Monday 7 September 2026, 7.30pm
An evening of perfomance, electronics, dance, poetry; deconstructions of all of that and the inbetweens, with Glasgow/Tokyo based Katz Mulk who will be joined by pals and collaborators for their first gig back at OTO in 5 years. A rare solo set from Keiko Yamamoto of OTO favourites O Yama O. Second time performance from duo Serious Concertina (Florence Uniacke and Jess Hickie-Kallenbach). Plus first time duo of Tom Betteridge and Laurel Uziell (Egg Meat).
Laurel Uziell is one of many pseudonyms used by the self-described ‘finger artist’ Collette Mingely. She can make over 14 different sounds.
florence uniacke is a poet living in london. recent publications include suiving, ma bibliotheque, 2020. Vocable, crater press, 2023. Speeches of mary, veer 2 , 2024 and in frame/drum song coming with veer 2 later this year.
Keiko Yamamoto (b.1979 Japon)
Keiko works with drawings, papers, songs and voices and a bit of dance.
She has a music project called O YAMA O with Rie Nakajima and they have released their first album from Mana Records produced by David Cunningham and the record has a beautiful writing by David Toop. The band has played many venues and festivals often accompanied by Billy Steiger and Marie Roux.
photo by Mary Hurrell
Jess h-k sings and lives and writes in London. mostly flirts with misdirection.
H-k sings in band Still House Plants with best mates David Kennedy and Finlay Clark.
Tom Betteridge is a poet and sound maker living in London. His experiments with voice, sound poetry, feedback and tape have been released by Chocolate Monk (pinkfoot, March 2024), Falt (adits, December 2023) and Brachliegen Tapes (pearly, May 2023). Tom's most recent self-released work, curtain-fire (October, 2024), was written on residency at the Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre: https://tombetteridge.bandcamp.com/album/curtain-fire
