Every week we bring you our top pick of gigs that are too good to miss – featuring female, non-binary and queer bands that we love.
These are our top tips for week commencing 4 September 2023. Tickets available for all shows at time of publication:
| When? | Where? | Where?? | Who? | How/Why? |
| Monday 4 September | Glasgow | The Broadcast | Divide and Dissolve + support | The Aussie Doom Metal duo’s tour continues all week. Not sure who’s supporting, get there early and be surprised! Tickets |
| Monday 4 September | Liverpool | The Cavern | The Courettes + support | The hardest working band on the planet are touring the UK all week. Catch them if you can, you’ll be sorry if you don’t! Tickets |
| Tuesday 5 September | London (Dalston) | Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes | Eville + more | Exceptional Brighton trio (and veterans of a few LOUD WOMEN gigs now) , always worth seeing and especially when it’s free to get in! They’re on first. |
| Tuesday 5 September | Manchester | The White Hotel | Divide and Dissolve + Ragana | Solid triple header with Washington State duo Ragana and black metal band Dawn Ray’d, who are also doing some shows of their own together this week (see below) Tickets |
| Tuesday 5 September | Preston | The Ferret | Rhoda Dakar + support | The former frontperson of 2Tone’s Bodysnatchers and Special AKA’s ‘tour in support of her ‘Version Girl’ album continues all week. Tickets |
| Tuesday 5 September | Sheffield | The Corporation | The Courettes | Possibly without support as it’s an early finish (2130), so get there in good time. Tickets |
| Wednesday 6 September | Glasgow | Stereo | Rhoda Dakar + support | Tickets |
| Wednesday 6 September | London (Farringdon) | The Betsey Trotwood | Janine Booth | A rare London gig for our favourite, self described ‘ranting, rhyming and revolting poet’. Pay on the door! |
| Wednesday 6 September | Leeds | The Brudenell Social Club | The Courettes + Nervous Twitch + more | Guaranteed stellar support tonight from Nervous Twitch. Tickets |
| Wednesday 6 September | Newcastle | The Lubber Fiend | Ragana & Dawn Ray’d | Tickets |
| Thursday 7 September | Milton Keynes | MKII | Sleeper + Berries | The last big chunk of the Sleeper band’s tour comes further south and west! Berries support on all dates this week. Tickets |
| Thursday 7 September | London (Bethnal Green) | The Sebright Arms | Lemondaze + support | The slightly-delic Cambridge shoegazers play a rare London gig and it’s free to get in (but make sure you RSVP, see below) Tickets |
| Thursday 7 September | Bedford | Esquires | The Courettes | Tickets |
| Thursday 7 September | Hull | The Polar Bear | Rhoda Dakar + Sppport | Tickets |
| Thursday 7 September | London (West End) | The Lower Third | Divide And Dissolve + Fräulein | A hard to beat double header brings D&D’s UK tour to its end. Tickets |
| Friday 8 September | East London | The Shacklewell Arms | Chroma + Wormboys + UrgentSea | LOUD WOMEN Fest 2022 alumna Chroma are joined by “most cheerful alt-rock quartet” UrgentSea. Tickets |
| Friday 8 September | Basingstoke | The Anvil | Ragana & Dawn Ray’d | Tickets |
| Friday 8 September | Cardiff | Clwb Ifor Bach | Sleeper + Berries | Tickets |
| Friday 8 September | Newport | Le Pub | Tokky Horror + The Menstrual Cramps + more | Fresh from Rebellion for the first of a raft of shows in September and October by this Birkenhead-based crew. Bristol’s TMC are, of course, worth the price of admission on their own! Tickets |
| Friday 8 September | Brighton | The Green Door Store | CLT DRP + support | A homecoming (and close to sold out) show for Annie and co. in support of their new LP ‘Nothing Clever Just Feelings’, releasing today. Tickets |
| Friday 8 September | Harlow | Redchurch Brewery | The Courettes | Tickets |
| Saturday 9 September | London (Deptford) | The Birds Nest | Smalltown Tigers + Voodoo Radio + The Untitled Music Project (appearing as ‘Girl Autism’) | ***Gig Of The Week!*** The very welcome return to the UK of this feisty ‘n’ fun Italian trio, with support from father/daughter duo Voodoo Radio and Molly from Ratpussy (and occasionally I, Doris)’ other ‘other’ band. Free to get in, too! |
| Saturday 9 September | Newport (Isle Of Wight) | Triple A Records | Coach Party | First of six (mostly) ‘unplugged’ instore gigs by the popalicious Isle Of Wighters, in celebration of their new album ‘Killjoy’ .Admission with purchase of the vinyl/CD at all six Tickets |
| Saturday 9 September | Hertford | The Corn Exchange | Sleeper + Berries | Tickets |
| Saturday 9 September | London (Shepherds Bush) | Bush Hall | Ragana & Dawn Ray’d | Supporting Big Brave. Doors open at 6, get there early for Canadian singer-violinist Jessica Moss who’s on at 6.30. Tickets |
| Sunday 10 September | Brighton | The Prince Albert | Smalltown Tigers + Voodoo Radio + more | This one’s not free – but it’s very reasonabaly priced AND it’s a matinee show, doors at 1400, over by 1700! Tickets |
| Sunday 10 September | Southampton | Vinilio Records | Coach Party | Tickets |
| Sunday 10 September | Durham | The Holy Graile | Pauline Murray | The frontwoman of 70s punk legends Penetration starts a short acoustic tour tonight in support of her autobiography ‘Life’s A Gamble’. Q&A and stories from the book are also promised. More dates next week. Tickets |
| Sunday 10 September | Dover | The Booking Hall | Sleeper + Berries | See above! The penultimate show of the tour, with just one to go next week. Tickets |
| Sunday 10 September | London (Soho) | The Spice Of Life | Gilan + Vulva Voce + Amity MIller + more | A strong bill of fare tonight in the heart of Theatreland. ‘The Loudest Voice In Kingston’ is on first, get there early! Tickets |
| Sunday 10 September | London | The 100 Club | The Courettes + Oh! Gunquit | Last date of Martin and Flavia’s current tour, with phenomenal support from Oh! Gunquit. A thoroughly wild night is pretty much a safe bet. Tickets |