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Europe's biggest celebration of black music returns with the world's biggest artists The festival is firmly rooted in hip hop, grime and R&B influenced sounds and represents forward thinking artists from both the UK and the USA. The cross pollination of the two scenes over the last 5+ years has helped bring together the transatlantic cultures, and the festival has been somewhere where this has been celebrated. The Three-day event will return to London's Finsbury Park in 2025. As well as world class artists who have pioneered their own sound, Wireless has a habit of providing a platform for the freshest new talent to make a name for themselves. With high levels of production on the visual side of things, and amazing sound quality Wireless is set up to be something pretty special.

House of Hadda presents Punk Cabaret of Chaos Showcasing the best of DIY Punk Cabaret! Featuring: Pete Bentham and The Dinner Ladies Doghouse Anarchistwood Rites of Hadda

After 7 years, the Parkinsons return to play a one-off London gig in aid of our dear friend Mike Spencer, with all proceeds reverting to his cancer treatment fund. Support from Eel Men, Mapache and Morreadoras.

ZANJEER @zanjeerpunk SNAKE EATER @snakeeater.zindabad IKHRAS @ikhrasactivity MASHAAL @mashaalhardcore RATS BREATH @rats.breath

ARTIFICIAL GO hail from Cincinnati, USA, and bring the beat to life with their New / No / Whatever Wave weirdness! Last year they released ‘Musical Chairs’, building on 2024’s 'Hopscotch Fever', an album of ten existential post-punk chamber pop tracks. Recorded at Lambda Research and the haunted attic of the band’s house, the core trio of Angie Willcutt, Micah Wu, and Cole Gilfilen have traded the sparse jangle of their debut for a broader, fuller sound. ‘Musical Chairs’ deftly meshes the angular excitability of 'Hopscotch Fever' with a spectral warmth and expensiveness able to encompass acoustic guitars, Wu’s almost metaphysical funk bass lines, tape loops and blips and bleeps, a guest spot by Eric Dietrich (of The Drin and Sorry Eric) on saxophone, and Gilfilen’s hip moving boom-bap drumming add to the excitement. In Willcutt’s hands, the struggles, and at times terrors, of our current age are playfully subverted with agile world play and dynamic vocalization that moves from sweet and dreamy to cartoonishly exaggerated as she charts an emotional course through such topics as the difficulties of playing the role of “woman” in a misogynist world (“Playing Puppet”) or the injustice of anthropocentric hierarchy (“Tightrope Walker”). Musical Chairs is serious music not meant to be taken too seriously, a playful act of resistance, a meditation on the good and bad of this world, and ultimately a remarkable statement on the continuing growth of Artificial Go. Https://artificialgo.Bandcamp.Com/ Presented by Upset The Rhythm. This is an 18+ event

Bringing people together once a month to go out and have a meal, great opportunity to socialise and meet new people within a supportive environment.