lovetempo Brings Lonelyhearts Disco to Zerox Newcastle
Mattie Safer brings lovetempo's mix of disco, soul and club-minded songwriting to Zerox Newcastle on Tuesday 3 November 2026.
lovetempo at Zerox Newcastle brings Mattie Safer’s latest project to Newcastle on Tuesday 3 November 2026. The show is advertised from 7.30pm and gives the former Rapture bassist, current Poolside collaborator and Brooklyn-based songwriter an intimate room for a catalogue built around disco, soul, house and the emotional fallout of modern romance.
Safer describes lovetempo as lonelyhearts disco, which gets to the centre of the project better than a simple genre tag. The grooves can be warm and inviting, but the writing often circles heartbreak, longing, self-doubt and the effort of finding a way back to connection. It gives the music a useful tension: songs made to move to that still carry plenty of emotional weight.
lovetempo at Zerox Newcastle follows debut album There Is A Light
The Newcastle date arrives in the same year as lovetempo’s debut full-length There Is A Light, released in April 2026. The record expands on the project’s earlier disco and electronic-soul foundations, moving through warped club music, jazzier shapes, Latin-leaning grooves and softer ambient touches. Safer handles vocals, bass, synths and programming across the album, giving it the feel of a personal project rather than a side exercise.
His history with The Rapture gives the night another point of interest, but lovetempo is not built as a nostalgia vehicle. Safer has developed a separate musical language here, one that leans into soulful vocals and slower-burning dancefloor ideas while keeping the rhythmic instincts that have followed him throughout his career.
The Zerox show takes place on Tuesday 3 November, with the performance advertised from 7.30pm. Anyone travelling should check the artist, promoter and ticketing channels before setting off in case timings or entry details change.
Newcastle gets plenty of guitar tours, but fewer dates sit this comfortably between a live-band mindset and late-night dance music. That makes lovetempo a particularly interesting fit for Zerox, where the room is small enough for the subtler parts of Safer’s songwriting to land alongside the basslines.
