Goblin Band formed from sessions of the same name run out of the HobGoblin Music shop in central London, organised by a collection of young queer folk obsessive friends and shop employees looking to forge their own way into folk music.

This gave rise to a band of multi-instrumentalists firmly rooted in the folk music of Britain, interpreted via the leftist tradition concerned with folk’s relationship to the history of the working classes, capitalism, and colonialism. Through a fusion of harmony singing, fiddle, squeezebox, hurdy gurdy, recorders and more, Goblin Band deliver a charismatic alternative expression of English traditional culture in a way which is at once riotously joyful and deeply sincere.

Goblin Band have already received a Quietus Feature and Guardian’s Folk Album of the Month. They are also integral cogs in London’s new folk movement, centred around the Broadside Hacks Folk Club and their regularly sold-out events at Hackney’s Moth Club.

They have played alongside many musicians forming the new folk-vanguard in the UK – Daisy Rickman, Shovel Dance Collective, Milkweed, Junior Brother – as well as some of the genre’s living legends – Peggy Seeger, Martin Carthy and Martin Simpson.

Doors 7.30pm

Spitzer Space Telescope 8pm

Goblin Band 9:15pm