An Evening of Improvised Music and Comedy –

With Mark Sanders, Larry Stabbins Duo plus Dave Waller!

Event starts Friday 20th @ 7:00pm, make sure you get there for the 7:30 performance!

Mark Sanders is a  drummer/percussionist who  has worked with a host of renowned musicians including Roscoe Mitchell, Joelle Leandre, Myra Melford, Henry Grimes, Sylvie Courvoisier, and Mahmoud Gania’s Ensemble, Nicole Mitchell, Derek Bailey, Henry Grimes, Mathew Shipp, Evan Parker, Roswell Rudd.   And performed in duo and quartets with Wadada Leo Smith  including with his group ‘Fire-Love Expanse’ and trios with Charles Gayle with Sirone and William Parker at concerts and festivals all over the world, including South Africa, Mozambique, Japan, Australia, Russia, USA, Canada, Turkey and Morocco.

He has several long term groupings including a  working duo with Nicole Mitchell, Neil Charles’ “Dark Days” with Cleveland Watkiss and Pat Thomas as well as  ‘Shifa’ with Rachel Musson & Pat Thomas and SAROST with Larry Stabbins and 7string Bassist Paul Rogers

During a 50+ year career across the spectrum of music saxophonist Larry Stabbins has worked with most of the important figures at the cutting edge of European Jazz and Improvisation from Mike Westbrook to Keith Tippett and Tony Oxley and Germany’s Peter Brotzmann,  as well as working with Robert Wyatt and Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA. Alongside this he played in the seminal pop group Weekend and formed Working Week with guitarist Simon Booth, a project that took a melange of latin, soul and jazz into the world of pop and dance music.
Since then, different projects of his own across the range of his interests have varied from totally improvised small groups and solo performances to “Jazz Rap” ( QRZ?) in the early 1990s, “FreeJazz TechnoFunk” (Game Theory) early 2000s, “Psychedelic Hip Hop” ( Stonephace) and freeish “Spiritual Jazz” (Stonephace Stabbins with Zoe Rahman)  around 2010. And currently in a quartet “137”with Adrian Utley and Jim Barr of the cult  band “Portishead” and Percussionist Sebastien Rochford

The Duo have a new CD out now on Discus Music “Cup and Ring”
https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/cup-ring-191cd-2025

Scratch performance: A Show For Spoken Word Records and Saxophone 

Dave Waller trawled the dustiest corners of the world’s record shops collecting instructional spoken word LPs as the raw materials to sample and make stuff.

In this performance, the written word meets vinyl records, improvisation and saxophone. It’s an ode to the power of music, working through your nonsense, and finding wisdom in the strangest places – such as dusty copies of “Morse Code for Airmen” and “Carry On Smoking And Die”.