Cafe OTO

You can now pre-order the new Anna Högberg Attack LP from @cafeotodalston.bsky.social www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/anna-ho...

Check out the full interview on our web archive and come down on Sunday! www.cafeoto.co.uk/archive/2025...

Coming up on Sunday! Radical long-form large-group free improvisation from ONe_Orchestra New! Guaranteed to induce gender euphoria AND musical joy: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/one_o... Scroll through to read some highlights from our chat with ONe_Orchestra New's co-founder Caroline Kraabel..

Coming up at the end of the month! The Berlin-based, aesthetically agnostic record label and loose collective, SACRED REALISM, celebrate 14 years of activity with three nights of incredible music: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/sacre...

Out this week on Otoroku, an invigorating, deeply interwoven recording from the pairing of Glasgow-born, London-based musician, Conal Blake and percussionist, improviser and sound artist, Regan Bowering! www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/conal-b...

Out this week on Otoroku, a live recording of the debut OTO performance from Basque guitarist, Joseba Irazoki! Dense slabs of distorted tones and hissing static rub shoulders with featherlight arpeggios and beautiful, crystalline chords: www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/joseba-...

‘You always know you’ll get something interesting’: an oral history of Cafe OTO The story behind the legendary Dalston music venue.

Thrilled to share my latest "oral history" for Time Out, exploring the history and legacy of Dalston's inimitable outsider arts hub
@cafeotodalston.bsky.social with Thurston Moore, Suzanne Ciani, Brady Corbet, Stewart Lee, @hotchipofficial.bsky.social & many more...
www.timeout.com/london/music...

Out this week on Otoroku, a gloriously psychoactive set from Joke Lanz and Ute Wassermann! The sonic landscape keeps flashing by in an ever-brilliant sugar-rush of kaleidoscopic colour, and it's no hardship at all to just give yourself over to it: www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/ute-was...

Atonal Kat returns to @cafeotodalston.bsky.social on 22 July! Featuring Seaming To, Tom Challenger and yours truly playing #AnneaLockwood to celebrate our new release on Unsounds label. Get your meow now! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/atona... Cappuccino the Cat photographed by @vanessawhy.bsky.social

Coming this Monday & Tuesday night! The Messthetics - featuring Fugazi members Joe Lally and Brendan Canty plus guitarist Anthony Pirog - join forces with the great American saxophonist James Brandon Lewis to absolutely barnstorming effect.

www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/messt...

Tonight! 'Mute Teachers' played by Distractfold @cafeotodalston.bsky.social

Coming this Monday & Tuesday night! The Messthetics - featuring Fugazi members Joe Lally and Brendan Canty plus guitarist Anthony Pirog - join forces with the great American saxophonist James Brandon Lewis to absolutely barnstorming effect.

www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/messt...

Tonight and tomorrow (2 & 3 July) we welcome the brilliant Marek Pospieszalski Octet to OTO.

www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/marek...

"A stalwart of Polish contemporary jazz,” – Antonio Poscic, The Quietus

Coming up this week! The great contemporary music ensemble DISTRACTFOLD celebrate their 15th anniversary with a 2-day festival exploring the acoustic ecology of geology/rocks, marine biomes, and human-machine interactions. Don't miss! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/distr...

Maggie Nicols and Geoff Eales - Beautiful Love (33 Jazz records, 2025) Free Jazz Collective, reviews of avant garde and free jazz music and media

Maggie Nicols launches her new album of jazz standards with Geoff Eales this Wednesday. Highly recommended! Opening the night will be a solo set by Ashley Paul - her first here in over 5 years. www.freejazzblog.org/2025/06/magg...

Coming up in a couple of weeks! The Messthetics - featuring Fugazi members Joe Lally and Brendan Canty plus guitarist Anthony Pirog - join forces with the great American saxophonist James Brandon Lewis to absolutely barnstorming effect. Don't miss! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/messt...

More tickets just released for Late Works: Preparations iii tonight! With Gentle Stranger, otta & Stanley Welch – www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/late-...

The final Salon in our AI and music series is on Tues 24 June @cafeotodalston.bsky.social.

Featuring Lore Lixenberg, Elaine Mitchener, Mattie Colqhoun (Xenogothic), Vicki Bennett/People Like Us (pictured).

More info/tickets:
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...

📷 by Polly Brown

On the 7 & 8 of July we welcome Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis to OTO for a set of intimate performances.

Not to be missed!

www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/messt...

This Sunday at 5pm we present a special all-ages community event with food, KANTINE MUSIK. Featuring music and storytelling from:

Peter Zummo
Zoot Lynam
Caroline Kraabel
Flora Curzon
Beanie Bhebhe
Bex Burch

www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/kanti...

At the Wire Salon @cafeotodalston.bsky.social on 24 June, Lore Lixenberg and Elaine Mitchener will perform Fluxus works by Alison Knowles, Emmet Williams, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Patterson and Dick Higgins.

More info and tickets: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...

📷 by Tara Darby

On Saturday, a very special summer edition of MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food with the87press: tinyurl.com/u874ux46 Four phenomenal poets: Sarah Ghazal Ali, Saba Keramati, Susan Nguyen, and Rushika Wick, DJs Jimmy Two Shoes + Dr Aditi, plus Sri Lankan food.