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Sink or Swim Presents: Julianna Riolino + Support
Thursday 7 December 2023
7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
£10adv (+ booking fee)
The Tin At The Coal Vaults

Julianna Riolino knows how to capture and highlight beauty before it fades. On her debut LP, ‘All Blue,’ Riolino reflects on her own past, the memories of pain, healing, and love strewn through it. The songs focus on morality and the stretch of time, seeping naturally into Riolino’s Americana-indebted songwriting, resulting in a golden and fluid debut. Blending past and present musically, the album represents Riolino’s own experiences. The songs, written over a period of years, with meanings picking beyond that stretch and pulling lessons forward. Throughout, her philosophical lyrics bring that complexity forward to the listener in surreally sweet melodies, pouring growth and healing directly through the ear and into the heart. ‘All Blue’ is out now on You’ve Changed Records.

Nightmare Before Punkmas 2: Grail Guard + Septic and The Tanks + Sewer Cats + Transistrrr
Friday 8 December 2023
7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
£7adv (+ booking fee)
The Tin At The Coal Vaults

Grail Guard – Hardcore Punk from Nuneaton

Septic and The Tanks – Banjo Punk from Coventry

Sewer Cats – Garage Punk Duo from Manchester

Transistrrr – 0121 Queercore – Music to ignite the Transexual Revolution

Luna Kiss
Saturday 16 December 2023
7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
£5adv (+ booking fee)
The Tin At The Coal Vaults

Coventry rock band Luna Kiss make their return to The Tin Coal Vaults on the 16th of December. Since their post-pandemic return in 2022, Luna Kiss have worked relentlessly on releasing and performing their latest record Lust For Blood.
The band strive to create music that isn’t afraid to address the emotional truths of their listeners, celebrating them with the roaring sound of rock and roll. Described by Classic Rock Magazine as “broodingly gnarly alt-rock” Luna Kiss are excited to finish 2023 in one of the finest independent venues that The Midlands has to offer.

Yes Princess, Suns of Rest, Duck Thieves, Matt Fisher + Stefano Bellavia
Friday 22 December 2023
7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
£6adv (+ booking fee)
The Tin At The Coal Vaults

Yes Princess are ending the year with a album celebration show / rock n roll Xmas drinking party at The Tin Music and Arts Friday 22nd December. Main support comes from Coventry shoegaze soundscapers Suns of Rest, the ever fabulous chaotic indie pop fun of Duck Thieves plus local legend Matt Fisher, out of retirement to open the show with his first performance in 4 years.

Mothers Who Make Coventry x The Tin present: Festive Family Friendly Gig
Saturday 23 December 2023
3:00 pm - 6:30 pm
£7 for under 16s and £10 for over 16s (+ booking fee)
The Tin At The Coal Vaults

Mothers Who Make Coventry and The Tin are excited to announce a family-friendly daytime gig and festive disco! Join us at The Tin from 3pm on Saturday 23rd December once you’ve finished off your last minute shopping and fancy letting your hair down with family and friends.

Leamington band The Pips will be performing a lush live set as a duo to entertain both adults and kids followed by a disco with DJ Catbath playing tunes to appeal to all ages, all the way from 80s and 90s pop to indie Christmas covers and Disney hits – she will be taking requests in the run up to the event, get in touch @thecatbath

Children of all ages welcome. Tickets £7 for under 16s and £10 for over 16s.

Head to @motherswhomakecov to find out about their peer network of mothers who are artists who celebrate inclusive spaces within the arts for parents and caregivers. They are delighted to partner with The Tin Music & Arts to create a space within the music scene which is accessible for families.

The Tin & Kitchen Club’s NYE PARTY 2023
Sunday 31 December 2023
9:00 pm - 3:00 am
£6 + bf
The Tin At The Coal Vaults

Sink or Swim presents Trupa Trupa + Special Guests
Saturday 6 January 2024
7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
£10adv (+ booking fee)
The Tin At The Coal Vaults

Trupa Trupa are Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Tomek Pawluczuk and Wojtek Juchniewicz. They made their first international appearance in 2015 with the album “Headache” published by a British label Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records. A year later they signed to French Ici d’ailleurs, to release a remastered version of “Headache” on vinyl. In 2017 the band recorded and put out “Jolly New Songs” published additionally on a Japanese label Moorworks. In 2019 Sub Pop released Trupa Trupa’s single “Dream About”. The same year the band was also featured on a cassette split with a Texan alternative legend The Suspirians, published by an American label Whited Sepulchre Records. In September 2019 the group published “Of the Sun” album. The release was a result of international cooperation of Glitterbeat Records (Europe), Lovitt Records (USA), Moorworks (Japan) and Antena Krzyku (Poland). In March 2020 the labels published the band’s EP “I’ll find”.

Latest album B FLAT A was released in February 2022 by Glitterbeat Records and Antena Krzyku (Poland).

Trupa Trupa has been featured in line-ups of a number of significant festivals worldwide, including: Primavera Sound, Desert Daze, Rockaway Beach, SXSW, and Iceland Airwaves to name just a few.

TT also took part in a legendary NPR Tiny Desk session and BBC Radio 6 music session.

Their tracks were featured on BBC 6 Music, played by Iggy Pop, Marc Riley, Mary Anne Hobbs, Steve Lamacq and Gideon Coe. Henry Rollins presents TT on his shows regularly.

On September 5, 2023, Glitterbeat Records released the single “Thrill” along with the accompanying video by visual artist Adam Witkowski. Also in September, BBC 6 Music announced the second Trupa Trupa LIVE session on Riley & Coe show (BBC 6 Music), which will take place on January 8, 2024.

IVW 2024: Bryan Corbett’s Instrumental Groove Unit
Thursday 1 February 2024
7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
£12 (+ booking fee)
The Tin At The Coal Vaults

Bryan Corbett presents ‘Instrumental Groove Unit’

“The Bomb” – Courtney Pine

“Something special” – Michael Parkinson

Renowned Birmingham-based trumpeter and flugelhorn player Bryan Corbett returns to the Tin.

Bryan’s musical journey is a tapestry of diverse collaborations and artistic pursuits. As a sought-after session musician, he has lent his talents to some of the biggest names and acclaimed artists across various genres. From The Brand New Heavies, Us3, Tony Christie, Sigala & Ella Eyre to featured soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra and performing under his own name at jazz clubs and festivals around the globe. His remarkable versatility allows him to seamlessly transition between musical styles, from jazz and funk to soul, pop, and beyond.

This exciting new project introduces original material and a repertoire with emphasis on the ‘pocket’ of groove and freedom of improvisation. Bryan introduces the project as “A chance to play some original tunes and ideas coming to it from a different angle than I normally would”.

Featuring The outstanding talents of Luke Harris (The Brand New Heavies, Wretch 32 and Tricky)., Paul Deats ( and Wayne Matthews, this promises to be something not to be missed!

In order to make our events more financially accessible we offer a concession rate to people on a low wage/in receipt of benefits/on low retirement income. We ask that people use this offer respectfully.

IVW 2024: Large Plants + ELLiS.D
Friday 2 February 2024
7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
£10 (+ booking fee)
The Tin At The Coal Vaults

Large Plants started in 2020 as a solo recording project forJack Sharp, the singer and guitarist for Wolf People currently on hiatus.Sharp also plays guitar in the band Project Gemini and occasionally records and performs as a solo folk artist.Sharp currently fronts the live incarnation of the band on lead vocalsand guitar with Paul Milne on bass and backing vocals, Joe Wooley on guitar and Itamar Rubingeron drums

In order to make our events more financially accessible we offer a concession rate to people on a low wage/in receipt of benefits/on low retirement income. We ask that people use this offer respectfully.

IVW 2024: Boudica presents Bar Pandora + Paradise of the Titans + KIMBERLXY
Saturday 3 February 2024
7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
£7 (+ booking fee)
The Tin At The Coal Vaults

Bar Pandora is the stage name of writer, composer, vocalist and producer, Charlie Tophill.

Bar Pandora’s melodious alt-pop is playfully sewn together from the offcuts of personal experience – field recordings, journal entries and improvised fragments which bop bewitchingly along to a rich undercurrent of harmonic synths, guitars and dynamic beats.

KIMBERLXY (Kimberley) a 21-year-old singer songwriter based in Coventry. Infused with Alternative R&B, neo soul and Indie sound and having credits with The Belgrade Theatre, Daimler powerhouse and Godiva Festival, she’s always been one to expand her horizons, wanting to always explore what it means to be an artist and an all in all creative. After taking a while out of performing, she’s making a return for the international Venus Week and the promotion of her first ever EP. ” Honestly couldn’t think of a better way of performing and announcing my first EP. Highly Grateful, and excited to perform again”

In order to make our events more financially accessible we offer a concession rate to people on a low wage/in receipt of benefits/on low retirement income. We ask that people use this offer respectfully.

Project Gemini + The Harmonic Exchange
Saturday 10 February 2024
7:30 pm - 11:30 pm
£10adv (+ booking fee)
The Tin At The Coal Vaults

An evening of Cinematic pychedelic funk and lost library music

Project Gemini with support from The Harmonic Exchange

The Tin & Sink or Swim present – Clementine Valentine (FKA Purple Pilgrims) + Constant Smiles
Wednesday 21 February 2024
7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
£12.50adv (+ booking fee)
The Tin At The Coal Vaults

Sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon make music drawn from nomadic family heritage that conjures unique moods of contrasts: ancient and modern, paradise and isolation, beauty and brokenness, ritual and the right now.

Raised itinerantly between New Zealand and Hong Kong, the sisters cut their teeth performing in renegade gallery spaces and rogue music venues across Hong Kong’s abandoned industrial estates, performing experimental noise and futuristic dream-pop under the moniker Purple Pilgrims.
The duo have since toured the world extensively alongside the likes of Ariel Pink, Aldous Harding, John Maus, and Weyes Blood. It’s a lifestyle embedded in their lineage; travelling musicians and performers go back hundreds of years on their maternal side (as documented on recordings such as The Travelling Stewarts, from 1968). As children, the sisters were taught to sing traditional balladry by their grandmother, daughter of revered Traveller musician Davie Stewart (later recorded by Alan Lomax).
While their prior works were self-produced and released via cult underground labels, the sisters have steadily refined their craft into a more fully realized and sophisticated new sound. They now perform under their birth names, and have begun collaborating with world-renowned musicians and producers – from producer Randall Dunn (Oneohtrix Point Never, Danny Elfman, Jim Jarmusch) to legendary drummer Matt Chamberlain (David Bowie, Lana Del Rey, Fiona Apple). The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor marks a pivotal moment in the creative evolution of Clementine and Valentine Nixon – regal and richly layered, shimmering and softly orchestral, an accumulation of songcraft stretching back centuries.

Over the last half decade, the music collective Constant Smiles has produced a prolific output of acclaimed music, culminating in their forthcoming record Kenneth Anger, masterfully brought to life by engineer Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Liars, Dougie Pool). The group is known most recently for their much-praised debut album for Sacred Bones records, Paragons, an emotionally resonant offering of indie folk masterpieces that all confront the internal ways we process our struggles with intimacies, addiction and humanity – produced by Ben Greenberg.
Constant Smiles, led by Ben Jones, began in 2009 on his home of Martha’s Vineyard, inspired by the music scene centered around the island’s now defunct community record store, Aboveground Records. They made their live debut as a noise duo opening for Ralph White (Bad Livers) and, working in series, began churning out homemade releases influenced by friends, art film icons, and fellow musicians.
In the time since, Constant Smiles have amassed a discography a couple dozen releases deep, containing contributions from more than 50 members of its extended family. Along the way, the group has shared stages with Molly Nilsson, Black Marble, Oneida, Editrix, Frank Hurricane, Olden Yolk, and Purple Pilgrims; their shows are endlessly unique experiences for which Jones has a tendency of writing whole set’s worth of new material.