Fresh Thursday // Bethany Ley + Heen
Schedule
Thu Sep 26 2024 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Location
Cobalt Studios CIC | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN
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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.- --
Bethany Ley
Bethany Ley (Fka. STANLÆY) is an artist based in Bristol, known for their versatility as a producer, composer and vocalist. Their sonic world circulates intricate arrangements informed by Bethany’s eclectic musical background as both a classical instrumentalist, and an avid producer, creating “sublime twilight electronica” (Music is My Sanctuary).
Ley has performed frequently with Ishmael Ensemble (BBC6 Album of the Year), and featured with artists such as Snazzback, Waldo’s Gift, Alabaster DePlume. Live appearances as a solo artist and guest include Southbank Centre, Jazz Stroud, O2 Academy, The Jazz Cafe & Glastonbury Festival's West Holts.
Their long awaited Debut EP ‘Sundial’ was released with Lo Recordings on 24th May and has received support from BBC Bristol and BBC Radio 6. 'Sundial' is the most recent eruption of Ley's hypnotizing production skills where electronica meets classical, with the contrast creating a unique entanglement of modernity and tradition. Drawing influence from a combination of contemporary-pop production, field recordings and microtonal Indonesian Gamelan, Ley creates "a chimeric melding of worlds" - Psychic Garden.
Bethany Ley and visual artist Alfie Dwyer will be performing Sundial as a unique Audio-Visual live show for this tour. Alfie Dwyer is an artist and filmmaker that makes short & surreal animations influenced by lucid dreaming and explorations of space & time inside these worlds. He recently worked with Bethany Ley to create artwork for the ‘Sundial’ EP, and the animation for their single ‘Back to Body’. This animation was inspired by ideas surrounding reincarnation, and inter-dimensional perspectives that see humans across multiple interlinking life-lines.
Dwyer and Ley have combined forces to create live and hypnotic visuals that echo some of the themes of the EP & Ley’s musical performance. Dwyer uses his own unique live-video feedback technique that uses time as a paintbrush to create 3D objects that morph in and out of reality. Other recen collaborators of Dwyer include Aphex Twin, and Boiler Room.
https://www.bethanyley.com/
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Heen
Where traditional music meets contemporary production, Heen is a musical project paying homage to the lowland Scottish region of Dumfries & Galloway. Taking a collection of original tune compositions inspired by the people and places of D&G, Heen merges these melodies with granular textures and shuddering bass to produce a sound that interrogates the essence of traditional music.
https://www.instagram.com/heentrad
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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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Where is it happening?
Cobalt Studios CIC, Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
