Sunday Aug 3rd – Madwort’s Menagerie @ The Vortex, Dalston
The first outing of a brand new line-up comprising flute, cornet, trombone, bass clarinet, cello & double bass! More details to follow…
Various events, May 2014
A varied month of music – a few gigs in the west country with the Philip Clouts quartet, an unexpected last-minute call to play bass clarinet in a rehearsal for the e17 large ensemble which turned out to be a video shoot(!), playing cuban songs with a voice/alto sax/congas trio, playing with Chris Dowding at John Hegley’s night at the Betsey Trotwood and going to see lots of gigs – the highlight of which was clearly Loose Tubes at Ronnie Scott’s, but Louis Moholo-Moholo at Cafe Oto wasn’t far behind!
Ti/om 2014 recordings
Some recordings of us playing at LUME & at home:
Ti/om mini-tour of Hackney, April 2014
Two lovely Ti/om gigs this week, we’re both looking forward to doing a studio recording of the duo in a couple of days time. In the meantime, here are a couple of photos and a soundcloud of the Lume gig:
Lovely first set by Ti/om @themadwort pic.twitter.com/ZK9Um1QmjN — LUME (@lumemusiclondon) April 24, 2014
Saxoctopus at The Vortex, March 2014
The Saxoctopus / Sax Squid was sounding great last night! Now feeling very inspired to write some music for the ensemble’s debut gig this winter… Featuring Sam Andreae, Mette Rasmussen, Rachel Musson, Colin Webster, Julie Kjaer, Dee Byrne, Cath Roberts and myself! Photo by @mike__sands
Ti/om Rehearsing Feb 2014
There hasn’t been much news on Ti/om recently, but we’ve been hard at work in the rehearsal room. We’re currently sounding something like this…
Upcoming gigs – Spring 2014
Sunday March 2nd – Madwort’s Mechanical Mindset @ Jazz at the Salisbury, 8:30pm
The Mechanical Mindset featuring Dave O’Brien will be hitting North London’s Salisbury Hotel on Green Lanes, alongside the Josef Stout Sextet.
8:30pm at The Salisbury Hotel, 1 Grand Parade, Green Lanes, London N4 1JX
Monday March 24th – Trio Riot featuring the Saxoctopus @ Vortex, 8:30pm
A new collaboration has its first outing at Trio Riot‘s Vortex gig. After Trio Riot’s set, they will be augmented by a further six saxophone players (including myself) for a total of eight saxophones. Chaos ensues.
Tuesday April 22nd – Ti/om @ Servant Jazz Quarters, Dalston
Ti/om will be playing at Dalston’s Servant Jazz Quarters as one of three Brockley-centric improvising duos. With the other duos Ripsaw Catfish (feat. Anton Hunter & Cath Roberts) & the duo of Colin Webster with Graham Dunning it promises to be a great night!
Thursday April 24th – Ti/om @ LUME at the Long White Cloud, Hackney
Playing at the lovely Long White Cloud cafe in Hoxton alongside Molino de Otoño, featuring John Garcia Rueda, Gabriella Swallow and Visa Kuoppala.
May – Philip Clouts Quartet
I’ll be taking the place of Carlos Lopez-Real for a few dates of the Philip Clouts Quartet. More details to follow…
- Fri 2 May @ Honiton, east Devon
- Sat 3 May @ Stogumber, north Somerset
- Wed 21 May @ Pembrokeshire
Madwort’s Mechanical Mindset at the Vortex Jan 2014
We had a great time playing the developing Mechanical Mindset set to a lovely crowd at the Vortex!
Photo by Cath Roberts
Upcoming gigs – early 2014
Wednesday Jan 8th – Madwort’s Mechanical Mindset @ the Vortex, 8:30pm
We’re very lucky to have the next outing of the Mechanical Mindset at the Vortex alongside Chris Dowding’s Atrocity.
Sunday Feb 2nd – Quadraceratops @ The Salisbury (Green Lanes), 8:30pm
Warm-up gig for the February Quadraceratops recording session, hosted by Jazz at the Salisbury. Should be a good one!
London Jazz Festival 2013 round-up
On the playing side, Cath Roberts‘ Quadraceratops had a brilliant gig at Lume back at its old home Hundred Crows Rising opposite Dee Byrne‘s Entropi. There was a really good audience and the band continues to go from strength to strength. Despite being a South London resident these days, I also depped on bass clarinet & bari sax with the e17 large ensemble, which was a good chance to dust off the bass clarinet and get stuck in…
On the listening side, Wadada Leo Smith at Cafe Oto was immense. Incredibly powerful, expansive, engaging music, although the night that we were there the string quartet didn’t play a very large role. The visuals at that gig were also brilliant, it really felt like another member of the ensemble adding an extra dimension to the experience. Troykestra seemed like a great idea in principle, but was hampered by pretty poor sound in the Purcell Room.