Concert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for July 2018
This month’s local live music listings ranges from the A$AP Mob to a pair of ‘howling’ violins, via indie-pop and free-jazz
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Concert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for May 2018
This month’s guide to gigs in Hackney and nearby features both high-minded songwriting and booty-shaking bounce music, via synth pop, indie and all manner of noise…
Concert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for April 2018
The coming month will see Hackney blessed by synth-punk from Leeds, some quintessentially New York rap, and a DJ from Philly – or is that Bel Air…
Concert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for March 2018
This month’s gig guide is an all-American affair: except for a hard-riffing band named after a Gloucestershire village…
The Myrrors @ Shacklewell Arms, live music review: epic desert psych improves with volume
Our reviewer stuck with the Arizona band, through 15 minute songs and a chatty Dalston crowd, to reach a climactic finale
Concert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for January ’18
Neo-psychedelia, slinky soul and the funeral for a much loved UK record label – it’s all in this month’s gig guide
Concert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for November ’17
From punk to experimental electronics; Strong Asian Mothers to the “worst rapper ever” – it’s this month’s gig guide
Concert pitch – the best live music in Hackney for October’s gig-goers
This month marks the return of our gig guide – so Hackney, get ready for some acid rock, punk, rap and more besides
Could this be the most loved up club in East London?
Cult club night How Does It Feel To Be Loved has made a new home at The Shacklewell Arms. We speak to its founder, Ian Watson
New band Telegram make music their message
Four-piece Telegram are out to show there’s more ways than one to become a success
Mother Clucker at the Shacklewell Arms – review
Free range fried chicken wings and thighs bring Southern soul to Hackney
Shacklewell Arms gets new hands
Uber-cool DJs, top bands and ‘secret’ performances have transformed an old-style music pub. The Citizen meets those behind the change
Hackney’s off beat nightspots
Sounding out the less obvious in Stoke Newington and Dalston