Really excited to share with you the poster thats been designed for our November tour by the always amazing Angela Guyton – check it out! Keep an eye out for posters and flyers in a city near you very soon…
Also the tour has been made even more official by the fact that it now has its very own facebook page… Tell the world you’ll be there by clicking here, and whilst you’re on facebook why not become a fan!
Posted by on 12/10/2010 at 18:43 in gigs and tagged angela guyton, facebook, leeds, leicester, liverpool, london, london jazz festival, manchester, november, poster, sheffield, tour. Leave comments here.
I’m very excited to officially announce that we’ll be touring England in November 2010, playing in Leicester, Liverpool, Leeds, London, Sheffield and ending in Manchester. If you’ve been paying close attention to the gigs page on the website or myspace, you’ll know the details already but if not, the dates and venues are as follows:
Sunday 7th November – Y Theatre, Leicester
Monday 15th November – Studio 2, Parr St Studios, Liverpool
Tuesday 16th November – The Wardrobe, Leeds
Sunday 21st November – Spice of Life, Soho (London Jazz Festival)
Wednesday 24th November – Lescar, Sheffield
Saturday 27th November – Matt & Phreds, Manchester
For full details including venue addresses, ticket prices and times, check the gigs page. See you down the front!
Posted by on 22/09/2010 at 17:32 in gigs, news and tagged england, gigs, leeds, leicester, liverpool, london, london jazz festival, manchester, november, sheffield, tour. Leave comments here.
If you’re a subscriber to the Beats & Pieces mailing list you’ll already have heard about this from the latest newsletter but if not, I hope you’ll be as excited as we are about our upcoming tour dates all over England and Wales! Dates as they stand are as follows:
Friday 21st May – The Forge, Camden (info & tickets)
Saturday 5th June – Groove on the Green, Liverpool (info)
Tuesday 8th June – Dempseys, Cardiff (info)
Wednesday 9th June – Jazzland, Swansea (info & tickets)
Thursday 1st July – Bridgewater Hall (bar), Manchester (free gig after RNCM Symphony Orchestra perform music by Jonny Greenwood & Stravinsky – info)
Saturday 10th July – Marlborough Jazz Festival (info & tickets)
For more information check out the individual venue websites as listed below or the gigs page. You can also join the facebook group for the tour here.
We’ll also be playing with the Jo McCallum & Alice Zawadski Orchestra at a secret venue in Manchester on Thursday 20th May… Location to be revealed a few days before on this site, twitter, myspace and facebook – keep those eyes peeled!
It’d be awesome to see you down the front at one (or more…) of the dates, do come and say hi! We’re all well excited and counting down the days, not long now…
p.s. thanks again to the amazing Angela Guyton for letting us use her artwork again for the poster!
Posted by on 30/04/2010 at 11:54 in gigs, news and tagged bridgewater, camden, cardiff, dempseys, forge, jazzland, liverpool. groove on the green, london, manchester, marlborough, swansea, tour, uk. Leave comments here.
I’ve just put up a couple of gigs that have recently been confirmed for the coming months… There’s a few more in the pipeline too so keep checking the gigs page for the latest news!
4/02/10 The Spin Off, Bar Santiago, Leeds
21/05/10 The Forge Venue, Camden
We’ll also be playing at the Marlborough Jazz Festival over the weekend of the 9th July – exact day to be confirmed but should be a good one!
Posted by on 19/01/2010 at 13:14 in beats & pieces, gigs, news and tagged beatsandpieces, beatsnpieces, camden, forge, gig, leeds, london, marlborough, spinoff. Leave comments here.
Been seeing a few articles and mentions of Pat Metheny’s new project around, thought I’d share…
When I first saw this video I thought it was a bit underwhelming, it just seemed a bit pointless to me to have whats essentially a glorified MIDI controlled sound module and not use it to its full advantage… The player piano works of people like Conlon Nancarrow that Metheny talks about on his website were composed and developed because at the time humans weren’t considered physically and/or mentally capable of accurately realising their music due to the complex, often mathematical rhythms, or massive chords far beyond the capabilities of ten human fingers – at least in that preview video, there didn’t appear to be anything in that vein that humans couldn’t do? So I was a bit puzzled as to the musical point of the project, the technical point of the project obviously being the super geek coolness of programming and controlling hundreds of robotic arms.
But then I read this article in the Guardian that talks about Pat controlling everything in real time by sending MIDI messages through Ableton Live, and suddenly everything became a lot cooler… As far as I understand it, the plan is to be able to control the ensemble in such a way that he can improvise with himself each night – sounds like a technical nightmare and frankly a bit of a bitch for one man to control live on stage, but if he can pull it off its going to be amazing; musically, technically and visually. I’d love to go but at present the only tickets left for the Barbican gig are £65… Time to scour eBay I think.
(Incidentally, looking at the tour schedule on Metheny’s website, does anyone else find it disappointing that there’s loads of dates inside certain countries but still only one in the UK? Obviously this is not a fault of Metheny or his people but it seems quite common to me that people only play in London when they’re doing European tours and its a shame there isn’t enough of a demand amongst audiences and/or promoters to make gigs outside London commercially viable…)
Posted by on 13/01/2010 at 13:35 in misc and tagged barbican, london, metheny, orchestrion, patmetheny. Leave comments here.
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