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Live Gigs in London
1133 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. 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 bands for hire in London. Or jump to nearby UK cities: Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham.
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Enfant, BABYSTEP
New Cross Inn, London
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Cate Le Bon
ICA, London
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Bad Cop Bad Cop
New Cross Inn, London
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Lonnie Gunn, John 4eva, EYOE Recommends
Shacklewell Arms, London
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Bossa Nova - Tribute to João Gilberto - Live
Morocco Bound, London
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Cate Le Bon
ICA, London
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Biohazard
Scala, London
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Van Morrison Alumni Band
Emerald Theatre, London
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Tom Jones, Palace Bowl Presents, Billy Ocean
Crystal Palace Bowl, London
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Merauder
New Cross Inn, London
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Piano Bar Soho, Soho Live Music Club, Soho Jazz Festival
Piano Bar Soho, London
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Old Mervs
Dead Famous, London
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Belle Livingstone's 58th Street Country Club
Belle Livingstone's 58th Street Country Club, London
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El Mato a un Policia Motorizado
Electric Ballroom, London
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Liberty & Justice
New River Studios, London
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Liberty and Justice
New River Studios, London
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Zhenya Strigalev
Vortex Jazz Club, London
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Gary Numan, Palace Bowl Presents, Marc Almond
Crystal Palace Bowl, London
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Tanhai Collective - Freight Brixton presents: Soul of the South
Freight Brixton, London
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Caslean
New Cross Inn, London
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Piano Bar Soho, Soho Live Music Club, Soho Jazz Festival
Piano Bar Soho, London
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Piano Bar Soho, Soho Live Music Club
Piano Bar Soho, London
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Solya
The Lower Third, London
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Soho Live Music Club, Jack Solomons Club, Soho Jazz Festival
Jack Solomons Club, London
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London Gig Directory FAQs
Common questions about grass-roots gigs in London, answered with live data.
1133 upcoming gigs listed for London. 81 are this week. Sorted by date — earliest first.
1 of the 1133 listed London gigs has free entry. The rest charge entry — see the price badge on each card.
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. To hire performers, bands for hire in London. 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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