Power Lunches Arts Cafe

446 Kingsland Road

Hackney, E8 4AE

[email protected]

Shows

25.05.2015

Upset The Rhythm - MONOTONY

Upset The Rhythm presents…

MONOTONY // 7" Launch //
THE WORMS
DAS BOOTS THE CHEMIST
Monday 25 May (Bank Holiday Matinee)
Power Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Haggerston, E8 4AE
2pm | £5 |   

MONOTONY are an evolving band of future humans making truly irregular punk, not quite comparable to anything else. 'Weird' is a meaningless platitude, and 'art punk' is a classifier that shouldn't be required. Celebrating the release of a split 7" on Upset The Rhythm with their sister band Sauna Youth, Monotony are set to detonate the basement of Power Lunches with their head-first primal punk. "Acquisitions, and amazon product descriptions no ambition. Jumping off the balcony," they intone over the swaggering rhythm over their new song 'Luxury Flats'. In the song, Monotony come face to face with Ballard's high-rise nightmare set upon rapidly gentrifying London out of all reason. The second track on the 7", "Human Troll," is a boldly brash track lodged with sloping riffs and hollered vocals. "Human Troll lives in the river, cement mattress making him shiver!". Monotony also have some forthcoming releases on Faux Discx and 80/81 Records, so keep your ears open for those too! 


THE WORMS are a guitar-n-drums London duo consisting of one Cold Puma and one Omi Palone. Describing themselves as "petty prannies proffering pithy punk produce", there's a straight forward, bare-bones immediacy to their solid stop/start missives.


DAS BOOTS THE CHEMIST formed at the end of the crap year of 2014. Approaching their songs as raw statements vs intricately genius jokes, Das Boots throw some conversationally direct lyrics on top of a great pile of spindly guitar lines and bombastic drummage. You can also use this music when creating a webinar because you want the webinar to be interesting and not boring. Their music is a bit like punk, post punk, rockabilly, and classic rock. They often play the bits wrong and then scream because it all gets a bit you know. They write a new song during every rehearsal and then discard it because it sounds too much like a song by one of their friend's bands. Sometimes one song that only vaguely sounds like something else slips through the net and that's how they built their set up.

25.05.2015

Cesura ZPD#1 RUDE SURPLUS!

• Cara Tolmie •
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• Christina Chalmers •
> •
• Lisa Jeschke •
• Nowa Huta/Disjecta (Cesura//Acceso) •

• Xomaltesc Tbobhni (Paul Abbott / Seymour Wright) • 

26.05.2015

SILICON

Silicon come to Power Lunches!

Check out some music here - 

27.05.2015

come down hectic!

live sets by:

- NITKOWSKI 
- EYE FOAM (free improvisation)
- CIANURO (raw punk)

artworks by:

- Fresa Ensalada

- Stefy Retche

28.05.2015

The Daydream Fit


Post punk/ noise rock band from the Netherlands. They take their influences from bands like Sonic Youth, Hot Snakes, No Age, Pavement and Japandroids.




Andalucía is a noisepunkwhatever two-piece band from Münster, Germany. They like to listen to Dinosaur Jr., Wipers and Sonic Youth




Soul Punk from Watford, their album 'Drinking Seawater' was one of the best of last year.



£5
7pm
Powerlunches Dalston

29.05.2015

Brunch


alt-noise-pop-whateva....gonna play some new songs!



heroes of indie-pop! playing some new stuff too maybe??



yeeaah some new stuff i reckon!


@ the 1 and only Powerlunches! -------- 

£3 entry so we can pay the bandz

thanks and see you there!!

mint sauce 4 eva

30.05.2015

JACK댄스

HENRIK THE ARTIST
TANUKI
MATRA MAGIC
IDEAL CORPUS
PALM2

31.05.2015

Small Wonder & Yohuna

Tickets available here:  https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/small-wonder-and-yohuna

Slay Tracks are honoured and excited to present two of the most inspiring and talented musicians in the world,   and   at Power Lunches in Dalston.

Small Wonder is Henry Crawford from Brooklyn, New York. In 2014 he released one of the best help with roas calculations records of the year titled 'Wendy' through the brilliant Father/Daughter Records.

Yohuna is the moniker of Johanne Swanson from Eau Claire, Wisconsin via Berlin where she currently lives. As well as a handful of excellent EPs and splits, her song 'Badges' featured on Orchid Tapes 'Boring Ecstasy: The Bedroom Pop of Orchid Tapes' compilation last year.

This is an incredibly rare opportunity to get the user journey map to see two of the best songwriters around right now. We're extremely proud to bring this really rare show to London. Have a listen to both Small Wonder and Yohuna's fantastic back catalogue:


01.06.2015

ROLO TOMASSI

Greivances release show!

SOLD OUT

02.06.2015

Dang + Fever Family

Dang's post-ironic talk rock: 
Fever Family's funky smoothe disco: 

03.06.2015

The Craic Lodge Comedy Night

Comedy gold

05.06.2015

Downtown Kids

LET'S BRING SOME COOL GUITAR VIBES TO DALSTON!!!!!!!

Our Gig starring  ,   and more is finally announced ! Tickets available soon !

BANDS PLAYING : 

MOHIT : 
Cold Boys : 
HOO HAs: 

06.06.2015

GANCHO TIME

Hello!!! 

We are so excited about this dance party...

Come and dance to  ! These guys are our favourites... we love their Dance Cafe parties... they make us go wild. Check them out here:


Also playing tunes: Michael from Chips For The Poor:


AND Tom from Design a Wave!


Also, we've got a heap of party records that we play at home. We want to play them in a dark room through big, loud speakers and this is where it's going to happen.

Dancing starts at 9pm but for maximum impact come earlier because this party finishes at 2.

Admission: £3

07.06.2015

Sonic Masala

The (un)official first Sunday of summer - get to Power Lunches and get loose.

 - tripping between brooding contemplation, blasted anxieties and serrated distortion, all held together with spit-shined melody. I Am Material is out on Soft Power Records now - 

 - swirling in militaristic rhythms, dark-hued shadows and devilishly disillusioned. Meet Yourself Inside is out through Unwork Records now - 

 - the centrifugal point of the night, this ex-pat Aussie enigma lives in a slipstream of his own making. The gutter punk for the muzak generation, cutting truths straight from the cheese-cloth - 

 - reminding us all what garage rock used to be about - leather, denim, action, noise. 

Winnaretta - wailing trio who play loose and fast with groove, tone, harmony and sense. They play like their lives depend on it - and they still don't give a fuck - 

All for a fiver - that's a pound per band!

09.06.2015

PINKWASH

KODACHROME presents PINKWASH + GANG + more TBA

Philadelphia upstarts PINKWASH head over the Atlantic to make their UK debut this June. They'll be accompanied by exciting Brighton crushers GANG. 

PINKWASH 

Ashley and Joey crash and settle as crunchy duo PINKWASH. Ambushing you with their coarse vocals and smashing drums, they specialise in exciting immediate noise punk. Their 7" single 'Cancer Money', released on Sister Polygon this year, was a violent treat. Angry, charged and brutal it tingled in the back of your neck like a sweet case of whiplash. There's something both scaring and satisfying about the rough and fuzzy chimes of PINKWASH. Like your favourite denim jacket, just better.



GANG

Superb craft and energy pierce out of this gnarled three piece. Their latest single 'Silverback' opens with a slamming salvo, which is then pinned back by the moaning of singer Eric Tormey, his voice dripping with feeling. The track unravels raucously, as if Tame Impala's 'Elephant' has been caught by poachers and is now ready for the black market. A blood lust ivory garage-rock classic. The ragged but assured nature of their songs, mean GANG arrive as kings in the court of their own dingy basement.



£3 advance cheap list // £4 on the door

10.06.2015

The Craic Lodge Comedy Night

Comedy Gold 

 

11.06.2015

Rice Milk/ Furow

Rice Milk

 

Black Fungus

 

Pret A Monster

 

Furrow

 

The Current/ Dissent

 

 

£3 on the door

12.06.2015

AUTOBODIES

AUTOBODIES 


WEDDINGS


PANDA POP



More to be announced! stay tuned

13.06.2015

Kindred Shins and more

punk collective promotions proudly presents - 

KINDRED SHINS



MILLIE MANDERS



LACK
plus
THE BEAUTIFUL GAME



SATURDAY JUNE 13th 

446 Kingsland Road
Hackney, E8 4AE

email [email protected] for advance tix
£5 adv / £6 on the door

16.06.2015

ART OF BURNING WATER

ART OF BURNING WATER
mangled / hardcore / intense


BAXTER STOCKMAN
Finnish / urgent / noise rock


SKY:LARK! 
discordant / riffy / noisy / beautiful


CONTAINMENT
short / sharp / shocking
>

Tuesday 16/06/15 

Powerlunches
446 Kingsland Road
London
E8 4AE

£5

17.06.2015

The Craic Lodge Comedy Night

Comedy Gold 

 

 

18.06.2015

BROKEN HANDS

https://www.musicglue.com/broken-hands/live/

All of the early-bird guaranteed entry e-tickets to the 3rd night of the residency shows in June/July have been snapped up. There are a few left for the other two nights & then it's all down to first come first served on the door.
Supports will be announced ASAP

19.06.2015

Jovis & The Bedwetters

To celebrate the release of their debut EP, Jovis & The Bedwetters will be playing live at  on Friday June 19th.

FREE ENTRY FOR ALL

Support TBC

Doors open at 8pm

20.06.2015

HOTGOTHIC

Celebrating the physical, digital, and emotional release of the new PUNCHLINE EP, HOTGOTHIC and comrades invite you to join us in a night of snarling cynicism and unapologetic debauchery.

£5 on the door, £3 guestlist if attending on the event page


"That unreleased Throbbing Gristle theme tune to The Muppet Show. On speed, poppers, & too much acid. Disarmingly suave. Disorientating. Genitalia seem to be a recurring lyrical theme." -Ben Hell-


with 
"Combining a mutual respect for 50's rock'n'roll, lo-fi garage punk, with a touch of glam, The Dedwardians are punching out some hyper energetic live shows and winning accolades all over the place"

And 
"An explosive two-piece with searing blues riffs and snarling vocals. Uncontainable attitude collides head-on with chorus hooks full of genuine rock swagger and grit." 


Comedy by Harry U Eldrich
Twisted, uncompromising and angry Harry U Eldrich is bound to offend, honour bound that is.

 DJ Josh Cooper spinning Roadkill classics"

"DJ The Scott (Psychocandy, The Queer Alternative) spinning Post Punk, Goth and Indie Classics new and old.....providing he doesn't get arrested by the cops at the Bank of England..."

21.06.2015

The Ethical Debating Society

Notes From Underground in association with   present:

The launch party for "New Sense", the long-awaited debut LP from The Ethical Debating Society (released on Odd Box Records, June 2015) plus a showcase of some of the best DIY music from the UK underground scene: post-riot grrrl, queercore, indiepop, anti-folk, noisepop, post-punk and all points around and inbetween. 

This gig is also a little bit of a celebration of the UK riot grrrl legacy: most of the bands playing are directly inspired by riot grrrl, some players have been involved since the network around Riot Grrrl London/Essex at the turn of the century and others were knee-high to the first wave. The title "New Sense" comes from an essay on riot grrrl by Pete Dale (Pussycat Trash/Avocado Baby/Red Monkey/Milky Wimpshake).

*TICKETS!*:   


"Queer anti-folk/punk pop." DIY anthems - and we do mean anthems - set to stomp box and tambourine. 

new EP for 2015: 


Post-punk-pop perfection. Witching Waves meets Young Marble Giants in a painkiller-haze daydream. And that's just from listening to their back catalogue, there's new material ready to drop!
p;
"Working class feminist racket." And a soaring cross-harmonic racket of angry beauty it is too.
"Vocals are shared between Kirsty and Aaron who dip and dive through the rugged clamour and clang, lettings the rhythms stab and collapse, regroup and race away." Upset the Rhythm 




DJ details tbc (might just put on some CDs, it's lonely in that corner..) 
Power Lunches is a *Safe Space* venue with all that implies, inc. gender-neutral toilets. 
If you voted Tory/UKIP kindly FUCK OFF you're not invited. 
xoxoxoxo

*TICKETS!*: 

22.06.2015

All The Noise. All The Time

All The Noise. All The Time. 5 acts for £5.

Featuring:

: The sound of Andrew WK playing with Charles Mingus FFO Polar Bear & Battles

: Glasgow based singer sludgewriter pedalling mathy industrial noise rock vibes FFO Bjork Big Black Black Godflesh Faraquet & Einstruzende Neubauten

 London duo blending the fervor of math rock with the intricate and heavily textured nature of classical and jazz music.

: Wonky post punk from Cambridge with no actual song titles. FFO Tubelord, Early Biffy Clyro & les Savy Fav

: Bedroom dronegaze from local scene hero 

23.06.2015

NMR 40

LIME CRUSH (Vienna) 
"FRESH" - K Records 


SACRED PAWS (Glasgow ...ish)
On Rock Action records - new EP out now


more to be announced
details soon!

24.06.2015

The Craic Lodge Comedy Night

Comedy Gold 

 

 

26.06.2015

ARTEFACT

PIPING DOWN THE INADEQUACIES OF EVERYDAY EXISTENCE. TAKE SOLACE IN THE SUMMER SOLSTICE. SONIC BURN AGAINST THE ETERNAL RETURN. AURAL LOBOTOMY AGAINST EVERYDAY MONOTONY. NO GLASTO BABIES ALLOWED

- ARTEFACT - 

Second London appearance from this Cardiff goth/post-punk lot feat ex/current Facel Vega/Twisted/Plaids/Mars to Stay faculty. Deep chorus, shimmering rhythmic waves and interstitial sheen in brooding health.
FFO: ASYLUM PARTY, BELGRADO, SECT (& THE NEW WAVE OF SPANISH GOTH PUNK)


- MAJOR MALFUNCTION (tbc) - 

Home Office-dependent return for this COP/Los Cripis collision. MARTA SMARTER/NOEL ASSHOLE/LUKE DEATHTRIP do early 90s post hardcore and alterna-ROCK sounds crashing and burning against walls of late 70s SF incendiary punk.
FFO: YOUNG GINNS, YOUNG STOOGES, YOUNG MELVINS


- VERTICAL SLUMP -

Four-to-the-floor radical indifference from Shopping/Gloss Rejection/Circuit Breaker/Human Form mob. Newly added-synth driving postpunk leanings, dark entries and lachrymose-intolerant melody. New 7" due out on Icecapades this summer
FFO: WIREPERS, BAUHAUS, TOTAL CONTROL


- THE WORMS - 

Stripped-down, future primitive guitar & drums duo do hats-off, bare-bones, no messin shouty uk punky stomp. Minimalist functionality, politely furious, this is punk vol. vermicast, feat. members of Cold Pumas/Omi Palone/Tense Men
FFO: MESSTHETICS, THE URINALS, PUNK COMPILATIONS ON VINYL

+ MORE TBC

Poster coming soon

27.06.2015

its a gig

theres a gig on... secretly

02.07.2015

BROKEN HANDS

https://www.musicglue.com/broken-hands/live/

All of the early-bird guaranteed entry e-tickets to the 3rd night of the residency shows in June/July have been snapped up. There are a few left for the other two nights & then it's all down to first come first served on the door.
Supports will be announced ASAP

03.07.2015

Jordaan Mason

 is the Canadian musician behind the cult album 'Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head'. Their songs are beautiful and terrifying, confronting social and sexual taboos with rich imagery and lyrical grace. In over ten years of releasing music, this is Jordaan's first tour of Europe in support of their new release 'The Decline of Stupid Fucking Western Civilization'.


Manchester's   is about being absolutely honest, about being super sad and about just throwing it all out there. He describes his music as anti-folk being inspired by punk and outsider music. All of his songs are beautiful and you can listen to each of them on bandcamp:


 can also be described as anti-folk, but in contrast to Crywank he'll make you leave the room with a heart filled of rage and anger, but a smile on your face of feeling not alone on this planet. His songs are about equality and love and are accompanied by beautiful piano play. He either plays solo or full band. We are lucky enough to have him with a band existing out of other well known musicians in the DIY community. 


 comes from Norwich and can be simply described as nerdy DIY pop punk. Super cheerful and happy, making you want to dance. Check out their video with a lot of their mates brushing their teeth. Because dental hygiene is important! 


at 
£5
Doors open 7pm

04.07.2015

Musica Dispersa

An Event of Experimental Techno,Modular Synths and Techno/Acid Classics_Live and DJs. 

- SERIOUS CUT b2b FORTUNE GATE LIVE/DJ
- AFASIA YURIKAYURA LIVE
- SHELLY KNOTTS LIVE
- VASCO ISPIRIAN LIVE
- TONI QUIROGA LIVE
- EDEN GREY LIVE
- DOME LIVE


More artists TBC very soon

09.07.2015

Kone

Office of Cultural Construction presents 

, Young Knives (DJ set) @ Power Lunches

or

Music you want to hear in a place you want to be 

Tickets (£5) 

*****

Kone
Art music for guitars


Elle Mary and the Bad Men
Gorgeous slowcore minimalism
Down from Manchester to stun and amaze


Young Knives (DJ set)
Henry Dartnall (unrepentant auteur and best member of Young Knives) plays good music always. The latest release from Young Knives is the Something Awful EP & Fanzine. 


What else are you looking for?

17.07.2015

POWER LUNCHES 4TH BIRTHDAY

ITS OUR 4TH BIRTHDAY BLOW OUT!! 
On Friday 17th July we are very proud to be hosting the following acts-

EMOTIONAL


RETROFUTURE


ANTI-CORPOS (Brazil)


NEGATIVE SPACE


DJs to be announced, dancing til 2!

 

cheap weekend tickets coming soon

14.08.2015

ULTIMATE PAINTING

Part of a 2 day residency.

Ultimate Painting, the duo of James Hoare (Veronica Falls) and Jack Cooper (Mazes), will release their sophomore album, Green Lanes, on August 7th via Trouble In Mind. After touring North America and Europe with contemporaries such as Parquet Courts, Twerps and White Fence, Jack and James quickly retreated to James' all-analogue home studio just off Green Lanes in North London to record the follow-up, joined this time by Mazes drummer Neil Robinson.

Green Lanes is the follow-up to Ultimate Painting's 2014 self-titled debut, also released on Trouble In Mind. Acclaimed by critics and peers, the LP felt like a breath of fresh air,  with one eye on the orange haze of the late sixties and another looking optimistically to a sparse post-digital space. Refined and economic, dreamy and quietly euphoric, it's ten songs by two songwriters at the top of their game.

BOTW are thrilled to welcome the band to perform two very intimate dates that'll showcase the new record.

TICKET LINK: 
BOTW EVENT: 
FB EVENT: 

15.08.2015

ULTIMATE PAINTING

Part of a 2 day residency.

 

Ultimate Painting, the duo of James Hoare (Veronica Falls) and Jack Cooper (Mazes), will release their sophomore album, Green Lanes, on August 7th via Trouble In Mind. After touring North America and Europe with contemporaries such as Parquet Courts, Twerps and White Fence, Jack and James quickly retreated to James' all-analogue home studio just off Green Lanes in North London to record the follow-up, joined this time by Mazes drummer Neil Robinson.

Green Lanes is the follow-up to Ultimate Painting's 2014 self-titled debut, also released on Trouble In Mind. Acclaimed by critics and peers, the LP felt like a breath of fresh air,  with one eye on the orange haze of the late sixties and another looking optimistically to a sparse post-digital space. Refined and economic, dreamy and quietly euphoric, it's ten songs by two songwriters at the top of their game.

BOTW are thrilled to welcome the band to perform two very intimate dates that'll showcase the new record.

 

Saturday 15th:
TICKET LINK: 
BOTW LINK: 
FB EVENT: