Fresh Thursday // Gemma Bass with John Pope & Chris Bartholomew

Name: Fresh Thursday // Gemma Bass with John Pope & Chris Bartholomew
Start: 2024-05-30T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-30T22:30:00+01:00
Location: 10 Boyd Street,Shieldfield,NE2 1AP,GB

Schedule

Thu May 30 2024 at 07:00 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

10 Boyd Street,Shieldfield,NE2 1AP,GB | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN

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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Gemma Bass, John Pope & Chris Bartholomew play: Missing Pieces (Part 3)
Born out of curiosity and an interest in performer-led music-making, Missing Pieces is a collection of 5 compositions, created by Gemma Bass , which intentionally have bits missing. Key elements of the music are left to chance or choice and put into the hands of whoever is performing them.
Parts 1-4 of this project open up these pieces for infinite involvement and interpretation, from deep intimacy and vulnerability to chaos and anarchy, the performances will be as individual as the people involved in them.
Part 3 (Them)
In part 3, Gemma works with local improvisers, many of whom she hasn’t met before the gig. They all have access to the scores, prepare their ideas in secret, then chuck them together on stage and see what happens. Alongside Gemma, this performance features John Pope and Chris Bartholomew. Gemma and John will explore the Missing Pieces scores as well as some improvised interludes. Meanwhile, Chris will take their sounds and create live, electronic manipulations. A spontaneous, personal and experimental one-off.
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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.