Each event sees a diverse line up of performers coming alongside each other to create a potent artistic blaze. Each act is given a slot in The Furnace, no longer than 25 minutes, which is theirs to use in whatever way they desire.

Past Events, 2008

We demand only that the slots be passionate and innovative, and that the artists ensure our audience leaves The Furnace as different people to those who walked through its doors.

We encourage the acts to question the boundaries of their art, to pursue progression, to break the expectations of stage and to collaborate with other artists and acts on the line-up. Each month we shake-up the bill, using both our in-house artists and others from outside. This ensures that no two events are the same.

29 October 2008 - The Furnace Line Up

LiveWire - Captive Thoughts

This month The Furnace is going to look and feel somewhat different to previous months. Determined to live up to our tag line and 'defy the boundaries'... MORE >

Jules Rendell

Jules Rendell knows how to flow. Listen to her music and you will be lifted to higher plains of scuzzed up beats, jazz progressions, sweet melodics or, in her own words, 'head-nodding, hip-shaking funkaholic soul music'... MORE >

Floetic Lara

Floetic Lara (www.myspace.com/floeticlara) speaks fresh breezes. Poet, musician, truth speaker; she expresses blessings through spiky rhythms, acerbic questions, silk-laid melodies and an all consuming presence that demands sitting up, nodding heads, held breaths... MORE >