page_title: Dalston
section_title: Cultural references
hierarchical_section_title: Dalston / Cultural references
caption_attribution_description: English: St Mark, Dalston, London E8 - InteriorThis is a photo of listed building number 1265134.
context_page_description: Dalston is an area of East London, in the London Borough of Hackney. It is 4 miles north-east of Charing Cross. Dalston began as a hamlet on either side of Dalston Lane, and as the area urbanised the term also came to apply to surrounding areas including Kingsland and Shacklewell, all three of which being part of the Ancient Parish of Hackney.
  Gentrification has led to a rapid increase in the price of property, with current prices 8% above the London average. The process of change was accelerated by the East London line extension, now part of London Overground, and the reopening of Dalston Junction railway station, part of London's successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics.
context_section_description: The 2007 film Run Fat Boy Run (directed by David Schwimmer) was filmed in Dalston (St. Mark's Conservation Area). Dennis (Simon Pegg) stays in a flat on Sandringham Road across the road from St. Mark's Church.
  The second and third series of popular television show The Mighty Boosh takes place in Dalston.
  Dalston Songs is a staged song cycle with seven singers created and composed by Helen Chadwick and choreographed by Steven Hoggett. It was based on interviews with people in East London about home and was performed in 2008 at the Royal Opera House.
  Dalston is the second of 12 placenames associated with London mentioned in an overdubbed choral series on the Lily Allen song "LDN": "Angel, Dalston, Stockwell, Clapton, Soho, Ladbroke Grove...".
  Britney Spears recorded the pop video for the song Criminal in Dalston in September 2011.
  British indie rock band Razorlight recorded a song called "Don't go back to Dalston", featured on their debut album Up All Night.
  Connan Mockasin's song "Forever Dolphin Love" mentions Dalston.
  Dalston was featured in an episode of the 1990s Channel 4 comedy series Drop the Dead Donkey, in which the reconstruction of a fictitious post office robbery is staged, in a 'Crime Watch' type parody.
caption: Interior of St. Mark's Church in Dalston, featured in 2007 film Run Fat Boy Run.
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