September 2023
Ian Sankey and I spent a really great evening at Cobalt, where we played a distinctly full-fat version of Spare Music together. The venue sound was great, the crowd were warm and lovely, and the staff in the kitchen fed everybody marvelously with a totally delicious daal-cabbage-flatbread-yoghurt fantasia. Here’s a short, rough-and-ready, pretty realistic if low-res video of the last part of our set, played in front of the venue’s own visuals, which I think work rather nicely on this particular clip. Thanks to Dan for the consummate engineering, to Kate for the invitation, conversation, and making us feel so very welcome, and to Faye MacCalman for an awesome second set. Congratulations are due to Faye also, who is one of the incoming Artists-in-Residence at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music (The Institution Formerly Known as ‘Sage Gateshead’).
Next up: lots of studio work for a late November residency together at Glasshouse’s second stage, Sage 2, to work on a half-hour investigation of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza V for trombone. Expect serious fun, deadpan irreverence, and bone-chilling horn playing courtesy of Ian, who can be seen below recording samples for one of our little interventions there.
A fresh installment from my buddy T.Z., probably worthy of your listening pleasure. Rumour has it they’re preparing a live set combining the five existing 2023 releases, in collaboration with our weirdo collective, Northumberland Radical Fun Group. Sounds below.
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