ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC GIGS IN LONDON
ALTERNATIVE & INDIE MUSIC GIGS IN LONDON
Most Popular Alternative & Indie Music Gigs in London
Sun 28 Jun - Sat 5 Dec 2026
Sat 13 Jun - Tue 10 Nov 2026
Nerina Pallot
Sunday 31 May 2026
Having been nominated for an Ivor Novello and Brit Award, Jersey-raised pop rock star Nerina Pallot has had an exciting music career, writing and performing her own pieces alongside working with artists like Kylie Minogue. She scored UK Top...
SOFIA ISELLA
Thursday 4 June 2026
Rising Californian alt visionary and musical polymath Sofia Isella rose to fame on on TikTok, before opening for the likes of Melanie Martinez, Tom Odell, Taylor Swift, and Glass Animals between 2023 and 2025. With elements of alternative ...
Sugar
Thursday 4 June 2026
Having already left an indelible mark on rock's evolution with Husker Du, Bob Mould formed Sugar in late 1991 with bassist David Barbe and drummer Malcolm Travis. Their now-classic debut, Copper Blue, was named NME's 1992 "Album of the Year...
Danalogue
Thursday 4 June 2026
Eat Your Own Ears presents Danalogue at Club Cheek, with live visuals from Innerstrings. Danalogue, founding member and producer of The Comet is Coming and Soccer96, weaves hypnotic analogue synths, pulsating drum machines, and cosmic textu...
Dermot Kennedy
Friday 5 June 2026
After reaching the #1 spot in the UK and Irish Official Album Charts with debut album 'Without Fear', which achieved multi-platinum status with hit top 10 single 'Outnumbered' as well as the top 20 with singles 'Power Over Me' and the hit '...
Dermot Kennedy
Friday 5 June 2026
After reaching the #1 spot in the UK and Irish Official Album Charts with debut album 'Without Fear', which achieved multi-platinum status with hit top 10 single 'Outnumbered' as well as the top 20 with singles 'Power Over Me' and the hit '...
EMF
Friday 5 June 2026
Gloucestershire dance-rock quintet EMF formed in 1989. Their name supposedly stood for "Epsom Mad Funkers" (although it was widely speculated that the initials instead represented "Ecstasy Mother Fuckers"). Their light techno infused roc...
Sister Sledge ft Kathy Sledge
Friday 5 June 2026
The KOKO venue has limited space for accessibility. Accessibility tickets are only purchasable through the KOKO website and once these tickets have been sold, we cannot accept any further accessibility requests. If you require Accessibility...
LANY
Saturday 6 June 2026
LANY (an acronym for "Los Angeles New York") is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, formed in Nashville in 2014. The band consists of Paul Jason Klein, and Jake Clifford Goss. Signed to Polydor and Interscope, the band have ...
Blue October
Saturday 6 June 2026
Catching listeners off guard is typical of the Texan art-rockers who have made a career out of defying odds. From their mercurial ascent as a local band from Houston, to platinum-selling headliners, to the dramatic alcohol/drug-fuelled s...
The Smyths - Tribute to The Smiths
Saturday 6 June 2026
The Smyths are a joyous celebration of arguably the greatest band of all time, Manchester legends The Smiths. Thrillingly accurate, the group have amassed a huge following and regularly sell out huge venues both here and abroad. 2023 marks...
Definitely Oasis - Tribute to Oasis
Saturday 6 June 2026
Definitely Oasis are regarded by many Oasis fans and promoters alike as the best Oasis tribute band there is. The band's top priority is delivering what their fans want to see and hear. They put in a lot of hard work to ensure their sound a...
EMF
Saturday 6 June 2026
Gloucestershire dance-rock quintet EMF formed in 1989. Their name supposedly stood for "Epsom Mad Funkers" (although it was widely speculated that the initials instead represented "Ecstasy Mother Fuckers"). Their light techno infused roc...
The Virginmarys
Saturday 6 June 2026
Macclesfield's finest The Virginmarys are a fiercely independent rock duo who have pioneered their way forward with raw energy, hooks and vigour. With sell out shows across the UK/Europe, singles of the week on BBC and Classic Rock Magazine...
Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Tuesday 9 June 2026
As if channeling another dimension where genres simply don't exist, Rainbow Kitten Surprise find harmony in unpredictability - weaving together lyrical poetry, hummable melodies, and a rush of instrumental eccentricities. The genre-defying ...
Soul Asylum
Tuesday 9 June 2026
One of the most successful American Alternative Rock bands of the 1990s, Minneapolis's Soul Asylum's folk-influenced grunge beared the roots of the Country-Rock revival with their triple-Platinum certified Grave Dancers Union album, whi...
Dream Ivory
Tuesday 9 June 2026
Eat Your Own Ears presents Dream, Ivory at Oslo. Growing up in Southern California, the Baello brothers were each other?s universe. ?We experienced the world through the same frame, Christian says. That frame was heavily influenced by the n...
Mac DeMarco
Wednesday 10 - Friday 12 June 2026
Indie icon Mac DeMarco is a Canadian self-produced multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and recording artist. A magnetic live performer, he was catapulted to fame in 2014 with the release of Salad Days - his era-defining, slacker rock third ...
CMAT
Friday 12 June 2026
CMAT is the stage name of Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, the North Dublin-born global country-pop star who after relocating to Manchester aged 17 and forming the band Bad Sea, returned home to live with her grandparents before settling down in ...
Theo Katzman (Vulfpeck)
Friday 12 June 2026
The singing drummer and guitarist in the funk band Vulfpeck, New York indie folk rocker Theo Katzman fuses pop, jazz, funk, soul and indie rock. His staunchly synergistic sober psychedelic seeker-sensitive soul service is influenced by so...
The Proclaimers
Saturday 13 June 2026
Strikingly individual, twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid emerged 35 years ago with their debut album This Is The Story and Top 3 single Letter from America. Since then, their enduring appeal across generations has have over the years see...
Dogstar
Saturday 13 June 2026
Dogstar is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California. They were initially active from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, during which time the band found moderate success but garnered significant media attention due to t...
Jesse Malin Almost Grown UK Tour
Saturday 13 June 2026
??Hailed by Rolling Stone as ?a gritty troubadour of the streets,? Jesse Malin released his solo debut, The Fine Art Of Self Destruction, to universal acclaim in 2003, with Uncut dubbing the album ?an instant classic? and The Times declarin...
Bombay Bicycle Club
Sunday 14 June 2026
Since 2009, the UK chart-topping Londoners have boasted a sound that proved generational, locking their leftfield indie rock songs into the hearts and minds of young teenagers discovering music for the first time. Over the course of their...
Elvis Costello & the Imposters
Monday 15 June 2026
As the playful billing suggests, the show will feature numbers drawn from record releases from My Aim Is True in 1977 to Blood & Chocolate in 1986, along with other surprises. Those nine years saw the first appearance of some of Elvis Coste...
Social Distortion
Tuesday 16 June 2026
The "Godfathers of Punk", California stalwarts Social Distortion have a reputation of performing with a fierce energy onstage. ...
My Son The Hurricane
Wednesday 17 June 2026
Safe As Milk Promotions presentsMy Son The HurricaneMy Son The Hurricane is a multi-horn, multi-drummer, multi-singer brass funk beast from Niagara, ON. The 12-piece brass-dance crew has toured over multiple countries and played some of Can...
Lola Young
Thursday 18 - Friday 19 June 2026
UK singles chart topping Croydon R&B pop rock singer-songwriter Lola Young was nominated for the Brit Award for Rising Star in 2021. She was chosen to cover the 1980s hit "Together in Electric Dreams" for the John Lewis Christmas advert be...
China Crisis
Thursday 18 June 2026
Eddie Lundon and Gary Daly are the founder members of the synth pop band which started in Kirkby, Merseyside back in 1979. China Crisis found major success in the UK with five Top 40 singles, ten Top 50 singles and three Top 40 albums an...
The Orielles
Friday 19 June 2026
Manchester-based indie rockers The Orielles formed in Halifax when sisters Sidonie B and Esme Dee Hand-Halford met Henry Carlyle Wade at a birthday party. Still in their teens, the threesome bonded over a love of '90s music (like the Pixies...
The Orielles
Friday 19 June 2026
Manchester-based indie rockers The Orielles formed in Halifax when sisters Sidonie B and Esme Dee Hand-Halford met Henry Carlyle Wade at a birthday party. Still in their teens, the threesome bonded over a love of '90s music (like the Pixies...
Elvis Costello & the Imposters
Saturday 20 June 2026
As the playful billing suggests, the show will feature numbers drawn from record releases from My Aim Is True in 1977 to Blood & Chocolate in 1986, along with other surprises. Those nine years saw the first appearance of some of Elvis Coste...
