Union Chapel

Inside Union Chapel, by Ben Yacobi

London Music Venues Launch Petitions Against Threats

Indie favourites ask for public support.

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Exclusive Gig Preview: Autoheart at Barfly

Autoheart’s Jody Gadsden talks pubs, bums, dim sum and then some.

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Bedchamber Installation In Union Chapel Tower

Artist in residence responds to the Chapel’s work with the homeless

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Comedian Interview: Sanderson Jones

We meet a man on a mission to sell every ticket to his big London show in person.

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Preview: BluesFest London 2011

Blues fans! Time to polish your mojo and start booking if you want to be in with a chance of seeing some amazing names in London this summer.

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Live Music Preview: Josh T. Pearson at the Union Chapel

The country/folk singer re-emerges with his first studio work in a decade and a special show at the Union Chapel.

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Preview: Daylight Music @ Union Chapel

Free eclectic music gigs for Saturday afternoons in Islington.

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Comedy Preview: Stand Up For Depression @ Union Chapel

If you want to see stellar comedy line-ups you should keep an eye open for benefit gigs. The one drawback is the price (yes, yes, charity and all that) so here’s a gig for the princely sum of £17.50 (plus booking fee) raising money for …

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Comedy Review: Mark Watson Live @ The Chapel

A glorious, gothic 200 year old church is generally not the sort of place you would expect to hear a stream of curse words and altar boy jokes thrown at a 400 strong congregation. However, during Saturday night’s continuation of the highly successful Live At …

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Preview: British Sea Power’s Man of Aran

Photo by Amanda Farah. As a follow-up to their ambitious 2008 album,Do You Like Rock Music?, British Sea Power undertook a multi-media project (talk about ambitious). The band soundtracked the 1934 silent film, Man of Aran, lending their massive guitar sound to the story of …

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Live Music Review: Joe Pernice @ The Union Chapel

On Tuesday night cult singer-songwriter, author and “Gilmore Girls” star Joe Pernice brought his extensive repertoire of Teenage Fanclub-esque country pop to the gothic surroundings of the Union Chapel. The former Scud Mountain Boy is taking time off from the Pernice Brothers to plug his …