Power Lunches

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.

Power Lunches

Trash Kit at Power Lunches
Location	446 Kingsland Road, Dalston London, E8 United Kingdom
Capacity	150
Opened	July 2011
Closed	December 2015

History

The café opened in 2011 and closed in 2015.^[1][2][3] 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.^[1][4] Though originally genuinely also a café, it eventually stopped serving food.

The café hosted performances in its basement, the absolute maximum capacity of both floors was 150.^[1] These were most often concerts by local bands, but also saw acts from elsewhere in the UK, as well as further afield.

Staff of the venue hosted a radio show showcasing the type of music made by bands to appear there on NTS Radio between 2012 and 2015.^[5]

Some artists to play Power Lunches

• A.G. Cook
• Aldous Harding
• Big Joanie
• Cerebral Ballzy
• Crywank
• Desperate Journalist
• Doe
• Empress Of
• Evans The Death
• Fear of Men
• Flemmings
• Gnarwolves
• Good Throb
• Ian Svenonius
• Joanna Gruesome
• Maria Chavez
• Neils Children
• Rolo Tomassi
• Sauna Youth
• Sean Nicholas Savage
• SOPHIE
• Shopping
• The Ethical Debating Society
• The Spook School
• Verity Susman
• Trash Kit
• Ultimate Painting
• Willis Earl Beal
• Witching Waves
• White Lung
• Wolf Girl
• Woolf^[6]