It may not seem like it now, but back before being a stoner was all about listening to hip hop, wearing hemp clothes and stinking out your mum's Nissan Micra, smoking weed usually entailed sitting in your mates bedroom listening to super loud but strangely hypnotic metal and just zoning out.
Tonight the Shacklewell is inviting you relive those days with an afternoon of metal DJs and trippy projections. (without the weed, sheesh it's a pub not an illegal rave...)
A bit of a strange beast, Integrity are a proper chimera of a hardcore, combing influences as wide ranging as death metal, apocalyptic visions and Boston-style straight edge into their brutal, metallic...
One of the original thrash bands to come bowling out of SoCal in the 1980s, Sacred Reich bucked the trend through highly opinionated political lyrics, fiercely uncompromising lyrics and the occasional...
No, not the dude who kicks over your sandcastles and hits on your girlfriend when you go to Southend, Beach Creep is an all encompassing weekly party down at the Shacklewell Arms that features unpretentious...
He’s one of the foremost electronic musicians in France and he’s coming to The Nest in May. Joakim will be joined by Alan Braxe, another pioneer in electronic music.
Joe and Will first met in 2005, both from different musical backgrounds, Joe having been involved in the drum and bass scene, and Will having been a regular hard house and techno fan.
So far the only casting announced for Brimstone and Treacle is Rupert Friend who'll play the good looking psychopath that weedles his way into the lives of Tom, Amy and Patricia Bates. Tom and Amy have...
Stephen Unwin directed this Manfred Karge play in 1988 and this Spring he returns to the text at Arcola Theatre. This story about a group of unemployed friends who spend their time enthusiastically recreating...
Three generations of one family have grown and moved apart. They reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty years and find that between them they hold a wealth of differing opinions. Pandora's Box looks...