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I OH YOU, MG Live and Frontier Touring are thrilled to announce British musician and poet, Hak Baker debut Australian shows for January 2025. ​ ​

The East London troubadour subverting British folk will play a special Victorian headline show at Howler, Melbourne on Thursday 23 January. ​

Frontier Member presale commences Thursday 31 October from 10am AEDT before tickets go on sale Monday 4 November from 10am AEDT. Tickets via frontiertouring.com/hakbaker 

Baker will also play a special Sydney Festival show at ACO On The Pier (The Thirsty Mile), Walsh Bay Arts Precinct on Friday 24 January. Tickets and information via sydneyfestival.org.au 

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Raised in East London’s Isle of Dogs, Hak Baker has swiftly earned iconoclastic status. In his 2017 debut EP, Misfits, Baker evolved out of the grime scene with a genre-scuffing sound he calls “G-folk” – working-class stories of resilience with a Cockney drawl. ​

On his breakout 2023 album, Worlds End FM, Baker presented his most complete statement yet in the style of a pirate broadcast on the edge of the apocalypse, from the light-on-its-feet protest song ‘Windrush Baby’ to the urgent and propulsive ‘Telephones 4 Eyes’, which is readymade for his riotous live shows. 

Baker has just released his 10-track Nostalgia Death EP (out now via AWAL, here). Nostalgia Death Act II is for “The broken lads, the girls and the boys chasing the night, the people who feel like fire, the ones who look back, and struggle moving forward,” says Hak Baker, the East End poet, musician and orator. Community is at the heart of everything Hak Baker does, and last month he released his sublime record that encapsulates the good, the bad and the ugly, in himself and in others. ​ 

On this 10-track-odyssey, produced by Craigie Dodds (Amy Winehouse, Nitin Sawhney, Gorillaz), the Nostalgia Death EP features raw-nerve-ending songs from ‘Blender’ with Joe James and ‘Nameless’, to high-octane madness-esque tracks from ‘No Control’ to ‘Boys & Girls’, ending with none other than a collaboration with friend Peter Doherty on the man’s lament ‘Prometheus’. “I am fire” proclaims Hak, and we believe him. 

“Hak Baker subverts what a British folk singer can be.”  – Vice

“World’s End FM successfully introduces Hak Baker as a 21stCentury troubadour speaking to modern problems with empathy and requisite anger”.  – NME 

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More about HAK BAKER 

Hak Baker’s story begins on the Isle of Dogs where his working class community became his muse and inspired an unconventional, rebellious career that has seen the East End troubadour become one of the most respected and reverent British artists of his generation. Hak’s tales of inner city London life climb a spectrum between youthful nihilism and male vulnerability, to understanding that within the personal lives the political, as Hak paints a picture of a country in turmoil through his poetic lyricism. With fans spanning culture and genre, from Celeste to Mike Skinner, Fontaines DC to Skepta, Slowthai to Pete Doherty to Joy Crookes and Reuben Dangoor, Hak’s fanbase identify as “MisFits”, like-minded individuals who question the status quo and celebrate Hak’s anti-genre, “G-Folk” sound. Over the past few years Hak has become one of the most prominent black artists in the alternative music scene, with Vice stating “Baker subverts what a British folk singer can be”. Culturally sitting as comfortably beside the likes of Madness, The Specials and Benjamin Zephaniah, as he does The Streets, Kano, Akala and Greentea Peng, Hak’s repertoire truly transcends genre, with his raw, unfiltered and authentic voice at the core of everything he does. And now, Hak Baker’s forthcoming progression as an artist, an extraordinary creative leap tailor-made for an era of social inequity, internet addiction and post-pandemic disillusionment, arrives shaped by his belief that (figuratively, at least) only societal collapse can pave the way for a better, brighter tomorrow. 

The result of this urge is the fittingly revolutionary World’s End FM: a debut album of staggering scope, ambition and scuffed melodic gorgeousness that introduces the wider world to Baker’s singular, mercurial folk-poetry in the manner of a molotov cocktail being ‘introduced’ to a window. Its premise alone is hard to resist. Building on the street-level stories and bruised geezer confessionals of his output since 2017’s career-launching Misfits EP, World’s End FM takes the form of a pirate radio broadcast from the edge of armageddon. Executive produced by Hak and Karma Kid and compiled from two years of prolific sessions with in-demand producers including Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey, Shrink and Misfits producer Ali Bla Bla, the record crackles as the genre dial is twiddled from rip-snorting post-punk to lilting roots reggae. A rolling cast of friends and family (including Connie Constance and Allan Mustafah aka Kurupt FM’s MC Grindah) drop by for phone-in skits; and there, at the centre of it all, is Baker – a one-man Greek chorus and cackling conduit, leading the listener through this unsettling, exhilarating, and unexpectedly life-affirming apocalyptic fantasia. Hak Baker’s debut broadcasts a message of unity, protest and collective power loud and clear, while also announcing him as a vital, inimitable voice for those often denied one. Rip it up and start again. The end of the world has never sounded so bold, so imaginative, or so thrillingly full of the glorious, chaotic wonder of life. 

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HAK BAKER 
​AUSTRALIAN TOUR 
​JANUARY 2025

​Presented by I OH YOU, MG Live & Frontier Touring 

FRONTIER MEMBER PRESALE  
​via frontiertouring.com/hakbaker 
​Runs 24 hours from: Thursday 31 October (10am AEDT) ​ 
​or until presale allocation exhausted

​TICKETS ON SALE 
​Begins: Monday 4 November (10am AEDT) 

Thursday 23 January 
​Howler | Melbourne, VIC  
​18+ ​ 
​moshtix.com.au 

*Also playing 
Friday 24 January – Sydney Festival, ACO On The Pier
(The Thirsty Mile), Walsh Bay Arts Precinct.
Tickets and information via sydneyfestival.org.au 
*Not a Frontier Touring show 

Patrons are advised to purchase tickets only through authorised ticket sellers.  

We cannot guarantee any ticket purchase made through any means other than the official ticketing agents listed on the Frontier website. 

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Follow HAK BAKER: ​ 
Website – Facebook – Instagram – X
TikTok – YouTube – Spotify – Apple Music  

frontiertouring.com/hakbaker – facebook.com/frontiertouring
​instagram.com/frontiertouring –x.com/frontiertouring 

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AMNPLIFY – DB