Power Lunches Arts Café was a music venue, rehearsal space, and creative hub located on Kingsland Road in Dalston, a district of the London Borough of Hackney. It opened in 2011 and closed in 2015. It started out with gigs planned to be only at weekends, but later became a prominent feature of Hackney’s DIY music scene with gigs most nights every week. Though originally genuinely also a café, it eventually stopped serving food.

The cafe hosted performances in its basement, the maximum capacity of which was 150. These were most often concerts by local bands, but also saw acts from elsewhere in the UK, as well as further afield.

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Staff of the venue hosted a radio show showcasing the type of musicians to appear there on NTS Radio between 2012 and 2015.

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Some artists to play Power Lunches

Big Joanie

Cerebral Ballzy

Maria Chavez

A.G. Cook

Crywank

Desperate Journalist

Doe

Empress Of

Evans The Death

Fear of Men

Flemmings

Gnarwolves

Good Throb

Joanna Gruesome

Neils Children

Rolo Tomassi

Sauna Youth

Sean Nicholas Savage

SOPHIE

Shopping

The Ethical Debating Society

The Spook School

Verity Susman

Ian Svenonius

Trash Kit

Ultimate Painting

Willis Earl Beal

Witching Waves

White Lung

Wolf Girl

References

Music venues in London

Nightclubs in London

Defunct nightclubs in the United Kingdom

Underground punk scene in the United Kingdom

Dalston

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