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I play guitar and sing in the London DIY indie scene. Highlights include:
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BCOS RSNS:
- BCOS RSNS album (2024), including singles "(First on at) the Buffalo Bar" (which has a music video), and "Turn It Off"
- lockdown ep (self-released, 2020)
- 11 live shows from 2022 onwards
- Jennifer Denitto extra guitar, on albums "Trustfall" (2017) and "In Real Life" (2021), the "What She Would Have Wanted" EP (2023) - and live
- Pride's Purge: "God Save the King" (2023)
- The Montain Goths: the Mountain Goats covers band you don't think needed to exist.
- Spencer (originals band, 1 show, 2017)
- Kenickers (Kenickie tribute band, 4 shows, 2016-2017)
2016
February 5 - bass for Sarah Pink's Gravediggers at Tottenham Chances; after-show for Vice Squad, Menace, The Wimmins Institute and ARXX
April 30 - Sarah Pink's Gravediggers at the Bow Bells; supporting the Bleach Boys
June 18th - guitar for the Pirate Queens at the Half Moon Putney; supporting the Priscillas
June 30th - guitar for Kenickers at the Fiddler's Elbow; supporting the Indelicates
September 16 - Kenickers at the Hope & Anchor; supporting the Potentials
2017
March 17 - guitar and vocals for Spencer at the Hope & Anchor; supporting Fightmilk
April 7 - Kenickers at Scream Longue, Croydon; supporting Death to the Pixies
May 12 - Kenickers at the Hope & Anchor; for the 20th anniversary of Kenickie's "At the Club"
2018
March 17th - guitar for Jennifer Denitto at the Gunners; "Trustfall" album launch2019
January 11th - bass for Argonaut at the Finsbury; supporting Wolf GirlJune 29th - guitar and vocals for AB40; Art Brut covers set for my birthday party
July 26th - Jennifer Denitto at the Gunners; with Keith TOTP, Menaces, micky c and all the sad sad people, Captain Handsome
2021
September 18th - Jennifer Denitto at the Gunners; supporting the Monochrome Set
2022
April 27 - guitar and vocals for BCOS RSNS at the Victoria Dalston; opening for Foxcunt and The Ethical Debating Society
July 15 - BCOS RSNS at Walthamstow Trades Hall (upstairs); opening for the Untitled Band Project and Art Trip and the Static Sound
August 11 - BCOS RSNS at the Cavendish Arms, Stockwell; with Lectures and Hobby Horse
August 25 - BCOS RSNS & Jennifer Denitto at The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington; with Panic Pocket and Charley Stone and the Actual Band
October 26 - BCOS RSNS at Walthamstow Trades Hall; with Quenta and the Untitled Band Project
November 17 - BCOS RSNS at the Sebright Arms, Bethnal Green; opening for Piney Gir and Breakup Haircut
2023
February 10th - Jennifer Denitto at the Gunners; supporting Me Rex and Dream PhoneMarch 9th - Jennifer Denitto at the Half Moon Putney; supporting Subliminal Girls and Sassyhiya
May 25 - BCOS RSNS at Walthamstow Trades Hall; with Flesh Tetris and Big Dummmy
June 2nd - Jennifer Denitto at The 229 Venue 2; supporting The Fades and Les "Fruitbat" Carter
August 24 - BCOS RSNS at Walthamstow Trades Hall; with The Dead Zoo and Parenthesis Dot Dot Dot
September 29 - BCOS RSNS at the Night Owl Finsbury Park; opening for Schande and The Ethical Debating Society
October 23 - BCOS RSNS at the Cavendish Arms, Stockwell; with NOCT and Parenthesis Dot Dot Dot.
November 25th - Jennifer Denitto at the Betsey Troywood; supporting the Would-Be-Goods
2024
May 25 - BCOS RSNS album launch at the Cavendish Arms, Stockwell; with The Dead Zoo and Keith Top Of The Pops & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band
June 27 (tickets) - Jennifer Denitto supporting Charley Stone and Sassyhiya
I've written fiction, comment, and reviews for various outlets.
- Transrealities #3 (Cool Cookbook, with Horry/Cooper/Bidikar)
- Stop the world, I want to tune up (presented at Boring 2017)
- Transrealities #2 (Cool Cookbook, with Horry/Cooper/Bidikar)
- Transrealities #1 (Cool Cookbook, with Horry/Cooper/Bidikar)
- Orange Is The New Black: how the book adds to the show (Den of Geek)
- Fewer than three percent of land plant species named by women: Author gender over 260 years (Taxon, with Lindon, Gardiner and Vorontsova)
- Review: The Librarian (Eruditorum Press)
- Review: Time Heist (Unlimited Rice Pudding)
- Facebook introduces choice of 50 genders – but why can’t we write in our own? (New Statesman)
- Moths Ate My Girls Aloud CD (Eruditorum Press)
I also make and edit videos.
I document the London indie scene in the "Abi Goes to Gigs" series on YouTube
I made this video for Keith Of The Pops during lockdown.
And these I made also during lockdown, for unclear reasons.
I promote gigs in London as Abigail's Parties.
- BCOS RSNS / The Dead Zoo / Keith TOTP - May 2024
- Foxcunt / The Ethical Debating Society / BCOS RSNS - April 2022
- AB40 / Keith TOTP / Argonaut - June 2019
- Foxcunt / Argonaut / Panic Pocket / Layzervag - August 2018 (poster Izzie Mack)
- Keith TOTP / Foxcunt / The Ethical Debating Society / MX Tyrants - June 2017 (poster Chris Damage)
- Kenickers / Menaces / W*llstonekraft / Layzervag - May 2017 (poster Izzie Mack)
- Fightmilk / Charla Fantasma / TOTP / Spencer - March 2017 (poster Izzie Mack)
- The Indelicates / The Misters of Circe / Kenickers / "Travolta" - June 2016 (poster Steve Horry)
I've a long history of contribution to software. I am AbigailBrady on github.
- Arithmix - (2018 — 2023)
- Nuke - compositing and visual effects software ([principal] software engineer 2007 — 2014)
- Cryosphere and MusicMUD - a science fiction MUD and its codebase (1997 — )
- Crystal - a lightweight mud client (2002 — ongoing)