The Glasshouse

One of the most influential and successful turntablists and producers of the last 30 years heads to Gateshead this July just in time to make his mark on a city-wide celebration of Hip hop.

DJ Shadow’s headline gig at The Glasshouse on Saturday 13 July comes as The Bridge – Lost Arts Hip Hop Festival takes place across Newcastle from Wednesday 10 to Sunday 14 July.

The festival team have put together a special pre-show for DJ Shadow’s Sage One headline performance, with a concourse show at the venue from DJ Specifik featuring Holly Flo Lightly and Dan Swift.

DJ Shadow’s crate-digging, eclectic style of production found critical and commercial success with the release of his debut album Introducing. Widely considered to be the first album made entirely of samples, it set out the stall for a genre-hopping career for one of the world’s premier producers and beatmakers. Both on his own records and as part of duo UNKLE, Shadow has worked with the likes of De La Soul, Nas, Run The Jewels and Thom Yorke.

His seventh album, Action Adventure, is a return to his roots. With one prominent early sample talking about “all my records and tapes” the scene is laid for a dancefloor set filled with beats and sounds from across the spectrum by one of the best in the business.

It’s the perfect finale for a day featuring the past, present and future of an ever-evolving genre.

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DJ Shadow plus support HOLLY is at The Glasshouse on Saturday 13 July: Tickets, clips and info at DJ Shadow | The Glasshouse (theglasshouseicm.org)

Pre-show session presented by The Bridge 4 – Lost Arts Hip Hop Festival with DJ Specifik featuring Holly Flo Lightly and Dan Swift is at The Glasshouse concourse, from 7.15pm on Saturday 13 July. The Bridge is a project from Method Lounge: Home – Method Lounge

About The Glasshouse

International Centre for Music

The Glasshouse International Centre for Music is a home for live music lovers.

It’s a place where you can hear rock legends or pop icons on the same night as folk trios or string quartets. Where new musicians are nurtured and showcased on the same stages as platinum-selling performers. And where youth choirs and tambourine-shaking toddlers practise in the same spaces as its acclaimed orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia.

Because as an international centre for music they’re focused on creating and celebrating outstanding music – whether that’s unearthing or growing talent from the region or bringing the world’s best artists to their stages. And as a charity they’re focused on making sure all of that is available to anyone – no matter where you’re from, how old you are, how much money you have, or what challenges you face.

Which is why every year more than 2 million people are able to join for top-notch gigs, concerts, and classes – in their venue at Gateshead Quays, out in communities across the North East, and through livestreamed performances and digital lessons.

Whether you’re making it up or taking it in, you’ll find music lives and grows there.

More about The Glasshouse

International Centre for Music

• From global stars to artists starting out, The Glasshouse has hosted 10,022 performances, totalling 4.7m tickets. To have seen every performance would have meant seeing one show every day for 27 years.
• It’s hosted over 220,000 music lessons for North East folk. The region’s young people have learnt to play, sing or produce with us, on over 1.7m occasions.
• Royal Northern Sinfonia perform at The Glasshouse, tour the region, and have played to international audiences on four continents, with livestreams reaching people across five.
• Like stepping stones, artists like Ward Thomas have worked their way from their free stages to selling out its big hall and getting global recognition.
• The Glasshouse regularly opens its doors to a wide range of conferences and events. Since 2004, they’ve welcome over 400,000 delegates from the likes of Greggs, NHS and British Engines, and many, many more.
• The charity is one of Gateshead’s biggest employers, and so far it’s generated £500m of economic value to the region.
• The charity has been the proud guardians of The Glasshouse for almost 20 years, safeguarding it when live music was put on hold during the pandemic.
• The centre has 630 panes of glass, and stands 40m tall.