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Monday 2pm - 12am Tuesday 2pm - 12am Wednesday 2pm - 12am Thursday 2pm - 12am Friday 2pm - 2am Saturday 2pm - 2am Sunday 2pm - 12am

The Lubber Fiend

The Lubber Fiend is a non-profit, DIY music venue and bar in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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05/09/2026

Handful of tickets left! Come on down!

04/09/2026

Announcing Ambo Banquet! Excited to say this special event is returning, next Friday ❤️

The first one back in February SOLD OUT and this will be the final one we can fit in this year before a busy autumn programme kicks off.

Set menu mega feast on banqueting tables with low lights ans beautiful music from Salomėja Jurėnaitė D E L ( C A R M I C H A E L ) &

6 til midnight upstairs in the venue, £38 a head, all dietary requirements catered for! Tickets on Fatsoma 🔗

Poster by Joe Munsey and photos from Jo Hislop

03/09/2026

Saturday at New Ruins! Read it and weep!

Day tickets available or you can get a weekend pass.

Tickets are available on Fatsoma, and you can even spread the cost of a ticket over 3 months!

Rezzett - First surfacing back in 2013, the duo stitch together a grimey, lo-fi angle on live jungle, techno, footwork and experimental electronic soundscape, keeping it raw and analogue, switching from harsh to majestic in the blink of an eye. Their output on The Trilogy Tapes has been part of the labels flagship offering, creating this future-nostalgic and blown out sound.

Elena Colombi - A swirling headrush of techno, post-punk, industrial and experimental spoken word can only try to sum up Elena Colombi’s DJ sets. Founder of Osàre! Editions, a label supporting boundary-pushing artists, spanning everything from 1990s darkwave to forward-thinking dance music, their taste is dynamic and immersive. A regular on the international clubbing circuit, we’re pleased to let her loose in the open ground of New Ruin’s late night club spot.

Smote - Taking folk, rock and drone, with cues from the 70s Swedish and 90s Japanese Psych scenes, Smote has honed their sound to a razor edged ritualistic and transcendental march. Live the band often expands to include multiple extra members adding violin, hurdy gurdy and other instruments, giving even more clout and psychedelic swirl to their time dilating sets.

Rashad Becker - An infamous name within electronic music, most of you have probably listened to a record mixed or mastered by Rashad Becker. Based in Berlin, Becker’s abstract compositions for PAN have been hugely influential in shaping a new era of experimental music. Releasing his first album in nearly a decade last year, on the incident Becker brings a distinct sense of narrative to proceedings that infuses atonality with alien glossolalia to unrivalled effect.

Alyssa - A newish duo consisting of Dan Johannson (playing at the fest as Sewer Election) and Irma Krook. Alyssa is a mix of ice cold vocals and loops with piano and synths, all with that classic grey murk associated with Discreet Music that we love so much. A sort of minimal waveish vibe but completely hypnotic and compel

01/09/2026

Lub Club merch is here! Exclusive merch for members! Available now on our web store - link in the bio!

You can join the membership for a mere £6.66 and access the aforementioned merch, but also a host of other benefits depending on which tier you are in.

Apart from attending events at the venue becoming a member is possibly the best way to support what we do. Grassroots music has been struggling, that is slowly changing in some ways, but realistically for now and the future we will need some kind of membership support. For every sold out gig and club night we have lots of smaller and quieter nights, but with all the same overheads. We want to keep programming adventurous and exciting music and the membership helps us do this by keeping the doors open.

We are lucky enough to have over 14k followers on this platform. If 1% of those followers signed up in the lowest tier as monthly subscribers we would cover our electric for the venue, 3% would cover our average monthly artists fees or bar staff wages, and 10% would basically secure the viability of the venue for the next ten years!

So if you have been thinking about it but not signed up yet, or you want one of these caps, if you love what we do and want to support us further - then now is the time to sign up!

Huge thanks to and nat halaseh for setting up, organising and helping with so much of our membership scheme!

31/08/2026

Last call for this one tomorrow! Cant wait to see Koshiro Hino in solo guise as YPY! Excellent support in the guise of Jaffa Kid.

Tickets on Fatsoma

30/08/2026

Tonight! Last kitchen gig till November! Don’t miss out, music and food available!

Tickets on Fatsoma

29/08/2026

We couldn’t resist adding a couple more acts to New Ruins fest in the shape of feeo and Sanctuary of Praise! Get your tickets now, while they last! You can get a weekend pass or day tickets and you can even spread the cost of tickets over a number of months if you want!

feeo is a solo project of the ever prolific Theodora Laird and is a nuanced and masterly interweaving of drone, ambient, experimental electronics, minimalist dance, poetic lyrics and genuinely breathtaking and beautiful vocals. Her debut album under this moniker is at times a hushed, tender and unrushed affair whilst at the same time displaying an undeniable power and urgency, it’s been on repeat at Lubber since first hearing it! An incredibly hypnotic and accomplished set of songs that never falls into sterility or mundanity. Her live set promises to be something special! Feeo will be playing the Sunday of the fest

Sanctuary of Praise is a group of three from the south of England. At this moment in
time analog collage cut ups, slide projections, apocalyptic knells and feedback laden guitars make up their sound. For the last five years they have been self releasing on their own imprint INFOrmatiON! and organising guerrilla shows around London, they self released their first LP “Ether Unending” via their own Silver Traces earlier on this year.

Unfortunately Handle have had to pull out for personal reasons - we wish them all the best!

28/08/2026

It’s been a long road on tools reworking the venue to fit the new club system in. Some small tweaks left … but we’ve got something exciting to share with you tonight!

It’s a super powerful sound, much fuller and crisper than before, come and hear it for yourself…

Set times:

jeans7lifestyle 2300
Convextion 0030
Madeera 0130
Close @ 0300

RIP that wheeley DJ booth you did us a solid but we’re also truly awful 🚢🚢🚢

24/08/2026

This is headed towards a sellout! Not something we get to say often, but if you want to come then best get a ticket sharpish!

Incredible line up including Richard Dawson himself and then Australian drum maestro Will Guthrie, accordionist Heather Ferrier and cosmic traveller Astral Social Club. Cheers to Richard for putting together a lineup that reflects so much of what we do and want to support. These fundraisers are a real lifeblood for us - they genuinely keep us afloat.

22/08/2026

The Lubber Fiend presents its “Meagre Offerings”. A free, social event for the avant-postured, those whom exist recoiled and hunched in their opposition to mundanity, or possibly in awe of its simplicity. A small showcase of experimental musicians will take to the abattoir floor in an intimate candlelit setting beneath a series of carefully curated projections. The spirit of the evening walks the line between speakeasy and basement clangour, almost secret but open to all. Those that are wanting to try something new should be aware that performances will be followed by an open floor group improvisation where anyone in attendance is permitted to join.

This week’s bill:

Odie Ji Ghast

Steatite

Mothlight

Address

81 Blandford Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE13PZ

Opening Hours

Monday	2pm - 12am
Tuesday	2pm - 12am
Wednesday	2pm - 12am
Thursday	2pm - 12am
Friday	2pm - 2am
Saturday	2pm - 2am
Sunday	2pm - 12am

Website

http://www.thelubberfiend.com/

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