Venue music programming
Music strategy, talent curation and fully managed calendars for hospitality venues, destinations and cultural spaces, including multi-space sites running different programmes in different rooms on the same night.
London music programming
We program musicto suit your needs.
Music programming and talent curation for venues, hospitality groups, brands and cultural spaces. From a single date to a fully managed multi-space calendar, 150 to 2,000 capacity.
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The proposition
Programming a venue is more than just music, it's an operations challenge.
A room’s music has to work with the ebbs and flow of the trade, the licence, the neighbours and the margins, not just the vibe. We start with how the space actually works, then build a programme that fits it and keeps customers coming back.
Talent bookings
DJs, live artists and creative talent chosen around your audience, setting, atmosphere and budget, drawn from a curated roster of talent we work with every week on air rather than a database of people looking for gigs.
Brand activations
Culturally credible talent, workshops, panels and music-led experiences for brands, retail and public programmes.
Production and content
Optional event, broadcast, podcast and content support through the wider Voices platform.
Engagement formats
One brief, one programming partner.
Whether it’s a single date, a recurring residency, a full calendar or a site-wide activation, it runs through one point of contact.
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Single date
Launches, parties, private events and individual dates.
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Residency
Weekly or monthly programming with a consistent identity and a returning audience.
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Fully managed calendar
Venues, groups and multi-space sites that need a whole programme sourced, booked and delivered.
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Cultural activation
Brands and institutions building a larger concept, audience experience or content moment.
Who we work with
Venues and hospitality groups
Multi-space sites, taprooms, market halls, bars and destinations that need a calendar of programming, rather than one busy night.
Hotels and members' clubs
Long-running residencies that hold an identity across different rooms and different times of night.
Brands and retail
Activations, residencies, in-store programmes and campaigns that need music with real credibility behind it.
Cultural institutions
Museums, galleries and public programmes looking for a proper link to London's music communities.
Developments and meanwhile spaces
New sites building an audience and a reason to visit before the tenants arrive via placemaking activities.
Selected work
Six programmes, four years, one point of contact.
Venue programme01Hackney Bridge
A three-space programme, 150 to 2,000 capacity
Hackney WickView detailsHide details
Brief
Build and manage a sustainable music and events programme across Hackney Bridge's venue spaces: a canal-side cocktail bar, a 400-capacity warehouse room and a large outdoor garden. One retained programming partner, a consistent cultural offer, and a calendar that holds up across the whole year.
Delivered
Voices programmes all three spaces: Nico's, Block C and the Garden. That covers programme development, promoter sourcing and outreach, booking coordination, calendar management across the three rooms, and marketing liaison. At Nico's, Voices creates the DJ line-ups for live music dates, weekly DJ sets and day parties. In Block C and the Garden, Voices sources and manages the promoters behind larger takeovers, split-site events and headline weekends, with spaces regularly running two separate programmes on the same night.
Scale
A formal retained promoter arrangement started in January 2025 and continues into its second year. Between February and July 2026, Voices programmed 33 promoted events across the three spaces.
Proof point
Hackney Bridge publicly credits Voices with creating Nico's DJ line-ups, and the weekly programme continued to be advertised as curated by Voices in 2026. Maria Hanlon presents: Soul Satisfaction was recently selected as a Resident Advisor Pick - an editorial selection showcasing the best events in London.
Venue programme01
Hackney Bridge
A three-space programme, 150 to 2,000 capacity
Hackney Wick
Brief
Build and manage a sustainable music and events programme across Hackney Bridge's venue spaces: a canal-side cocktail bar, a 400-capacity warehouse room and a large outdoor garden. One retained programming partner, a consistent cultural offer, and a calendar that holds up across the whole year.
Delivered
Voices programmes all three spaces: Nico's, Block C and the Garden. That covers programme development, promoter sourcing and outreach, booking coordination, calendar management across the three rooms, and marketing liaison. At Nico's, Voices creates the DJ line-ups for live music dates, weekly DJ sets and day parties. In Block C and the Garden, Voices sources and manages the promoters behind larger takeovers, split-site events and headline weekends, with spaces regularly running two separate programmes on the same night.
Scale
A formal retained promoter arrangement started in January 2025 and continues into its second year. Between February and July 2026, Voices programmed 33 promoted events across the three spaces.
Proof point
Hackney Bridge publicly credits Voices with creating Nico's DJ line-ups, and the weekly programme continued to be advertised as curated by Voices in 2026. Maria Hanlon presents: Soul Satisfaction was recently selected as a Resident Advisor Pick - an editorial selection showcasing the best events in London.
Hotel residency02The Standard, London
Four years of monthly residency across two very different rooms
King's CrossView detailsHide details
Brief
Hold a recurring music programme for one of London's most music-literate hotels, across a ground floor lounge that runs from breakfast to 2am and a tenth floor rooftop bar that opens as a discotheque. Two rooms, two crowds, one identity, month after month.
Delivered
Voices has programmed a monthly residency at The Standard, London for four years, moving between the Library Lounge and the Sweeties rooftop. Each night Voices curates the talent for both rooms, holds the musical identity consistent from month to month, and manages artist liaison and delivery.
Scale
Monthly since July 2022, ongoing. More than 40 residency dates delivered.
Proof point
Now in its fourth year, making it the longest continuous music residency Voices holds.
Hotel residency02
The Standard, London
Four years of monthly residency across two very different rooms
King's Cross
Brief
Hold a recurring music programme for one of London's most music-literate hotels, across a ground floor lounge that runs from breakfast to 2am and a tenth floor rooftop bar that opens as a discotheque. Two rooms, two crowds, one identity, month after month.
Delivered
Voices has programmed a monthly residency at The Standard, London for four years, moving between the Library Lounge and the Sweeties rooftop. Each night Voices curates the talent for both rooms, holds the musical identity consistent from month to month, and manages artist liaison and delivery.
Scale
Monthly since July 2022, ongoing. More than 40 residency dates delivered.
Proof point
Now in its fourth year, making it the longest continuous music residency Voices holds.
Venue and cultural programme03Two Tribes Campfire
Four years of year-round programming, and a talent pipeline to go with it
Tileyard, King's CrossView detailsHide details
Brief
Develop Campfire as a music destination as well as a brewery and taproom, increasing drink and event sales, combining regular trading-night programming with larger headline events and cultural moments.
Delivered
As Campfire's retained promoter, Voices curates and promotes the ongoing music programme: regular DJ programming across Thursday, Friday and Saturday trading, artist and collective sourcing, headline-led day parties, guest takeovers, record fairs, showcases and the annual Voices birthday events. Voices also runs a DJ workshop programme for aspiring underrepresented artists that ends with participants playing their first live club set at Campfire.
Scale
The documented partnership runs from at least June 2022 to the present. Campfire's public venue information describes Voices DJs performing regularly on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings.
Venue and cultural programme03
Two Tribes Campfire
Four years of year-round programming, and a talent pipeline to go with it
Tileyard, King's Cross
Brief
Develop Campfire as a music destination as well as a brewery and taproom, increasing drink and event sales, combining regular trading-night programming with larger headline events and cultural moments.
Delivered
As Campfire's retained promoter, Voices curates and promotes the ongoing music programme: regular DJ programming across Thursday, Friday and Saturday trading, artist and collective sourcing, headline-led day parties, guest takeovers, record fairs, showcases and the annual Voices birthday events. Voices also runs a DJ workshop programme for aspiring underrepresented artists that ends with participants playing their first live club set at Campfire.
Scale
The documented partnership runs from at least June 2022 to the present. Campfire's public venue information describes Voices DJs performing regularly on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings.
Cultural programme04Tate Modern
A monthly live improvisation series inside a national museum
Tate CornerView detailsHide details
Brief
Programme a recurring, free-to-attend evening series for Tate Modern's Corner Bar that brings real London jazz credibility into a national institution and gives the space its own identity after hours, featured in Time Out London.
Delivered
Voices curates the artist roster and programmes the series in partnership with Tate, bringing together players from the London jazz scene for unrehearsed live improvisation, with vinyl DJ sets between performances.
Scale
Natural Jazz x Voices Radio runs monthly on first Fridays at Tate Modern's Corner Bar, free to attend.
Cultural programme04
Tate Modern
A monthly live improvisation series inside a national museum
Tate Corner
Brief
Programme a recurring, free-to-attend evening series for Tate Modern's Corner Bar that brings real London jazz credibility into a national institution and gives the space its own identity after hours, featured in Time Out London.
Delivered
Voices curates the artist roster and programmes the series in partnership with Tate, bringing together players from the London jazz scene for unrehearsed live improvisation, with vinyl DJ sets between performances.
Scale
Natural Jazz x Voices Radio runs monthly on first Fridays at Tate Modern's Corner Bar, free to attend.
Brand and retail programme05Dr. Martens
DJs for a flagship store's in-store programme
CamdenView detailsHide details
Brief
Provide music for in-store activations at Dr. Martens' Camden flagship and Oxford St stores, a retail space built around a permanent stage, where the music has to hold a crowd in a shop rather than a club.
Delivered
Voices supplies DJs for in-store events, sourcing and booking talent that suits the brand's heritage and the store's audience, as well as supplying full AV and production, and managing delivery on the day.
Scale
Ongoing, across the in-store events programme.
Brand and retail programme05
Dr. Martens
DJs for a flagship store's in-store programme
Camden
Brief
Provide music for in-store activations at Dr. Martens' Camden flagship and Oxford St stores, a retail space built around a permanent stage, where the music has to hold a crowd in a shop rather than a club.
Delivered
Voices supplies DJs for in-store events, sourcing and booking talent that suits the brand's heritage and the store's audience, as well as supplying full AV and production, and managing delivery on the day.
Scale
Ongoing, across the in-store events programme.
Brand activation06Aperol
Music programming for a three-week brand residency
Hackney WickView detailsHide details
Brief
Support Aperol Spritz's Aperidisco residency at Hackney Bridge: a three-week takeover combining DJ programming with supper clubs, masterclasses and BBQ weekends, needing a sound that carried a brand campaign without feeling like one.
Delivered
Voices programmed DJ talent across all three weeks of the residency, and ran DJ mixing masterclasses drawing on the station's existing education programme. This was the second year Voices collaborated on the activation, previously working on the same project at Battersea Power Station.
Scale
Aperidisco ran at Hackney Bridge from 13 to 29 June 2025, combining DJ programming, supper clubs with chef Robin Gill, masterclasses and BBQ days.
Proof point
Voices Radio is credited by Aperol in the campaign's public event programme.
Brand activation06
Aperol
Music programming for a three-week brand residency
Hackney Wick
Brief
Support Aperol Spritz's Aperidisco residency at Hackney Bridge: a three-week takeover combining DJ programming with supper clubs, masterclasses and BBQ weekends, needing a sound that carried a brand campaign without feeling like one.
Delivered
Voices programmed DJ talent across all three weeks of the residency, and ran DJ mixing masterclasses drawing on the station's existing education programme. This was the second year Voices collaborated on the activation, previously working on the same project at Battersea Power Station.
Scale
Aperidisco ran at Hackney Bridge from 13 to 29 June 2025, combining DJ programming, supper clubs with chef Robin Gill, masterclasses and BBQ days.
Proof point
Voices Radio is credited by Aperol in the campaign's public event programme.
Why Voices
Built inside a working music community.
A working radio station, not an agency database
Voices is a working radio station with a studio, a schedule and three hundred-plus resident DJs, presenters and guests through the door every month. This is where our insight comes from. We're in contact with DJs, broadcasters, musicians and producers continuously, so we know who's improving, who delivers on a difficult night, and who's about to be the next big thing.
We understand what a venue has to solve
Licensing, capacity, noise conditions, trading patterns and staffing all shape what a programme can be. We build around them rather than discovering them on the night.
Clients keep us around
Four years of monthly residency at The Standard. Four years programming Campfire. A second year retained at Hackney Bridge. We are judged on whether the programme still works in year three, not by the first party.
A talent pipeline of our own
Our workshop programmes have taken people from a first lesson to their first paid club and festival sets. That pipeline feeds the roster our clients book from.
One accountable point of contact
Every brief runs through one person, from first conversation to delivery on the night, rather than being split across a rotating team.
How it works
From first brief to delivery.
Clients get one accountable point of contact from curation through delivery, with clear programming decisions and consolidated communication.
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Brief
We look at the space, the audience, the trading pattern, the dates and the budget.
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Curate
We shape the musical direction and recommend the talent to deliver it.
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Confirm
We agree the programme, the commercial terms and what's needed to run it: production, licensing, staffing.
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Deliver
We manage artist communication and delivery, and we're contactable on the night.
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Refine
For recurring programmes, we review what worked and build the calendar around it.
Impact
Every booking pays someone.
Voices exists to get people paid for creative work. Our workshop programmes have taken people with no experience to their first paid club set, and our alumni have gone on to RINSE, NTS, KISS FM and Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra. Commercial programming is what funds it. Every calendar we run expands the paid work available across the community we come from.
Questions
Do you only work with venues?+
No. We work with brands, cultural institutions and developments as well as hospitality.
What size of space do you programme?+
Anywhere from a 150-capacity bar to a 2,000-capacity site. We regularly run several at once on the same site.
Can you take on a whole calendar?+
Yes, and that's most of what we do. We work with venues on an ongoing retained basis as well as on individual dates.
Do you handle production and licensing?+
We work alongside your operations team on what the programme needs, including production, sound, staffing and licensing conditions, so the calendar is deliverable rather than just designed.
Do you do one-off private events?+
Yes, though our strength is programmes that recur.
How quickly can you start?+
Single dates can move quickly. A managed calendar usually needs four to six weeks to build properly.
Tell us what you’re programming.
Tell us what you’re working with and we’ll come back with an approach.
Useful to include: the space and its capacity, the audience, the dates or frequency, the atmosphere you’re after, your budget range, and anything you need on production or content.
We reply to every brief within two working days.