We’re pleased to announce that Freestyle will be brining DJ Format & Abdominal Live back to the H&H on Friday 12th May.

For fourteen years, DJ Format and rapper Abdominal have been entertaining crowds from Toronto to the UK. Now the hip-hop stars are back at it in 2017 with their new album Still Hungry and a 16-date UK tour, which includes a show at London’s legendary venue Electric Ballroom in Camden.

The new album comes off the heels of a wildly successful UK winter tour in 2015 that commemorated ten years since their last performance together in the country. The tour quickly sold out in several cities, which cemented the idea of getting back in the studio to create their first full-length album together. While they both have collaborated on each other’s solo records, Still Hungry marks their first joint album.

The brand new LP boasts the best of what they each bring to the hip-hop community: funky, up-tempo and slick beats, coupled with intelligent, savvy lyrics. The LP also showcases a grittier, harder sound, reflecting the maturity of the two, giving their audience some head-bobbing bangers that could rock any concert hall. The spring tour will welcome back DJ Format & Abdominal into the flourishing hip-hop scene with a bag full of brand new tracks and a longer than ever set list.

Advance £12.50 tickets go on sale this Friday at 9am, you can get hold of yours by clicking here.

This Is Tmrw will be brining Girl Band to the H&H on 22nd January 2017 to play their rescheduled date form last years cancelled show.

Formed in Dublin in late 2011, noisy indie rock quartet Girl Band’s debut single “In My Head” quickly caused a stir in the blogosphere, appearing as a free download in April 2012.  The four-piece of Dara Kiely (vocals), Alan Duggan (guitar), Daniel Fox (bass), and Adam Faulkner (drums) will be turing in support of their self produced debut album, ‘Holding Hands with Jamie’, which landed on Rough Trade. Check out the video for their single ‘Pears for Lunch’ below;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgi3ZvolkRQ

Advanced £10 tickets are on sale now, you can get hold of yours by clicking here.

Morrissey has always been more than just a musician. His songs have chimed with a huge audience raised on rancheras and mariachis.  Now a band made in Mexico City, Mexrrissey, has reinvented the songs of Morrissey and The Smiths: a brass and string led combo from the smallest village with the biggest bleeding heart. The band will be landing at the Town Hall on Sunday 29th January and we highly recommend you get yourselves along. Advance tickets cost just £18, you can get hold of yours by clicking here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7v8QW4xW1M

Due to the ongoing refurbishment of our front bar we’ll be opening up venue 2 this Saturday from 4pm to provide extra seating and space with ale on tap whilst Blues Club continues down in our back bar.

We’ll then be hosting a FREE ENTRY party in the room from 9pm featuring Moodfix and Moulin Groove DJ’s playing a selection of disco, house, jazz and everything in between. For more info head over to the Facebook event here.

We’re pleased to announce that This Is Tmrw will be brining Happyness to the H&H on Wednesday 26th April.

When Happyness first burst into the public conscience with 2013’s debut single It’s On You, their spirited take on US college rock was as big a surprise as it was an instant hit. The resulting full length, Weird Little Birthday, went on to feature in many of 2014’s End of Year album lists. Worldwide tours, an NME Award, a re-issue on the much-loved labels Moshi Moshi Recordings (Bar/None in US), and millions of Spotify plays later, it is with some anticipation now that the band finally reveal the full details of the follow-up.

Titled “Write In”, released on April 7^th through Moshi Moshi Recordings (Bar/None in US) and featuring artwork from the band’s own Jon EE Allan, the record was made in the band’s own studio above a now-abandoned bookshop, then finished and mixed with Adam Lasus at his LA home studio. Ahead of the album release, new single “Falling Down” now has an official video, check it out below; 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpyecEkrg2s

Advance £9 tickets are on sale now, you can get hold of yours by clicking here.

We’re pleased announce that This Is Tmrw will be brining Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation to the H&H on Tuesday 7th March.

In an era in which ‘psychedelia’ can often mean merely a grab-bag of influences from which wah-wah pedals and two-note riffs are dispensed as signifiers and signposts into a realm of easy accessibility as opposed to gateways to another dimension, it can be a rarity to come across a band who are genuinely fixated on creating alternate realities for the listener. Yet this is exactly how Stockholm’s Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation view their incandescent art, and it’s this sensibility that’s led to the kaleidoscopic splendour of their two albums for Rocket Recordings, ‘Horse Dance’ (2015) and ‘Mirage’ (2016). Check out the video for the single ‘Sunny Afternoon’ below; 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN8_t9-gJ94

Advance £7.50 tickets are on sale now, you can get hold of yours now by clicking here.

Glasgow’s prodigious talent C Duncan released his second album The Midnight Sun last October to critical acclaim and will playing the H&H on Monday 8th May.

Blending electronic elements and sweeping synth sounds with his signature layered vocals and dreamy instrumentation, the follow up to his Mercury Prizenominated debut Architect won huge praise from the likes of The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Mojo, Uncut and The Quietus.

With a brand new and bigger live show in tow, C Duncan has blossomed into a fully accomplished live artist. Having fast-tracked from playing basement venues alone to selling out 900 cap venues within a year, his live show has come along hugely. Now joined by a four-piece band, they provide the perfect backdrop for his hushed vocals and help execute the plentiful harmonies with mesmerising precision. Check out the video for his single ‘Other Side’ below;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHAnPIRx0bM

Advance £12.50 tickets go on sale this Friday 13th January. You can find them and more info here.

The Blue Aeroplanes bring their unique amalgam of rock, folk, poetry, punk, dance and art has been an acknowledged influence on a wide range of bands including REM and Radiohead to the H&H on Thursday 19th January

Combining pop smarts with serious weirdness, ex-members have gone on to play with Massive Attack, Suede, Placebo, Goldfrapp and Primal Scream, while for many years they shared multi-instrumentalist Ian Kearey with folk legends the Oyster Band. Now comes the release of the band’s twelfth studio album, ‘Welcome, Stranger!’, recorded by the longest-lasting Aeroplanes line up to date.

You can pick up your advance £12.50 tickets by clicking here.

Local promoters This Is Tmrw kick off their 10th year celebrations next Saturday 14th January with a five band bill featuring a taster of their favourite Birmingham bands who’ve played for them over the past decade. Headlining the night will be Calories who’ll be performing their album ‘Adventuring’ in full with support coming from Youves, Sunset Cinema Club, The Bank Accounts and A Bull. Check out the video for Calories single ‘Forests of Varg’ below;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC-7MqO9eC8

It all kicks off at 7pm with entry costing just £5 on the door!

After two sell out parties and coinciding with the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Hare and Hounds, Mike Skinner and Murkage are delighted to announce a 3 date residency of their club night Tonga at the venue kicking off on January 27th.

The Tonga Balloon Gang have found a new home and it is in Kings Heath. Mike always wanted to perform at the Hare and Hounds when he was a boy but you used to have to guarantee that 50 friends were coming and the venue hire worked out quite expensive. But this time around Mike Skinner is a huge international star and with social media has more than 50 friends. Join the party. Advance £15 tickets are VERY close to selling out, so make sure you don’t miss out can grab hold of yours by clicking here.