15 February 2026

Simian Carbuncle

Simian Carbuncle are a guitar duo exploring the sonic possibilities of unorthodox techniques. Matt Clark and regular collaborator Ade Southby are two like-minded and exploratory improvisors regularly performing in the improvised music scenes of Brighton and London.

Sam Bailey & Kit Bula

Sam Bailey is a musician, organiser and teacher who brings people together through culture and makes exciting things happen. His expertise covers classical piano, jazz improvisation and free improvisation with a focus on collaborative performances ranging from chamber music and bands to work with dancers, poets, filmmakers, photographers and chefs. Current/recent projects include managing and performing in an award-winning series of adventurous music and combined arts events called Free Range and the year-long site-specific performance project Piano in the Woods.

Kit Bula is a drummer and percussionist renowned across the South East for pioneering the Fray Bentos sound, co-developing freak rock (with The Mystic Shed) and spearheading the burgeoning Bexhill-on-Sea avant-garde scene (as Brothers Bula). He has been playing for almost three quarters of his time on Earth and has recently released a solo-ish album All This Young Chump Wants is Drum. Between the 18th February 2026 and the 18th February 2027 Kit intends to play 25 gigs in 25 different towns in order to celebrate his 25th birthday, if anyone has a musical venue, library, shop or public toilet available for him to play in please send him your address and a date and time and he will do it.

Barbara Mukoda, Stuart Wilding & Pete Robson

Barbara Mukoda chooses to use little to no vibrato across the range of flutes that she plays; Concert Flute, Piccolo and Alto Flute. This tonal choice in her playing has been described as true, authentic and Her.

Barbara’s improvisation blends long lyrical lines with short, shrill flutter-tonguing notes to produce a striking sound that is straight from the heart.

Stuart Wilding is an improvising percussionist, playing a mixture of junk percussion, lap harp and cello. He is active in several current collaborations: Ghost Mind, Longstone, Lo-fi Ensemble, Mike Adcock duo, Pete Robson duo, Professori Sognare, Madrona, the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra and Chris Cundy’s Speed Hobby. He currently runs the Lo-fi Improvised music Workshops in Camberwell. In the past he has worked in a number of smaller improvising ensembles and with the Flying Down Trio, Hither Green Drone Orchestra and Makeshift. He was also a performer and musician with the Hand in Glove Performance Group.

Pete Robson is an improvising pianist and trumpeter. Trained classically and in brass bands. He was a member of the London Musicians Collective in the 1980s and has followed a path in improvised musics and free jazz ever since. He was a member of The Improvised Music Ensemble in Portsmouth in the 1990s and of the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra in the early 2000s.