Past Shows

Lubomyr Melnyk

Ukranian composer & pianist delivering a stunning performance in the grandiose setting of St John's church.

Watch Recording

Kamilya Jubran w/ Sarah Murcia

Oud player / vocalist Kamilya Jubran and bassist Sarah Murcia's collaborative performance from our latest St John's Session..

Watch Recording

James Blackshaw

Sit back and let James' acoustic workouts guide you..

Watch Recording

Oren Ambarchi + Will Guthrie

Cue yourself up for a guaranteed mind-blowing, courtesy of Will Guthrie's insane drumming and Oren Ambarchi's guitar / electronics experimentation..

Watch Recording

Arnold Dreyblatt

Arnold's stunning performance began with a minimal but intensely engaging double bass composition, and was followed up with an sonically incredible piece constructed out of field recordings of MRI machines.

Watch Recording

Philip Jeck

Incredible sonic textures, woven expertly by Philip here. Largely by utlising the run-outs of dusty records. Spend the next 45 either fascinating over how he makes the sounds so compelling, or simply enjoy them..

Watch Recording

Julia Holter

LA-based experimental artist Julia Holter is much-acclaimed for the ambitious scope of her live performances. In the exalted chamber of St. John's in Hackney, we soon found out why.

Watch Recording

Karen Gwyer

For forty minutes, London-based electronic experimentalist Karen Gwyer colonised St. John's with a torrent of beautiful, beautiful noise.

Watch Recording

Ocitrop

In forty-five majestic minutes, Ocitrop delivered a fresh incarnation of contemporary ambient music to St. John's Church in Hackney. And together with live interpretative dance, too.

Watch Recording

Patten

The mysterious patten turned St John's church into a mesmerising A/V show...

Watch Recording

Fennesz

Austrian experimental guitar maverick Christian Fennesz treated us to a sonic exploration live from St. John Sessions.

Watch Recording

Ryuichi Sakamoto & Taylor Deupree

Ambient heavyweights Sakamoto & Deupree deliver a painstakingly beautiful sixty minutes to St. John's, Hackney.

Watch Recording

Roly Porter

Roly Porter builds a soaring universe of sound inside St. John's in Hackney.

Watch Recording

Features

May 17, 2015

“Exotic Visions”: Introducing Jon Hassell

Over the past couple of years, Boiler Room has been pushing ever further into that anything-but-grey area between classical, jazz, ambient and even less defined areas of experimental music.

Read the feature
March 10, 2015

“You Can’t Separate Silence and Sound”: Sakamoto & Deupree Speak

Ryuichi Sakamoto and Taylor Deupree’s live set for Boiler Room and St John’s Sessions early last year was one of the most important broadcasts in our existence so far. It proved beyond doubt to us and to our audience that BR could present the most delicate, experimental and even demanding music just as easily and convincingly as we could capture a party set from a well-known DJ.

Read the feature
← BACK TO BOILER ROOM