Saturday November 4th – Brighton Corn Exchange Theatre

“People have travelled from all over England and beyond to hear this music and his songs trip, bounce and slide off the stage into eager ears.”

Straight No Chaser From his early days in Soft Machine and work with the likes of Brian Eno, Mike Oldfield and John Cage, to remarkable interpretations of Elvis Costello’s ‘Shipbuilding’  and The Monkees ‘I’m a Believer’, Robert Wyatt has become a legendary, lyrical figure in British music. He has created a wry kind of fusion, not only of jazz with rock but of a particular Englishness with an international view.
Wyatt himself has not appeared on stage for over twenty years, but he and musical director Annie Whitehead have put together an exceptional group of friends and past musical collaborators including Julie Tippetts and Ian Maidman on vocals, Larry Stabbins on sax, Liam Genockey on drums and Annie herself on trombone.

Wyatt is delighted to have such distinguished musicians performing his music – “I feel like Cinderella whose pumpkin has turned into a stagecoach”. The concert will feature work from Robert’s solo albums, ranging from ‘Rock Bottom’ and ‘Ruth is Stranger than Richard’ to‘Shleep’. A new live recording of ‘Soupsongs’  has just been released on Jazzprint which “captures the poetic radicalism of the original” says The Guardian, adding ‘the ensemble playing is luxuriously textured.”

Singers Julie Tippetts and Ian Maidman handle the challenge of substituting Wyatt’s own vocal plaintiveness – Tippetts with an astonishing blend of raw bluesy power and yielding delicacy, Maidman’s closer to Wyatt’s own downbeat chorister-like quality.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to see and hear a concert that has been received to great acclaim by critics and with warmth and affection by audiences!

The concert starts at 8.30pm on Saturday 4 November, tickets are £12 (£10.50) available from The Dome Box Office, Brighton 01273 709709.