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*Three times Best UK Venue 2016, 2017 & 2018* (Laurel Canyon Music)
*Winner of Best Cafe in Warwickshire/Coventry 2017 & 2018* (What's On Magazine)
*One of the UK's best small venues* (The Guardian)

Comfy & Acoustic, our showcase of the UK's best folk, acoustic, Americana and singer-songwriters, every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month

Kirsty Merryn
Kirsty Merryn is one of the most arresting and unconventional young singer songwriters on the UK folk roots scene, with a style uniquely her own.

London-based, New Forest-born Kirsty launched her debut album She & I at London's Union Chapel in 2017 whilst supporting Show of Hands on their extensive UK Cathedrals tour.
Kirsty has been championed by Show of Hands' frontman Steve Knightley after he met her while teaching at an EFDSS songwriting retreat for upcoming folk singer songwriters. She went on to open for Show of Hands at their headline appearance at Sidmouth Folk Week in 2016, and supported them over the 22 nights of their Cathedral's tour of the UK, at the end of 2017, performing to around 14,000 people along the way.
Beguiling and mercurial, Kirsty's music is heavily anchored in the folk tradition with jazz and classical backwaters. But it has a much wider reach, with her influences ranging from Cara Dillon to Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush - emphatic piano-based songs with sharply observed lyrics, packaged with panache in elegant, beautifully balanced settings and delivered in crystal clear, assured vocals.
Kirsty has received extensive air play including the Mike Harding Folk Show, national airplay on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show, the BBC 3 World Music show, as well as many regional BBC channels, and is receiving fantastic reviews. Her debut album reached number 3 in the Amazon Folk charts and continues to receive great reviews from newspapers including The Guardian, The Sunday Express and many more.
In 2018 Kirsty undertook her first solo tour of the UK, and as well as gigging around the UK through 2019 is also working on a follow-up album for release in early 2020.

Joey Clarkson
A drifting Canadian heart, caught between the Pacific and Atlantic tides.

Joey uses infectious, hooky melodies and evocative lyrics to create songs that seem to hold onto you long after the music has stopped. Her performances have been described as captivating, personal experiences.

Joey spent a great deal of the last 5 years split between touring the west coast of Canada, Europe and illegally touring her music throughout the U.K. It wasn't until recently that she fell deeply in love with a Scots Guard, got married and moved her life permanently overseas. Now, she resides in London, England and enjoys spending her time legally touring the U.K

Mike Nisbet
Like many of Nisbet's peers, Mike has spent most of his 20's travelling, performing, getting by with stints in Berlin, Bristol, Glasgow & London, working in kitchens, cafes, periodically on the dole, while mining music and using creativity as a means of connection and escape. A means to tell stories, of the struggles and strife.

Sonically conjuring ghosts of those gone before, Dylan, Cave, Guthrie, Mitchell, Mike Nisbet stands securely as a songwriter who has studied and learned from the masters. Now telling his own story, in his own voice, his own language, is creating a unique space and story. Like many Scotsmen before him, Mike has spent time in bars across Europe, talking till the small hours, listen to tall tales in the Nuremberg, joining the chorus in The Scottish Highland folk clubs, and drinking the bars dry in The Netherland. In these darkened rooms is where the characters, the tales, the victories and failures of mike Nisbet's songs live. You stay till closing time, spend you last fist full of change on a drink for you and love, then walk the long road home alone.

Stage times:
Mike Nisbet 8pm
Joey Clarkson 8.50pm
Kirsty Merryn 9.40pm

Become a member of our Comfy & Acoustic club for just £25 per year. Members receive half price entry to all Comfy & Acoustic shows plus discounts of other shows.

No food or drink will be allowed on the premises. We have a bar serving hot and cold drinks, beer and wine.

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Coventry's comfiest used bookshop serving lunch, wine, beer and folk music.

A place to Discuss, Learn, Play and Create.
Based at the new creative village Fargo in Coventry, The Big Comfy Bookshop provides thousands of second hand books of all genres with the added extra of cake, coffee and tea and even a licensed bar! We've also now added a lunchtime menu.

Established since 2012, The Big Comfy Bookshop houses thousands of books from pulp crime fiction through to travel, art, cooking and all in between. With hundreds of shelves bulging with books, there's something for everyone.

Open 7 days a week, while-away a few hours in our relaxed environment with a cup of coffee and homemade cake, or even treat yourself to our freshly made jacket potatoes.

In the evening we transform our space to host music, poetry, book clubs and more, with our bar serving real ales and wine, a great alternative night out.

With an ever changing selection of books and an eclectic event schedule, The Big Comfy Bookshop is a destination to return to again and again.

Fargo Village, Far Gosford Street,

Coventry,

West Midlands,

England,

CV1 5ED.