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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Amelia Coburn Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 28th December 2018 — Buy Tickets
MrWishyWashy Presents
A hidden gem and a have to see artist emerging from the North East music scene.
"Absolute genius" - Tom Robinson - BBC 6 Music
"She's wonderful - Jaqcui Abbott, Beautiful South
Marty O'Reilly Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 11th January 2019 — Buy Tickets
Just when you think American roots music should be relegated to the dusty confines of a purist’s museum it will surprise you with a paradigm shift. Take Marty O’Reilly — passing through tradition,Marty stumbled upon innovation, proving that old souls can be creatively fresh.
Eugene Kelly Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Saturday 19th January 2019 — Buy Tickets
Eugene Kelly is one half of the hugely influential indie-punk band The Vaselines, who Kurt Cobain described as “My favourite songwriters in the whole world”. He also fronted the band Captain America, later renamed Eugenius for legal reasons. Eugene Kelly continues to perform with The Vaselines as well as performing solo.
Daniel Knox Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 25th January 2019 — Buy Tickets
On Chasescene, Jarvis Cocker lends his trademark vocals to ‘Capitol’ backed by a ghostly musical saw, meandering saxophone and rusty strings. Elsewhere, Knox steps back, giving way to Nina Nastasia’s effortlessly affecting vocals on ‘The Poisoner’, a swelling ballad taken from Knox’s original score for Chris Hefner’s film of the same name and given new life. Not to mention the players on the album who include the late Ralph Carney (Tom Waits), David Coulter, Jason Toth (The Handsome Family) and more.
Caroline Spence Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Saturday 26th January 2019 — Buy Tickets
"...evoking the country quiver of Emmylou Harris circa Pieces of the Sky with her own unique, breathy breaks."ROLLING STONE
Gerry O'Connor & Martin Matthews support the Jig Doctors venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Wednesday 30th January 2019 — Buy Tickets
Gerry O’Connor has long been marked out as one of the great fiddle players of his generation. A winner of numerous All Ireland titles, he has been rightly noted for his rich, fluid, lyrical fiddle playing.
Multi instrumentalist Martin Matthews again accompanies Gerry on this UK tour.Rod Clements(Lindisfarne) & Ian Thompson Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 1st February 2019 — Buy Tickets
Rod Clements is the only remaining founder member in the current line-up of the legendary North East of England band Lindisfarne. Ian Thomson has been the bass player and backing vocalist of Lindisfarne since 1995.
Carson McHone Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Sunday 3rd February 2019 — Buy Tickets
Years before Rolling Stone was praising Carson McHone's rule-breaking roots music, the Austin, Texas native played weeknights in local bars like The White Horse, keeping dancers dancing and drinkers drinking. With her 21st birthday still in the distance, McHone entertained late-night crowds bearing witness to the good times and bad decisions that fill a busy bar. It was a rare, raw education. She pumped her music full of details from an early adulthood spent in the company of the heartbroken and high-toleranced. In 2015, McHone released Goodluck Man which earned her a cover story in The Austin Chronicle as well as the support of local icons like Ray Wylie Hubbard, who said she "writes songs like her life depends on it." Then she hit the road, touring the U.S. (and beyond) with acts like Shakey Graves, Gary Clark, Jr., and Joe Pug. Her writing style widened and her music evolved.
Martin Stephenson (2 night residency) with guest Annie Dressner Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 15th February 2019 — Buy Tickets
MrWishyWashy Presents
MARTIN STEPHENSON has been one of the UK’s best-loved musicians for over 30 years.
Always popular on the circuit, Stephenson’s “must see” live performances are an exuberant tour-de-force combining heart-in-your-mouth intimacy with playful humour and warm self-deprecation.
The Daintees’ critically acclaimed 1986 debut BOAT TO BOLIVIA opened up an always interesting story. It showcased Stephenson’s songwriting, poetic romanticism and spiritual depth – so marking him out as a soulful cream of the leftfield crop during the self-obsessed 1980s.
Martin Stephenson (2 night residency) with guest Annie Dressner Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Saturday 16th February 2019 — Buy Tickets
MrWishyWashy Presents
MARTIN STEPHENSON has been one of the UK’s best-loved musicians for over 30 years.
Always popular on the circuit, Stephenson’s “must see” live performances are an exuberant tour-de-force combining heart-in-your-mouth intimacy with playful humour and warm self-deprecation.
The Daintees’ critically acclaimed 1986 debut BOAT TO BOLIVIA opened up an always interesting story. It showcased Stephenson’s songwriting, poetic romanticism and spiritual depth – so marking him out as a soulful cream of the leftfield crop during the self-obsessed 1980s.
Laura Gibson Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 1st March 2019 — Buy Tickets
Laura Gibson's new record, Goners, was released October 26th on Barsuk Records (US) and City Slang Records (EU/UK).
Acoustic Weller Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 8th March 2019 — Buy Tickets
Performing the songs of The Jam, The Style Council and Paul Weller
The Songs of Nick Drake - An Evening with Keith James Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Saturday 30th March 2019 — Buy Tickets
A number of years have now passed since Singer/Guitarist Keith James paralysed the whole Country with his stunningly beautiful series of concerts entitled The Songs of Nick Drake
Martin Carthy Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Thursday 4th April 2019 — Buy Tickets
Martin Carthy MBE is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon and later artists such as Richard Thompson since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk reviv
Beccy Owen Venue - old cinema launderette
Saturday 6th April 2019 — Buy Tickets
Beccy Owen is a singer/songwriter based in the North of England who has released five solo albums (and a sixth is due for release in early 2019.)
Johnny Dowd venue - old cinema launderette
Wednesday 10th April 2019 — Buy Tickets
“Reverence be damned. . . . Twinkle, Twinkle finds the prolific miscreant sifting through some of the keystones of American blues, folk, and jazz and giving them a radical makeover. . . . few manage to recycle existing musical forms quite like him.”— Rob Hughes, Uncut (Americana album of the month, February 2018)
Liela Moss (Duke Spirit) Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Sunday 14th April 2019 — Buy Tickets
Released via Bella Union on 9th November, My Name Is Safe in Your Mouth more than lives up to Moss’s promise of fresh, bold adventure. Sonically spare yet sumptuous in its emotions, elemental power and expansive melodies, My Name Is Safe in Your Mouth is a richly felt, vividly-realised trip into the interior from the Duke Spirit singer.
Grace Petrie with Joe Solo (Support) Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Friday 26th April 2019 — Buy Tickets
MrWishyWashy Presents
Grace Petrie is a folk singer, songwriter, and activist from Leicester, UK. She first exploded on to the national protest scene in 2010 with the emotive anthem Farewell to Welfare, which captured perfectly the spirit of the new wave of dissent in austerity Britain. Her unique takes on life, love and politics, and the warmth and wit with which they are delivered have won over audiences everywhere, and she has quietly become one of the most respected and prolific songwriters working in the UK today.
James Yorkston Venue - Old Cinema Launderette
Saturday 11th May 2019 — Buy Tickets
“The finest songwriter of his generation” John PeelMichael 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
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