The Louisiana

This is not a drill: Thorny is back with another irregular offering from the fringes of performance art. With Swansea’s finest goblincore bard Buoys Buoys Buoys, freakazoid anti-folk five-piece punk collective The Freakshow, T4T’s George Avill in experimental noise performance meltdown + tender singer-songwriter torch songs from Thorny’s very own Órla Bligh. Buoys Buoys Buoys / George Avill / Orla Bligh / Freakshow + more TBC

Snarling, chaotic, punked-out rock burners, Pleasure Dome are the high octane Bristol band you need to curb your Idles obsession. Catch them before they blow the hell up. The Pleasure Dome, Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine, Sometimes, AVA

Sell out warning! Japrocksampler meets Krautrocksampler via deliciously acid-fried heavy space rock oozing with doom-laden fuzz solos and psych-out electronics. Dhidalah are ripping this genre a new one from the Far East alongside Guruguru Brain label mates Kikagaku Moyo and Minami Deutsch. DHIDALAH live at The Louisiana.

Leather felines feral with the garage disease, frothing at the mouth with psychobilly madness - the best band from Basingstoke since Basingstoke began? Fuck it, Pussycat & the Dirty Johnsons might be the fiercest, scuzziest rock band since the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Let them claw your itch, FFO: the Cramps, Horrorpops, the Creepshow, the Fuzztones. DIRTY ROCK N ROLL / RIOT GRRL / PSYCHO SURF

Classic Louisiana triple-threat of local treasures: post-cowpunk newbies Boys celebrating their debut EP launch with high-calibre support from baroque pop-rock four-piece Milkie and infectious crankwavers Pet Insurance. Essential FFO: Katy J Pearson, English Teacher, Du Blonde, Prima Queen, Low Girl. Boys EP release - ‘New Age Cowgirl’. With support from Milkie and Pet Insurance.