Please note, the advertised start time is when our doors will open, generally music starts one hour after doors.
Fresh Thursday is a unique regular event that showcases new music alongside a home-cooked meal. For more information about how this event works please read the info at the bottom of this event carefully. Thank you. If you have a dietary requirement you can indicate it by selecting one of the free add-ons when purchasing your ticket.
Please note we are unable to offer refunds.
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Lo Vu
Formed from the vibrant scene offered by the city of Leeds, Lo Vu is the new project of guitarist and producer Ben Haskins. Featuring a collective of some of the best musicians from across the North, Lo Vu fosters close musical relationships and collaborations.
Following a career of touring with artists such as K.O.G, Jasmine Myra and Tetes De Pois, Haskins creates a fusion between the strong Jazz scene Leeds has boasted for so long now and the rich palate of British electronic music.
Featuring collaborations with some very close friends the forthcoming EP ‘Distill’ offers eclectic sound drawing influence from house, breakbeat, jazz and west african music.
After the release of “Without You” Feat. Slip Martin, Lo Vu has received playlist support from DJ’s across Europe and America. Following this, Lo Vu released “Maybe” Featuring long time collaborator K.O.G. Fusing electronic music with Afro Beat and High life, “Maybe” is a synthesis between the electronic musical background that informed Lo Vu and the rich culture K.O.G has always championed. The song received playlist support from DJs across europe as well as BBC introducing Track of the Week. It was also featured on BBC Orbit, a new forum for fresh releases.
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Alice Kim
Alice Kim might be carving her path in the world of alternative-indie and RnB, but her sound is universal: intimate, relatable and unapologetically human. If her music feels like it knows you, it’s because she’s singing straight from the heart.
Hailing from a small Midlands village, Kim’s early musical education came from her parents’ eclectic record collection, stacks of friends' burnt CDs, and endless hours with the family hi-fi system. When she moved to Leeds aged 18, Kim experimented writing on second-hand broken keyboards and cracked versions of Abelton. With her soulful vocals, Kim began to create a sound that was stripped back in it's production, but fully emotive in it's delivery.
Kim's Debut EP, PLAYER TWO, unveils her vulnerability, showcasing a certain maturity that comes with over a decade of understanding herself as an artist. Kim explores the uncertainty and milestones of being in your late 20s, with warm production and soulful emotionally charged songwriting that feels both fresh and familiar.
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More about FRESH Thursdays...
FRESH happens every Thursday during our open seasons. It is a platform to bring you fresh new music served up alongside a homecooked plant based meal, board games and candles. It can be hard to get people out to hear music that they don’t know yet & this is why we decided to offer dinner as an incentive to try something new, these gigs are cosy, communal nights and often you get to hear completely new music for the very first time. The music varies across multiple genres but it is usually fairly gentle listening type music & well suited to a relaxed Thursday night.
The gigs are seated and during the sets the audience is very music focused & quiet with time to chat in between the sets and at the end when we keep the bar open.
We cook the food from scratch usually and dinner is well suited to lover of vegetables and wholesome cooking, it's usually something like a dhal, veggie chilli, tacos, roast veg or similar, our base line is vegan sometimes with veggie options. We can cater for nut/gluten free meals, but nuts & gluten are used in the kitchen so if you have serious allergies please bear that in mind.
Doors at 7pm, we aim to get dinner ready by 8pm and will bring it to you when its ready… music usually starts around 8pm, sometimes later if it’s a busy night for food (we are a tiny team) and we aim to have the music finished by 10-10.15 pm. We can only guarantee dinner with advance tickets and these days we cap dinner at 60 meals and the food tickets do often sell out.
We hope/think it's obvious that quality music and dinner for £10 is all about culture & community and that these events cost us money… If you can afford to purchase a higher level ‘Cobalt supporters‘ ticket we appreciate the additional help towards costs very much.
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