Formed in early 2009 through a mutual love of sitting on sofas and improvising, Manière Des Bohémiens play a mix of the french swing popularised by Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt, energetic eastern european gypsy-folk and a smattering of manythings else.

This Electric, floor stomping band of merry men consists of Rob Rosa – Violin, Matt Kerry, Roger Rosa, Elliott Lewis – Guitars, Jonny Kerry – Accordion, Mark Lewandowski – Double Bass with the occasional appearance from Robin Hevness on Sax.

Anxieteam performed to a packed house at Cafe Bar Contemporary on Saturday 28 August 2010. The show marked the launch of their debut single Let’s Eat Soya/Lonely In The Digital World.

Reviewing the show Left Lion’s Sarah Morrison said:

What happens when you take a German contemporary pop artist and a doodle artist from the Midlands, and give them a synth, some sample pads, a ukulele and a projector? Well, one of the most fun, light hearted and engaging gigs you’re likely to have been to in a while, for starters.
Jim Avignon and Jon Burgerman, both internationally renowned artists in their own rights, have decided to put down the pens and paintbrushes for a bit and team up to start making some music.

Click here to read the full Left Lion Review

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Melting Pot
Every Friday
Entrance Free

From Friday 4th June and all the way through the summer the Cafe.Bar.Contemporary terrace is going to be a ‘Melting Pot’ of music. Our new residents Pete Bradley ‘DJ Fluff’ and friends will be playing a melting pot of funky music served with good food, real ales, fine wines and summer sun. Come down straight from work, the evening starts at 5.30pm, and welcome in the weekend at Cafe.Bar.Contemporary. Entrance is FREE with the music playing every Friday from 5.30pm ’til late.



Also, remember that every Saturday it’s Cafe.Bar.Live. Our regular night of live music, performances and events where we showcase the regions finest up and coming bands. For more details visit our Cafe.Bar.Live page.

]]> http://www.cafebarcontemporary.com/?feed=rss2&p=771 0 http://www.cafebarcontemporary.com/?p=755 http://www.cafebarcontemporary.com/?p=755#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 12:44:46 +0000 Cafe.Bar.Contemporary http://www.cafebarcontemporary.com/?p=755 Summer’s here and the Cafe Bar Contemporary terrace is now the must be place to be to go all al fresco in the city.

Just down the Garners Hill steps from the Nottingham Contemporary main entrance, the Cafe Bar terrace is haven and a hide away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Open throughout the day the terrace is the place to be to catch the sun, eat al fresco from our summer menu, enjoy a tea or coffee or really get into the summer spirit with one of our cocktail pitchers including a sharing pitcher of Pimm’s for just £10.00.

On Fridays and Saturdays through the summer Cafe Bar Contemporary add music to the mix. With our regular Saturday Cafe Bar Live showcasing up and coming bands and from June 4th a new regular Friday DJ session starting from 5.30pm playing a “Melting Pot” of music from early doors through to the night.

When we see the sun is shining we’ll be looking forward to seeing you on The Cafe Bar Contemporary terrace.

Picture This

Nottingham Contemporary, the City’s newest, multi-million pound centre for the visual arts at Weekday Cross, opened towards the end of last year with a major exhibition of painter David Hockney’s early works.

The building is an impressive venue for such events even if, at first sight, it does somewhat resemble a corrugated motor repair shop, but should the art works themselves not be to everyone’s taste, it is unlikely the Cafe Bar Contemporary on the lower floor will disappoint. Unsurprisingly light and modern with simple, black tables and chairs contrasting against a pale wood floor and picture windows hung with curtains featuring a novel till receipt motif, it offers a short but imaginative menu and cask-conditioned beers to wash the food down.

Stylish handpumps dispense well kept Castle Rock Harvest Pale and Elsie Mo beers and the management are to be congratulated for not only offering real ale, something of a rarity in similar establishments, but also supporting a local brewery and thereby, the LocAle concept.

Best of all, admission is free so check it out and see what you think.

Could this be the first art gallery to appear in the Good Beer Guide?

Cafe.Bar.Live Saturdays 8pm Free Entry

Watch this space for details of the full programme of live gigs we’re calling Cafe.Bar.Live. Showcasing some of the area’s finest musical talent and live arts events the new weekly programme promises to make Cafe. Bar. Contemporary the new place to be for contemporary talent in Nottingham.

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Entrance to Cafe.Bar.Live is FREE with a great choice at the bar including cask ales, continental beers, wines and spirits.The evening can begin as early as you want. You can start with a meal from our cafe bar menu served until 7pm, or enjoy a delicious sharing platter for two with two large glasses of wine for only £15.95 – served throughout the night. Entrance to the cafe bar at night is down the steps from Weekday Cross to the cafe bar terrace.

Manieres Des Bohemiens 11.09.2010, 8.00pm Entrance Free

Formed in early 2009 through a mutual love of sitting on sofas and improvising, Manière Des Bohémiens play a mix of the french swing popularised by Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt, energetic eastern european gypsy-folk and a smattering of manythings else.

This Electric, floor stomping band of merry men consists of Rob Rosa – Violin, Matt Kerry, Roger Rosa, Elliott Lewis – Guitars, Jonny Kerry – Accordion, Mark Lewandowski – Double Bass with the occasional appearance from Robin Hevness on Sax.

Platters and bar snacks available until 9pm, last hot food orders 7pm

Mas Y Mas 18.09.2010, 8.00pm Entrance Free

Resident Café Bar Live favorites Mas Y Mas make a welcome return for an evening that is guaranteed to have the whole audience on their feet to swing to the Latino dance rhythms.

Mas Y Mas play their own irresistible mix of Latino, Flamenco and Afro-Cuban influenced music woven together by driving dance rhythms and rich vocal harmonies. The band use acoustic instruments played with such passion and skill that the result is electrifying and much greater than the sum of all its parts. Platters and bar snacks available until 9pm, last hot food orders 7pm

Spaceships are Cool & The Bonsai Band 25.09.2010, 8.00pm Entrance Free

Spaceships are Cool

Café Bar Contemporary welcome back Spaceships are Cool on Saturday 25th September for the official Launch of the debut LP HEART ECHOES. (on vinyl & CD).

Fresh from performances at NXNE (north by north east festival) in Toronto and before heading out to ICELAND AIRWAVES festival, Reykjavik in October, Spaceships are Cool bring with them The Bonsai Band in support and the promise of a night of amazing music and performance.

Created in 2006 by electronica musician Rob Maddison, Spaceships are sometimes many and sometimes few from solo performances to Flaming Lips style onstge parties with cartoon projections and their astronaut GI Joes.

Sounding like sci-fi sunshine pop Spaceships are Cool love their toys and will fascinate you with 1960’s Stylophones, omnichord, theramin and the wonderful Tenori-on.

Spaceships spotted at NXNE tour

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The Bonsai Band

Bonsai band The trio attempts earnestly to sound like fireworks in cream. The singer likes rock, the bassist likes jazz, no one knows what the drummer likes.

Warm valve tones, intricate drumming sprinkles, soulful grooves rooted in the singer/songwriter tradition, A little bit hard to pin point in terms of style, you’ll have to come and see them to make up your own mind. Somewhere in the proceedings Bill Withers maybe playing connect 4 with Sea sick steve. Slow songs for fast people.

Battle of the Bands Wednesday 15.10.2010, 7.00pm Entrance Free

BATTLE OF THE BANDS
With Bands – - Rivals, And Now We Wait, Your Weapons Are Useless, Cavalry, Hit Parade, Nitrox and Nobodys Fool and The Chase.

The Community Recording Studios Nottingham is hosting a Battle Of the Bands Competition on Wednesday September 29th at the Nottingham Contemporary

The event will showcase young and upcoming bands as well to give the winner an opportunity to record their tracks at the CRS recording studio. It will also make other young people and bands find out about the Community Recording Studio new rehearsal room, this is where young bands can rehearse free of charge.

The event is free of charge and under 18s can attend.

The Judges will be from all backgrounds and disciplines ranging from radio djs, to well known artists, to worldwide touring musicians and music industry experts.

There will also be coverage from local news company’s and internet promotion sites.
Doors Open 7pm.

Manieres Des Bohemiens 09.10..2010, 8.00pm Entrance Free

Formed in early 2009 through a mutual love of sitting on sofas and improvising, Manière Des Bohémiens play a mix of the french swing popularised by Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt, energetic eastern european gypsy-folk and a smattering of manythings else.

This Electric, floor stomping band of merry men consists of Rob Rosa – Violin, Matt Kerry, Roger Rosa, Elliott Lewis – Guitars, Jonny Kerry – Accordion, Mark Lewandowski – Double Bass with the occasional appearance from Robin Hevness on Sax.

Platters and bar snacks available until 9pm, last hot food orders 7pm

Mas Y Mas 16.10..2010, 8.00pm Entrance Free

Resident Café Bar Live favorites Mas Y Mas make a welcome return for an evening that is guaranteed to have the whole audience on their feet to swing to the Latino dance rhythms.

Mas Y Mas play their own irresistible mix of Latino, Flamenco and Afro-Cuban influenced music woven together by driving dance rhythms and rich vocal harmonies. The band use acoustic instruments played with such passion and skill that the result is electrifying and much greater than the sum of all its parts. Platters and bar snacks available until 9pm, last hot food orders 7pm

The 72-year-old arrived on November 3oth from his home in Bridlington and toured the £20 million art gallery in Weekday Cross, Nottingham before joining friends and members of Nottingham Contemporary staff for a celebration lunch in the Cafe.Bar.Contemporary.

Hockney, who is often described as Britain’s favourite artist, chatted to members of staff and described the visit as a “trip down memory lane.”

Click here to see David Hockney talking about his work during his visit Nottingham Contemporary. (Courtesy of the BBC)

During the day you can take the lift or stairs down from the main entrance to the cafe bar on level one or after the galleries close you can take the steps down Garners Hill and enter the Cafe.Bar from the outside terrace. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays we are open until 9pm, and for an early night to get you ready for the coming week we are open until 7pm on Sundays. The galleries and Cafe Bar Contemporary are closed on Mondays.

]]> http://www.cafebarcontemporary.com/?feed=rss2&p=343 0 http://www.cafebarcontemporary.com/?p=248 http://www.cafebarcontemporary.com/?p=248#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:40:08 +0000 Cafe.Bar.Contemporary http://www.cafebarcontemporary.com/?p=248 Matthew Brannon

Cafe.Bar.Contemporary is a Work of Aet

New York artist Matthew Brannon has given us possibly the most stylish art café in the country.He has designed murals, a screen and curtains that suggest a 50s American advertising aesthetic – sharp, sleek and sexy – and the lifestyles it invoked. Coffee cups, typewriters, flight and train tickets are the props for a fictionally glamorous lifestyle. Brannon’s work turns the Café Bar customers into the protagonists of chic yet cynical short stories. Blank notepads suggest that they are about to be written by us all.

Matthew Brannon is a painter based in New York City. Brannon studied at the University of California graduating with a BA in 1995, and completed his MFA in 1999 at Columbia University in New York. His work has been exhibited at galleries and museums including Kunsthalle Dusseldorf and the Badischer Kunstverein in Germany, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, The Royal Academy in London, and MAK in Vienna

Lynn Hannah said the Cafe Bar Contemporary operators were the obvious choice.

She said: “We had a lot of applicants to run our cafe from all over the country, including some big operators. the Cafe Bar Contemporary won hands down, no question about it. Their levels of enthusiasm, creativity and commitment just exceeded everyone else.

“They are creating something very special for us that we think will be the envy of the art world.”

Cafe general manager Chris Stamp said it was important to use locally-sourced ingredients where possible.

He said: “We’ve tried to use as many local suppliers as possible – for example we have got Castle Rock ales as the centre piece of our bar. We will also have access to the big performance space so we can do music events which will involve a lot of people from the local music scene.”

Read the full Nottingham Evening Post story here