Past Shows
Lubomyr Melnyk
Ukranian composer & pianist delivering a stunning performance in the grandiose setting of St John's church.
Watch RecordingKamilya Jubran w/ Sarah Murcia
Oud player / vocalist Kamilya Jubran and bassist Sarah Murcia's collaborative performance from our latest St John's Session..
Watch RecordingOren 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 RecordingArnold 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 RecordingPhilip 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 RecordingJulia 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 RecordingKaren Gwyer
For forty minutes, London-based electronic experimentalist Karen Gwyer colonised St. John's with a torrent of beautiful, beautiful noise.
Watch RecordingOcitrop
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 RecordingFennesz
Austrian experimental guitar maverick Christian Fennesz treated us to a sonic exploration live from St. John Sessions.
Watch RecordingRyuichi Sakamoto & Taylor Deupree
Ambient heavyweights Sakamoto & Deupree deliver a painstakingly beautiful sixty minutes to St. John's, Hackney.
Watch RecordingRoly Porter
Roly Porter builds a soaring universe of sound inside St. John's in Hackney.
Watch RecordingFeatures
“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“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