Category Archives: gigging

Earconnector label launch

I’m very happy to be a part of the launch this Friday 30th January of Alex Bonney’s new label, Earconnector! The label is an outlet for Alex’s collaborations with all sorts of artists from the improvised music and jazz worlds, including me; our duo recording Owl Party Submersible is part of this first batch of releases.


Alex and I will play a duo set at the launch, which is happening at Hundred Years Gallery in Hoxton. Also on the bill are sets from Tom Challenger with Will Glaser, and Alex with Tom Challenger. Join us! Info on the HYG website.

As well as appearing on one of the releases I’m doing the graphic design for the label, working with some great photographs by Alex and original artwork by Tom Challenger, as well as doing the artwork for Owl Party Submersible. There are two cassettes as part of the first batch, so I’ve  designed and printed sleeves for those as part of my work at London Centre for Book Arts. Alongside the covers, I’ve produced inlays, cassette shell labels, the Bandcamp header, a logo variant and the launch gig poster (above). I’m really pleased with how everything looks and have enjoyed the process a lot! More releases coming soon…

Arboreal by Sloth Racket pre-orders up! And December gigs…

The new Sloth Racket studio album ARBOREAL is coming out on 1st December and available to pre-order today!


The album was recorded in 2023 at Lightship 95 in London by Giles Barrett then mixed and mastered by Alex Bonney this year. It will be released on the Luminous label as a CD and digital album, along with a limited edition A6 booklet containing the scores from the album with new some riso collage artwork.

For some reason this album took me a while to get finished, so I’m really happy to get it (almost) out the door today. Have a listen to the pre-order track ‘Canopy Riot (At Home In The Leaf Light) and pre-order your physical copies over on the Sloth Racket Bandcamp.

To celebrate the release we’re doing two live dates in December. One south, one north:

  • 5th December in HASTINGS, at the Beacon presented by Two Ship! [buy tickets]
  • 17th December in SHEFFIELD, at The Lescar!

This will round off our very slow, year-long tour celebrating our tenth birthday as a band. Info about the gigs below

Creatures of Tooth live in November

Matthew Grigg has invited Creatures of Tooth to play a set at an afternoon of music he’s organising at Hundred Years Gallery next month. This will be our de facto tape launch event, after our debut recording came out this summer. Join us on 16th November!

Guesting with Last Dream of the Morning at Cafe Oto

It was an absolute pleasure to be invited to join Last Dream of the Morning for the second night of their residency at Cafe Oto! The gig was totally amazing – what a trio. I took the Lyra-8 and it was a fantastic workout for the synth. Working with it in an improvising ensemble setting is a lot of fun as it pushes my playing to the limit; each time I do it I think the machine comes out with sounds I’ve never heard before. So that’s nice! Here’s hoping this formation plays again…

Trio gig at Moers Festival

Rehearsals are underway this week for an exciting trip to Moers Festival! I was very happy to be invited to bring a trio to perform as part of the hcmf// ‘X perimental N counters’ night at the festival on Friday 6th June. The set will be a first-time collaboration between Kate Carr, Iris Colomb and me, and we had a really great first rehearsal yesterday so I’m pretty excited about it! Info is over on the Moers Festival website.

Quartz Sand set at light.box ‘Eyre’ album launch

Coming up on Friday 9th May at Hundred Year’s Gallery is the third gig of my collaboration with amazing sound artist Kate Carr. Our duo Quartz Sand is i due to release an album on Kate’s label Flaming Pines this Autumn. In the mean time we’re very happy to have been invited to play at the launch of light.box and Tom Challenger’s new release ‘Eyre’, out on Bead Records. Head to the HYG website listing for info.