Bat For Lashes plays the Barbican [Michal Pudelka]

IT is that time of year again, when those with an eye for an iconic moment in music get to pick out their best shots as Abbey Road Studios Music Photography awards are open for submissions. With six open categories plus three invited categories, this is your chance to get your most artistic / well-timed / carefully composed snap in front of a panel of judges including Rankin, Moses Boyd, Pooneh Ghana and Beth Ditto. Entries close on July 18 with the awards ceremony scheduled in October. Visit https://abbeyroadmusicphotographyawards.com/ for info.

• And if you are looking for a start in photography, look no further than Camden Rocks at the Underworld, which is searching for photographers to document their club nights.

• Here’s another opportunity to work in the music scene, Jazz Café is looking for a new marketing manager – with the ability to attract a diverse line-up of internationally renowned acts, this one should sell itself. One series that doesn’t need talking up is the venue’s History of Pirate Radio, which began with Roni Size and continues with UKG on June 14 ft DJ Spoony + Wookie + Lady Passion + Onxy Stone; Grime & Dubstep on June 21 ft Flowdan & Slimzee + Coki + Loefah; and UK Funky on June 28 ft Crazy Cousinz + Roska + Cooly G + Marcus Nasty.

• Bat For Lashes aka Natasha Khan plays Barbican on June 24 in support of her sixth studio album The Dream of Delphi released last month.

• Bristol-based artist Pem, whose new EP Cloud Work was released last week, plays The Lexington on June 14.

• A little over a year after losing the irreplaceable Maxi Jazz, Faithless play their first live shows in eight years this month, borrowing Jean Michel Jarre’s set and lighting director and bringing a seven-piece band to the Roundhouse on June 14.

• For those who are not yet ready to give up their dancing days, here are two for the over-30s. Age Against The Machine are putting on a Summer Ball Boat Party on the Thames (June 14) and Club de Fromage’s daytime over 30s party takes place at Scala on June 22 – expect sing-alongs, balloons, hula, dance-offs and more.

• A few for fans with longer memories: Nineties pop figure Betty Boo, Islington Assembly Hall (June 15); Dexys, Koko; An Evening with The Christians, Union Chapel (both on June 14); all-female 90s grunge band L7, Electric Ballroom (June 16) and Let Loose, Dingwalls (June 16); The Breeders, The Garage (June 23) and Mavis Staples, Union Chapel (June 24-25).

• Rob Picazo presents Southern Nights: The Story of Southern Soul, an intimate evening of live music and stories of southern soul at Primrose Hill Community Library on June 21.

More upcoming gigs

June 14 Chromeo: Adult Contemporary World Tour + Zimmer 90, Kentish Town Forum;

June 15 Adonis, Lafayette; Susan Cadogan, 100 Club; James Vincent McMorrow + Isaac Gracie, Barbican; Rich Ragany, The Black Heart; Lovelorn Dolls, The Dublin Castle; Courtney Pine, Union Chapel; Camden Rocks All Dayer, The Fiddler’s Elbow; Frenchy and The Punk, Dublin Castle;

June 16 Witching, The Black Heart; Sunday Papers Live, One Marylebone;

June 16-17 Destin Conrad, Koko;

June 17 Tom Kitching + Marit Fält, Green Note; Blind Tyde + Scholars + southern boogie boyz, The Fiddler’s Elbow;

June 18 Lewsberg, The Lexington; Connie Eliza, Café Koko; Winemom + Radio Free Alice + Dove Ellis, The Social; Samuel Ashton & The Instincts + The 802 + Nikki Blanco + Halle Payne, The Camden Club;

June 19 Lambrini Girls, Scala; Poolside + Jacana People, Scala; Rana Farhan, The Social; Rain Parade, 229; Nubiyan Twist, HERE at Outernet; Corb Lund, The Lower Third;

June 20 Slow Pulp, Koko; The Answer + These Wicked Rivers, Dingwalls; The Meters, Union Chapel; Mannequin Pussy, Scala; Charm of Finches, Green Note;

June 21 The Milk, Islington Assembly Hall; Unknown Pleasures + Argonaut + Kill Bosco + Violet Blend + DJs We Got Killers, The Dublin Castle; Charlotte Sands, The Garage;

June 22 Mic Righteous, Islington Academy; Rosalie Cunningham, Dingwalls; The Bluebells, The Lexington; Fanna-Fi-Allah’s Sufi Qawwali, Union Chapel;

June 25 Dylan Gossett, Electric Ballroom; Haila Mompié, Jazz Cafe;

June 25-26 Courtney Barnett, The Garage;

June 26 Anitta, The Forum; Corey Harper, The Lexington;

June 27 New Regency Orchestra, Scala; DeVere + BEX, The Lower Third; Chatpile, Electric Ballroom.