Swordes bring their live show to London on November 19th.

Completing the line up is Oatmilkandcodeiene + Maya Aki.

This is an 18+ event

Snap Crackle & Pop

Swordes + Oatmilkandcodeine + Maya Aki

Swordes

Oatmilkandcodeine

Gigs

London

The Waiting Room

SPARKLING Are Back – Live on Tour in November 2025!

German, English and French, sweat-drenched live shows,

and a sound that refuses to let you stand still:

SPARKLING return to the stage with their electrifying mix

of indie, post-punk and club vibes!

Since their critically acclaimed multilingual, post-punk

debut I Want To See Everything with widespread support

across BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music airwaves, festival

appearances at SXSW (US) or The Great Escape (UK) and

support shows for Metronomy and Noel Gallagher’s High

Flying Birds, the Cologne-based trio has made a name for

themselves all across Europe.

With their 2022 EP This Is My Life / Das Ist Mein Leben /

C&#39;est Ma Vie, produced by Al Doyle (LCD Soundsystem) and

Joe Goddard (Hot Chip), and their second album We Are

Here To Make You Feel released in 2023 via Moshi Moshi

Records (UK), SPARKLING’s remarkable progression

continued, seeing the band giddily moving further towards

the center of the dancefloor.

Now, SPARKLING are picking up the pace once again: With

their brand-new single &quot;Keep Running&quot; (feat. Digitalism)

and more new music on the horizon, the band hits the road

across Europe again in November 2025.

The Lexington

Sparkling Live

Sparkling

***Slow Life*** - band from Wrexham via London. Steeped in 90s influences, the bands debut single ‘Too busy (trying to find it easy)’ showed lyrical flair and mature songwriting, while Taranau Haf is a journey through welsh language psychedelia. All three Slow Life singles cross genre but remain rooted in an unmistakeable sound.

***Donquix Hotel -*** Donquix Hotel are a London based 4-piece encapsulating the sound of 'Desert Disco' - bringing together influences from Soul, Funk, Indie and Disco.

***Your French Girlfriend -*** Derry/Romford songwriting partnership brought to life with a band. Comparisons ranging from Belle and Sebastian to Eurhythmics, but that doesn't matter as long as you're picking up what we're putting down.

***Artists:*** We are always interested in hearing from talented artists. If you’d like to play at our future events, please get in touch.

***Note: 18+ ID required.*** These events frequently sell out so we recommend buying tickets in advance.

***Refunds:*** Tickets are for the full event and not for individual artists. If an artist cancels your tickets are still valid for the event. We cannot offer refunds.

REAL

Slow Life: Single Launch

Secrets

Your French Girlfriend

Donquix Hotel

Slow Life

Trapped Animal Records

Sunday Driver & Peter Cat

Sunday Driver - Devils

Sunday Driver

Peter Cat

Adrian Crowley released his 10th album 'Measure of Joy' on 7th Feb via Valley Of Eyes Records. Produced by John Parish, the album is full of delicate and beautiful songs, and features backing vocals from Nadine Khouri.

After his June headline at SJQ sold out, we are pleased to announce Adrian Crowley will headline The Waiting Room on 3 December.

Age restriction 18+

Eat Your Own Ears

Adrian Crowley

Adrian Crowley - Measure Of Joy

Join us for an unforgettable night as Arthur Squawks! and Austel takes the stage at The Waiting Room! Get ready for an evening filled with captivating melodies and introspective lyrics.

This performance promises to be a unique musical journey, showcasing both acts latest tracks along with fan favourites!

Gotobeat

Arthur Squawks! and Austel live in London

Austel

Arthur Squawks!

The Skallywags return to live stage on December 5th, as they play The Waiting Room in London.

The Skallywags 

Gotobeat is proud to bring Erotic Secrets of Pompeii back to London to celebrate the release of their new album off the back of their biggest European tour with a special headline show at The Waiting Room on Saturday 6th December.

Support from Ben Brown

Erotic Secrets of Pompeii + Ben Brown

Erotic Secrets of Pompeii - Auguries and Auguries

Erotic Secrets of Pompeii

**🖤 TISS VAMPIRIC: Songs of Paris Tour ❤️**

**with DRIFT. | Inner City Holdings | La Zapette**

**💀⛓ 🕯️A Celebration of Avant-Garde Seduction**

**Tiss Vampiric**

Returns to the stage to unveil their haunting new EP Songs of Paris, performed in full for the first time — along with exclusive unreleased material. Expect Avant-Garde Gothic Cabaret at its most intoxicating: the perfume of candle smoke, the poetry of the strange and the sublime.

**DRIFT.**

Born in the smoke of a dying decade, DRIFT. channels the raw pulse of ’70s Berlin — part gutter, part cathedral. Guitars snarl like alley dogs; synths shimmer like broken glass beneath neon light. This is music for beautiful decay — for lovers who disappear before dawn.

**Inner City Holdings (ICH)**

Enter the mechanical dream. ICH conjures an industrial soundscape that pulses like a dystopian metropolis — a place of surveillance, control, and resistance. Their live performance is part ritual, part rebellion.

**La Zapette**

A pianist, vocalist, and enchantress — La Zapette embodies the romantic. Think gothic elegance meets punk defiance, laced with jazz, nostalgia, and ethereal grit.

**🎟️ Tickets are limited — intimacy guaranteed.**

Red Black Moon 

Tiss Vampiric + DRIFT. + ICH + La Zapette

Tiss Vampiric - Beautiful Freak

Tiss Vampiric 

**SJM Concerts Presents**

**Bella Barbe**

**Plus Support**

Bella Barbe is an 18-year-old North London artist blending alternative soul and R&B. With early singles “Lonely Soldier,” “Ten Toes Down,” and “Go To Dinner,” plus her first production credit on “Into the Night” with Jonny Coffer, she’s fast becoming one of the UK’s most compelling new voices. BBC Introducing called her “an artist walking in the footsteps of Sienna Spiro, Skye Newman, Adele, Billie Eilish, and Amy Winehouse.” Her debut mixtape Bird of Prey lands 5 December 2025.

SJM Concerts

Bella Barbe

**Parallel Lines Presents**

**Skinship**

Plus Special Guests

Parallel Lines

Skinship

Kili Presents:

Cubzoa

\+ My Precious Bunny

Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro Live Limited

Cubzoa

The Tin Man

My Precious Bunny

**pop never dies** does **new year's eve** ! we're gonna be seeing in the new year the only way we know how … we'll be blasting your favourite pop anthems until the early hours✨ expect added glitz, glam and confetti canons, and join us as we say goodbye to the year 2025 with some of the year's biggest hits by Zara Larsson, Lily Allen, JADE, RAYE, Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, Pink Pantheress, Rose Gray, Lady Gaga, Marina, Charli XCX, plus all of the beloved classics from our PND catalogue 🪩

**early bird tickets on sale now!**

The Line Of Best Fit

Pop Never Dies! New Year's Eve Party!

party

Party

**🖤 A G N Ø S I S ❤️**

**💀⛓ 🕯️A Celebration of Gothic Scorcery, Avant-Garde Seduction and Beautiful Chaos**

**Crush of Souls**

Straight from Paris — Crush of Souls delivers a full-force industrial synth assault, fusing synthesised elegance with Cramps-style depravity. Fronted by Charles Rowell (Crocodiles), the band embodies the perfect tension between sleaze and sophistication, neon and decay.

**Petrichor & Lara g.g - Performance Art**

An immersive performance art piece where movement, sound, and space collide. Lara and Rachael unravel hidden stories through visceral, dreamlike expression — a living poem of tension, tenderness, and transformation.

**Francis Pig**

Art punk for the restless. Francis Pig blends avant-garde sensibilities with raw, driving anti-passive rock & roll.

As Punks in Focus declares: “Their sound echoes The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, and The Cramps — raw, energetic, and utterly alive.”

**Jolt**

Margate’s own Joanna Curwood conjures a dark, hypnotic storm — metallic gnarl, fuzz-drenched guitars, and brooding, magnetic vocals. Think Kim Gordon meets PJ Harvey on a midnight sea of distortion and desire.

🎟️ Tickets are limited — intimacy guaranteed.

**\+ A G N Ø S I S (11–2:30AM)**

**When the lights dim, the pulse mutates.**

**Stay for the FREE Mutant Cold Wave Synth Party — a late-night descent into:**

**𐕣 Dark Avant-Garde**

**𐕣 Obscure Hypnotic Beats**

**𐕣 Mutant Goth Synth**

**💀 One night only. One way down.**

Crush of Souls + Francis Pig + Jolt

Crush of Souls - Who Will Silence the Pigs

Crush of Souls - Who Will Silence The Pigs

Crush of Souls

Francis Pig

A G N Ø S I S — Free Mutant Cold Wave Synth Party

When the bands fade, the night mutates.

Stay for a free after-hours descent into Dark Avant-Garde, Obscure Hypnotic Beats, and Mutant Gothic Synth Sorcery — a ritual for the nocturnal, the beautiful, and the strange.  
  
Free entry. Intimacy guaranteed. Stay strange till 2:30 AM.

A G N Ø S I S - Free Mutant Cold Wave Synth Party 

Call It A Year: 1996

One year. All genres.

Expect to hear The Prodigy, Oasis, Spice Girls, Fugees, Take That, Chemical Brothers, Alanis, Pet Shop Boys, Garbage, Underworld, Tori Amos, Ash, Jamiroquai, George Michael, Mark Morrison, Tricky, Manic Street Preachers, Sheryl Crow, REM and more.

Saturday 24th Jan. The Waiting Room, N16

Call It A Year

Call It A Year: 1996

The Prodigy - Firestarter

An unmissable night for music fans to discover exciting new talent and for these rising artists to showcase the music they’ve been crafting. Expect fresh sounds, electric energy, and a showcase of breakout potential.

bothsxdes — London/Paris-based French indie rock artist. For fans of Bloc Party, Weezer, Mudi Sama.

dréa szn — Essex-born alternative artist. For fans of Rachel Chinouriri, Hannah Jadagu, King Isis.

GiGi Polar — London-based, Swiss-born German-Indonesian alternative artist. For fans of EKKSTACY, ThxSoMch, Max Fry.

Malaika — London indie-pop artist. For fans of Keni Titus, BEL, beabadoobee.

DNÜ MEDIA

bothsxdes, dréa szn, GiGi Polar + Malaika

bothsxdes - twentytwenty

bothsxdes

Malaika

dréa szn

GiGi Polar

**CULT FIGURES** - Cult Figures released two classic singles on Swell Maps' Rather Records in 1979 & 1980. Now they're back & coming to a stage near you!

**BONA RAYS** - regenerated / reactivated / reinvigorated female fronted post-punkers from London Town

**Dominic Silvani** (Folk Union) - solo outing for the man with the voice of a thousand caves

Cult Figures + Bona Rays + Dominic Silvani

Cult Figures

Bona Rays

Dominic Silvani

Crosstown Concerts Presents...

Ken Yates

\+ support Katie Grace

This is an 18+ event.

Crosstown Concerts

Ken Yates

 Katie Grace

FORM presents

Wyldest

\+ Special Guests

FORM

FORM Presents

Wyldest

Wyldest - Seastroke

Crosstown Concerts Presents...

Ken Yates

\+ support Tommy Ashby

Tommy Ashby

Eat Your Own Ears presents Pitou at The Waiting Room.

"Amsterdam-born artist Pitou has one of the most arresting voices to emerge from this year, drawing comparisons to the likes of Laura Marling and Julia Holter, crafting intelligent folk-pop that balances the darkness and light of human emotion." - The Independent

Dutch songwriter and composer Pitou has unveiled new single “Too Good To Go”, a wonderfully scattershot song brimming with mania, mischief and cacophony – somewhere in the vein of Björk, Meredith Monk, Jockstrap, and (especially rhythmically) Orchestra Baobab.

Age restriction 18+

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