A Qu Junktion
(Fri 25th / 7.30pm / £7)

Night of the drummer. Two visionary percussionist pioneers play a special double headline show. The sum of trillons of backbeat influences including Robert Wyatt, Art Blakey, Gamelan, Hans Bennink, Tony Allen, industrial machines and the rhythm spirit.

Charles Hayward is founder member of This Heat, incredible post punk three piece whose collective improvisations inside a disused meat factory spliced together elements of dub, music concrete and free jazz. Their claustrophic and angular sound collages echoed the Blakian unrest and paranoia of early 80s. Hayward's solo work channels an unromanticised nostalgia for this era into post-utopian drum dreams. His one-man live show is an intoxicating mix of percussive attack, swirling electronics and lyrical fragments. An amazing outpouring of energy from a life affirming presence.

One of the world's leading percussionists, founding father of the industrial movement, pioneering multimedia artist, writer, thinker - z'ev is a modern day renaissance man. As dark, experimental punk was meshing with art school in 70's Europe, z'ev brought non-traditional percussive voicings to the NYC avant-garde scene (influencing Brian Eno among others). Since then he's explored "spatial poetics" in athletic yet graceful live performances that utilise collosal metallic sheets, giant coil springs, interconnected pipes and other found materials culled from the junkyards of the globe. His dozens of collaborative projects include work with John Cage, Glenn Branca, The Hafler Trio, Psychic TV, and Rhythm & Noise. With releases on Touch and John Zorn's Tzadik imprint, he is a musician who responds to the acoustics of a space with a unique mode of performance. A natural force to be reckoned with.