Bird On The Wire

Ulrika Spacek

Gigs

London

Lafayette

Mahalia Presents...

No Guidnce

Humble The Great

Dido Wilson

Nosaj Thing

Kilimanjaro presents

X AMBASSADORS

\+ Support

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X Ambassadors

Home (with Machine Gun Kelly, X Ambassadors & Bebe Rexha)

X Ambassadors - Unsteady

Sfven

It's Pride! Come celebrate with us and some very special guests as we celebrate queer pride, joy and power!

Gal Pals is a queer dance party for women, trans and non-binary people, playing the best in female-fronted pop, hip-hop, r&b and queer bangers!

Expect to hear: Ashnikko, Beyonce, Bree Runway, Britney, COBRAH, Cardi B, Carly Rae Jepson, Charli XCX, CupcakKe, Destiny’s Child, Doja Cat, Dua Lipa, Grimes, Janelle Monae, Jennifer Lopez, Kim Petras, Kylie, Lady Gaga, Lizzo, Megan Thee Stallion, Muna, Peaches, Princess Nokia, Rihanna, Robyn, SOPHIE, Shygirl, Sugababes and many more!

WHO CAN COME TO GAL PALS?

Gal Pals is an intentional space prioritising queer women, trans and/or non-binary people and those of marginalised gender expressions.

As our Pride events are extremely popular, if you are not in the aforementioned groups, we are asking you NOT to attend on this occasion. This will allow us to hold space for the people Gal Pals prioritises. The only exception is for PAs and carers.

In short, allies, please stay home this time around, or choose another party to go to.

EVENT INFO:

This event is 18+ and you will need ID for entry! No ID = no entry

Doors close at 1am

Tickets are non-refundable, however, if the event sells out, you can return your ticket on DICE and it will be offered to the DICE Waiting List.

ACCESSIBILITY:

Lafayette is wheelchair accessible with accessible toilets.

If you require a PA/Carer they will receive free entry, please contact us directly at 1800galpals@gmail.com. You must do this at least 48 hours before the event.

If you need a queue jump for accessibility reasons please inform a member of staff and they will let you skip the queue.

There is seating available in the venue, in the bar space next to the main dancefloor and in the courtyard upstairs.

Flashing lights will be used throughout the night on the dancefloor. Additionally, strobe lighting may be used during the night, please let us know at least 48 hours in advance if this is going to be an issue and we can request no strobes.

Full access information here: https://www.lafayettelondon.com/info

Please contact us at 1800galpals@gmail.com if you have any further questions re. access, or if there is anything we can do to make Gal Pals more accessible for you.

WELFARE:

Safe Only will be providing welfare support for this event. They will be highly recognisable in their neon pink high vis.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, unwell or someone is making you feel uncomfortable, please speak to someone from the welfare team.

All of their team are highly trained in conflict resolution, de-escalation and drug awareness/response. They centre harm reduction in everything they do and are here for you.

In addition you can always speak to someone from the Gal Pals crew (we will be wearing big Gal Pals badges), or venue security who have all been briefed on our safer spaces policies and LGBTQ inclusion.

This is an 18+ event

Gal Pals: Pride

MUNA - What I Want

party

Party

Adam Melchor

Real Estate

SYML

Where's My Love

DEERHOOF have continually quested for daring storytelling and radical sounds over their nineteen boundless albums, as experimental as they are pop. Deerhoof’s most recent album ‘Miracle Level’(out now on Joyful Noise) is also their first to be recorded and mixed in a recording studio. Not because they had tired of their anarchic sound, but because they wanted to open their secretive DIY comfort zone up to something new and uncomfortable. Our research has not turned up many examples of a DIY band waiting 28 years to entrust their record to a proper producer.

‘Miracle-Level’ is an avant-garde, anti-fascist carnival, its spicy surprises whispered conspiratorially and lit by candlelight. Sit down, let me tell you a story celebrating the infinite small wonders of existence…the miracles that spontaneously present themselves when we’re not distracted by the tribalism and manipulation of our death-driven masters…the miracles that Artificial Intelligence will never replicate. Deerhoof speak in a secret code in which hooks abound, genre is nonexistent, and magic ever awaits us.

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Upset The Rhythm

Deerhoof

Deerhoof - Miracle-Level

Deerhoof - Midnight, The Stars and You

Buck Meek

Indiana

Germaine Dunes

Over the past year, Daniel Norgren has performed solo, alongside his band, and with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra.  

Outside of touring, he has provided the soundtrack for this year’s Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner, ‘Le Otto Montagne’ (dir. by Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch), and also Australian documentary ‘The Road To Patagonia’ (winner Best Film Byron Bay International Film Festival). 

With fewer than 30 live dates in 2022 - the majority being sold-out evenings - it is not an exaggeration to say that in 2023 it will likely not be ‘when’ you see Norgren live, but ‘if’.

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Daniel Norgren

Moonshine Got Me

Daniel Norgren - Whatever Turns You On

Boy Bleach

Metropolis Music presents Geese.

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Geese

Geese - Cowboy Nudes

EFG London Jazz Festival Launch Party with Colectiva

Join us for the EFG London Jazz Festival Launch Party with the all-female COLECTIVA. They explore the spaces between Afro-Latin music and Jazz while reflecting on themes of sisterhood and female empowerment.

Blending deep Latin groove, experimental textures, wild horn lines and thoughtful arrangements, COLECTIVA’s fresh compositions are rooted in the sounds of Africa, Latin America and the diaspora.

Their debut single, Under The, written in collaboration with jazz pianist Maria Grapsa and released on Movimientos, within one week received widespread support from platforms including Sounds and Colours, Worldwide FM, Soho Radio and Women in Jazz.

In 2019, COLECTIVA won the Latin American UK Awards for 'Best Alternative Act’.

This is an 18+ event

EFG London Jazz Festival Launch Party: Colectiva

Colectiva

VC Pines

Jasmine Jethwa

Scarlet Pleasure

Last Dinosaurs

Italo Disco

Last Dinosaurs - Zoom

BEKA

Location Unknown ◐ (feat. BEKA) - Brooklyn Session

BEKA & HONNE - More Than Friends

The Xcerts

We Built This City

"The waiting was the hardest part; accepting and living in love is where Pianos find the will to go fearlessly forward." - Pitchfork

A lot has changed since Pianos Become The Teeth last played London - a searing, sold out, two night stand at London's Bush Hall back in 2018 - but thankfully Pianos are a band that never stop changing. The Baltimore, D.C., five-piece started life a screamo band and gained an enthusiastic fanbase via 2009’s Old Pride and 2011’s The Lack Long After. However, shortly afterward frontman Kyle Durfey stopped screaming and the band began incorporating post-rock into their sound with 2014’s Keep You and 2018’s Wait For Love, a notable departure from the mould of their early releases.

Their latest release, Drift, represents another quantum leap for the band; the culmination of the band’s penchant for redefining and transcending their sound and it does so in a way that stays true to their artistic and aesthetic vision. The album's first single “Genevieve” is a perfect encapsulation of this sentiment. Although it’s less than five minutes long, the song feels like it goes through countless gradients as the tempo almost imperceptibly builds from a spacious ballad to an explosive anthem. Simultaneously the song sees Durfey questioning his self-worth via his poetic lyrics, which he prefers to keep ambiguous in order for the listeners to not have any preconceived notions about his imagery. From being just close enough to watch things slip away on “The Tricks” to likening himself to “flood damage in the dark” on the minimalist, Portishead-inspired ballad “Skiv,” Drift’s lyrics mirror the moody nature of the music, both of which sometimes need multiple listens to decipher. “I refer to a song like ‘Buckley’ as “heavy blue” because there are heavy parts in there but they are really deliberate,” Durfey says.

We certainly can't think of many bands who have toured with everyone from The Menzingers to Coheed And Cambria while sonically referencing The National or Radiohead, which is about as good a reason to love a band as you're gonna find. We cannot wait to explore one of the most transfixing albums in recent memory live and in the flesh.

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Pianos Become The Teeth

Pianos Become The Teeth - Genevieve

Pianos Become the Teeth - Genevieve

The Boxer Rebellion

Diamonds

ritish singer-songwriter Henry Grace has partnered with the charity Help Musicians for a special one-off show at Lafayette in London for World Mental Health Day on October 10th 2023. The show will raise funds and awareness for Music Minds Matter, the free 24/7 mental health service for anyone working in music, from Help Musicians.

An intimate evening of stripped-back performances, Henry is joined by multi-award-winning Americana and Blues artist Elles Bailey, Ivor Novello winner Jamie Lawson and Mystery Jets’ frontman Blaine Harrison.

“Our hope is that the night itself—simply by bringing artists together in the spirit of mental health—will make a real difference in helping those who are struggling believe things can and will get better” Henry explains.

This is a 16+ event

the Event Organiser, AEG Presents

Help Musicians present Songs Through The Dark

Cheats and Liars

Jamie Lawson

Blaine Harrison

Elles Bailey

Henry Grace

Blondshell

Marie Naffah at Lafayette.

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Marie Naffah

Chartreuse

Three Days

Chartreuse - Three Days

Having cut her teeth playing in Wellington band Two Lane Blacktop, and Sydney act Teenager, Pip Brown’s incredible knack for a catchy pop hook coupled with an 80s rock chic ambiance was quickly noticed when she began releasing tracks online as Ladyhawke in 2008. She was signed to a major label, moved to the UK, and her eponymous solo debut album made her hot property across the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.

She toured relentlessly, and picked up multiple NZ Music Awards, ARIAs, and nominations for Brit Awards, MTV Awards, and NME Awards. Pip’s songwriting connected because it managed to be both aspirational and relatable. She seemed effortlessly cool and distinctive but also just like a best mate, and while her music and art beautifully conjure a bold and fantastical world, they also capture her genuine, personable nature.

The darker, more guitar-based record ‘Anxiety’ followed in 2012, before the bright and breezy pop of ‘Wild Things’ arrived in 2016 – each album a kind of reaction to the one that came before.

This is a 16+ event.

FORM Presents

Ladyhawke

Ladyhawke - Black White & Blue

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