Playlist: futuretense 2025
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Throughout 2025 we’ve been platforming some of the best new up and coming music artists, live and free, at our regular gig series, futuretense.
Produced in partnership with BBC Introducing, futuretense gives space for emerging artists from across genres – many of them hailing from right here in London – an opportunity to step on stage at a professional venue; and it gives music-lovers a chance to check out new sounds, for free. It really is win-win.
But if you missed out on experiencing futuretense live, fear not, because we’ve corralled each and every one of the 37 acts to feature on our futuretense stage in 2025 into one playlist; offering you a very sonically satisfying sample of what this series is all about.
So slip in your earphones, and settle in for a smorgasbord of sounds from the up and coming acts we’ve welcomed as part of futuretense in 2025. And if you like what you hear, get yourself down to the Southbank Centre in 2026 to love it live.
‘a well-balanced marriage of positive intentions and good taste’
Daisy Ayscough, NOTION
Join us for futuretense in 2026
futuretense x Skate 50: Tiberius b + Shooting Daggers
futuretense x Meltdown: deep tan + VIIZERO7
futuretense x Meltdown: Joviale + Loie
futuretense x Letters to the Future
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