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10:00 pm until 6:00 am | £14.30

It's time to celebrate 10 years of roots and culture music at Scala. It's an all tribes welcome night. Dignified behaviour only, a chill-out area, vinyl and craft stalls. Read more

10:00 pm until 6:00 am | From £5.50 (entry before 11pm) / £27.50 VIP

The most action packed Reggaeton night ever seen in Central London will once again celebrate everything beautiful about Reggaeton. Expect the unexpected as we pull out… Read more

7:00 pm until 11:00 pm | £27.50

Danny's friends, family and former bandmates have organised this concert in his memory. "A Night For Danny Kustow" features the Tom Robinson Band plus special guests. The lineup includes members of both the original and current TRB lineups, and there is video footage of Danny playing on stage at his incendiary best. Read more

10:00 pm until 6:00 am | From £8.80

Main Room Playing Music From: New Found Glory, Sum 41, Fall Out Boy, All Time Low, Paramore, Green Day, Neck Deep, Blink 182, PVRIS, Pierce The… Read more

10:00 pm until 6:00 am | £18.15

House Of Silk's tagline is 'sexy underground house' so if that's what you're into get down to Scala for their very special Summer House Party. Read more

11:00 pm until 5:00 am | From £5.50

  Are You Ready? We are ready to get you pumped up and in the vibe for Notting Hill Carnival 2019, as we present one of… Read more

9:00 pm until 5:00 am | £12 All Night / £10 with Student I.D.

El Grande opens its doors to another night of music and dance in our multi room venue with DJ's and dance teachers. 4 Rooms / Dance Shows / Classes in Salsa, Bachata & Kizomba. Read more

9:00 pm until 6:00 am | From £33

Torture Garden returns to the iconic Kings Cross Scala for a night of after dark summer fever…it’s tiki, but not as you know it... Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £15.40

Aussie surf-rock two piece Hockey Dad jangle their way into the Scala playing exactly the kind of music you want to hear on a hot summer's night. Fans of The Vaccines, kindly step this way. Read more

10:00 pm until 5:00 am | From £16.50

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9:00 pm until 5:00 am | From £11 early bird

Sun City are back with this Carnival special for a night of UK Garage & Bass featuring:   DJ Luck & MC Neat Artful Dodger MC… Read more

10:00 pm until 6:00 am | From £11

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7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £26.40

Laura Jane Grace is an American musician best known as the founder, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the punk rock band Against Me!. Now, she's with The Devouring Mothers and she's making BIG indie noise. Read more

9:00 pm until 6:00 am | From £11 early bird

We are excited to announce Frantic will be returning to the iconic SCALA in Kings Cross to celebrate the huge 22nd Birthday. Join us on Saturday 31st August as we bring you a night of your favourite Trance & Hard House classics and anthems across 3 rooms of music! Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £12.10

This Brighton four-piece are masters of sun-drench guitars and lovelorn lyricism. When heartbreak runs rings around you, it's only right to turn that into spiralling guitar-driven tracks that sound like they're fresh from the '50s right? Yes. FUR God's sake, don't miss it. Read more

10:00 pm until 6:00 am | From £11

All night Roots & Culture Music at The Scala Presenting from Leeds, the ever inspirational Sounds of IRATION STEPPAS Vanguard of Dub playing dubz inna year… Read more

8:00 pm until 10:30 pm | £22

Doors: 8 pm Show: 9 pm Last Admissions: 9:30 pm Guests attending this show will be able to stay for the Mega Spanish Party free of charge,… Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £22

The trio, who are now based in New York, have Dinosaur Jr bassist Lou Barlow up front. Their first album in 6 years is called Act Surprised, so get your shocked faces ready. But you've gotta be more convincing than I was at my surprise birthday party I'd found out was happening three months previously. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £23.65

Indie favourites Stars are approaching 20 years as a band. That's a long time to do anything, let alone be in a band. The Canadian quartet's soft, dreamy indie-pop still sounds just as sweet. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £13.75

The Howl & The Hum are a miserable disco who write Bond themes for films where Jimmy is still hung up on that girl. They combine dark hypnotic pop with post-punk influences, pierced with lyrics that make you call your mum the next morning. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £11

Their hand-crafted alt. rock is full of refreshing sonic manipulations. Hear them play out on their debut album which is called Suddenly Everyone Explodes. Hopefully, it's not prophecising mass spontaneous combustions and it's just a metaphor, but who knows. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £11

Alt. pop wizards APRE met at chess club and between tournaments, check and checkmate they've made some pretty sweet tunes. Their first 3 EPs were all created in the back room of their chess club and we've got the owner, Sue, to thanks for letting them use the space for rehearsals. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £13.20

Whenyoung are bringing their youthful momentum and playful soundscapes to Scala. All about carefree rebellion with their dreamy indie rock, their debut album is full of infectious hooks and their live shows are full of relentless energy. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £22

Creep Show brings together John Grant with the dark analogue electro of Wrangler and following their debut album Mr Dynamite last year, they’re now announcing a new live show which will be packed with experimental pop and surreal funk. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £16.50

Holy Moly & The Crackers make riotous party music for the masses. Their upcoming third album, ‘Take A Bite’ (released April 5th 2019 on the band’s own Pink Lane Records), is concise, passionate take on folk, blues and indie rock. Read more

6:30 pm until 9:45 pm | £13.75

We love an Aussie singer-songwriter, especially when they create glitchy, electronic pop bops like Hayden James. He's been making summer house jams with soulful and evocative vocals ever since he burst onto the Australian music scene in 2013. Now he's captured worldwide attention and critical acclaim. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £11

With a string of gorgeous soulful singles, the singer/songwriter is clearly heading in the right direction and now he's playing his biggest headline show to date, at Scala. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £13.75

Irish lads The Academic met in secondary school and made pals through their love of toasties and bands like The Strokes, Interpol and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Their indie rock songs track life growing up in the town of Mullingar, about an hour west of Dublin, and the struggles of the grass not always being greener on the other side. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £14.30

Delicious riffs, grumbling bass and that knack at saying 1,000 words with about three, Pip Blom (band and women behind it all) are iconic. Tightly wound and incredible live. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £13.75

My Aussie mates have been on Cub Sport since their early days and now the Brisbane four-piece are sounding better than ever. Dreamy synths, wistful lyrics about loving yourself and pulsing pop beats will have you locked in. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £19.25

Foundation-setting alt. rock band The Dream Syndicate were saving alt. rock before it was even a thing. They're back with more of their A game, they've put the miles in, come and see them in all their riff-shredding glory. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £13.75

Some of the best indie rock anthems I've heard are from these guys. If you like The View, The Libertines and Kings Of Leon you'll rate these. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £13.75

They're from Norway! They like Studio Ghibli (their name is nicked from a 1994 film)! They make weird art-rock that is kind of wild and kind of amazing! It's Pom Poko! If you know, you know. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | From £33

Referred to as the "Persian Tupac", YAS is the first rapper to have been granted permission by the Iranian government to record and release some of his music to the general public. He is widely known for his powerful and socially-conscious lyrics. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £13.75

Country crooning king Orville Peck is the outlaw outsider of everyone's dreams. He's making music to soundtrack horseback rides through the badlands of North America or to liven up your dreary commute to work with Americana-style nostalgia. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £16.50

SYML is the brooding solo venture of Barcelona frontman and Seattle native Brian Fennell. As SYML, Fennell is more textural and sensory than Barcelona's piano rock. Framing his quiet, introspective songwriting in low-key synth-infused soundscapes with delicate more piano and equally commanding vocals. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £13.75

Cassia have imprinted their own brand of calypso-flavoured indie-pop on the UK scene. South Cheshire probably isn't the first place you think of for sun-soaked grooves, but that’s where this trio hail from, so surely it deserves some credit. Read more

8:00 pm until 11:00 pm | £26.40

Some seriously spicy Spanish music is gonna soundtrack your Saturday at Scala. Very feel-good. Very big beats. Makes me want to dance. One to watch IMO. Read more

7:00 pm until 11:00 pm | £27.50

Following unprecedented demand for tickets which saw all their shows sell out in a matter of minutes, the band have added one more show London at the Scala . This will now be their last ever gig, and the band will split up after the show. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £14.30

Punk kid turned trap phenomenon. Scuzzy, biting and one hell of a live show. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £13.20

Drum god, pop star and (probably) the only person you need to know called Georgia. From the experimental electro of her debut self-titled album to the shape-shifting sound of her new stuff, don't forget her name. Yes, she's adding some big choruses, but there's still an edge to it, there's always an edge. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £14.85

Brooklyn-based four-piece Charly Bliss bring the best of 90s alt-rock into 2019 and it's all wrapped up on their jam-packed second album Young Enough. Led by the evocative voice of singer and guitarist Eva Hendricks, the meshing of grungy, sludgy guitars and vibrant pop hooks is the cornerstone of their sound. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £21.45

Welshly Arms is an American blues rock band from Cleveland. The Glorious Sons have a rep for their big rock energy on stage. Banging live show. Read more

6:30 pm until 9:45 pm | £11

Hailing from Reading, Only The Poets obviously know the deep joys of having the best bands in their world in their back garden. With their own catchy AF indie-pop and jangly guitar tunes catch them at their biggest show to date. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £16.50

His appetite for collaborations also led him to feature on singles for rising UK star Ebenezer and London producer SG Lewis. Now fully versed on his sound and what he wants to do with it, witness Col3trane's power live at Scala. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £16.50

Massachusetts-based duo Boy Harsher are bringing their consistently brilliant electro-pop back to the UK. Brooding, heavy synths, menacing vocals, minimal beats and lyrics inspired by loss, fantasy and desire, it's time you stepped into their dark world. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £18.70

The Newcastle trio use pacey, smooth guitars, soft echoing vocals and scathing lyrical progression to propel their bodies of ART. Obviously, accompanied by strange, strange samples and some keyboard action. Undeniably aurally interesting. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £18.70

Canadian pop band Marianas Trench are returning to London following the release of their latest album, Phantoms. The new record sees the four-piece blend EDM samples, massive hooks and orchestral strings with their signature pop-meets-rock sound. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £16.50

American singer/songwriter Noah Kahan has a distinctively warm, light rasp to his voice which makes his folk-infused pop all the more special. Noah and his infectious sound are ready to get under your skin when he headlines Scala. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £13.75

Acoustic folk-rock guru, Lookman Adekunle Salami, known professionally as L.A. Salami, is coming. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £14.85

London-based Dublin-born singer-songwriter Orla Gartland is killing it with her self-titled existential pop - her songwriting sparks meaningful connections. Whoever you are, you're sure to relate to her introspective observations. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £11

With their infectious guitar riffs and rip-roaring melodies Luna Bay sound like they're ready to tear up your fave festival. Get hyped for big indie anthems that will cure any post-festival blues that are still kicking around in November. Read more

9:00 pm until 6:00 am | From £11 early bird

Independent and soulful London record label Wah Wah 45s celebrate twenty years in the business this year, and to mark this milestone they're bringing the party back to the Scala for an epic nine hour session of live music and DJs covering everything from Afrobeat to disco and dub to jazz. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £13.75

The Swedish artist doesn't believe in music having any boundaries, so he flits between genre, style and tempo like nobody's business because you know what it isn't anyone's business but his own. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £16.50

You gotta love the internet it's done a lot of good things LIKE bringing Odezenne to people's attention. The French group found themselves being hyped up by fans across social media when they dropped their eclectic self-released debut album Sans Chantilly back in 2008 and the rest is history. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £18.15

Scottish rock powerhouse We Were Promised Jetpacks first emerged back in 2009 with their debut album These Four Walls and guess what? It's 2019, so that's ten years later, they're bringing you the whole record LIVE IN FULL at a special run of anniversary shows. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £30.25

Swedish prog-rock giants The Flower Kings and Dutch veterans Kayak are joining forces for a co-headline tour all across Europe including this London date at Scala. The Flower Kings frontman Roine Stolt says "it will be a monumental meltdown of melodic prog", so what are you waiting for? Get yourself to prog heaven. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £13.20

Dinosaur Pile-Up are a British alt-rock band led by singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Matthew Bigland. Their riffy, grunge-inspired sound has earned comparisons to Nirvana and Foo Fighters and this year they released their rip-roaring major label debut Celebrity Mansions. Read more

7:30 pm until 11:00 pm | £12.10

The South London four-piece's pounding soft psych sound is taking its latest shape on debut album Wabi-Sabi. Read more