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Land Of Kings - London music and arts festival

Land Of Kings is a brand new London music and arts festival taking place over two nights 16th and 17th April.

Based around the Dalston/Stoke Newington borders, the festival connects a selection of hand-picked venues with some of the areas finest artists, DJs, promoters and labels.

Theatres, basement bars, clubs and forgotten pubs, cafes and warehouse spaces will host over a kilometre of locally sourced festival fun and provide the backdrop for a good old East End knees up.

Rather than being governed by any one genre or scene, the music policy sees the area’s finest showcase what they’re about and, in doing so, some have opted to bring in talent from outside the Dalston fold.

The line-up spans dubstep to disco, gypsy punk to electro, jazz fusion to techno; proof, if it were needed, just how much variety abounds in the area.

Club heavyweights Greco Roman, Tayo and Durr’s Rory Phillips sit alongside disco stalwarts Idjut Boys, Faze Action, Steve Kotey and underground radio station Rinse FM.

Next up, the prolific Skill Wizard go head to head with Chrome Hoof DJs alongside smooth operators Work IT, while New Young Pony Club DJs get all the bright young things moving.

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

Two of the area’s more established venues Café Oto and Vortex Jazz Club will both be showcasing their signature styles to the festival audience.

As well as bands and DJs, Gideon Reeling – daughter company of the lauded Punchdrunk collective – 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.

The programme also features an exclusive exhibition by local photographer Briony Campbell in the Arcola Theatre.  Briony independently started a project capturing portraits of Dalston’s venue owners, and in doing so crossed paths with the festival organisers.

£15 Early Bird tickets available from Ticketweb now.

For more information and the full line-up, visit www.landofkings.co.uk