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First Light returns to @tatecornerbar on June 18th with a special live performance from @allysha_joy

Hailing from Naarm (Melbourne), the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist crafts a sound that moves with tenderness between jazz, soul and R&B.

Allysha is breathtaking to experience live. This performance will be presented in the round, accompanied by a choral arrangement.

Free entry - always.

Come and join us 🤍

First Light returns to @tatecornerbar on June 18th with a special live performance from @allysha_joy

Hailing from Naarm (Melbourne), the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist crafts a sound that moves with tenderness between jazz, soul and R&B.

Allysha is breathtaking to experience live. This performance will be presented in the round, accompanied by a choral arrangement.

Free entry - always.

Come and join us 🤍

TRU THOUGHTS x TATE MODERN
@taralilymood presents @shakti.jazz supported by @robertluis
20 May @tatecornerbar
Free entry 18.00–22.30
Drop-in throughout
Join us at @tate for a new midweek series in collaboration with @tru_thoughts, bringing together DJs, selectors and live projects exploring jazz, soul, electronic and global sounds.
For the launch, @taralilymood presents Shakti Jazz with Tru Thoughts founder @robertluis.
Shakti Jazz explores the relationship between ancient South Asian meditation, sonics and spiritual jazz through improvisation. Drawing on Tara Lily’s broader practice as a musician working across jazz, electronica and South Asian musical traditions, the series has been presented at Glastonbury, The Turner Gallery, Delhi Art Week, Brick Lane Jazz Festival and Space Talk, as well as on radio platforms including Worldwide FM, NTS and The Lot Radio NYC.
Running on selected midweek dates throughout 2026, the residency sits within Corner’s ongoing programme of music-led evenings, offering an informal space for listening, gathering, and staying late in the gallery.
@tatecollective members receive 20% off food and drink.
20 May
15 July
10 September
12 November

Myele Manzanza is a New Zealand-born, London-based drummer and producer making a major impact on the global music landscape.

He’s established himself as one of the most energetic and exciting Jazz musicians within the thriving worldwide scene and is a founding member of Electric Wire Hustle. He’s collaborated with artists such as Jordan Rakei, Theo Parrish, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Recloose and Amp Fiddler amongst others .

Join us at Tate Corner bar on Friday 5th June from 6:00-10pm

Where 4 musicians meet on stage for the first time for an evening of improvised Jazz

Free entry - Just show up!

KOL at Tate: More Dates Added.

Due to overwhelming demand, additional dates for KOL at Tate have now been added for 29 and 30 July.

An evening at Tate Modern with a private tour of Frida: The Making of an Icon led by Tate’s expert art guides, followed by a five-course dinner from Santiago and the KOL team in the gallery’s skyline restaurant, inspired by the life and work of Frida Kahlo.

Tickets are £350 per person, including a private tour of the exhibition, welcome cocktail, tasting menu, and two paired drinks, with very limited availability.

Priority reservations open to newsletter subscribers at 12pm on Thursday 28 May. Sign up via the link in bio.

@tate @sevenrooms

The product of a youth misspent fine tuning teak panelled televisions and utilising the latest in top loading VHS technology – complete with wired remote – in order to watch umpteenth generation dubs of Video Nasty’s and obscure foreign language art house films, square-eyed resident DJ and Pour Decisions programmer Doug Shipton represents the third instalment in our soundtrack special triple-bill. As co-founder o @finderskeepersrecords, he has not only had a hand in recontextualising global pop history but also in liberating lost and previously unheard motion picture soundtracks from scenes as far as wide as Czech New Wave, Bollywood horror, and cult Italian giallo classics. His label also responsible for the first-ever pressings of the likes of Alejandro Joderowksy’s acclaimed psychedelic masterpiece The Holy Mountain, Andrzej Żuławski’s visceral psychological horror Possession, as well as the scores for cult TV classics The Moomins and One Summer. Culturally nurtured in an age before on-demand streaming services and online record directories - much like all screen junkies of a certain age searching for that black wax fix with limited means at their disposal - Doug’s pursuit of cinematic sounds is a wistful tale of J. R. Hartley ring arounds, optimistic back page want ads and bewildered record shop owners. However, all that hard work has since paid off as you can now count on the fact that Doug’s globetrotting DJ sets are always spliced with some of the heaviest and exotic soundtracks ever committed to wax via celluloid.

@jonnytrunk x Alan Gubby (@buriedtreasurerecords) x @doug.shipton (@finderskeepersrecords) | Corner Bar | Tate Modern | Thursday 28th May. 18.00 - Late | Free entry

A man seldom found behind a DJ booth these days - making this genuinely rare appearance all the more special - Alan Gubby’s resolute devotion to British electronica and Radiophonic experimentalism has rendered him in almost permanent self-imposed exile, in his perennial pursuit of cutting room floor castoffs and long-lost transmissions. As a producer and a musician Alan cranked out an impressive mid-90s/early-00s discography of everything from dubby acid jazz infused leftfield breaks to atmospheric big beat and trip-hop, under a slew of pseudonyms, through labels such as Leaf and Tru Thoughts as well as his own Nanny Tango and Kabal Agogo imprints. Informed by a fascination with early electronic music spoon fed to him through his favourite TV shows and films, in 2008 he would unearth BBC Radiophonic legend John Baker’s private tape archive and embark on a path that would mark the beginning of a long and fruitful working relationship with Jonny Trunk and lead to the foundation his own Buried Treasure Records. Providing both an outlet for his own personal recorded projects as well has beloved archival film scores and library records, his dedicated output over the past twenty years has come to represent a divining rod of sorts for his long-conceived multi-media paranoia concept project The Delaware Road - encompassing an illustrated novel, a compilation album, as well as two intimate audio/visual festivals held in suitably poignantly paranoid venues - the first at the Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker in Essex, the second at a Ministry Of Defence training compound on Salisbury Plain.

@jonnytrunk x Alan Gubby (@buriedtreasurerecords) x @doug.shipton (@finderskeepersrecords) | Corner Bar | Tate Modern | Thursday 28th May. 18.00 - Late | Free entry

Covering for @handsonfam next week we are joined by @if_music filling in for the night.
Expect the same great energy on the floor a steady, genre-spanning selection rooted in deep record culture and built for dancing. Tate Modern will be open late, so you can visit the collection before heading down to Corner.
22 May 2026 | 18.30–23.00 free entry
Corner, Tate Modern

Next Saturday on the 23rd May we’re back at @tatecornerbar for the next event in our of Mr Bongo Record Club residency. The Mr Bongo resident DJs will be taking you through from 6pm till 11pm, bags full to the brim with treasured digs and hard-fought finds from across the global stage.

23.05.26 - Free entry, no ticket necessary.

@feelings.worldwide at @tate Modern 15 May 18.30-23.00

Party crew, radio show and record label Feelings has become a cornerstone of the London scene over the years, hosting parties big and small across the capital and beyond with pioneers like Ron Trent, Egyptian Lover and A Guy Called Gerald, to fresh artists like D.Tiffany and Tash LC.

Their previous radio residencies on Rinse FM and record label Feelings Worldwide is an extension of this focusing on sounds rooted in the purist strains of dance music, from disco and hip hop, to house and rave, with Kasra V, Dream 2 Science, Baby Rollén, 1-800 Girls and more calling the label home.

Led up by Karl Karlson, a known face in London club world, involved in many other projects including regular Tate party House of Dad as well as heading up the booking and programming for DIY nightlife institutions @thecauselondon , @allmyfriends.uk and other venues.
@tatecollective members receive 20% off food and drink

TRU THOUGHTS X TATE MODERN
Presents: Tara Lily and Robert Luis

Launching 20 May @tatecornerbar
Free entry
18.00–22.30
Drop in throughout

Join us @tate for a new midweek series in collaboration with @tru_thoughts , bringing together DJs, selectors and live projects exploring jazz, soul, electronic and global sounds.

Curated with the Brighton-based label, the series introduces a rotating programme designed for drop-in listening moving between focused sets and a more open, social environment across the evening.

For the launch, @taralilymood joins Tru Thoughts founder @robertluis presenting @shakti.jazz an improvised exploration of South Asian meditation, sonic practice and spiritual jazz. The project has delivered bespoke vinyl sets for Glastonbury, Turner Contemporary, Delhi Art Week and beyond.

Running on selected midweek dates throughout 2026, the residency sits within Corner’s ongoing programme of music-led evenings, offering an informal space for listening, gathering, and staying late in the gallery

@tatecollective members receive 20% off food and drink

20 May
15 July
10 September
12 November

TRU THOUGHTS X TATE MODERN
Presents: Tara Lily and Robert Luis

Launching 20 May @tatecornerbar
Free entry
18.00–22.30
Drop in throughout

Join us @tate for a new midweek series in collaboration with @tru_thoughts , bringing together DJs, selectors and live projects exploring jazz, soul, electronic and global sounds.

Curated with the Brighton-based label, the series introduces a rotating programme designed for drop-in listening moving between focused sets and a more open, social environment across the evening.

For the launch, @taralilymood joins Tru Thoughts founder @robertluis presenting @shakti.jazz an improvised exploration of South Asian meditation, sonic practice and spiritual jazz. The project has delivered bespoke vinyl sets for Glastonbury, Turner Contemporary, Delhi Art Week and beyond.

Running on selected midweek dates throughout 2026, the residency sits within Corner’s ongoing programme of music-led evenings, offering an informal space for listening, gathering, and staying late in the gallery

@tatecollective members receive 20% off food and drink

20 May
15 July
10 September
12 November

TRU THOUGHTS X TATE MODERN
Presents: Tara Lily and Robert Luis

Launching 20 May @tatecornerbar
Free entry
18.00–22.30
Drop in throughout

Join us @tate for a new midweek series in collaboration with @tru_thoughts , bringing together DJs, selectors and live projects exploring jazz, soul, electronic and global sounds.

Curated with the Brighton-based label, the series introduces a rotating programme designed for drop-in listening moving between focused sets and a more open, social environment across the evening.

For the launch, @taralilymood joins Tru Thoughts founder @robertluis presenting @shakti.jazz an improvised exploration of South Asian meditation, sonic practice and spiritual jazz. The project has delivered bespoke vinyl sets for Glastonbury, Turner Contemporary, Delhi Art Week and beyond.

Running on selected midweek dates throughout 2026, the residency sits within Corner’s ongoing programme of music-led evenings, offering an informal space for listening, gathering, and staying late in the gallery

@tatecollective members receive 20% off food and drink

20 May
15 July
10 September
12 November

Pour Decisions, in close and fervent collaboration with the fine people at @brewingfolk and @verdantbrew, returns once again to @tatecornerbar Thursday 28th May. This month we welcome two of the finest purveyors of colonna sonore, Radiophonic exoticism and production music beats, @jonnytrunk (Trunk Records) and Alan Gubby (@buriedtreasurerecords) for rare appearances behind the ones and twos. Joined as ever by resident DJ @doug.shipton (@finderskeepersrecords), this very special soundtrack and library music themed evening brings together three of the greatest labels to ever put celluloid to wax. 6pm - 11pm. Free entry as always

R&D: Viva la Vida.

Crisp buñuelos with yoghurt ice cream pay tribute to Frida’s final painting, Viva La Vida. A still life of bright red watermelons painted days before her death, the work captures her defiant celebration of life in the face of suffering.

As Santiago says: “When you bite into watermelon, it’s like biting into life.”

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