DHP PRESENTS

SIX BY SEVEN
Performing the debut album “The Things We Make” in its entirety + more.

+TR^NKS

Live at Oslo, Hackney

Tickets are on sale now from Alt Tickets. 16+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)

British indie rock outfit Six by Seven was formed in Nottingham, England in the early ’90s by singer/guitarist Chris Olley, guitarist Sam Hempton, organist James Flower, bassist Paul Douglas, and drummer Chris Davis. Hailed as “one of the all-time great debut singles” by the NME, their self-released autumn 1997 single “European Me” sold out in a week and resulted in a contract with Beggars Banquet, which issued the band’s full-length The Things We Make in the spring of 1998. A mix of post-rock, psychedelia, and shoegaze, Six by Seven created ample buzz, making their first appearance on John Peel’s BBC show later that year and hitting the road with bands like Manic Street Preachers, Ash, and the Dandy Warhols.

The break didn’t last long, however, and in 2007 Olley and Flower recorded a new album under the Six by Seven banner titled If Symptoms Persist, Kill Your Doctor. Shows were played with a variation of the band’s early lineup, and they issued a CD/DVD anthology called Any Colour So Long as It’s Black (All the Way from Forest Fields and Back…) in 2008 before Olley finally left the band to work on other projects. A new lineup featuring Olley, Flower, and Placebo drummer Steve Hewitt resurfaced in 2013 to release Love and Peace and Sympathy. Four years later they again re-formed to commemorate the oddly timed milestone of their second album’s 17th anniversary. Reissued in March 2017 by Beggars Banquet, The Closer You Get got a deluxe treatment complete with bonus tracks from the group’s Peel Sessions. Olley reunited Six by Seven’s original lineup that same month to perform the album in its entirety in the U.K. ~ Timothy Monger & Jason Ankeny, Rovi.