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Adam Beattie: The Road Not Taken, album review – ‘warmth and sincerity’

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 22 June 2016 at 13:30

Shoreditch-based Scotsman Adam Beattie is blazing a trail for contemporary folk music on his new album

The World’s End – review

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 26 July 2013 at 12:29

Five old friends complete a pub crawl they started as schoolboys in this funny finale to the ‘Cornetto’ trilogy

Lovebox 2013 – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 July 2013 at 16:42

Festival topped off with disappointment from Lil’ Kim

Mother Clucker at the Shacklewell Arms – review

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 26 June 2013 at 14:38

Free range fried chicken wings and thighs bring Southern soul to Hackney

The Iceman – review

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 13 June 2013 at 18:47

Drama provides a slick portrayal of ruthless violence

You Can’t Evict an Idea – review

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 8 May 2013 at 11:28

Author Tim Gee casts an eye back at Occupy and asks what we can learn from it

Fringe! – review

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 8 May 2013 at 11:20

Gay film and arts festival featured screenings at the Rio and Hackney Picture House

MEATmission – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 7 May 2013 at 15:51

Unholy gluttony at Hoxton restaurant serving ‘Dead Hippie’ burgers in converted church

The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes! at Hoxton Hall – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 7 May 2013 at 14:34

Arthur Conan-Doyle’s best loved detective gets a Victorian musical hall makeover

The Look of Love – review

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 3 May 2013 at 12:27

Steve Coogan is Soho sex king Paul Raymond, the porn baron who became one of Britain’s richest men

The Place Beyond the Pines – review

By Hackney Citizen | Sunday 28 April 2013 at 17:33

The new movie from Derek Cianfrance is a modern-day morality tale

Morning Bride – The North Sea Rising

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 19 April 2013 at 18:08

Hackney band’s new album aims to give unbridled listening pleasure

Spring Breakers – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 16 April 2013 at 15:31

The antics of four bikini-clad heroines on spring vacation form the narrative of this mixed-up movie

Trance – review

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 April 2013 at 11:38

Danny Boyle’s film contains many surprises and puzzles

Moby Dick – review

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 8 April 2013 at 17:14

Arcola Theatre hosts an eco-friendly Melville adaptation that is wonderfully atmospheric and bristling with energy

Discover Dudamel at the Barbican – review

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 22 March 2013 at 12:27

World renowned Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel urged Hackney musicians to play with passion during an open rehearsal of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet

Oz the Great and Powerful – review

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 20 March 2013 at 12:45

All star cast in return to the land of Oz

Stranger in a Borrowed Land – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 19 March 2013 at 13:37

Lotte Moos was a writer on Hackney’s radical literary scene in the 1970s

London Folk Tales – review

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 14 March 2013 at 17:56

Thirty tales of London drawn from oral history, written sources and local reminiscences marvel in the mystery of the great city