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MPTL MICROPLASTICS
One of the most active bands in the UK live music circuit, MPTL Microplastics is a sprawling industrial folk collective building a reputation for their unhinged live shows that pack small pub stages to the absolute bursting point. This is one of their shows at the Windmill Brixton.
WINDMILL BRIXTON · London · 01.04.2026
One of the most active bands in the UK live music circuit, MPTL Microplastics (aka My Pussy Tastes Like Microplastics) is a sprawling industrial folk collective building a reputation for their unhinged live shows that pack small pub stages to the absolute bursting point - my friend Antonio wont stop trying to convince me to go every single one of them.
They released their debut full-length studio album, “Sod In Heaven”, in early 2026. I heard them being compared to the Virgin Prunes.
Music | MPTL Microplastics
CROWDS (AT MPTL Microplastics)
A night at the Windmill Brixton watching MPTL Microplastics play. A youthful audience in a fever state, taking in every second. I love capturing the expressions of joy from a crowd deep in it - even, and sometimes BECAUSE, they come out as a chaotic blur
WINDMILL BRIXTON · London · 01.04.2026
A night at the Windmill Brixton watching MPTL Microplastics play. A youthful audience in a fever state, taking in every second. I love capturing the expressions of joy from a crowd deep in it - even, and sometimes because, they come out as a chaotic blur.
Music | MPTL Microplastics
JEANIE AND THE WHITE BOYS
Jeanie and the White Boys bring chaotic punk energy to SPIT at Dalston Superstore, London, photographed on 29 January 2026.
SPIT at DALSTON SUPERSTORE · London · 29.01.2026
Jeanie and the White Boys playing at queercore party SPIT at Dalston Superstore’s basement. Jeanie Crystal is an impossible to ignore chaotic whirlwind of energy and trashy, punk aggression.
Music | Jeanie & The White Boys
SPIT JANUARY 2026
“Punk for benders”, a party of queercore live music and clubbing at Dalston Superstore in London. January 2026 edition, photos of party goers.
DALSTON SUPERSTORE · London · 29.01.2026
“Punk for benders”, a party of queercore live music and clubbing I’ve been going to. Never disappoints. I love the gigs and the crowds there - not your usual club goers at DSS, and they are my focus here.
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SKINTERN
Menacing and transgressive Skintern, a rising four-piece band from London making a name for themselves in the extreme music underground - here playing an intense set at queercore party SPIT.
SPIT at DALSTON SUPERSTORE · London · 29.01.2026
Menacing and transgressive Skintern, a rising four-piece band from London making a name for themselves in the extreme music underground - here playing an intense set at queercore party SPIT. Psychological distress, true-crime and subculture narratives permeate their 2026 debut cassette, FREE USE.
Music | Skintern
HILARY WOODS (WITH GABRIEL FERRANDINI)
Sold out show at Cafe OTO mark the launch of “Night CRIÚ”. A very silent, very dark room in what felt more like a ghostly religious service. Beautiful. Gabriel Ferrandini on percussion and drums.
CAFE OTO · London · 08.01.2026
Sold out show at Cafe OTO mark the launch of “Night CRIÚ”. A very silent, very dark room in what felt more like a ghostly religious service. Beautiful.
Hilary played with Oliver Turvey (violin and electronics) and Gabriel Ferrandini (percussion and drums). Gabriel’s excellent career I already knew from Lisbon.
Music | Hilary Woods
VAIAPRAIA
Vaiapraia’s end of the year (2025) performance at ZdB in Lisbon - as usual with an ecstatic crowd of die-hard fans singing every single word of every single song.
GALERIA ZÉ DOS BOIS · Lisbon · 27.12.2025
I don’t think there has been, for many many years, a better song writer, lyricist and live performer in Portugal than Rodrigo Vaiapraia. This is the band’s end of the year performance at ZdB in Lisbon - as usual with an ecstatic crowd of die-hard fans singing every single word of every single song. It’s like going to church.
Music | Vaiapraia
CLEAR CHANNEL + VAIAPRAIA
A glowing disco-punk performance from Washington DC’s Clear Channel’s at The Horse Hospital, in London. One of my favourite gigs of 2025. Vaiapraia played an acoustic set.
THE HORSE HOSPITAL · London · 24.11.2025
My main goal was to go to another Vaiapraia gig, but I was floored by Clear Channel’s performance (recommended by Rodrigo Vaiapraia), even if they played without their drummer and had to improvise. A radiant, fiercely political disco-punk duo from the Washington DC’s underground scene. Pure danceable unadulterated joy as a revolutionary tool. One of my favourite gigs, and albums, of 2025 (“Public Access” is actually from 2024 but counts as favourite albums I listened on repeat in 25).
Rodrigo included a snippet of my absolute favourite song from Vaiapraia, “Rapaz #1” in a medley of this acoustic show. It’s very rare that this song gets played on his live sets, so all in all a great evening!
F*SLUR
F*SLUR, a campy four-piece queer punk/glam rock band from East London, fronted by energetic and charismatic Kurtis Lincoln, in a proper live performance at the queercore SPIT party!a
SPIT at DALSTON SUPERSTORE · London · 01.10.2025
Campy four-piece queer punk/glam rock band born out of the East London underground scene, fronted by energetic, charismatic and camera-hungry Kurtis Lincoln, with Jordan Hearns (from SMUT Press) on drums. It’s like a queer/glam version of earlier Red Hot Chili Peppers? Thumbs up for this proper live performance at the queercore SPIT party!
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BEAUTIFY JUNKYARDS
This show served as the official launch night for acclaimed Lisbon’s Beautify Junkyard’s 2025 UK Tour to promote their highly acclaimed fifth studio album, “NOVA”, released via Ghost Box Records. Stellar evening with friends.
THE WAITING ROOM · London · 19.09.2025
This show served as the official launch night for acclaimed Lisbon’s Beautify Junkyard’s 2025 UK Tour to promote their highly acclaimed fifth studio album, “NOVA”, released via Ghost Box Records. Stellar evening with friends.
Music | beautify junkyards
BABA YAGA’s HUT: 19TH ANNIVERSARY
A full day of music and friends in celebration of the 19th anniversary of the most relevant driving force of underground live music in London: the promoter Baba Yaga’s Hut.
NUMBER 90 · London · 26.07.2025
A full day of music and friends in celebration of the 19th anniversary of the most relevant driving force of underground live music in London: the promoter Baba Yaga’s Hut (I still miss their Raw Power festival).
Line up:
Part Chimp
Sly & The Family Drone
Michael
Rainbow Grave
Moist Crevice
Barbican Estate
Haress
Dawn Terry
Spirit Data
Wayne Adams
DJ Proteus
2rana 3crana
Teeth Of The Sea (DJ Set)
Baba Yaga's Hut
Michael
Michael
Rainbow Grave (below: Rainbow Grave and Part Chimp)
Dawn Terry
2rana 3crana (below: Moist Crevice and Barbican Estate)
Haress
GUITAR WOLF
Guitar Wolf are legendary for their live performances and they did not disappoint. Absolut raucous, chaotic, drunken, over the top show with buckets of sweat and unreasonably loud amps from these three piece Japanese garage-punk samurais.
NEW CROSS INN · London · 11.07.2025
Guitar Wolf are legendary for their live performances and they did not disappoint. Absolut raucous, chaotic, drunken, over the top show with buckets of sweat and unreasonably loud amps from these three piece Japanese garage-punk samurais.
Music | Guitar Wolf ギターウルフ
BAD BREEDING
The uncompromising Bad Breeding playing a release show for their EP “Blood Manifest”. Intense, in your face, vital British punk rage.
THE LEXINGTON · London · 27.03.2025
The uncompromising Bad Breeding playing a release show for their EP “Blood Manifest”. Intense, in your face, vital British punk rage. Chris Dodd is one hell of a front man!
Music | Bad Breeding
RADON + DONNA CANDY
Antifascist feminist blackened-doom trio from Switzerland, Radon; and noise rock masters Donna Candy performing at the New River Studios in London.
NEW RIVER STUDIOS · London · 28.02.2025
I came for noise-rock masters Donna Candy, which I had seen before also at the New River Studios and blew my mind then, but this evening my stand out was antifascist feminist blackened-doom trio from Switzerland, Radon: WOW. This was the most excited I’ve been about a new metal band in quite a while. A cathartic, sludgy performance that stayed on my mind long after the show - probably my 2025 favourite. I’m counting the days to see them back in the UK.
Music | Radon
Music | Donna Candy
Radon
Donna Candy
MERMAID CHUNKY
Mermaid Chunky’s immersive Lipstick Party at Hackney Baths, London, photographed on 14 February 2025.
THE BATHS · London · 14.02.2025
The audiovisual art-pop duo Mermaid Chunky hosted their live “Lipstick Party” event at Hackney Baths in celebration of Valentine’s Day, with their unique mash-up of medieval folk, house, electronic trance, and psych-pop. A wild immersive show feeling both like a house party and carnival, and was one of my favourite gigs of 2025.
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DUVET
Duvet was a five-piece band from Manchester’s DIY scene playing harsh post-punk. Here playing at The George Tavern, London.
THE GEORGE TAVERN · London · 18.01.2025
Duvet was a five-piece band from Manchester’s DIY scene playing harsh post-punk. I say was, because they have since retired. Their music is still available though, so check link below.
Music | DUVET
RETROPXSSY
Retropxssy, independent, genre-blurring singer, rapper, producer and skater, giving another of her captivating, engaging, high-energy display of both menace and vulnerability shows, here at The Post, in London.
THE POST · London · 24.10.2024
Eleanor, aka Retropxssy, is hands-down one of the best live performers I’ve seen in a long time, one woman taking up the whole stage.
An independent, genre-blurring singer, rapper, and producer shaped by Tumblr-era internet subcultures, she’s tightly embedded within the London underground arts and skate scenes and is playing as much as she can, and getting new songs out there on a regular basis.
I’ve been going to several of her shows and it’s always a captivating, engaging, high-energy display of both menace and vulnerability. And with the songs to back it up.
Music | retropxssy
JOYCE
Joyce, titan of Brazilian music and one of the finest female singer-songwriters of her generation, performing at The Jazz Cafe in London.
THE JAZZ CAFE · London · 08.09.2024
Joyce is a titan of Brazilian music and one of the finest female singer-songwriters of her generation. She has been as popular as ever especially in recent years among the Brazilian music loving audiophile part intelligentsia, thanks in part to the “rediscovery” of her feminist anthem “Feminina” and the release of “Natureza”, with the backing of ever present tastemaker Gilles Peterson. So it’s not surprising to see her perform at The Jazz Cafe. I really enjoyed the music and the intimacy - she was recovering from a severe cold but did it anyway, and I’m glad she did.
Music | Joyce Moreno
