For the Thursday-to-Sunday stretch of 15–18 October, The Shacklewell Arms supplies a particularly legible three-night snapshot of its booking life. Thursday begins with a visiting band whose autumn itinerary runs through Britain and mainland Europe; Friday brings a Berlin-based group with a lean toward groove and psychedelia; Saturday hands the room to Scared To Dance, a club night whose selections and guests have become part of the venue’s regular rhythm. It is a useful route through one room, beginning with a support-bill gig and ending at the decks.[1][3][4][5][6]

The setting carries its own accumulated character. The Shacklewell Arms sits at 71 Shacklewell Lane, in a pub building constructed in the 1870s and formerly called the Green Man. Hackney’s conservation-area appraisal records its earlier life as a St Lucian pub and describes the present site as a place for indie, mainstream and DJ-led events. The venue’s own page lists late licences across the weekend and identifies LNZRT as its programmer and producer. Those details make this short run feel consistent with the room: a pub-scale calendar that can change shape from night to night while retaining its frame.[1][2]

Thursday 15 October: The Sewing Club’s opening move

The Sewing Club arrive on Thursday at 7.30pm with crysometimes and lifepath99. Their own page places the London date at the head of a compact October run through Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Brighton, Rotterdam and Paris, giving the Shacklewell appearance the feel of a first stop instead of an isolated London booking. The band’s current release is the EP Care, while their catalogue includes the compactly titled songs “Sew,” “Bite,” “Sport Mode” and “I Like To Break Things.” In a three-night venue guide, this is the date that foregrounds the bill as a working tour package: headliner, supports, quick turnover, then the next city.[3][1]

That framing suits a room with a history of treating live music as part of its social fabric. Reporting from the venue’s 2011 relaunch described an intimate live-music ambition alongside club nights, a retained Caribbean-styled interior and a courtyard garden. Fifteen years on, Thursday’s bill keeps the essential scale in view: several artists, an early 7.30pm start, and enough proximity for the supports to matter as much as the headline name when choosing the night.[2][3]

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Friday 16 October: Goblyns bring the groove

Friday at 7.30pm shifts the accent to Goblyns, joined by Oral Habit. Goblyns’ official site lists The Shacklewell Arms on 16 October before a Bristol festival appearance the following day, and it currently directs listeners to the new single “Before I Break” while offering Three Sisters. The group’s Bandcamp description places them in Berlin and describes a range from raw rock energy to dreamier psychedelic terrain. That makes Friday the most outward-looking booking in this mini-run: a travelling European band carrying its own recorded world into a Dalston back-room setting.[4][5][1]

The useful point is texture and the way the programme is assembled. Thursday’s bill presents a touring guitar-pop unit with two supports; Goblyns’ Friday date arrives with a catalogue that flags rock, groove and psychedelia; then the next night dispenses with the conventional live-set sequence altogether. The Shacklewell Arms gains definition through that progression. It can make a narrow three-date run feel broad because the changes are practical ones—who is on stage, where they are travelling from, and whether the evening ends in a band set or a resident-led dancefloor.[3][4][5]

Saturday 17 October: Scared To Dance takes the late slot

Scared To Dance begins at 11pm on Saturday, with founder and resident Paul Richards joined by Caroline. The club’s own announcement confirms the Shacklewell date and identifies Caroline as the guest DJ, following the group’s 2025 album Caroline 2. Its stated musical territory is post-punk, indiepop, new wave and art rock, and its published list of possible selections runs from Alvvays and bar italia to the B-52’s, Devo, Dry Cleaning, Kraftwerk, Pulp and Wire. This is a club night with a clear vocabulary, shaped through the collision of familiar records and contemporary independent music.[5][6]

Scared To Dance also has a genuine relationship with this address. Founded by Richards in 2009, it lists monthly residencies at The Shacklewell Arms and The George Tavern, alongside work in club nights, film screenings, podcasts and gig promotion. Its Saturday appearance therefore closes the run through continuity: the room hosts a night that already understands its audience and its geography. After Thursday and Friday’s visiting acts, that local recurrence gives the weekend its final, settled form.[6][1]

Plan the three nights

Start times are 7.30pm for The Sewing Club on Thursday 15 October, 7.30pm for Goblyns on Friday 16 October, and 11pm for Scared To Dance on Saturday 17 October. The Shacklewell Arms is at 71 Shacklewell Lane, E8 2EB; its published hours run until midnight Monday through Thursday and until 3am on Friday and Saturday, with all times subject to change. Recheck the official venue, artist and Scared To Dance pages before travelling for final entry details, set times and any updates.[1][3][4][5]

Sources

  1. The Shacklewell Arms — The Shacklewell Arms
  2. Shacklewell Green Conservation Area Appraisal — London Borough of Hackney
  3. Music — The Sewing Club
  4. Goblyns — Goblyns
  5. Caroline Guest DJ on Sat 17th Oct — Scared To Dance
  6. About — Scared To Dance