The nice folk at Double Dot Dash are putting on a gig at South Street featuring some pretty awesome looking bands.
Manchester's Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura are definitely worth checking out, because they sound like the inside of Syd Barrett's brain. They're recent double LP Interpenetrating Dimensional Express is one of the free-est, most psychedelically-awesome things to come out for a while.
If you can't see them live, at least check out their mind-bending guitar freakout Christmas in Honduras set to appropriate kaleidoscopic visuals:
Similarly free-improvisational, but not in the same oh-my-shit-I'm-losing-my-mind-on-acid kinda way, are Hampshire Duo Delphic Vapours, who'll be right up the street of anyone into feedback loops and sticky clouds of white noise. They did a pretty awesome dedication to Lou Reed a few months ago, and their only official studio album Get Off Their Knees, released by London based Critical Heights label, is an epic 90 minute wave of hovering sound.
Reading's own Abandon are there too with a healthy dose of gloomy atmospheric rock for fans of Swans' bleaker, less angry stuff. Last years self titled album took stuff in a more shoe-gaze direction and is available on CD and digital download from Blindsight Records. Alternatively, if you're feeling less committal, some of their earlier release are available for free which doesn't leave you with much of a reason not to check them out.
Also Matthew James Wells of hardcore punk band Valkillmer and electronica solo act I Am Homosapien is playing an acoustic set. No online material available, but if his other projects are anything to go by, it's definitely worth a see.
All in all not bad for a fiver. Doors open at 20:00, more info on Facebook.