Slow Club for Land Of Kings

Slow Club, Factory Floor, Toy, and Connan Mockasin top the first acts announced for Land Of Kings which returns on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th May 2012 to the Dalston/Stoke Newington borders, at 15 venues in London.

The full list of acts confirmed for Friday are Bullion, Caze Nove, Connan Mockasin, Dan Beaumont, Dollop, Eliphino, Famy, FunkinEven, Great Waves, The Invisible, Kwes, Lazer Cave DJs, Lovely Jonjo, Moshi Moshi DJs, Night Angles, Ray Mang, Rory Phillips, Slow Club, Toy, and Trevor Jackson with more still to be announced.

Club nights will come from East End promoter outfits including Durrr, Black Atlantic, Dollop, and To the Lazer Cave. Saturday's line-up will feature Ben Westbeech, Browswood DJs, Clash DJs, Esser, Factory Floor, The Four Aces Allstars, Gang Colours (DJ set), Gwilym Gold, The Horrors (DJ set), Johnno & Charlotte, Is Tropical, Kutmah, Maria Minerva, NTS DJs, Owiny Sigoma Band Soundsystem, Soft Rocks, and Standard Planets.

Delving deeper into the neighbourhood's history Land of Kings also present a multi-media programme of events based on the legendary Four Aces club, formerly on Dalston lane.

Taking over 15+ venues, the festival sprawls across Kingsland High Street's basement clubs, live music spaces and art galleries plus forgotten school halls, hidden banqueting suites and secluded gardens. Once again, punters are invited to roam the strip for two nights with wristband and map, hopping between the best of Hackney's burgeoning creative scenes.

Back with a broader Art and Interactive programme than ever, the Land of Kings brings installations and shows from Hackney Film Festival, Classic Album Sundays, Hammer & Tongues, Literary Deathmatch, Dalston Darlings Women's Institute, Gideon Reeling, 'Diet Coke is Illegal in the Philippines' by BestCleo, Classic Album Sundays (both days), Legacy in the Dust, and the Four Aces BBQ.

Elsewhere N16's warehouse theatre company, Stoke Newington International Airport, present their world-travelling, one-to-one performance concept night – Live Art Speed Date whilst local London Fields Radio invite punters and performers to drop in to their special onsite station. The Austerity Games will be taking attendees to the surreal depths of a bunker beneath Dalston's main drag for a series of random encounters.

The festival wristband will grant access to some of Dalston's best-loved venues, including the The Alibi, Arcola Theatre, Arcola Tent, The Bunker, Dalston Roof Par, Eastern Curve Garden, The Print House, Moustache Bar, Shacklewell Arms, Servant Jazz Quarters, and Vortex Jazz Club, alongside a host of secret hideaways to be found.

Theatres, basement bars, clubs and pubs, cafes and warehouse spaces will host over a kilometre of locally sourced festival fun and provide the backdrop for a good old East End knees up. Expect loft parties, rooftop gigs, basement clubs, bunkers of joy, music pubs, wonky cabaret and feasts of Dalstonian proportions.

Early Bird 2-day tickets are priced at £20. To buy tickets, click here.

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