Waiting for Sunday presents... Carmen and Dick - The Resurrection - (The Musical) Spin your bottle and shake your love eggs, along to Suburbian Swingers Carmen Rola and DIck Van Dongen. Following on from the unexpected triumph that was An Evening of Whine and Cheese with Carmen and Dick, th... (More)
Alright! The Waiting Room has been named as The Best of The Rest within this year's Observer Food Awards. More precisely we were joint Best of The Rest alongside other winners from other regions of the country in The Best Vegetarian Restaurant category. Understandably the actual best two na... (More)
Our Spring menu 2007 is Go, including seasonal favourites as well as newly developed dishes.
Highlights of Our Waiting for Sunday events programme include folk legend Martin Carthy! (May 6th) & Carmen and Dick The Resurrection (Easter Day), - that said there aren't really any lowlights - tickets for all events can now be bought in advance, via the restaurant or this site.
Our new Friday Lively is going well with the addition of a dj, tapas and sangria to the menu... what a great start to the weekend!
This Sunday we are excited about Ergo Phizmiz... March 25th, from 7pm A true embodiment and personification of The Waiting for Sunday spirit, Ergo Phizmiz is an explorer, inventor, and genre-bender "Sonic explorer, experim... (More)
We're looking forward to Mothers Day this Sunday - and a last outing for the dishes on our Winter Menu 2007. (On Tuesday we begin our Spring Menu.) Lunchtime and evening time will be absolutely lovely of course befitting the lovely mums being treated by their indebted families. Expect pretty fl... (More)
This Waiting for Sunday the Waiting Room proudly presents... The Beatnik Picnic Musicians and poets, free-thinkers and freaks, all writhing around each other in a crazy mixed up way. Come and join the movement without direction. Freefo... (More)
This Sunday March 4th The Waiting Room proudly presents... Boothby Graffoe & Nick Pynn This will be good!... The first of our nights to feature a stand up comedian, and certainly the first to feature one who is actually quite funny... (More)
Waiting for Sunday is here... Read on for a list of what has fallen into place - all of a sudden - beginning this Sunday with Donnelly and Fisk – in :The Hot Club De Eaglescliffe FIRST A NEWS FLASH 1: We have just arranged to present BOOTHBY GRAFFOE AND NICK PYNN - in 12 days time - Sunday M... (More)
This Friday February 9th The Friday Lively - Launch Event ...with live music from Paul Donnelly's Dance For The King - (Flamenco/Latin) plus regular Ballearica Eclectica DJ's - bringing world and latin music - Ibiza sunset style - Chilled in the heat.... (More)
Moist, drizzle, soaked, linger, longer, ooze, whipped, stiff, pert, honey, fig, finger, infused, cream, lather, hot, firey, sparkle, rippling, sweet and lovely, soft and warm, surrender and after-glow are all words likely to be used within the body text of our valentine’s night menu as we do ou... (More)
Hello again, Alright! here we go, We're back at it now with our winter menu as of today, and we've got a few new plans formulating for 2007. February 2nd sees the first of our weekly Friday Night Livelies, with Ballearica Eclectica DJ's, Sangria, Tapas and Cocktails. And we'll be kicking off a new Waiting for Sunday programme by mid-February. Speaking of which, that's when Valentine's night is. Book early!
We had a great Christmas time - Christmas day was lovely...with just the right number of people gathered for our first Christmas day opening, and December as a whole was our busiest time ever with great feedback about Mark and Anna's food. We had some amazing nights of music and mayhem with Bombane & Pynn, King Creosote, Donnelly & Fisk And meanwhile Stevo's moved this site to a spanking new server so that we can update it more easily.
I've spent the last two Sunday evenings over in Eaglescliffe, or Eagles Town as an American singer called it - more of said singer later.
Waiting For Sunday has brought a roster of high quality touring acts to the intimate setting of the Waiting Room vegetarian restaurant and they struck gold two weeks ago when the Piney Gir Country Roadshow hit town.
A new album on everyone's recommended listening list meant the timing was spot on and the room was so packed I couldn't even squeeze in.
So what is Piney Gir all about? Well, the girl from Kansas was an electro pop jazz artiste as featured on the myspace website. A recent transformation has seen the songs transposed into a traditional country feel played by a Roadshow band replete with banjos and electric slide guitars, shuffling drums and the like.
Piney has a delightful voice, beaming in her polka dot dress before picking up a melodica or accordion. A real charmer. A real winter warmer.
It's snappy, sad or happy country music and goes down a real treat. Check out that much lauded album, Hold Yer Horses is available on the hip and cool Truck Records.
Last Sunday it was the birthday of owner LUKE HARDING and as a special treat the former singer with Molly Bloom performed live.
First another real treat, the launch of Andrew Johnson's A New Star album, his fifth! It's an album that starts in a mellow, acoustic singer/songwriter vein but then explodes off down experimental, dance, techno and tangential pathways.
A pleasure to explore on CD but surely a challenge to perform live solo. With the aid of a little technology, some backing beats and rhythms Andy was able to take us through from the soul of Paul Gascoigne and into the heat of the funked out Hot Tub.
Andy returned for a few crowd pleasing cover versions accompanied by Dave "Fingers" Allen on the cajon and Luke on the harmonica.
Bob Fischer hammed it up to sing Scott Walker's dramatic re-fit of wordy worthy Jacques Brel, Jackie. Luke and Dave Allen played Molly Bloom, what a deep, velvety voice Mr Harding has. The boys managed to turn upbeat Girls Just Wanna Have Fun into a mournful, soulful ballad. Cindy Lauper had become Leonard Cohen.
The Waiting Room's Bonfire Night special has ALCHEMICAL BROTHERS, WILSON and WILL TAYLOR.
The Waiting Room Cabaret Suite/performance space was packed again for Vancouver's CR Avery Band - people were sitting on strangers knees and hanging from expensive light fittings, brazenly looking for a superior vantage of British Columbia's premier Beat-box Beat Poet. CR had been here before with the magnificent Fugitives, and their charismatic performances were highlights of previous WFS seasons. Jaws were duly slackened when CR began. Spitting out an un-nervingly convincing drum pattern while singing in the unlikeliest of gaps, he then added organ on a tiny keytar before ripping into an angry blues harmonica solo. Name-checking Kerouac and Cassady, Johnny Cash and June Carter; CR Avery's songs conjure up images of the open road and long, lonesome rides on freight trains bound for anywhere but here, all magnetically deliverered. The band were somehow tight AND loose with guitarist Noah Walker providing some truly unpredictable twanging and Bassist Paul Surjadinata pulling some classic bass-playing faces. The songs were honest, funny, thrilling and sad, and the people in Teesside's favourite back room loved every minute. My sources close to the management suggest that The CR Avery Band may be back at The Waiting Room in the spring; make sure that you and your loved ones are there. D.A.
- Michael Hope
- Kate