{"title": "Garefowl", "start": "2026-10-31T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Stone Nest", "address": "Shaftesbury Avenue 136, London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.stonenest.org/events/stonenest/2325055", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["nature/animals/birds", "music/electronic"], "description": "Garefowl is a live music performance by the international collective of the same name, with support from Visit Me. The group presents their new album 'Things That Vanish', recorded at night on the archipelago of St Kilda, Scotland, whose soundscapes of winds, waves and birds breathe across the record. The pieces take inspiration from the threatened seabirds of St Kilda, and the project was conceived by Ewan Macdonald, who with his father Murdo is a relative of one of the men who killed the last Great Auk, to reflect on this family history and connection to St Kilda. The collective combines strings and electronics, featuring Nathan Bontrager, Stuart Graham, Chris Jones, Ewan Macdonald, Richard O'Flynn and Jess Whelligan.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/garefowl-61173/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2c83d03a91dad26f03aa0c605fa4deb4d0a160089d0caacb405ee3d7089dce2f-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-31T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Stone Nest", "address": "Shaftesbury Avenue 136, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Vanishing Twin", "start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "EartH", "address": "Stoke Newington Road 11-17, N16 8BH London", "price": "From £33.55", "price_from": "33.55", "price_to": "33.55", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "An evening of music and ritual at EartH Theatre in Hackney, part of Weird Walk's annual Samhain Ritual, presented by Weird Walk and hosted by Stewart Lee. 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The band unites Sarah Hayes of Admiral Fallow, Inge Thomson, a longtime collaborator of Karine Polwart, SAY Award-nominated Jenny Sturgeon of Salt House, and Charlotte Printer, who has performed with Altered Images and Joesef. The record was produced by the band together with Peter Brewis of Field Music, and they sing in Scots, Shetland dialect, old Norn and English. 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His debut single 'Purgatory Man' draws on themes of meaninglessness, love, fear, rebirth and condemnation in a quest to write 'THE existentialist pop song', recorded by the 'vast indifferent sea' in Rogers' hometown of Brighton. 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It is organized by Folk In the Wild and brings together the trad folk duo Joshua Arnold & Therine, known for their foreboding take on traditional English folk music with hurdy gurdy, harmonium and floor tom behind Therine's commanding voice, alongside Naiad, the new folk project led by box player Lily Penrose.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/folk-in-the-wild-samhain-special-37330/", "official_url": "https://newriverstudios.com/event/folk-in-the-wild-samhain-special/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1dbb9215c45690e604c4c5e6190560dfa209744271686a51f614700c01e2ab66-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Elegy", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/violence-against-women", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Elegy is a ritual performance and installation project by Gabrielle Goliath that gathers collective acts of mourning around lives and histories marked by violence, erasure and structural loss. Developed over more than a decade, it has been staged in Johannesburg, Cape Town, São Paulo, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich and beyond, and arrives in London following the cancellation of the South African Pavilion in Venice. Installed in the sonic chamber of Ibraaz's Minassa, voices and moving images immerse audiences in a space of mourning, kinship and collective care. Addressing rape culture and femicide in South Africa, the genocide of Ovaherero and Nama peoples in Namibia and the ongoing devastation of Palestinian life, it proposes mourning as a sustained practice of collective presence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/elegy-36599/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bddd26bf2c80c57cde9f964f820a194720c5676bda6d23e076a328fea43bc74d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "From Another Place", "start": "2026-10-31T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Longfield Hall", "address": "50 Knatchbull Road, SE5 9QY London", "price": "Pay what you can on the door", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["art/contemporary/experimental"], "description": "From Another Place is a strange and otherworldly performance evening bringing together Figurant, Ghost Mind and Chansons Obliques. Figurant is a live audiovisual work by a visual artist, two musicians and a writer that playfully explores the concept of the séance, using 1960s 8mm film altered by submersion in the River Ravensbourne, with projected film, improvised sound, field recordings and spoken word interacting in real time. Ghost Mind improvise with instruments, toys, objects and sounds processed through their machine, conjuring a sound that is sometimes orchestral, sometimes post-hauntological, as if improvising with our memories and dreams. Chansons Obliques present 'A Viennese Ghost Story', and the running time is approximately 120+ minutes, for ages 16+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/from-another-place-70029/", "official_url": "https://longfieldhall.org.uk/2026/09/21/from-another-place/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/78e1081f19c8f4335e6166de127a475fc151c2ae36c56ed646dabddafe6fc913-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Conch", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "price": "£10/£5 members & concessions", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "The Conch is an event where artists share new work that is still in development, with the audience invited to respond after each presentation by sharing thoughts, questions and reflections. This edition brings together artists who explore domestic architectures not simply as backdrops, but as sites of labour and performance that can take on a life of their own. Georgina Hill performs a work on the overlooked history of cottage industries in Britain, Alia Hamaoui reworks behind-the-scenes footage from the whodunit crime film 8 Femmes, and Beatrice Vorster presents BOO!, a performance made with Yasmin Vardi that deconstructs the ghost-movie genre. The event takes place at South London Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-conch-38708/", "official_url": "https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/the-conch-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3cf5e3fce0bb7a0ab456dc088eb17a976b430c7f2da4442b2f458c2d9e29f574-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mark Wastell : Duo Intern – with Charlotte Keeffe", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "Free event", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/book-launch-thank-you-for-everything/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/improvisation"], "description": "A free music event at Hundred Years Gallery where percussionist Mark Wastell performs a duo with a guest artist while the gallery carries on its normal activity. This month's guest is Charlotte Keeffe, who plays trumpet and flugelhorn. Each month Wastell invites a different performer to create something unique between 4.30 and 5.30pm. Spectators are welcome, with doors opening at 4pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mark-wastell-duo-intern-with-charlotte-keeffe-36567/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/residency-mark-wastell-duo-intern-with-charlotte-keeffe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/17330e63687e1f8a6c7690e07511aeb96015b7002d241f7d691a2d716ad7361d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Brothers Gillespie", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Ivy House", "address": "Stuart Road 40, SE15 3BE London", "price": "£14", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://wegottickets.com/register", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/folk"], "description": "The Brothers Gillespie is a live folk music evening, with support from Creeping Jane and James Eagle, presented by The Goose Is Out!. The Brothers Gillespie sing songs of great lyrical power, animated by soaring sibling harmony, inspired guitar playing and a rich array of acoustic instruments. Their songs and performances have a rare intimate energy that is both earthy and ethereal, romantic and radical. The live music runs from 8pm to 11pm at a pub venue in Nunhead, with DJ FlapJackDavey before and after.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-brothers-gillespie-44148/", "official_url": "https://wegottickets.com/f/14439", "image": "https://noky.io/images/86a5864bf0ea899606548a284040d88c0c2fa1b18458f88dd0d36324cfcb4540-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Earshot Library-in-Residence", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-06-27T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sound-art", "society/human-rights"], "description": "Earshot Library-in-Residence is a nine-month residency bringing sound into the Iqra as a site of sonic inquiry, where recordings are interrogated and listening is both exercise and method. It is presented by Earshot, the not-for-profit organisation founded by Lawrence Abu Hamdan that uses sound to defend human and environmental rights. The Library is organised across four bodies of work: From the Field, a multichannel audio experience of field recordings, and three listening stations — The Crack and the Boom on audio ballistic analysis, Authentic Audio on AI-generated voices and deepfakes, and The Sonic Identikit on profiling sounds and earwitness testimony. A public programme of case launches, workshops, and talks across the nine months treats sound as evidence, memory and witness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/earshot-library-in-residence-36598/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/918474d8af46905d568234e66733d09cd6fe2a04aa0435d1a71b81b85225ffc0-2000.webp"}]}