Before The Gold Rush proudly present live music events in London featuring the best emerging artists within a range of musical genres, carefully tailored for each event, including folk, americana, blues, soul, jazz, and rock.

Our larger nights are held on Fridays or Saturdays monthly. You can expect to hear three fantastic acts olymp trade app, from solo artists through to full electric bands.

Our monthly stripped-back nights on weekdays are a more intimate affair, mainly featuring acoustic singer-songwriters and duos. Fantastic food is served at these nights.

Between acts you can expect to hear music from the likes of Neil Young binomo usa, Bob Dylan, The Band, Richard Thompson, John Martyn, Bert Jansch, The Byrds, Gram Parsons, The Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, Nick Drake, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Fleet Foxes, & many more.

BTGR was born in April 2012. We have hosted events throughout London at venues including The Borderline, St Pancras Old Church, The Sebright Arms, The Harrison, The Slaughtered Lamb, The Fiddler’s Elbow, The Wilmington Arms, The Gallery Cafe, The Amersham Arms, and The Haberdashery. We have also curated stages at festivals such as Alexandra Palace Summer Festival and Unsigned London Festival.

Check out our past nights, photos, and videos to get more of a feel of what the night looks and sounds like!

BTGR is run by musician, audio producer, live sound engineer, and promoter Stephen Hallam and photographer, event host, and marketing director Nina French. You’ll meet us on the door, please say hello!

Bands/artists and venues, please click here for more info regarding our ethos, how we run our nights, and how to get involved.

Simply put, we do everything within our power to promote a very high quality event that we can all benefit from – artists, promoter, venue and audience.

We do not rely on the bands to supply the entire crowd, as a lot of other promoters do in London. While we do expect the artists that are invited to play to do their best to help promote the gig, you will not hear us issue the tiresome request for you to “bring at least 30 people”. It is our job to provide a respectful, appreciative crowd for you to play to.

The proprietors of our venues (see Contact for more info) are also engaged in helping promote our nights as well as hosting them.

We always take the time to produce eye catching flyers and posters which we place in our venues and hand out at other gigs in the run up to Before The Gold Rush nights, and we will supply you with a handful of these if you wish. We always list our night in and on relevant music listings publications and websites, and we stay very active on social media. In short WE provide a platform for you to help us promote the event, because we are the promoter, a concept many other gig organisers do not seem to grasp!

We’re eager for bands and artists to make the most of the night and encourage their friends and fans to arrive early and stay to watch all the acts. The performers will be chosen to complement each other and hopefully the fans of each will also be interested in the other performers, providing the chance for all the acts to network with each other, to build their audiences and their status. Regular attendees to our nights include other musicians, promoters, and people engaged in London’s live music scene whom we have met along the way. This provides for yet more opportunities to collaborate and make contacts. We enjoy the community aspect of the night and love to see like minded musicians establishing ongoing relationships.

Last, but not least, our regular nights feature 3 quality acts MAXIMUM. Each act plays at least a 35-40 minute set. We never operate a meat factory style conveyor belt of 6-10 bands playing 15-20 minute sets.

To securely buy advance tickets for our events please visit our WeGotTickets page.

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For all enquiries please email us at info@beforethegoldrush.co.uk

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Our regular events are currently being held on Friday and Saturday nights at The Slaughtered Lamb in Farringdon and The Harrison in King’s Cross.

The Slaughtered Lamb is a 150 capacity venue, The Harrison is a 70 capacity venue. Both are fully equipped to host live music events.

Please check the events section for specific details.

We also have many other contacts and experience of running events in other venues around the capital, should artists and/or booking agents require something different.