Experimental Music London
The rooms that give improvised, electronic and genuinely adventurous music somewhere to happen.
Experimental music depends on spaces willing to take a risk before an audience knows exactly what it is coming to hear. These venues make room for improvisation, contemporary composition, noise, cross-disciplinary work and artists who sit outside familiar categories. Go with curiosity rather than a fixed expectation.
9 venues
Café OTO
London's essential room for free improvisation, experimental sound and artists without a category.
Explore venue →Vortex Jazz Club
A musician-led programme where contemporary jazz regularly crosses into the unknown.
Explore venue →LSO St Luke's
The LSO's Old Street space gives contemporary composition a generous public platform.
A former Baroque church on Old Street restored as the LSO's community and education centre — home to free Friday lunchtime concerts of cutting-edge contemporary music, Discovery ed…
Explore venue →The Horse Hospital
A singular Bloomsbury arts space for underground film, sound and cross-disciplinary work.
Explore venue →Hundred Years Gallery
An artist-run gallery where improvised music and performance can remain genuinely informal.
Explore venue →Union Chapel
An extraordinary acoustic setting for ambitious and unconventional live projects.
Explore venue →Windmill Brixton
A Brixton grassroots room where alternative and experimental live music still has a home.
A tiny Brixton pub-venue with an outsized reputation for breaking new guitar bands — grassroots, alternative and experimental music in an intimate room.
Explore venue →The Muddy Puddle
An intimate Stoke Newington basement mixing experimental music with jazz and global sounds.
A hybrid music pub and empanada bar in Stoke Newington with an intimate basement stage — eclectic nightly programme spanning jazz, Latin, world music, and experimental sounds.
Explore venue →Rich Mix
A cross-cultural programme that brings electronic, global and boundary-crossing artists together.
East London's vibrant arts and cultural centre in Bethnal Green, celebrating diversity through film, music, theatre and community events.
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