Labake Sabbath

Labake Sabbath is a dynamic singer and spoken word artist who is also a lyrical free improviser. She writes music often with playful humour, sometimes about her lived experiences. This includes themes such as navigating public transport with limited mobility, memories of her friends who have passed on and celebrations of The Gate where she makes strong visual art as well as her music. Her live show incorporates this visual art and is as sincere and heartfelt as it is humorous. Her recent collaboration with Wayne from The Gate, who makes distinct drones on keys, brings in a frank and bewitching spoken word aspect to her work.

'There are 17 songs on the debut album by Labake Sabbath, but despite this relative glut and its variable styles, it flies by with a keen balance of emotion and humour, personal and political.' — Noel Gardner, The Quietus

Mr AKA Amazing

Duane Warner (known as Mr AKA Amazing) makes distinctively vulnerable lo-fi hip-hop and distorted EDM, which he builds around voice notes using his phone. His softly spoken lyrics are raw and vulnerable, often about feeling misunderstood, although when performing live he enters a hyped-up surrealist MC mode. Duane loves to collaborate, and recently stormed Bristol with an impromptu appearance with super-versatile drummer Dan Johnson, which has led to this first ever London appearance of the duo.

'Illegibility Mistakable: Master AKA Mr Amazing on Collapsing Drums collects several tracks from earlier, self-released albums – Think Big and Am I Being Unreasonable – into one righteous lump of lo-fi hiphop that’s somewhere between cLOUDDEAD and Adam Bohman. “MANGOBAY” sounds like someone wrestling with the ideas of life and relationships while speaking through a broken supermarket tannoy.' — Spenser Tomson, The Wire

Gate Loops

Gate Loops is an experimental collective of adults with learning disabilities from The Gate in Shepherd's Bush, London. The project began as an accessible vehicle to encourage folks who don't normally play musical instruments (and one or two that do!) to jam and join in, in a freeform way loosely based around a structure developed in workshops. Using self-made noise boxes, tape loops, loop pedal, laptop and videotape-synth setup, the performance is improvised around a prepared structure.

Sly & The Family Drone

'After our joyous collaboration at the ICA in 2019, Sly are excited to collaborate again with our friends from the Gate!
Expect semi-controlled chaos and a celebration of the joys of truly open, spontaneous and collaborative music-making. A beautiful spillage of interwoven rhythms, blistering arches of saxophone, half-heard voices, catapulting tape delays, amplifier feedback and more, steered into multidirectional frenzy or unified gallop by the nuanced interactions of improvisatory committee'
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