NECESSITY
+ SNORKEL
+ CREWDSON

NECESSITY

The initial line-up for this evening which was to feature MONKEY PUZZLE TRIO and CRACKLE has unfortunately had to be cancelled due to an injury to bassist Nick Doyne-Ditmas [we wish him a speedy recovery].....

Stepping in to the void is a new quartet, aptly called NECESSITY, featuring major players on the experimental scene, Charles Hayward, Viv Corringham, Pat Thomas and Ashleigh Marsh.

Charles Hayward - drums, keyboards, melodica

Known as the pioneering drummer with seminal experimental rock band This Heat and Camberwell Now, an ever growing list of solo concerts and cds, special collaborative performances, and is in Massacre with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith.

Recent releases include: 'About' with Pat Thomas, John Coxon and Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip [with whom he has also recently collaborated] and 'Clear Frame' with Hugh Hopper, Lol Coxhill, Orphy Robinson and Robert Wyatt.

“Telepathic magic... ...Hayward is one of the most life affirming who stalks this dark globe” [freq.co.uk]

Charles Hayward on Myspace

Viv Corringham - electric voice, mini-disks

British vocalist, currently based in Minneapolis, USA, who makes performances, installations and soundwalks. Her work has been presented extensively worldwide, and she has collaborated with the likes of Didier Petit, Milo Fine, Peter Cusack, Lol Coxill, Pat Thomas, Eddie Provost, Gino Robair, Maggie Nicols, Ansuman Biswas and Paul Burwell.

Viv Corringham website

Pat Thomas - keyboards

Has been making his mark on the Oxford and London scenes [and elsewhere], both as a pianist and as a performer of electronic keyboards and other electronic gadgetry. Has collaborated with the likes of Derek Bailey, Lol Coxhill, London Improvisors Orchestra, Steve Beresford, Tony Oxley and John Edwards.

Ashleigh Marsh - synth

Musician, composer, engineer, sound sculptor. Recent projects include 'Shape Moreton' with Charles Hayward, Nick Doyne-Ditmas, Rob Mills and Chris Cornetto. Past collaborations include joining Faust on five of their 2007 UK tour dates, 'Anti-clockwise' with Charles Hayward and David Aylward, The Casual Labourers, WITS with Viv Dogan Corringham, Sophia Lycouris and Gina Southgate, and some startling events with the late great Paul Burwell.

SNORKEL

South London-based collective whose members come from different corners of the alternative scene, bringing together the tactics of improvisation, electronica, and sound art. Propelled by the rhythms generated by cheap samplers and drum machines, Snorkel revel in the joy of psychedelic repetition throwing in elastic interruptions on guitar, analogue and digital synthesisers, trombone, live samples and vocals.

Current members include - Ben Cowen [7-Hurtz, Crackle], Frank Byng [Crackle, Spring Tides, Robert Logan], Tom Marriott [Pest], Roberto Sassi [Cardasanto, Vole] and Ralph Cumbers [AKA Bass Clef]

“…the missing link between Krautrock and Lee Scratch Perry” - Rock a Rolla

“…the spirit of Ege Bamyasi-era Can looms large” - The Wire

“ …this is deeply grooved and experimental stuff” – Clash magazine

"This debut from the South London sextet is bathed in the rhythmic propulsion of Can, spiky post-punk Moog/guitar interplay, and the dissonance of This Heat" - Uncut

Snorkel on MySpace

CREWDSON

New signing to the Slowfoot roster, Hugh 'Crewdson' Jones spends his time - when not busy with his current job as technical assistant to producer Matthew Herbert [Accidental Records] - composing intricate gravity defying electronic music.About to release his debut 12" 'Dust EP' [featuring remixes by Grasscut and Bass Clef] to be followed with an album in the spring.

Live as in the studio, Crewdson creates sound from machinery, found items, manipulated vocals and saxophone which he samples and manipulates through his idiosyncratic electronic set up, controlling his sounds with a Playstation joystick and sometimes midi motorcycle handlebars.

"There's a disembodied voice kicking around the sound of a hundred cassette decks unspooling at once. But he's got a beat to counteract, tiny percussion and a broken snare, as though he's throwing the literal kitchen sink full of instrument junk at our stupid American desire to box him in." [Fader]

Crewdson on Myspace