• The Fiddler's Elbow (map)
  • 1 Malden Road
  • London, NW5 3HS
  • United Kingdom

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We are The Non-Nonconformists, a band from London who started in 2012.

Our first self-titled album, falling into what people have called "gritty minimalism" was released early 2014 featuring "You Think You're the Bollocks but You're a Cunt". "Say it Nicely" and "Why is Everything so Shit?". Then a very quickly recorded, very mixed follow-up, "Let's Walk Around Aimlessly Sometime Soon" was released late spring, early summer 2015 - tests, mistakes, warts, vulnerable, thrown-together, embarrassing, and some better songs too, like "Ukrainian Girl" "Something to dance To" "Not Another Mid-Grey Day" "I'm big in Liechtenstein" and "It Was a Party".

After recording and releasing the well-received single "Why can't life be really groovy?" in the spring of 2017, a three-year break followed, releasing another album "Confusement" in late 2020. 

From the release of "Confusement" and subsequent singles we have played a variety of gigs at venues including The Dublin Castle (camden), The St. Mortiz Club (soho), The New Cross Inn, and have previously played The Water Rats and The Windmill (Brixton).

We are hungry for gigs as we gear-up to release new singles and a new album.

We always bring a crowd and won't disappoint.

DESERT CLOUDS

London based Desert Clouds deliver ’60s psychedelic/rock influences and ’90s arrangements (or the other way around), with their own distinctive dark sound.

Latest Release:

Planexit (2022) Mandrone Records 

‘SICK’, an Alt-Rock band with a difference! Initially, created by brother and sister back 10 years ago in Coventry and have since been performing across London. I am Jorge, the Lead guitarist and in recent years, Gleb joined us as our bass player, Miguel joined as the drummer and Mirte as the lead singer 🤘🤘🤘! All together, we form ‘SICK’ and our mission is to rock your ass!

Formed in 2021, Dead Actors is a London and Brighton based art-rock quartet which began life post-lockdown as a vessel for the songwriting of Jonah D Hartley, who sits on a decade of experience in the outer reaches of the underground. After a number of serendipitous encounters and surprise reunions the band came to consist of Daniel Brown on his self- constructed Evil Guitar, who can more often be found doubled over, writhing and whacking his strings with tools than strumming them; Ciaran Harris on bass who provides a thumping heartbeat to this spectacle and Ewan Vellinga, whose limber drumming keeps it moving forwards. Together with Jonah’s fanatical songwriting, sprawling guitar and compelling lyricism, Dead Actors is equal parts shadow-puppetry, cinema, noise rock and folk song.

The group’s debut album, Dancing Plague of 1518, was self-released in 2021 and received radio play from both Graham Duff and Colin Newman of Wire. It featured the single Evil Hour, which currently sits somewhere in the thousand plays club. After a string of shows around Brighton the band recorded a follow up EP, A Shouting Throughout Heaven, released in March and following which they set their sights further afield to play shows in London and Leeds.