Category Archives: gigging

SPARC Symposium quartet performance

This Friday 24th May at City, University of London, a special quartet performance with Tullis Rennie, Charlotte Keeffe and Claudia Molitor! We will be taking on the stunning graphic scores that make up Wadada Leo Smith’s Four Symphonies, focussing on Spring and Summer. The material is really fascinating, and it will be a first meeting for this lovely combination of some of my favourite people. Can’t wait!

The concert is part of SPARC Symposium 2024: [Im]probable Networks. All week until Sunday, there’s an array of talks, installations and peformances happening at City and free to attend. You can register your attendance for all or some of it over on the university website…

Ink-Paper-Sound: Setlist 3 zine launch at Cafe Oto

I’ve put together a special night at Cafe Oto next month, to celebrate the third edition of the Setlist zine series! On Tuesday 19th March a great bunch of improvisers – all of whom are involved in the project as contributors – will play sets using material from the zines. We will have two new trios assembled especially for the event, a set from Sloth Racket, and projections of some of the zine artwork. There will be copies of the brand new hot-off-the-press Setlist volume three, which features another super nice lineup of contributors to be announced shortly. The trios on the night will be:

Khabat Abas / Dee Byrne / Bell Lungs

David Birchall / Kate Carr / Tullis Rennie

Sloth Racket will play a set using zine material mashed through some of my compositions from the band’s repertoire so far!

Most likely the night will focus on the first two zines, meaning that the music will take as its starting points text and visual contributions by some of the following: Kim Macari, Bell Lungs, Anton Hunter, Angela Guyton, Graham Dunning, Kate Carr, Dee Byrne, Old Bort, David Birchall and Sam Andreae.

Tickets are on sale from the Cafe Oto website now!

And you can grab your copies of the first two zines from my webshop…

Sloth Racket March dates

Two dates coming up for Sloth Racket next month! We’re heading to Manchester on 2nd March to play at David Birchall’s great Curious Ear series, part of a cluster of relaxed afternoon shows he’s putting on at St Margaret’s Church. Then on 19th March we’re in London for a set at a special evening I’m putting together at Cafe Oto, about which there will be more information very soon…

The Horse Improvised Music Club / Shrike Records Takeover at IKLECTIK

I’m a part of this huge lineup at IKLECTIK on 10th January, very sadly one of the last gigs happening there as the venue is being forced to close. All proceeds will be going towards future IKLECTIK projects as the organisers move forward to a new chapter. It should be a fantastic night, and I’ll be in a quartet with Sue Lynch, Charlotte Keeffe and Steve Noble…

Summer duo gigs with Dee Byrne – and TAPE!

This summer Dee and I are playing a cluster of gigs as a duo, in London, Bristol and Antwerp! We’re working on acoustic saxophone improvisations as well as a new electronic version of the duo with me on Lyra-8 synthesiser and Dee processing her sax with effects pedals, which we’ll do at BRÅK for the first time and then record.

24th June – BRÅK at waterintobeer, Brockley, London

26th June – Cafe Kino, Bristol with Clarkson/Grigg/Hill and Carnivorous Plants

28th June – Flim Flam at Ryan’s Bar, Stoke Newington, London

25th August – Summer Bummer Festival in Antwerp, Belgium

To mark the occasion, our 2020 duo album Disembark! is now available as a cassette….you can grab one from Luminous, or from the merch table at one of the gigs. I’m very happy with how these prints came out – most of them are the product of a very hot day in the studio, when my printing got slightly freeform and chaotic, and it’s led to some rad results. Every individual case is different and will be shipped randomly!