punk – Hackney Citizen

Dream Nails, interview: “we’re under no illusions that art is enough”

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 10 May 2018 at 12:25

Dream Nails (l-r): Janey, Mimi, Lucy and Anya. Photograph: Deborah Ellis

The Hackney punk band have a lot they want to do, and a bout of flu isn’t going to stop them. They talked to Kate Wilsea about their new song, how London’s music scene is changing, and their DIY attitude to pretty much everything

Pretty in Punk: Julia Gorton’s photos of the NYC punk and No Wave scene get an airing in Dalston nightspot

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 31 January 2018 at 16:13

Richard Hell, of The Voidoids and founding member of Television, was one of Gorton's smilier subjects. Photograph: Julia Gorton

Photographer Julia Gorton was a doyenne of the New York music scene in the late 70s. Some of the images she produced in that period are currently on show at Untitled on Kingsland Road – we went down to check it out

Playlist: Homerton’s Sound Savers take a look back at four years of recordings

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 2 February 2017 at 20:41

Sound Savers' Henry Withers (left) and Mark Jasper (right.)

We caught up with the local music studio’s founders to bring you five tracks that best encapsulate the output of this local DIY institution

Review: The Fish Police, Café Oto

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 6 April 2016 at 13:01

Songs about chicken nuggets are de rigueur in the unique pop world of the Fish Police

Great Ex-pectations at Oslo

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 3 August 2015 at 16:19

Oslo is going Dutch this month with the visit of The Ex, an influential group credited with introducing punk to Ethiopia

Viv Albertine: ‘If I’m not passionate I won’t do it’

By East End Review | Wednesday 9 July 2014 at 10:46

Viv Albertine of The Slits talks about being an original punk, band life and living for the moment