8MM & Shameless/Limitless proudly present Montréal’s @ribbonskirtband , making their Berlin debut on the heels of their much celebrated 2025 release Bite Down.
Tickets on sale now - bite down on bio bone to get yours now.
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Ribbon Skirt is a Montreal-based post-punk band led by Anishinaabe musician Tashiina Buswa and guitarist Billy Riley. Their sound is raw and enveloping, channeling angular guitars, driving rhythms, and lyrical threads that explore memory, love, grief, and Buswa’s relationship to her Indigenous heritage.
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Doors: 19:00
Show: 20:45
Aftershow DJ: @deltonsleeze (Lemongrab)
20.05.2026 Playroom Live presents: LOREA (BCN)
Doors 19:00
Showtime 20:45
Aftershow dj set TBC 22:00
Presale link in bio
Lorea is an experimental pop artist from Barcelona crafting intimate songs that drift between ambient textures, dream pop haze, and fragile lo-fi confessionals. Their music blends whispered melodies, tape-worn atmospheres, and emotionally raw songwriting into miniature worlds that feel both surreal and deeply personal. Drawing from experimental pop, ethereal sound design, and bedroom-recording intimacy, Lorea’s songs move like memories: blurred at the edges, but emotionally precise.
With releases like Los problemas se frotan and Miel de mosca, Lorea has built a sound defined by soft dissonance, ghostly harmonies, and understated vulnerability. Their work balances delicate acoustic elements with ambient electronics, creating songs that feel suspended between dreams and reality.
Another MAXIMUM SPIRIT ECONOMY! sporadic spurt is bubbling.
Partnering with PARKWUUD ENTERTAINMENT from the music industry, MSE! is once again striving for PSTAI! (Pure Success Through Audio Indulgence!).
To achieve this, we have invited KLEIN for a two night residency at 8MM Bar in the historic city of Berlin. To achieve this further, KLEIN has invited LYZZA, SOLOMON GARÇON, KEITH LEAF and YOU? to present their audio achievements in live format.
21st & 22nd May. Tickets available at RA.
28.05 8MM Live: Yehuda Kornfeld
Doors: 19:00
Showtime: 20:45
Aftershow dj set tbc
Presales in bio
Yehuda Kornfeld’s music project serves as an outlet for void fragments of hope, broken hearts wrapped in sorrow and love. His music travels through acoustic chamber folk and singer-songwriter traditions, drawing from blues, American primitive guitar, jazz, and distant world influences, anchored by intricate fingerpicking and distinctive guitar tunings.
In 2025 he released two EPs: his debut EP via Garzen Records in May, followed by a four-track cassette-recorded cover EP. His full-length album is set for release on Slil Records in June 2026. His songs offer flashes of light amidst personal and collective wounds, inviting listeners into a world where despair and hope coexist, with music as a powerful force for healing and connection.
Photo by @oh.imanuela
Coming right up: @8mmbar & @shamelesslimitless present the Berlin debut of slack-channel startup doggo-pop project @userband_band .
Tickets on sale now.
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Userband is a musical project initiated by Sarah-Louise Barbett (aka @musique_chienne , Miss Bean) and artist based in Marseille. The group, touring here as a duo, also includes Yann on guitar.
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Doors: 19:00
Show: 20:45
Aftershow DJ tba
01.06.26 - 8MM is proud to welcome Seiichi Yamamoto (山本精一) from legendary Japanese experimentalists - Boredoms LIVE w// Shouji Hara (support). This will be Seiichis final European performance.
Doors: 19:00
Start 19:30
Ticket link in bio
For four decades, Seiichi Yamamoto has operated at the restless edges of Japanese music, playing in bands and releasing experimental music on his own and with cutting-edge musicians in Japan and abroad. Although Yamamoto is best-known as longtime guitarist from avant-garde/noise rock band Boredoms, he is also the mastermind behind several other groups including the cosmic dance unit Rovo, abstract rock laboratory Omoide Hatoba, pseudo-pop band Rashinban, punk band MOST, and many more. Beyond his music, Yamamoto is a singular figure whose quirky artwork can be both humorous and deeply touching. He has published two books: “Yun” (2008), a collection of essays, and “Ginga” (2009), a wider-ranging volume of essays, fiction, artwork, and photography, the latter of which was translated into English in 2018.
10.06 8MM Live: RINGLETS (New Zealand / Flying Nun)
Doors:19:00
Showtime: 20:45
Aftershow dj set TBC
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Ragingly bright post-punk quartet Ringlets emerged from Aotearoa’s musical ether in 2021; carving out space with their distinct blend of delicate wit, grit and evident sonic technicality. With a highly durable, machine-tested rhythm section and two of Auckland’s leading lyrical & melodic consultants, Ringlets have been fast-building a solid reputation.
Catching the eye of former Pitchfork editor Chris Ott, Autumn 2023 saw the band release their eponymous debut under Ott’s label Mutual Skies. Produced by De Stevens (Office Dog, Erny Belle) and the band themselves, the 10-track album is a sporadic and riotous introduction to this exciting musical offering.
Cut to the year 2025, and few post-punk records from Aotearoa would have been more anticipated this year than the band’s sophomore offering The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies), which saw the four-piece return to The Lab with Olly Harmer and usher in Michael Logie (The Mint Chicks) to produce alongside. Mixed later at Abbey Road Studios by Isaac Keating, the result is a collection of songs more cohesive and controlled - yet constantly changing and re-composing itself, totally deserving of the ‘Flying Nun Records’ alumni position it’s earned them.
16th July 8MM Live presents: SMILE
Doors: 19:00
Showtime: 20:45
Aftershow TBC
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SMILE is an US/German band formed by a group of friends who began making music together during the pandemic. What started as a response to isolation quickly evolved into a distinct sonic identity rooted in post-punk and art-punk: raw, urgent, and unapologetically intense.
At the core of the band is performance artist Rubee Fegan, whose visceral stage presence and physical expressiveness shape SMILE’s sound as much as its visual language. Their live shows are less traditional concerts and more immersive, high-energy experiences, where music and performance blur into something immediate and confrontational. Today, the members of SMILE are based across Cologne, Berlin, and Amsterdam, a geographic spread that feeds into the band’s dynamic and multifaceted aesthetic.
Following their debut EP I Hate It Here, SMILE released their debut album Price of Progress, further cementing their reputation for emotionally charged and uncompromising work. The band is currently working on their next album, aiming to capture and translate the intensity of their live performances into a condensed recorded form.
Artwork by @philippbulk
19.09 - 8MM Live: ELLiS D
Doors: 19:00
Showtime: 20:45
Aftershow dj TBC
Presales available now in bio
Imagine if David Byrne and David Bowie merged in a bizarre scene from a 1980s sci-fi bonanza. Then imagine if that new beast wandered into a goth club during that same era. Half glam rock, half neurotic punk but fully stylistic in its musical carnage. The result is ELLiS-D.
An explosion of whiplash riffs, psychedelic break downs, false endings and rip-roaring returns, ‘Drifting’ distills the essence of ELLiS·D’s “exhilarating” (Far Out) live show into a frenetic 7 minute voyage – A live show that last year ushered in two nationwide headline tours, festival appearances at Kendal Calling and Left of The Dial and a two-week tour of Europe with Fat Dog, to be followed up with a second leg this spring.
Sophomore EP Spill on Crafting Room Recordings is written and performed entirely by ELLiS·D himself (aka Ellis Dickson) at Hackney Road studios with Shuta Shinoda (Hot Chip, Jenny Beth), ‘Drifting’ offers the closing track of ELLiS·D’s upcoming Spill EP, a seven song jetstream of rocket-fuelled, goth-tinged glam-punk, infested with 21st century paranoia:
Supported by BBC Radio 6Music (New Music Fix, Tom Robinson, Emily Pilbeam), Radio X (John Kennedy), So Young Magazine, NME, Far Out, Hard of Hearing and Rodeo.
:: SATURDAY 16.05 ::
HEADRUSH: a dj night of post-punk, minimal wave and underground gems for 8MM Bar, presented by AOP13
Dj sets by Miss Addams, Privacy, Disorder, Lghtwght, Sbtg999, Xhib.
Starts 22:00
Till late
Flyer+pht by: @kongregant /Xhib
DO.14.05
8MM Live: The Pleasure Majenta
Back where it all began for one of our favourite Berlin bands, always more than a Pleasure to have The Majenta playing the Mil. Never miss.
Doors: 19:00
Showtime: 20:45
Aftershow dj set PrayForEvilSpirit + Guests: 22:00
Early bird presales in the bayou
The Pleasure Majenta has earned a reputation for creating visceral, atmospheric soundscapes that blend chaos with beauty. The band’s music is known for its brooding textures, primal rhythms, and haunting melodies.
Since their formation, The Pleasure Majenta has released five self-recorded albums. ‘All We Have Is Time’ -the most recent release —reflects themes of time, memory, and transience with aprofound emotional weight.
Renowned for their live performances, The Pleasure Majenta transforms their precise recordings into cathartic, electrifying shows. Their stage presence is commanding, and their energy creates an intense, almost physical connection with the audience.
With a growing reputation as one of the most innovative acts in the underground scene of Berlin, The Pleasure Majenta continues to captivate audiences, leaving an indelible mark on listeners.
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Join us for our next TRANCEVERSAL VOICES event at @8mmbar
11th May
With
Ruhail Qaisar
Abigail Toll
leslie
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𝑅𝓊𝒽𝒶𝒾𝓁 𝒬𝒶𝒾𝓈𝒶𝓇 is an artist from Leh, Ladakh. His current practice revolves around examining threads of vernacular memory, mythos, and poetics through sound art, compositions, and found sculptures. Involved within various cross-genre projects since 2015, his early noise shows al over India are recalled as sonic palate-cleansers, he debuted with his concept album Fatima (2023) dubbed by The Quietus as "haunting", released on Danse Noire featuring Dis Fig, and Elvin Brandhi, with a 48-page photo-book publication. His music channels the abrasive force of noise and power-electronics into stark socio-political reflection, his work is shaped by geographic isolation and global rupture, this is music as pressure point and alarm.
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𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓁𝒾𝑒 (uncurl / staff exit) live compositions unfold as sludgy textures, interweaving vocals and their muffled inversions with the rhythms of litter-spitting cornucopias—fractured gestures shaped within dreamlike networks shaped within violently convoluted geopolitical landscapes. Their debut album, Why So Eager, was released on Loose Trax. Recent and upcoming work includes Angels & Cogwheels, participation in Here a Nut Falls Twice, and the event series The Long Acre.
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𝒜𝒷𝒾𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓁 𝒯𝑜𝓁𝓁 is a sound artist and composer exploring the spatial, relational forces of minimalism and drone through solo performance, installations and chamber ensembles. Toll's most recent studio album 𝐼𝒹𝑜𝓁 (Superpang 2025) is inspired by Malta's Hypogeum, a 5,000 year old burial site whose chambers cause trance-like sensations when they resonate with sound. Using these frequencies as the basis for the tuning system, she forms a prismatic deep-listening environment described as “a clue to human perception” (Coeval Magazine) and “a temple of sound” (Anxious Magazine).
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🎨 Poster: @marijijn
