From the Vaults x Central Committee: We are Making a Film about Mark Fisher + Q&A with Simon Poulter
Sunday 15 February 20265:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Advance £5.50 (inc booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher + Q&A with Simon Poulter
Doors 5:30pm – Film start 6pm
We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher is a film made between October 2024 and now using an instagram account. Over a year of research, social media conversations and creative collaboration, artists Simon Poulter and Sophie Mellor set out to explore what it means to “manifest” a work using social media.
The Instagram account was both studio and meeting place and the project grew accordingly – through research, reading, posts and the gradual response to this. Out of this came an evolving community of artists, thinkers and fans of Fisher’s writing. In the year-long period, all of the parts of the film were made and several shoots took place, notably in Felixstowe and Thamesmead.
The story is built around ‘Professor Parkins’, a character played by Justin Hopper, who jumps out of an early 1900s ghost story into the present day and narrates what has happened, encountering Mark Fisher’s ideas and life.
The film moves through the key ideas that defined Mark Fisher’s thinking – hauntology, capitalist realism, the CCRU, K-punk, and the unfinished concept of ‘acid communism’. In the film we also meet people who knew or worked with Mark Fisher, including Jodi Dean and Andy Beckett.
For students and people coming fresh to Mark Fisher, we recommend his books ‘Capitalist Realism’ and ‘ Ghosts of My Life’. Fisher’s writing is intensely personal but reaches out to successive generations, because he is so good at describing the conditions of late stage capitalism.
At its core, the film project is “de-capitalised” – just a network of people making something together over a period of time. In this way it is a refusal of the market logic that Fisher critiqued, and an experiment in what collective creativity might look like in the 2020s.
The film ends in the room that it is screened in. We ask people to continue the discussion and take forward some of the ideas. The most important ones, that Mark Fisher talked about and enacted, are solidarity and kindness.
From the Vaults x Central Committee: We are Making a Film about Mark Fisher + Q&A with Simon Poulter
Sunday 15 February 2026
Sink or Swim present Slash Need + The Mall + Hey Budapest!
Tuesday 17 February 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Advance £12 (+ booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
Slash Need:
A confrontational, camp and seductive dramaturge. Toronto’s industrial performance art outfit Slash Need have earned a reputation, for putting on high-energy theatrical live performances. The group craft songs that slither, satirize, and scream.
Served up raw, Slash Need’s distinct style of propulsive techno and metallic darkwave serves as the backdrop to an unpredictable, ever-changing, and communal performance piece.
The Mall:
The Mall is music for punks who dance. In the suburban wasteland of middle America, malls exist as decaying artifacts of conspicuous consumption–forgotten tombs haunted by the ghosts of capitalism’s failures. Using sequencers and analog synths, the Mall’s Mark Plant raises the dead to get glamorous amidst decay. Fusing the shimmering, plastic qualities of 80s dance electronica with the punishing, visceral energy of midwestern hardcore, the Mall soundtracks the liminal space between beauty and anger, celebration and cynicism, resilience and destruction. Performances are as ephemeral as kisses in a movie theater in 1987–and more lethal than radiation fallout from a space probe. The Mall experience is spasming, ecstatic technical disaster.
Hey Budapest:
Coventry’s newest Industrial Techno Fiend
14+ Show (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)
Sink or Swim present Slash Need + The Mall + Hey Budapest!
Tuesday 17 February 2026
Life Drawing
Thursday 19 February 20266:00 pm - 8:00 pm
£20 - Pay as you go - Cash/Card on the day
Life Drawing
Thursday 19 February 2026Sink or Swim present KEELEY + Atalhos
Thursday 19 February 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
£10 early bid | £12 adv (+ booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
KEELEY, fronted by singer, guitarist, songwriter and enigmatic Dubliner Keeley Moss is a band brimming with songs showcasing the breadth of her songwriting. They bristle with lush harmonies, muscular beats and inventive atmospherics, weaving gleefully between indie-rock sub- genres and further establishing Keeley Moss as one of Ireland’s most creative songwriters.
In her songwriting, Keeley Moss continues her ongoing fascination with the murder and short life of teenage German backpacker Inga Maria Hauser, who was brutally murdered in Northern Ireland in 1988 and whose case remains unsolved despite many promising leads pointing to the culprits. As an authority on the subject, she recently appeared in “Murder In The Badlands”, a moving BBC documentary that further explores Inga Maria’s tragic demise, and a brand-new film centred around Keeley’s involvement with the case is in development.
The live band is currently a trio featuring Keeley Moss on guitar and vocals, Lukey Foxtrot on bass and former Morrissey drummer Andrew Paresi.
In 2024 the band is enjoying the successes of headline shows and being the tour support of choice for Echobelly, The Smyths and Miki Berenyi amongst others.
KEELEY’s new album ‘Beautiful Mysterious’ is released on October 18 2024 via Tiny Global Productions.
Atalhos:
Arriving like Brazil’s answer to The War On Drugs, Atalhos combine the reverb-rinsed touches of 80s’ Springsteen, the gentle grandiosity of Arcade Fire and the day-dreaminess guitar pop of Real Estate or Beach Fossils to create music as touching as it is timeless14+ Show (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)
Sink or Swim present KEELEY + Atalhos
Thursday 19 February 2026
Hot Music Live: Izzy Derry + Sophie Hadlum + Croissant + Brass Hip Flask
Friday 20 February 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
£6.50adv (+ booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
Hot Music Live presents: Izzy Derry + Sophie Hadlum + Croissant + Brass Hip Flask
This is a seated show with limited tickets
Hot Music Live: Izzy Derry + Sophie Hadlum + Croissant + Brass Hip Flask
Friday 20 February 2026
The Muppets Take Manhattan + Kids Karaoke
Sunday 22 February 20262:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Adult £5.50 | Child £4.40 (Inc booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
Family Film Screening followed by Kids Karaoke
Doors 2pm | Film start 2:30pm
Kermit and his friends go to New York City to get their musical on Broadway only to find it’s a more difficult task than they anticipated.
From the vaults is a new 6 month programme of documentary and feature films for adults and children. Made possible with support from Film Hub Midlands through funds from the National Lottery. Film Hub Midlands support people to watch, show, and make films in the Midlands.
The Muppets Take Manhattan + Kids Karaoke
Sunday 22 February 2026
Finding Ways Ft Sebastian Rochford
Sunday 22 February 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
£16 adv | Student/unwaged £12 (+ booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
Seb Rochford’s Finding Ways
In 2003, drummer Sebastian Rochford formed Polar Bear – a contemporary jazz group that, over the next decade, helped define a new era in British music. Their sound was bold, open-hearted, and influential, earning two Mercury Prize nominations and widespread acclaim. Since then, Seb’s distinctive voice has been heard across a broad spectrum of music, collaborating with artists including Patti Smith, Damon Albarn, Grace Jones and Brian Eno. This year he returns as a bandleader with Finding Ways, layering up to three guitars at a time around his drums and bass, the album featuring ten different guitarists. He’s joined by a remarkable set of collaborators and guests including – Tara Cunningham, David Preston and Anders Christensen – each adding something unmistakably their own and it’s this space they’re given to be themselves that defines the sound. This is honest music-making. Nothing is forced. Nothing boxed in. Finding Ways. That’s what Seb is doing—musically, emotionally, personally.
‘The Finding Ways music is about Finding Ways to keep positive and navigate the world around us’.
14+ Show (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)
Finding Ways Ft Sebastian Rochford
Sunday 22 February 2026
Life Drawing
Thursday 26 February 20266:00 pm - 8:00 pm
£20 - Pay as you go - Cash/Card on the day
Life Drawing
Thursday 26 February 2026
STC: THE ‘REAL’ BLXCK SOUNDS OF COV – RELOAD
Saturday 28 February 20266:00 pm - 1:30 am
Early Bird £5.50 (inc booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
STC: THE ‘REAL’ BLXCK SOUNDS OF COV – RELOAD
Saturday 28 February 2026
Life Drawing
Thursday 5 March 20266:00 pm - 8:00 pm
£20 - Pay as you go - Cash/Card on the day
Life Drawing
Thursday 5 March 2026
Virginias Wolves + Le Hev Hev + Inferno
Friday 6 March 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Advance £8.80 (inc booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
Virginia’s Wolves are a fierce female punk band from Leicester with raw energy and unapologetic honesty.
Drawing from their diverse backgrounds and lived experiences, Virginia’s Wolves deliver relatable lyrics wrapped up with gritty riffs and driven by frenetic, hard-hitting drumming. Tracks from their self-titled EP have been featured on BBC Introducing East Midlands, earning praise for their bold sound and no-nonsense attitude.
14+ (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult – please note some songs contain swearing and adult themes)
Virginias Wolves + Le Hev Hev + Inferno
Friday 6 March 2026
Central Committee presents FLESHLICKER // DEAN LLOYD ROBINSON // PALE WORLD + Y GWACTER
Saturday 7 March 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Advance tickets: Waged £11 | Unwaged £7.70 (inc booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
The Committee is pleased to announce a carefully curated multi-sensory evening at The Tin Saturday, 7th March 2026.
- ‘Skin Hunger’ takes the visceral live performance art of Fleshlicker and reimagines it for the screen.
This recontextualisation gives the viewer a peek behind the curtain at the personal fascinations that lie at the heart of the project. Like in the live setting – behind the wide eyes, wry smiles and contorted limbs – motive and meaning remain unnervingly ambiguous. This examination makes no attempt at clarity. The projector will turn on and inevitably turn back off again, but there is no beginning and no end, just the present, smothering us endlessly into the night.
The film will be accompanied by a live performance of the score.
- ‘Piles Of Ash Are Left In Different Places’ is a short film by Dean Lloyd Robinson.
Using the prose and imagery from the 2024 xerox zine of the same name, the film uses a mixture of manipulated digital and analog footage, along with archival home movies, to explore the theme of grief, and how navigating the world feels after loss.
The film will be accompanied by live spoken word.
- Pale World’s harsh textural sound derives from Y Gwacter’s gestural painting on canvas. Each half of the duo directly influences the other in a live inter-disciplinary loop.
The performance documents itself as it unfolds.