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Portions for Foxes presents

Jeffrey Lewis
and the Voltage

Monday 12 May, 2025. 7.30pm doors.

£22 
 
This is a standing gig. Limited accessible seats available.

Please check out our terms and conditions when buying tickets with us.

After several concurrent sell out gigs in recent years, we're delighted to be bringing Jeffrey Lewis And The Voltage back to the North East for his biggest gig here to date in the beautiful surroundings of Gosforth Civic Theatre. The band stop in Newcastle in support of their fantastic new album 'The EVEN MORE Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis."


"Weird? Very... but also downright inspiring" (****) - Rolling Stone

“Jeffrey Lewis is an amazing musician, and if you don’t know his songs you probably have a hole in your heart that can only be filled by his words… I did!” – Regina Spektor

“Jeffrey is the best pure songwriter I know of... 'Sad Screaming Old Man’… is one of my favorite songs ever written” - David Berman (Silver Jews)

"The best working lyricist in the US" - Jarvis Cocker

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The mind-spinning indie-rock/folk/art of Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage developed when songwriter and comic book artist Jeffrey Lewis began recording homemade cassettes in New York City in 1998; his critically acclaimed, unusual and word-dense songs lead to Jeffrey signing to Rough Trade Records in 2001 (record label of The Smiths, The Strokes, etc.), and the project evolved into a live touring cult sensation around the world. Creating a brilliant style of scuzzy urban indie-rock-folk, like a 21st Century mash-up of Sonic Youth, Pete Seeger and R. Crumb, Jeffrey’s band has played countless gigs all over the world, including playing as the opening act for icons like the Mountain Goats, Daniel Johnston, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Dinosaur Jr, The Fall, Dr. Dog, Pulp, Roky Erickson, The Vaselines, and more.

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The forthcoming new album “The EVEN MORE Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis” (March 21, 2025) was recorded in Nashville by Roger Moutenot (Yo La Tengo, Lou Reed), the same producer as their previous official album “Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage: Bad Wiring” which was released in Nov 2019 (to rave reviews).  Between 2019’s “Bad Wiring” and the upcoming 2025 album Jeffrey digitally self-released five DIY albums from his apartment (spawned by the pandemic-pause on normal touring and recording). With or without bandmates Jeffrey continues to wring folksy spiel and garage bohemianism from his ramshackle guitar, while incorporating his often politically subversive visual artwork and cartoons into live appearances. 

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The current 4-piece touring line-up of Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage includes Mallory Feuer on violin and keyboard, Kait Pelkey on bass and Brent (Moldy Peaches) Cole on drums.

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TheJeffreyLewisSite.com


A deluge of quotes about Jeffrey Lewis:

  • "Unabashedly weird, surprising wise" Mojo 8/10

  • "Electrifying, again." Q Magazine 8/10

  • "his terrific wordplay--sharp, funny, poignant and much more--that really dazzles." Uncut 8/10

  •  "his music slowly develops and wizens, as we all do. It’ll be fun growing old with him." 8/10 Guardian

  • "People will look back on this in twenty years and see it as a classic" 9/10 Punknews

  • "Hands down my favorite contemporary songwriter" - Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie)

  • “Jeffrey is the best pure songwriter I know of... 'Sad Screaming Old Man’… is one of my favorite songs ever written” - David Berman (Silver Jews)

  • “Ramshackle and beautiful noise… Lou Reed’s natural successor as punk poet of the New York streets” - Louder Than War

  • "Bizarre but brilliant" - Uncut

  • "Dazzling" - Mojo

  • "Jeffrey is the only artist I've sent fan mail to.” - Jens Lekman

  • "Really great and impressive and inspiring and exciting... There's not a lot of people that can tell a story and use language like that in music." - Will Oldham

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This is a standing event.

Standing shows
 
Our standing capacity is up to 300. Our seating rake folds away on the rear wall of the Theatre, opening up the floor for the audience to stand in and take in the performance on stage. At the front of the room, in front of the stage, is a cordoned-off area for wheelchair spaces and ambulant seating for those who need it. 

There are a maximum of four ambulant seats and three wheelchair spaces in this area at a standing event. Tickets for these spaces will be a separate ticket type from general admission and should be visible when buying tickets. Each of these seats or spaces will come with one extra chair for another valid ticket holder (general admission or companion/PA) who may be accompanying the wheelchair space/ambulant ticket buyer to the event.

Carer/PA/Essential companion tickets
These are available for all events. They are limited to one per ticket order and can be booked by emailing info@gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk and quoting the event name, booking reference on your ticket order and information you’re comfortable sharing on why a companion ticket is required.

Ticketing.

Buying tickets
You can buy tickets for advertised shows, events or activities by visiting our website. While all GCT promoted events and some selected third party promoted events will be available to purchase in person at the Theatre, some third party promoted events will only be available to buy online.

 

Fees 
A booking fee applies per ticket when booking online through our ticketing platform; booking fees may vary when booking through other third party sites.


Concessions and carers
Concession tickets are available to people with disabilities, OAPs, under 18s and Asylum Seekers. We will endeavour to provide free tickets to carers where possible. Please contact us directly if you require carer's ticket.

Child and family tickets
A child is classed as anyone under the age of 14, and Family Tickets, where advertised, apply to a family of four where there is at least one adult and one child in the group. Babes in Arms, up to the age of 12 months, go free at all of our family shows.

 

Refunds
Refunds are only available up to 28 days before the date of GCT promoted events, otherwise refunds are at the discretion of the promoter. If an event must be postponed, rescheduled or cancelled, tickets purchased for the event will be valid for any new date agreed with the artist/promoter, and the ticket buyer entitled to a full refund if they are unable to attend the new date.

 

Receiving your tickets
We do not print physical tickets in house and instead email you a copy of your tickets. You can show us your tickets on a mobile device or simply give us the name of the lead booker when you arrive at the Theatre for the event. If receiving tickets from third party sites ran by external promoters (Seetickets/Wegottickets/ Ticket Source/ DICE etc you may need to provide your ticket for scanning.

Gosforth Civic Theatre

Regent Farm Road,

Gosforth,

Newcastle upon Tyne,

NE3 3HD

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0191 284 3700 

info@gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk

Opening Hours

From Monday 1 July our café bar will be opening during the following times:

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Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 8.30am – 8pm
Wednesday: 8.30am – 8pm
Thursday: 8.30am – 8pm
Friday: 8.30am – 8pm
Saturday: 8.30am – 8pm
Sunday: 10am – 4pm

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Please note our opening times change on the following dates:

Thu 20 February - we open at the later time of 9.30am

Sat 22 February - CLOSED

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