Hokum Jukebox

Some kind of hip-hop, jazz, funk and folk from East London.

Hokum Jukebox banjo player at a pub gig
Live · Yard Sale
15Jun '26
The Sebright Arms
Bethnal Green · London · 8pm
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The four members of Hokum Jukebox at a London pub

Four friends, one beat-up banjo, a whole lot of holler.

Hokum Jukebox is a four-piece outfit dragging the dirty old sounds of 1920s hokum, ragtime and jug-band blues into the back gardens and beer-soaked benches of present-day London.

We met where all the best bands meet — outside a pub, halfway through a pint, arguing about whether a kazoo counts as a real instrument. It does. The answer is yes.

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