Yes yes folks, we can hardly believe how quickly it's come around but it is indeed time for round 3 of ☄️ DIGS ☄️, our night for showcasing the most exciting emerging talent on our radar and giving them an opportunity to share what they do and develop their artistry in front of a warm and friendly audience. As always, followed by DJs til late to give the dancefloor at Lewisham's beloved @foxandfirkin a good old work out...

Grab your ticket from £7 to join us on Sat 14th May for a big night of new music and dancing.

We want these DIGS nights to be places where we come together as a community to celebrate & discover new artists. So if you like the music at the festival, then you’ll just have to trust us that this is gonna be a great night. ✨

Tickets are £7/£9/£11 advance & £12.5 OTD. So swoop in quick time for those (super) early birds! 🕊 We go from 7pm-3am.

🌜Get to know the Lineup 🌛

Ife Ogunjobi

You might know South East London trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi from one of his many collaborative projects, perhaps most notably as one of the key players in Brainchild favourite Ezra Collective. A vital contributor in the scene, both in live performance and studio work, whether that's playing Glastonbury’ with Ezra Collective, or performing at sold out arenas with Grammy Award winning Afrobeat superstar Burna Boy, recording on Moses Boyd’s Mercury Music Prize shortlisted album 'Dark Matter', or recording with Yazmin Lacey as part of Blue Note Records 'Reimagined'. Not one to be pigeonholed, Ife's musical output spans Jazz, Afrobeat, Grime and Hip-hop. We feel very lucky to have him sharing his his latest solo project for DIGS!

feeo

feeo's set at last year's festival was a tonic for the ears. Reared on a combination of Jazz, Folk, Reggae, and the 2002 Ibiza soundtrack, producer and songwriter feeo developed a taste for storytelling, big beats and stacked vocal harmonies early on. Her first cuts channelling this blend of styles were quick to turn heads, leading to a feature on Loraine James’ acclaimed album ‘For You and I’ in 2019, providing the vocals for ’Sensual’. Lyricism is the driving force behind feeo’s work, which she sets against an experimental Neo-soul-inflected backdrop. Her first two tracks, Yeti and Morning Glory, are treasures to behold. We've loved seeing how things have unfolded for her over the last year and feel very lucky to have her performing with us again.

Rarelyalways

Rarelyalways is a Hackney raised jazz musician, producer, vocalist making contemporary experimental hip hop. The artist used lockdown as a source of inspiration for his latest project, drawing on the grief it caused for many of us, to created lead single “Lamenting”. The vibrating bass offers a foundation for a rhythmically chaotic monologue from the rapper, which is rooted in his experiences as a keyworker. Jazz and grime collide to offer us a thought-provoking narrative and an electrically charged-track. You might hear trip hop, jazz, undercurrents of rock, J Dilla style beat science, and more...

SONLIFE

SONLIFE is a British Turkish producer from South East London who caught our eye after collaborating with Jerkcurb and WOOM's Isobel Risk. After finding his feet playing and producing in Trip Hop outfit Haraket, he took the opportunity to take some time out to develop his solo studio skills when the band split. His our compositions are carefully crafted contemporary trip-hop landscapes that blur the line beautifully between electronic and organic instrumentation. SONLIFE has three beautiful singles out in the world from his forthcoming album that's due to land later this year. Lead single 'The First' conjures up sounds influenced by latter-day Bonobo and Massive Attack. We've very excited to hear what he has in store.

Shivum Sharma (DJ)

One of our most loved and reliable selectors... Shivum is guaranteed to bring the freshest mash ups and largest of energies to the dancefloor! We’re rolling ’til 3am...

Rishy Malik B2B Sanasesh 

New to the Brainchild fam, these two selectors are a brilliant sister DJ duo from London, playing a mix of genres from South African house, bailie funk, afro tech, south asian, bashment and middle eastern music.  Together they have played for Keep Hush, magazine launches, galleries, and clubnights and also made mixes for radio shows including: BBC1Xtra, Reprezent Radio, Soho House radio and Balamii.