My Sad Captains, DJ-Luke @ The Macbeth. 8pm, 5GBP.

    February 2008

  • Tuesday, February 26, 2008: Band Of Horses, Sons And Daughters, MGMT @ Koko. 13.60GBP, 7:30pm.
  • Friday, February 22, 2008: Portico Quartet, Basquiat Strings @ Union Chapel. 12.50 GBP, 7pm.
  • Monday, February 18, 2008: Pete And The Pirates @ Rough Trade East. 6:30pm, Free (must RSVP).
  • Sunday, February 17, 2008: Hatcham Social, Neils Children, Electricity In Our Homes, S.C.U.M. @ 100 Club. 4GBP, 7:30pm.
  • Wednesday, February 13, 2008: Hilary Hahn @ Cadogan Hall. 7:30pm, 12-25GBP.
  • Monday, February 11, 2008: Stolen Recordings present Let's Wrestle, Hot Silk Pockets, Mathew Sawyer And the Ghosts with DJS Legal Tender, J.P. Buckle @ Old Blue Last. 8pm, 5GBP.
  • Tuesday, February 5, 2008: Art Brut (with String Section), A.Human @ ULU. 11GBP. 7:30pm.
  • Saturday, February 2, 2008: Drowned In Sound presents Munch Munch, Elle s'appelle, One More Grain @ Notting Hill Arts Club. Free. 4pm.

    January 2008

  • Monday, January 28, 2008: Rasputina, Ray-On, Beyond Fathomability @ Windmill. 5GBP, 8pm.
  • Sunday, January 27, 2008: Turns Tables presents Statuesque, The Open Mouths @ The Albany Pub. Free, 6pm.
  • Friday, January 25, 2008: Merz, Jacob Golden @ Roundhouse. 9.50GBP, 7pm.
  • Thursday, January 17, 2008: Television Personalities, Middleman, The Outside Royalty, Bo Pepper, Milk Kan @ Rhythm Factory. 7GBP, 8pm.
  • Saturday, January 12, 2008: Be Preparded presents Crevecoeur, Mcwatt, For Barry Ray, Teeth Of The Sea @ The Grosvenor. 5GBP, 8pm.
  • Friday, January 11, 2008: Tantrums presents Tom Hatred And The Angryband, Josh Weller, Young Husband, Cat Nickless @ Enterprise. 5GBP adv, 7pm.
  • Wednesday, January 9, 2008: The Train Chronicles, Dev Hynes, Sam Sallon, Sir Yes Sir @ Bardens Boudoir. Free, 8pm.

    December 2007

  • Saturday, December 22, 2007: Blues Dragon @ Unicorn. Free, 9pm.
  • Friday, December 21, 2007: Patrick Wolf @ Shepards Bush Empire. 15GBP, 7pm.
  • Thursday, December 20, 2007: M.I.A., Santogold, Radioclit, Esau Mwamwaya @ Coronet. 12GBP, 7pm.
  • Monday, December 10, 2007: Okkervil River, Jaymay, AA Bondy @ The Luminaire. 8.50 GBP, 7:30pm.
  • Sunday, December 9, 2007: Blue Flowers presents The Pan I Am, Jock Scot, Patrick Wolf, Charlie Waller, Polarbear, Barnaby Tidman, Johnny Flynn @ Lyric. 10-12GBP, 6:30pm.
  • Saturday, December 8, 2007: Pineapple Folk Yuletide Gathering featuring Micah P. Hinson, The Mountain Goats, Alasdair Roberts, Emmy The Great @ Union Chapel. 16GBP, 6:30pm.
  • Saturday, December 1, 2007: The Dazzle Christmas Party featuring White Rose Movement, Ulterior, Ipso Facto, Selfish C**t + DJs @ Tufnell Park Dome. 8GBP, 8pm.

    November 2007

  • Friday, November 30, 2007: Weather Club presents Yeasayer, Rum Shebeen, Battant, with DJs The Slutty Oysters, Bolt Action Five, Team Stripe, Kat! Heath!, Brian May Cabaret @ 93 Feet East. 7pm doors, 8:30pm bands, 3-5 GBP.
  • Friday, November 23, 2007: Frightened Rabbit, Ahab, Yeah Sparrow @ Windmill. 8pm, 5GBP.
  • Thursday, November 22, 2007: Pinback, The Dudley Corporation, Youth Movies @ 229. 7:30pm, 10GBP.
  • Friday, November 16, 2007: Soundcrash presents the Big Dada 10th Anniversary with Roots Manuva, Diplo, Cadence Weapon, Jammer and Logan and many others @ Electrowerkz. 9pm - 6am, 13 GBP.
  • Thursday, November 15, 2007: The Clod Ensemble presents Fantastic Voyage @ Wellcome Collection. Free, but must RSVP. 8pm.
  • Saturday, November 10, 2007: Jose Vanders @ Pure Grove Records. Free, 4pm.
  • Tuesday, November 6, 2007: Club AC30 presents Ulrich Schnauss, manual, Rumskib @ Hoxton Square Bar. 10GBP, 7:30pm.

    October 2007

  • Tuesday, October 30, 2007: Gravenhurst, War Against Sleep, Reigns @ The Luminaire. 9 GBP adv, 10 GBP door, 7:30pm.
  • Wednesday, October 24, 2007: Club AC30 presents Asobi Seksu, Air Formation, Kontakte @ The Luminaire. 7 GBP adv, 8 GBP door.
  • Saturday, October 20, 2007: How Does It Feel? @ Phoenix. 9pm, 4GBP members, 6GBP non-members. Membership free, see website.
  • Saturday, October 20, 2007: Bloomsbury Festival presents Hanne Hukkelberg, Elysian Quartet with Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard (of Hot Chip) @ Brunswick Square. Free. 4:30pm.
  • I'm in Zurich from October 7 - 14:
        Saturday, October 13, 2007: C. Gibbs / Lucinda Black Bear @ Helsinki Klub. 9:30pm, 13CHF.
        Friday, October 12, 2007: Onur Ozer, Don Ramon, Afronaut @ Hive. 25CHF, 11pm.
        Wednesday, October 10, 2007: Jazz Barage @ Mehrspur. 9pm, free.
  • Wednesday, October 3, 2007: iLiKETRAiNS, Sennen, Lisa Lindley-Jones @ Scala. 8.50 GBP adv, 7:30pm.

    September 2007

  • I'm in San Francisco from September 15 - 30:
        Saturday, September 29, 2007: Bye Bye Blackbirds, Statuesque, The Family Arsenal @ Starry Plough. Free, 9pm.
        Saturday, September 22, 2007: Opera San Jose presents Lucia di Lammermoor @ California Theatre. 8pm.
        Monday, September 17, 2007: Film School, The Blacks @ Hemlock Tavern. 8:00pm, $8, 21+.
  • Wednesday, September 12, 2007: Vanishing Point presents Subway @ Lyric. 7GBP, 7:30pm.
  • Thursday, September 6, 2007: Tilly and the Wall, The Teenagers, Lightspeed Champion, Slow Club @ Electric Ballroom. 14 GBP, 7:30pm.

    August 2007

  • Friday, August 31, 2007: Devon Sproule, Chris Garneau @ The Luminaire. 6 GBP adv, 7 GBP door. 7:30pm.
  • Friday, August 24, 2007: The Twilight Sad, Revenge Of Shinobi, Adrian Crowley @ Whitechapel Art Gallery. Doors 7pm, show 8:30pm, 6 GBP.
  • Thursday, August 16, 2007: Godwits, Vinny Vinny @ Hoxton Square Bar. 8pm, 6 GBP, 3 GBP by contacting the promoter.
    Sarah Gordon, sarahatfingeronthepulsedotorg, www.fingeronthepulse.org