Thursday 22 February 2024, 7.30pm
Three-day residency with the great Charles Hayward!
Charles Hayward is an English drummer/singer/composer and was a founding member of the experimental rock groups This Heat and Camberwell Now. He also played with early European improv group Mal Dean's Amazing Band and gigged and recorded with Phil Manzanera in Quiet Sun as well as a short stint with Gong. Since the late 80's he has concentrated on solo projects and collaborations, including Massacre (with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith), Monkey Puzzle Trio and Albert Newton (with Pat Thomas and John Edwards). The project This Is Not This Heat has recently completed a 3 year series of performances in UK, Europe, US and Japan.
Throughout a nearly 50 year career Charles has developed idiosyncratic attitudes and insights into a wide range of soundwork, spanning improvisation, song, sound as sound, using order and chaos as creative energies. He curates a six monthly series of performances, workshops and installation called Charles Hayward Presents on behalf of Lewisham Arthouse for Albany Theatre. Recent releases include ‘Objects of Desire’ cassette on Blank Editions and the piano centred song cycle ‘Begin Anywhere’ on Klanggalerie & God Unknown Records.
“As impassioned and animated offstage as behind his massive drumkit, Charles Hayward radiates a genuine intensity. He first came to wide attention as drummer with the highly influential This Heat as the embers of Post-Punk simmered off into wilder experimental tangents. He has released a dozen solo and colaborative albums, and puts on rare solo live shows which pull the raw muscular percussion at the heart of Rock into new shapes with devastatingly powerful results.” – Freq
"Telepathic magic……. Hayward is one of the most life-affirming people who stalks this dark globe." - SOUND PROJECTOR
Charles Hayward: Zigzag+Swirl is an electric set: drums, voice, electronics. music of physicality and fire alarms, lyrical collage of slang, catchphrase and defiance. I’ve been making this music all my life. It keeps changing in front of my ears. Vanguard/Street. Strong beats, stark textures, simple tunes, controlled chance. No 2 performances are the same. And yet everything is structured and geared towards electric song. Enthusiasm and energy. Forward sound! Vanguard/Street. South East London noise.
Charles Hayward: Zigzag+swirl is a solo set of drums, voice, zigzag and swirl, songs in quantum funk, never the same twice, no click, no fixed zero point; forget concepts, this music does not exist in its own orbit it is completed by ears, minds, bodies, the interplay between intent and perception. From This Heat to now: Forward Music!
Lello began making collective noise in Silo, Deptford in 2021. Their noisy, cinematic post-punk is inspired by local cowboys, big hair and shrinking chip shop portions.
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daylightbulb is the noise-punk band of Nathan Greywater (base), Tom Spurling (framework) and Iris Colomb (spokesperson). Together, they combine improvised bass and drums with absurdist cut-up sprechstimme vocals to confront a NEAR AND LUMINOUS FUTURE in which NOTHING GOOD HAPPENS. Warped textures and restless beats contract and collapse, fueled by distorted slogans and impossible imperatives. This project was sparked by the explosive spontaneity of Skronk, Rick Jensen’s legendary free-improvisation sessions.
Nathan Greywater is also a member of Overcomelt and Harmergeddon. Iris Colomb’s projects also include text-sound duo [something’s happening].
