Dingwalls / PowerHaus

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About Dingwalls / PowerHaus

Dingwalls, in London’s Camden Lock, is a 600-capacity live-music room inside the historic T.E. Dingwalls building. Its distinguishing feature is scale within one market complex: the main venue sits beside Lock 17, an all-year terrace, and a 100-capacity canal-side second room. The building currently carries the Dingwalls name after its brief PowerHaus chapter. A two-room arrangement gives emerging acts a smaller stage beside the headline room.

A warehouse name returns

In June 1973, wine merchant John Armit and partner Tony Mackintosh converted a run-down packaging warehouse beside the canal into Dingwalls Dance Hall. Their project grew from a site Northside Developments had recently reshaped from a timber yard into Camden Lock Market. The warehouse bore the name of timber merchant T.E. Dingwall, whose painted lettering supplied the dancehall’s name.

Promoter Vince Power bought the venue in June 2020. A trademark dispute meant the refurbished room reopened under the PowerHaus name, borrowed from Power’s earlier Islington venue. In April 2023, after an agreement with the trademark holder, the venue resumed the Dingwalls name during its 50th-anniversary year. The reversal restored a name attached to the canal-side building since its industrial life, while retaining Power’s live-music operation.

The room on show night

Programming spans hip-hop, pop, folk, indie, rock, electronic, alternative and metal. Touring bills take the main 600-capacity room, while Dingwalls 2 regularly presents unsigned artists. The practical draw lies in the clustered layout: Lock 17 occupies the same historic building, the terrace looks across Camden Market, and the 100-capacity canal-side room sits beside the main venue. It suits a compact Camden night where the gig and bar space share one base.

Sources

  1. History & More Info — Dingwalls
  2. Dingwalls: A Rock ’n’ Roll Legacy — Camden Market
  3. Why the venue reopened as PowerHaus — Camden New Journal
  4. Dingwalls returns to its original name — Camden New Journal
Upcoming shows
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Address
Middle Yard, NW1 8AL London
Next show
Wed, 2 Sept 2026
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