Get it Loud in Libraries

23/05/2026

👀 COMING UP 👀

This July we're hosting a double library bill of Murkage Dave at Coventry and Blackpool Library 🎉

One of the UK's most singular voices, Murkage Dave has spent the last decade crafting a body of work that refuses to fit neatly into any genre box. His music, loosely pop but informed by indie, outsider art, and an instinct for storytelling, is built on honesty, empathy, and fearless social commentary.

His latest album 'Brut Thoughts' connects the inner turbulence of modern life with the fractured world around him, reflecting on internet culture, overstimulation, immigrant experience, political extremism and the power of community. The album channels present-day anger and disillusionment while refusing to lose sight of hope.

"Writing with a journalistic incisiveness, Murkage Dave moves quickly, keeps receipts, refusing to keep his audience at arm’s length." - Line of Best Fit

👂For fans of Talking Heads, Sampha, The Smiths, The Streets.

🕴️Murkage Dave🕴️
📅25.07.26
📍Coventry Central Library
🚪8PM
🎫£16.50
🔗https://www.seetickets.com/event/murkage-dave/coventry-central-library/3610489

🕴️Murkage Dave🕴️
📅26.07.26
📍Blackpool Central Library
🚪2.30PM
🎫£16.50
🔗https://www.seetickets.com/event/murkage-dave/blackpool-central-library/3610495

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnWVWEcG27k

Buy tickets for Murkage Dave at Coventry Central Library from the official retailer, See Tickets.

19/05/2026

Get to know Melanie Baker 🤓🎶

Coming up at Coventry Library this June is Melanie Baker, the Newcastle based artist is an expert in finding the humour in heartbreak and the pathos of pain. With pounding drums, fuzzy guitars, and tender lyrical precision, Baker reclaims the grit and spirit of ’90s alt-rock through a q***r, modern lens.

👂For fans of Courtney Love and Courtney Barnett.

🎸 MELANIE BAKER 🎸
📅 27.06.2026
📍Coventry Central Library
🚪8PM
🥳 All Ages

Check out her most recent single 'Real Life' 📺👇

398 likes, 75 comments. "Melanie Baker - Real Life (music video)"

18/05/2026

We are delighted to announce our offer for this years ‘Read to the Beat!’ Summer Reading Challenge 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣!

We are partnering with 9️⃣ our network partners and 5️⃣ local musicians to deliver ‘Read to the Beat!’ workshops that will bring stories to life through the magic of music 📖🤝🎶

The FREE workshops will explore ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ with KS1 and ‘The Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ with KS2. 🐛🤓

So if you have children at home that are singing into the hairbrush, or re-purposing your pots and pans to make rhythms this is the PERFECT summer activity! 🎤🥁

🎟️ For booking information please contact your local library 🫶

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11/05/2026

ONE LIBRARY. SO MUCH JOY 🌕🫶📚

07/05/2026

🚨NEW GIG ALERT 🚨

The Orielles // Blackpool Central Library // 11.10.2026

The Manc based three-piece return with their fourth studio album ‘Only You Left’. The indie-rock trio are noted for their dance and disco experimentation but their most recent offering returns to their roots, in the words of guitarist Henry; “there’s nothing more trad than a three piece”. And what a three piece they offer; the recent release returns to a song-led approach where lyrics mirror music and wordplay waxes wisdom.

‘Only You Left’ spins in its own unpredictable orbit, pulling out new mysteries from their off centre helix of goth, shoegazing and punk - Mojo Magazine ★★★★

📅11th October 2026
📍Blackpool Central Library
🚪2.30PM
🥳All Ages

🚨TICKETS 🎫NOW 🎫LIVE🚨
https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-orielles/blackpool-central-library/3618051

30/04/2026

Only a dozen tix left for our rendezvous with Adult DVD and at Coventry Library this Saturday 🕺

Coventry Libraries and Information Service

Grab em while you can! 🎟️💨

https://www.seetickets.com/event/adult-dvd/coventry-central-library/3493065

30/04/2026

🚨NEW GIG ALERT 🚨

Lauren Auder // Birkenhead Central Library // 27.09.26

London-based is a British-French singer-songwriter, record producer and composer who stitches together elements of classical, experimental, emo, and rap music into her own strange and hypnotic form of orchestral pop music. 🎻👩‍🎤

With the likes of Celeste, Vegyn, and Jeshi all on her credits list, as well as composing music for Virgil Abloh’s Louis Vuitton campaigns, and modelling for Marni, Mui Mui, Gucci and Celine, Auder has cemented herself as an auteur across the worlds of music and fashion.

Auder’s 2023 debut album ‘the infinite spine’ in 2023 documented how the weight of the world can transform you and was dubbed “heartbreaking pop music” by Pitchfork. Her recently released follow up ‘Whole World As Vigil’ was released this March to critical acclaim, garnering strong support from BBC 6 Music, Pitchfork and other major music press.

“Far more than just a purveyor of irresistible neo-gothic pop, Lauren Auder
Is an important new voice who won’t allow the trans community to be
‘swallowed up and tamed’ - Evening Standard

📅27th September 2026
📍Birkenhead Central Library
🚪2.30PM

🎟️TIX ON SALE NOW🎟️
🔗 https://www.seetickets.com/event/lauren-auder/birkenhead-library/3635439

30/04/2026

🚨NEW GIG ALERT 🚨

Lauren Auder // Birkenhead Central Library // 27.09.26

London-based Lauren Auder is a British-French singer-songwriter, record producer and composer who stitches together elements of classical, experimental, emo, and rap music into her own strange and hypnotic form of orchestral pop music. 🎻👩‍🎤

With the likes of Celeste, Vegyn, and Jeshi all on her credits list, as well as composing music for Virgil Abloh’s Louis Vuitton campaigns, and modelling for Marni, Mui Mui, Gucci and Celine, Auder has cemented herself as an auteur across the worlds of music and fashion. �

Auder’s 2023 debut album ‘the infinite spine’ in 2023 documented how the weight of the world can transform you and was dubbed “heartbreaking pop music” by Pitchfork. Her recently released follow up ‘Whole World As Vigil’ was released this March to critical acclaim, garnering strong support from BBC 6 Music, Pitchfork and other major music press.

“Far more than just a purveyor of irresistible neo-gothic pop, Lauren Auder
Is an important new voice who won’t allow the trans community to be
‘swallowed up and tamed’ - Evening Standard

📅27th September 2026
📍Birkenhead Central Library
🚪2.30PM

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