Doors 3.30 | music 4pm | £10 cash on the door
Paul Margree is a sound artist and improvisor from London. A regular (ish) visitor to Eddie Prevost’s improvisation workshop sessions, he blends explorations of everyday objects with feedback systems to explore ideas of instability and stasis. He usually works under IVY NOSTRUM moniker but has been known to use his real name.
Helena Paul has been involved in projects, gigs and sessions/workshops with Camilla Cancantata (Footloose Community Arts) over many years; these include theatrical and musical improvisation in various settings, operas including Soya Susie and Carbon Chronicles; collective work including Burnt Bridges Theatre (1982-6) and Terabac Theatre (2016-17), System 50:50 for improvisers and a regular attendance at the London Improvisers Workshop. She is also a poet, see https://poetryspeaksong.com/ and artist
Mark Browne has explored the possibilities of the saxophone for 40 years and has played with Alpha Males, The Unseemly Trio and is currently a member of the trio Crush!!! (with Sonic Pleasure and Paul Twine). Latterly incorporating percussion (gongs and cymbals) into his performance, Mark’s sense of bathos has been noted encompassing both the virtuosic and the inept. The sonic territory he maps touches the spikiness of European free improvisation and the soul of free jazz with the jarring jump cuts of musique concrete and the textures of contemporary electronic music.
Alec McGory (SquidCore): An absence of traditional schooling, child prodigy Alec was exhibited by his father Leopold around all of the major European cities before the age of 5. The trauma of the freakshow lifestyle and being under the public gaze for so many years took its toll on Alec who for some years after became reclusive and unwashed. Abandoning his early heroes, Nick Drake and Howard Hughes, he developed the persona of a be-suited street gangster, stubbing cigarettes out on his forehead was a regular act of defiance. His character became even more slippery, as he developed a morbid taste for home grown foie gras and the ritual killing of baby animals.
