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Live Gigs in London
1356 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.
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Used Blues
Avant Garde, London
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Port A Bhaigh Campsite
Port A Bhaigh Campsite, London
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All Points East, Jorja Smith, TEMS
Victoria Park London, London
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Amelie Lens b2b Sara Landry
Magazine Open Air·Greenwich Peninsula, London
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Billy Ocean, Marti Pellow
Darley Park, London
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Alfie's Soho, Soho Live Music Club
Alfie's Soho·West End, London
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Piano Bar Soho, Soho Live Music Club, Soho Jazz Festival
Piano Bar Soho·West End, London
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Andrew Lisle, John Edwards, Jeremy Viner
Vortex Jazz Club·Dalston, London
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Bossa Nova with Mario Bakuna - Live at Morocco Bound Wandsworth
Morocco Bound Bookshop Wandsworth·St Mary's, 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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Mallory Knox
The Lower Third·Holborn & Covent Garden, London
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Jack Solomons Club, Soho Live Music Club, Soho Jazz Festival
Jack Solomons Club·West End, London
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Tomorrow’s Warriors
Vortex Jazz Club·Dalston, London
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Amplify new music nights, Deadbeat Bracket, Apollo
Hertford Corn Exchange·Hertford Castle, London
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Brixton Fridays: Hip Hop, Afrobeats & R&B ‘til 3AM
The Blues Kitchen Brixton·Brixton Acre Lane, London
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The Troubadour
The Troubadour·Redcliffe, London
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Orquesta Mambarito
Fox and Firkin·Ladywell, London
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Rewind Festival
Temple Island Meadows, London
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Koyesax and The Fortune Collective Band
Soul Mama Islington·St Mary's & St James', London
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The RnB Collective Brunch
Soul Mama, London
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Rewind Festival, The Human League, Kim Wilde
Temple Island Meadows, 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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All Points East, Lorde, PinkPantheress
Victoria Park London, London
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DJ Supa D, Nicky Slimting
HERE at Outernet·Holborn & Covent Garden, 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 — 129 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 1356 upcoming gigs.
1356 upcoming gigs listed for London. 129 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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