Some photos from Thursday’s gig at The Pipeline, courtesy Chris Hibberd: pic 3) Be Kind Cadaver, pic 6) The Organ Grinder’s Monkey, pic 8) by Mik Hanscomb.
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March 4, 2023 | Categories: Visuals | Tags: be kind cadaver, chibberdy views, gig photos, live music photos, monochrome, pipeline brighton, The Organ Grinder's Monkey, verite | Comments Off on cadavers, monkeys & agony: the evidence
Thanks to Leroy Brown Photography for these noirish shots of last week’s gig with Austerity (fig. 5) & Blue Spectre (6)… Here you see me modelling the “epicene villain” look… Was a great night, very intense, and these capture some of that dark energy. Behold!
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February 11, 2023 | Categories: Gigs, Visuals | Tags: Austerity, Blue Spectre, gig photos, Leroy Brown Photography, live music photos, music photography, The Prince Albert | Comments Off on gig or 50’s Communist jazz club rally? YOU decide
action shots by Charlotte Horton – Eight Miles High Club, Brighton, 30 Sept ’22
Here are some photos from last week’s Eight Miles High gig at the Prince Albert… Also features Barney on drums, Be Kind Cadaver getting all up in yr bizness & 2/5 of Codex Serafini being incredible. It was a very nice night – if you weren’t there I pity you, I really do x
October 2, 2022 | Categories: Visuals | Tags: be kind cadaver, codex serafini, Eight Miles High Club, gig photos, live, Prince Albert Brighton, psych | Comments Off on Eight Miles High, Sept ’22: pixxx

My new track Eerie World got a play on Graham Duff’s Mixtape (Totally Radio) for 13 April – listen to the programme here – good company I’m in.
And here, just because, are some recent live pix – they have that blurry nightmare feel I so enjoy:
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April 17, 2022 | Categories: News, Radio, Visuals | Tags: airplay, gig photos, Graham Duff's Mixtape, new music, radio, Totally Radio | Comments Off on Graham Duff’s Mixtape & random pixxx
Another improv album from Safehouse Brighton – I’m on tracks 1, 17 & 19. This is the fifth in a series of remote collaborations started over lockdown (am on every one except the first), so I’ll skip the blurb; enough to say it’s a big listen and a deep dive into freeform sound adventure. It’s also possibly the lightest, most accessible volume so far; who knows what’ll happen when we reach the end of the alphabet…
That’s one extreme, so here’s the reverse – from the Rossi Bar gig in November showing the other end of what I do:
1) MF – 2) La Pequena Em – 3) Austerity – 4) Austerity/Gulls (photos by Jimmy Guest)
It’s been a blast, somewhat against expectation given how bleak things looked in January – hope to do a lot more next year, and that everyone’s 2022 is utterly fucking fab.
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December 7, 2021 | Categories: Music, News, Visuals | Tags: album release, Austerity, Brighton music venues, free improv, gig photos, Gulls, improvised music, La Pequena Em, Safe House Brighton | Comments Off on new Safehouse album: MNO (plus gig pix)
A brief whizz of noise from Bar 42 the other week – song is Ugly Man.
Here’s the recent Eight Miles High Club gig in Brighton… had some good gigs lately, but this one had to be the most fun in a while – with 2) Fane 3) Melt Plastic Group & 4) the edge of an energetic crowd: all fantastic.
Eight Miles High Club on instagram

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October 25, 2021 | Categories: Gigs, Visuals | Tags: Bar 42, Brighton music scene, Eight Miles High Club, gig photos, gigs, live music, music venues, onstage, performance, Rossi Bar | Comments Off on visual riches, Oct ’21
“Matt played his guitar with menace tonight”
The gig went really well – thanks to Leisure Tank and headliners Skinny Milk. We got reviewed, too, courtesy Plugged In Brighton – link here. A brief video:
And a few pix (thanks to Mik Hanscomb. The out-of-focus shots of the other bands are mine – I’m a musician, not a photojournalist… clearly):
…Onward to the next one.
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February 27, 2020 | Categories: Reviews, Visuals | Tags: DIY gig, gig photos, gig review, gig video, Leisure Tank, live music, Plugged In Brighton, Skinny Milk, The Prince Albert | Comments Off on Feb gig review / visuals
As part of my musical sideline as a (novice) member of the Safehouse collective, here’s some video footage – and photos – from the 25th April gig supporting Shatner’s Bassoon & Bolide, once again courtesy Agata Urbaniak:
…photos on Flickr here

It’s good to branch out…
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May 4, 2018 | Categories: Visuals | Tags: Agata Urbaniak, black and white, Bolide, free improv, gig photos, improvised music, live music photography, live music video, music venue, performance, Safe House Brighton, Shatner's Bassoon, Verdict Jazz Club | Comments Off on live video & pix: Wildcard Quartet, 25 April

Fantastic, atmospheric photos by Agata Urbaniak – follow this link to Flickr for more
These were taken at Sunday’s Bar 42 gig, and include shots of Dran Krwawy, La Pequena Em, Kuroneko… I really like this photographer’s work, which captures the heightened, adrenalised feel of live performance better than most others I can think of – without resorting to any of the obvious moves – so it’s a thrill to be included. Feast yr eyes, glut yr etc.
And for good measure, here’s a video of an unreleased song called Evil Relief :
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April 24, 2018 | Categories: Visuals | Tags: Agata Urbaniak, Bar 42, black and white, Flickr, gig photos, guitars, live music photography, masks, music venue, performance, punk | Comments Off on live video/photos, Bar 42 April ’18 (Agata Urbaniak)
from the 69X End of Year show at Cargo, London, 16th Dec ’17
photos by Paul Newman
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December 21, 2017 | Categories: Visuals | Tags: 69X Music, Cargo, gig, gig photos, live music, London, onstage, Paul Newman photography | Comments Off on Cargo gig pix Dec 17