Often regarded as the city’s number one ‘guilty pleasure, there is a bar in Newcastle where you could up seeing a rock icon, TV star or United player.
Situated on the Toon’s most famous party stretch, the Bigg Market, Cosy Joes, although technically on the Groat Market, is THE place to go if you’re out in the city and you fancy channeling your inner Adele or Meat Loaf, fancy seeing others live their music legend best life, belt out Oasis anthems with loads of others or dance the night away to cheesy classics like Livin’ On A Prayer, The One and Only, Never Gonna Give You Up and Love Train.
While most of the dancing is done in the main bar area downstairs, with local DJ legend Phillie on the decks, karaoke heaven is just a staircase away on the top floor. There are quite often queues out the door and down the steps as people pack in to get their name down for a sing song or cheer on their mates as they centre stage.
Cosys also has its own private karaoke pods, if you’re not confident enough to share your vocal talents in the world and, as well as having a ball when you head there, don’t rule out bumping into a famous faces in Cosys either. There were plenty of surprised Geordies back in May 2023, when, having clinched qualification to the Champions League, Newcastle United stars Kieran Trippier and Matty Targett headed there to celebrate.
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And Cosy Joes fans aren’t restricted to the sporting world either. After he performed a gig in the city on St Patrick’s Day, Jason Manford joined plenty of others to have a Guinness and a sing and dance to a host of Irish party anthems, while, just this week, on the eve of the release of new album People Watching, Sam Fender’s band partied at Cosys, admitting to ChronicleLive they were feeling a lot delicate when they greeted fans to sign copies in HMV on Friday.
Sam sadly wasn’t with them, but, you never know, the next time you get on stage to sing a bit of Seventeen Going Under, Sam might just be there to watch or, even better get up and turn it into a duet!
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