Folklore Hoxton - Falkor

22/01/2026

Tuesday 27.1.26 come see the magick unfold…

12/12/2025

Returns to Folklore Hoxton – 19 December 2025

Celebrate the last Friday before solstice with an unforgettable evening of music! Internationally acclaimed artist Coco Mbassi returns to Folklore Hoxton for a soulful year-end performance. For over 30 years, this award-winning diva has captivated audiences worldwide with her unique blend of African roots, jazz, soul, pop, baroque, and classical influences: a genuine diplomatic musical passport.

Winner of the Radio France Internationale Découvertes Award (1996) and finalist at the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards (2002), Coco’s discography includes gems like Sepia (2001), Sisea (2003), Coco Mbassi Tour (live DVD, 2005), Jóa (2014), Ashuka Series Vol. 1 (2020), her single Palaba (2021), and her latest EP ELA (2023). Her highly anticipated new album, Ewekedi Part I, drops on 19 December across all platforms.

On stage, Coco will unveil fresh tracks alongside a dynamic UK-based jazz trio featuring Ben Brown (drums), Zamar (bass), and Julian Woods (guitar). Expect an evening of rich harmonies, rhythmic mastery, and pure musical joy.

📅 Date: Friday, 19 December
📍 Venue: Folklore Hoxton
🎶 Don’t miss this magical night – book your tickets now!

10/12/2025

01/12/2025

18/10/2025

Lost Communications: An-Ting & Ian Gallagher + Lucian Fletcher + benjin
Explore light & darkness with three unique audiovisual works

Lost Communications is an audiovisual performance that explores the light and darkness in nature. An-Ting uses recordings of birdsong and underwater sounds and blends them with experimental electronic music, drone soundscapes, and intense beats. Ian Gallagher uses cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies to document the duo’s ideas and experiences, with live visuals that react in real-time to An-Ting’s music.
Lucian Fletcher is a Glasgow-based composer and producer. His music features electronic sound design with ambient, IDM, glitch and post-industrial influences. He also creates audiovisual work, live performance and compositions for contemporary theatre and dance.
benjin is a multi-instrumentalist, artist, curator, academic and storyteller who has toured and recorded with a number of experimental ensembles over the last 20 years. His solo work combines guitar, cello, harp, clarinet, vocals, nyckelharpa, field recordings and
found sounds. Drawing upon benjin’s experiences of a lifetime working on the waters of the UK, these compositions combine traditional folk song forms with dense free form jazz improvisations, minimalist classical music and sound collages. His music has been featured on BBC Radio 6 and Radio 3 and at the TATE and Serpentine Galleries.
Clara Helbig is an artist, filmmaker and curator whose practice navigates the entangled relationships between humans, animals and landscapes within the fragile logics of consumer capitalism.

Imagine, just imagine, if you had a place that could reconnect you back to yourself, to ignite the home fires of your creativity and wellbeing that could breathe life into the very core of you, so that you can take care of your own needs, as well as those around you & our planet.

15/10/2025

Please join us to help keep the madman alive! Saturday 25 Oct 25 we are having the first all-dayer benefit gig to help cover the huge costs of Mike Spenser’s cancer treatment.

Top bands and DJs! Mike’s treasure trove of videos! Maybe even his toddler bathtub videos! The Cannibals, , Martin Savage & the Jiggerz, and RAW FUN, are already booked with more to be announced shortly.

Mike thinks £15 in advance is too much, we think it’s too little, so we’ll pass the hat too.

The coolest venue in London you don’t know yet, Folklore Hoxton is waiving their fee, video recording, and audio recording. Tickets in bio 🎫
From the man himself:

“Hey there — I’m a rock ‘n’ roll lifer, wild at heart and still kicking up noise in a genre we call trash. I’ve been howling, riffing, and smashing stages for decades, most infamously with The Cannibals — a band louder than a riot and dirtier than a dive bar floor.

I never lived by the rules, never wanted to. Life’s always been loud, messy, and totally out of the box — just the way I like it.
But now, life threw me a curveball I can’t just scream my way through: prostate cancer. I’ve been fighting it with the same fire I brought to every stage, but now I need help to keep up the battle.

The treatments are mounting up — and while I never asked for much in life, this is the time I gotta ask for something real.
Every pound, euro, or dollar you throw in is helping me keep living, creating, and causing mayhem — just like I always have. If you’ve ever danced in the front row, trashed a flat to one of our records, or believed in the spirit of raw, honest music — I’m asking you to back me now.

Let’s keep the amps buzzing.
Much trash love,
Mike Spenser
(The Cannibals / Trash Rock ’til death”

15/10/2025

The Jungle Drummer returns to Folklore! 🥁🔥 On 📆 November 1st.
90 minutes live with — full-spectrum Jungle & Drum & Bass powered by live drums. Will be repping ✊

Buzzing to debut an incredible lineup of DJs bringing pure Jungle energy:
sechi
@
Innit – Garage, 140 & Breaks selections 🌪️

🔥 London’s best live Jungle Drum & Bass night.
You already know what’s coming… pure vibes, live energy, and heavy drums all night!

📍 Folklore, Hackney
📆 Nov1st
🎟️ Tickets via DICE
🎧 Follow for clips & updates

15/10/2025

𝐎𝐇𝐇𝐇 𝐌𝐘𝐘𝐘 𝐆𝐎𝐃𝐃𝐃𝐃𝐃𝐃!!!

We’re beyond thrilled to bring you a Very Special 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 Screening on 17th October of the notorious 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑— the sequel with no prequel… 𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐋 𝟐! 🧌💀

🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦

Never seen it??? Strap in — this is the Holy Grail of bad movies!! 💚💚💚

Featuring:
🌽 Vegetarian goblins (not trolls)
🌽 Slimy green “food” & suspiciously milky drinks
🌽 Zero sense, 100% pure absurdity
🌽 Unhinged performances that defy explanation
🌽 …and the most iconic line delivery in cinematic history!

👑 Hosted by 𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗦 ()
🎭 With performances from 𝗟𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗡 𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗟’𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗢 () & 𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗜 ()

✨ Expect Chaos, Camp, and Corn! ✨

𝗣𝗟𝗨𝗦 -
🎃 Film Trivia!
🦇 Prizes!
🤡 Fancy Dress!
💀 Games!
🍸 Sickening Cocktails!
🍿 Popcorn!
🎶 Spooky Halloween tunes!

📍Folklore Hoxton
🕖 Doors 7pm | 🎬 Film 8:30pm (with interval) |
🎉 Afterparty from 10pm
🎟 Tickets on – grab yours before they vanish!

Screening includes subtitles.

15/10/2025

London — we’re back. One night only.
Folklore // Wed 1 Oct
New tunes, special guests, big vibes... 💥
Our only London show this year. We’ll be premiering brand new material along with old faves - plus in support.
If you’ve caught us at festivals, you know what to expect — high energy, high concept and a lofty collision of genres and influences, straight from the rooftops of Tottenham to the heart of London 🖤🌌

🎟️ Tickets are limited — grab yours now via the link in bio.
📸 :

15/10/2025

📣 Autumn + New Moon PENCHMI series at 2025!

Join us for the PENCHMI African Drum + Dance + Chant SPRING SERIES at on 186 Hackney Road. 🔥🥁🔥

🔥 Get ready to groove & vibe with us! 🔥

📅 New Spring Dates: Monday 22Sept, Monday 20th Oct, Monday 17 Nov 2025 from 7.30pm

💸 Energy exchange: £11.11 in advance via and £13.33 at the door. Link on my bio

Experience the magic of rhythm and movement:
🌿 Penchmi is a safe space to express your soul dance moves in dialogue with the spirit of the live drumming
🥁 Learn traditional & innovative rhythms and improve your drumming language within the circle
💃🏾 Confidence-building dance solos supported by the circle
🔮 Ancestral wisdom channeled through sound & movement

🧺What to Bring:
* Drums are provided, but feel free to bring your own!
* Comfortable attire for dancing and celebrating
* Earplugs for those sensitive to loud sounds
🌍 Bring your family and friends of all levels, backgrounds, and ages. Let’s celebrate together!
🍹 Drinks and snacks available at the Folklore bar.

Dare to embrace and expand the beautiful rhythms of your soul!

Book in advance via (link in bio) and see you there very soon! 💫



In this clip my powerful brother a djembefola from Burkina Faso joined us at the last PENCHMI session in June. 🎥Clip by

20/08/2025

Our residency continues…. Sexy tix on DICE! X x

11/08/2025

Dudu Kouate and Simon Sieger will perform a set of experimental, improvised music, drawing on a deep well of cultural exploration at Folklore, Hoxton on Wednesday 13th August…

Dudù Kouate combines pan-African traditional instruments and rhythms with cutting-edge experimental jazz. Dudù was born in Senegal in 1963 into a family of griots, the conservators of the African cultural and musical tradition. Member since 2017 of the historic Art Ensemble of Chicago, Dudù’s performances are famous for his array of 200+ instruments (many of which are manufactured by Dudù himself from recycled and upcycled materials) with which he journeys to the roots of the sounds of the earth - a journey he names the search for the ‘sound of elements’.

Simon Sieger is a multi-instrumentalist, arranger and composer. His field of activity ranges from barrelhouse boogie to Sun Ra reinterpretations to hard-hitting sweet noise. In his own words, “Music has no boundaries; anything can go anywhere, with the right attitude. That’s the way the world should be.” He has been heard playing stride piano at noise concerts and Turkish maqam in a blues band. Often called a “hunter-gatherer” by his peers, he has recently played with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the Famoudou Don Moye Odyssey and Legacy Quintet.