Kavus is coming back to make his third visit to Shire of Weird. His last visit was in August 2024 and it was a brilliant, steaming, hot and visceral night at The Victory. This time he's coming down to the basement, in The Speakeasy - on a Monday night! Let's fill this space with psychedelic goodness! Here's what you already know: Kavus Torabi is a British/ Iranian composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, author, artist, broadcaster and DJ. His largely autobiographical solo work marries the human with the celestial. Since 2016 he has fronted legendary psychedelic band Gong with whom he is principal songwriter. He is a member of the semi-modular experimental/ psychedelic trio The Utopia Strong. He is a former guitarist of British cult band, Cardiacs and avant rock instrumentalists Guapo. As part of a a DJ duo with Steve Davis, he has performed festivals throughout the UK, recently performing at Wembley Stadium between bands for Blur's comeback performance. In 2021 White Rabbit published, Medical Grade Music, his memoir with Steve Davis which was Shindig's music book of the year.

Certainly one of the most positive things to come out of those peculiar pandemic years, The Plague Doctors Cure All" was formed in 2022 by Welsh-based saxophonist and local music community champion Lyndon Owen. Their music eschews classification, taking from rock, metal, funk, gothic and jazz in a fully improvised set that will drag you in from the start and kick the hell out of any musical preconceptions you may have, with relentless energy, sounds and theatrical visuals rarely presented to a jazz audience. Owen delivers an expressive palette of sounds on tenor and soprano sax and Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI). Distinctive Worcester bass virtuoso and proper gent Liam Lee-Hynes throws himself with irrepressible energy into the entire performance, with Will Cass spilling Frippish guitar all over the place....

We are delighted to be having Me Lost Me finally come to play for us in Weirdshire - we had booked Jayne to play back in 2020, but then something happened which cancelled everything in the world all at once.... In the meantime, she has gone from strength to strength, and the latest album, out on Upset the Rhythm, is an absolute belter.

The Noonan Trio: Matthew Bourne piano Michael Bardon double bass Sean Noonan drums, vocals, compositions Sean Noonan is a celebrated N.Y. speaking drummer and composer based in London whose innovative music defies categorization. As a rhythmic storyteller, he crafts imaginative narratives akin to modern-day sonic griots, seamlessly blending ancient traditions of wandering minstrels with contemporary musical forms. Noonan collaborates with artists such as Marc Ribot, Malcolm Mooney (singer from CAN), Jamaaladeen Tacuma (bassist for Ornette Coleman), Irish American folk singer Susan McKeown, Malian Griot Abdoulaye Diabaté and the London Symphony Orchestra. Featuring stellar pianist Matthew Bourne, honoured with the Jazz Innovation prize at the BBC Radio Jazz Awards, and bassist Michael Bardon, celebrated for his unorthodox approach to music-making, The compositions and improvisations follow Dr. Rupert Sheldrake's notion that patterns of activity transcend traditional concepts of space and time, where music operates more out of habits than rules. Altogether, The Noonan Trio posits a deceptively real, fun, and emotionally unrestricted new world of the highest order.