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Live Gigs in London
1378 upcoming grass-roots gigs at indie venues, basement bars and community stages in London. Browse, filter, submit your own.
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Grass-Roots Gigs in London
London has a busy grass-roots circuit — small-venue shows, basement bars, residencies and one-off promoter nights, and you can see what’s on in London over the next four weeks. The directory below pulls every upcoming bill published on GigXchange for London: dates, doors, ticket links and venue details, sorted by date.
Looking for related London pages? Browse the London live music hub, London open mic nights for recurring weekly nights, the how to get gigs in London guide, or find a band in London. Or jump to nearby UK cities: Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham.
What’s on in London this week — or see what’s on across the UK.
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House Gospel Choir
Soul Mama Islington·St Mary's & St James', London
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Belle Livingstone's 58th Street Country Club
Belle Livingstone's 58th Street Country Club·Rye Lane, London
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Valley Events: FREE THE ART
The Star Shoreditch·Hoxton West, London
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Allegaeon, Gorod
Underworld, London
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- GenreMetal
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Unnatural Order
New Cross Inn, London
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Sambroso All Stars
Soul Mama Islington, London
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Billy Ocean
Millennium Forum, London
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- GenreSoul, R&B
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COLORS: Tones of London, Sparklmami, Saint Demarcus
Outernet Live·Holborn & Covent Garden, London
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- GenreRock, Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
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COLORS: Tones of London, Sparklmami, Saint Demarcus
HERE at Outernet·Holborn & Covent Garden, London
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Cleiton Rasta, Victor Cena
Blues Kitchen, Brixton·Brixton Acre Lane, London
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Vortex Jam Session
Vortex Jazz Club·Dalston, London
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Erode
Old Blue Last·Hoxton East & Shoreditch, London
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Noah Hill, Tennyson Nobel
The Lower Third·Holborn & Covent Garden, London
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Mulaa Joans
Village Underground·Hoxton East & Shoreditch, London
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Estelle Kokot Remembered
Vortex Jazz Club·Dalston, London
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Bulldoze
New Cross Inn·Deptford, London
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Belle Livingstone's 58th Street Country Club
Belle Livingstone's 58th Street Country Club·Rye Lane, London
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Primal Scream
HERE at Outernet, London
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Sam Smith, Taylor Bleu
London Coliseum·St James's, London
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Primal Scream
Outernet Live·Holborn & Covent Garden, London
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Sam Smith
London Coliseum·St James's, London
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Lusaint
London Oslo·Hackney Central, London
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Jane McDonald
The London Palladium, London
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Van Morrison Alumni Band
Emerald Theatre, London
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London Gig Directory FAQs
Common questions about grass-roots gigs in London, answered with live data.
The What’s On in London page narrows this directory to the next four weeks — 144 of them are in the next 7 days — with the same date, entry and ticket filters, plus the London venues and open mic nights alongside. This page stays the evergreen listing of all 1378 upcoming gigs.
1378 upcoming gigs listed for London. 144 are this week. Sorted by date — earliest first.
None of the listed London gigs have free entry. Most are pay-on-the-door or pre-sold tickets.
A UK gig at an independent venue — typically capped under 600 capacity — by an artist who isn't on a major-label arena tour. In: pubs, basement bars, indie clubs, community halls, arts centres, and small folk / jazz / punk festivals. Out: arenas, stadiums, the O2 chain, Royal Albert Hall, Symphony Hall, the Barbican, premium dining-cabaret rooms (Jazz Cafe, KOKO, Boisdale), and mega-festival sites (Reading, Leeds, Glastonbury, BST Hyde Park). Major-artist 'World Tour' / 'Arena Tour' / 'Greatest Hits' shows are also excluded — this directory is for the early-career bands, local promoter nights and Tuesday-evening residencies the bigger aggregators tend to miss.
Promoters, venues and artists can submit gigs free via the submission form. Submissions are reviewed and verified within 48 hours before going live.
For recurring weekly slots, see the London open mic directory. For the wider live-music scene, the London live music hub. For artist booking advice, how to get gigs in London. Venue looking for a band? find a band in London shows available acts. Or browse the main UK gig directory.
Listings are compiled from public ticketing-platform APIs and direct submissions by promoters, venues and artists. Each listing carries a verification badge — verified means we've confirmed it independently; unverified means we sourced it from a publicly published event. For UK grassroots-venue context see the Music Venue Trust (industry body), PRS for Music (UK licensing) and Help Musicians UK (independent musicians' charity).
Beyond city pages, browse the UK open mic directory for recurring weekly nights, the UK city hub index for every covered city, the genre directory, the booking guides, or the GX Index for live UK gig rates and percentiles.
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