Fresh Thursday // Adrián de Alfonso + BARTHOLOMEW

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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Adrián de Alfonso

Born in La Coruña, raised in Barcelona and based in Berlin since 2011, Adrián de Alfonso leads a journey that has never ceased to morph between sonic experimentation and song.

In addition to releasing music via Crammed Discs, Takoroku, Young Turks, Canada, Isolated Now Waves, Audition, Spread the Disease and Ozonokids, Adrián de Alfonso has been a long time member of Carla Bozulich's live units, played in projects like Don The Tiger, Bèstia Ferida, Veracruz, Homenatges and Capitán, and has worked in various contexts (music, film, installation, radio, performance, dance, poetry, theatre) with artists such as Lucrecia Dalt, Valerio Tricoli, Lydia Lunch, Aksak Maboul, Regina de Miguel, Francesco Cavaliere, Josephine Foster, Victor Herrero, GY! BE, Siri Salminen, Mike Majkowski, Lorena Álvarez, Robert Forster, Arnau Sala, El Guincho, Alex Reynolds, Theo Livesey, Camille Mandoki, Eduard Escoffet, Paloma Polo, Rubén Patiño, Krapoola, Nuno Marques Pinto, Olivier Arson, Rocío Guzmán, Andi Stecher, Sergi Faustino, Sam Ashley or Macromassa.

De Alfonso’s work has been commissioned by institutions such as Deutschlandfunk Kultur, MACBA or the Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation and has appeared in media such as The Wire, HBO or Red Bull Music Academy Radio, Cashmere Radio or Radio Alhara.

De Alfonso has also performed at festivals/venues such as Cafe Oto, Le Guess Who?, KM28, Meakusma, Standards, CTM, Morphine Raum, South By Southwest, Cave12, Brelfest, hOtelier, Seanaps, Alice, Les Ateliers Claus, CentroCentro, Primavera Sound or Sonar.

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"bolero, MPB, baroque fantasy, flamenco or Fania Records mixed with musique concrète and video game music" - The Wire

"delightfully seasick musical journey" - Tiny Mix Tapes

"Tom Waits at his weirdest" - Pop Matters

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BARTHOLOMEW

Organic electronics blending instrumental sounds and granular textures with soaring melodies and raw beats.

Bartholomew (or Chris to his friends) makes experimental electronic music with a cinematic tinge – you might file him alongside Hannah Peel, Tim Hecker or Ben Frost. Bartholomew’s live shows combine radical re-interpretations of his music with sonic exploration and improvisation – in one moment he might be sampling a frying pan into melody or looping the sounds of the magnetic waves surrounding him, before deftly integrating them into a live remix of one of his tracks.

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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.