Land of Kings Music and Arts Festival

Music, film, photography, performance art, pop up radio stations and interactive theatre combine in this annual festival, which 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. Events include the Hackney Film Festival Rooftop Takeover (May 5) and Literary Death Match, in which intellectual wits bring their writing and performing challenge night to the festival for the first time (May 4) while music acts include Bos Angeles, Caze Nove, Connan Mockasin (May 4), All the Queen's Ravens, Ben Westbeech and Bicep (May 5).