EartH Spotlight 2024

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After a six-year hiatus, Grammy-nominated maestro of the strings, Bombino, is poised to ignite the stage at London's stunning Earth Theatre.

Born amidst the windswept sands of the nomadic Tuareg encampment Tidene, just outside Agadez, Niger, Bombino's journey is a testament to resilience and musical mastery. Fleeing the tumult of political unrest in 1990, Bombino found solace in the universal language of music, drawing inspiration from the legendary sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Dire Straits, Ali Farka Touré, and Tinariwen.

With each album, Bombino transcends boundaries, crafting a sonic tapestry that defies categorisation. From the gritty elegance of Nomad to the hypnotic rhythms of Azel, Bombino's artistry knows no bounds. His latest offering, Sahel, released in September 2023, stands as a poignant call for unity in the Sahel region, showcasing a breathtaking range from acoustic ballads to searing electric guitar tracks.

At Earth Theatre, Bombino will weave his musical magic, seamlessly blending the raw energy of Tuareg guitar with echoes of reggae, rock, and the soul-stirring melodies of the desert. As he takes the stage, audiences will embark on a transcendent journey, guided by Bombino's unwavering mission to spread love, understanding, and the timeless beauty of Tuareg culture across the globe.

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EartH

Bombino

Gigs

London

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Renowned Argentine multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music producer, Gustavo Santaolalla, is thrilled to announce his upcoming concert tour in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his iconic album "RONROCO." With a diverse career spanning from cinematic compositions to music production, Santaolalla has made an indelible mark on the industry.

Recipient of two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Original Score in 2005 and 2006 for his work on "Brokeback Mountain"and "Babel," respectively, Santaolalla has displayed his unique ability to craft compositions that evoke profound emotions and resonate with audiences. With 2 Grammys, 19 Latin Grammys, 2 Baftas, and 1 Golden Globe to his name, his artistic journey stands as a testament to his unmatched influence and talent.

The album "RONROCO," which marked a turning point in his career, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. This album not only introduced Santaolalla's magnificent musicality to the world but also led to collaborations with esteemed film directors. From its inclusion in Michael Mann's "The Insider" to partnerships with Alejandro González Iñárritu for "Babel” and Walter Salles for "The Motorcycle Diaries," "RONROCO" has been a pivotal element in cinematic storytelling.

The concert tour, set to commence in 2024, will bring "RONROCO" to life in a live setting for the first time. The performances will also include a selection of other iconic Santaolalla compositions. Alongside his cinematic contributions, audiences will have the opportunity to enjoy tracks from his involvement in the video game "The Last Of Us," as well as other notable soundtracks like "The Book of Life" and "Freak Power: The Ballot of the Bomb." Backed by his new band comprising of five multi-instrumentalist musicians, Santaolalla promises a unique and emotive sensorial experience at each performance.

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Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Santaolalla - De Ushuaia a La Quiaca - 2024 Remaster

Gustavo Santaolalla - De Ushuaia a La Quiaca (2024 Remaster)

This event will take place in EartH Hall. | Last Entry 1am

A massive link up between 4 of the finest in London's bass, garage & grime scene right now. Don't sleep!

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Columbo Music

23 Degrees: Izco x Bakey x Reeko x Capo Lee

Izco

Bakey

Reeko

Capo Lee

This event will take place in EartH Theatre.

London-based Marie Naffah fuses classic storytelling (inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan, The Beatles & Joni Mithcell) with modern moments striking the perfect balance of modernity and nostalgia.

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Communion ONE

Marie Naffah

This event will take place in EartH Hall. | Last Entry 1am

Sam Gellaitry views the world through palettes of vivid color. A C minor scale becomes purple, plum and grape. C-sharp minor is cool and blue. Night time is best evoked in dark F minor reds and D minor induces rich forest green. His music is a journey through experience, circumstance and surroundings, told through his impressive, synesthesia-informed knowledge of different musical tones.

After a whirlwind of a Phonox residency, Sam takes on Earth Hackney for his biggest headline show yet.

Sam is supported by O'Flynn and Lil Silva

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Sam Gellaitry

O'Flynn

Lil Silva

This event will take place in EartH Theatre.

Emilíana Torrini, known for her mesmerizing melodies and compelling lyrics, will be performing live at EartH. With a rich musical background that includes contributions to projects like GusGus's debut album "Polydistortion" and Paul Oakenfold's "Hold Your Hand," Emilíana's music promises to captivate audiences. Don't miss this opportunity to experience her extraordinary artistry firsthand at EartH.

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Emiliana Torrini

Emilíana Torrini - Autumn Sun

Emilíana Torrini

Jaakko Eino Kalevi

This event will take place in EartH Hall.

HALLOWEEN LEATHER BALL

Our legendary leather party hits Halloween. Hard. And in HACKNEY. We wear LEATHER.

Or rubber, PVC or pleather of course.

Calling all leather butches, femmes, dykes, daddies, doms and bikers.

Dress to impress: jackets - trousers - waistcoats - harnesses - chaps

Come strut and grind.

Subculture. Boundaries. Desire.

Come and be crowned Mr & Mrs Leather 2024, slow dance at midnight and more…

Current and classic house, dance and RnB.

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Performance & DJ's TBA

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This is a night for lesbian and bisexual women, trans and non-binary people. We celebrate butches and butch culture. Please help us hold this space and do not bring cis-male partners and friends. Cis men will not be permitted entry.

A £1 restoration levy is added to this ticket that goes towards the upkeep of the venue.

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Butch, Please! Halloween Leather Ball 

FETISH - Come Check This

From a fairly early stage, Cuco's songs seemed to connect with audiences online, his earnest bedroom pop aesthetic and evident talent resonating for obvious reasons. Home-recorded and shared via services like Bandcamp and SoundCloud, self-released projects like 2016's Wannabewithu and 2018's Chiquito EP mixed relatable and catchy works in English and Spanish, endearing Cuco to other first-generation Latin Americans and young fans of indie singer-songwriters. Untethered to genre constraints, he experimented with styles and sounds, incorporating mariachi and R&B, psychedelia and rap, as well as other forms into his diverse palette as he sought fit.

Following the release of 2019's formidable and unique Para Mi, his full-length debut since signing with Interscope, Cuco's exponential growth and development as an artist became undeniable. With his 2022 release, Fantasy Gateway, Cuco pushed the envelope of his sound, presenting a new chapter of his career in which his growth and ability to take risks to great results are on full display.

2023 saw the release of Cuco's most recent Hitchhiker EP, which was recorded at Big Bad Sound Studios in his hometown of Los Angeles and boasts production credits from Michael Beinhorn (Soundgarden, Hole, Red Hot Chili Peppers). Now, Cuco is set to embark on the next installment of his 4U Tour, marking his return to the United Kingdom and Europe for the first time since 2019. This series of six intimate, stripped-down performances promises to showcase Cuco's artistry in its purest form, allowing fans to connect deeply with his music in an up-close and personal setting.

This event is taking place at EartH Theatre.

Ticket price includes a £1 venue restoration levy.

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Cuco

Cuco & Adriel Favela - Sitting In The Corner (feat. Kacey Musgraves)

This event will take place in EartH Hall.

Across the span of their previous seven studio albums, Chicago-based instrumental trio Russian Circles traversed a diverse topography of sounds, moods, and approaches with their limited armory of drums, bass, and guitar. It’s difficult to chart an evolution in their sound when their records have always felt like well-curated playlists. It wasn’t uncommon to hear drone-heavy meditations, dazzling prog exercises, knuckle-dragging riff-fests, haunting folk ballads, and tension-baiting noise rock all within the span of one album. Still, it’s difficult to ignore the progression from the pensive and intricate melodies of Enter (2006) to the layered distorted dirges of Blood Year (2019). It’s been a gradual sonic shift owing to the band’s rigorous tour schedule and a predilection towards playing their more authoritative material on stage. But with their latest album, Gnosis, Russian Circles eschew the varied terrain of their past work and bulldoze a path through the most tumultuous and harrowing territory of their sound.

As was the case for so many artists in the age of COVID, the obstacles of geography and isolation forced Russian Circles to reevaluate their writing process. Rather than crafting songs out of fragmented ideas in the practice room, full songs were written and recorded independently before being shared with other members, so that their initial vision was retained. While these demos spanned the full breadth of the band’s varied styles, the more cinematic compositions were ultimately excised in favor of the physically cathartic pieces.

Gnosis was engineered and mixed by Kurt Ballou. Drums and bass were tracked at Electrical Audio in Chicago to maximize the natural room sounds of the rhythm section. Guitar and synth overdubs were conducted at God City in Salem, MA to take advantage of Ballou’s vast inventory of amps and effects pedals. Despite the entirety of the album being written remotely, the songs were recorded with the full band playing together to retain the live feel of the material. Owing to the climate of the times and a new writing method, Russian Circles created their most fuming and focused work to date—an album that favors the exorcism of two years’ worth of tension over the melancholy and restraint that often colored their past endeavors.

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Russian Circles

Youngblood

REZN

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TARA CLERKIN TRIO are Pat Benjamin, Sunny Joe Paradisos and Tara Clerkin, three musicians involved in a number of cult Bristol bands over the years before confidently settling down in triangle formation. They are inspired by and borrow from jazz, trip hop, electronica, psychedelia & minimalism, twirling the non-pretentious strands of these threads together into a trippy green winged-cloak, adorning Arthur Russell and dripping in blue jam.

Their self-titled debut LP was released in 2020 and was a sleeper hit, coming in at 35 in the Wire's top 100 albums of the year and in Bleeps top 10. Their latest EP, ‘On The Turning Ground’, was released on World of Echo in November. Whilst their inspirations might be centreless, but the trio still possess a very obvious anchor in the form of their hometown. Bristol stands as a city of multitudes, heterogenous and vibrant in such a way as to allow it to renew and remake time and again. Tara Clerkin Trio drink from that same well, duly reflecting a rich musical heritage built on fwd-facing electronic subcultures and experimental urges. As such, ‘On The Turning Ground’ finds them subject to their own subtle internal evolution, the pervasive sense that you've caught them mid-bloom, on their way to becoming but never anything but themselves.

**ABLE NOISE** are an experimental baritone guitar and drum duo, based between The Hague and Athens. Through the use of voice, tape and alternative methods of playing their instruments, they create a minimal and visual musical performance. Their output is primarily focused on live concerts, letting their music be shaped by the physicality of their playing, the acoustic and aesthetic properties of the space, and the dynamics formed between themselves and their audience. Their recorded work relies less on their respective instruments, and more on an assemblage of field recordings, heavily processed instrumentation, and exploratory mixing techniques. They released their recorded debut in 2020 through the Glasgow label GLARC, and their next recorded work is due to be released in late 2024 through London label World of Echo.

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Tara Clerkin Trio

Tara Clerkin Trio - The Turning Ground

Able Noise

**This event will take place in EartH Hall.**

Having moved from Trinidad to Romford at the age of nine (the third generation of his family to make the move), BERWYN took just two weeks to write and record his debut mixtape, DEMOTAPE/VEGA. The mixtape distills a lifetime of experiences existing on the fringes of London life. It’s raw and authentic, both lyrically and sonically, with each song revealing further layers of Berwyn's life. If you want to know Berwyn's story, it's all there in Vega's tales of hope, hustle, and struggle.

BERWYN was never meant to make a mixtape. He was supposed to leave London, return to his motherland of Trinidad, and forget about the last few years. He’d gotten himself into trouble, living a life that “felt like dancing on the edge of a knife.” He knew if he kept going out onto the streets, something would happen. So he locked himself away for two weeks in a “shithole flat” and – on a diet of toast, weed, and insomnia – began writing and recording the music that would become Vega. Despite hardship, Berwyn is a natural optimist, but this was effectively a last roll of the dice.

Following the mixtape’s release came the decision to add a spontaneous verse to his performance of ‘Glory’ in reaction to George Floyd’s death the night before it aired on the infamous ‘Later… with Jools Holland’ – a statement of intent that marked BERWYN out as one of the most exciting talents making music today. From that moment onwards, he honed his skills as a singer, songwriter, producer, and collaborator by channeling raw and authentic experiences of London life into his music. This process awarded him widespread acclaim, including a top three finish in the BBC’s ‘Sound Of’ poll, a Mercury Prize shortlist, MOBO nominations, and an NME Award.

Across the last four years, he’s released two mixtapes, DEMOTAPE/VEGA and TAPE2/FOMALHAUT, and the diverse EP ‘Bulletproof’ - inspired by his return to his Trinidadian birthplace following years of passport and visa issues that had shadowed him since arriving in the UK.

Having already made such an indelible mark on British music in just a few years, BERWYN is now preparing to release his debut album. He has made a fiercely political and personal record that embodies everything that makes an artist truly exciting in 2024. He’s an authentic and uncompromising creative force, constantly evolving and blurring boundaries as he continues to carve out his place in the music industry

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This is a 16+ event.

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Berwyn

This event will take place in EartH Theatre.

Since forming in 1989, Mercury Rev has made a career out of boldly exploring the fringes of artistic perception, channeling colors and sounds and visions that always seem just beyond our mortal reach. The Guardian hailed the group as “a rarity in indie rock: a band who have continually evolved their sound, pushing at the boundaries of what rock music actually means over 25 years, borrowing from jazz, funk, doo-wop, techno, folk and more along the way,” while Rolling Stone praised their “majestic chaos,” and the BBC lauded their “shimmering psychedelic pop, immersive indie-rock, \[and\] spectacularly engrossing passages of sumptuous instrumentation.” The band’s 1991 debut, ‘Yerself Is Steam,’ landed on Pitchfork’s rundown of the Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time, and their 1998 breakthrough, ‘Deserter’s Songs,’ was named NME’s Album of the Year upon its release. Major festival and television performances around the world solidified their status as that rare group capable of straddling the line between mainstream appeal and progressive musical and technological experimentation, but the band’s journey was also a tumultuous one, full of lineup changes, setbacks, and heartbreak.…

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EartH Spotlight 2024