Fresh Thursday // Dirty Freud + Lou Barnell

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, the advertised start time is when our doors will open, generally music starts one hour after doors.

Please note we are unable to offer refunds. You can click here to view our full refunds policy.

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Dirty Freud are an electronic live & recording outfit met at an Open Mic in Gullivers, then moved into the electronic bassline scene, they found success since both moving back to the North of England. The music contains elements of live electronics wrapped in Jazz melodies. It is simply Dirty Cinematic Electronica.

Key support from Manchester Jazz Festival, Jazz North & The Electronic Live Scene

Over the years, they have played headline slots at UK festivals including Glastonbury, All Points East, Citadel, Boomtown, Beatherder, as well as at gigs across Europe. They have gained key support in his journey from Jon More of Coldcut and Ninja Tune, Rough Trade and Keep It Dirty Records.

"No Snappy quotes needed when the music is that good" Jon More (Coldcut & Ninja Tune)

"Dark and dirty from the depths of electro-dub comes Dirty Freud. With an infectious sound that'll get you moving." The Guardian

@dirtyfreud

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Lou Barnell is an award-winning vocalist, sound and performance artist, one of Sound and Music's New Voices 2022 Composers, and one of Manchester Jazz Festival's Hothouse Residents 2023. Winner of the 2021 Oram Awards, supported by The PRS Foundation and BBC Radiophonic Institute in recognition of innovation in sound and technology.

"My music communicates my synaesthetic experience of sound, hyperfocus and sensory overload as a neurodivergent woman. I create constellations of materials, wearable music technology, voice and movement.

Becoming a cyborg helps me wayfind, by containing, shaping and releasing my body and voice.

My current work is based on my research into 'Live Dreaming'.

This concept explores how musical performance and dreaming have the same functions - to help us know ourselves and find our way.

With 'Live Dreaming I create a squishy, visecral and immersive approach to performance that reconsiders my body as a mirror, reflecting and refracting parallel states of dreaming and performance.

I emulate the duality of the 'performance dream' in my work by creating scores and live performances with shapeshifting, re-useable materials such as ice, wax, silicone and thermoplastic. " - Lou Barnell

@loubarnell

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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.