Disco Sucks: The Jubilee Sucks
Closing party of the Site 2012 festival
Saturday 2nd June 9pm-3am
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
Tickets: £5 in advance, £7 on the door, Trading Post 01453 759116
Cited in The Guardian as a reason for moving to Stroud, Disco Sucks underground disco night returns to the SVA for a special end of Site Festival celebration.

Expect deep debauched disco from the 70s to the future played from rare twelve inches by DJs Tim Telling, Deano, Rossmatic and B Man on the legendary Black Box Soundsystem. It’s a five-hour flight in the disco spacecraft with zero gravity dancing guaranteed. Expect a right royal knees up!

Gadjo plus Laerie Faeries
Wednesday 13 June 8pm-late
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2HA
£4 in advance and £5 on the door. Trading Post 01453 759116

They came from furthest Gadjistan and choose Barcelona as the place where they would open their suitcases and air their instruments. Seven musicians bound by their Gadjistani culture, a rich and festive culture with bewitching rhythms and funny dances, exuberant, theatrical melodies and a mish-mash of languages. Gadjo have toured extensively through Europe, sowing their musical mayhem as they go, from gypsy-cumbia, balkanic-ska to reggae-swing and surf tango. Sometimes they appear playing an intimate acoustic set on the market square, sometimes under the lights of a festival stage, but wherever it is expect the dust to fly as the music kidnaps your heart and lifts your feet into an unstoppable dance.

Resound presents
Hans-Joachim Roedelius, the Godfather of Ambient
Friday 22 June 2012 8pm
Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
Tickets £5 in advance, £6.50 on the door
available from ‘Trading Post’ 01453 759116 or online from www.sva.org.uk

Resound is delighted to present a very special solo performance by Roedelius - one of the icons of electronic music. Roedelius was a key player at the birth of Kosmische, Krautrock, Synth Pop and Ambient. His collaborations with Brian Eno, Dieter Moebius, Michael Rother and many others at least equal the more well-known innovations of German cohorts Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Can. His 40-plus solo albums are just as radical in seeking an unlikely reconciliation with the past. Cross-wiring Krautrock’s brutalist modernism with an earlier strain of teutonic enquiry, melding weird improvised electronica with folk, jazz and classical sounds to often stunning effect. “Hans-Joachim Roedelius is one of the true originals of modern music. His delicate and whistful compositions seem to come from some long and secret musical tradition - like the meditations of Sufi poets, or the haikus of Zen monks.” - Brian Eno

Live Carry On visuals by vdj Oogoo Voodoo. Saucy! Plus an anything goes dress policy makes this the place for the sole purpose of dancing and having fun. Ding Dong! “A classy night of excellent vintage

Mad Cows Album Launch

SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Saturday 7 July 2pm

BBQ Food and beer and jolly good cheer!
10pm- 3am
Mad Cows band followed by DJ poshratz till 3am

Stroud Jazz Sessions jam with special guest Tristan Watson
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Thurs 12 July 8.15pm

Tristan Watson is a fine guitarist, with immaculate production and beautiful voicing, who impresses audiences in the area with his compositions, duos and trios. He'll give a short performance as special guest, before our open jam. Stroud Jazz Sessions is a hub for jazz enthusiasts and performers, every 2nd Thurs of the month.
£4 entry (£3 performers)

Cock & Bull Dining Club
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA
Saturday 14 July 8.30pm

Cock & Bull Dining Club is a new eating experience which will stage special gastronomic gatherings in Stroud. For our opening event, we'll be celebrating Bastille Day with a feast of French food. You'll be given an aperitif on arrival before sitting down to four courses - plus a couple of surprises - at 9pm. The menu is a closely guarded secret, only to be revealed on the night. Aperitif . Hors d'oeuvre . Entreé . Relevé . Entremet . Plat principal . Dessert. The meal is mainly vegetarian-friendly but the meat course (plat principal) will be adapted for vegetarians, Please let us know when booking.
Tickets: £25 per head. Wines available by the bottle (£10 per bottle)
Booking: places are limited to 20 and will be booked on a first come, first served basis.
email: juliemhowe@gmail.com

Beef, Bread and Tango
Causeway, a pop up art restaurant
Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
Friday 20 July 7pm
After the success of the last Causeway pop restaurant at the Site Festival we are back again for another magical night at the Brunel Goods Shed. SVA has colloborated with designer Anna Usborne and local architects Millar Howard Workshop to make a pop up restaurant in the Goods Shed as a place to meet, eat and encounter art. With their uniquely designed cast concrete tables and star chairs this evening offers a new and refreshing social eating experience.

Enjoy a fantastic meat feast cooked and served up by Tom and Henry Herbert, from Hobbs Bakery. Born with flour on their fingers Tom Herbert and his brother Henry have recently been seen on their popular TV series The Fabulous Baker Brothers.

Pete Rosser will be bringing along the tango ingredients for the night with a selection of intoxicating tunes on the piano.
Tickets: £30 for evening meal and music event
Book online here
or email office@sva.org.uk

The Guild of Cheesemakers
Stand + Stare
Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
Friday 3 August 8pm
Saturday 4 August 3pm & 8pm

Stand + Stare's The Guild of Cheesemakers not only incorporates the finest cheese and wine tasting north of Camembert, it also boasts a dynamic new script directed by Emma Callendar (Theatre Uncut/National Theatre of Scotland), a multi-talented cast and a fantastical, debate-provoking story that gets right to the heart of what it means to age and be human.
At tables laid with crisp white cloths, professional experts from Hobbs House Bakery and Woefuldane’s Organic Dairy invite you to taste a selection of artisan cheeses, wines and breads. Over the course of the evening, as the gastronomic delights enhance your experience, you gradually uncover the secrets of the inscrutable 198…a cheese like no other. Is it from space? Is it an elixir of youth? Or is it, simply, a rather good vintage?

Catch this exciting local company before they head up to Edinburgh for their Fringe debut.
As Exeunt Magazine put it, a “…beguiling, thought-provoking and, of course, tasty experience.”(****)

The Saturday matinee is a special one off chance for young people to attend a tasting half price. Tickets are limited, so if you are 25 or under, get yours quick, as this is a one-off deal. With three glasses of wine for ten pounds it’s cheaper than the pub, even without cheese, bread and the performance!
Tickets: £20 (£10 for under 25′s on Sat, 3pm) Includes cheese, wine and bread.

Book online:http://www.standandstare.com/projects/the-guild-of-cheesemakers/

Stroud Jazz Sessions jam with special guest Jim Blomfield
Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud GL5 3AP
Thursday 9 August 8.15pm

Jim Blomfield is an amazing pianist with a quality and groove equalled by few. It's a delight to have him at Stroud Jazz Sessions. Jim will be performing a short set on the grand piano at The Goodshed, before joining us for our usual energetic and frenetic open jam. Jim is a towering presence on the Bristol scene, in fine groups and producing fine compositions since 1991. I like his quote by the Independent on Sunday: ‘Jim Blomfield is the best British pianist you’ve never heard of and is an absolute marvel’! Stroud Jazz Sessions is a hub for jazz enthusiasts and performers, every 2nd Thurs of the month. A monthly special guest gives a performance with house band, before opening up for an all-welcome jam.
Tickets: £4 entry (£3 performers)

Look out for more email bulletins for further events later in August