We continue to celebrate International Women’s Day with an event celebrating women in soundsystem culture, brought to you by one of the only female run soundsystems in the UK, Seduction City Sound. We host an all day/night dance at our canalside venue with an all female line up!
£5 after 9pm
Seduction City founder Marilyn Dennis, aka Lady Banton, has over 34 years DJ/Selector experience and started DJ’ing in the mid-eighties in North London. Her early influences and mentors were watching sound men assembling their sounds during youth club sessions back in the early/ mid-seventies. Listening to female DJ’s like Ranking Miss P and DJ Elayne spurred her on into the game.
Lady Banton’s early DJ experience was with the ’80’s Ladies’ a DJ collective with three other female DJ’s. In 1989 Lady Banton went on and teamed up with another female DJ, Night Nurse to form the Mellotone Sound System. They played in and around north London, the usual house/club parties, christenings, etc but always had a dream to play at Europe’s largest street party Notting Hill Carnival.
Mellotone’s dream finally happened when they first secured their year to year spot at the Notting Hill Carnival in 1994 on Telford Road. Mellotone’s mission has always been to promote ‘women in dancehall’ and to bring authentic clean reggae dancehall to their audience. their highlight to date was supporting Queen Omega during her UK tour in 2004, they appeared on the main stage in Hyde Park at the Queen’s Jubilee which featured on the BBC six o’clock news.
In 2016, Lady Banton formed Seduction City Sound, continuing her journey in the sound system world. With the help of some veteran sound men/engineers, Lady Banton has welcomed Selectors Spice2life, Mc’s Alternating Current. Seduction City Sound has continued to gain its reputation at the Notting Hill Carnival during the August bank holiday weekend and Telford road is now affectionately known as ‘Jamaica Corner’ so if you are ever in town, come on down and catch the vibe.
Lady Banton continues to reach new horizons and in 2019 Lady Banton performed in Forest Uprising in London and in November 2020 Lady Banton also took part in the London Borough of Culture for Brent, Women in Black British Music. Watch this space as Lady Banton and her crew continue to break boundaries.
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What can you expect from Grow
The team will wear face coverings when inside and/or serving & talking to customers
We will partake in scheduled lateral flow testing
Sanitiser provision in the venue and recommend you use on this on entry
We offer a pre table booking service via opentable which means table service when ordering via the Grow, Hackney app for those who want to guarantee a seated area to act as a base and food and drink served to them.
Doors will be kept open where possible and when busy all times to help fresh air flow and ventilation
We have installed of a filtration system indoors to reduce the airborne pathogen risk
We continue to allocate extra time for cleaning
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What we expect from you
Do not come to Grow if experiencing symptoms of Covid-19 , believe you have been exposed to the virus, or if required to be in isolation
We recommend that before you come to the venue you do all that you can to help avoid the transmission of the virus, this includes: i) vaccination ii) taking a lateral flow test iii) registering you are immune (because of previous infection. We are part of the Music Venue Trust #takeatest initiative which urges music fans to accept responsibility to keep themselves, their fellow gig-goers safe and the staff at music venues safe as restrictions are lifted.
We recommend you wear face coverings when moving around the venue , especially when inside; ordering at bar or talking to the Grow Team
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Food & Drink
Our Spice Trail Menu is predominantly plant based, with some ethically sourced meat options, as part of our conscious drive towards sustainability. Our passion is for the cooking of the Middle East and southern Mediterranean so expect punchy flavours, warm spices and as always the best ingredients we can find to comfort and nourish the soul.
With our drinks, we partner with breweries St Austell and Signature Brew for our lagers and IPAs and serve organic wine and prosecco which help international wildlife charity, Born Free. We design our own drinks such as Vegan Hemp White Russian and homemade Hackney Spiced Rum and serve Kompassion Kombucha brewed in Grow Studios.