Sink or Swim presents Charlie Parr
Saturday 23 May 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Early bird £18 | Advance £20 (+ booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
In the music of Charlie Parr, there is a sincere conviction and earnest drive to create. The Minnesota-born guitarist, songwriter, and interpreter of traditional music has released 19 albums over two decades and has been known to perform up to 275 shows a year. Parr is a folk troubadour in the truest sense: taking to the road between shows, writing and rewriting songs as he plays, fueled by a belief that music is eternal and cannot be claimed or adequately explained. The bluesman poet pulls closely from the sights and sounds around him, his lyrical craftsmanship built by his influences. The sounds from his working-class upbringing—including Folkways legends such as Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie—imbue Parr’s music with stylistic echoes of blues and folk icons of decades past. Parr sees himself merely as a continuer of a folk tradition: “I feel like I stand on a lot of big shoulders,” he said in an interview. “I hope that I’ve brought a little bit of myself to the music.”
With a discography simultaneously transcendental in nature and grounded in roots music, Charlie Parr is the humble master of the 21st century folk tradition.
In his 2024 release, Little Sun, Parr weaves together stories celebrating music, community, and communing with nature. Putting forth an ambitious and raw album that exemplifies the best of Parr’s sound: a blend of the blues and folk traditions he continues to carry with him and the steadfast originality of a poet.
14+ Show (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)
Sink or Swim presents Charlie Parr
Saturday 23 May 2026Sink or Swim present Co-Headline: Julie’s Haircut + Brown Spirits
Monday 25 May 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Early bird £12 | Advance £14 (+ booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
Active since the late nineties, Julie’s Haircut is a band from Emilia, northern Italy, devoted to spacey, hypnotic sounds. The band’s music has evolved in time, through a series of albums and EPs, from the garage-rock soulful energy of their debut towards more experimental grounds, reaching a kaleidoscopic eclecticism that spans rock and psychedelia, from electronic to minimalism, with echoes of jazz, ethnic, dub and drone music. They have been making music with Damo Suzuki, Sonic Boom, Philip Corner, Valerio Cosi and more. Their new album ‘Radiance Opposition’ is released in November 2025.
From psyched-out Krautrock to free-jazz wig outs to funk-flavoured downtempo jams, Brown Spirits endeavor to smash every show as if it was their last. Hailing from Melbourne (AUS) the band maintains a strict DIY recording ethic and comes with a handful of global releases, the 2 most recent albums being on UK’s acclaimed Soul Jazz Records thus landing Brown Spirits as the first ever act from Australia to sign with the label. With strong support from national radio and accolades from abroad including Mojo UK, Uncut Magazine, KEXP and BBC Radio, such recognition has seen the band sharing stages with some their favourite offshore influences such as Kikagaku Moyo (Japan), Frankie and the Witchfingers (usa), Minami Deutsch (Japan) and Yawning Man (usa).
14+ Show (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)
Sink or Swim present Co-Headline: Julie’s Haircut + Brown Spirits
Monday 25 May 2026
Life Drawing
Thursday 28 May 20266:00 pm - 8:00 pm
£20 - Pay as you go - Cash/Card on the day
Join Suminder Virk for drop in Life Drawing sessions, every Thursday 6pm – 8pm in The Tin Music and Arts Community Space.
Basic materials such as charcoal, pastels, pencils and also paper will be provided.
Please note that these are untaught sessions. You will be working from a model with a range of poses, starting from short and ending with one long pose.
Some refreshments will also be available.
£20 a session – No need to book, just turn up and draw.
For more info email – suminderkvirk@gmail.com
Life Drawing
Thursday 28 May 2026
Life Drawing
Thursday 4 June 20266:00 pm - 8:00 pm
£20 - Pay as you go - Cash/Card on the day
Join Suminder Virk for drop in Life Drawing sessions, every Thursday 6pm – 8pm in The Tin Music and Arts Community Space.
Basic materials such as charcoal, pastels, pencils and also paper will be provided.
Please note that these are untaught sessions. You will be working from a model with a range of poses, starting from short and ending with one long pose.
Some refreshments will also be available.
£20 a session – No need to book, just turn up and draw.
For more info email – suminderkvirk@gmail.com
Life Drawing
Thursday 4 June 2026
Sink or Swim present Bob Sumner + The Drone Rangers + Paul Gibson
Sunday 7 June 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Advance £11 (inc booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
Singer-songwriter Bob Sumner cites the musically progressive sensibilities of his heroes when talking about the spirit of his new album, Some Place to Rest Easy, out now via Fluff & Gravy (worldwide) and North Country Collective (Canada). “They were always creating something new, something different,” he says of idols like George Jones, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings. With that ideology in mind, Sumner set about creating an album that takes as much inspiration from the audio production of Randy Travis as it does the lyrical soul of Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker—a melding of eras, sounds, concepts, and stylings that’s informed by the past, but never bound by it.
14+ (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)
Sink or Swim present Bob Sumner + The Drone Rangers + Paul Gibson
Sunday 7 June 2026
Life Drawing
Thursday 11 June 20266:00 pm - 8:00 pm
£20 - Pay as you go - Cash/Card on the day
Join Suminder Virk for drop in Life Drawing sessions, every Thursday 6pm – 8pm in The Tin Music and Arts Community Space.
Basic materials such as charcoal, pastels, pencils and also paper will be provided.
Please note that these are untaught sessions. You will be working from a model with a range of poses, starting from short and ending with one long pose.
Some refreshments will also be available.
£20 a session – No need to book, just turn up and draw.
For more info email – suminderkvirk@gmail.com
Life Drawing
Thursday 11 June 2026
Uzak – Turkish Rock Concert
Saturday 13 June 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
£11 discount | £13.20 standard (inc booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
Uzak is a Midlands-based rock band formed by experienced Turkish musicians in the UK. Previously performed in various cities in the UK, UZAK is now bringing the very best of 2000s Turkish alternative rock songs to the stage of The Tin Music and Arts Coventry, along with their original compositions.
Get ready for an unforgettable night filled with live performances of hits by Mor ve Otesi, Duman, Teoman, Athena, MFO and more – and sing along to the songs that defined a generation.
- Discount Price £10 until 06-June 23:59
- Standard Tickets: £12 until 13-Jun 19:30
- Door Tickets: £14 after 19:30 on 13-June until 23:00 on the same day.
14+ (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)
Uzak – Turkish Rock Concert
Saturday 13 June 2026
Sink or Swim present Co-Headline: Pink Breath of Heaven + TBC
Sunday 14 June 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Early Bird £13.20 | Advance £15.40 (inc booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
Pink Breath of Heaven is a reverie of shimmering guitars, haunting melodies, and introspective lyricism. The project of Liv Field and Rex John Shelverton, PBOH merges the vast textures of shoegaze with the boundless energy of modern psychedelia, crafting a world where color and emotion intertwine.
14+ (under 14s to be accompanied by an adult)
Sink or Swim present Co-Headline: Pink Breath of Heaven + TBC
Sunday 14 June 2026
Life Drawing
Thursday 18 June 20266:00 pm - 8:00 pm
£20 - Pay as you go - Cash/Card on the day
Join Suminder Virk for drop in Life Drawing sessions, every Thursday 6pm – 8pm in The Tin Music and Arts Community Space.
Basic materials such as charcoal, pastels, pencils and also paper will be provided.
Please note that these are untaught sessions. You will be working from a model with a range of poses, starting from short and ending with one long pose.
Some refreshments will also be available.
£20 a session – No need to book, just turn up and draw.
For more info email – suminderkvirk@gmail.com
Life Drawing
Thursday 18 June 2026
Life Drawing
Thursday 25 June 20266:00 pm - 8:00 pm
£20 - Pay as you go - Cash/Card on the day
Join Suminder Virk for drop in Life Drawing sessions, every Thursday 6pm – 8pm in The Tin Music and Arts Community Space.
Basic materials such as charcoal, pastels, pencils and also paper will be provided.
Please note that these are untaught sessions. You will be working from a model with a range of poses, starting from short and ending with one long pose.
Some refreshments will also be available.
£20 a session – No need to book, just turn up and draw.
For more info email – suminderkvirk@gmail.com
Life Drawing
Thursday 25 June 2026
Sink or Swim present Garrett T. Capps + Little Mazarn
Wednesday 2 September 20267:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Advance £15.40 (inc booking fee) The Tin At The Coal Vaults
There probably aren’t enough thick books and serious documentaries recognizing San Antonio as a musical epicenter. But even if there were, they wouldn’t be nearly as much fun as Garrett T. Capps’ new album, I Still Love San Antone. With all the heartfelt zaniness audiences have come to expect from the S.A.-based singer-songwriter, the album pushes far beyond any novelty record format. Capps’ masterful work of offbeat regional storytelling incorporates fired-up country-rock and retro Tex-Mex instrumentation with a genuinely psychedelic worldview.
ll genre bending effect.
14+ (under 14s to be accompanied by an adult)