The Old England Pub

Denver, Colorado’s devilish cumbiadelica outfit Ritmo Cascabel saunters into town leaving a frothy frenzy of güira gallop and Misirlou licks in their wake. Morricone meets Selena in these desert daydream odyssey-romps FFO: The Pulp Fiction soundtrack, Los Bitchos, Elvis Crespo, The Bel Airs, harbouring a dark secret behind sunglasses. Ritmo Cascabel at The Old England Pub.

A Thursday triple threat of soaring alt-rock at the Old E, headed up by Breichiau Hir’s raw Welsh-language power-emo alongside hook-stacked pop grunge from Leicester’s DreamCage and heavy jazz-spliced post-rock from Brighton’s Mirepoix. Loud, loud, loud. Breichiau Hir + Dreamcage + Riff Raff

Freakishly cursed and enchanting, Evil Sword conjures a descent into the Unknown (Over The Garden Wall style), complete with goblin metal, no-wave sorcery, hypnotic bass and unhinged tales of horror. This weird and warped sonic lore’s bolstered by ancient avant-folk balladeers Scops and is utterly essential FFO: Schwet, Comus, Mortiis, Gentle Stranger, Tough Sell. Pennsylvanian alternative goblin horror-metal

Glacial darkwave, dreamy trip-hop and brooding electronica with a witch house flair, Bristol newcomers Keep Breathing are surefire new faves FFO kelora, IC3PEAK, Kedr Livanskiy, Salem, Crystals Castles. Catch them at the Old E alongside Southwest emo rockers Too Pretty, I’m Scared and tender indie-pop from Purpl. Keep Breathing, Purpl, too pretty, I'm scared

Massive four-biller of shape-shifting experimentalism from the ever-generous IGH crew! At the helm: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra collaborators Raymond MacDonald + Jer Reid with their playful, freeform improvisations on guitar and sax. Plus twisted industrial noise manipulations from Bryn Ward, reverb-soaked post-doo-wop from newbies Patsy Delve, and, ofc, IGH’s ever-morphing house band. UK AVANT GARDE GIANTS W/ BRIS ECLECTIC WEIRDNESS