7:30pm The Miller, London Bridge. £5 8pm – Furniture set 9pm Marbles Improv Set 10:00 Hip-hop themed jam
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I’m really looking forward to this gig. So happy to be playing with the Delis. Great songs great music, great atmosphere! The group is just so enjoyable to play with…there’s so much fun and energy and the music can be breathtakingly beautiful. Delicatessen can be as raucous as anybody but also has a more sensitive […]
Beats, Rhymes, Mirth Coming up on Thursday March 3rd. My jazz trio Furniture are back at the Miller in London Bridge. This time we’re joined by improv comedy team Marbles. The night will go roughly as follows: Night goes roughly as follows: 8-9pm Furniture set 9.15pm-10pm Marbles set with Soundtrack 10pm-10.30pm-ish Hip hop jam So […]
The culmination of a week of learning their set by ear was depping at a lovely gig with Balkan/Greek/Turkish/Klezmer/Rai/Rebetiko band Delicatessen in Ladbroke Grove. Here’s a short video featuring music and film from several song – capturing some great audience participation! http://www.facebook.com/deli.music http://www.delicatessenmusic.com/ Youtube Video Playlist of Delicatessen at Ladbroke Grove http://www.youtube.com/p/7B2BAAAF0649BF8E?hl=en_GB&fs=1
Well, this is fun and unexpected. I got a call from one of my former bandmates in Luna Kalamata. The band Delicatessen making themselves a reputation on the London world music scene and their bassplayer was taking a hiatus. I was asked if I could step in. This resulted in a week learning 18 songs […]
Spencer Park. Matt is one of my favourite musicians. It was a joy to watch him play live at our joint gig at the Miller on December 2nd. I brought along my Zoom H4 recorder to grab some audio from Matt’s set. I love the melodic layering of loops in Matt’s music and his sense […]
On December 2nd we were fortunate to play a double header with the great Matt Stevens. Great gig it was too! Thanks for those who showed up despite snow, ice and rumours of zombie hamsters. I was ecstatic hearing Matt play and then got to play with Furniture my new jazz trio with Rob Grundel […]
(Photography by Adam Rhoades) Notes, Music and Coffee Wow! Could have been named after me! This is a fabulous new coffee shop just off Trafalgar Square and close to Leicester Square – practically opposite the National Portrait Gallery. It’s on 31 St Martins Lane and I was delighted to get down to visit today. Get […]
This one is the one we’re all been waiting for. My new jazz Trio, Furniture in a self organised, self promoted double header gig with the incredible looping guitarist Matt Stevens You really need to come down to this!
Really excited about my new trio! We’ve had a few rehearsals and some fabulous conversations. Robb, the keyboardist writes some fabulous tunes and has a really developed approach to creating music that tells a story. Tadas, the drummer, loves the Bad Plus and Keith Carlock and swings wonderfully and has a painterly, visual arts approach […]
Phil Wain 