UPCOMING EVENTS
Cooper and Toller
Join us at The Mill for a Friday night dinner with live music from Cooper & Toller!
Vicky Cooper and Richard Toller play traditional English folk songs. They sing solo and in harmony, unaccompanied and accompanied on fiddle, mandolin and guitar. Expect fine musicianship and songs of love and betrayal, sailors and poachers, the natural and supernatural - with some rousing choruses.
"A must listen," Songlines. “Delightful voices… beautifully sung," RnR
We’ll be serving up a delicious pay-as-you-can Friday night dinner, 6-8pm. All are welcome and there’s no need to book. See you there x
Mansfield Smith
Join us on Friday 8th May for dinner with live music from the wonderful Mansfield-Smith!
Mansfield Smith are an acoustic and electric roots music duo playing covers and original songs. They are comprised of Guy, playing acoustic and electric guitars, singing covers and his self penned songs, with Cathy playing both double bass and electric bass.
Our amazing chefs will be serving up a delicious pay-as-you-can dinner, 6-8pm, made with love and packed with seasonal flavours.
There is no need to book, just turn up! We’ll have space at the table ready for you.
Josh Brown
We’re delighted to welcome back Josh Brown to The Mill on Friday 15th May!
Josh is a singer and acoustic performer originally from Birmingham and now based in Stroud. His sets are built around well known songs done with a natural, easy style, covering artists from Chris Stapleton and The Dubliners to Sam Cooke. Simple, honest vocals and familiar melodies for a relaxed, feel good vibe.
Our chefs will be serving up a delicious pay-as-you-can dinner, 6-8pm, made with love and packed with seasonal flavours.
There’s no need to book, all welcome.
Steve Ferbrache
Join us and our resident musician Steve Ferbrache for a delicious Friday night Summer BBQ.
Steve is one of the regions most popular and in-demand solo acoustic performers and when he’s not touring the UK & Europe with his band he Achievers, he likes nothing more than joining us at The Long Table. Steve delivers feel-good sets of laid back classics, album deep cuts and forgotten gems by some of the greatest artists of all time.
18:00-20:00 Kitchen - live music - bar ‘til 21:00
Steve Ferbrache
Join us and our resident musician Steve Ferbrache for a delicious Friday night Summer BBQ.
Steve is one of the regions most popular and in-demand solo acoustic performers and when he’s not touring the UK & Europe with his band he Achievers, he likes nothing more than joining us at The Long Table. Steve delivers feel-good sets of laid back classics, album deep cuts and forgotten gems by some of the greatest artists of all time.
18:00-20:00 Kitchen - live music - bar ‘til 21:00
Chalford Community Choir & Orchestra
Join us for on Friday 12th June for an evening of good food and incredible live music from an inclusive community choir and orchestra based in Chalford!
Dinner will be served 6-8pm, pay-as-you-can as always, with the music starting at 7pm.
All welcome, no need to book!
Tummyache + Philippe Nash + Takeda
A near-solstice triple bill on Thursday 18th June that will bleach your insides out and leave you happier for it. With a shared DIY ethos and making ‘from the fringe, for the fringe’ these three acts will deliver an historic night of collective power in The Sanctuary.
Tummyache
Tummyache is the art-rock/post-hardcore project of Soren Bryce, built on raw emotion, sharp lyricism and an experimental approach to alternative rock. With a sound that blends jagged guitars and vulnerable storytelling, Tummyache occupies the edge between chaos and clarity - a space where personal turmoil becomes catharsis.
Philippe Nash
Philippe Nash’s mysterious evasion of wider acclaim lives like a hidden note under the bridge of his eight string guitar. If you know, you know. Accompanied by cellist Simon Bower and strung up like the host of heartbroken songwriters he knowingly evokes (Kurt Cobain, Elliot Smith, Damien Rice) his ability to wield emotional atmospheres is as disarming as it is captivating.
Takeda
This Norwich based four-piece fuse the melodic and emotional sensibility of folk with the noise and fuzzed guitar tones of grunge. “Takeda’s music is joyously original” - Clash
Timings:
17:00-19:00: Kitchen open- pay-as-you-can as always - Bar ‘til 22:00
19:30: Tummyache, Philippe Nash + Takeda - Live in The Sanctuary
This is an intimate gig with limited spaces. Please book your tickets via the link below-
Mini Makers Market
We’re back celebrating our young creators – showcasing artists, makers and crafters aged 16 and under.
The Long Table will be open as usual for excellent coffee, cake and a nourishing pay-as-you-can lunch.
To book a table please contact nancy@thelongtableonline.com
Let’s support and encourage our next generation of makers and entrepreneurs.
Join us 11:00–13:00 in The Sanctuary at Brimscombe Mill.
Come along and support our young artisans and craftspeople from 11:00-13:00 @ Brimscombe Mill.
Natalie Holmes
Join us on Friday 26th June for a delicious pay-as-you-can dinner with live music from local singer-songwriter Natalie Holmes!
Known for her uplifting alt-pop, Natalie is a songwriter whose music inspires listeners to question and embrace the challenges of life with a hopeful curiosity. Since sharing her first home-recorded songs on YouTube in 2010, she’s released two full length albums that showcase her raw, poetic lyricism, honey-toned and characterful vocals with a sound that’s both comforting and expansive.
“Such a gem of an artist” - BBC Introducing, The West
Our pay as you can dinner will be served at 6pm-8pm, made with love and full of mouthwatering seasonal flavours.
See you there?
The Caw Presents: The Space Between Us
On Saturday 27th June at 8pm, we’re delighted to welcome the wonderful Caw to The Sanctuary, with their new show The Space Between Us!
The Caw is a Stroud-based vocal collective uniting internationally acclaimed performers with local singers. Founded by a core group of female composers, the ensemble creates and performs original works rooted in collaboration and experimentation.
Following their 2025 Neo-Ancients performance, The Caw is back with an exciting new songbook exploring The Space Between Us. Expect soaring harmonies, rich textures and music that resonates beyond the final notes.
Timings for the evening:
6-8pm: Our pay as you can dinner will be available 6-8pm, made with love and packed with delicious, seasonal flavours.
7.30pm: Doors open
8pm: The Caw will perform in The Sanctuary
This is an intimate gig with limited spaces. Please click the link below to book your tickets.
Steve Ferbrache
Join us and our resident musician Steve Ferbrache for a delicious Friday night Summer BBQ.
Steve is one of the regions most popular and in-demand solo acoustic performers and when he’s not touring the UK & Europe with his band he Achievers, he likes nothing more than joining us at The Long Table. Steve delivers feel-good sets of laid back classics, album deep cuts and forgotten gems by some of the greatest artists of all time.
18:00-20:00 Kitchen - live music - bar ‘til 21:00
Still Point: Festival Of Ambient Music
On Saturday 4th July, we’ll be in The Sanctuary, soaking in the ambience..
Still Point is a day-long festival celebrating experimental and immersive sound. The programme features ambient music performances, talks, films, field recording sessions, DJ sets, Q&As and more, with a host of exciting ambient artists and industry professionals. Come and soak up the atmosphere, talk to artists and ambient music labels and eat some fantastic food made with love from The Long Table kitchen.
Developed from a smaller event called the Ambient Label Hub which was part of the Woodbridge Ambient Music Festival last summer, Still Point brings together some of the UK’s most respected labels and artists who will be performing and answering questions about their work whether it’s releasing, collaborations or working with film and visual artists. A perfect opportunity to gain an insight into this industry or just listen to some beautiful and experimental music.
Adrian Lane | Andrew Heath (Driftworks) | Bowing | Ian Hawgood (Home Normal) | The Inventors of Aircraft | James Osland (Elm Records) | Mosaicist (Evergreen Music) | Phonsonic | Rachel Musson | restinj | rhubiqs | Simon McCorry | Slow Clinic | Harry Towell (Whitelabrecs) and more to be announced.
Sanctum | The Sleeves
Join us on Friday 10th July for a night of sonic explorations!
The Sleeves are the duo of Jack Cooper and Tara Cunningham, both likely known to you as one half of Modern Nature. Following an all-instrumental Mossy Tapes release last November, Cooper and Cunningham have recorded 10 new songs showcasing their vocal and guitar interplay with only the faintest echoes of prior efforts (individually or collectively), representing a fully realized leap forward from their largely improvised debut.
'The Sleeves' is a somewhat counter intuitive take on the guitar/vocal duo formula (provided you think there is such a thing) though it's not nearly as simplistic as "the space between the notes" -- it would be the height of exaggeration to say an album this simultaneously expansive and incandescent is unprecedented. But it doesn't happen nearly often enough, either.
Timings:
6-8pm- A pay-as-you-can dinner will be available from The Long Table kitchen
7:30pm- Doors open
8pm- Sanctum in The Sanctuary
Mesadorm + Mara Simpson
After four years of quiet recalibration, the critically acclaimed alt-rock quintet Mesadorm have returned with the announcement that their much-anticipated third album, Comfort and Lies is set for release in June 2026.
To mark this occasion, the band will be performing across the UK this summer and we’re delighted to welcome them to The Long Table Sanctuary on Friday 17th July!
Difficult to confine to a single genre, Mesadorm exist in the spaces between art rock and dream pop. A collaborative project between five lifelong friends - Blythe Pepino, Daisy Palmer, Jo Silverston and David Johnston- their long-shared history shaped by friendship, love, rupture and reunion gives the band an intuitive chemistry, unfolding live as performances that feel both grounded and transportive.
Their debut album Heterogaster (2018) was a striking introduction that received widespread acclaim (“some of the most interesting music this year” - The Guardian) including being named ‘Album of the Year’ by BBC Introducing in the West and featured in The Guardian’s Best Contemporary Albums of the Year.
Support for this show comes from Mara Simpson
Timings:
18:00-20:00: Kitchen open- pay-as-you-can as always - Bar ‘til 22:00
20:15 - Mara Simpson
21:00 - Mesadorm
This is an intimate gig with limited spaces. Click the link below to book your tickets.
Unicorn Ship Explosion
Unicorn Ship Explosion - two musicians riding the rhinoceros of improvised failure and searching for magical moments behind the sofa. You can’t always win and that’s life. Roberto Pennypincher and Sash! Oblong are naive and failing. The musical journey is without a plan b. Kaleidoscopes of sound with rhythmical nonsense.
In their debut album, There's A Rhinoceros In The Mega Church (released by Stroud’s very own Sound Records) Unicorn Ship Explosion pull post-rock apart and rebuild it with odd structures, abrupt turns and an experimental streak that keeps the album unpredictable from start to finish.
A rare opportunity to see the elusive duo live - you don’t want to miss this!
Caraway
On Friday 4th September we’re very excited to experience the folk-jazz-electronica of Bristol based collective Caraway!
Caraway’s sound is a soul-stirring blend of poetic lyrics with rich soundscapes, foley samples, intricate rhythms, double bass grooves and sultry horn lines. Sometimes stripped bare, sometimes hard-hitting, their songs tell stories of today’s world – from conversations with strangers to body memory, freight ships and NHS waiting lists.
Led by Polly Meyrick on vocals, saxophone and clarinet, Caraway’s line-up blends electronic and organic sounds, resonating with artists like Bonobo, Submotion Orchestra, This Is The Kit, Ezra Collective and Portico Quartet.
Mini Makers Market
We’re back celebrating our young creators – showcasing artists, makers and crafters aged 16 and under.
The Long Table will be open as usual for excellent coffee, cake and a nourishing pay-as-you-can lunch.
To book a table please contact nancy@thelongtableonline.com
Let’s support and encourage our next generation of makers and entrepreneurs.
Join us 11:00–13:00 in The Sanctuary at Brimscombe Mill.
Come along and support our young artisans and craftspeople from 11:00-13:00 @ Brimscombe Mill.
Seamus Fogarty
We’re thrilled to welcome London based, alt-folk alchemist Seamus Fogarty to The Long Table on Thursday 22nd October!
The Irish born, London based singer-songwriter released his debut full-length ‘God Damn You Mountain’ on cult Scottish label Fence Records (King Creosote, Jon Hopkins) in 2012. This was swiftly followed by two critically acclaimed albums on Domino Records – 2017’s The Curious Hand (“magical amplified folk journeys through modern life” ★★★★★ – The Guardian) and 2020’s A Bag Of Eyes (“a gloriously trippy journey” – The Sunday Times) as well as an EP, Hee Haw on Lost Map Records in 2023.
His latest album, Ships is packed with poignant and funny slice-of-life vignettes touching on everything from Geoffrey Chaucer to DIY coffins, and existing in a sonic realm where songs and stories coexist peacefully with fragmentary electronics, drones and field recordings. It’s his most expansive and uplifting collection of music to date and has received wide support across BBC6Music, from the likes of Cillian Murphy ('one of my favourite artists around at the moment') as well as from Uncut (8/10), Analogue Trash, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Scotland, BBC Ulster, BBC Wales, Radio X, RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2FM and more.
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“JUST BRILLIANT” – CILLIAN MURPHY, BBC 6 MUSIC
“MAGICAL JOURNEYS THROUGH FABLE AND MODERN LIFE AND BACK AGAIN, OFTEN IN THE SAME SONG’ ★★★★★ – THE GUARDIAN
“BY TURNS GRITTY AND POETIC… A REAL ORIGINAL” ★★★★ – THE OBSERVER
“NESTLES BEAUTIFULLY AT THE POINT WHERE THE DIGITAL AND ANALOGUE WORLDS COLLIDE” ★★★★★ – THE SKINNY
“ORIGINAL, SELF-CONTAINED AND UNENCUMBERED BY THE GENRE” ★★★★ – MOJO
“THE GHOSTLY EMOTIONAL WALLOP OF THE TUNES WILL TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY” – IRISH TIMES
This is going to be a really special evening and we can’t wait. Book your space at the link below and we’ll see you there!
Mini Makers Market
We’re back celebrating our young creators – showcasing artists, makers and crafters aged 16 and under.
The Long Table will be open as usual for excellent coffee, cake and a nourishing pay-as-you-can lunch.
To book a table please contact nancy@thelongtableonline.com
Let’s support and encourage our next generation of makers and entrepreneurs.
Join us 11:00–13:00 in The Sanctuary at Brimscombe Mill.
Come along and support our young artisans and craftspeople from 11:00-13:00 @ Brimscombe Mill.
Mini Makers Market
We’re back celebrating our young creators – showcasing artists, makers and crafters aged 16 and under.
The Long Table will be open as usual for excellent coffee, cake and a nourishing pay-as-you-can lunch.
To book a table please contact nancy@thelongtableonline.com
Let’s support and encourage our next generation of makers and entrepreneurs.
Join us 11:00–13:00 in The Sanctuary at Brimscombe Mill.
Come along and support our young artisans and craftspeople from 11:00-13:00 @ Brimscombe Mill.
Ordinary Folk
Join us on Friday 24th April for a delicious pay-as-you-can dinner with live music from Ordinary Folk who will be playing a wonderful mix of contemporary and traditional Irish, American and Scottish folk tunes!
Our pay as you can dinner will be served at 6pm-7.30pm, made with love and full of delicious seasonal flavours. There is no need to book and everyone is welcome.
We can’t wait to see you there!
Live Percussion Night
Join us for an evening’s celebration of rhythm!
Starting with a delicious pay-as-you can meal from The Long Table kitchen, we’ll then get our groove on with a free African djembe drum workshop followed by two incredible performances from local groups Simbora and Gantigan
It’s going to be lively, loud and joyful and we can’t wait to see you there!
Timings:
🍽️ 18:00-20:00- Pay-as-you-can dinner lovingly served up by our kitchen. Bar open ‘till late.
🥁 19:30- Free African djembe drum workshop with Gantigan
🎶 20:30- Brazillian Samba with Simbora and Samba dancers
🥁 21:30- African djembe with Gantigan
All welcome.
Open DJ Workshop
Drop by The Sanctuary on Saturday 18th April and have a go on the decks with our free DJ workshop with Stuart Day - 10am-2pm!
Using CDJs, a laptop and a digital vinyl system. you’ll get hands on and learn the basics of mixing music. It’s designed with young people in mind- but open to all ages and abilities.
Whether you’re a curious beginner or just want to have some fun trying something new, come and get stuck in.
No booking needed- just turn up!
Be Inspired Book Club: around the fire
Be Inspired Book Club
An evening around the campfire with Tom Herbert and Will James
To kick off the evening Tom will be cooking up a feast on the campfire from his book Wild Baking, which will be followed by an evening of book club conversation and discussion. The book at the heart of this conversation is Frédéric Laloux’s Reinventing Organisations, a quietly radical books that has a way of changing how you see almost everything.
Tickets for this evening are £35 and limited to 12 places.
Goldfinches
Join us on Friday 17th April for dinner with live music from the incredible Goldfinches!
Our amazing chefs will be serving up a delicious pay-as-you-can dinner, 6-8pm, made with love and packed with seasonal flavours.
Goldfinches is a rousing four-piece Bristol-based Indie-folk group, playing soulful and melodic original songs by ex-Blue Aeroplane Shaun McCrindle. They released their debut album 'Shanti Time' in April 2025. In its review, Louder Than War magazine noted "McCrindle has the gift of the singer-songwriter with songs and tunes that are insistently catchy and memorable".
The band's sound - which features vocals, guitars, bouzouki, fiddle, and double bass - was described on the Priston Festival website as "the missing link between Jonathan Richman and The Waterboys".
There is no need to book and all are welcome.
The Long Table Team x
Just the two of us
Joe & Co. are back with a fantastic mix of classic covers. Don’t forget to request something!
Event Timings
6-8pm Kitchen / live music
All welcome, free entry.
Kids Kitchen: Decorate an easter Biscuit
Join us at The Mill this Easter holiday for some fun, hands-on sessions for children!
Thursday 9th April, 10:30–12: Decorate an Easter Biscuit. Get creative with icing, sprinkles and Easter decorations to design your very own delicious biscuit.
✨No need to book
✨Pay-As-You Can
✨First come first served
Sanctum | Alice Brookes, Manon McCoy and Emmy Lambert + Âellin
Join us on Saturday 4th April for a night of sonic explorations!
We’re excited to welcome sound artist and electronic musician Manon McCoy and vocalist and composer Alice Brookes to Sanctum. Together they work on immersive performance art using the voice, electronics, found sounds and objects. Their performance draw from research into alternative performance practices as a way of exploring the relationship between self and space. They create vast improvisations for voice and objects using live signal processing as an extended instrument. With DIY values at the core of this project, the due have self built a rig for their performances, combined instrument of electronics and objects, which constantly evolves with their work. The duo released their debut album April 2025 with Elektramusic Berlin in April 2025.
They are joined by sound engineer and composer Emmy Lambert for this site-responsive installation, exploring the acoustics of the space through live spatialisation during the performance.
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Weaving together the acoustic instrumentation of a folk upbringing, synthetic granular textures and captured sound; Âellin forges new auditory worlds that embrace nonlinearity and experimentalism through narrative song and bold improvisation. The project evokes themes of collective memory, dream states, and the unconscious realm. Built around a dynamic four-piece lineup, Âellin’s sonic environment traverses genres with a deeply textural sensibility. Expect an intricate blend of fingerstyle and jazz guitar, cello and violin strings grounded in the UK/Celtic folk and Hardanger traditions, double bass, deep sub-bass, beat-driven percussion, and an ever-shifting tapestry of augmented vocals and granular synthesis.
‘Âellin is becoming a force to be reckoned with in the UK experimental folk scene' - James Threlfall, BBC Introducing
7.30pm- Doors and Bar open
Sanctum will start at 8pm in the Sanctuary
Kids Kitchen: Make A Chocolate Cornflake Easter Basket
Join us at The Mill this Easter holiday for some fun, hands-on sessions for children!
Tuesday 31st March, 10:30-12 - Make a Chocolate Cornflake Easter Basket. Little chefs will mix, shape and fill their own chocolate cornflake nests to take home — a perfect Easter treat.
✨No need to book
✨Pay-As-You Can
✨First come first served
Some Voices Choir
We’re excited to welcome the incredible Some Voices Choir to The Mill on the 27th March!
Some Voices is a contemporary non-audition choir who sing banging pop songs. From Raye to Chappell Roan, Back Street Boys to Madonna, expect five part harmonies, mash ups, dancing and joy, in equal measure.
Our dinner will be served 6-8pm, filled with seasonal deliciousness and pay-as-you-can as always.
Some Voices Choir will perform at 8pm.
There is no need to book, all are welcome!
Josh Brown
Join us on Friday 20th March for dinner with live music from the incredible Josh Brown!
Josh is a singer and acoustic performer originally from Birmingham and now based in Stroud. His sets are built around well known songs done with a natural, easy style, covering artists from Chris Stapleton and The Dubliners to Sam Cooke. Simple, honest vocals and familiar melodies for a relaxed, feel good vibe.
Our amazing chefs will be serving up a delicious pay-as-you-can dinner, 6-8pm, made with love and packed with seasonal flavours.
There is no need to book and all are welcome.
See you there?
Sanctum | Lili Holland-Fricke + The Leaflets
Join us for a night of sonic explorations on Friday 6th March.
Lili Holland-Fricke is an experimental cellist and songwriter whose work explores the outer edges of her instrument, weaving introspective, dreamlike fragments into gently unsettling sonic worlds. She released her debut album ‘dear alien’ - a collaborative project with producer Sean Rogan - with Melodic Records last November.
‘…an unexpected take on the meeting of improvised sound and avant-songwriting, buzzing with a quiet energy that both shields the listener from and submerges them in a distinctively contemporary discomfort ‘- The Quietus
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The Leaflets - Nobody knows the true identity of the secretive 'Leaf’ whose leaflets remain shrouded in mystery and myth. What is known is that their music is terrifying and captivating in equal measure’ a pressure cooker mix of guitar, industrial acoustic beats, heady samples, and something a whole lot stranger.
18:00-20:00: Kitchen open - pay-as-you-can as always. Bar open ‘til 22:00
20:00: Sanctum live in The Sanctuary
The Burway
Join us for a night of amazing live music and delicious food.
Our pay as you can dinner will be served from 6pm, with a menu full of flavour, generosity, and community spirit.
The Burway - A Stroud-based band weaving together vaguely folk-adjacent original compositions with four-part harmonies. They blend acoustic textures with synth and electronic elements for a sound that’s both grounded and atmospheric.
Come as you are. Eat well. Pay as you can. Stay for the music.
Food & Music 18:00-20:00
Mini Makers Market
We’re back celebrating our young creators – showcasing artists, makers and crafters aged 16 and under.
The Long Table will be open as usual for excellent coffee, cake and a nourishing pay-as-you-can lunch.
To book a table please contact nancy@thelongtableonline.com
Let’s support and encourage our next generation of makers and entrepreneurs.
Join us 11:00–13:00 in The Sanctuary at Brimscombe Mill.
Come along and support our young artisans and craftspeople from 11:00-13:00 @ Brimscombe Mill.
Department Presents: House Music Fundraiser For silver lining Brain Injury Charity
Note: This event is now a free event, and will be held in The Cloisters at 8pm.
Department Presents comes to The Long Table on Friday 20th February for a night of classic, funky and tech house brought to you by four incredible local DJs!
This event is raising funds for The Silver Lining Brain Injury Charity. All ages are welcome, making it a relaxed, family-friendly evening that brings people together through music, dance and community.
Timings:
6-8pm: A delicious pay-as-you-can dinner from The Long Table kitchen, made with love and packed with flavour!
7pm: Live Music from Rich Dickinson and D Force
8pm-10pm: Department Presents DJs, Live in The Cloisters
This is now a free event.
See you there!
Rich Dickinson and d force
We’re looking forward to welcoming Rich Dickinson and D Force on the 20th February!
Rich has a long pedigree in the Blues rock industry and toured the UK, Europe and recently in the U.S. with many big names including Blackfoot, Frank Marino’s Mahogany Rush, Skinny Molly and helped launch the Hendrix Signature series Marshall amp based on Jimi's original that Rich owned.
They now play well-crafted originals with some faithful covers by iconic blues artists.
Ably assisted by the hugely talented Rich (Dave) Sleep on bass and Ted (Thundersticks) Nawrot on drums. this band absolutely takes no prisoners.
If you like Gary Moore, Joe Bonamassa, Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher your gonna love this.....
Timings:
Kitchen 18:00-20:00
Live Music from 19:00
All welcome.
Half Term Family Silent Disco
Shhh… it’s a Silent Disco!
Bring your favourite people, join us for a delicious dinner and have a boogie in good company!
Headset tickets:
🎧 Cover the hire cost
🎧 On us – no stress
Give us a heads-up by booking early – it helps us get the right number of headsets and keeps the disco magic flowing.
It’s going to be joyful, messy, magical, and just the right amount of weird. You bring the moves. We’ll bring the music.
Apres-Ski disco!
Please note: The date of this event has changed to Saturday 7th February 2026
We’re bringing the slopes to Brimscombe Mill with this après-ski themed disco!
Don your thermals, grab your goggles, dig out that outrageous ski onesie (you know the one!) and prepare to dance the night away to nostalgic hits from the 80s and 90s!
Our excellent chefs will be serving up a delicious and warming pay-as-you-can alpine themed dinner from 6-8pm and we’ll keep the mulled wine flowing until 10:30.
We can’t wait!
Live Music: Ordinary Folk
We’re delighted to welcome local folk musicians Ordinary Folk to the Mill on Friday 30th Jan!
Ordinary Folk are a four piece collective from Stroud, playing a wonderful mix of contemporary and traditional Irish, American and Scottish folk.
They will perform 6-8pm alongside a delicious and warming pay-as-you-can dinner prepared by our excellent chefs and filled with goodness and community spirit.
No need to book, just turn up! We’ll have a space at the table ready for you.
Sanctum | Zyggurat + Tullis Rennie
Join us for a night of sonic explorations.
Zyggurat is an electronic music project by Pete Grimshaw on modular synthesizer with Sam Wooster on trumpet and Nathan England-Jones on drums. With releases on Clay Pipe Music and Old Technology, the band havereceived acclaim for their skilful and spontaneous modular synth performances, drawing special praise for the sonic interplay between the synth work, extended trumpet techniques and the organic flow of the drums.
Tullis Rennie is an electronic musician, improvising trombonist, composer, and field recordist who "foregrounds the act of listening as an active component in the creation of musical experience” (The Wire Magazine). His latest album Safe Operating Space (Efpi Records) is a hybrid of club music and acoustic free improvisation that results in "boundary-pushing electronica... as if we were listening to an intergalactic visitor’s attempt at appropriating the dancefloor" (theQuietus), in which the musicreflects on themes such as global heating, AI-generated deepfakes, family life, and Kate Bush.
A delicious pay as you can dinner will be served from 6-8pm.
Sanctum will start at 8pm in the Sanctuary
Winter Songs Feast
We warmly invite you to the table for a festive celebration of food and song!
Feast on a special menu full of delicious seasonal flavours while enjoying performances from a selection of incredible local musicians by candlelight. These include Andrew Davie (Bears Den), Songs From The Porch, Mara Simpson, Aellin, Arbouring, Will Stokes (Voka Gentle) and more! Each will perform a winter song or carol interspersed with contemplative seasonal readings.
It’s going to be completely magical and we can wait for you to join us.
The Sanctuary Series: Jonathon Porritt
The Sanctuary Series brings together visionary thinkers, change makers, and creatives to spark dialogue and inspire action on themes of economic justice, sustainability, community, and the arts.
Sir Jonathon Porritt CBE, renowned environmentalist and founder of Forum for the Future, joins the Sanctuary Series to discuss the themes of his powerful new book Hope in Hell: Love, Anger and the Fight for the Planet. Drawing on decades at the forefront of environmental action, he explores what it means to stay hopeful and determined in the face of climate crisis.
Winter Jazz Feast
We warmly invite you to the table for an evening of delicious food and incredible live music! Tuck in to a special feasting menu full of mouthwatering seasonal flavours accompanied by a lively jazz trio.
Longtime friends of The Long Table, Just The Two Of Us return with their signature funky jazz, R&B and blues. Saxophonist Joe Carey is a clutch player, a veteran of large stages and small, who always brings a new twist to an old tune. Guitarist Ben Rosow is an American expat with Jazz/Blues/New Orleans funk/Big Band and L.A. Country credentials.
It’s going to be a magical night and we can’t wait for you to join us!
Sanctum | CURTAIN TWITCHER + GRANDAD + Iridal
Join us for a night of sonic explorations.
Sheffield based female electronic duo Sophie Stone and Grace Griffin generate corrupted downtempo post Balearic chug pulses and wobbles, throbs and twitches- full of fat noises and bolshy Moogery. It's human and appealingly analogue. More Delia Derbyshire's Radiophonic Workshop than DAF, More Tangerine Dream than Depeche Mode. Not your average bloketronica.
“Northern Electro at its mesmerising best” - Now Then Magazine
“Love it! Electronic wonkiness at its finest” - Richard Norris (The Grid)
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Experimenting in different styles of music and with different bands, Stroud-based Iridal draws from everything he has learnt over the years- from starting out as a Drum and Bass DJ in Torquay to running a club night for 2 years at the end of the 90s and early 2000s. Wearing his influences on his sleeve, Iridal brings a rich and playful helping of breakbeat, trance and dance to the table with the feel of Orbital and Kiasmos.
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Stroud favourite GRANDAD returns with their signature sonic maximalism for an attention deficit age. Featuring electronic skulduggery, shoehorned geetar riffs and occasional coordinated bits, this is a line up not to be missed!
Mini Makers Market
We are back shining a light on our young creators - showcasing artists, makers, and crafters aged 16 and under.
The Long Table will be open as usual for delicious coffee, cake and a tasty pay-as-you-can lunch.
To book a table please contact nancy@thelongtableonline.com
Lets champion our fledgling entrepreneurs!
Come along and support our young artisans and craftspeople from 11:00-13:00 @ Brimscombe Mill.
Christmas Ceilidh
On Friday 5th December, join us for a festive Ceilidh!
Dobunni Ceilidh Band perform traditional folk dancing music from around the British Isles and beyond, with a caller to provide simple instructions so everyone can take part.
There will be a mixture of circle dances, partner dances and set dances, all easily learnt so no prior experience is necessary! Come with a group of friends, a partner, or on your own and the caller will organise the groups and help you learn the steps. Comfortable clothes and shoes recommended!
Timings:
6-8pm – Kitchen open - Bar ‘till late!
7.30-10pm – Live band and dancing!
The Sanctuary Series : Marc Jobst X Edith Bowman
The Sanctuary Series brings together visionary thinkers, change makers, and creatives to spark dialogue and inspire action on themes of economic justice, sustainability, community, and the arts.
Director Marc Jobst (Netflix’s One Piece, The Witcher, Marvel’s The Punisher) joins broadcaster and film curator Edith Bowman, known for her Soundtracking podcast and championing of British film, for a conversation on the art of storytelling on screen. Together, they’ll explore what it takes to craft stories that move global audiences and why it starts with character.
SANCTUM | GWENIFER RAYMOND + Jacob Lovatt and Christopher Haddow
Join us for a night of sonic exploration.
Welsh guitarist Gwenifer Raymond conjures sparse American primitive instrumentals drawn from the roots music of Mississippi and Appalachia. Influenced by the likes of Skip James, John Fahey, Roscoe Holcomb and John Hurt her latest release, Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark is a hybrid of the ancient and the futuristic, where the arcane etchings of occult folk horror fuse with the unfathomable equations of the cosmos. As celestial drones and mutant folk meet a frenetic blues that bends and twists like space-time, on her new album Raymond finds herself evoking the work of pioneering rocket scientists, the words of fictional hobo prophets and the concepts of mathematical infinity.
‘A profound talent’ - The Guardian
‘Raymond’s mastery of her instruments is unmatched’ - The Quietus
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Jacob Lovatt and Christopher Haddow perform selected repertoire from the 17 year back catalogue of their seminal Glasgow cult band, Jacob Yates and The Pearlygate Lockpickers
A special brew of horror and loss ... Singer and songwriter Jacob Lovatt tells stories of Saville haunted care home corridors, abandoned cars, faith healers and shape shifters. Accompanied on various guitars by Christopher Haddow, whose minimal slide and fingerstyle playing adds light and shade to Lovatts dark, narrative prose
A delicious pay as you can dinner will be served from 6-8pm.
Sanctum will start at 8pm in the Sanctuary
Samba Drum Workshop with Simbora
Did somebody say Samba?
Feel the rhythm with this drumming workshop from Stroud Samba group, Simbora!
Free and open to all, you’ll learn how to create a variety of lively rhythms and grooves in a friendly and welcoming environment.
All drums provided, just turn up and have a go!