Welcome to No Skips. This issue: GALA is coming. A jury just ruled that Live Nation and Ticketmaster ran an illegal monopoly. NOTION's Mixmag Lab set dropped this week and it is worth an hour of your time. Here's a glimpse of what's on this week and what's ahead.
THIS WEEK
Queen's Yard Summer Party
🗓 FRIDAY | 📍Hackney Wick Multiple Venues
🎫 Tickets
The annual Hackney Wick takeover is back. Over 100 DJs spread across multiple venues in the same postcode, running all day into the early hours. The format works because it is deliberately chaotic. You plan a route and end up somewhere completely different at 3am. Good for the whole day, better if you surrender the plan early.
Zeds Dead, Imanu, Caspa, Skeptical
🗓 FRIDAY | 📍Fabric
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Zeds Dead bringing a proper bass music bill into Fabric's three rooms. Imanu is the name to clock here. His sets have been destroying every room he walks into this year and a Fabric stage is the right setting. Skeptical on a 140 set alongside Caspa is a throwback for anyone who came up on that sound. Late start, long night.
FOLD x Tech Couture x 24 Hours
🗓 SATURDAY | 📍FOLD
🎫 Tickets Here
A 24-hour session at FOLD is always a commitment. It is always worth it. Tech Couture brings a different visual register from a standard FOLD run, but the room sounds the same either way. Which is to say, very good.
M.O.T: Batu, Mad Professor, DJ Flight, Simo Cell
🗓 SATURDAY | 📍M.O.T
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Batu and Simo Cell in the same room is already a strong night. Add Mad Professor and DJ Flight and this becomes one of the more interesting lineups of the weekend. MOT has been putting together bills that span sound system culture and club music without forcing it. This one earns that range. Day to night, open air.
May I? – Craig Richards, Vera, Bobby, C.A.R
🗓 SUNDAY | 📍 Gaffe
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Craig Richards running a 17-hour bank holiday session at Gaffe. Vera and C.A.R alongside him means the range is there from the start. Gaffe is a small room. Seventeen hours in a small room with a lineup like this is the bank holiday Sunday argument made in full. Book it and commit.
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WHAT’S ON
Josh Baker b2b Max Dean
🗓 15 Aug | 📍Magazine Open–Air
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Two of the UK’s most in-demand names link up for their first London b2b. Both have built serious momentum through sold-out shows, label growth and a sound that lands squarely on the dancefloor. Expect groove-led tech house with energy that builds across the day. Open-air, extended set, and a pairing that already proved itself up north. General sale is sold out, so you need to grab a VIP ticket, or find one on resale.
Anyma presents ÆDEN
🗓 27 June | 📍Silverworks Island
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Anyma brings his new ÆDEN show to Silverworks Island for two nights. New music, new visuals, and his first London performance since 2022. One of the biggest names in melodic techno at one of the best outdoor spots in the city. Book early.
Amelie Lens B2B Sara Landry
🗓 21 Aug | 📍Magazine Open-Air
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Amelie Lens b2b Sara Landry brings the industrial weight to Magazine Open-Air. A UK exclusive on Broadwick Live’s new roofless Greenwich dancefloor, it’s built for high-decibel precision against the London skyline.
GALA '26
🗓 27 June | 📍Peckham Rye Park
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The full lineup landed and GALA has pulled together something serious this year. Friday runs Giggs doing a Peckham homecoming, CASisDEAD, Novelist, D Double E, Mala and George Daniel. Saturday is the house and techno day: DJ Seinfeld, Logic1000, Midland, Call Super, Peach and Saoirse. Sunday closes with Seth Troxler, Lil Louis, Todd Terje, Gilles Peterson and a b2b2b from Hunee, Palms Trax and Antal. Three days, something for everyone, genuinely no weak afternoon.
THE BOOTH
NOTION & Redlight – GET OUT MY HEAD
NOTION flips Redlight's 2012 stomper into a bass-heavy club weapon. It is two producers who shaped the UKG sound at different points in the timeline meeting in the middle. The breakbeat landing in the second half is what seals it.
🎧 Listen Here
Smokey Bubblin' B & Ozzie Guven – Go With The Flow
Out on Peggy Gou's Gudu Records. London UKG meeting Berlin house sensibility, and it works because neither side compromises. A mid-90s groove with a rave breakbeat that arrives late and flips the energy completely.
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EDITORIAL
We had the pleasure of working with Club Culture to produce The Top London Clubs Guide using a mix of reviews and top-rated venues by you all. We’re excited for who came out ontop.
Live Nation found guilty of running an illegal monopoly. A US jury ruled this month that Live Nation and Ticketmaster have operated as an illegal monopoly, overcharging fans by an estimated $1.72 per ticket across 21 states. The case now moves to a remedies phase — judges could order a breakup of the company or force the sale of Ticketmaster. Damages are not yet determined. It does not directly change UK pricing tomorrow, but the signal is there: the model is cracking.
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