gig guide – Hackney Citizen

Concert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for June 2018

By Andrew Barnes | Wednesday 6 June 2018 at 12:39

Wax lyrical: Alabamian singer/songwriter Waxahatchee. Photograph: Jesse Riggins

This month’s local live music listings features supergroups, atomic age rock, Dutch anarchist jazz punk and some experimental luminaries

Concert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for May 2018

By Andrew Barnes | Tuesday 1 May 2018 at 16:50

Stille life - a shot from the video for Apostille's 'Feel Bad'. Image: Upset The Rhythm

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 March 2018

By Andrew Barnes | Thursday 22 February 2018 at 17:23

Songs for the recently sad: Soccer Mommy

This month’s gig guide is an all-American affair: except for a hard-riffing band named after a Gloucestershire village…

Concert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for February ’18

By Andrew Barnes | Tuesday 23 January 2018 at 12:32

Syrian singer Omar Souleyman plays Oval Space next month. Photograph: Stuart Sevastos / Wikimedia Commons

Blissful electronica, a Syrian superstar and the ‘rinsin’ sound’ of a pair of 2000s legends – it’s all in this month’s gig guide

Concert pitch – Hackney’s gig guide for November

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 10 November 2016 at 18:00

We sieve out some of the best live music picks for this month