Garden Gigs: Running Standard, Safety Jacket and Tortured Devices

Every Sunday this summer, we’re bringing live music back to The Victoria garden.

Join us from 3–6pm for Garden Gigs: a series of free afternoon shows featuring some of our favourite new artists performing special acoustic and stripped-back sets in our little green corner of Dalston.

Grab a drink, settle in under the vines and discover your new favourite band in one of London’s best-loved pub gardens. Sunshine encouraged but not essential — we’ve got you covered (literally) if the weather decides not to play along.

Free entry all afternoon. Come early, get comfy and spend your Sunday with us.

RUNNING STANDARDS

Running Standard is a 6-piece project from the rural North West of England, now London-based. They play jazz-inflected experimental folk rock. Their live set balances structure and rigidity with chaos and improvisation.

SAFETY JACKET

Safety jacket is an indie rock band, that started life in Brighton in 2019, now mainly based in London. Known for their raw and passionate live performance, they have released two albums so far, 'Honey From the Wasp Nest' (2022) and 'Snow Falling Over the Sea' (2025) and are currently in the midst of recording their third album.

TORTURED DEVICES

Starting out as a one-man freak-folk project in 2022, Tortured Devices consists of a close-knit community of revolving musicians who all found each other in Brighton. Telling stories from anywhere between the West Texas Highway and the Anatolian Stepps, they fuse Americana with a cross-cultural twist. While lyrically channeling the poetics of Silver Jews and Bob Dylan, the band’s sound avoids getting too comfortable in any specific genre, shifting between Pavement’s slacker rock, Wilco’s alternative country, and Alex G’s lo-fi ballads.