Martin Newell’s Late Breakfast.
Saturday 28th June
11am-1pm, Free.
Stories and Music from The Home Recording Handbook
+ Breakfast Offer: Copy of the Book plus a Coffee and Croissant for £15.

“This is not a home recording handbook,” says Martin Newell of his unhandily-titled The Home Recording Handbook. Instead, it’s the long-overdue completion of a book that was begun and then lost in 1983. It’s a set of salty anecdotes from a life working in pop music. It’s a broadside to the music business. It’s a short inventory of inexpensive musical tools. It’s a ‘when not to’ and ‘why not to’ rather than a ‘how to’. It’s a dispatch from the sidelines and a love letter to a popular song. It’s a brief guide to the pleasures and perils of recording music at home, by the musician, songwriter and founder of the cult English lo-fi group, the Cleaners from Venus, Martin Newell – a leading figure in the history of cassette culture and godfather of DIY music-making. It does happen to contain some tips on home recording. But it’s probably not a handbook.

National Dish
Sunday 29th June, 1.30pm
Meal Adults £15, Children £9

Join us celebrating the food of the world with two migrant families from RAMA (Refugee asylum seeker and Migrant action) when they cook their favourite national dish for us. Come for lunch and taste some delicious home cooked food and meet new people. Open from 1pm, and lunch for around 1.30pm. Booking essential as limited space.

Ear at The Nose
Saturday 24th May, 3pm-5pm
DJ Ewan, Free
Walton Rocks!

DJ Ewan O’Neill is back for his much loved DJ session playing an eclectic playlist of electronic, experimental, strange and enjoyable music to sit and savour on a Saturday afternoon. Come and expand your music knowledge.

Holly Pester in conversation with Sam Johnson-Schlee 
Saturday 17th May
5pm–6.30pm
Tickets £5/ Pay what you can.

Holly Pester, Author of The Lodgers and Sam Johnson-Schlee author of Living Rooms sit in front of the fireplace to discuss their books and writing about living spaces and domestic atmospheres.

Both authors live in North Essex. Ticket price includes talk, tea and biscuits or a glass of wine.  Arrive and settle from 5pm. Talk starts from 5.15pm. Book here.