Excited to present London-born, Brighton-raised producer Frank Hopkins at The Waiting Room in Stoke Newington on THU 17 OCT as he shares tracks from his latest EP ‘Echoes of Tomorrow’ released on September 13. Support from nowsm.

Left-field electronic artist Frank Hopkins is an artist and producer who curates melodic dance songs that combine the real world instrumentation with more classical dance floor arrangements. He is a creative that has the capability to incite a variety of emotions throughout his music, with the ability to transcend modern landscapes and place his own unique sounds consistently throughout all of his releases.

The ‘Echoes Of Tomorrow’ EP is full of mesmerising beats and synths that surpass reality, the music is blended for either concentration or the dance floor. Inspired by the likes of Four Tet, Aphex Twin and Jon Hopkins, Frank allows these influences to manifest themselves within his music, and lead to a sonic sound that is both melodic and fragile, but also perfect for club nights.

Drawing influence from Breaks, Ambient, and Experimental music, Nowsm released the heavy-hitting EP ‘Blood Let’ earlier in the year and has a stream of raw, imperfect and unapologetic mashups he’ll be drip feeding throughout Autumn. He receives continued support from Mary Anne Hobbs, Tom Ravenscroft and Jaguar on BBC Radio 6Music and Radio 1 respectively.

You can get tickets on DICE here.

Join us at the National Gallery to celebrate Piano Day in collaboration with Sofia Ilyas, founder of FLOAT.  

Piano Day is a free event, where some of London's most exciting musicians present specially crafted performances, responding to and celebrating the National Gallery’s collection, and offering a glimpse into the city's dynamic, creative, and diverse spirit. 

The performing artists are: Arthur Jeffes of Penguin Cafe; pianist and composer Belle Chen; multi-instrumentalist-singer-songwriter Tawiah; contemporary Classical pianist Karim Kamar together with electronic artist Frank Hopkins; composer Narotam Horn; and a special performance by pioneer of Afrorave, Toya Delazy, alongside contemporary dancer Fukiko Takase of Neon Dance. 

This is Frank’s first headline show, where he will be showcasing Aeternum and his up-coming EP, In Search of Motion, Frank Hopkins, a London-born talent raised in the vibrant city of Brighton, is a captivating electronic artist known for his unique blend of melodic dance music. With a passion for fusing real-world instruments with timeless dance floor arrangements, Frank crafts intricate compositions that are both delicate and tailor-made for unforgettable club nights.

Tickets available here at dice.fm.

This event also serves as the unofficial launch party of Poetry International festival, which features global voices and responds to themes of the natural world and the climate crisis.

Tishani Doshi has published seven books of fiction and poetry, the most recent of which are a novel, Small Days and Nights (Bloomsbury), shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Award and a New York Times Bestsellers Editor’s Choice; and a collection of poems, A God at the Door (Bloodaxe Books), shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize 2021. For 15 years she worked as the lead dancer with the Chandralekha group in Madras, India.

Rebecca Goss is a poet, tutor and mentor living in Suffolk. Her second collection, Her Birth, was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, won the Poetry category in the East Anglian Book Awards 2013, and shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing and the Portico Prize for Literature. Goss’ third collection, Girl, was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2019. She is the winner of the Sylvia Plath Prize 2022. Her next collection, Latch, is published with Carcanet in 2023.

Momtaza Mehri is a poet and independent researcher working across criticism, translation, anti-disciplinary research practices, education and radio. She is a former Young People’s Laureate for London and Frontier-Antioch Fellow at Antioch University, Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in POETRY, Granta, Vogue, The Guardian, Bidoun and The White Review. A former Columnist-in-Residence at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Open Space, she has also completed residencies at St Paul’s Cathedral and the British Library.

Tickets available here: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/out-spoken-july?eventId=944740

The Great Escape (TGE) is the festival for new music, showcasing 500 emerging artists from all over the world in 30+ walkable venues across the city and a pop-up festival site on Brighton Beach. It’s the first place to discover your new favourite artist and see them in an intimate setting before they go on to headline major festival stages.

TGE is also attended by the music industry who are on the hunt for the next big thing. We run a conference alongside the gigs featuring insightful panels, topical debates, keynote speeches and networking opportunities in abundance.

Frank will be supporting Christian Löffler on May 11th at TGE at St. Mary’s Church in Brighton.

You can get tickets for the Thursday of GTE here.