The Purple Room - Evening of music & the spoken word with The Silver Reserve & Vanessa Napolitano

NEW for Autumn: we can take card payments for admission (£7) & bar. Doors open at 7.30pm.

MUSIC: Matthew Sturgess, who performs as ‘The Silver Reserve’, plays delicate, sparse music on a classical guitar, crafting intricate melodies around thoughtful and evocative lyrics. At times creating dense, layered atmospherics, this is music that doesn’t rush and takes its sweet, sad time to unfurl and sneak under the skin.

SPOKEN WORD: Vanessa Napolitano is a Yorkshire-based poet who loves to make ordinary moments into poems. She has published three pamphlets, including 'Various Magics' with Black Cat Poetry Press, and 'Birds & Bruises' with Kelsay Books. You can find her work in several anthologies and in journals such as Stanchion, Humana Obscura, and Ink, Sweat and Tears. Her next chapbook will be published by Stanchion press in May, 2026.

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