Vault

VAULT Festival returns for its second incarnation in the labyrinth of tunnels underneath Waterloo, offering six frenetic weeks of live entertainment between January 28th and March 8th 2014, Tuesdays through to Saturdays.

The headline shows at VAULT are incredibly exciting, but what’s really astonishing here is the sheer breadth of the programme – London’s got nothing else like this. Just step through the magic door on Leake Street anytime and start your exploration.

Tickets start at just £7.50 but you can come in anytime at all – on Tuesdays and Wednesdays there’s free live music and comedy, and on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays you’ll want a ticket to our series of LATES – there’s a party for every type of rascal out there.

Festival highlights include:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Dr Hunter S Thompson's twisted, madcap adventure to find the heart of the American Dream is staged in this once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between his old friend and colleague Lou Stein and the legendary British illustrator Ralph Steadman.

The Cement Garden
In the relentless summer heat, four children retreat into an isolated world left to them by their parents, and attempt to create their own version of a family. In Ian McEwan’s first novel, The Cement Garden explores coming of age, burgeoning sexuality and the distortions of a 14-year-old mind. David Aula and Jimmy Osborne’s stage adaptation approaches the horror of the story through the innocent eyes of children, and encourages an audience to remember the games, irreverence, and shadows of their youth: to remember and reinvent their sense of invincibility.

The Kansas Smitty’s House Band
Inspired by the swinging, hedonistic atmosphere of the one American city that overcame the Great Depression. The Kansas Smitty’s House Band are the fresh answer to London’s booming ‘speakeasy jazz’ scene. The Smitty’s House Band features an ever shifting line up of Londons best musicians put together by band leader on alto sax and clarinet Giacomo Smith. Hot off the back of sold out shows at Ronnie Scotts, The Vortex, Peckham Liberal Club & The Servants Jazz Quarters and unfettered by pretensions of academic authenticity, it is not another vintage dress up party. They’re putting danger back in jazz.

See official website for full schedule of events.