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going light: Gentle Stranger | Cowboy Builder

Live performance from Gentle Stranger and Cowboy Builder, with more TBA.

Doors 7pm
Tickets £10-15


Gentle Stranger are a London based trio, composed of Tom Hardwick-Allan, Alex McKenzie, and Joshua Barfoot. They are ‘a band who are not so much without a genre, but operating at a level where the very idea of genre is anathema; they make music purely as is required’ (The Quietus). Existing across both music and performance, their most recent release was 2023’s Inner Winter.

They have an ongoing collaborative project with Jesse Darling, and have collaborated with artists including Agnes Scherer and Adam Christensen. They comprise one third of the experimental folk group Shovel Dance Collective.

Photography: Luna Wang


Cowboy Builder are a DIY outfit, a band, making instruments from junk and collecting found percussion instruments. They will play music with two drum kits and tell stories, adding sounds of prepared guitar, echo-strangled vocals and a mangled church organ as they build their set.

Their most recent release, COLD, came out on Bison records in April 2026.


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