Loop Collective Festival February 17, 2010

Wednesday 17 | 8.00pm | £10 | Book online

8.00pm – Loop Friends Series

Seb Rochford + Leafcutter John
Seb Rochford (drums) and John Burton (laptop).

9.00pm

Sam Crockatt 4tet

10.00pm

Alex Bonney
Tribute to Ayler with special guests Mark Sanders & Paul Dunmall

Thursday 18 | 8.00pm | £10 | Book online

8.00pm

Dog Soup
The band employ effects, samplers and loops to create a swirling bed of music over which to improvise a seething electronic stew of gritty, dark grooves.

9.00pm

Tom Mix

10.00pm

Phronesis

Anton Eger (drums), Ivo Neame (piano), Jasper Hoiby (bass).

Friday 19 | 8.00pm | £12 / 10 | Book online

8.00pm – Loop Friends Series

Yolk
European TV brass trio comprising Matthias Schriefl (trumpet), Daniel Casimir (trombone) and Francois Thuillier (tuba).

9.00pm

Blink
With special guest Vincent Courtois.

10.00pm

Dave Manington’s Riff-Raff

11.00pm

Golden Age of Steam

James Allsopp (tenor sax ), Kit Downes (organ) and Tim Giles (drums).

Saturday 20 | 8.00pm | £12 / 10 | Book online

8:00pm

Ma
Earthy, dub-inflected cyclic grooves and group improvisations that belie the size and instrumentation of the group – Tom Challenger (tenor sax ), Ross Stanley (organ), Dave Smith (drums) and Matt Calvert (laptop).

9.00pm

Fringe Magnetic

10:00pm – Loop Friends Series

Umlaut
Peeping Tom with special guest Evan Parker.

Pierre-Antoine Badaroux (alto sax), Joel Grip (bass), Antonin Gerbal (drums) and Evan Parker (sax).

11.00pm

Gemini

Jim Hart (vibes), Ivo Neame (alto sax), Jasper Hoiby (bass), Dave Smith (drums).

This evening's performance will be recorded by BBC Radio 3

Sunday 21 | 8.00pm | £10/8 | Book online

6.00pm (downstairs at The Vortex)

Duo Sessions @ The Ochre Works
Mark Hanslip (tenor saxophone) & Javier Carmona (drums/percussion)
Rory Simmons (trumpet) & Alex Bonney (trumpet)



8.00pm – Loop Friends Series

Lima
This is Matt Bourne's second ever improvised solo performance using only the legendary Moog Memorymoog analogue synthesizer. Expect a memorable (excuse the pun) sonic and sometimes hilarious journey through its circuits – with ear-splitting frequencies, passages of John Carpenteresque 80's soundtracks and the unmistakable warmth that only 18 voltage-controlled oscillators can produce...

9.00pm

Outhouse

10.00pm

Ivo Neame 4tet

Official Website: http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk