Tuesday 21 April 2026, 7.30pm
“The first evening of Adam’s residency incorporates two groups whose members are essentially incognito. Sandwiched between them is the titular eponym with all that entails.”
Simon Stylites, the lead singer of the Dave Craught Five, said something quite extraordinary to me the other day. He said, “I hope I never ever see Dave Craught again. We live in fear of him walking through the door of a nightclub when we are playing” and it is true that there is no love lost between Craught and the current members of DC5, the aforementioned Simeon, Jack McGrumber and Graeme Illustration. Let’s hope they can- try and keep those thoughts at the back of their minds and play a blistering set. Although their music has been described as devastatingly ordinary, to these ears it embodies the very essence of polka.
Adam Bohman’s solo set will feature a specially prepared example of his text manipulation as well as an improvisation on his ‘amplified objects’ - seemingly a random array of bric-a-brac on a trestle table.
It was during the cruel winter of 2001 that Jonathan and Adam Bohman stepped off the viewing platform of the Dieppe gas terminal and bumped into the recently sacked BBC sound engineers Leonard Aspen and Roger Boulding. During the terrible ferry journey back to the UK that almost resulted in the death of a salesman, an alliance of sorts was born. An unfortunate delay due to the emergency extraction of one of Leonard’s molars meant the quartet’s first Ischio Romantico recording session could not take place until the following June. The bold fruits of that session found their way onto a compact disc release and plans were laid for a second session. However the slow progress of the removal of one of Adam’s bicuspids held up the much anticipated Ischio reunion until now. The performance will include an opportunity for the audience to examine the state of the quartet’s teeth along with a selection of gratis dentistry tools hand carved from Madagascan onyx by the band members during the mild winter of 2015.
After a hiatus of some fifteen years, multi-instrumentalist Romuald Wadych has joined forces with The Bohman Brothers once again. This time the band name is The Dave Craught Five. They play good time music and are happy to play whatever their audience desires. Most of their gigs are east of The Danube and their cabaret work has prevented them from recording anything, but ear witness reports have been unanimous in their opprobrium.
Adam Bohman has been operating on the outer fringes of underground music for decades. Working with home-built instruments, found objects, tape cut-ups, collages, ink drawings and graphic scores. Favouring acoustic sounds over electronics, he explores the minute tendrils of sounds coaxed from any number of non-musical instruments and objects. He is a member of British experimental groups, Morphogenesis, The Bohman Brothers, Secluded Bronte, and The London Improvisers Orchestra. Adam's music is unique and experimental, incorporating Fluxus japery, musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation.
Roger Boulding and Leonard Aspen fled Maida Vale in the late 1990s, retaining their white coats and bespoke lanyards. They quite physically bumped into The Bohman Brothers at Listen Grove, the gentleman’s club for acousticians. Together they hatched a plan to perform at The Bonnington Centre, Vauxhall in 2001, wait 13 years, then give the recording to Luke Fowler, who would release it on his Shadazz label, then wait another ten years to start recording again – this time in a studio recently abandoned by Katrina & The Waves. Then wait another two years and...
