Anotha BANGA! futuretense x Sonic Essays tomorrow featuring the incredible @misfya & @brbko 🤩
Afterwards the 1st of the Sonic Essays event series, platforming live sound and essay performance … and lastly incredibly gassed to be rounding off the eve with a cheeky after party courtesy of @club_wav ft @harunajebak & @fat_lip_____
Massive thanks to @cam__christie_ couldn’t have done it without you, you absolute sauce pot!
2025, as told by the lineups I programmed 🙂↔️
So many gorg moments this year including;
- @bigsofty.mp3 w/ the slaggiest performance I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing at 6pm on a Thursday
- @ashleyimannn & @seera_music London debuts
- @rosaceciliamusic packing the gaff out with 750 people in attendance
- @yespelinpelin with the baby grand smashing out a dancehall influenced Mozart piece
2026 let’s be having ya x
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▶️ RetroPxssy (@teletubbycustard )
▶️ GESELLE @gesellemusic
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Cheeky Meltdown recap that no one asked for x
1.Had the pleasure of curating an extra special edition of futuretense for @littlesimz Meltdown festival 💕 featuring gawjus performances from @natoakss and @bendsp . Big love to all involved and the SC team !😙
2. Upcoming futuretense events fromJuly - September performances from: @nikhilsworld_@shivaniday@verbzyygram@pier_zar@yespelinpelin@pollyfromthedirt@karimtamulol@thirdkultureband more info via link in my bio! Come through x
3. Snippet from @bendsp futuretense set
4. Snippet from @natoakss futuretense set
5. Me looking cheeky x
6. DJ’d the unofficial Little Simz’ afterparty w/ some fuji bangers
7. Met Simz eek
8 - 11. Fit pics xo
12. Simz x Chineke Orchestra for the final night of Meltdown! Truly 10/10
13. 🤓
Opened for the stunning @temsbaby last week, here’s a little recap. Huge thanks to @billboarduk and @troxylondon for having me 💐
That said, this one’s a bit of a bittersweet one. I accepted the booking before it became clear that @sxswlondon would platform figures like Tony Blair and David Cameron, known architects of war crimes and violent policies that 1) I don’t agree with and 2) feel contradictory to the programming of diverse and politically conscious musicians on the lineup.
You can’t spotlight the sexy sounds of the diaspora while at the same time given a mic to politicians who’s legacies continue to harm the communities the artists come from. This is disappointing, as artists, we shouldn’t have to navigate these ethical minefields after the fact, and I am still uncomfortable with the mental gynamistics that went with deciding to go ahead. Festivals and organisers must do better by the artists they book.
I created space in my set for some Palestinian bangers, and wore my Palestine tee on stage still, I acknowledge that showing up at all is complicated.
In solidarity with artists who withdrew, I’m donating 50% of my fee to the Global Solidarity Strike fund organised by Ravers For Palestine.
Free Palestine and beyond ALWAYS x
