An evening of music featuring: Tape-hiss séances from The Clothes; folk tunes and free improvisation from C Joynes; experimental songwriting from Rory JS.
Doors 7pm
Tickets: £10-13
The Clothes, is the bilingual chimera of Jasper Baydala & Andreu Serra aka Kool Music & Ubaldo. Their songs are tape-hiss séances, stitching Catalan confessions to English static. Themes shift between spiritual imagery and modern life, exploring journeys and companionship. Together, they don’t perform; they listen to the room breathe, then answer. Not music, but a shared state. A pilgrimage through nowhere.
Over the last decade, C Joynes has ploughed a singular furrow through solo guitar, with a body of work incorporating English folk-tunes alongside North & West African music, and lifting proto-minimalist and improvised techniques from the European classical and avant-garde traditions.
Joynes has released 10 albums to date, including Poor Boy On The Wire (2021), his first solo album dedicated wholly to the electric guitar; The Borametz Tree (2019), recorded with long-term fellow travellers Dead Rat Orchestra; and The Wild Wild Berry, a collaboration with singer Stephanie Hladowski (fROOTS Editors Choice Album Of The Year 2012, MOJO Top 5 Folk Albums 2012). He has recorded a number of sessions for BBC Radio 3. He has also played extensively across the UK, Europe and the USA, sharing bills with a broad range of performers including Shirley Collins, Martin Carthy, Marc Ribot, Richard Dawson, Alasdair Roberts, Jack Rose, Josephine Foster, Sir Richard Bishop, Six Organs Of Admittance and 75 Dollar Bill.
Shifting away from the electric guitar of his most recent solo activities, he’s currently exploring the uses of an amplified archtop guitar, exploiting the instrument’s potential for placing intricate parlour music alongside overdriven garage blues throw-downs and the brittle ringing tones of free improvisation.
We don't know much about Rory JS, he landed to London around 2025 and is been seen around Lewisham.
We heard that he had been using a hotel room as a make shift studio, and the city as a mirror to refract the inside-out, Rory has produced something rarely intimate that asks for little else than what it was made with; simplicity and some kind of warmth... digital, physical, the rest.