We’re over the moon to announce that we’ll be welcoming The Destroyers back to the H&H on Saturday 10th September for what is always THE party of the year.

A collection of rogues and misfits surfing a tidal wave of horns, fiddles and guitars rapidly exploding from the ‘Balkan Brass’ genre they emerge as an anarchic orchestra of blazing passion and breathtaking originality. Check out the band’s video for their latest single ‘Vortex Cannon’ below;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOKrlHsa0Kk

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

This Is Tmrw & Moseley Folk Festival will be joining forces to bring Algeria’s Imarhan to the H&H on Wednesday 3rd August.

Touring in support of their self titled debut album Imarhan are intent on dismantling the ideas western listeners have about popularized Tuareg music. This new wave of Tuareg musicians sound very different to the desert distortion that accompanies groups like Mdou Moctar or Group Inerane. Instead, it finds a calm and passionate soul, provides sumptuous slow burners, and a complexity of composition that hasn’t been demonstrated by previous music exported from the Saharan people’s musical repertoire. Check out the video for their single ‘Imarhan’ below; 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCg11XT0FM4

Advance £10 tickets, including a very limited ‘4 for £20’ group ticket offer, are on sale now. Get hold of yours by clicking here.

In the last 6 months, 19 year old Tom Misch has exploded onto the scene, with a unique and distinctive sound that has impressed tastemakers and fans from all corners of the globe. A number of original releases including a free E.P on Soulection and collaborations with the likes of Bearcubs and Carmody have seen his music supported by radio heavyweights such as Zane Lowe and Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1 and YouTube giants Majestic Casual and Suicide Sheep. Check out his latest single ‘Crazy Dream’ with Loyle Carner below;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa5HNkGrl8E

He plays the H&H on Friday 25th November, you can get hold of advance £10 tickets by clicking here.

Next Wednesday 27th July Neo Soul songstress Conya Doss lands at the H&H to perform songs from her new album.

Conya Doss has a voice that sounds like it’s both from the past and future. She is classical-influenced, blues-influenced, R&B-influenced and rock-influenced, which herein lies the brilliance of how she collectively and seamlessly creates great music.
Perhaps it was the birth of her son Landon Blu in 2010 that helped to provide inspiration for her fresh material, which is filled with bolts of newfound creativity. Doss has been juggling her responsibilities as teacher, mother and artist. “It’s been a challenge trying to effectively balance all of these things, but I’ve been patient with myself and this project,” explains the songbird. All of Doss’ album titles are authentically steeped in the spirit of growth and change. The New Album VII was released on 19th May 2015 and can be found at all good outlets. Check out her single ‘Love’s Not’ below;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv1S2fOAqQU

Support on the night comes from Teri Tobin. You can get hold of your advance £12.50 tickets by clicking here.

We’re pleased to announce that Leftfoot be joining forces with Soul Food Project to bring Hypnotic Brass Ensemble to the H&H on Thursday 29th September.

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble are an eight-piece, Chicago-based brass ensemble consisting of eight sons of the renowned and thoroughly respected Jazz trumpeter Phil Cohran. They describe their eclectic blend which contains influences from Hip Hop, Jazz, Funk, Afrobeat, Rock, Calypso and Gypsy music as “Now Music”, or “Hypnotic”

They have performed with the likes of Mos Def, Phil Cohran, The Recipe, Tony Allen, Wu Tang Clan, De La Soul, Prince, Femi Kuti, Gorillaz and the B52’s and recorded with names ranging from Erykah Badu to Ghostface Killah. They supported Blur for their Hyde Park reunion concerts in 2009 and were also collaborators on a number of tracks from the third Gorillaz studio album, Plastic Beach. Their hit song “War” was featured in the box office smash The Hunger Games, check it out below;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggOVNYFlP7Q

Advance £15 tickets are on sale now, get hold of yours by clicking here.

We’re pleased to announce that This Is Tmrw will be brining Ultimate Painting to the H&H on Tuesday 4th October.

U.K. duo Ultimate Painting formed when Jack Cooper’s band Mazes were on tour opening for James Hoare’s group Veronica Falls in 2013. The two guitarists decided to team up and create music that was unsullied by any digital processes. After exchanging demos and making one failed attempt at recording, they began working on tape machines set up in Hoare’s flat. The duo spent a few months getting their Velvet Underground and classic ’60s and ’70s pop-inspired sound together, with Hoare on bass and Cooper on drums, and both singing and playing guitar. The first recorded song, “Ultimate Painting,” gave them their name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arhtXydv1mo

Dusk is their third album, a ten song set that expands the group’s sound from their self-titled debut and their critically acclaimed sophomore effort Green Lanes, about whose tunes Pitchfork raved their “deceptively simple interplay slowly worms into your synapses.” Dusk heads along the same path, albeit in a slightly different direction, forging to new territory by heading inward. Advance £9 tickets are on sale now, get hold of yours clicking here. 

We’re delighted to announce that This Is Tmrw will be bringing Boston based Mutual Benefit back to the H&H on Wednesday 23rd November.

Mutual Benefit was first created as a musical project by Jordan Lee while he was living in Austin, Texas. Lee then moved to Boston in order to meet up with some musicians he wanted to play with. The band consisted of fluid band members, and the band’s line-ups on tours were based on which musicians were available at the time. He’ll be returning to the Hare in support of his latest full length offering ‘Skip a Sinking Stone’ released via Transgressive Records back in may, check out the single ‘Lost Dreamers’ below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y80VF06GPt8

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

We’re pleased to announce that Birmingham Promoters will be bringing The Computers to the H&H on Thursday 6th October.

Exeter’s finest, The Computers release their third albumBirth/Death on 30th September 2016 on One Little Indian. The album was recorded in Devon earlier this year, and produced by David McEwan (Plan B, Nitin Sawhney). It includes the tracks ‘Want The News? Here’s The Blues’ and ‘This Ain’t Right’ (recently premiered by John Kennedy onXFM) alongside nine other garage-soul, punk ‘n’ roll anthems which will enthrall and excite disciples old and new. Check out the video for their single ‘This Ain’t Right’ below:

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

Advance £10 tickets (Ages 14+) are on sale now, you can get hold of yours by clicking here.

Following two sold out shows at the Kitchen Garden Café  Trembling Bells with Mike Heron (Incredible String Band) will be bringing their The Circle Is Unbroken show to the Hare & Hounds tonight.

To coincide with Hux Records’ release of Incredible String Band ‘Live at Fillmore East, 1968’ album, original ISB band member, Mike Heron is teaming up with Trembling Bells (Honest Jon’s) to perform classic String Band material from their hugely influential first four albums.
Few bands could be said to embody the spirit of the 1960s more comprehensively than the Incredible String Band. On albums such as ‘The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter’ or ‘Wee Tam and the Big Huge’- with their epic perspectives, pantheistic lyrics and visionary synthesis of musical forms- ISB gave the hippy generation some of their most emblematic anthems. The breadth of their appeal is beguiling, with admirers as diverse as Robert Plant (Led Zepplin) and Rowan Williams (Archbishop of Canterbury) professing a long term love affair with the band. In 2010 Fledg’ling reissued their first 4 albums to unanimous critical acclaim, ensuring their appeal to successive generations of fans. One of the new generations of bands indelibly influenced by ISB is the Glasgow based 4 piece Trembling Bells. Check out the video for their single ‘Wide Majestic Aire’ below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqjno5IziPU

Support on the night comes from Katherine Priddy. You can advance £15.00 tickets here.

We’re pleased to announce the Club A Go Go will be brining the legendary Jerry Dammers to the H&H on bank holiday Sunday 28th August for a special DJ Set.

Founder of The Specials and 2 Tone Records, Dammers was hugely influential in the 70s and 80s ska revival, achieving seven consecutive UK top 10 singles between 1979 and 1981, including number ones “Ghost Town” and “Too Much Too Young”. An anti-apartheid campaigner, Dammers wrote the song “Free Nelson Mandela”, and went on to receive a South African national honour in April 2014 for his role in the movement. Regularly taking his legendary record collection on the road and DJing around the country, Dammers is currently heading up The Spatial AKA Orchestra, playing his own compositions as well as tributes to Sun Ra and other experimental jazz artists. Support on the night comes from Birmingham’s Kioko, check them out performing their single ‘Deadly Roots’ at this year’s Glastonbury festival below;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDdkPaxKexc&app=desktop

Advance £12 tickets including a very limited ‘4 for £40’ group ticket offer are on sale now, get hold of yours by clicking here.