Gillett Square

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Preview: Major Free Jazz Festival In Dalston

The Vortex Jazz Club and adjoining Gillett Square host a major music event this weekend.

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Dalston Dances In The Square

Dancing in the Square had Gillett Square in Dalston alive and kicking and doing the running man on Saturday afternoon. We turned up in time for a kickass hip hop dance performance from the endlessly energetic all female b.supreme which turned into a mass streetdance …

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Banksy’s Back

If anyone still cares, it looks like the world’s most famous stenciler has a couple of new pieces up in London after a half-year lull. The first can be found in Gillett Square, Dalston. Note the use of a brick air vent to form the …

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Freesheets Shack Up In Hackney

When you’re picking up your freesheet on the way home tonight don’t just leave it on the train for some other, poor, reading material starved sucker. Turn it into public art! No, we don’t mean have an art attack on the platform and start making …

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Banksy’s Penis Half Removed

Hackney Council are at it again. Taking half arsed decisions on Banksys. Last time they completely removed a stencil of a girl in a frilly dress and gas mask from Gillett Square. This time they’ve tried to wipe out the crude phallus being painted by …

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London On The Cheap: 3rd September – 9th September

For most of you, it was pay day this weekend. Wahey! This also means if you’re like us, you’ve spent all your cash in the pub and will now be eating beans on toast all week. Which after going to The Edinboro Castle and having …

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Sporting Weekend: Blues ‘n Chess at the Vortex

You may remember the Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston for its inspired football World Cup sessions last summer where the on-screen action from Germany was accompanied by two competing free jazz ensembles. This time the club has turned to blues in the shape of South-East …