Ona Mafalda

Ona Mafalda is a Madrid-based artist with a songwriting degree from Berklee College of Music. She has released over 30 songs, blending Mediterranean, Balkan, London, and New York influences into a unique sound. Describing herself as a “compulsive composer and inevitable lyricist,” her music mixes personal storytelling with theatrical flair. Her 2021 EP 'Bailando sin sentido' gained critical acclaim and secured her place in the indie scene. With a captivating voice, she's been compared to artists like Lorde, Lana del Rey, and Mitski. She has performed at festivals such as Primavera Sound and opened for Coldplay at Estadi Olímpic, where she presented her album 'ONA'. In 2024, she played ESNS Festival and continues expanding internationally. Ona Mafalda is currently releasing new music, with singles like 'Pink Lies' and 'Sedated' from her upcoming album. With bold creativity and a growing fanbase, she’s a rising pop artist to watch.

Joanie Olivia

Raised in a world of extremes—brought up by a nun, a spy, and a gambler—Joanie Olivia spent her formative years navigating womanhood through tragic romances, dive bars and strip clubs.

Her widescreen music paints sunsets coloured by longing and rebellion. A love letter to women, Joanie’s songs are wrapped in heartbreak, hope, and the hypnotic allure of a world on fire.

This is an 18+ event

The Victoria Dalston

JaguarShoes Collective

Ona Mafalda + Joanie Olivia

Ona Mafalda

Gigs

London

The Victoria

Short Waves Presents:

DAPPLED CITIES

Dappled Cities are one of Australia’s most distinctive indie rock bands, known for their shimmering guitars, layered harmonies, and ambitious art-pop soundscapes. Formed in Sydney in the early 2000s, the band quickly established themselves with an eclectic blend of melody-driven songwriting and a dynamic live presence. Over the course of their career, they have released five critically acclaimed studio albums, including Lake Air, and Zounds, both of which received ARIA Award nominations and widespread praise for their bold sonic experimentation.

Dappled Cities have toured extensively across Australia, the United States, and Europe, sharing stages with acts like Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, and LCD Soundsystem, and playing major festivals including SXSW and The Great Escape. Their global reach and adventurous musical style have earned them a devoted fanbase and accolades for pushing the boundaries of Australian indie music.

Known for their seamless fusion of experimental textures with infectious pop hooks, Dappled Cities have continued to evolve, with new music slated for release across 2025. Whether performing on a festival stage or crafting intricate studio albums, the band remains a vital force in Australia’s alternative music scene, celebrated for their creativity, ambition, and enduring originality.

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SNUB

London’s Power Trio.

KIPP BOUCHER

Soft rock ballads with influences including Randy Newman and Leonard Cohen

Dappled Cities / Snub / Kipp Boucher

Timebomb

Kipp Boucher

Snub

Dappled Cities

Sheffield’s own beloved trailblazing post-punk trio return for their first London show in quite some time – Bromheads Jacket bring the noise this November

Mad Sounds

Bromheads Jacket 

Bromheads Jacket - Trip to the Golden Arches

Bromheads Jacket

SHORT WAVES presents a DJ party featuring two explosive performers: BRAVA.

BRAVA – DJ & MC

A high-energy force behind the decks and on the mic, BRAVA blends raw bass, dembow, footwork, grime, jungle, and more into genre-defying, dancefloor-shaking sets. Known for her galactic stage presence and full-throttle vocals, she’s performed at major festivals like Coachella, Sónar, Primavera Sound, and clubs across Europe.

As an MC, her recent release ‘YONKI DEL BAJO’ (produced by Metrakit) adds to a growing discography, including EPs ‘ME HA BAJADO LA REGLA’ and ‘UNA DE BRAVA!’, and collabs with artists like Yourboykiran and Greta Ch’aska. BRAVA is the voice of a new generation—bold, outspoken, and built for the rave.

BRAVA

Brava

Join us for London’s Proper Indie Night!

Expect all your favourite indie floor fillers including; Tame Impala / The Strokes / Wet Leg / Franz Ferdinand / The Libertines / The White Stripes / Foals / Parcels / Feet / Shame / Sports Team / Confidence Man / The Maccabees / Idles / Fontaines D.C. / Slaves / Hot Chip / The Vaccines / The Streets / Blur / Hard Fi / Suede / Jamie T / The Rakes / Wolf Alice / Courteeners / The Cure / MGMT / The Ramones / Ocean Colour Scene / Cast / Klaxons / Doves / Glasvegas / Blossoms / Babyshambles / Pigeon Detectives / Weekend / Depeche Mode / Charlatans / Blur / Maccabees / Florence & the Machine / Two Door Cinema Club / Peace / BRMC / Embrace / Hurricane #1 / Ride / Catatonia / Ash / Tears For Fears / R.E.M. / Klaxons / Kings Of Leon / Miles Kane / Joy Division / Zutons / Clash / Dexters / The K's / Drums / Jake Bugg / Circa Waves / Foster the People / Art Brut / Blondie / Von Bondies / Stone Roses / Tame Impala / Nirvana / Horrors / XX / The Rifles / Rolling Stones / The Cribs / Milburn / The Black Keys / Arcade Fire / Editors / LCD Soundsystem / The Holloways / Feeder / The View / Pulp / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / and many, many more

This is an 18+ event (Photo ID Required).

London's Proper Indie Night

Arctic Monkeys - One For The Road

Arctic Monkeys - One for the Road

The Liquorice Experiment — UK Tour 2025

The Liquorice Experiment is a psych/garage band formed in London in 2016. They began playing shows around the city before returning to Valencia, where they are now based.

In 2022, they recorded their debut LP How Many Lies with the Spanish label Snap! Records. Their second LP, Million Faces, was recorded in 2025 and will be released by Desdemona Records.

The band has appeared at major events and festivals such as Purple Weekend, Le Beat Bespoke, Berlin Beat Invasion, and Brighton Mod Weekender, sharing lineups with renowned artists including Kula Shaker, Temples, Elephant Stone, La Luz, Los Bitchos, Mystic Braves, and Twink.

They will be supported by Sierpinski, a reverb-rock/shoegaze sextet based in Southsea. Formed in early 2020, Sierpinski channel grooving basslines and haze-drenched riffs that blend the spirit of ’60s psych with the textures of early ’90s shoegaze. They have shared stages with The Confederate Dead, The Warlocks, and Magic Shoppe.

This event is proudly promoted by Sugar Kane Productions.

THE LIQUORICE EXPERIMENT + special guests Sierpinski

Sierpinski

The Liquorice Experiment

TMT Tuesdays make their final appearance of 2025 with The Money Trench podcast and the fierce panda label paws steady on the seething new band tiller. The winter countdown brings us heroically outspoken Glasgow punks SOAPBOX in the soapy box seat, with their new 'Boiling A Frog' single hopping out this very day. Sametime bring the pop vigour and a Bastille support in the tour van rear mirror.

AFM presents

SOAPBOX + Sametime

Soapbox

Sametime

Short Waves Presents:

Heavy Wild

On the back of headline shows in New York, Paris & London to celebrate the release of their debut EP ‘Death Dreams’ earlier this year, lo-fi alt-rockers heavy wild return with blistering new single ‘Destroy The End’, a swirling, brooding, track which blend elements of post-punk, shoegaze and darkwave. The group celebrate the release with a headline show at The Victoria in Dalston, November 26th, their final London date of 2025.

For fans of: Joy Division, Jesus & Mary Chain, Velvet underground, The Cure.

Alphabet

London-based alternative band alphabet layer gauzy shoegaze sonics over sharp, melodic pop frameworks. Formed by close friends Lena, Milo, Tom and George in 2023 , the band emerged from Brightons DIY scene before reconnecting in London to create a distinctive sonic identity that blends intensity with atmosphere.

Be Civil

Be Civil are an alt rock/noise rock band formed in late 2024. Taking cues from the likes of Pixies, Sonic Youth and Radiohead, expect a high octane show full of fuzz, moody textures and with plenty of drivey hooks.

Heavy Wild + Alphabet + Be Civil

alphabet

heavy wild

*“A self-contained minimal DIY disco dance party to heat up even the chilliest Midwestern basement.”* - Maximum Rock N Rol

*“During a time in which so much of the post-punk landscape is becoming formulaic, repetitive, and uninspiring, groups like Clickbait offer an essential alternative to the alternative.”* \- Far Out Magazine

In the strange margins of the midwestern punk matrix, far from the micro genre divinations of ‘egg-’, or ‘chain-’, the disappointingly codified consensus sounds of post-punk in dour coffee shops everywhere, arrives Clickbait. The band’s members are creative workers with nonstop energy - setmaker/stylists, toy designers, poets, non-standard record shop owners - and their combined talents create a live show - like an avant-garde musical revue with Bauhausian costumes and popping colors - as a lo-fi Gesamtkunstwerk. More so than any other band, Clickbait have a personal focus on the obscure insights of punk’s suppressed and underheard histories, and their willingness to travel deep into their music’s defiled archive has led them to a signature sound. Here, a formally strict rhythm section gives way to spontaneous aesthetics in guitar and voice. Sandra’s commanding voice is in the thick of it all - playacting, yelling pissed, rehashing neurotic monologues we are not supposed to hear. We decided to cut this record live, unfussily, without much computational processing, in pursuit of a raw sound ideal. A pleasure!

This is an 18+ event.

CLUB.THE.MAMMOTH

CLUB.THE.MAMMOTH.

Clickbait + Blow Dry + Big Fossa

Clickbait - Pumpkin Spice

Clickbait

Blow Dry

Big Fossa

BREAKUP HAIRCUT are the Scooby-Doo gang if they swapped the Mystery Machine for drums and guitars - fast, fun and a little bit chaotic. Born at First Timers Fest 2019 with two simple goals: be friends, play fast - they’ve been gigging, making pals and solving mysteries ever since. Now they’re back with their sophomore album, and they’re throwing a full-on party at The Victoria, bringing along two bands they love and a whole crew of friends (that’s you!) for a loud, joyful celebration.

JEMMA FREEMAN AND THE COSMIC SOMETHING

\*\*cosmic adventures from south of the river to the stratosphere\*

THWACK! are London’s foremost orchestra-infused punk rock imagineers. An 8-foot zombie Maggie Thatcher, Riot Grrrl, seductive string harmonies, redemptive angels, bad puns, sapphic yearning, scintillating outfits – find all this and more at the next THWACK! set...

Breakup Haircut / THWACK! / Jemma Freeman And The Cosmic Something

Jemma Freeman and The Cosmic Something

Thwack

Breakup Haircut

IT'S JUST A BIG GIRLY POP NIGHT.

SING-A-LONG BANGERS ALL NIGHT.

ADDISON RAE

ARIANA GRANDE

BEYONCÉ

BRITNEY SPEARS

CHARLI XCX

CHAPPELL ROAN

DOJA CAT

DUA LIPA

GRACIE ABRAMS

JANET JACKSON

KYLIE MINOGUE

LADY GAGA

MADONNA

MARIAH CAREY

MILEY CYRUS

MITSKI

NATASHA BEDINGFIELD

NICKI MINAJ

OLIVIA RODRIGO

RIHANNA

SABRINA CARPENTER

SPICE GIRLs

SUGABABES

TATE MCRAE

TAYLOR SWIFT

Shuffle LDN

A BIG GIRLY POP NIGHT

Shuffle is your ultimate genre-jumping club night where anything goes and everything grooves. From indie rock anthems to pop bangers, 80s synth magic to disco floor-fillers—and everything in between—Shuffle keeps you dancing with a wild mix of timeless tunes and unexpected favorites. No rules, just vibes.

SHUFFLE 

FORM

FORM Presents

Redwood

In Your Arms

Short Waves Presents:

Glassio:

Glassio is the indie-electronic project of Irish-Iranian songwriter and producer Sam R., known for blending dreamy pop melodies with danceable, melancholic beats. Since launching the project in New York, Glassio has released two full-length albums and several EPs, earning over 25 million streams to date. His lush, genre-blurring sound has led to support slots for acts like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Nada Surf, and Electric Youth, as well as song placements on Netflix and HBO. Now based in London, he’s touring new material—including recent single “Heartstrings,” a sun-soaked, synthy indie-pop track with echoes of Blondie and The Drums.

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Glassio + guests

A Million Doubts

Glassio

The only thing better than an Indie Disco is an Indie Disco with live bands! And we've got the best show this side of 1967 for you to kick off the Christmas party season. Amnesty favourites The Crystal Teardrop have carved some time out of their busy schedule to smother us in their warm Psychedelic Indie-Pop glow - you may have heard us spinning their single By The River at some point and their album has been on repeat at HQ ever since its release back in May. They're rocking. We love them. And you will too. Support will come from home team BLESS. (fronted by one half of Indie Amnesty Joei Supernova) PLUS our favourite Camden Queen LJ Sharpe & the Monte Carlos. Then the best rock'n'roll, indie & Britpop until the small hours. All for a tenner.

INDIE AMNESTY: THE CRYSTAL TEARDROP X BLESS. LIVE!

BLESS.

The Crystal Teardrop

Hard of Hearing Magazine Xmas Party!

We're throwing a Christmas party, in the only way we know how - putting on a couple of our favourite live bands! This time we're at The Victoria in Dalston and we'll be joined by This Is The Deep and Dreamwave for a one-off double headline show.

This Is The Deep is a London-based project that merges music, immersive sets, and animation into a singular world of sound and imagery. Founded by visual artist and songwriter Ranny Macdonald, the 9 piece band's compositions are deeply rooted in the songcraft of 50's and ’60s pop classicism and are presented with cinematic arrangements of cascading horns, strings, percussion, and synth, combining orchestral folk and garage rock, with a lushness recalling the Smile-era Beach Boys and Leonard Cohen's Death of A Ladies Man.

Bristol’s Dreamwave have sold out various headline tours in the UK & EU, and performed at festivals including Glastonbury, The Great Escape, Supersonic’s Block Party (FR), Left of the Dial (NL), Dot2Dot, Simple Things & Stowaway. New releases see the band double down on their exploration into the vast world of genres that fall under the ‘Neo-Pyschedelia’ umbrella; usually pushing and pulling between Garage Rock and Dream Pop.

Hard of Hearing Xmas: This is the Deep x Dreamwave

This Is The Deep

Dreamwave

A club night celebrating new-age indie and post-punk icons, Indie Is A Place features tracks from Fontaines D.C., Arctic Monkeys, The Libertines, The Strokes, The Maccabees, Sorry, IDLES, and Fat Dog, as well as a sprinkling of old-school classics.

Indie Is A Place

Pigeon Dog invite and command you to join them in celebrating the release of upcoming single ‘Bag Of Skin’ at The Victoria. With support from Cordelia Gartside and Meat Cute.

Pigeon Dog is grungey, explosive, filthy, and bursting at the seams with jaunty earworm melodies, big ol’ spiky riffs, and tongue-in-cheek lyrics charged with outrage.

Cordelia Gartside’s music is a powerful blend of stark lyricism, post-rock intensity and cathartic release. Tremolo guitars collapse into distortion, loaded silences are shattered by noise.

MEAT CUTE IS SUICIDE CABARET, A SHAMBLING PARODY OF MALE PERSPECTIVE. SONGS ABOUT JOY, AND JIZZ; THE REST IS MEAT

Pigeon Dog: Single Launch Party

hospital corners

meat cute

Cordelia Gartside

West Country emo-esque dreamers CHINA BEARS slink into town for a special free fierce panda Christmas gig to launch the deluxe version of their artwarming 'Participation Trophy' album, now with added acoustic and live versions. Expect a heartpoundingly passionate showdown running the gamut from stadium-sized emoting to intimate indie tremblings. Kentish tykes CAMBER bring the teenage kickings of their excellent 'What Would You Do?' panda EP.

CHINA BEARS + CAMBER

Meet Me in London

China Bears

Camber

(thank god).

deBasement headline The Victoria in December for a night of live music and DJs. Support TBC. Presented by Omen Magazine.

This event will run from 8pm-3am with a mixture of live music and DJs.

All tickets have the same access but will be released at three different price tiers, allowing us to offer a more affordable option for those who jump on this early, while raising as much as we can for Charity!

**All profits from this event will go to War Child.**

Omen Magazine

Omen magazine

deBasement: War Child Fundraiser

FRONT LEFT SPEAKER

deBasement

Novelty Island \[aka Tom McConnell\] releases third album Jigsaw Causeway on October 3rd, 2025 via Liverpool indies 9x9 Records & Ripe Records. In support, the Jigsaw Causeway tour will be trailing across the country throughout the autumn, calling at Novelty Island strongholds of Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and London.

Novelty Island’s hook-filled dream pop channels surrealism and Northern melancholy through classic songwriting. The project is led by Liverpool-based songwriter and producer, Tom McConnell, who describes the sound as “Paul McCartney having an argument with Bernard Black”. Eclectic songs inspired by childhood, motorways, trains, old televisions, cowboys, space, birds and balloons form their first two albums How Are You Coping With This Century? and Wallsend Weekend Television. Both albums have received great support from Shindig!, MOJO, BBC 6 Music, BBC Introducing and Absolute Radio amongst others. The Novelty Island live band have performed at Glastonbury Festival and toured the UK extensively as a headline act and support to Sea Power, The Pale White, Scott Lavene, High Llamas and China Crisis.

Support will come from Siblings and Credits

Siblings are an alternative indie folk band based in south London. Formed in the heatwaves of 2022, Siblings’ sound draws on ethereal folk, classic ‘70s storytelling, and the atmospheric flair of spirit jazz. Self producing their music at Strange Melody Recording—a creative hub co-owned by drummer/producer Ben Andrewes and guitarist/keys player Rob Fenner—the band showcases their ability to merge timeless songwriting with rich production and immersive textures. At the heart of the group lies frontman Theo DW’s baritone, guiding listeners through the lush sonic landscape, balancing vibrant imagery with gently infectious melody. The band have played a handful of shows in London, toured as the backing band for Californian band Sylvie and in 2026 the band will be branching out around the UK and EU in support of their upcoming EP.

Credits offer an escape from the humdrum of modern life. Channeling Laurel Canyon Americana, 2000s chamber pop, and alt-country through a reverence for classic songwriting, they have emerged in 2025 as one of Liverpool's most exciting homegrown acts. “Intimate, dynamic, and laced with just the right amount of bite” - their live show has garnered a reputation for lush harmonies and raw musicianship, and has seen them support the likes of britpop-legends Shack. They’ve been compared to Wilco, Doves, Midlake, and CSN&Y, and are set to release their third single in the coming months.

Novelty Island / Siblings / Credits 

Siblings

Novelty Island

Brutallixmas returns for another festive extravaganza. Expect crying, christmas songs and circle pits.

**Brutalligators  
**FFO: PUP, The Menzingers, Pkew Pkew Pkew

**Other Half**  
FFO: Gilla Band, Fugazi, Pavement

**Period Drama**  
FFO: My Chemical Romance, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Lesbianism

How To Make Friends

Brutallixmas 2025

Brutalligators - Drunk Christmas (Forget This Year) [feat. Brightr, H_ngm_n & All Better]

Brutalligators - Drunk Christmas (Forget This Year)

Other Half

Brutalligators

Scared To Dance is back at The Victoria Dalston!

Resident Paul Richards is joined by special guest DJs for New Year's Eve. Expect to hear the likes of Talking Heads, Wet Leg, Blondie, Fontaines D.C, David Bowie, Geese, The Cure, Wolf Alice, Joy Division, Dry Cleaning, Iggy Pop, Lana Del Rey, The Clash, Cate Le Bon, The Smiths and more.

Scared To Dance

Scared to Dance

Scared To Dance: New Year's Eve

Iggy Pop - Lust For Life

Paul Richards

Scared To Dance is back at The Victoria Dalston!

Our guest DJ is Billie Marten joining resident Paul Richards. Expect to hear the likes of Talking Heads, Wet Leg, Blondie, Fontaines D.C, David Bowie, Geese, The Cure, Wolf Alice, Joy Division, Dry Cleaning, Iggy Pop, Lana Del Rey, The Clash, Cate Le Bon, The Smiths and more.

Scared To Dance: Guest DJ Billie Marten

Billie Marten - Feeling

Billie Marten

MIRROR TV AND DISASTERS BY CHOICE PRESENT!

The Snorkel comprise the fantastic Frank Byng - drums, electronics, Ben Cowen -synths, samplers, Roberto Sassi -guitar/sample, Luke Kulukundis - guitar/vox/sampler.The missing link between krautrock and Lee Scratch Perry, they were our guests a few months ago, we are thrilled to have them back with their incredible live set.

The Whistling Heads are Four heads in non-stop refraction. The Whistling heads mould guitars, bass and drums in a chaotic cloud of noise. Angular, dance-inducing post punk. A roller coaster ride against the flow. And then a rainbow cut by an airplane passing by.

Sons of Viljems will complete two years of ‘Lithospheric Melodies’, their debut album on Disasters by Choice. This is the last show of their tour that has seen them perform from Birmingham to Sicily and back. They have a super special guest on the night.

Mirror TV

SNORKEL - THE WHISTLING HEADS - SONS OF VILJEMS (+ GUEST)

Short Waves Presents:

Balderdasch  is an Irish experimental pop artist based in London.

Playful, unpredictable, and full of sharp turns, her sonic world has been described in live performance as “avant-garde reimagined.” Her debut EP Control the Ending received support from both BBC Introducing and BBC Radio 6, and led to a showcase performance at Ireland Music Week 2025.

Her forthcoming EP ‘Stillness Gyrating’ is slated for release in early 2026. The work comprises six wryly humoured tracks that flit between inhibition and intimacy, atop a shifting bed of oddball samples and sounds.

Balderdasch + guests

Waster

Balderdasch

the Event Organiser, AEG Presents

Fright Years 

Do What You Wanna

Fright Years

Confetto are throwing a feel good party and everyone's invited! Yes, even Rachel and Olivia (IYKYK). The North Hertfordshire based pop duo bring their brand of disarmingly fun pop to the dance floor, so bring your most outrageous dance moves and where possible, transportable inflatables to the front! So what are you waiting for? Put on something vibrant and experience Confetto first hand.

Confetto + guests

Confetto - Water Balloons - Demo

Confetto - Water Balloons (Demo)

Confetto

Portals are delighted to present Ni. Hailing from Lyon, France, Ni are one of the most exciting experimental bands around at the moment. Taking influence from prog rock, jazz, math-rock, post-hardcore etc. their music transcends boundaries with it's wild experimentation, complex time signatures and virtuosic musicianship.

For fans of The Dillinger Escape Plan, King Crimson, Don Caballero

"Math Rock? Noise? Metal? Jazz? On these 10 new tracks, Ni delights more than ever in blurring the lines and confusing their audience, remaining true to their desire to go further in experimentation." (It's Psychedlic Baby Magazine).

Supports to be announced.

Portals

Portals Presents: Ni at The Victoria

Ni - Zerkon

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