From London’s Vortex:
SAT 11 MAY • 20.00 • £10 • MD
Legendary free-form pioneers, the People Band, return to the Vortex with a multi-media spectacular. They first unleashed their anarchic and tribal energies in the sixties and have recorded with Charlie Watts, appeared in Mike Figgis‘ ‘Stormy Monday’, and gigged extensively throughout the country and abroad. This show will be a ground-breaking collaboration with artist Gina Southgate, involving real-time projections of her live paintings.The band is a collective whose members include Mel Davis, Terry Day, Tony Edwards, Mike Figgis, Charlie Hart, Adam Hart, Paul Jolly, George Khan, Davey Payne. Contextualize it how you like, there’s nothing like a People Band gig, and this will be no exception.THUR 16 • 20.30 • £9 • MD
ALBATRE + DEAD NEANDERTHALS
A night of music direct from the burgeoning Dutch improv, noise rock and jazz scene. Rotterdam-based experimental trio Albatre’s sound takes an urgent sax and bass with skewed jazz elements, frantic but meticulous drumming and creates something utterly thrilling. Sax & drums duo Dead Neanderthals aims directly for the jugular with their new album ‘Polaris’, an all-acoustic tour de force mastered by the king of noise: Lasse Marhaug. Dead Neanderthals have performed alongside Shining (No), Napalm Death, Staer, MoHa!, Gum Takes Tooth and Gnod.
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