{"title": "The Best Summer", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/rock/alternative", "film/documentary"], "description": "The Best Summer is a documentary that plunges audiences into the 1995 Summersault tour, as Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Pavement, Rancid, The Amps and Bikini Kill travel across Australia and Southeast Asia. It was directed by Tamra Davis, shot entirely on her handheld camera, and captures explosive performances alongside candid backstage encounters, tour-bus chaos and fleeting friendships. Rediscovered nearly 30 years later, the footage offers an intimate portrait of artists at a pivotal moment in their careers. Raw, spontaneous and immersive, it is a vivid time capsule of alternative music and independent filmmaking in the mid-'90s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-best-summer-74131/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/doc-n-roll-ff-the-best-summer", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bef43f6362fcf82269ebe73d63f4dac72a8149c589e0cd17e8f72cdc09c5d1bd-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Muguruza FM 40 Tour", "start": "2026-11-07T20:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "music"], "description": "Four decades after first stepping onto a stage, Fermin Muguruza embarks on a large-scale tour, a collective journey celebrating 40 years of music, commitment, and cultural resistance. The musical documentary captures massive concerts, miles on the road, encounters along the way, and the shared energy that has crossed generations, from Kortatu and Negu Gorriak to his present-day work. On stage and behind the scenes, it approaches the intensity of what became his final tour on this scale. Through music, images, and memory, it draws a cinematic portrait of a creator who has turned his songs into tools of struggle, identity, and community celebration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/muguruza-fm-40-tour-74139/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/doc-n-roll-ff-muguruza-fm-40-tour-q-a", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0a59c849d08e6418bc068f9b1dbe2d5d5f14c51d8310ba0f17d9aee9230fa1d4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Doc'n Roll Film Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["film/documentary", "music"], "description": "Doc'n Roll Film Festival 2026 returns to London this autumn for its 13th edition, bringing an exciting selection of music and arts documentaries to cinemas across the city. The festival is fiercely independent and rooted in a DIY spirit, celebrating the artists, outsiders, scenes and stories that shape music culture across genres, generations and musical movements from around the world. It began life in 2013 as the UK's Music & Arts Documentary Film Festival, an arts discovery fest championing outlier music, arts and subculture documentaries often ignored by risk-averse film programmers. The Garden Cinema screens festival films in partnership with Doc'n Roll, whose mission is discovering, exhibiting and championing compelling music documentaries and the performers, labels, scenes and stories they celebrate.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/docn-roll-film-festival-2026-39290/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/festival/docn-roll-film-festival-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d7e85366a62cf3f3acb3f2961bde09a1f3d5921b4d28e74103340646b357ddfe-600.webp"}, {"title": "Before It Was Cool: The Brooklyn Beat From Lauterbach’s", "start": "2026-11-01T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/rock/punk", "film/documentary"], "description": "Before It Was Cool is a documentary film followed by a Q&A. Filmmakers Michael West and Lia Komakhidze tell the story of Lauterbach's, an unassuming Brooklyn dive bar of the early 1980s that became the birthplace of a musical movement known as \"The Brooklyn Beat.\" Through intimate interviews, archival footage and animation, the film uncovers this overlooked chapter of New York music history and a community of punk, indie and alternative musicians who turned competition into collaboration. When the bar suddenly closed its community scattered, but the film celebrates this pre-gentrification Brooklyn and its enduring influence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/before-it-was-cool-the-brooklyn-beat-from-lauterbachs-39226/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/before-it-was-cool-the-brooklyn-beat-from-lauterbachs-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/18cb4ceff5d8aaea143fe2b02f87854c90c61b8b4a4c230267993efb14338a8a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Punk Brighton", "start": "2026-11-09T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "price": "", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "tickets_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/rock/punk", "film/documentary"], "description": "Doc N' Roll: Punk Brighton + Q&A is a screening of the documentary Punk Brighton, followed by a question-and-answer session with its director. The film tells how a punk movement grew in Brighton around The Vault, an underground burial crypt turned legendary gig venue, with bands like The Piranhas, The Depressions and Peter & The Test Tube Babies turning humour, mischief and music into a fiercely communal scene. Built from fifteen years of interviews, performances and animation, it captures a scene that confronted fascism, rocked against racism and fought to save Brighton & Hove Albion. Featuring Fatboy Slim, it celebrates the city's DIY spirit and two figures who defined it: Attrix Records founder Rick Blair and The Piranhas' Bob Grover.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/punk-brighton-38169/", "official_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/WhatsOn?f=2886423", "image": "https://noky.io/images/18ffdeeffbd6b09d93f131bd55ab3d072e86918b1ab2ed8934e805d813dec1df-2000.webp"}, {"title": "George Michael: The Faith Tour", "start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "22.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.thecinemainthepowerstation.com/ticket-info", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary/music-documentary"], "description": "The documentary \"George Michael: The Faith Tour\" is screened at The Cinema in the Arches. Made by David Austin and Andy Morahan, it delves into George Michael's 1988 Faith Tour, shot live at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy. Exclusive footage from a 14-camera 35mm shoot over two nights in May 1988 shows the 24-year-old pop star at the height of his powers, with George Michael and Herb Ritts appearing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/george-michael-the-faith-tour-37861/", "official_url": "https://www.thecinemainthepowerstation.com/film/george-michael-the-faith-tour", "image": "https://noky.io/images/206f1914f8bc89d5cfc9849f798177f48f9de22ab933c1b1d28d6793f987a0db-1200.webp"}, {"title": "You Fuckers Figure It Out: A Jason Molina Story", "start": "2026-11-08T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/rock/indie/indie-rock", "film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary screening followed by an in-person Q&A with the director. 'You Fuckers Figure It Out: A Jason Molina Story', directed by Tommy Nickoloff, conjures the spirit of indie-rock icon Jason Molina (1973-2013) through Ohio insiders who illuminate his coming of age on Lake Erie and the creation of his legendary band Songs: Ohia. The film celebrates the contradictions of his raunchy humour, propensity to lie and refusal to interpret lyrics, weaving them into a haunting legacy unconfined by the record vault. The Ohio insiders trace how he escaped the indifference of an artless steel town, a story told through those who knew him best.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/you-fuckers-figure-it-out-a-jason-molina-story-74141/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/doc-n-roll-ff-you-fuckers-figure-it-out-a-jason-molina-story-q-a", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e5b26d6438001c5bf2635e7dab574fff7b9091f814db5392b8bad1eb7252b19-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Language of Water Triple Bill + Q&A", "start": "2026-11-07T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["sport/water-sports/surfing", "film/documentary"], "description": "A triple bill of surf films followed by Q&As, screening as part of the London Surf / Film Festival. It opens with the world premiere of Language of Water, directed by Joya Berrow, an intimate portrait of sisters Lilly Bertrand-Webb and Bellaray Bertrand-Webb exploring sound and duality through the lens of a cochlear implant. It continues with the world premiere of Within, Stuart Ryan's story of Stephen Downes finding freedom beyond survival, and the UK premiere of The Surf Was Better Before, Owen Legoff's wry tale of Breton surfer Ian Fontaine travelling into the future. The evening is accompanied by the Shorties shortlist films, the best shorts from homegrown filmmakers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/language-of-water-triple-bill-qa-74682/", "official_url": "https://riversidestudios.co.uk/whats-on/u42-language-of-water-triple-bill-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/de7362d3e9381ac82e6dc7895250433c4f6712dbf3e16a4fb6c8f71762da9f9b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fault Lines + Into the Light Double Bill + Q&A", "start": "2026-11-05T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A cinema double bill of two surf documentaries, each followed by a Q&A with its makers, plus a set of shortlisted short films. 'Fault Lines', directed by Nathan Hugh James Whitmarsh and Justin Hunt, is an intimate portrait of surfer Noah Lane, who after a near-fatal accident at the Irish big wave spot Mullaghmore must rethink the life he has built around the ocean. 'Into The Light' by Emmy Award winning filmmaker Mikey Corker follows two young South African surfers, Indiphile Indi Osinachi and Ntando Biggie Msibi, whose dreams carry them across an ocean they were never meant to touch, showing education as resistance and the search for belonging. The Q&As feature Noah Lane, Whitmarsh, Hunt and Corker.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fault-lines-into-the-light-double-bill-qa-74668/", "official_url": "https://riversidestudios.co.uk/whats-on/u40-fault-lines-into-the-light-double-bill-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/631ed189dba7c0da7bf8ba36437c5a11e82bad16cf87c5c08c523186f251c0f6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rammstein - Live in Mexico City", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/rock/metal/industrial-metal", "film/documentary/music-documentary"], "description": "A concert film capturing Rammstein performing across three sold-out nights at the 65,000-capacity Foro Sol in Mexico City, during the band's five-year world stadium tour. Directed by Paul Dugdale, it features 20 songs including \"Du Hast\", \"Sonne\", \"Ich Will\" and \"Te Quiero Puta!\", alongside 20-metre-high flames, stadium-wide pyrotechnics and towering industrial staging. The Berlin six-piece, two-time GRAMMY nominees, have brought German-language rock to major venues worldwide for more than three decades, and the film follows releases such as Jonas Åkerlund's Rammstein: Paris. It contains sequences of flashing lights that may affect customers susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rammstein-live-in-mexico-city-37854/", "official_url": "https://picturehouses.com/movie-details/031/HO00018643/rammstein-live-in-mexico-city", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2f08893365f768edcb3890e5c1262b4076105f5be78e6cc6d278ded09da29dc7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Southern Journey (revisited)", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T22:00:00Z", "place": "Walthamstow Trades Hall", "address": "17 Hoe Street (off Tower Hamlets Road), E17 4SB London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "music/folk"], "description": "A film screening of Southern Journey (Revisited) at Walthamstow Trades Hall, presented by OffBeat as an American special. The film was made by Fifth Column Films and retraces the route of Alan Lomax's Southern Journey of the 1950s, which he undertook with the not yet famous Shirley Collins.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/southern-journey-revisited-70764/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ee86f941897551804488eeeb57b62fccb391c20b8eb0c2d8143364f3eb68fec3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "7 Days In May", "start": "2026-11-03T21:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/rock/indie", "film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary about Ryan Paris, the singer behind the '80s hit Dolce Vita, who travels to Los Angeles in May 2024 to collaborate with indie rock star Mac DeMarco. Over seven days the two musicians write, record, produce and mix an original song, ending with a music video. It is an intimate, funny and heartfelt portrait of an unlikely friendship between artists of different generations. Directed by Joseph Bird Jr. and Raf Fellner.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/7-days-in-may-74126/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/doc-n-roll-ff-7-days-in-may-mac-demarco-and-ryan-paris", "image": "https://noky.io/images/15398a4253fcdb34d35acedd0e274b0d9036fe9661f163350ae6a29bce8dc673-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Rumba Rules, New Genealogies", "start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths CCA", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/world/african", "film/documentary"], "description": "A special screening of the film Rumba Rules, New Genealogies (2020). It was produced by Twenty Nine Studio and directed by David N. Bernatchez and Sammy Baloji with the collaboration of Kiripi Katembo Siku. The film goes into the daily life of the Brigade Sarbati Orchestra, one of the great orchestras of the current generation in Kinshasa, with nearly thirty artists. Through studio work, rehearsals and concerts, it offers portraits of Congolese rumba as an essay on the meaning of self and rootedness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rumba-rules-new-genealogies-60635/", "official_url": "https://goldsmithscca.art/event/screening-rumba-rules-new-genealogies-2020/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/476aebbf9550c0061b29d48b3e955f9ea92987106b28623ab50cdec024a32d85-2000.webp"}]}