Mark Wastell / Tansy Spinks / Gus Garside / Adrian Southby

About

Mark Wastell is a versatile improvising musician who has played a central role in the British improvised music scene for over a quarter of a century. He has performed and recorded extensively and his varied resume includes projects with Derek Bailey, Phil Durrant, John Butcher, Evan Parker, John Zorn, David Toop, Stewart Lee, Maggie Nicols, Thurston Moore and David Sylvian among many others.

Tansy Spinks is an artist, sound artist, and performer. She has been a regular member of The London Improvisers Orchestra, the weekly London Improvisation Workshop (with Eddie Prevost) and has performed in many alternative venues such as Café Oto, Iklectik, Hundred Years Gallery and many more, playing alongside many notable performers of live improvisation, on violin, objects and with voice.

Gus Garside is a double bassist mainly concentrating on improvised music, free jazz and contemporary music. He plays in several different groups including his longstanding string trio Arc. He has worked on three highly acclaimed albums as part of the Ron Caines/Martin Archer Axis, and has created structured improvisations for performance in the UK and Canada featuring leading players in both countries and is on a new collaboration with dancer Mim King. He is also founding member of the Brighton Safehouse collective.

Adrian Southby plays in the prepared electric guitar duo Simian Carbuncle with Matt Clark, a duo with Daniel Spicer - Fettucini Spicer - and is a long-standing improvisor at Safehouse. He has also released numerous solo albums, including the recent The Parasitologists' Songbook, a musical homage to parasitic creatures. He plays with The Golgis, and leads the avant prog jazz metal power trio Dragons of Disgust.