Fresh Thursday // Matters Unknown + Wingbeats

Name: Fresh Thursday // Matters Unknown + Wingbeats
Start: 2025-01-30T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-30T22:00:00+00:00
Location: Cobalt Studios CIC

Schedule

Thu Jan 30 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Cobalt Studios CIC | 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.
The advertised start time is when our doors will open, generally music starts one hour after doors.
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MATTERS UNKNOWN
Project and propel the tradition, here lies the intersection between heritage and experience. Free the mind to find divine inspiration.
‘Celestial blues, wrapped in contemporary global grooves’ is how Jonathan Enser -multi-instrumentalist, composer and brass contributor for UK afro-jazz merchants Nubiyan Twist - defines his new project MATTERS UNKNOWN.
Raised in rural England, Enser’s fascination with music started at a very early age and, at 9 years old, his ears were captivated by the trumpet - its timbre guiding him towards a lifelong immersion in brass. In his mid-teens - after years of solo exploration - he began to strike out in search of live jam sessions and musical community. Since those early days he has worked as a session musician, mentor and live performer studying with Neil Yates (BBC Big Band, The Brand New Heavies, Supergrass, Lighthouse Family) at Salford University and Leeds College of music, graduating with an honours degree in Jazz performance in 2013.
His strength comes from open minded relentless curiosity, always seeking to understand and honour tradition and roots as well as to pass down the baton as a mentor. He has played with all manner of groups and performed globally reaching as far as New Orleans and Cuba in search of musical knowledge.
Whilst contributing to Nubiyan Twist as a writer and performer he has been blessed to collaborate with music royalty Mulatu Astatke, Pat Thomas, Tony Allen and Soweto Kinch.
With MATTERS UNKNOWN, Enser fuses deeply spiritual and soulful inspiration with undercurrents that carry grooves from the roots of the Blues to West Coast trap, all evoked through African diasporic influence. The music is uncrowded and languid, finding urgency without restlessness.
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Wingbeats
Wingbeats, led by bassist and producer Luke Elgie, is a Nu-Jazz project blending intricate rhythms and layered textures. Drawing influence from artists like Jaga Jazzist, The Comet Is Coming, and Moses Yoofee Trio, Wingbeats creates dynamic, beat-driven instrumental jazz.
IG: @wingbeatsmusic
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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.