psychedelia – Hackney Citizen

I Drilled A Hole in My Head to Stay High Forever: counterculture icon fails to bore at MOTH Club

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 26 April 2018 at 15:43

Hole-y Man: Joey Mellen and the cover of his psychedelic memoir, Bore Hole. Image: Joey Mellon / Strange Attractor

Despite a more academic bent than the audience were prepared for, Joey Mellen’s delved into the possibilities of the brain with aplomb during his trepanning talk at MOTH Club last weekend

The Myrrors @ Shacklewell Arms, live music review: epic desert psych improves with volume

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 19 February 2018 at 16:27

Mystics: The Myrrors live at the Shacklewell Arms last Friday 16 February. Photographs: Casey Cooper-Fiske

Our reviewer stuck with the Arizona band, through 15 minute songs and a chatty Dalston crowd, to reach a climactic finale

Yak @ Village Underground, live music review: the whole world in their hands

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 19 October 2017 at 13:03

'Freak out jams': Yak in full flow on stage at Village Underground. Photographs: Casey Cooper-Fiske

Yak’s wild take on modern psychedelia is only enhanced by the energetic antics of whirlwind frontman Oli Burslem