‘Skin and Bone’ are playing at Nottingham Street Art Festival at 2pm on Saturday August 6th. ‘Skin and Bone’ are an exciting percussion / electronics trio of myself, Greg Rawson and George Grignon. The gig is at The Surface Gallery, 16, Southwell Road, NG1 1DL. Free. All welcome!

Preparations are going apace for the Marsden Jazz Festival performance of the ‘Pursuance” project. We are myself (percussion / electronics) Laura Cole (Piano and text) Faye MacCalman (sax) Lara Jones (sax and electronics) We are on at 4pm, Saturday October 6th , in St Bartholomew’s Church, Marsden. There will be some of my paintings on show, projections of my work and some amazing music. Not to be missed.

At the moment I have work at the Creative Melbourne Gallery, Wellington House, Church Street, Melbourne. DE73 8EJ
It’s part of an exhibition, ‘Light and Shade’, which runs from March 30th to April 23rd.
The gallery is open Thursday to Sunday.
Check out this exciting show while it is still on.

I will have a one person exhibition at the Dubrek Gallery, starting on May 2nd until the end of that month on 31st May.
Dubrek has only recently moved into this wonderful new space at 67, Bridge Street, Derby, DE1 3LB
It’s next door to Banks Mill, studios, and gallery.
Watch out for exciting news soon about a performance I will be involved with in the space during the exhibition.
Many thanks to Jay Dean and Jonny Hill for making this possible.

The Martin Archer trio now has released an album, ‘See You Soon Or See You Sometime’, on the Discus label.
It has Martin on saxophones, Michael Bardon on bass and myself on percusion.
A must to check out!

Finally, I have been invited to play Marsden Jazz Festival in October with Laura Cole ( piano and poetry ), Faye MacCalman ( Sax ) and Lara Jones ( sax and electronic soundscapes )
It will be part of an ongoing project, ‘Pursuance’, involving my imagery, Laura’s poetry, interacting, and Faye and Lara responding too with sounds.
The gig will take place in The Mechanics Hall, Marsden, Yorkshire on the afternoon of Saturday, October 8th.
After 30 years of evolving, Marsden Jazz Festival is now one of the leading festivals in the UK for Jazz, Improvisation and Contemporary Sounds.

I am continuing to contribute pieces monthly to The United Isolation Ensemble.
https://unitedisolationensemble.bandcamp.com

The Martin Archer trio album with myself on percussion and Michael Bardon on bass will be out on Discus early next year.

I will be doing a gig at Marsden Jazz Festival 2022, celebrating my ongoing collaboration with musician / poet Laura Cole.
My paintings will be shown along with Laura reciting her poems, all accompanied by music from myself on percussion, Laura on piano, Faye MacCalman on sax and Lara Jones electronic soundscapes.

In late August I will be up in Sheffield doing a studio album with Martin Archer on saxes and Michael Bardon on bass. The trio will be out on the Discus label later in the year.

I’m really pleased to say that I have been selected as part of the top ten album art for 2020 by “A Closer Listen“