Porto’s New Sound - M.Ou.Co. is the city’s hottest new venue (and hotel)
Kae Tempest and Nadia Rose performing this spring with many other musicians confirmed and tickets are on sale now
M.Ou.Co.’s director of culture and founding member Sofia Miró has unveiled a stellar lineup of musicians to perform this spring and summer at the city’s newest and hottest venue. M.Ou.Co. has already hosted many musicians and artists and are now working with several producers including SON Estrella Galicia who are bringing an exclusive selection of artists to perform in Porto including Kae Tempest and Nadia Rose who will perform at the new venue and cultural space in May and June.
Three Porto residents came together four years ago to plan a unique cultural space, hotel and restaurant. Fast forward to late 2021 and the official launch took place with various events all with music at their heart.
This independent space in Porto’s Bonfim neighbourhood combines a 62-bedroom hotel, a 50-seater restaurant, a bar, a garden with alfresco dining, an outdoor swimming pool, a music library, musical instruments for hire and a concert hall with a capacity of 180 seated and 300 standing guests. Music is at the heart of everything at M.Ou.Co.
M.Ou.Co. Agenda – tickets now on sale for the following concerts:
12th April 21:00 Bodega | SON Estrella Garcia
6th May 21:30 NATION OF LANGUAGE – A WAY FORWARD
10th May 21:30 Adam Green | SON Estrella Garcia
12th May 21:00 The Wave Pictures
13th – 15th May Celso, Da Chick, David Bruno,
Eu.Clides, Salto, Silly, Whosputo, Xinobi
21st May 21:30 W.H. Lung
27th May 21:00 Kae Tempest | SON Estrella Garcia
2nd June 21:30 The Weather Station
4th June 21:30 Newen Afrobeat
18th June 21:00 Nadia Rose | SON Estrella Garcia
9th July 21:30 Dean Wareham
21st July 21:00 Lido Pimienta | SON Estrella Garcia
22nd July 21:30 The Slow Show
28th October 21:30 Just Mustard
M.Ou.Co. is a musicians paradise offering a brand new music environment including three rehearsal rooms with musical instruments and technical equipment. Furthermore and somewhat unique, M.Ou.Co. also employs a physiotherapist specialising in Ergonomics exclusively at the venue just for musicians.
Flora Vezzá has dedicated herself to musician health for over a decade, both treating injuries and preventing problems from arising. A dedicated space within M.Ou.Co. the ‘Instrument Clinic’ has been created where Flora analyses and treats physical health, musical performance due to this physical health issue, explores possible trauma and creates a programme for continuous performance improvement. Flora has dedicated her life to this area having worked as a physiotherapist in the Santo André Symphony Orchestra in São Paulo and has participated in numerous conferences on Musician Health. She also wrote the book Afinar o Movimento [Tuning the Movement], where she approaches musical instrument teaching from the teachers’ point of view and discusses how to integrate health knowledge into instrumentalist training, proposing a jam session that brings together musicians and health professionals.
M.Ou.Co.’s venue is home to a concert hall, changing rooms, a cloak room, a bar and outdoor area all accessible on level -1 of this new space and all brand new. M.Ou.Co. work with local teams of professionals for all manner of production, editing and event hosting.
M.Ou.Co. is also home to a Music Library which is all about musical pleasure and that sensation and excitement of adding a vinyl to the turntable. Here, hotel guests will encounter a collection of 600 records which is growing. The catalogue has been curated by a number of artists with links to music and the city. M.Ou.Co. also work with Porto’s record shops to keep the collection busy with classics, discoveries and latest popular releases. The Music Library also features a wide selection of specialist music books celebrating music, songwriters, composers and performers.
Sofia Miró looks at 2022 with great enthusiasm and energy. Her early objective along with all her colleagues, was to create a space open to all and accessible in every way to both the local community and visitors. Tickets are priced from €10, many locals work at the venue and M.Ou.Co. fuses something for everyone with hospitality spaces including dining, accommodation and partying open to all. Every Saturday Sofia invites a different local DJ to host an evening in the M.Ou.Co. bar.
A former warehouse, M.Ou.Co. is today a contemporary space in Bonfim with many genuine vintage pieces of furniture. Following a meticulous redevelopment and investment of €8 million, the entire area of 5,000 square metres of building has been transformed into a welcoming, modern space, filled with light. The building features natural materials throughout including the exterior and no paint has been used.
M.Ou.Co. is reshaping a neighbourhood and adding a new rhythm to Portugal’s second largest city, Porto.
B&B is priced from 79€ per room per night, rooms with a kitchenette priced from 110€ per room per night
M. Ou. Co. – Rua de Frei Heitor Pinto, 67, 4300-081, Porto, Portugal
Less than five minutes walk to Heroísmo metro station or Campanhã train station
Porto is served by airlines including TAP Air Portugal, BA, easyJet, Ryanair and WIZZ from various airports across the UK including London Heathrow, London Gatwick, London Luton, London Stansted, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh and Manchester.
M.Ou.Co. (M=música; Ou=outras; Co=coisas (Music and Other things…)
