About
AN EAST LONDON ORIGINAL
The long-standing spiritual home for all things garage, trash beat, rock & roll, country, blues, R&B, freak folk, and psych rock.
With a love of garage, trash beat rock'n'roll, country blues, rhythm'n'blues, freak folk, psych rock What's Cookin' arrived fully formed in 2004 when we commenced shows at The Plough in Walthamstow. We stayed there a bit. Then moved to the room above The Sheep Walk in Leytonstone. We stayed there several mad years, whilst at the same time commencing shows at The North Star in Leytonstone, Arch 1 in West Ham, and hosting the popular yearly What's Cookin' Sunday Picnics in Henry Reynolds Gardens in Leytonstone.
Previous acts
Geraint Watkins
Holly Golightly
The Hanging Stars
The Broken Family Band
BJ Cole
Martin Stephenson
Bobby Bare Jr
Jesse Dayton
The Coal Porters
Justin Rutledge
Jason Ringenberg
Daniel Wylie
Damien Jurado
Billy Childish
Simple Kid
Pete Anderson
Corb Lund
Stewboss
Andy White
Holly Golightly
Darren Hayman
The Nightingales
Wilko Johnson
John Power
Black Diamond Heavies
Hank Wangford
Scott H.Biram
Jim Jones Revue
Otis Gibbs
Jackie Leven
The WIYOS
Woody Pines
The Answer
Pete Molinari
Doug Paisley
Singing Adams
I See Hawks In LA
Nelson Bragg
Phil Lee
The Sweetback Sisters
Elliott Brood
Charlie Parr
Our regular home is now at the Leytonstone Social Club – just minutes from Leytonstone Underground and Leytonstone High Road Overground stations. And do you know Leytonstone is now so hip it’s called The Stone. Yeah, me neither.
That’s where you’ll find us EVERY Wednesday and on the 2nd and the 4th Saturday of the month – with some specials thrown in now and then as a chaser. We also do more occasional shows at The Hare & Hounds in Leyton, The Red Lion in East Ham, and The Abbey Arms in South London.
What’s Cookin’… a little bit country, a WHOLE lotta rock ‘n’ roll… plus a number of cross-bred genres yet to be given a name. Come get some!
