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Sat 7 Mar
MARY HAMPTON
+ Caroline Weeks
+ The Henningham Family Press & Jon Bilbrough
Stoke Newington International Airport | £6.50 adv | 8pm
Exploring the world of balladry in music, poetry and print, two contemporary roots stars folk-up classic English poetry, with live get-your-hands-dirty printmaking that delves into the creative history of the “broadsheet ballad”. A munificent musical bill is led by Sussex folk siren Mary Hampton. Equivocal and ephemeral, echoes of Housman, Yeats and Browning play out [...]
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Sun 8 Mar
BISHI
+ Lupen Crook
+ more tbc
Bardens Boudoir | £7.50 adv | 7pm
Take a look inside the lyrical engine-room of contemporary folk-extremism. A collection of peculiar artists perform stripped-down acoustic sets to showcase the skill and style used in the construction of modern popular song. South Bank Award nominee, singer and multi-instrumentalism Bishi plays with a specially convened trio, mixing her idiosyncratic British pop with globally folk-influenced [...]
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Mon 9 Mar
AN EVENING WITH PHILL JUPITUS & TIM WELLS
+ Barry Adamson
+ Amy Prior
+ Travis Elborough
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club | £8 adv | 7pm
Join Renaissance men Phill Jupitus and Tim Wells for a comfy ‘evening in’ on the sofa. Somewhere between a lazy Sunday with two music-anorak dads and a live radio show, Phill and Tim open up their Aladdin’s Cave of vinyl rareties, escorting you on a trip down memory lane. A night featuring a rich assortment [...]
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Wed 11 Mar
SHAKESPEARE IN SHOREDITCH
Siddhartha Bose, Joe Dunthorne, Jean Hannah Edelstein, Salena Godden, Lee Rourke & Mustashrik
South of the Border | £6 adv | 8pm
In August 2008, archaeologists unearthed in Curtain Road – under layers of pinstripe pocket-frocks and Belgium EBM white labels – the corner of The Theatre: England’s, and Shakespeare’s, first. Taking Shoreditch as the starting point, five authors perform re-interpretations of Shakespearean scenes and themes, with projected live drawing by Mustashrik, illustrator of the Manga version [...]
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Thu 12 Mar
WAVE MACHINES & NATHAN JONES
+ Serafina
+ Chris McCabe
Bardens Boudoir | £7.50 adv | 7pm
Reminiscent of Vangelis’ Blade Runner score, a little US Televangelism and a bit of Jackanory, the Wave Machines hook up with Nathan Jones for a tremulous spoken word performance with a dynamic live synth and percussion soundtrack. Nathan and the Waves host their own series of acclaimed shows in Liverpool and this is a first [...]
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Tue 17 Mar
THE ETERNAL CHILDREN & LOW: YOU MAY NEED A MURDERER
+ Q&A with director David Kleijwegt
+ DJs
Cafe Oto | £6.50 adv | 7pm (7.30pm start)
Celebrate independent documentary filmmaking and alternative music through the UK premiere of two films by Dutch director David Kleijwegt. The Eternal Children is a touching portrayal of artists who share a common spirituality and lyrical understanding of the world, featuring the likes of Devandra Banhart and CocoRosie; a window into the world of a hopeful [...]
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Wed 18 Mar
INUA ELLAMS’ THE 14TH TALE
Performances Wed 18, Thu 19 & Fri 20
Arcola Theatre | £9/ £7 conc. | 8.15pm
“I’m from a long line of trouble makers, of ash skinned Africans, born with clenched fists and a natural thirst for battle, only quenched by breast milk.” The 14th Tale is a free-flowing, mellifluous narrative that tells of the exploits of a natural born mischief-maker who grows from the clay streets of Nigeria to the [...]
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Sat 21 Mar
IAIN SINCLAIR: HACKNEY ASCENSION DAY
with Kirsten Norrie;
sound installation by Susan Stenger
St Augustine's Tower | £8 adv | 2.30pm, 4pm, 5.30pm
Join cult author, poet and filmmaker Iain Sinclair for a one-of-its-kind, site-specific performance in Hackney’s oldest and most mysterious structure: the remains of the church of St Augustine’s. Sinclair will draw on his book Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire to uncover an alternative history of the borough. As you ascend to the roof of the Tower, [...]
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Sun 22 Mar
WEBSTOCKY
Idiots of Ants, Tim Key, Luke Wright, Chris Hicks, Donal Coonan, Stuart Silver, Answer Me This, I Should Draw More, Karen McCarthy's My T-Shirt Says + MC Matthew Crosby
Vibe Live | £8 | 3pm
The geek shall inherit the earth. Over three performance spaces across the second floor of the Vibe Bar, comedians, poets and artists celebrate and commiserate Web 2.0. A kind of dynamic HTML all over your temporal lobe. Idiots of Ants slide off YouTube screens into immaculately suited sketch-comedy absurdity and Tim Key shuffles about in [...]
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Tue 24 Mar
OX TALES
Joseph D'Lacy, Ross Raisin, Abigail Oborne
compered by Karen Hayley
The Slaughtered Lamb | £6 adv | 7pm
Within chewing distance of Smithfield, novelists Joseph D’Lacy and Ross Raisin head up an evening inspired by flesh and butchery. D’Lacy’s Meat is a tale of human depravity set in a grim, post-cataclysmic England where meat is sanctified and slaughterhouse worker must keep his secret vegetarianism to himself. Ross Raisin works at Smith’s of Smithfield [...]
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Wed 25 Mar
ROBIN INCE’S SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN
Ben Goldacre, Ben Moor, Gavin Osborne, Jo Neary, Rich Sandling, Dave Gorman, Helen Zaltzman, Martin Austwick + more
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club | £8 adv | 7pm
This should be the best lecture you ever had, but all splintered and haphazard, like the popular children’s magazine of knowledge, Look And Learn. Like a Show and Tell, with fewer dinosaurs and more words. And some of those words will be songs. A whole curriculum of wit and accidental profundity. With The Guardian’s bad [...]
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