The Hospital Club

The Mercury Sessions

Anna Calvi: Desire

Here’s Anna Calvi performing the single Desire from her self-titled debut album. The performance was shot at the Mercury Music Prize Albums of the Year Launch downstairs in the studio last month.


Gruff Rhys: If We Were Words (Then We Would Rhyme)

Here's a melodic number from Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff's session. Read a review of the Jamie Woon co-headlined show here

Miles Kane

Coming soon to a telly near you...the marvellous Mr Miles Kane. Filmed at here at The Hospital Club Studios in London, the 'Sessions' are a series of special gigs that celebrate live music in the UK.

Gruff Rhys: In A House With No Mirrors (You Never Get Old)

Gruff played a great Barclyacard Mercury Prize Session here in April 2011 with a selection of chirpy tunes from his album Hotel Shampoo, and this number taken from the 'The Terror Of Cosmic Loneliness'album recorded with Tony Da Gatorra...

The Kills - You Don't Own The Road

An electrifying performance Jamie Ince and Alison Mosshart aka The Kills. The bands's Barclaycard Mercury Prize Session took place at The Hospital Club Studios on 24 March 2011. You Don't Own The Road is taken from the band's recent release Blood Pressures.

The Kills - DNA

Blood Pressures is The Kills fourth album. The US/UK duet first got together to record filthy minimalist blues based rock and roll in 2001.


Guillemots - Vermillion

The Guillemots took to the stage of The Hospital Club Studios for an energetic performance in March 2011 playing a Session alongside The Kills. Vermillon is taken from the bands third album Walk The River.

Guillemots - Yesterday Is Dead

The eclectic multi-national indie outfir Guillemots returned to The Hospital Club Studios for this session following Fyfe Dangerfield's solo Mercury Sessions gig in 2010. Yesterday Is Dead gives Brazlian guitarist MC Lord Magrão a chance to really let loose...

James Blake - I Never Learnt to Share

James Blake has been central to one of the UK's most exciting new scenes, developing his truly unique sound over the course of eighteen months. Having mesmerised the Post Dubstep fraternity with a series of highly sought after EPs, this sparse, soulful music performance predated the release of his debut album. James performed at The Hospital Club Studios on 2/2/11.

James Blake - LindisFarne

Blake was announced as runner-up in BBC's Sound of 2011 poll and his self-titled debut album was released in the UK on 7 February 2011. In January 2011, Blake was awarded Single of the Year (2010) for CMYK at Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Awards. James performed at The Hospital Club Studios on 2/2/11

Magnetic Man - I Need Air (featuring Katy Shotter)

Skream, Benga and Artwork were all figurative in Dubstep's evolution, and now as Magnetic Man the trio are taking the genre they helped create even further forward. Making light work of the transition from clandestine club stalwarts to festival favourites, Magnetic Man have thrilled massive crowds all over the world with their immersive live set. I Need Air features guest vocals from singer/songwriter Katy Shotter. Magnetic Man performed at The Hospital Club Studios on 2/2/11.

Magnetic Man - The Bug (featuring Sam Frank)

Magnetic Man first met in the late 1990s at the Big Apple Records store in Croydon. They perform using three computers, one playing drum samples, one playing bass lines and the third playing leads and samples. For this performance the group were accompanied by a stunning live string section. The Bug features guest vocals from singer/producer Sam Frank. Magnetic Man performed at The Hospital Club Studios on 2/2/11.

Band Of Skulls - Impossible

Band Of Skulls' debut album Baby Darling Doll Face Honey was recorded, mixed and mastered between January and March 2009. The staff at iTunes coveted their single I Know What I Am as Single of the Week in April and from that point onwards, progression happened at lightning speed. Within weeks the band were introduced to a global digital audience in the USA, UK, France, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the Netherlands. Band of Skulls performed at The Hospital Club Studios on 12/11/10.

Band of Skulls - Cold Fame

Baby Darling Doll Face Honey was produced, recorded and mixed by Ian Davenport (Supergrass, Badly Drawn Boy) and recorded at Radiohead's Courtyard Studios in Oxfordshire and mixed at the House of Blues studio in Los Angeles. Band of Skulls performed at The Hospital Club Studios on 12/11/10.

Everything Everything - Suffragette Suffragette

Combining math-rock rhythms and molten riffs, Suffragette Suffragette was the band's debut single, released December 2008 .


Everything Everything - Tin (Manhole)

Taken from their first album Man Alive, Tin (Manhole) exemplifies the band's desire to "challenge knee-jerk convention of indie and dance on the grave of pointless retrogression"...so say them.

Mystery Jets: Flash A Hungry Smile

Flash A Hungry Smile was made available on the band's website as the first promotional single from SerotoninIn ahead of the full single release, Dreaming Of Another World.




Mystery Jets: Alice Springs

Mystery Jets released their third studio album Serotonin in July 2010. Here they are performing a track from it called Alice Springs.

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