If your band wants to play more shows, especially the well-paid or high-profile ones, your reputation is everything. It's not just about how good you sound it's how you present yourselves, how you treat clients, and how you leave an impression. First, be reliable. Show up on time, stick to agreed set times, and be respectful to sound engineers, event staff, and other performers. A good attitude goes a long way, and word spreads quickly about bands that are easy to work with. Second, make sure your online presence is strong. That means having recent videos, clear photos, and well-written bios on your website and social media. Include reviews and testimonials from past gigs so people can see that others trust and enjoy what you do. Next, collect quality live footage. Anyone that wants to book a band wants to see and hear what you sound like before they commit. Even a 60-second clip that shows the energy of your performance can make a big difference. Aim for real crowd reactions and good lighting if you can. Ask for reviews after every gig. A quick quote from a wedding client or venue manager saying how great you were can be shared online and builds trust. If people see youre regularly getting booked and praised, theyll feel more confident hiring you. Finally, be professional in your communication. Answer messages promptly, be clear about fees, and send your promo materials when asked. Treat each enquiry as the start of a new relationship, and always follow up with a thank you after the event. A band with a solid reputation will always find more opportunities. Be consistent, be visible, and make every gig count.

The Sleeves are the duo of Jack Cooper and Tara Cunningham, both likely known to you as one half of Modern Nature. Following an all-instrumental Mossy Tapes release last November, Cooper and Cunningham have recorded 10 new songs showcasing their vocal and guitar interplay with only the faintest echoes of prior efforts (individually or collectively), representing a fully realised leap forward from their largely improvised debut. The Sleeves is a somewhat counter intuitive take on the guitar/vocal duo formula (provided you think there is such a thing) though it's not nearly as simplistic as "the space between the notes" -- it would be the height of exaggeration to say an album this simultaneously expansive and incandescent is unprecedented. But it doesn't happen nearly often enough, either.

Glasgow-based trio Taupe have their album launch at The Horse Hospital, joined by Dee Byrne & Cath Roberts, as well as a solo set by Christos Stylianides

Baba Yaga's Hut Presents: Bégayer at The Horse Hospital, May 19th French songs, noises, rumors of distant and early musics, short and cruel poems, handcrafted instruments, Radio-amplifiers, circuit bending and other wasted electronic devices. Bégayer is a quintet from the south-east of France. Presented by Baba Yaga's Hut. This is an 18+ event

AEG Presents Witch Post Plus special guests Witch Post are a band comprised of Scottish musician Dylan Fraser and American musician Alaska Reid. They met by chance, both having solo careers in the music industry but on different sides of the coin. Coincidentally they also discovered that they are from towns of the same name, one in Scotland, one in Montana. Alaska comes from the American indie scene and Dylan from the UK’s alternative scene. Witch Post seeks to reclaim band music. They write songs that honour the wolffish qualities of Scottish Rock n’ Roll & the driving openness of American music. The name Witch Post comes from 17th century carvings in rural England that were crafted to ward off witches. Alaska and Dylan have adopted the name in honour of the witch. Through the craft of songwriting, they explore the fabric of the world & how they feel. Presented by AEG. This is an 18+ event.

Un/stable series showcases improvised music, with two sets from a trio formed of John Edwards, Daniel S. Evans, and Kiran Leonard. John Edwards grew up in London and started experimenting with the bass guitar before he switched in his twenties to play double bass. He is deeply rooted in the creative free jazz and improvisation genre. Since the 80ties he is as soloist and in many groups and ensembles in Europe active and became one of the most renowned bass players. He played/plays regular for example with Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, Phil Minton, Maggie Nichols, Evan Parker, Roscoe Michtell, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Mark Sanders, Caroline Kraabel, John Butcher, Pat Thomas, Irène Schweizer, Hans Koch, Florian Stoffner, Gabriele Mitelli, John Dikeman. Daniel S. Evans is a multi-instrumentalist and producer based in London. He plays as part of the experimental folk groups Shovel Dance Collective, Sullow, and The Greater London Banjo Trio, and as Meanders in a duo with Jasper Llewellyn. Kiran Leonard's unique and ambitious body of work spans more than a decade of releases on labels such as Memorials of Distinction, Moshi Moshi and Them There, limited-run noisy DIY fare, and everything in between. The adolescent guitar/chamber prog of early records such as Bowler Hat Soup (2013) and Grapefruit (2016) earned praise from Pitchfork, BBC 6Music, The Guardian and The Quietus. More recent work has seen Kiran attempt to synthesise interests in situated/home recording, collage, his live practice, and a combination of songcraft with graphic scores, as documented on the monumental (i.e. two-hour-long) and abstract Trespass on Foot (2021), and River Holds Peace, Some Live (2023), a collection of new and old material arranged for an ensemble of multiple electric guitars, cittern and double bass. Kiran's newest LP is Real Home, his first album of songs with choruses in half a decade, which in spring 2024 was named by The Guardian as one of the best albums of the year so far. In April he released Small Brown Bed/With You Waltz, a double CD compiling live recordings of his newest group, the so-called No Tailgate Group. Named for an unfortunate car accident sustained by the band while exiting the A40 last November, the band features members of caroline and Shovel Dance Collective. Kiran held a two day residency at The Horse Hospital in December 2025.

HANDLE Dancing backwards into the future with frenetic, muffled songs built around anxious, tribalistic percussion. New album Collide out now on the bands own Absolute Fiction imprint. Lo fi lynchian samba - The Guardian UH is the sibling duo of Dominic and Finn Kennedy, uniting bedroom-burbling hardware jams & narrative vignettes. Over time, theyve honed a cathartic, live, experimental acid-trancelike sonic world, touching on their heritage, pastoral idylls, and staple styles from breakbeat to broken beat to balladry.

AEG Presents Witch Post Plus special guests Presented by AEG. This is an 18+ event

Tongue Depressor (New England, USA) is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey. They write and perform drone-based music with continually expanding instrumentation including bagpipes, double bass, pedal steel/lap steel, tape loops, harmonicas, organs, and bells. They tour regularly in North America, Europe, and the UK, and have released 30+ LPs, CDs, cassettes, and lathes on labels including No Rent, Astral Spirits, Xkatedral, Stoned To Death, Redscroll, Chocolate Monk, Full Spectrum, Dinzu Artefacts, Worried Songs, and Soundholes. Tongue Depressor maintains collaborations with a revolving door of third members including Austin Larkin, Weston Olencki, John McCowen, Jakub Battick, and Leila Bordreuil. Serbian born, New York City based violinist Marija Kovaevi works in classical, experimental and improvised music. Her project Music for Broken Violins is an exploration of sonic textures with broken violins, bows and their fragments. Marija has developed an idiosyncratic vocabulary of dragging strings, playing cracks, bowing broken bodies, wrapping loose hair and creaking pegs. In performance, there is a minimalist, ritualistic structure to her unembellished studies, as each instrument is approached in procession, with silence in between each visceral deviance from the accepted technical norms. In addition to four albums of solo work, broken violins also appear on Rainy Afternoon near Paris album with Thierry Müller, Push Broken Duet album with Romain Perrot (available on Chocolate Monk), Bez Vremena album with Paul Collins and Quentin Rollet (available on Astres dOr) and most recently Playable Litter album with Theo Gowans (available on Scatter Archive). Marija's fifth solo album is set for release this year on Relative Pitch Records. GRAIN is a concert series and archiving project for experimental and improvised music, largely happening within South Bermondsey, and programmed / produced by Caius Williams & Theodora Laird. Through programming and documenting new and adventurous music through collaboration, archiving, workshops, and performances, the project explores the ongoing dialogue between the transience of DIY art spaces and the communities that inhabit them.

Elisabeth Klinck is a contemporary violinist, composer and performer based in Brussels. With a background in electroacoustic composition and theatre she navigates through emotional landscapes using intimate sound textures and atmospheric tones. The night opens with an improvised music trio of Barbie Mukoda (flutes), Elien De Schryver (violin), and Andrea Bolzoni (guitar).

Un/stable series showcases improvised music, with two sets from a trio formed of Benedict Drew, Angharad Davies, and Alex McKenzie.

Join some of The Noisy Women Present co-founders; Faradena Afifi, Maggie Nicols & Gwendolyn Kassenaar as part of an exciting lineup from this mixed arts collective! With Steve Beresford, Dee Byrne, Charlie Folorunsho, Bea Hebron, Ningrui Liu aka Akira, Majik, Jo Morrison, Barbie Mukoda, Anjalika Saga, Bettina Schroeder, Nicky Smith, James A Smith, Felix X Tigersonic, Carina Tint & Julian Woods Thank you to our friends from the Lo Fi Improvised Music Workshop (run by Stuart Wilding & Pete Robson) for joining us for this one. Were very grateful to have support from Kaneng Lolang.

Jim Ghedi hails from Sheffield, South Yorkshire and although clearly well versed in the history of folk music, he stands out as a potential torch bearer for a new generation of respectful yet experimental performers. His album ‘Wasteland’, released in March 2025, saw wide acclaim and was recognised as a profoundly bold sonic statement that is some of the most rich, far-reaching and ambitious work in the Folk genre - pushing the boundaries of what folk music can be. His third album released on the Basin Rock record label, this new sound emulates a more brooding, darker and electronic world which is mirrored in his piercing lyrics and singing. He draws from social observations, contemporary songwriting, historical & traditional material. This year, Ghedi will also release his first film soundtrack for A24’s thriller The Death of Robin Hood, after being approached by director Michael Sarnoski. A dark adaptation of the 17th-century folk-tale Robin Hood's Death, the film is out in June 2026, and stars Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgård and more. Over the years, Ghedi has performed headline tours and festivals across the UK, Ireland and Europe, as well as supporting & touring with bands such as Lankum, Stick in the Wheel, Richard Dawson, Martin Carthy, Shirley Collins. Praise for Wasteland: "The Sheffield folk musician gets brilliantly apocalyptic on this rallying, medieval-tinged battle cry." The Guardian "Wasteland is exactly where British folk music should be today. A masterwork." 5/5 Morning Star "Wasteland is a folk renaissance masterpiece." 9/10 The Line Of Best Fit "There's no contemporary singer quite like Jim Ghedi.... you're unlikely to experience a more intense trip of an album this year." 5/5 Songlines "Tim-Buckley-meets-Richard-Thompson-at-the-end-of-the-universe vibe. Colossal." MOJO "the horrific, terrifying beauty of a collapsing planet, turned into sound." The Quietus "Yorkshire folksmith's ruminative, storm-tossed masterwork." 9/10 Uncut "Jim Ghedi’s masterpiece." KLOF "an original voice with an ancient spirit." The Times Presented by Broadside Hacks and Basin Rock This is an 18+ event

whatever51 hosts a release party of his new album Presence, joined by Eli-O, thirdeye and ijji whatever51 is a French composer and producer. He has released several EPs and mixtapes, including Lost Islands (2022), Parallel (2023), and Coda (2025), where ambient and modern classical influences intertwine. His sonic world blends electronic textures with orchestral tones to create hypnotic, slow-burning landscapes.His first album, Presence (2026), represents the natural continuation of his previous work, carrying forward a sonic universe shaped by modern classical, drone, and experimental electronic influences. thirdeye is a composer & producer based in France.Oscillating between dark ambient layers and more colorful distorted textured melodies, he explores different emotions through his music. Alongside his work as a producer, he also composes, mixes and illustrates ambient projects himself.His latest solo release Stalk is a deeply immersive dark ambient black metal 3-track EP. His many collaborations include artists such as Ian, jackzebra, Joeyy, Marlon Dubois, yuri online, $amaad, Eddie Gianni & bloody shield. Originally from Albi and now based in Paris, Eli-O is a producer exploring the friction between noise and harmony. His sound is a constantly shifting mix of organic textures, processed vocals, and atmospheric experimentation.His recent output has been prolific, marked by a 2025 run that included the ambient EP 9 Paths and a contribution to the Frozen Starz remix album by O Lethe. This followed a breakthrough in 2023 with last message of a blurred boy, where he began integrating his own voice into hazy, melodic structures.From the rhythmic drive of MyLittleBallad to the darker, distorted depths of Beauty of a Submerged Tape, Eli-O continues to strip back his sound with his latest projects, The Door Was Ajar and Chronicle of an Ant's Life, which focus on more minimal and evolving ambient layer. ijji is an artist and producer from Aotearoa working within the ambient plugg scene. His work focuses on blending the skeletal frame of trap with weightless 808s and celestial melodies that glide into the atmosphere, leaving only the bare bones of the sound behind.

NEIL LUCK is a musician based in the UK. His work often explores the pathos and interaction between live human performance and multimedia, and attempts to frame the act of music making as something curious, or weird, or useful, or spectacular in and of itself. Neil’s work takes a range of forms from music-theatre, to concert works, radio, public projects and recordings. He is the founder and director of the music-theatre ensemble ARCO; an experimental music-theatre company. Eleanor Tennyson is a writer based in London. She is the author of two chapbooks, The Submissive and Half-Life, and co-edits Alice, a journal of contemporary poetry and the unconscious, forthcoming later this year. Ben Boswell is a London-based artist, musician and cocktail mixologist. His live shows contain notes of ambient, classical, trad folk, and club. His sound is shaped by the city: living in it and occasionally breaking out of it into somewhere else. Odie ji Ghast is a Manchester based Lithuanian artist who plays with voice. She has been a part of improvised and noise scenes in the UK for over a decade, has several solo albums, and many collaborative projects. Odie ji Ghast also produces music, writes poetry, works with nature, community and in education, and is raising a musical kid. Music is thickly woven into her every day. Reuben is: Funny, Energetic, Kind, Knowledgeable, Chatty, Understanding, Hard working, Giggly. Presented by False Locust. This is an 18+ event

After a long season of sharing her latest performance at Bolding Gallery, Pie House Coop and Windmill Brixton, Luisa D Rozo brings her popstar fever dream solo La Barca to its last show; a physical performance within constellations of auto-biographical film, melancholic singing and sculpting light as a narrational tool Sharing the evening is THE3KAYAS with her HH live debut, performing her earthly lullabies as well as sharing to the public for the first time her self-produced shortfilm a.sassy.nation , a DIY film independently created alongside her daughter Akiko Bambi, telling the story of a quest to save the Sun and restore colour in the world The evening will conclude with experimental sound London legend Nymity, bringing contemporary club culture into the premises