I OH YOU, MG Live and Frontier Touring are thrilled to announce British musician and poet, Hak Baker debut Australian shows for January 2025. 

The East London troubadour subverting British folk will play a special Victorian headline show at Howler, Melbourne on Thursday 23 January.  

Frontier Member presale commences Thursday 31 October from 10am AEDT before tickets go on sale Monday 4 November from 10am AEDT. Tickets via frontiertouring.com/hakbaker 

Baker will also play a special Sydney Festival show at ACO On The Pier (The Thirsty Mile), Walsh Bay Arts Precinct on Friday 24 January. Tickets and information via sydneyfestival.org.au 

Raised in East London’s Isle of Dogs, Hak Baker has swiftly earned iconoclastic status. On his 2017 debut EP, Misfits, Baker evolved out of the grime scene with a genre-scuffing sound he calls “G-folk” - working-class stories of resilience with a Cockney drawl.   

On his breakout 2023 album, Worlds End FM, Baker presented his most complete statement yet in the style of a pirate broadcast on the edge of the apocalypse, from the light-on-its-feet protest song ‘Windrush Baby’ to the urgent and propulsive ‘Telephones 4 Eyes’, which is readymade for his riotous live shows. 

Baker has just released his 10-track Nostalgia Death EP (out now via AWAL, here). Nostalgia Death Act II is for “The broken lads, the girls and the boys chasing the night, the people who feel like fire, the ones who look back, and struggle moving forward,” says Hak Baker, the East End poet, musician and orator. Community is at the heart of everything Hak Baker does, and last month he released his sublime record that encapsulates the good, the bad and the ugly, in himself and in others.  

On this 10-track-odyssey, produced by Craigie Dodds (Amy Winehouse, Nitin Sawhney, Gorillaz), the Nostalgia Death EP features raw-nerve-ending songs from ‘Blender’ with Joe James and ‘Nameless’, to high-octane madness-esque tracks from ‘No Control’ to ‘Boys & Girls’, ending with none other than a collaboration with friend Peter Doherty on the man’s lament ‘Prometheus,’. “I am fire” proclaims Hak, and we believe him. 

“Hak Baker subverts what a British folk singer can be.”  - Vice 

“World’s End FM successfully introduces Hak Baker as a 21st Century troubadour speaking to modern problems with empathy and requisite anger”.  - NME