A memorable evening of music celebrating York’s community spirit whilst fundraising for The Snappy Trust and York Food Bank.

For our next session we have invited one of the hottest new reggae / dub producers in the UK: LEWIS BENNETT – along with his brand new rig: BURNING BUG SOUND SYSTEM on its very first outing!
Two sounds in the dance, meeting in peace. Selectors and operators in rotation all night long, playing deep roots, reggae and dub.

Ideal Living are barrelling up from Brighton to bring their unique brand of post-spook-knitwear-art-rock to York on the 10th of November.

After a year of performing worldwide, award-winning comedian Aurie Styla is back on tour, with his biggest one to date. Join him as he talks about this wild world, and his journey to make sense of it, in The Aurator!

Rising stars of the Irish music scene, Adore are a 3-piece garage punk band hailing from Galway, Donegal and Dublin. Their music combines themes from surf, disco and pop which blends with their punk sensibilities, firmly grounded by crunchy guitar and a powerful drum and bass combo.

With over 15 million streams and sold out shows across five continents, Talisk have amassed a global following whilst redefining the folk genre. Mohsen Amini (concertina), Benedict Morris (violin) and Charlie Galloway (guitar) push musical boundaries whilst testing a trio’s live production capabilities. There’s captivating a crowd, then there’s Talisk.

Dreadzone have been releasing albums and progressively bettering, refining and perfecting their own unique and inimitable take on dub since their inception in 1993. Nine is the ninth official studio album, due for release in October.
Nine welcomes the next phase of Dread with nine songs about redemption and division, love and loss and journeys inside, and around the earth. The album treads into new territories but still connects with the ambience of early Dreadzone albums.

The current Tom Robinson Band will play a 23 date tour in October/November 2024 showcasing those first two albums, in tribute to the original band members. The setlist has been chosen by fans via an online poll, and will include some album tracks from the era that have never previously been performed live. Alongside Robinson on bass, the band features Faithless drummer Andy Treacey, guitarist Adam Phillips from the Richard Ashcroft Band, keyboard virtuoso Jim Simmons and Northern soul singer Lee Forsyth Griffiths on acoustic guitar.

Cult legend and all-round hero with songs to sing and stories to tell. The enthusiastic performer is promising a unique evening of stories about his travels and songs from his huge sixteen album back catalogue.

A treat for us as we’re able to bring classically trained Orkney singer-songwriter Erland Cooper to York for the first time for a super intimate show at The National Centre For Early Music.