Events at the Launderette …
Great Gigs at a Unique Venue
Launderette Session gigs are on sale at WeGotTickets, including many not listed on this page.
Tickets are also available directly from Old Cinema Launderette without a booking fee.
Doors usually open at 7pm. Support (if arranged) starts around 7.50pm. Headliner around 8.30pm. For full details click "buy tickets".
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Harry Pearson – The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Thursday 25th April 2019 — Buy Tickets
Flanders is a land where cycling is not an obsession but a neuroses. In The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman, award-winning sportswriter, Harry Pearson takes us on a journey across the Flemish countryside, through the lumpy horizontal rain, up the elbow-juddering cobbled inclines, past the fans dressed as chickens and the shop window displays of constipation medicines, as he follows bike races big, small and even smaller through one glorious, muddy spring to try and uncover just why a region of six million people produces almost twice as many pro cyclists as France or Italy.
Grace Petrie with Joe Solo (Support) Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 26th April 2019 — Buy Tickets
MrWishyWashy Presents
THIS GIG IS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT
Frankie Stubbs (Leatherface) Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 3rd May 2019 — Buy Tickets
Frankie Stubbs is the leader of legendary Sunderland punk band Leatherface. Here he will be performing an acoustic and intimate set of his best songs
The Little Unsaid Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Tuesday 7th May 2019 — Buy Tickets
A live show that’s been described as “a thumping depth of passion, recalling the intensity and melancholic overtones of Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen.”Signed to Reveal Records (home of Lau, Eddi Reader, Kris Drever, Joan As Police Woman)‘Extraordinary music. This is an amazing act’ –Bob Harris,BBC Radio 2Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening/K Records) Special Guest Pea Sea Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 10th May 2019 — Buy Tickets
Calvin Johnson established K Records in 1982 and founded Dub Narcotic Studio in 1993. He has performed with groups such as Beat Happening, The Go Team, Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic Sounds System, and The Hive Dwellers. He tours as a solo artist, and also performs as Selector Dub Narcotic.
James Yorkston Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Saturday 11th May 2019 — Buy Tickets
“The finest songwriter of his generation” John PeelCarla J. Easton + Artmagic (featuring Richard Oakes from Suede) Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 17th May 2019 — Buy Tickets
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Darden Smith & Boo Hewerdine Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Tuesday 28th May 2019 — Buy Tickets
Boo Hewerdine and Darden Smith met thirty years ago. Introduced by a publisher they wrote songs together for four days in London. The results secured them a record deal with Ensign Records. A short while later they found themselves in Austin, Texas recording the album 'Evidence'. It received rave reviews and featured in the Rolling Stone 500 greatest albums book.Both Darden and Boo have continuing successful solo careers but 'Evidence' remains a favourite. Last year they played a couple of shows in Scotland and England and were amazed and delighted to play to sell out audiences who knew every word.To celebrate this magical collaboration, that has resulted in a life-long friendship, Darden and Boo will be playing a handful of shows in the UK.Chance McCoy (Old Crow Medicine Show) Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Sunday 9th June 2019 — Buy Tickets
Chance McCoy is a Grammy winning Indie Folk musician from West Virginia. After receiving a grant to study with old master musicians from the Appalachian Mountains, he went on to win the Fiddle, Banjo and Dulcimer championships in his home state. His studies and deep love for the traditional ways of the mountaineer soon landed him in an unintentional situation though, abject poverty. In 2012 Chance was living in a run down cabin when a cold call from Old Crow Medicine Show landed him an invite to join the legendary Americana band of ‘Wagon Wheel’ fame. His first album with Old Crow, where he debuted his talents as song writer, singer and instrumentalist, earned the band a Grammy for best folk album
Les ‘Fruitbat’ Carter Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 21st June 2019 — Buy Tickets
Les ‘Fruitbat’ Carter is one half of Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine and the guitarist for Ferocious Dog. He is also the man who rugby tackled Phillip Schofield on live TV
Steve Ignorant's Slice of Life Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 5th July 2019 — Buy Tickets
Steve Ignorant is a singer/songwriter and artist. He co-founded the anarcho-punk band Crass with Penny Rimbaud in 1977. After Crass stopped performing in 1984, he worked with other groups including Conflict, Schwartzeneggar, Stratford Mercenaries, Current 93, and US punk band Thought Crime, as well as occasional solo performances.
Shonen Knife Venue *Cluny 2 - Newcastle*
Saturday 20th July 2019 — Buy Tickets
Hapless Museum Worker & Launderette Sessions present
Shonen Knife is a Japanese pop punk band formed in Osaka, in 1981. Heavily influenced by 1960s girl groups, pop bands, The Beach Boys, and early punk rock bands, such as the Ramones, the trio crafts stripped-down songs with simplistic lyrics sung both in Japanese and English
Baskery Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 2nd August 2019 — Buy Tickets
*Rearranged date. All tickets remain valid for this new date*Baskery is a Swedish alternative americana folk rock band, comprising the three sisters Greta, Stella and Sunniva Bondesson.
Mama's Broke Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Saturday 3rd August 2019 — Buy Tickets
Jumpin' Hot Club Present
Mama’s Broke is a powerful folk duo that deliver a compelling performance with heart and raw energy. Although highly influenced by their Canadian roots, Lisa and Amy are based out of nowhere and everywhere.
Emma Pollock (Delgados/Chemikal Underground) Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Saturday 24th August 2019 — Buy Tickets
Emma Pollock is a founding member of Glasgow indie rock band The Delgados and their influential record label, Chemikal Underground
The Lake Poets Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Wednesday 4th September 2019 — Buy Tickets
Sunderland lad Martin Longstaff 'The Lake Poets' plays rare gig in an intimate venue to coincide with Bands FC exhibition.
Sam Carter Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 6th September 2019 — Buy Tickets
‘Sam Carter is a brilliant guitarist and songwriter who combines the observational withsocial comment and personal reflection’ ⭑⭑⭑⭑ SonglinesIndia Electric Co Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Sunday 8th September 2019 — Buy Tickets
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Phil 'Swill' Odgers (The Men They Couldn't Hang) Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 13th September 2019 — Buy Tickets
Phil ‘Swill’ Odgers is one half of the legendary joint vocal strike force of UK folk rebel rockers The Men They Couldn’t Hang.Audiences around the world from Cairo to Reykjavik, Brisbane to Vancouver and Berlin to London have submitted to his effervescent and heartfelt vocal style in stadium, theatre, hall and after hours lock ins.Belinda O'Hooley Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Thursday 19th September 2019 — Buy Tickets
Belinda O’Hooley is an exceptionally gifted pianist, singer, songwriter and composer. She is half of four time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Best Duo nominees O’Hooley & Tidow alongside her wife Heidi Tidow; together described by The Guardian as ‘exceptional songwriters.’ Their song ‘Gentleman Jack’ features as the closing theme song for BBC/HBO drama series Gentleman Jack. Belinda is also known for her inventive, minimalist, sometimes flamboyant accompanying of folk luminaries including Rufus Wainwright, Nic Jones, Jackie Oates and the Mercury nominated; Rachel Unthank and The Winterset.Michael Chapman venue - old cinema launderette
Saturday 21st September 2019 — Buy Tickets
"this is the sound of a real songwriter who's lived a real life and all that entails" Q Magazine
Julie Felix Venue - Old cinema Launderette
Saturday 28th September 2019 — Buy Tickets
In 1966 Felix became the resident singer on the BBC television programme The Frost Report. She hosted her own shows for the BBC from 1968 to 1970, including the series Once More With Felix. Among those featured on her show were The Kinks, Fleetwood Mac, Leonard Cohen and Led Zeppelin's lead guitarist, Jimmy Page, who played the "White Summer" and "Black Mountain Side" guitar solo pieces. She performed at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1969
Rachel Sermanni Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Saturday 19th October 2019 — Buy Tickets
Rachel Sermanni returns with her third studio album, So It Turns. A collection of reflective songs, many inspired by a sojourn at a Buddhist monastery in the borders of Scotland. So It Turns was recorded in Berlin in 2016 and now, finally, it is being released and celebrated with a solo UK and European tour. Come to a show filled with stories of one woman’s experience of what it is to be human. Explorations of desire; the joys and disappointments. Of the mundane and the mystical and their inevitable entwinements.
The Slocan Ramblers Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Thursday 31st October 2019 — Buy Tickets
“Contemporary bluegrass at its very best....their new album, Queen City Jubilee, could be the one that propels them to the forefront of the acoustic roots scene.” - Songlines magazineMik Artistik's EgoTrip Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Saturday 9th November 2019 — http://www.wegottickets.com/event/467386
Who is Mik Artistik?“The best live act I’ve seen all summer” so said BBC 6Music presenter & music aficionado Gideon Coe, Mik Artistik has performed at the last 11 Glastonbury's, and is already confirmed for 2019 where, as always, he’ll perform multiple shows over a variety of stages,Iggy Pop played crowd-favourite ‘Plastic Fox’ recently on his 6Music show calling the song a “stone cold classic”Mik, Jonny, & Sam, will make your day ~ sing along, dance around, laugh out loud, there is no other show like it, and if you’ve never seen one of Mik’s show before, all I can say is to expect the unexpected!The band are a Yorkshire treasure, and never fail to get an audience singing, laughing, gasping!, but most of all, enjoying themselves... it will be joyous!CATFISH KEITH Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 22nd November 2019 — Buy Tickets
World-touring acoustic blues pioneer Catfish Keith has established himself
as one of the most exciting country blues performers of our time.
Catfish's innovative style of foot-stomping, deep delta blues and American
roots music has spellbound audiences the world over.Keith James. The Songs of Leonard Cohen Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 29th November 2019 — Buy Tickets
Included in the concert are Cohen’s well known songs: Famous Blue Raincoat, Sisters of Mercy, Suzanne and Hallelujah alongside his rarer and profound writing such as Who by Fire, Joan of Arc and Secret Life.Martin Stephenson (3 night residency) Venue - Old Cinema launderette
Thursday 5th March 2020 — Buy Tickets
Martin's gigs at the launderette are a thing of legend. He just gets better and better.
Tickets always sell out for these intimate shows. Get them early.
Martin Stephenson Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 6th March 2020 — Buy Tickets
Martin's gigs at the launderette are a thing of legend. He just gets better and better.
Tickets always sell out for these intimate shows. Get them early.
Martin Stephenson (3 night residency) Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Saturday 7th March 2020 — Buy Tickets
Martin's gigs at the launderette are a thing of legend. He just gets better and better.
Tickets always sell out for these intimate shows. Get them early.
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