Name: Fresh Thursday // Lovely Assistant + Yeavering Bells
Start: 2025-02-27T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-27T22:00:00+00:00
Location: Cobalt Studios CIC

$Fresh Thursday \/\/ Lovely Assistant + Yeavering Bells$

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.
The advertised start time is when our doors will open, generally music starts one hour after doors.
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Lovely Assistant
Lovely Assistant’s members hail from Newcastle, Northumberland, Leeds and London respectively. They were brought together as a genre-defying four-piece by the Newcastle music scene, meeting at gigs and venues in 2018 before deciding to explore College Rock, New Lounge and New Wave influenced by the torch-songs of the fifties through to J.J. Cale, Arthur Russell, Prefab Sprout and The Blue Nile.
After an acclaimed debut vinyl release, Greetings From The Pre-wave, Lovely Assistant retreated to a farmhouse in the midlands to write and record a follow-up with support from The Glasshouse. Through Generator, they were able to get three tracks Executive Produced by Thom Lewis (producer of both Sam Fender albums) and engineered at Blank studios. With funding from Help Musicians the album was mastered by J.J. Golden (Black Pumas, Cate LeBon, Soundgarden) in Ventura, CA. It’ll be released on February 28th 2025.
The night before release Cobalt is hosting the album launch and the first night of their spring tour.
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Yeavering Bells
Yeavering Bells are a 4-piece indie rock band from Newcastle.
Inspired by equal parts alt-country, fuzzy pop and hushed folk, the band are set to release their debut EP in 2025.
IG: @yeaveringbells
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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.