Hanwell Hootenanny 2024/5

Join us at the warm and welcoming Kings Arms, for the Hanwell Hootenanny, to see in the New Year in style. Hanwell ‘The Home of Loud’ has a great tradition of live music….and at the Hootenanny we aim to continue this tradition! Our host with the most for the evening is the marvellous Horace (everybody calls me H) Innis. 

We have live music all evening  from 8pm through till 1pm. With 4 great main acts and some amazing special guests, including Gav from ‘Signs of Life’. We also have ‘Jiv Talk’ joining us with his brand of sophisticated and wild poetry, with a little steampunk thrown in. The talented Finlay Kerr will be joining the show at various points and drumming up a storm. 

There will be something for everyone to enjoy. You can throw in some excellent food too as The Kings Arms serve great food from their restaurant. Narayan (the boss) is our charming host at the Kings Arms. 

Kicking off the evening we have the talented Michael Hill, already writing his own songs and building up a good following. 

Then at 9pm we have local legends The Fur Babies still going strong with their superb pop songs and tales of local life, love and inappropriate sunglasses. A truly local band with their sharp witted songwriter Ian Clavey (Mr Hanwell) capturing and preserving the local characters and atmospheres…if there is an afterlife Ian will still live in Hanwell. Another now local legend, Rose Eyre sings with The Fur Babies and also with The Cold Head, the following band.

On stage around 10.20 we have The Cold Head another band with strong Hanwell / Ealing connections. The Cold Head are a loose tribe of musicians led by Doug Stephens, writer, guitarist. Members of Furniture and Transglobal Underground, the masterful Hamid Mantu and the mercurial Tim Whelan, will be making an appearance along with a full band….a rare chance to see one of the area’s most enigmatic and thought provoking bands playing a full set. There will be guest appearances from Larry Whelan and Vincent Scanlon.  From Art Pop to Art Rock with plenty of stops off in between.

Around midnight we have the electrifying  TJ ‘Holy Boy’ Johnson. Hailed as one of the most versatile and technically gifted musicians in London, he’s set stages ablaze across the globe. If you blinked and missed his jaw-dropping performances at the Ealing Blues Festival in the last two tears, never fear, you can catch him at this years Hanwell Hootenanny.