rise @ bluebird is our Acomb evening arts venue.
The space regularly plays host to live music, spoken word, art exhibitions, theatre, comedy, family- friendly nights and much more.
Rise aims to be a vibrant and independently-run creative hub, driven by love and support from the local community - and an ardent sense of adventure.
Pop down and check us out - we’re looking forward to you helping shape this place just as much as we do.
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What's on
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Mayshe Mayshe and Elsa Hewitt
Please Please You presents Mayshe Mayshe and Elsa Hewitt
Yorkshire based Mayshe-Mayshe blends dreamy art-pop and electronica with rich storytelling, skittering percussion and infectious melodies. Her unique brand of experimental electro-pop incorporates choral vocals and vintage synths, organic elements woven into all aspects of her music.
Mayshe-Mayshe’s live performance is a spellbinding live-looped performance of soft, spare rhythms and intimate vocal harmonies that build into deep oceans of sound. This October Mayshe-Mayshe returns for a handful of live shows to showcase a new collection of songs, inspired by the idiosyncratic world of Tove Jansson’s Moomin stories.
'A unique and inventive talent’ - Louder Than War
'Immaculately minimal DIY gems'
Narc Magazine
'A one-woman pop machine'
Under The Radar
'Yorkshire’s dreamy electro-pop alchemist'
Every Day Is A Rhythm
For fans of: Lorde, Grimes, The XX, Björk, Clairo, Imogen Heap, Young Marble Giants, Tune Yards, Let’s Eat Grandma, Yeule, Stealing Sheep
https://mayshe-mayshe.bandcamp.com/album/indigo
Elsa Hewitt is a multi-faceted artist, a self-taught songwriter, producer and composer who began her personal music-making journey c. 2003. Experimental, organic and mystical in approach, with soulful, captivating and surprising results. Combining various worlds and genres, electronic, modern classical, art pop, ambient, lo-fi, even folk, her style is versatile but distinctive and refined, and always evolving.
She builds her sounds from scratch, often using guitar, her first instrument, synthesisers, vocals, spontaneous recordings and found sounds, delicately weaving elements with a singular and poetic sensibility for songwriting. Since winning the Lynsey de Paul prize in 2016 she has released eight albums, working mainly independently but sometimes teaming up with record labels to put out LPs. Her new album Dominant Heartstrings is set to start appearing in autumn 2024…
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Groovetone + The Unknown Stuntman
We'll be welcoming the five piece powerhouse Groovetone + The Unknown Stuntman onto the bakery stage! They will be shaking the room with jazz, blues, latin, funk and ska tunes. So don your dancing shoes and come hit the floor.
- 26/10/2024
18:00:00
DJ Nights
Free (optional donation to charity)
Dusko!
Join us for Dusko — an early-nighter of house music through the decades in a chilled-out café setting. These nights will bring talented DJs to transport you right back to the old-skool clubbing scene - with classic uplifters, retro anthems and dirty beats. Pop down, grab a beer, catch up with mates and - when the music takes over - get yourselves on the dance floor. All with the promise of a full eight-hours of beauty sleep.* *any after-party activity is entirely at your own risk.
- 27/10/2024
15:00:00
Family Friendly Activities
Free
BYO Vinyl
Bag your 30 minutes of fame! Spin your tunes at our BYO Vinyl Sundays.
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Rise Up!
October RISE UP! - with Heidi Williamson, James Giddings & Wendy Allen
Wednesday 30 October - Bluebird Bakery, Acomb. Doors 7.30 - 8.30 start.
Heidi Williamson teaches and mentors poets worldwide for organisations including New Writing North, Scottish Book Trust, the National Centre for Writing, Writing Coach, Poetry Society, and The Poetry School. Previously a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of East Anglia, she was also Writer-in-Residence at the John Jarrold Printing Museum and at the Science Museum in London. Her first collection Electric Shadow was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize. The Print Museum won the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry. Return by Minor Road, focussing on her time living in Dunblane at the time of the Primary School shooting, featured in The Guardian and was a Poetry Society and Out-Spoken Press Book of the Year.
James Giddings was born in 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He now lives in Sheffield. His debut pamphlet Everything is Scripted won Templar Poetry's book and pamphlet award.
Wendy Allen's debut pamphlet, Plastic Tubed Little Bird, was published in 2023 by Broken Sleep and her pamphlet, Portrait in Mustard, is due for publication later this year by Seren. She is a PhD candidate at Manchester Met researching Barbara Hepworth's sculptural practice as a new poetic practice.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW £5/£10 via the website or QR code.
Open mic slots are available - email [email protected]
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Playing with Fear - with Lara McClure
Join reknowned and brilliant storyteller Lara McClure on Hallowe'en night for dark tales which play with the human instinct for attraction and repulsion - and allow yourself to be titillated by horror on the spookiest night of the year.
Seating is non-reserved - bar open from 7.30pm.
For over-16s only.
Doors at 7:30pm, stories from 8:30pm. - 01/11/2024
18:00:00
DJ Nights
Free
Resurrection - Indie Revival
Playing the best Indie tunes from the 80's & 90's.
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Wildflowers
Wildflowers marry stunning cello melodies with haunting vocals and beautifully lyrical songs. Join us for a night of intimate originals celebrating the release of their single Oklahoma.
- 03/11/2024
15:00:00
Family Friendly Activities
Free
BYO Vinyl
Bag your 30 minutes of fame! Spin your tunes at our BYO Vinyl Sundays.
- 08/11/2024
18:00:00
DJ Nights
Free
On My Way
Our Northern Soul residency with Michael Toy & Dan Guest (Brighton Beach). Expect Northern soul classics along with some upbeat Motown to get you moving. Don't forget your talcum powder!
- 09/11/2024
18:00:00
DJ Nights
Free
Into The Groove
An eighties vinyl extravaganza!
- 10/11/2024
15:00:00
Family Friendly Activities
Free
BYO Vinyl
Bag your 30 minutes of fame! Spin your tunes at our BYO Vinyl Sundays.
- 15/11/2024
18:00:00
DJ Nights
Free
Uptown Funk
Uptown Funk - (Acomb’s uptown isn’t it?!) - our funky monthly residency. Expect funk and soul classics along with some great new tunes and edits.
- 17/11/2024
15:00:00
Family Friendly Activities
Free
BYO Vinyl
Bag your 30 minutes of fame! Spin your tunes at our BYO Vinyl Sundays.
- 24/11/2024
15:00:00
Family Friendly Activities
BYO Vinyl
Bag your 30 minutes of fame! Spin your tunes at our BYO Vinyl Sundays.
- 29/11/2024
19:00:00
DJ Nights
£6.00
Last Disco on Earth
Ed Heaton and Mat Lazenby present the greatest songs to dance to from all genres and eras. Dancing shoes required.
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Edwina Hayes live @ rise
One of the finest female singer/songwriters this country has produced in years. Edwina brings together English folk, Americana and the rich Northern singer/songwriter tradition to create a sound that’s truly her own.
Highly accomplished she’s toured with such notable performers as Jools Holland, Van Morrison, Nanci Griffith and Loudon Wainwright III to name just a few.
Edwina numbers Michael Parkinson and Mike Harding among her fans and the title track of her album Pour Me A Drink was covered by Nanci Griffith who calls her 'the sweetest voice in England'.
Her cover of the Randy Newman song Feels Like Home was featured in the Cameron Diaz film My Sister's Keeper and has since had over twenty million plays on Spotify and over fifty million plays on You Tube.
Edwina's 4th album Ruby Rose was released in 2022.
'The sweetest voice in England. A wonderful young woman, so gifted and full of song.' Nanci Griffith
'Haunting, honeyed, solo songwriter.' The Guardian More events coming soon!