What’s on
Café and events
The shop and coffee bar is open daily 10am–5pm, serving excellent coffee, loose-leaf teas and the finest cakes and savoury baked goods in a relaxed, community atmosphere.
We also have regular evening openings, for music, cocktails, gallery launches and other fun stuff; keep an eye and follow us on socials to see what’s going on…
The Brothers Gillespie
Saturday 28th February 2026
The songs of Northumbrian folk alchemists The Brothers Gillespie are animated by lyrical poetry, fluid fingerstyle guitar, multi-instrumental musicianship and ‘the glorious tones of their blood harmony’ (Sam Lee). They make a music of encounter, of lark song and crow call, ash leaves and hidden ways, drawing from the deep old well as they sing to the luminosity and grief of the present times.
The brothers have travelled far and wide with their music and have played Cambridge, Sidmouth and Moseley Folk Festivals and opened for Lankum and Sam Lee. In Spring 2022 they released ‘The Merciful Road’ (‘pure magic’, Living Tradition), inspired by the grace of life in troubled times and recorded in a cottage by the banks of the river Tweed. Like their previous album ‘The Fell’, it blends rootsy, acoustic elements to create a rich warm sound with a touch of vintage magic. 2024 saw them release the collaborative album ‘Hirondelle’ (featuring string ensemble Trio Mythos and Occitanie vocal group Tant Que Li Siam) and they are currently touring throughout the UK and getting ready to record a new album for release in 2026.
‘Our music is inspired by the still wild soul of the land in which we live, a land alive with presences, not owned by anyone. It is about seeing with the eye of the heart and recovering our imaginations. It is about finding home, belonging and each other in a world which is singing to us as we sing to it’. The Brothers Gillespie
Open every day from 10am to 5pm, all welcome
“Fantastically quirky shop filled with things you had no idea you needed but almost certainly won’t leave without. Cafe was superb. Excellent coffee”
“Super place, really interesting shop to browse, and lovely coffee too. Friendly staff. Very glad we found this store - I wish it was on my High Street!”
“Welsh independent shop and bookshop The Old Electric Shop is a creative communal space where you are invited to spend quality time - and with a coffee bar, cocktail bar and live music events, it’s extra tempting. The shop sells furniture, gifts, homeware, clothes and plants. There are Bulgarian wool blankets, French Opinel secateurs, pots of Breconshire honey, plus alluring cakes and bakes”
Lonely Planet
“Hay’s hippest café inhabits an eclectic junk-shop-like space crammed with studios selling new and vintage clothing, furniture and, of course, books. Some nights (and every night during the Hay Festival) the Electric Shop puts on a pop-up cocktail bar, often with live music.”
