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Coffee Club combines coffee and live music
Coffee Club now has its first permanent home within a mini shipping container on Spike Island.
Find Lucy Atkins and Dan O’Donoghue slinging coffee, cakes, pastries and a soup of the day at Hanover Place close to Banksy’s Girl With a Pierced Eardrum mural.
The container – with a five-year lease – has replaced a converted horsebox that has been here since Coffee Club originally opened as Imagine That in September 2020.
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But food and drink is only one element of what Coffee Club is, with Lucy and Dan also putting on live music nights twice a month at the Grain Barge on Hotwell Road, and one day hoping that Coffee Club can one day become a cafe and live music venue in an even more permanent home.
For £20, membership of Coffee Club gets you a t-shirt, a bag of their house coffee from Extract, a ten per cent discount at the cafe and early access to gig tickets.
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Live music in February sees Coffee Club promoting shows at both the Grain Barge just the other side of the docks from their cafe, and at the Exchange in Old Market.
Headliners for the three upcoming gigs are Miya the Sun, Pigeon Wigs and Bible Club.
Lucy says that membership is an exciting new development for Coffee Club, which now has more of a synergy between its coffee and live music components, including framed photos of some of their previous gigs at Crofters Rights on the walls of the cafe.
Coffee Club’s regulars are a variety of people from rowers to puppeteers, with Lucy hoping for the sun to shine to entice more dockside promenaders in need of a caffeine fix.
Some of their regular customers are also playing at their live gigs. “That has really set things off for us as Coffee Club,” says Lucy.
“For us, coffee and music are two things that we love and are both passionate about.
“Our main goal remains being able to open a music venue that is a cafe in the day and a busy schedule of live music by night.
“That’s the vision, that’s what we’re aiming for and this is the next phase to get to that!”
Main photo: Martin Booth
Spike Island is within Hotwells & Harbourside ward where Bristol24/7 Editor Martin Booth is standing to be an independent candidate in the by-election on February 2. The other candidates are Eliana Barbosa (Conservative), Patrick McAllister (Green), Eileen Means (Labour) and Stephen Williams (Lib Dem).
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