Thievery Corporation brought their live band and their mix of dub, bossa nova and downtempo to the Roundhouse Main Space.
Thievery Corporation, the duo who helped bring downtempo music to a wider audience in the late 1990s, played the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm on Thursday 30 July 2026. They brought their live band to the Main Space.
Rob Garza and Eric Hilton formed the act in summer 1995 at the Eighteenth Street Lounge in Washington, which Hilton co-owned. In 1996 they started their own label and released their debut album, Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi.
The Mirror Conspiracy followed in 2000 and The Richest Man in Babylon in 2002. The Cosmic Game, in 2004, had guest vocals from Perry Farrell, David Byrne and Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips.
The duo kept the do-it-yourself approach of the 1990s punk scene in their home city, and still release through their own label, ESL. Their records mix dub, bossa nova, acid jazz, reggae and hip-hop with Brazilian and Indian music.
The Roundhouse show set that range of influences in layered live instrumentation, with atmospheric visuals across the round room.