That’s how it starts.
Every NOW SET FREE show is a celebration of the best new, alternative, live and electronic music.
Each show is only possible thanks to the community of talented, open minded artists sharing their music with us, and their friends who join us for a party like no other.
Below is a selection of the friends who’ve helped bring our shows to life.
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First appearance: January 2025
DOG SAINTS are an emo/shoegaze 4-piece formed in London. Initially the solo project of songwriter Will Goltz, they mix the twanging guitars of Midwest Emo with heavy distortion and cathartic vocals.
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First appearance: April 2025
DRASTIC SHUFFLE explores the full spectrum of electronic music on her sets: house, techno, quirky electronica, IDM, and all those tracks that defy categorisation. She runs a record label called This, a genre fluid project to publish new artists on vinyl.
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First appearance: January 2025
Melding influences from post rock, math rock, post punk and psychedelia, DRUM TOWER produce bleak pop music for a hyperreal age.
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First appearance: January 2025
GLOSSSD is a London-based DJ with a fondness for all things wonky, bassy, drummy and broken.
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First appearance: January 2025
IN THE NIGHT AND IN THE SILENCE is a DJ and producer with a love for low freqiencies. Blending deep bass lines, stuttering drum samples and uncanny vocals, he creates a haunting, dance floor friendly take on deep house and electronica.
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First appearance: April 2025
MAÏS is an immensely talented DJ with an unmistakeable sound. A warm blend of nostalgia and forward-thinking club energy, where disco-inflected house rubs shoulders with rolling minimal, indie dance, and echoes of '90s progressive trance.
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First appearance: January 2025
NEEDLE is the collaborative project of experimental, electronic producer Joe Beedles and vocalist Tom Noonan. Melding warped electronic sounds, bass, strobe lights and soul bearing vocals, their live show has to be seen to be believed.
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First appearance: April 2025
VERA SACRA is cellist and producer Emily Marks from Sheffield. Creating music that feels as ethereal as it is intimate, she blends cello and synth ambience with whispery vocals inspired by her classical background and introverted tendencies. Intrigued by spirituality, devotion and obsession in a world that frequently feels dark, she writes about the fragility of relationships and searching for a sense of home.
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First appearance: April 2025
DIY legends Soft Boys bring their unique blend of driving, dark, alternative rock with flavours of country and folk for an unmissable live show.
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First appearance: April 2025
WING! is the producer name of Adam Swan, combining heavy samples and ambient textures to make ethereal hip hop. As a live piece they play as a trio, conjuring elements of jazz and broken beat akin to Flying Lotus and Portishead.
