The best gigs and club nights to book in London this week

Don’t cognize Griff? Get connected committee — Taylor Swift’s a fan. The Miss Me Too prima is presently touring her debut, this summer’s smash Vertigo, and is bringing her glossy melancholic dependable to Alexandra Pally for a midweek prime me-up. Go for a nighttime of euphoric hooks and yearning lyrics. Their poignancy lingers.

Herbie Hancock aside, however galore chances are determination to witnesser a keytar successful the flesh? Take this one, then, and witnesser the four-piece instrumental powerhouse that is Los Bitchos arsenic they tempest Kentish Town. What’s the sound? A spot synth, a small disco, a interaction of Morricone; a just whack of woozy rock’n’roll, and each done a mid-Eighties, MTV deed filter.

Already good nether way, the 4th London iteration of the Pitchfork Festival inactive has countless shows crossed municipality to try, covering a head-spinning array of genres. Fancy reggae riddims oregon Irish indie? Maybe candy-coloured, queer imagination pop? The festival has it all.

Yorkshire-born Nia Archives is acceptable to person Brixton shuddering with her marque of Nineties-flavoured jungle and drum’n’bass. That sound, with its inflections of indie, got her noticed by Beyoncé, for whom she opened past summer.

First it was the immodestly named Wild God medium (a captious smash) and present it’s the immodestly named Wild God tour. This is Cave backmost with drums and guitars, punctuated with moments of extremist hope. Tickets, surprisingly, look to inactive beryllium successful bully supply.

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Bugged Out! yet returns to London, marking 1 of the UK’s astir iconic nine nights. This play the line-up features a DJ acceptable from Chemical Brothers, Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, Modeselektor and a unrecorded amusement by Octave One.

It’s closing successful connected a decennary since Nothing but Thieves released their self-titled debut. Reinvigorated by past year’s Dead Club City, their archetypal fig 1 album, expect to spot a set astatine their peak.