New Moon - A Night of New Music
Chiara Filomeni + The Raven Chords + Isaac Neilson + Kirsten Izer
Entry Requirements: 18+ after 7pm
A night of new music and discovery. Featuring the best emerging singer-songwriters and bands.
Founded in January 2017, New Moon gives music fans the chance to experience outstanding up-and-coming acts from across the UK, Europe, and beyond.
Past New Moon artists include Lola Young, Cat Burns, Jalen Ngonda, Sophie and the Giants, Nation of Language, China Bears, Yowl, Erica Manzoli and Victor Ray plus hundreds more.
Only £2.50 entry. Food served until 10pm. Doors open 7:30pm.
If you would like to perform at a future New Moon please apply via music@halfmoon.co.uk
Line Up
Chiara Filomeni is a London-based singer-songwriter whose music blends emotional pop, cinematic textures, and the storytelling roots she carries from Italy. Growing up surrounded by her grandmother’s stories and the music of Italian songwriters, she developed a deep connection to storytelling that continues to shape the way she writes today.
Her new EP “Anything At All” explores the feeling of losing someone and learning to live with their absence. Her songs portray grief in a soft and intimate way, present in the small, everyday moments of life. Rather than seeking resolution, they capture the fragile beauty of memory.
The Raven Chords are a four-piece band from south-west London, playing their own material characterised as alt rock with dark melodic undertones. The band’s line-up is:
Dan Heavey – lead guitar and vocals
Cat Davies – vocals
Paul Connellan – bass, keyboards and vocals
Simon Williams – drums
The band has played shows in London at The Islington 02, The Dublin Castle, The Half Moon Putney, The Fiddler’s Elbow, The Underbelly, 93 Feet East, The Finborough Arms, Charlie Wright’s, Roadtrip & Workshop, Surya, and The Fighting Cocks amongst others.
They have been described as being ‘mournful Americana rocking boy/girl vocals with a Mark Lanegan via a grunged-up Giant Sand vibe’.
The most committed independent live project in the UK this year. Isaac Neilson is performing a gig every single day in 2026.
No label, no shortcuts. Just Graft and song-craft.
A challenge significant enough to be raised in The House of Lords, championed as a Next Gen Artist by Youth Music, reaching national attention from the BBC, & ITV. This is an approach without industry precedent.
“One of the most authentic voices in the indie scene,”
- LADYGUNN
“[Izer] has, very powerfully, and thrillingly, her own sound,”
-SPIN Magazine
“Izer’s vocal performance is raw, unpolished, and achingly emotional,”
-Earmilk
“[Izer] does a phenomenal job transporting listeners into her mind through her storytelling and hypnotizing vocals.”
-Get Some Magazine
Born in New Jersey to visual artist parents, Izer always felt a deep need to tell stories. After working as a music journalist and publicist in New York City for outlets like Billboard, Izer relocated to Los Angeles to begin telling her own story as an artist. She soon met Randall Belculfine (Tones And I, Tanerélle), and the pair began working on a collection of breakup songs inspired by a toxic relationship riddled with complicated power dynamics, which would later become her critically acclaimed debut EP, The Perfect Hire. Izer has been compared to the likes of Hayley Williams, Alanis Morisette and Kate Bush, and with good reason. She crafts stories with intention and with a sound uniquely her own, transforming specific memories or situations into authentic emotional experiences for the masses. Kirsten will be playing a show at the Viper Room in LA on September 3, 2026 while continuing to work on her sophomore EP, which will be released in early 2027.
