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Music lovers, rejoice! Hackney Record Fair returns Sunday 2nd September for a day of vinyl heaven. 

They'll be over 30 tables, including indie record labels, record stores, used/collector/hifi dealers, and local vinyl enthusiasts, all bringing out tons of wax.
In addition to the tons of vinyl, there will be DJ sets throughout the day, a bakery, and a record cleaning service.

So, come hunt for rare vinyl records, discover new independent labels, grab a bite to eat, and have the rare record you’ve unearthed restored to its former glory.

Join Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell at a one-off special event to celebrate the publication of ART MATTERS, as they talk with broadcaster and presenter Lauren Laverne about inspiration, creativity and the power of words and images.

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ART MATTERS is a creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman, combining his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. Drawn together from speeches, poems and creative manifestos, it explores how reading, imagining and creating can change the world. Just like the book, this event will inspire people to seize the day in the name of art and will include live drawing by Chris.

The event will be held in association with the charity English PEN, who work to defend and promote freedom of expression and to remove barriers to literature. A large print taken from the book and signed by Neil and Chris will be auctioned on the night with the proceeds going to English PEN.

Tickets include a free copy of ART MATTERS for every ticket-holder signed by both Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell, which they will receive on the night.

‘For years now, Chris Riddell has taken my words from speeches or poems or articles, and illustrated them, in order to communicate things to the world with deftness and charm.’ Neil Gaiman

‘I love the way words and pictures work together on a page. I have also noticed that when wise words have visuals added to them they seem to travel further online like paper aeroplanes catching an updraft. Neil’s words are some of the wisest I’ve found and the response when I illustrate them and post online has been wonderful.’ Chris Riddell

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Known by many as father of Ethio-jazz....

Mulatu Astatke (born 1943) is an Ethiopian musician and arranger best known as the father of Ethio-jazz. Born in the western Ethiopian city of Jimma, Mulatu trained in London, New York City, and Boston where he combined his jazz and Latin music interests with traditional Ethiopian music and became the first African student to enroll at Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music from where he received an honourary degree in 2012.

Astatke led his band while playing vibraphone and conga drums—instruments that he introduced into Ethiopian popular music— other percussion instruments, keyboards and organ. His albums focus primarily on instrumental music, and Astatke appears on all three known albums of instrumentals that were released during Ethiopia’s Golden ’70s. He collaborated with many notable artists in both countries, arranging and playing on recordings by Mahmoud Ahmed, and appearing as a special guest with Duke Ellington during a tour of Ethiopia in 1973.

His Western audience expanded even further when the 2005 Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers featured seven of Astatke’s songs. Hip hop artists have also sampled Astatke’s songs extensively, for example in the works of Nas, Damian Marley, Kanye West, Cut Chemist, and Knaan. He toured with US band Either/ Orchestra in 2006 and in 2008 recorded an album with the Heliocentrics and completed a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University, where he worked on modernizations of traditional Ethiopian instruments and premiered a portion of a new opera, The Yared Opera.

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Lianne La Havas will play a very special intimate performance at Hackney Arts Centre for her first headline show in the capital in two years...

She will be previewing new material in what promises to be a unique and un-missable ‘evening with’ the Londoner's incredible talent and voice. 

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Acclaimed poet Kate Tempest publishes her new collection of poetry, Running Upon The Wires on September 6th. To celebrate the publication of this new collection she is reciting the work in its entirety at a one-off show at the newly opened Hackney Arts Centre in London on September 20th, where signed copies of the book will also be available to buy.

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Independent Ceramics Market will be showcasing at this year's London Design Festival.

Independent Ceramics Market brings together a community of over 70 ceramicists, and is the ideal location for discovering a new wave of early career, and some more established ceramic artist.

Exhibitors include current students, plus up-and-coming graduates, as well as established ceramicists from various London ceramic studio's / workshops including, Turning Earth, Glebe Road Studios, Peckham The Kiln Rooms, Ceramics Studio Co-op , amongst many. 

Our ceramic market provides a unique opportunity to see a diverse range of affordable ceramic artwork, and buy direct from the maker.

Original ceramics for sale include lamps, tableware, vases, pots, sculptures, jewellery, and unique pieces.

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A key founding member of Portico Quartet, Nick has toured the world picking up a wealth of international acclaim, including a Mercury Music Prize nomination for the Quartet’s debut album ‘Knee-deep in the North Sea’.

Nick started out playing both piano and drums, but found his calling at 18, when he bought his first guitar from a family of guitar makers in Southern Spain. At 19 he studied music and art in Cuba. He then studied Ethnomusicology at SOAS, where he picked up the hang and stumbled across his Portico Quartet band mates. Their second album, ‘Isla’, cemented their international success and paved the way for a year of touring, clocking up around 150 shows across the globe in 2010.

Nick spent six amazing years working with friends, embracing and pushing a new musical instrument to the forefront of cutting edge music. Although he has loved every moment, he now feels that the time is right for him to return to the guitar and work on a solo project.

Nick is essentially a self-taught musician who has been fortunate enough to have worked with some amazing people who have influenced his work greatly. He is a musical innovator who is looking to combine and sit between genres. All his music is about the groove, and with his new material, there is no holding him back. Over the next couple of years, Nick will prove to become a staple of innovative music and is hoping to emulate the passion and success of predecessors such as Steve Reich, Paul Simon and Ali Farka Toure.

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A key founding member of Portico Quartet, Nick has toured the world picking up a wealth of international acclaim, including a Mercury Music Prize nomination for the Quartet’s debut album ‘Knee-deep in the North Sea’.

Nick started out playing both piano and drums, but found his calling at 18, when he bought his first guitar from a family of guitar makers in Southern Spain. At 19 he studied music and art in Cuba. He then studied Ethnomusicology at SOAS, where he picked up the hang and stumbled across his Portico Quartet band mates. Their second album, ‘Isla’, cemented their international success and paved the way for a year of touring, clocking up around 150 shows across the globe in 2010.

Nick spent six amazing years working with friends, embracing and pushing a new musical instrument to the forefront of cutting edge music. Although he has loved every moment, he now feels that the time is right for him to return to the guitar and work on a solo project.

Nick is essentially a self-taught musician who has been fortunate enough to have worked with some amazing people who have influenced his work greatly. He is a musical innovator who is looking to combine and sit between genres. All his music is about the groove, and with his new material, there is no holding him back. Over the next couple of years, Nick will prove to become a staple of innovative music and is hoping to emulate the passion and success of predecessors such as Steve Reich, Paul Simon and Ali Farka Toure.

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Showcasing over eighty participating artists from around the country, that include established illustrators, designers, independent publishers, ceramists, exhibiting alongside their up- and-coming contemporaries.

D.I.Y. Art Market champions a diverse community of artists, from a wide range of artistic backgrounds, providing a platform to both sell their work, be exposed to a wider audience via our online presence, and giving visitors the opportunity to buy unique affordable artworks direct from the artist/publisher.

Items for sale will include, patches, custom t shirts & tote bags, art prints, ceramics, zines, independent publications, risograph & screen prints, jewellery, and artist books.

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Rival Consoles is the moniker of South London composer and electronic musician Ryan West...

An accomplished sound designer with a reputation for both thoughtful and flawless electronica, Ryan West has turned synth music on its head, composing ideas on piano, violin and guitar before feeding them into sound waves and pulses.

Support comes from London based migrant Ross Tones who goes by the ever so pertinent moniker, Throwing Snow. Drawing influences from a vast array of genres encompassing dubstep, UK funky, house and post-rock, this will be a support you will not want to miss. 

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5x15: 5 speakers, 15 minutes each...

5x15 launched 8 years ago and has since organised hundreds of sold out events across London and around the world. 5x15 specialises in live story telling and creating inspiring evenings that make people think and feel.  5x15 develops new perspectives on big ideas and the issues transforming the world around us. Lively, thought-provoking and entertaining - come and see for yourself as 5x15 launches a new series at EartH. Line up to be announced soon.

“If 5x15’s packed soirees feel like an evening of offline, communal surfing, it’s due as much to the eclectic menu of speakers as to the short time allotted to each... With a friendly crowd and busy bar, 5x15 events are more salon – with a touch of saloon after the last speaker – rather than anything as staid as a college lecture.” The New York Times

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On October 9th we're bringing the icy magic of the Antarctic all the way to Hackney, with the Penguin Cafe playing in support of Greenpeace's campaign to create the largest protected area on Earth - an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary. 

Experience the sights and sounds of the Antarctic from Greenpeace's recent expedition - chock-a-block with penguins, whales and seals which could be protected by the creation of a sanctuary five times the size of Germany. 

Over 1.6million people have already backed the campaign worldwide. Join them by signing the petition for the largest protected area on Earth here:  http://protecttheantarctic.org/

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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble bring heart-racing horns and raw Chicago energy to EartH.

The spirit of south-side Chicago runs to the very core of Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Vibrancy, energy and hustle coalesce with raw emotion and fearless expression to create an exhilarating and evocative sound like no other. Undoubtedly, the legacy of Chicago Jazz lives on through the the bouncing brass and heart-racing horns of this seven piece.

Fathered by Astral Jazz legend Phil Cohran, the seven blood-brothers that form the band earned their stripes in New York subway stations and smoky suburban Jazz bars. Today however, they have toured the world together, playing with everyone from Prince, Snoop Dogg, Mos Def, Mick Jones (The Clash) and Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz).

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble’s unique sound was perhaps summed up best by Fader Magazine, who described it as: “A huge brass bridge of hypnotic polyphony connecting the cosmic jazz of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, with the urgency of hip-hop and the sweeping emotional scale of a Curtis Mayfield blaxploitation opus.”

Witness the coming together of their musical mastery and raw Chicago energy as the band takeover Hackney Arts Centre for one of their biggest headline shows to date!

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The alternative comedy circuit’s biggest and best acts – live at EartH.

Doors 7pm, performances from 8pm.

Expect household names, cult favourites, short film screenings and multimedia wizardry at East London’s new all-headline stand-up showcase. 

James Acaster – Netflix star, five-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and ‘Mock the Week’ regular – headlines on October 18.

Plus ‘Live at the Apollo’ and Netflix star Phil Wang, ‘8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown’s Lou Sanders, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Mat Ewins and Irish raconteur Andrew Maxwell on hosting duties.

Presented by Plosive Productions.

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'One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem' by Neil Tennant will be published by Faber & Faber on November 1st. The book is Neil’s choice of one hundred of his song lyrics plus a short poem and also has an introduction written by Neil detailing his personal history as a songwriter and his creative processes. Neil will be in conversation with Michael Bracewell at a special event to mark the publication of the book.

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Portland, OR’s Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks have just released their new single, ‘Middle America’ – the first new music to surface from the group since 2014…

On ‘Middle America’, Malkmus’s wry wordplay and sunny twang create an ode to underdogs everywhere, with bittersweet words of encouragement for the ramshackle character on their receiving end. Only SM & the Jicks can craft this kind of brightly low-key anthem, a perfect three-minute-thirty-second country-speckled gem about life’s questions big (the inevitable passage of time; aging) and small (getting shitfaced; blushing the color of Robitussin).

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George FitzGerald returns with his second album, All That Must Be. A mesmeric and transportive collection of songs that he'll present at EartH in October.

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Featuring collaborations with Lil Silva, Bonobo, and Tracey Thorn (Everything But The Girl), All That Must Be is a richly poignant record that plots a route through the mental and physical landscape of its creator over the course of 18 life-changing months, and in doing so illuminates a more universal set of themes.

It documents a time that saw FitzGerald leaving Berlin, his home for the past decade, and returning to London to begin a life with his newly-born daughter. After years as a DJ surrounded by the much-storied hedonism of the German capital, and with few responsibilities other than making his flights each weekend, FitzGerald’s life changed markedly. The result is a record that deals with processes of transition, acceptance and renewal, a backdrop that feels particularly pertinent in a time where young adulthood is elongated ever further and there seem to be fewer reasons to settle down.

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George FitzGerald returns with his second album, All That Must Be. A mesmeric and transportive collection of songs that he'll present at EartH in October.

Featuring collaborations with Lil Silva, Bonobo, and Tracey Thorn (Everything But The Girl), All That Must Be is a richly poignant record that plots a route through the mental and physical landscape of its creator over the course of 18 life-changing months, and in doing so illuminates a more universal set of themes.

It documents a time that saw FitzGerald leaving Berlin, his home for the past decade, and returning to London to begin a life with his newly-born daughter. After years as a DJ surrounded by the much-storied hedonism of the German capital, and with few responsibilities other than making his flights each weekend, FitzGerald’s life changed markedly. The result is a record that deals with processes of transition, acceptance and renewal, a backdrop that feels particularly pertinent in a time where young adulthood is elongated ever further and there seem to be fewer reasons to settle down.

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Upset The Rhythm presents...

Grouper is a recording and performing project by Liz Harris. She lives and works in Astoria, OR...

With a mixture of softly-strummed guitar, Wurlitzer keys, and her delicate, dreamy vocals, this is an autumnal show you won't want to miss.

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New Zealand’s Marlon Williams has quite simply got one of the most extraordinary, effortlessly distinctive voices of his generation, and 30th November sees him return to London to join us here at EartH....

His sophomore album Make Way For Love released in February, explores new musical terrain and we see Williams revealing himself in an unprecedented way, in the wake of a fractured relationship with his long term girlfriend, artist Aldous Harding.
 
Williams and his band The Yarra Benders, embarked on a 67 date world tour at the beginning of this year to celebrate the record, playing sold out shows throughout the US, UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
 
If “breakup record” is a trope—and certainly it is—then Marlon Williams has done it proud. Like the best of the lot—Beck’s Sea Change, Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago, Phosphorescent’s harrowing Song For Zula and Joni Mitchell’s masterpiece Blue, Make Way For Love doesn’t shy away from heartbreak, but rather stares it in the face, and mines beauty from it. Delicate and bold, tender and searing, it’s a mightily personal new step. 

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Long established pop composer, sound sculptress, soundtracker and singer, Jane Weaver, presents an evening of unique atmospheric audio/visual segments performing solo variations of songs from her critically acclaimed albums 'The Silver Globe' and 'Modern Kosmology’.

An unshakable figure in the U.K’s experimental pop music landscape for over 3 decades, with eight full length albums to her name, Jane's self-propelled career has in recent years reached a critical zenith with unanimous praise spanning various multi-disciplinary fields, on a multitude of new global pastures. 

Named after a standout track on her latest Modern Kosmology album, Loops In The Secret Society, as Jane's first solo tour in over five years, sees her continue to channel new depths of cosmic energy with a fragile web of melodic codes, vocal treatments, cyclic cinematic motifs and expanding drum drones via her assemblage of custom-built vinyl discs, unlikely instrumentation, tape loops and zoetropic imagery.

The Loops In The Secret Society tour, reveals another dimension to Jane Weaver's ever expanding oeuvre, further reinstating the artist as one of Europe's most inspiring, inceptive and independent female performers and one of the truly vital architects of progressive pop music and creative songwriting of this generation.
 

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With this, his first solo outing since 2013’s “To See More Light”, Colin Stetson ventures into territory both familiar and strange....

Here still, is the dogmatically stripped down approach to performance and capture (all songs recorded live with no overdubs or loops) but there is an immediacy to the album that belies a more invasive and thorough miking of the various instruments being utilised  and a seeming influence drawn from the early nineties electronica of artists like Aphex Twin and Autechre, evident in the more pointed role played by the instruments\' many percussive elements. 

There are ancestries, motivic and timbral, woven through these six songs that plainly anchor them within the shared universe of his Trilogy, though the overall experience is one of extreme intimacy, the sounds and imagery more tangible and immersive than previous offerings. The brief and brutal “In the clinches” recalls (or presages) echoes of songs like “Judges”, though now feeling like one has fallen down the bell of Stetson’s ancient bass saxophone itself. “Spindrift”, crystalline and serene, calls to mind the ambient works of Aphex Twin, while “Between Water and Wind” with it’s “Immigrant Song” swagger, relentlessly carves it’s way into the bedrock here, pavingthe way with an increasing focus on the minute and the minimal, with a deepened
sense of patience shared by most of the album’s six tracks. 

Engineered and mixed by Stetson himself, this album represents a decidedly independent approach across the entire creative process and finds him at the top of his game, both as a composer and instrumentalist as well as a producer.

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Eat Your Own Ears present... Leon Vynehall

Vynehall’s DJ style is eclectic, considered and always surprising, and has been expertly reflected in his popular mixes for the likes of FACT and XLR8R, with the latter commenting that his contribution to their podcast series “quite possibly raised more questions than it answered”. His debut Radio 1 Essential Mix proved so popular that it went on to be shortlisted by the BBC as one of the 5 best Essential Mixes of 2016.Something of a media recluse, all we really know about Leon Vynehall is from his music – so far it’s proved a fascinating story.

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Come hunt for personal treasures, rummage for bargains, and refresh your living space with unique finds from our EartH hall of salvaged olde things.

Sprawling across the ground floor of a former ABC cinema, and soon to be Hackney Arts Centre,  The Big London Flea is host to over 50 vintage traders. Including veteran vintage sellers from established London markets like Spitalsfield/Bermondsey/Kempton, selling alongside locals having a vintage clear out. 

Expect, Furniture, Records, Lamps & lighting, Electricals, Homewares, Factory Decor, Prints, maps & art, Clothing, and One-of-a–kind finds.

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To London via Mali, the Ivory Coast and France...

Boldly experimental yet respectful of her roots, it’s a record that defines her as the voice of young African womanhood – proud of her heritage but with a vision that looks confidently to the future and a message that is universal.

Her spectacular 2011 debut album Fatou made the Malian singer and guitarist the most talked about new African artist on the planet. FENFO (which translates as “something to Say”’) dramatically fulfils that promise on a set of vivid and original new compositions that draw on the rich experiences she has enjoyed since.

“I’ve had so many different musical adventures since the last album, touring and working with so many other musicians and I think you can hear how all of that feeds into this record,” she says. “This is my time and I’m sharing my soul.”

Those she has worked with include some of the biggest names in contemporary music. She recorded with Bobby Womack and Herbie Hancock; played Glastonbury and other major festivals; and toured with the Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca. She assembled a West African super-group featuring Amadou and Mariam, Oumou Sangaré and Toumani Diabaté to record a song calling for peace in her troubled homeland; and climbed aboard Damon Albarn’s star-studded Africa Express, which culminated in her sharing a stage with Sir Paul McCartney.

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Blue, as Julia Cumming of Brooklyn’s Sunflower Bean points out, is something of a “loaded color.” The word is of course often synonymous with sadness—certainly blues music isn’t known for its laughs. But it's also the "emotional color" of the band's upcoming, sparkling second album, Twentytwo in Blue. “We definitely don’t want it to come across as a sad record,” explains Cumming. “Blue is kind of hopeful, and we wanted to explore that color with this record.” The new record by vocalist and bassist Cumming, drummer Jacob Faber and guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen is many things: rousing, romantic, topical, empathetic and insightful. But defeatist it’s not.

All three band members will in fact be 22 when Twentytwo in Blue is released in March of 2018, almost two years and two months after Sunflower Bean’s hazy, charming debut LP, Human Ceremony. They were two momentous years in which the trio toured the world several times over and grew in accomplishment, discovering a newly confident voice they bring to the second album, one that doesn’t shy away from the political changes and cultural shifts that have left America and the world stupefied. “This has been such an unbelievable time,” says Kivlen. “I can’t imagine any artist of our ilk making a record and not have it be seen through the lens of the political climate of 2016 and 2017."

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EFG London Jazz Festival

Presented by Serious, International Anthem, and Total Refreshment Centre

The EFG London Jazz Festival brings together a double headliner featuring two of the most seminal artists to emerge from the thriving jazz scenes in Chicago and London in recent years.

Drummer and beat scientist Makaya McCraven, one of the key new figures in the Chicago jazz scene, whose genre-bending compositions also draw from his collaborations with hip-hop, African dance, indie rock, and Hungarian folk artists. His performance will come on the back of the release of his latest album Universal Beings, which comes out later this year via International Anthem.

Saxophonist Nubya Garcia, undoubtedly one of the leading forces in the new wave of British afro-tinged jazz, having taken the world by storm this year with her When We Are EP and appearances at Dimensions, Field Day, Winter Jazzfest amongst other festivals.

This marks the two artists’ only headline shows in London this side of 2018, and they will also be joined by some very special guest artists TBA for a series of one-off collaborations after their own sets.

Following on from 2017’s Chicago X London weekender in Total Refreshment Centre, this year’s event takes the concept to the next level in the incredible new Hackney Arts Centre venue, and also serves to celebrate the physical release of Where We Come From  – the Chicago X London Mixtape featuring Makaya McCraven and a who’s who of London’s jazz scene on International Anthem.

We believe that 2018 will be looked back on as a year when a new generation of jazz artists like Makaya and Nubya crossed a threshold into becoming some of the most important musicians of their generation. Chicago X London brings them and more under one roof.

We look forward to sharing more details and announcements for this very special show in the coming months…

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“Missing Leonard Cohen already? The good news is that he appears to have been reincarnated as a scrawny south London crooner called Matt Maltese” – The Guardian

Matt Maltese is a singer and writer of wry modern ballads, musically taking cues from a range of influences from Leonard Cohen, Jarvis Cocker, to Father John Misty and Angel Olsen. While lyrically the topics are just as heavy in tone as his idols, Matt adds a great crescendo to his quiet musings. “A charging colossus of feeling, summing up his frustrations, anger and contemplations about society as it is today”. Matt describes his songs as “having moments of sentimentality often covered by a wry social critique of the notions of love/politics… and I want to achieve that same balance”.

“Think Richard Hawley with a Twin Peaks filter, songs for early hour insomniacs and teens stumbling home from nights that etch into the conscience.” DIY
 

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Cosmo Sheldrake is a 26 year-old multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and producer....

He regularly performs on banjo, loop station, keyboards, double bass, drums, penny whistle, sousaphone, accordion and many more. He is an inspirational singer and improviser, and much of his work is concerned with play, nonsense and the sonorous environment.

Cosmo composes music for film and theatre and tours internationally, performing solo and with several bands including Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit and the Gentle Mystics. He ran a community choir until 2013, teaches in schools and privately and has facilitated music workshops and youth empowerment and nature awareness camps across Europe and North America.

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Hinds come to EartH 

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Patrick has been busy on various projects since the critically acclaimed release of his fifth album, Love Songs for Robots...

His latest single, ‘Broken’, released last fall was featured in many TV series including Grey’s Anatomy, The Good Doctor and Burden of Truth. He performed after U2’s Bono at the 2017 Canada Day concert Ottawa, was part of the cast as a performer for the circus show Rêveurs définitifs, played the Montreal Symphonique outdoor concert on the Mount-Royal to celebrate the city’s 375th anniversary, embarked on the Canadian C3 boat for a 2 week run to raise awareness on diversity and Inclusion, Reconciliation, Youth Engagement and the Environment, played with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, performed the Bell Center for Tower of Songs, a tribute concert to Leonard Cohen in Montreal with Sting, Lana Del Rey, Elvis Costello, Adam Cohen, and more. Patrick and his band are currently recording the next album set to be out sometime in 2018.

Watson composes, performs and records his albums with his full band of almost a decade, which includes Joe Grass (guitars), Robbie Kuster (drums/percussion) and Mishka Stein (bass). The recipients of Canada’s elite Polaris Music Prize in 2007, Watson and his band have toured on all 5 continents, also playing with full orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw, on many occasions. Raised and still living in Montreal, Watson himself has
composed several scores for both film and television, including a trailer for “The Walking Dead” and Wim Wenders’ 3D film “Everything Will Be Fine”.

16+ Each under 18 must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
In order to verify your age, ID may be requested. For this reason, we advise that all customers bring valid ID.
Right of admission reserved.
19:00-23:00

Unallocated Seating