Thursday 5 September 2024, 7.30pm
Doors are at 7:30pm and music starts at 8pm.
Robyn's Rocket is when artist Robyn Rocket turns Cafe OTO into a homemade spaceship. Things area a bit different at a rocket:
- there are always artists with and without Learning Disabilities and Autism
- there is a timetable with artists being represented by a shape and colour on the timetable, stage and merch table
- active hosting and crew; Robyn and crew all wear bright yellow crew t shirts and want to welcome everyone
- you can feedback on card stars in pictures or words; we also have a survey monkey
- gigs are streamed with at least 2 cameras and videos etc between live acts, aiming for the at-home audience to have a more TV-like experience
- Cheap ish tickets £10 on the door , £8 in advance £6 for cafe OTO members ( free to join if your on a low income or unwaged).
- we can lend you ear defenders and sunglasses
- we can provide good quality ear plugs you can take away with you
- we have a range of sitting options include cushions at the front in our squish pit
- Rocket communication badges: up = happy to talk to anyone, sideways = only want to talk to people i know, down = don't want to talk to anyone – everyone gets a rocket badge
- chat points with prompts to help those who may need help with communication
- actively trying to improve - we wont get it right for evreyone all the time but we are doing our best
- live visuals on the walls and celling so there's another way to experience the gig
Robyn's Rocket Social Story: https://www.robynrocket.com/s/7624social-story_final.docx
ALTERNATIVE TICKET LINK: https://wegottickets.com/event/631668/
STREAM THE EVENT HERE:
Robyn Rocket : "Hi I'm Robyn Rocket I play space trumpet which is trumpet through guitar pedals. I am supported by arts Organisation Heart N Soul who believe in the power and talents of people with Learning Disabilities and Autistic people. I love making visual art too and make comics/zines and also enjoy making radio. I have a radio show on resonance fm called Robyn Rocket's Zoom Zoom and podcast series Robyn Rocket Zoom Zoom . I like playing with other people and making it up as we go along , because I think its a really honest way to make music your just responding to each other in the moment , rather then trying to play something perfectly , I am disabled and my disabilities inform my practice, both in the way I play , I have a very short , short term memory so cant really learn tunes by ear , but I can use a loop pedal to be like a extension of my memory But also I can use my creative practice to include more people firstly informed by my own experiences of feeling unwelcome in a space and then trying to change things to address the barriers I faced and then by actively trying to welcome people in who may not normally feel welcome in a space, and ask for their feedback on how to be more welcoming and try to do the feedback. I now provide access consultancy for promoters, venues and festivals. You can hear my music at https://robynrocket.bandcamp.com/"
MF Tomlinson with a 6 or 7 piece band performing new songs from his new album.
Daylight Studios are a studio inside a day centre for people with Learning Disabilities. Three artists from the studio will be performing https://open.spotify.com/track/2MzvtSIJkivZiBdsoNnDlg?si=9c152a3cc47b4148
The 4th EP from Robyn Rocket and people you may of heard of; a project bringing together people from Cafe OTO, Total Refreshment Centre and the Learning Disability autism community into 3 groups on 3 different days with the only constant being Robyn playing space trumpet.
Alex Ward's diverse musical activities since the early '90s have straddled the worlds of free improvisation, contemporary composition and avant rock, and have seen him work with such significant musical figures as Derek Bailey, Duck Baker, Lol Coxhill, Eugene Chadbourne, Simon H. Fell, Thurston Moore, Joe Morris, Steve Noble, Evan Parker, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Pat Thomas and Weasel Walter, amongst a host of others. His work as a composer/bandleader has encompassed his own ensembles such as Predicate, Forebrace, the Alex Ward Quintet and Items 4, 6, 7 & 10, alongside collaborative projects such as his duos with Dominic Lash, Jem Doulton (as Dead Days Beyond Help) and Sean Noonan (as Noonward); while his solo releases have ranged from unaccompanied performances on clarinet and guitar to the layered studio creations found on 2021's Gated. He currently plays guitar and sings in math/noise trio Heckle Chamber (with Roberto Sassi and Jem Doulton), and is working on the completion of the final album by legendary band Pere Ubu (which he joined in 2021) alongside the other surviving members.
"...guitarist Alex Ward [is] a compulsively creative polymath... a reliably unpredictable axe-hero for collaborators of all backgrounds." – Stewart Lee, The Sunday Times Review
