Fresh Thursday // Standard Issue & Ollie Hawker + Instruction Manual

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. You can click here to view our full refunds policy.

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Standard Issue & Ollie Hawker

Standard Issue is a London-based new music collective dedicated to creating inclusive spaces to hear, see, and take part in contemporary and experimental music.

In 2024, Standard Issue were the inaugural Ensemble in Residence at Sound and Music’s In the Making Programme, where they worked with young composers to help them develop their compositional voices and presented workshops on experimental performance practice. They have worked with groups such as Her Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, Muscarc Choir, Music We’d Like to Hear, and have been featured on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show.

Standard Issue are joined on this tour by Ollie Hawker, a Glasgow-based composer and musical saw player, to perform What I thought I knew to be true was not! But I still love it. a new piece commissioned for saw and ensemble by the Marchus Trust and Creative Scotland.

https://standardissue.uk/

https://www.olliehawker.com/

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Instruction Manual

Instruction Manual are an audiovisual trio based in Glasgow.

They play songs with a choir of robot voices that they've programmed, accompanying them on an eclectic mix of acoustic folk instruments - including clarsach (Scottish harp), concertina, and singing saw, as well as projected visuals of an idyllic digital island created in Unity, the video game design software. Their work explores digital nostalgia and combines folk traditions with post-internet culture.

Instagram: @instructionmanual.music

Bandcamp: instruction-manual.bandcamp.com

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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.