Join Police Dog Hogan at the Islington Assembly Hall on June 18th

Police Dog Hogan, hailed as ‘one of the UK’s finest live bands and folk country acts’ will play at the Islington Assembly Hall on 18th June, part of their UK tour to support the launch of their new album The Light At The Top Of The Stairs.

Police Dog Hogan are James Studholme (guitar vocals), Eddie Bishop (fiddle, mandolin), Tim Dowling (banjo, steel guitar), Emily Norris (trumpet), Shahen Galichian (accordion, piano), Don Bowen (bass)and Alistair Hamer (drums). Together since 2010, Police Dog Hogan have fused country-roots-Americana with a wholly British sensibility.

Banjo player Tim Dowling’s Guardian newspaper column highlights their comic touring tales, but their music remains emotionally powerful, featuring driving country-rock with guitar, fiddle, banjo, accordion, and trumpet.

The band have released eight albums and in late 2024 saw Police Dog Hogan release a Christmas single, Pull Away, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the RNLI.

Previously the band released another single, My First Christmas Alone, in winter of 2020 that helped to raise over £50k for the charity Crisis and reached No. 1 in the iTunes country charts.

In 2018, their song Devon Brigade was nominated for best original song at the AMA-UK Awards. The album it came from, Wild By The Side of the Road, spent several weeks in the Official UK Americana charts.

They manage to fuse bluegrass, folk, country and more in a way that few others can match. ’RNR MAGAZINE‘

Since they made their album debut back in 2010, Police Dog Hogan have been building a reputation as one of the country’s finest live bands and folk-country acts… Overground is their finest hour yet. ’FOLK RADIO‘