EartH books by the show, and the bar opens when the doors do. Buy a ticket ahead, and reach the EartH Kitchen bar early if you want a seat before the room fills.
EartH stands on Stoke Newington Road in the old Savoy Cinema, an Art Deco hall built in 1936 and restored by the team behind Village Underground. The name shortens Evolutionary Arts Hackney, and the building now holds a 1,200-capacity Concert Hall on the ground floor and a 750-seat Theatre above. The rooms carry live music most nights, and the bar runs with them.
Anyone who comes for the room as much as the band finds the restored hall worth the trip on its own. The stripped-back walls and the original tiers give the music a setting few new venues can match, which is the reason the booking draws touring names. A listener who wants a soft seat and a quiet drink should know the upstairs benches are hard and the bar can carry into a quiet set.
The ground floor Concert Hall keeps the bones of the cinema, with a high ceiling and a wide standing floor before the stage. The upstairs Theatre holds tiered seating with the Art Deco detail intact, and the sightlines there run clean from almost every row. Reviewers on Tripadvisor praise the look of both rooms while warning that the upstairs benches give little comfort over a long show.
The building opened as the Savoy Cinema in 1936 and sat dark for years before the Village Underground team brought it back as a music venue. The restoration left the raw concrete and the faded plaster on show, so the room wears its history rather than hiding it. That choice gives a gig here a setting that newer halls cannot copy, and it has drawn touring names who want the room as much as the stage.
EartH Kitchen runs as a split-level bar on the ground floor, built around a central counter for easy ordering before and after a set. Drinks sit at fair festival-room prices, with pints near 6 pounds and a short list of wine and spirits, a point reviewers raise as a relief in a large venue. Two pop-up bars open inside the auditorium on busy nights, which keeps the queues down but means the sound of a served drink can reach a quiet stage. The mezzanine adapts between dining and relaxed seating, per the venue's own room notes.
The crowd shifts with the booking, from seated theatre audiences to a standing music crowd in the main hall. Staff move the queues quickly and the security runs efficient, which several reviewers single out. The mood leans toward the show rather than the bar, so the room fills and empties around the set times.
Original detail and clean sightlines in the upstairs Theatre, for a seated bill.
