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
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/"
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.
