Featuring theatres, basement bars, clubs, cafés, warehouses and traditional pubs the Land of Kings will mix-up locations and favourite artists like an East End ‘Camden Crawl’.

Keeping it local, most of Land of Kings artists, DJs, promoters and labels have connections with the Dalston/Stoke Newington borders. With such area of diversity (in more ways than you could think) the DJs, promoters and labels provide a genre-busting melting pot of afro, disco, gypsy punk, electro, jazz and techno. All-you-can-eat for your ears and feet!

Club heavyweights Greco Roman, Tayo, Todd Hart and Durr’s Rory Phillips sit alongside disco stalwarts Idjut Boys, Faze Action and eclectic deck master Ben Westbeech. The prolific Skill Wizard go head to head with Chrome Hoof DJs and smooth operators Work It, while New Young Pony Club DJs Tahita and Andy will be getting all the bright young things moving.

Meanwhile, live offerings come from gothic post-rockers An Experiment on A Bird in The Air Pump, pound shop popster Sportsday Megaphone, rising grime star Iain Woods and The Psychologist and Tom Neville’s newest roman-to-disco imagining, colouringIN.

As well as bands and DJs, daughter company of the lauded Punchdrunk collective, Gideon Reeling, will be taking over a Victorian hall treating those lucky enough to find them to song and dance. Whilst Community theatre company Stoke Newington International Airport will perform a festival exclusive rework of their sell out show, The Christmas Bullet.

No Dalston jaunt would be complete without taking in the area’s ocakbasi and mangals, some of which will be offering festival specials to those with wristbands; fine fare fit for a King.

Land Of The Kings is about some of the people and places that make this part of London so special. It doesn’t claim to be exhaustive; there’s just too much going on for that. People have been going out in this area for years (and years), so for some it’s a celebration of what they know, for others maybe about discovering something new.

Venues
Barden’s Boudoir, Arcola Theatre, The Vortex Jazz Club, Visions Video Bar
Stoke Newington International Airport, Bar A Bar, Café Oto, BG’s Niteclub, Dreams

Line-up (may be subject to change without notice)
THURSDAY
A.human
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Bass Smile Is A Curve That Straightens Most Things Clef
Ben Welcome To The Best Years Of Your Life Westbeech
Eeek Empire
Faze Action
Firas (Filthy Few)
Get The Blessing - New album coming soon, Bugs In Amber.
Gideon Reeling
Hugo Mendez and Sofrito Combo
Kerry Jean Power and Isa
Matty J and Ben Terry (Tirk)
Make It Stop, Mum!
Michael Cook
Moustache Mamas
Johnno (Bugged Out)
Johnny Dett (Work It)
Joel Martin (Quiet Silent Movie Village)
Rinse FM presents Spyro and N-Type (more on Rinse FM - see Rinse:08 - Compiled by Alexander Nut)
Russ Jones, The Hackney Globe Trotter
Sportsday Megaphone
Steve Kotey
Tahita and Andy (NYPC DJ set)
Tayo

FRIDAY
Allez Allez
Chrome Hoof (DJ Set)
Greco-Roman (Rob da Bank’s favourites at Bloc Weekend)
Ian Woods and The Psychologist
Idjut Boys
Leggo Beast (they of Big Chill album Tales From The Crib)
Le Vagabond Boogaloo
Living in A Disco
Lou and Nova
Newfamily
Oriole
Hot Coins (aka Gilles Peterson’s favourite DJ Red Rack’Em)
Iain Woods and The Psychologist
Rory Phillips
Serge Santiago
Skill Wizard
Soft Rocks
Todd Hart (Dalston Oxfam Shop Blog)
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Unnamed Project Project

Links:
www.landofkings.co.uk
Tickets
Tickets are on sale via the following outlets;
www.ticketweb.com/landofkings
Cafe OTO, 18 - 22 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL
Vortez Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, London N16 8JH
2-day passes: Valid for Thursday 16th AND Friday 17th April
Limited Early Bird 2-day ticket £15
Standard 2-day ticket £20
1-day pass: EITHER Thursday 16th OR Friday 17th April
Standard 2-day ticket £12
www.ticketweb.co.uk