Fat Dog’s particular brand of chaos seems a fine antidote to the remains of pent-up lockdown frustration. The collective scream has found a mouth; the potential energy has been activated. Joe’s singing, his words slurred and distorted in the time-honoured tradition of delta bluesmen, melds to Jazz’s wordless vocals, high and keening like some punk banshee princess, equal parts Grace Slick and Yoko Ono.

The Ultimate Stone Roses are the only tribute to the Roses to hail from Manchester. Each member is a die hard fan of the original band who has dedicated themselves to mastering the music of their heroes. Playing songs from the seminal first album, the second coming and early fan favourites like 'Sally Cinnamon' and 'Mersey Paradise', the Ultimate Stone Roses give their audiences the most authentic Stone Roses experience possible.

Welly is an extraordinary character with a remarkable literary way of describing himself, his band and society. A square peg in the round hole of suburban life, Welly embraced his difference from an early age and went onto channel his observations on suburbia into songs. Whip-smart, playful, funny and terrifyingly smart pop songs to be precise. He then set about finding the perfect vehicle to pedal his wares and so formed a band and delivered a debut album bursting with democratised pop music for people that feel fun in the charts stopped at Love Machine by Girls Aloud.

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BC Camplight is an England-based American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His 2005 album Hide, Run Away was released by One Little Indian and featured Cynthia G. Mason on vocals. Camplight's follow-up, Blink of a Nihilist, was released in 2007, and his third album came out in January 2015 on Bella Union.

Singer-songwriter Will Varley has come a long way since his early days haunting the open mics of South London and busking around on The Underground. Over the past few years, Will has toured relentlessly across Europe and America as a support act for Billy Bragg, Frank Turner, Valerie June, and The Proclaimers and he's sold out his own headline shows in cities as far afield as Berlin, Zurich, Amsterdam and Vienna. High praise from the likes of Tim Minchin and Simon Nicol of Fairport Convention have helped fan the flames, as his audience continues to grow both on the road and online.

Two piece from Bristol that provide a sweat soaked, tub thumping, groove infused experience. Squint your eyes and it’s a stag do on a karaoke machine but open your mind and you’ll find it’s at least 500% more enjoyable than that.

A new show about extinct gigantic, charismatic, megafauna from 3-time Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominated Comedian, and very good comedian Josie Long. In these troubled times, in this wicked world, it can feel like apocalypse is everywhere but did you know 11,000 years ago there were some really big armadillos? I’m talking about as big as a car. Really big. And they were vegetarian so don’t even worry about them. Also my daughter has a hamster and I’m not saying distract yourself from everything, but I’m saying he’s also part of everything. Josie is back with a new show about discovery, wonder, extinction and how to walk through a landscape of monstrous disaster. There is also a good tip about silt, guaranteed.

The Where Else? League Of Legends Pool Tournament takes place on the last Thursday of every month. RSVP for a link to sign up to play or just to register your interest in the vibes. Pool tournament in a fun, friendly environment to a punk rock soundtrack. There are 16 spaces in the tournament. First come first served. The Where Else? League Of Legends Pool Tournament "Because pub sports are real sports" Presented by Where Else? This is an 18+ event

A brand new show from award-winning comedian, star of Live at the Apollo, and co-host of award-winning podcast Trusty Hogs - Helen is back and is struggling. She has spent the last year being forced to hang out with someone she doesn’t like and who honestly does not like her. It’s tense, it’s uncomfortable, they won’t leave.

Stick in the Wheel are a multi-award winning young five-piece folk band from London.

The Crewe four-piece meld emo, punk and hardcore while maintaining an aura of mystique.

All girl punk band from Cardiff, Wales.

The Bug Club's name does a good job of introducing the band and their music: a tight-knit, collaborative effort focussed on telling tales of the everyday that we often take for granted, shot through with humour and riffs-a-plenty. Comprising the creative trio of Sam Willmett (guitar/vocals), Tilly Harris (bass/vocals) & Dan Matthew (drums), The Bug Club formed in 2016 in the little-known rock n' roll hotbed that is Caldicot, Monmouthshire. The band were signed by Bingo Records in Autumn 2020, and released their first single 'We Don't Need Room For Lovin'' in Feb 2021. EPs Launching Moondream One and Pure Particles followed, along with standalone releases Intelectuals and Two Beauties. Initially championed by BBC 6 Music's Marc Riley, along with Adam Walton and Huw Stephens on Radio Cymru, The Bug Club have since earned the support of DJs, fellow artists and press worldwide. Sold-out tours across the UK and in Europe paved the way for a 2023 which will see the band play further afield to an ever-growing loyal fanbase, who can look forward to a number of new releases from the trio this year. Three groovy peas in a far out pod!

Pale Blue Eyes’ excelsior modernist pop music comes from Devon and Sheffield – via stop-overs in Iceland, KLF-land and the Steel City home of British electronic music.

Over the past three decades or so, Jah Wobble has ploughed his own furrow as a prolific solo artist, as well as becoming a well-respected session musician, with genuine passion for Eastern and Global music. He has worked with a diverse range of musicians, including Baaba Maal, Bjork, Primal Scream, Brian Eno, Sinead O'Connor, Julianne Regan, Delores O'Riordan, Holgat Czukay, The Edge and Chaka Demus & Pliers. The man born John Wardle began his musical journey when he met John Lydon and Sid Vicious at Kingsway College, London in 1973. It was Vicious who not only nicknamed John 'Jah Wobble' after a drunken binge but also loaned him his first bass guitar. Lydon asked JW to join Public Image Limited (aka PiL) in spring 1978. Wardle's distinctive 'low end' bass became the backbone of PiL's pioneering sound. After its follow-up, the exploratory yet sinister soundscapes of Metal Box, Wardle became disillusioned by politics within the band and their reluctance to play live. He eventually split from PiL in mid-1980 and embarked on a prolific solo career. Wobble is joined on stage by drummer Marc Layton-Bennett and Martin Chung.

Having made a striking entrance with their debut album, "Come and See," Irish guitar quintet Gurriers is poised to continue their sonic assault on modern issues. "Come and See," recorded in Leeds, launched with the intense track "Nausea," reimagining Jean Paul Sartre's novel through a raw, punk lens. The album fearlessly tackles themes of digital age existentialism, online narcissism, youth disillusionment, and sociopolitical commentary, drawing inspiration from Adam Curtis' "HyperNormalisation." Following the release of "Come and See," Gurriers, comprised of Dan Hoff, Ben O'Neill, Mark MacCormack, Pierce O'Callaghan, and Charlie McCarthy, have built upon the foundation laid by their debut. Despite the challenges of forming in early 2020 and navigating pandemic restrictions, the band refined their vision and garnered attention from figures like Anthony Fantano and BBC Radio 6 Music. Now, having toured extensively across Europe, Gurriers are gearing up to release their highly anticipated second album, promising to further their exploration of contemporary chaos with their signature razor-sharp, progressive punk sound. Presented by Where Else? This is an all ages event

When Bob Log III was a child, he lost his left hand in a boating accident. It was soon replaced with a monkey paw, and a new guitar style was born. 'It's my own personal style, see,' Log says, 'the paw moves much quicker than a normal hand, so my real hand has to flop around a lot to compensate.'" Bob Log III, one man band crown prince of punk blues from Tuscon, Arizona. Witnessing Bob Log live is an unmissable and unforgettable experience. By rights he should be a punk blues stadium super star. He takes to the stage with his face masked in a crash helmet with a black visor and a telephone wired in it for a mic and wearing a blue jump suit. Bob then unleashes a torrent of hardcore Mississippi Delta blues, hip hop beats and punk rock. The crash helmet telephone distorts the vocals and his hands, arms, legs and feet become a blur of jump suit clad limbs as he plays slide, triggers drum machines and drums with his feet simultaneously. Bob then adds extra ingredients to this punk blues bouillabaisse with his unique version of audience participation. More often them not he’ll bounce a couple of audience members on his knees while playing, and then bring on the infamous Boob Scotch. The audience are invited to literally stick their boob in his scotch which he then drinks. If Bob feels satisfied, he will then launch into his anthem Boob Scotch! Everyone has to look out when the rubber dinghy makes an appearance.

Search Results are led by Jack Condon and Fionn Brennan - a pair of friends with an almost telepathic connection, beguiling onstage chemistry and a sick penchant for making one another laugh mid-song. Building on the energetic swirl of 2023’s Information Blip and their well-received EPs, Search Results’ follow-up Go Mutanttakes its title seriously, bringing idiosyncrasies to the fore, and at under just 35 minutes, it manages to sound both frantic and precise. Over the course of 13 songs, they have created an immersive, bold piece of work, a fitting musical statement for a band with such interesting influences that range from Abigail's Party to Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. A sense of movement and freedom underpins Search Results' richest musical document to date, taking us somewhere both nostalgic and fresh - with the band channelling rule-breakers and world-builders, whether Kurt Vonnegut or the series On Cinema at the Cinema with Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington - on Go Mutant Search Results have joined that rank of the singular and compelling. Presented by Where Else? This is an all ages event

Dealing in a dark, grimy variation on psychedelia -- think the Seeds staggering under the influence of the Velvet Underground and the Monks -- the Wytches are a U.K. three-piece whose buzzy, doomstruck rock has made them the talk of the British rock cognoscenti.

Time flies when youre being Tunng. Can it really be over two decades since the band's genre-blurring, self-styled pagan folktronica first emerged from an east London studio courtesy of a clutch of Gilles Peterson-endorsed singles on the small but perfectly formed Static Caravan imprint It surely can, and what's more, January 2025 will mark the twentieth anniversary of This is Tunng... Mother's Daughter and Other Songs, a debut longplayer whose acoustic guitars and poetic disquisitions on nature, mythology and the human condition, courtesy of Sam Genders, sieved through fellow band founder Mike Lindsay's lattice of fractured beats and crackling electronics, still sounds like an impiously postmodern wedding of the rustic and the synthetic, the arcane and the futurist one for which the designation pagan folktronica is as good a shorthand as any. Whichever way we choose to describe it, that 20-year-old signature sound makes a warm return on Tunng's eighth studio album, Love You All Over Again, a winning amalgam of texture and melody, disconcerting imagery and shapeshifting production, predicated, Lindsay reveals, on a conscious reacquainting with the band's first principles. I went back to the first two albums just to listen to how we fused genres things like Davy Graham, Pentangle and the Wicker Man soundtrack, all of which I was discovering back then, together with Expanding Records [the Shoreditch-based repository of soi-disant beautiful electronic music], whose studio space we shared. That was all going into the early records. Over the years, Tunng's sound has varied and twisted, but at the root there is always a flavour of what Sam and I made on that first album. Rather than searching for a new avenue we went back to what we used to do, which, after all this time, felt like it was a new avenue... Love You All Over Again is our way of coming full circle. And what a circle it's been, one that has embraced global touring, chart-grazing singles (like live favourites Jenny Again from 2006, the following year's Bullets and 2010's Hustle), a jaw-dropping live collaboration with Tuareg desert blues combo Tinariwen (including two memorable Glastonbury performances in 2009 and 2010), and a catalogue of restlessly innovative albums for the Full Time Hobby label, beginning with folktronica exemplars Comments of the Inner Chorus in 2006 and Good Arrows in 2007. Subsequent longplayers would expand the Tunng palette, exploring more of a live band feel and embracing broader leftfield pop and psychedelic flavours, helping cement widespread acclaim and a loyal international audience in the process.

Playwright, director and singer songwriter Sean Nicholas Savage has returned to a pop palette with his most brilliant batch of classic ballads to date. His new album, “The Knowing” is a pivot; at once more subversive and yet more fashionable than ever before. Savage engaged several collaborators on this record. Longtime accomplice Pascal Chenard recorded and produced the record with Savage in London, England, where Savage was born. The lead single, “Your Drug”, a reflective duet with Arbutus Records label mate Marci, both familiar and yet with an edgy bareness that allows it to recontextualize its nostalgic trope. Belgian singer songwriter David Numwami played guitar on the songs “Stranger Than Fiction” and “Wild Things” and artist JJ Weihl aka Discovery Zone co-wrote “Pink Bouquet”. Cleverly tucked into the tracklist is a tender cover of Iggy Pop’s “Lust For Life”, somehow appropriately strummed softly in the vein of Green Days’ “Good Riddance”. Sean Nicholas Savage worked with Lulannie for the album artwork photos, which they took on their way out to a New Years Eve 2025 party in New York City. The song “I Love Everything About You” is about their relationship. Sean Nicholas Savage’s “The Knowing” is out on June 27th 2025 via Born Losers Records and Mansions & Millions. Presented by Where Else? This is an all ages event

Brazilian-born guitarist singer/songwriter Samira Winter has been a mainstay in Los Angeles’ music scene for over a decade, carving out her own niche of gloriously detailed and eclectic dream pop under the name Winter. After growing up in Curitiba, Brazil and playing in her first bands in Boston, she relocated to Los Angeles in 2013 and fell in love with the city. She found a sense of belonging in its DIY rock community-the basement of her longtime Echo Park home was host to countless shows and even Winter’s first practices-and she grew attached to L.A.’s cosmic, inspiring aura. But at a certain point, Samira was craving a change of scenery to facilitate self-growth, a painful, but necessary realization that brought about a move to New York City. Leading up to her emotional coast-to-coast move, she spent roughly two years writing songs in a transitory state: often in between tours, in different cities, and in various sublets. The resulting 13 tracks became her new LP, Adult Romantix-her Winspear debut, the follow-up to 2022’s landmark What Kind of Blue Are You?, and a goodbye love letter to her time in L.A. Presented by Where Else? This is an all ages event

Like an undescended testicle en route to its final destination, Christmas is a-coming! And nothing yells Yule louder than Sean Bean in full on medieval mode, challenging you all to a sackful of seasonal games, hellbent on getting you all giddy. So come join Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner Adam Riches, (Cats Does Countdown), as he hits the road once more with his (k)night of chaotic buffoonery, to give you bastards a Christmas present you’ll never forget.

Holysseus Fly has spent the past couple of years carving out her own unique path. With a series of standout releases accompanied by striking visuals, she’s established herself as one of the UK’s most compelling new voices. As vocalist, co-writer and pianist in critically acclaimed collective Ishmael Ensemble, Fly is a vital presence in the UK music scene and as a solo artist she pushes further, blending emotion-soaked lyrics with soaring, cinematic choruses.

Broadside Hacks have won widespread critical acclaim for bringing the folk tradition to new generations of audiences. Building on their regularly sold-out nights in London, shows with The Pogues, and stages at SXSW, the group hosts their roster of celebrated artists this autumn with their most comprehensive set of shows to date. Taking turns in the limelight across a series of shows in UK and Ireland from September-November, among the headliners are experimental folk-duo Milkweed. Fresh from the release of acclaimed ‘album of the year’ contender Remscéla - inspired by Irish Epic the Táin Bó Cúailnge - the band are marking themselves as a must-see live act. Also arriving with original material - via a Bob Dylan tribute act that’s hitting the main stage at Green Man Festival this summer - Spitzer Space Telescope (AKA Dan MacDonald) was born and raised in St John, Michigan, spending a decade travelling across America and Europe before settling in England to bellow out his charismatic folk charms, and recalling the classics of The Clancy Brothers and Pete Seeger. Queer-folk quartet Goblin Band are rewriting the rulebook. Re-contextualising timeless, much-journeyed songs for the travails of contemporary society and the realities of the contemporary queer experience, expect a bulk of boundless, escapist joy too. In the words of folk legend Martin Carthy, “They go back to versions that we were too snotty to touch and they turn them into stomps!". Presented by Where Else? This is an all ages event

James Acaster is one of comedy’s most original voices. A whimsical master, he has received acclaim from around the world, including a record breaking 5 consecutive nominations for ‘Best Comedy Show’ at the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. In 2017 he toured the country with a staggering three show ‘Trelogy’, performing Recognise, Represent and Reset consecutively over three nights in each venue.

Multi award-winning writer, performer and actor Rob Auton presents his debut narrative show. Having written 11 critically acclaimed shows on specific themes, Rob is now keen on telling you a story he has written about a man he made up called CAN. At one point in his life CAN was the world's number one motivational speaker... and then something happened.

INKO - The Alt Karaoke Night 19 September @ WhereElse, Margate Scream it loud at INKO, Margate’s cult karaoke night for punks, emos, and misfits. Expect everything from Paramore to Slipknot, Blink-182 to Bring Me The Horizon. This is karaoke with a twist-face your fears, sing with the crowd, and leave your shame at the door. No judgement. Just chaos, catharsis, and community. It's not the Karaoke you're thinking, INKO is loud, emotional, and alive. Backed by a crowd that knows every word to My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Linkin Park and more, you won’t be alone on stage - you’ll be amplified. No judgment. No shame. Just 200 voices screaming with you. Join us for a night you never expected. But one you'll never forget. Presented by I'm Not Kara-Okay!. This is an 18+ event

ELZ presents, BABESLAM: A sexy little poetry slam with a twist! Open micers will compete for the BABESLAM title. This can be poetry, performance or comedy - as long as they stick to their time limit! How it works: Each performance will be scored by 3 random members of the audience. The highest score wins, and the winning performer will headline the next slam. Expect laughs, lager, and lots and lots of words. Special guests: This slam will feature a set from last Babeslam's winner, Sarah Ogilvie. Saucy Sez will also feature as a special guest, sharing old work and new! How do I get a slot? At every show we want to give a platform to new voices, first timers, and those coming out of performance hibernation. You do not need any prior experience to sign up for a slot. If you are interested in performing, or need to access more information, contact ELZ at @babe.slam (instagram) or [email protected]. Presented by Elsewhere (UK). This is an 18+ event. (Photo ID Required)

‘Yalla Miku was initially set up by Bongo Joe founder, Beirut-born Cyril Yeterian (banjo, electric guitar, vocals), and his Cyril Cyril duo bandmate Cyril Bondi (drums and vocals). Having teamed up with label stalwarts Hyperculte, a minimalist electro-pop duo comprising of Simone Aubert (synthesisers, guitar and vocals) and founder of L’Orchèstre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp bassist Vincent Bertholet, the final pieces of the Yalla Miku puzzle were added with contributions from Moroccan guembri player Anouar Baouna, Eritrean krar player Samuel Ades and Algerian darbouka player Ali Bouchaki, all of whom encountered difficult and dangerous journeys to get to Switzerland and all regular participants at Bongo Joe café and store events. The line-up for their 2025 album and live run still includes Samuel Ades on krar and vocals, and now features Genevan synth maestro Emma Soucharce and award winning bass player Louise Knobil. The result is a thrilling mix of haunting ethio-jazz scales and krar riffs with shoots of house, electronica and alt-pop-krautrock groove. Ultimately it's a testament to the community led, punk approach that many creatives from the Bongo Joe Record label, and beyond, adhere to.’ Presented by Where Else? This is an all ages event

Well well well, Have we got noise for you? Where Else? and Tidal Afterdark are teaming up to bring an absolutely stacked all-dayer of noise rock, heavy synths, hardcore and post-punk to the quaint British seaside. Line up: Body Horror, Tarmac Industry Standard, That Band Called Susan, Ode to Sleep. Presented by Where Else? This is an all ages event

Avalanche Kaito could be described as “grrriot\_punk\_noise”. Burkinabe singer Kaito Winse, the guardian of the ancestral griot tradition, rubs shoulders with the multiform approaches of drummer and “pure dataist” Benjamin Chaval and anarcho-guitarist Nico Gitto in an explosive combination. The band was noticed from their first concerts in Belgium in July 2021. A real craze followed, which brought them to several European countries and to Canada during the following months, performing more than fifty times in festivals and clubs. In 2022, the band released their first EP, Dabalomuni, followed by a homonymous album, both on Glitterbeat. Also performing in several showcase festivals like MIL or ESNS, the band generates a real word-of-mouth movement. Everywhere, professionals and audiences receive them as a new sensation. Many concerts are scheduled for 2023. In 2022, Grammy commissioned Avalanche Kaito to make a live video that was broadcast on the networks of the prestigious institution. Recently they recorded a live session for KEXP. They also are the subject of an extensive article in The Wire. The project seems in many ways unique in the musical landscape, managing to combine both a seductive trance power and a wicked experimental side. Presented by Where Else? This is an all ages event

Where Else? is proud to present the infectiously fizzing Dutch indie rock outfit FIEP with support from The Echograms and Polo Lounge. Since FIEP's breakthrough with combustible indie rock earworms like "Nightshop" and "Daydreaming", the project has only become more playful, impulsive and unruly. Forthcoming double EP FRIED RICE, MOON BLISS is jam-packed with fun sonic ideas, which is something FIEP can afford because the foundation of her songwriting is so incredibly winsome. After releasing the debut EP 77 Stokes Croft, FIEP tests how deep the waters of her craft can go on this latest collection of songs. Live favorite “Same Boat” - the opening track of MOON BLISS - snaps and crackles like fireworks, while the stunning “Smoke Signals” - with expressive vocals and bubbling synths - cinematically illustrates the push-and-pull of a budding romance. On “World Leader 2.0” FIEP proves that baroque arrangements and fun wordplay are perfectly compatible. The record reaches its boiling point on “R U Reading!?”, a noise pop cruncher where imperfection is converted into strength. On closing track “Let The Verb Do The Work”, FIEP makes a leap from the chronic overthinker to an artist who - amid all her struggles and growing pains - has gotten to know herself a little better - and is happy to share her novel insights with her audience: “Good work/Good ending/Go on a real nice walk and get in all of your steps/So we can make it work/Tomorrow.” Presented by Where Else? This is an all ages event