Tickets £10.00 – £16.00 Cobalt Studios

Spafford Campbell are twenty-something mould-breakers, fiddle player Owen Spafford and guitarist Louis Campbell.

The two first met as teenagers playing traditional music. The connection, they say, was immediate. The duo Spafford Campbell began playing live in 2018, prompting double takes with their delicacy, dynamism and seemingly telepathic exchanges, with the startling intimacy of musical conversations nurtured in improv-led writing sessions.

Their latest album Tomorrow Held is a visionary body of eight largely instrumental tracks that hold space, resolve into mystery, that fold in elements of jazz, post-rock and chamber classical music while raiding the folk music toolbox. Call it what you want: post-folk. Trad-noir. Folk nihilism. Then know that Spafford Campbell are blazing a trail that erases genre — and finds gold in the embers.

While redolent of Talk Talk’s moody, experimental 1988 opus Spirit of Eden, and riven with a Bon Iver-ish sense of transcendence, Tomorrow Held is a work of bold singularity. A whole greater than the sum of its parts — parts that include effects pedals, ambient cassette loops, flashes of electric guitar, electronic processing on fiddle and impressionistic accompaniment.

“Mingling traditional tunes with influences from minimalism, post-rock and jazz, they shift moods exquisitely” The Guardian — 10 best folk albums of 2025

“England’s finest and most innovative instrumental duo.” ★★★★★ Songlines — Top of the World

Watersmeet is Anna Hughes and Jessie Howard. Partners in life and in music, they came together in 2022, to share slow-burning, heartfelt songs with lofty melodies. Interweaving guitar arrangements meet spacious harmonium drones creating a dreamlike yet grounded sound carried by close-knit harmonies. Their music explores ideas of rest and restlessness, nature and wildness, guiding listeners into a space of reflection and reverie.

“Their style is where light meets dark, gripping, thoughtful and packed with poignancy.” – Shakk (BBC Introducing North East)

Getting Here

On-street parking spaces are available to the front of the building and on surrounding streets, free after 6.30pm on weekdays and all day on weekends.

By public transport:

The nearest Metro station is Manors (Yellow line), around 10 min walk away.

The closest bus stops are:

• Warwick Street-Stadium (services 1, 32, 32A), 4 min walk away

• New Bridge Street-Blackfriars (services 12, 22, 39, 40, 301), 5 min walk away

• New Bridge Street-St Dominics (services 22, 62, 63, 91, 301), 5 min walk away

Where possible we encourage people to walk or cycle to the venue.

Accessibility

We are here to welcome and care for everybody who enters this space.

If there is anything you need, please let us know on arrival.

There is step-free level access from the street and throughout the venue, with exception of three shallow steps up to the stage and steps up to the mezzanine.

Toilet facilities are gender-neutral, three cubicles in one room and two solo cubicles that exit directly into the corridor. There is one accessible toilet available. There is one toilet with changing facilities.

Many events are seated. When the main room is not seated, there is peripheral seating and you may request a chair from any member of staff.

Club nights and some livelier gigs will use sterile, safe, non-toxic, non-irritating water-based haze and we may use intermittent lazers and strobe lighting.

For detailed access information and to request a PA ticket, please see our Accessibility page.

Food

Our neighbours at Ernest Cafe offer you a 10% discount on food with your ticket for this event. (We would recommend booking in advance). Occasionally there is food available on Friday nights once we have fed the artists, feel free to enquire at the bar.

Refunds

Cobalt is a tiny team, due to the administration time required and the fact that we can’t always sell on last minute ticket returns we are unable to offer refunds or transfers unless it is an extreme circumstance.

Timings

Doors open at 7pm, music starts from around 7.30pm, curfew is 10pm.

Age Restrictions
14+ can be admitted with an adult. For quieter gigs sleeping babes in arms are welcome. Any other ages please check with us.

Tickets

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