Snapped Ankles + Mermaid Chunky & TaliaBle

Snapped Ankles at EartH

This event will take place in Earth Hall.

Baba Yaga's Hut presents:

Snapped Ankles + Mermaid Chunky & TaliaBle - massive winter solstice party at Earth Hall, December 17th

After nearly two years of hard times furious dancing and constant touring, Snapped Ankles will be returning to the forest for a well earned hibernation. Their final act of public ritual will be to observe the winter solstice of 2026. You are invited to join them in this most hallowed of traditions. Also attending the evening’s rituals will be our favourite masked and mischievous allies Mermaid Chunky and TaliaBle to form an evening that will invoke all that is fun and furious about the winter peak. Join the last pagans in town at Earth Hall in Hackney N16 on 17th December. Bring Your own winter mask or forest costume, optional but fully encouraged!! you never know it might still be a warm summer this winter anyway!

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Mermaid Chunky. It’s all in a name, sometimes. The danceable, costumed, curiosity rich duo of artists Freya Tate and Moina Moin are as imaginative as they profess. Or, to get more to the point, as we all need them to be.

Freya and Moina are two visual artists and musicians from Stroud and South London, places where they importantly found communities (Stroud’s SVA and the capital’s Total Refreshment Centre) of like minded people just as willing to chase down an idea to its possibly illogical conclusion. And it is in the collective and the idea of participation that Mermaid Chunky really clicks. This is a party, a collective dance, made all the better with more: people, ideas, layers, kick drums, recorders, saxophones, frogs.

To wit, the album’s first track and first single, “Céilí,” named after a traditional Scottish or Irish social gathering and dance, which builds from a simple recorder line into a swelling, warm burst of major chord dance music. Goosebumps or check your pulse.

Further down the rabbit hole, “Chaperone” is almost boardwalk electro, like Fischerspooner on