Shunt

Photo / tim.pearse The Shunt lounge, a clandestine speakeasy-cum-performance space formerly located beneath London Bridge, has closed then re-opened before closing once again in the past year alone, so it’s unsurprising (but welcome nonetheless) to learn that it is being brought back to life. The …

The five-night Topman CTRL Student Tour boasts some fairly high-profile touring acts alongside promising local bands at smaller venues in Newcastle, Leeds, Exeter and Nottingham. Last night was London’s turn – and we were treated to a nimble show in Southwark’s murky Shunt venue. Deep …

The jaunty Babe Shadow are the locally chosen group tomorrow when the student Topshop Ctrl tour rolls into town. With the brilliant Yeasayer playing the headline set, we were already wishing we were back in uni so we could go before we found out the …

Image by forzagaribaldi via the Londonist Flickrpool Closed in November due to over popularity, the New Shunt Lounge opening on Thursday night is not so much a change of location* as a change of focus. Returning to the collective’s roots, this will be a more …

Those who mourned the loss of Shunt only a few months ago can dry their eyes. Apparently, the artists’ collective – renowned for monopolising every square inch of space available under London Bridge station in the most mind-boggling ways imaginable – have clawed it back …

Shunt Vaults by forzagaribaldi If you’re one of those people who’ve always walked past that door in the arches between the Underground and the Overground at London Bridge Station and never ventured into the mysterious hole that is Shunt you have until Saturday to satisfy …

Ladies and Gentlemen, please keep your hands and feet inside the ride and remain seated until the lecture has come to a complete standstill, for a little piece of Japan’s Super-Kamiokande has landed in the Shunt Vaults to tantalise your senses in their final week. …

The ten-man production team Shunt is back with another mind-boggling but nonetheless spectactularly alternative show: Money. Like its other productions Tropicana and Amato Saltone, emphasis is on location and impressive sets rather than strong narrative making the show more of an enhanced visual experience than …

Howzabout a club night just for entomologists? There’ll be crawling and flying things galore at SHUNT tonight and for the next week, as the gaff has been colonised by a bunch of wannabe bugs known as SDNA. An audio-video collective, they aim to project insects …