After the glorious success of the one-off covid-kicking Pandemicamonium festival in the autumn of 2021, fierce panda records returns to its scrubby '90s gigging roots - remember Coldplay at the Bull & Gate? - in the new year of 2022 with the original and best Pandamonium!, the mini-festival which crashes into the depressing humdrum of the post-Christmas crush with new bands and new tunes and new year revolutions a'plenty.

The venue is The Dalston Victoria (451, Queensbridge Road, London E8 3AS) the admission is free, the vibe is vivacious. Baby, it's cold outside but fret not, for these are gigs in blankets. Those gigs look like this:

THURSDAY JANUARY 6TH
ENJOYABLE LISTENS + DEAN MCMULLEN + HOLOCENE
LONDON DALSTON THE VICTORIA
Free Entry Tickets:https://dice.fm/partner/dice/event/6qex2-shrimp-eyes-6th-jan-the-victoria-london-tickets
Event Page:www.facebook.com/events/633059077883413
A night of bendy alt.rock antics. Shrimp Eyes have had to pull out but we still have two newbie fierce panda signings in the lithe shape of extravagant boompopster Enjoyable Listens and the bittersweet murmurings of Muncie Girls' guitarist Dean McMullen. Opening up we have the grunge-jazz twistings of Holocene.
www.facebook.com/enjoyablelistens
www.instagram.com/deanmuncie
www.facebook.com/holocenesonic/

MONDAY JANUARY 10TH
MCLEISH & SPENCER + FACELIFT + SUNCHARMER
LONDON DALSTON THE VICTORIA
Free Entry Tickets: https://dice.fm/partner/dice/event/a967q-mcleish-and-spencer-10th-jan-the-victoria-london-tickets
Event Page: www.facebook.com/events/1117538138992364
A night of melodic insights with the extraordinarily tall and melodic duellings of McLeish & Spencer being preceded by the virtuous funkpop of Facelift. Suncharmer bring the '70s riffs and '60s surf vibes.
www.facebook.com/mcleishandspencer
www.instagram.com/ukfacelift
www.suncharmerband.co.uk

TUESDAY JANUARY 11TH
THE INSTITUTES + WILD HORSE + HEKA + ENJOYABLE LISTENS
LONDON DALSTON THE VICTORIA
Free Entry Tickets:https://dice.fm/partner/dice/event/726e9-the-institutes-11th-jan-the-victoria-london-tickets
Event Page: www.facebook.com/events/224398726503823
A night of geographical visitations to The Victoria: The Institutes send themselves out of Coventry with their rollingly epic '90s alt.rock anthems. Wild Horse fly in from Crowborough with a wildly eclectic sound which gallops from indiepop to blue eyed soul. HEKA come from Bristol and mine the mid-'80s musings when the bright-eyed popness of new romanticism started to fracture and darken. Oxfordshire duo Enjoyable Listens make a swift return to the Pandamonium stage with their happy hyperpop.
www.facebook.com/TheInstitutesMusic
www.facebook.com/wildhorseuk
www.facebook.com/HEKABAND23
www.facebook.com/enjoyablelistens

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 12TH
AVERAGE LIFE COMPLAINTS + JOHNSON'S JOHNSON + WARNING SIGNAL
LONDON DALSTON THE VICTORIA
Free Entry Tickets: https://dice.fm/partner/dice/event/pemry-average-life-complaints-12th-jan-the-victoria-london-tickets
Event Page: www.facebook.com/events/6597035263701761
A night of snappy attitudes and sassy aptitude: sarcastic South London post-punkstas ALC were recently described as being "a very, very angry Close Lobsters", which'll do for us. Johnson's Johnson bring their biting, Tory-baiting electropunk joy. Brighton trio Eva, Evie and Milo send out the warning signals with their bright-eyed pop frenzy. www.facebook.com/averagelifecomplaints
https://johnsonsjohnson.tv/
www.facebook.com/warningsignal

THURSDAY JANUARY 13TH
GARDENING + SUPER MARINE + NOPRISM
LONDON DALSTON THE VICTORIA
Free Entry Tickets: https://dice.fm/partner/dice/event/qy56o-gardening-13th-jan-the-victoria-london-tickets
Event Page: www.facebook.com/events/1085046615664426
An evening of hectically eclectic musical happenings: Gardening bring the lavish Teenage Fanclubesque guitar riffings; Super Marine sail in from South Wales with hectic chords a'plenty; Noprism slink down from Newcastle with sleek New Ordered grooves in tow.
www.facebook.com/wearegardening
www.facebook.com/supermarineband
www.facebook.com/thisisnoprism

www.fiercepanda.co.uk
www.facebook.com/victoriadalston