Thursday 15 June 2023, 8pm
Robyn's Rocket is a homemade spaceship in Cafe OTO, which tries to help as many people as possible feel welcome.
The gigs are timetabled a bit differently to other Cafe OTO events, with three 30 min sets (each set played by a different artist) , and all artists billed equally. Artists with and without learning disabilities / autistic artists sharing music and visual art alongside artist without disabilities.
The event is also hosted by Robyn Rocket. Rocket badges are used to tell people if you want to chat to new people or not, or if you just don't want to chat while a band is playing.
The night is fun, and aims to bring new people to Cafe OTO together with Cafe OTO regulars.
Alternate ticket link: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/583759/
Ann Bukla
Rotten Bliss
Phil Minton + Robyn Rocket
Live visuals
Rucksack cinema and Samir
"I am a musician author and educator , I play Trumpet through guitar effect pedals,
I was classically trained age 8-15 but didn’t get anywhere as I have always been into Avante Garde minded, but in January 2016 I saw a band called spaceheads.
I also joined Tony Douglas MBE’s beginners big band and learnt how to use my ears." – Robyn Steward
For a long time now Phil Minton has been working as a improvising singer, solo and in groups and situations at various locations all over the place, deserts, quarries, concert halls, pubs, holes, dodgy clubs, containers, up trees, in prisons, on mountains, in churches, under bridges and cafe oto etc.
Phil Minton comes from Torquay. He played trumpet and sang with the Mike Westbrook Band in the early 60s - Then in dance and rock bands in Europe for the later of part of the decade. He returned to England in 1971, rejoining Westbrook and was involved in many of his projects until the mid 1980′s.
For most of the last forty years, Minton has been working as an improvising singer in lots of groups, orchestras, and situations. Numerous composers have written music especially for his extended vocal techniques. He has a quartet with Veryan Weston, Roger Turner and John Butcher, and ongoing duos, trios and quartets with above and many other musicians, including tours with American singer Audrey Chen - with whom he has sang far and wide in the last ten years.
Since the eighties, His Feral Choir, where he voice-conducts workshops and concerts for anyone who wants to sing, has performed in over twenty countries.
Story - future - world - desire - wild - wild - wild - new. This is the drumming of dreams. It's about opposites. It's about union. It's about stretching beyond what limits us, and about trying to be whole. Ultimately, it's about merging the real with the dream into something new.
