Dalston Takeover 2025 photo gallery

Pitch­fork Music Fes­ti­val Lon­don end­ed on Sat­ur­day with Dal­ston Takeover. This was an incred­i­bly diverse show­case of pri­mar­i­ly US artists, encom­pass­ing a wide mix of gen­res. One minute you’re sit­ting in Earth Hackney’s beau­ti­ful the­atre watch­ing dreamy shoegaze by Full Body 2, the next you’re in the tran­quil­i­ty of St Matthias Church for the clear-voiced…

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Samhain Ritual: folk artistry and connection at Earth, Hackney

As Hal­loween morphs into an ever-more gar­ish orgy of plas­tic spi­ders, eye­balls and and oth­er assort­ed land­fill, how much more sat­is­fy­ing it is to turn to its more ancient and spir­i­tu­al side. Samhain, the ancient Gael­ic fes­ti­val, marks the end of the Celtic year, it’s a time when ‘the veil between the super­nat­ur­al and the physical…

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