Thursday 15 May 2025, 7.30pm
petals has been playing mostly underground on the improvising scene in London. She is leaving the uk this summer and is bringing together a few friends to make some music. This evening's programme will showcase tobi Adebajo and the dog’s paw trio alongside Delia Detritus and dove/ Christine Kirubi and some unannounced guest appearances.
tobi Adebajo is an anti-disciplinary artist — movement practitioner, poet, performer, singer, and writer — whose work explores transcendence, disability, desire, healing, and queer love. Since 2009, tobi has brought their powerful presence to stages across the globe, creating work that is intimate, resonant, and unapologetically rooted in lived experience. Their artistry pushes against conventional boundaries, inviting audiences into spaces of reflection, vulnerability, and radical connection.
petals is a multi instrumentalist, composer of frantic musics, a retired poet, and author of kalimba, marsh-river-raft-feather, & glee & bless ~ all titles by guillemot press. petals is interested in cats, bells, playing hard (like her and your life depend on it), improvisation and gathering seemingly irreconcilable sounds and textures. petals also loves arranging flowers and making lamps.
The Dog's Paw Trio are a multi- instrumentalist trio interested in play improvisation and silly songs. They are Ed Shipsey, Jordan Muscatello and petals. Their influences and playing traditions range from traditional African folk musics all the way to free jazz, chamber music, and improvised music. They have a new CD release ‘patience then light’ out on ZOK Records.
dove / Christine Kirubi is a poet-artist based in London. She is the author of WILDPLASSEN published by the87press in 2024.
Delia Detritus is an improvising musician and sculptor, based in South London. She performs solo with vocals and modular synthesizers, and plays drums in the band Meat Strap.
