Jean Genie’s PANDA POWER stars LUKE BLACK + RIKKI LEE + GABI GARBUTT + THE OUTERS + THE HAVOCKS + DJs - at the magnificent Stanley Arts from 4pm.

In support of South Norwood Community Festival, Tonic Music and The D Foundation. supported by PRS early careers promoters fund/Arts Council England.

£12 advance: https://stanleyarts.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173666096 or £16 on the door. 18+ Event.

Jean Genie presents PANDA POWER

Hotter Than July on Saturday 5th July, is a virtual “Underground’s Got Talent” star spotting social that recommends the charismatic and colourful. There’s a sparkling alumni in Jean Genie’s (arts/music industry-respected) tale and it consistently grows.

Stanley Arts, 12 South Norwood Hill, SE25 6AB

Tickets are £12 advance via Jean Genie's Panda Power - Stanley Arts London - or £16 on the door - from 4pm - on the day. (an 18+ event. Please note there will be haze lighting and strobe lighting).

Live music ends 10.30pm. DJ SET after the bands until 11pm curfew.

Music Tourism: Norwood Junction Station is 5-10 minutes walk, trains to London Bridge (The Shard) until midnight. Various buses. Click here for venue ability/disability access info.

Fizz Up. Get Down!

A diverse and delectable genre fusion of electronica, art pop, blues, punk, melancholy, cinematica and DIY chic! A cocktail of creative media and sussed industry are in the mix.

Rock n roll’s new rising names are audibly audacious, visually vivacious and electrically entertaining:

Luke Black

… is about to hit the perfectly grand setting of Stanley Arts with an unmissable theatrical spectacle of alt pop, club beats and rocked up electronica.

photo by Morrigan Rawson (@morriganrawson) • Instagram / #stagestyle by style by **@harryjcrum** / makeup by **@mareesesa**

From his globally witnessed Eurovision 2023 surrealism to the creative hub of South Norwood (home also to CroCroLand Festival and part of the SNCFest weekend) it’s ALL happening for Luke Black.

Alongside inciting awed gasps for his music and performances, the Serbian born Londoner with style in his DNA is a multi talent tasking musician, composer, producer and graphic designer! NME, BBC, New York Times and ASBO Magazine are among those acclaiming him an essential rising name. Get up close. Witness.

Gently powerful, the newly released single, ‘Roses In The Concrete’, is a different beat, “inspired by the heat of Belgrade streets & beauty in revolution”.

Written with (and lushly produced by) bo en, it’s a timely and much needed injection of summer-fused positivity, inspired by youthful resistance “for people who chose love over fear”. Breathe freely with Roses In The Concrete (Lyric Video) which was also shown on Polish TV.

Rikki Lee

How’s that for us being a situationist documentary?

TheZineUK’s most recent round up article mentions Rikki Lee who made the final six (from 450) to play The Musos Awards launch and then the event itself, this Spring, at Camden Electric Ballroom where she wowed the crowd. Fast forward to Saturday 5th July and another high stage awaits!

Purveying punchy filthy rock, this Malaysian-born, London-based musician, fuses infectious pop hooks and groove-driven energy performed boldly - with world class guitar solos.

Her singles have been aired on BBC Radio 1 and various major stations internationally. She has also performed at Download Festival, Wembley Arena, and starred on iTV’s Game of Talents. She’s played with Rita Ora, Charli XCX and many more.

Genuinely a rising force in her own right, Rikki Lee is shaping music’s future when her debut album ‘21st Century Rockstar’ is released a few days after this appearance!

GABI GARBUTT & The Illuminations

Sparkling with punky queer alt-pop, Gabi self-released their debut album ‘The Discredited Language of Angels’ in 2019, leading to significant BBC6 Music support, including a live session for Cerys Matthews’ show, who described Gabi’s songs as ‘lyrically at a level you rarely hear… consistently brilliant.’

Gabi and the band were invited to join Edwyn Collins on his U.K tour, The Libertines on a handful of their European tour dates - and played Frank Turner’s Lost Evenings Festival at the Roundhouse in Camden. Post lock-down, joining The Boomtown Rats at the Palladium and Big Country on tour.

Gabi has also been a panelist on Steve Lamacq’s BBC6Music Radio Roundtable and performed on John Kennedy’s Radio X-Posure.

‘The Creation of Birds’ EP was hailed ‘something new to fall in love with.’ by Chris Hawkins of BBC 6Music Lead single ‘Panic,’ (a collaboration with Du Blonde) made Radio X’s evening playlist and was chosen by Hollywood film maker James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, Suicide Squad) as one of his top 25 of 2023.

In 2024, Gabi supported Grace Petrie on ten dates of her U.K tour, before a run of dates including Greenbelt and CroCroLand (this very stage!) festivals. In 2025, currently recording their next album, PANDA POWER will be a chapter all of it’s own.

Gabi Garbutt photographed by Suzi Corker

THE OUTERS

Indie rocked art pop with stage style and uplifting energy. The songs go where, when and how they wish, without losing dynamic rhythms.

The Outers are coming into their own and by 2024 releases and appearances stepped them up to landmark events. Their single, ''Twenty' (video collaboration with CSD Videography - Fontaines DC and The Velvet Hands) iearned The Outers a This Feeling track of the day. Alongside independent radio play, they rounded off the year with a double page article in ASBO - magazine as “a band you need to see".

2025 began as Musos Awards nominees for 'Breakthrough Band' and 'Song' ('Twenty'). Their appearance at CroCroLand (on this stage!) earned new attention and their first Radio X play from John Kennedy. May’s Brighton Rock n Roll Circus earned much praise with Sussex Newspaper noting: "The Outers have a lead singer whose sheer charisma could fill The Albert Hall”. Magnetically engaging fun awaits.

THE HAVOCKS

Bluesy rocking hot stuff havoc! Outrageously cool and rageously raucous - do not miss them gracing the Stanley Arts Hall stage.

In the vanguard of a mod tinted sexy punk musical circle, The Havocks are working it and making a name for themselves on the grassroots gig circuit.

Camden, Covent Garden and beyond, they supported Hot Wax in Reading this Spring and were invited back to the legendary Gaz’s Rocking Blues in Soho recently. “Female fronted” - and then some.

TheZineUK’s situationism has The Havocks woven in from various angles so it’s giving the tingles to catch them again on this stage.

JEAN GENIE

A musician, radio presenter/producer and music editor of the (argh, it goes so fast!) magazine and website, ASBO. JG is a respected powerhouse gateway of the interdependent, NOW entertainment industry and an advocate for inclusion and the grassroots music venue circuit, a beloved alternative society leader.

JG is a fantastic scout, a sparkling host and a friendly face always looking to give opportunity and exposure to her musical peers. ALL the names appearing at this rock SHOW have star potential. They already twinkle - THIS is glam rock!

Saturday 5th July is set to be a MOMENT. You’ll swear you were there. That’s PANDA POWER!

https://stanleyarts.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173666096
(£12 advance / £16 on the door) 18+ event. Strobes and effects in use

There will be merch and conversation stall for all the star turns. Before then,
Build your network. The connection is made:

https://www.instagram.com/_thehavocks/

https://www.instagram.com/the_outers/

https://www.instagram.com/gabigarbutt/

https://www.instagram.com/rikkileerocks/

https://www.instagram.com/lukeblackmusic/

https://www.instagram.com/jean_genies_massive_hugs/

https://www.instagram.com/asbo_magazine/

https://www.instagram.com/thezine.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/sncfest/ Nonprofit organisation presents a community funded, free entry, 100% volunteer run party in the park for all ages and backgrounds while raising money for charity.

https://www.instagram.com/thedfoundatio/
“supporting new talent is vital to the UK’s arts and culture industries” https://thedfoundation.com/

https://www.instagram.com/tonicmusicmh/
Charity establishing good mental health within music communities

https://www.instagram.com/stanleyarts.uk - “a vital home for cultural expression and discovery. As a radically inclusive space we seek to foreground under-represented voices”. PANDA POWER is a perfect representation, Speaking of Stanley Arts…

What a venue though!

A safe space temple of creativity and performance, **Stanley Arts** and it’s iconic stage is made for spectacles. Designed by the philanthropic inventor, ***William Ford Stanley,*** it’s a cultural treasure. (Image: April 2025, **Avery Nixon**, guitarist with **The Outers**, before doors, at CroCroLand Music Festival Day 1.)

Supported by Arts Council England and PRS Foundation’s Early Career Promoter Fund via DCMS. Panda Power presents ACES All Areas in association with Tonic Music and is part of the SNCFest weekend in the very happening South Norwood locality of London SE25/Croydon!