Rooftop Assembly | Orchestral Folk & Grime + James Riley

On Sunday the 18th of June, we are very happy to welcome a project formed on a #Tottenham rooftop, and made up of #Grime poetry, old school songwriting, swooning strings & dubby, incessant beats.

@rooftopassembly

The Rooftop Sessions were a series grassroots rooftop concerts in Haringey during lockdown 20/21. Due to a cancelled album release tour, in April 2020 songwriter James Riley @jamesrileysongs began performing live-streamed rooftop gigs on his street in Tottenham to raise money for food banks. 

The shows became a weekly fixture during lockdown, attracting a socially-distanced audience of neighbours and locals & a large online following. The concerts were repeatedly covered by the BBC & other national media, garnered backing from Arts Council England, helped to raise £45K for food banks, inspired a large mural depicting the concerts by local artist Albert Agwa, & sparked numerous collaborations with local artists and organisations.   

In September 2020…