Moth Club - Hackney Citizen

Moth Club gets reprieve as council blocks planning bid - but venue ‘not out of the woods’

Venue celebrates a 'huge win' following a 30,000-strong petition to block a controversial flat development on Morning Lane

Author: Hackney Citizen

Knock2Bag Comedy Night, Moth Club: ‘Fun, whacky, and with something for everyone’

Tim Key and Rosie Jones were on an impressive bill at the popular weekly gig

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Valette Street venue MOTH Club was the scene of Mellen's talk. Photograph: Paul Hudson via Flickr

Tiña, Moth Club, live music review: ‘The spirit of indie rock squeezed into hot pink spandex’

The five-piece turn the iconic Hackney venue into an ‘indie rock fever dream’

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Tiña, Moth Club, live music review: ‘The spirit of indie rock squeezed into hot pink spandex’

Girlpool, Moth Club, live music review: ‘Ready to take on a new era’

Californian indie duo ‘back in their stride’ after singer Cleo Tucker’s recent gender transition and open struggle to adapt to his deeper voice

Author: Tilly Armstrong

Girlpool, Moth Club, live music review: ‘Ready to take on a new era’

Concert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for July 2018

This month’s local live music listings ranges from the A$AP Mob to a pair of ‘howling’ violins, via indie-pop and free-jazz

Author: Andrew Barnes

Concert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for June 2018

This month’s local live music listings features supergroups, atomic age rock, Dutch anarchist jazz punk and some experimental luminaries

Author: Andrew Barnes

Wax lyrical: Alabamian singer/songwriter Waxahatchee. Photograph: Jesse Riggins

I Drilled A Hole in My Head to Stay High Forever: counterculture icon fails to bore at MOTH Club

Despite a more academic bent than the audience were prepared for, Joey Mellen’s delved into the possibilities of the brain with aplomb during his trepanning talk at MOTH Club last weekend

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hole-y Man: Joey Mellen and the cover of his psychedelic memoir, Bore Hole. Image: Joey Mellon / Strange Attractor

Mild High Club @ MOTH Club, live music review: chilled-out LA psych ‘like pink fluffy candyfloss’

Having collaborated many a time, on tour and on record, with scene giants King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Mild High Club’s three-set Hackney residency left our reviewer relaxed – too relaxed?

Author: Hackney Citizen

'Indistinguishable murmurs': Mild High Club singer Alexander Bretin has a laid-back vocal style. Photograph: Casey Cooper-Fis

Concert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for March 2018

This month’s gig guide is an all-American affair: except for a hard-riffing band named after a Gloucestershire village…

Author: Andrew Barnes

Songs for the recently sad: Soccer Mommy

Concert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for December ’17

Christmas jazz, a Scottish troubadour, chicken nuggets and new music from SEO-unfriendly London band Totally – it’s all in this month’s gig guide

Author: Hackney Citizen

Fear of a Welsh Planet: Goldie Lookin' Chain

Once in a Lifetime opportunity: Talking Heads tribute band to run through two classic albums at MOTH Club

We chat to Speaking In Tongues, who will play Talking Heads: 77 and Remain in Light in full later this month

Author: Hackney Citizen

Who Is It?: Speaking in Tongues formed in Bristol in 2005. Photograph: Speaking in Tongues

Concert pitch – the best live music in Hackney for October’s gig-goers

This month marks the return of our gig guide – so Hackney, get ready for some acid rock, punk, rap and more besides

Author: Hackney Citizen

Luxurious: Shabazz Palaces hit Oval Space in November. Photograph: Victoria Kovios