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Hyde Park Book Club

After a long period away from the gig scene due to band member's busy commitments to other musical projects, The Fergus Quill Trio are returning for a live show in Leeds at Hyde Park Book Club on February 16th with a brand new sound. This time, they're exploring the organ jazz trio format but with a difference. The obvious influence of modern jazz organ legend Jimmy Smith is here but funneled through the prism of Leeds LS6 wonkiness.

The trio will be presenting new compositions, which they plan to record this year for their third album, and will be joined by special guests in the evening. As always, the trio are : Fergus Quill - bass (and tuba for this gig), Nico Widdowson - keys (and B3 Hammond organ for this gig), Theo Goss - drums.

Fergus has been fascinated by the organ sound since he was a child and was obsessed with the music of soul organ legend Booker T. Jones and his band The MGs. As he progressed to playing jazz, Fergus discovered the classic modern jazz organ sound and the musicians championing it - Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott, Brother Jack McDuff, Larry Young. As Leeds' number one Sun Ra fan, Fergus has always appreciated the cosmic jazz legend's organ playing on such albums as "Church Organ" (a 1948 recording of him playing jazz standards on an actual church organ), and "Excelsior Mill" (a 1980s live recording featuring Sun Ra solo playing a Wurlitzer organ).

Tonight, the trio will present a night of organ led jazz music but not as we know it.....come prepared for something a little bit off-kilter, Fergus Quill style.

Fergus Quill is one of Leeds' best known jazz/experimental music artists. Musician, composer, arranger, bandleader. Arriving in Leeds around 2015 to study at Leeds College Of Music, he quickly established himself on the local scene as a member of the Tight Lines music collective, playing with their lead band Skwid Ink. At the same time, he was also a member of NYJO, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. In 2019, he began releasing original music and reimagined works by others under his own name.

Since 2019, he has released six albums under his name via various line-ups.

Fergus Quill's Electric Noise Ensemble (self-release 2019 - cassette)

"Zoop Zoop" - The Fergus Quill Trio (Tight Lines Records 2020 - digital)

"Blamo!" - The Fergus Quill Trio (Tight Lines Records 2022 - digital)

Ferg's Imaginary Big Band (Tight Lines Records Feb 2023 - digital/vinyl)

"Up Yours! Fergus Quill Plays Xero Slingsby" (Nov 2023 - digital)

"Live At Lancaster Jazz Festival" Ferg's Imaginary Big Band (Dec 2024 - digital/vinyl)

In the last few years, Fergus has won awards as a musician and composer, including the Musicians Company/Tina May Award 2022 for best young musician, and the Peter Whittington/Help Musicians Jazz Award 2023 for Ferg's Imaginary Big Band.

The Fergus Quill Trio also features original band members Nico Widdowson (piano/keys) and drummer Theo Goss. Both are longtime members of Ferg's Imaginary Big Band and have been at the centre of the Leeds jazz scene for almost a decade now in various bands. Nico, now living in London, has been running his own jazz trio for several years as well as Mabgate (originally the Mabgate Organ Trio), and in 2024, he also won the Musicians Company/Tina May Award for best young musician. Drummer Theo Goss is a member of Ghanaian singer/musician K.O.G's band and tours the UK/Europe with the artist. He recently appeared on "Later With Jools Holland" on BBC2 with K.O.G and is also a longtime member of Leeds bands Slow Lorris and the Ben Haskins Quartet.

Support tonight comes from the next generation of rising Leeds jazz stars and features one of the busiest drummers in the current buzzing Leeds DIY/alt-jazz scene. Billy Goulding plays drums with bands like Nova.sol, Afrodesia, Nathaniel Taberner Quartet and the Charlie Folland Quintet. He's now striking out on his own and leading a band under his own name....the Billy Goulding Quartet. They play fiery post-bop/modal/spiritual jazz inspired by past and present greats such as John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and Kamasi Washington. Billy is joined onstage by Conrad Clenton - sax, Umer Sair - piano, and Sean Blake - double bass.

Doors 7.30pm. Billy Goulding Quartet 8pm. Fergus Quill Trio & Guests 9pm. Live music over 10.30pm. Curfew 11pm.

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The Fergus Quill Trio + Billy Goulding Quartet

Dynamic Welsh trio Adwaith proudly announce the release of their highly anticipated third album, Solas. Meaning “light of being” or “enlightenment” in Celtic, Solas marks a significant milestone in the band’s journey. Recorded across diverse locations—including the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, Lisbon in Portugal, and multiple studios in Wales—Solas reflects Adwaith’s growth and evolution as artists. Overflowing with romance and magic, this 23-track double album completes a coming-of-age trilogy chronicling their transformation from teenagers into empowered women, exploring themes of self-discovery, escape, and resilience.

From the moment Hollie Singer, Gwenllian Anthony and Heledd Owen first formed Adwaith ten years ago the notion of home has always coursed through the veins of the band, even when they hungered to escape it. First influenced by the counterculture music scene of their Carmarthen hometown, and the Welsh-language bands who passed through the doors of iconic local venue The Parrot, the band felt an impulsive desire to escape their hometown early on, but the pulse of Camarthen has always remained. Solas represents the closing chapter of an evolution that has taken them around the world and brought them back home to the sprawling beauty of West Wales.

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Adwaith - Fel i Fod

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Tandanya/Adelaide-based post-punk six piece Coldwave have announced their debut UK tour this February and March 2025 which will be followed by their showcase at SXSW. Off the back of extensive media support from the likes of Stereogum, Clash Magazine and Rolling Stone Australia for their recent two track The Ants / Italia '06 this tour will be the UK's first live introduction to Coldwave's captivating post-punk accelerant.

The tour will begin on February 27th at Castle Hotel in Manchester and will see the band play eight shows, including supporting Pom Poko in London at The Garage. They will continue their run of must-see showcases on March 10th - 15th playing at SXSW Austin, which will build on their previous performances at SXSW Sydney and BIGSOUND.

Alongside the tour announcement Coldwave have also shared an explosive live video for Italia '06 which sees the band leaning into a frantic yet tightly controlled blend of jagged guitars, booming horns and uncompromising vocal delivery. With an added percussionist and saxophonist and band members running between instruments the song builds from a play on negative space and spoken word, before the aural spike strip is laid down and explodes in the second half.

Following the release of their debut EP Same Window, Different House in 2023, Coldwave were named triple j Unearthed Feature Artist, performed at Laneway Festival amongst a stacked lineup including Turnstile and Fontaines D.C., and made their much-talked-about debut at Bigsound 2023, with Dave Ruby Howe applauding the band for “delivering heavily to a big room which seemed to have caught wind that something was cooking... every member of the band vying for your eyes with intense noodling, rumbling rhythm section and demonic trumpet.”

COLDWAVE - Harrison Evans (he/him; vocals), Kiran Memisoglou (he/him; guitar), Anthony Griffin (he/him; guitar/vocals), Sean McGowan (they/them; trumpet/synth/vocals), Lara Patzel (she/they; bass) and Jordan Maywald (he/him; drums) - formed in 2020 from the ashes of two beloved Tandanya/Adelaide post-punk outfits and have continued to evolve rapidly, welcoming new collaborators, exploring experimental instrumentation, and building a national audience, while remaining steadfastly loyal to their home community. They have released two EPs No Conflict (2023), Same Window, Different House (2023) and have performed with Citizen, Pond, RVG and more.

Coldwave

Joshua Burnside is an experimental folk songwriter, singer and producer. He takes influence from alternative electronica and Irish folk, chopping and blending them with a mixture of found sounds, world music and unorthodox production methods. Following an award-winning debut album and an acclaimed follow-up released during the height of the global pandemic, his music lives against the grain, in both style and spirit. Raised in the north of Ireland between the lush drumlins and hills of Strangford Lough, and the narrow entries and alleyways of East Belfast, Joshua’s music has defined and defied the post-conflict society of his home.

Taking in the economics of existence, family, trauma and renewal, while set against a backdrop of tense electronica and lush Irish folk and traditional songwriting, Joshua has entrenched himself within the fabric of the modern folk canon, alongside the likes of Bon Iver, Ben Howard and Sufjan Stevens. While his award-winning first album Ephrata took in lush landscapes, technological horrors, night terrors and wistful Columbian vistas (set against a bed of Irish folk, cumbia rhythms, and electronica), his critically acclaimed second Into The Depths Of Hell, took a far darker approach. Melding swirls of clanging metallic found sounds, alt-rock, and Irish songwriting traditions were supported by UK and US national radio and international tastemakers NPR, Guitar Magazine, CLASH, The Guardian, The Times and more.

His third album, Teeth Of Time, sits comfortably and confrontationally between the alt-folk realms of Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens while retaining the indie singer-songwriter and traditional folk elements of Josh's signature songwriting.

Joshua Burnside

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Sam Cotton, a 21-year-old rapper, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer from South West London, is a rising talent in the UK music scene. Influenced by jazz, soul, and hip-hop, his sound combines melodic vocals, introspective lyrics, and genre-blending versatility. Sam’s emotional depth and musical skill mark him as one to watch.

Sam Cotton

Longtime Leeds jazz music promoter Lubi Jovanovic (DJ Lubi) continues his monthly Hyde Park Book Club residency in March with a night of cosmic jazz mayhem and assorted musical cacophony. Amon Ra Collective finally play the rescheduled date for their cancelled summer 2024 show, a welcome hometown gig as part of their spring UK tour.

Space faring Leeds-based cosmic jazz ensemble Amon Ra Collective are a large community of over 20 members who have been appearing at live shows around the city for the past 3 years in different combinations of between 2-15 people. Led by trumpeter Samuel Ehret-Pickett, they play an exciting fusion of energetic solos, pulsating rhythms, electronic noise, free improvisation incorporating the Butch Morris' Conduction method. Inspired by the music of Miles Davis’ electric jazz fusion, John Coltrane’s avant garde jazz, the ethio-jazz of Mulatu Astatke, and the spiritual world music of Don Cherry, they bring together jazz, rock, world music, afrobeat, drum & bass and cosmic funk into one big Amon Ra musical melting pot.

They released their debut album "At The Centre Of Everything" in autumn 2023 through Lamplight Social Records (the label run by Roller Trio saxophonist James Mainwaring), and now their music is available beyond the Leeds city limits. Musicians from Amon Ra Collective are part of the vibrant Leeds jazz scene belonging to groups such as Fergus Quill’s Imaginary Big Band, Ancient Infinity Orchestra (Gondwana Records), Nika Ticciati’s Cataclysm Ensemble, Afrodesia, Nova.Sol and Rushbonds. Tonight, the bigger ensemble (as seen at their album launch in autumn 2023), will be performing at Hyde Park Book Club.

“Amon Ra channel Sun Ra into now and beyond with their cosmic blend of free-jazz and heavy grooves” - Fusebox

“Bleeping synths, treacly bass, atonal reverberating horns and intense percussion suggest a restless, inquisitive spirit” - furtherdot.com

“This UK- based group exhibits a Magma / Zeuhl influence influence in its bass lines and keyboard tone, but an electric Miles feel with the inclusion of trumpet” - Avant Music News

Oracle are a 7 piece high energy, new wave jazz collective who formed at Leeds Conservatoire a few years ago. They've played regular gigs across the city at venues like Brudenell, Hyde Park Book Club, Sela Bar and Casa, as well as appearing on the Welcome To Leeds open air stage at Leeds Jazz Festival 2024. Mixing jazz improvisation with elements from hip hop, flamenco, funk and electronica, this colourful mix of sounds takes inspiration from the likes of Nubya Garcia, Soweto Kinch, Emma Rawicz, and then all the way through to the flamenco jazz of Paco De Lucia via the chaotic genius and energy of Charles Mingus. A perfect combination of styles and influences to open for Amon Ra Collective.

Amon Ra Collective

EEVAH

Look What You Had

Tramhaus is the daring postpunk sensation from the restless and ever-innovative city of Rotterdam. In the span of its relatively short existence, Tramhaus has managed to make a name far beyond the borders of their hometown. Marked by their joyous and energetic experience, the band has proven to be able to convey this message both in live and recorded settings. The music of Tramhaus feels like a soundtrack to a vivacious, mysterious, and dangerous story. There is no room to lean back as the band takes you with them in a drag race full of emotions and euphoria driven by streamlined, fiery songs mixed with fragile and abstract tones. This whole spectacle is fueled by the near-symbiotic relationship between the five band members.

Since their formation in 2021, Tramhaus released four 7” vinyl singles and the 12” ‘Rotterdam’ EP. They were shortlisted for a Music Moves Europe Award, featured as Song of the Day at KEXP Seattle, as well as receiving critical acclaim from international media.

They embarked on headlining tours across France, Germany, and the UK, as well as Central- and Northern Europe, Spain & Portugal, and did a successful seven day tour in Japan in November 2023. Tramhaus performed at leading European festivals including Best Kept Secret, Levitation France, Sziget, Colours of Ostrava, Dour, Tremor, Les Vielles Charrues, and showcases ESNS, The Great Escape, MaMa, Tallinn Music Week and Reeperbahn. Recently they performed eight times during SXSW.

Tramhaus

Nap Eyes’ metamorphic fifth long-player collects a cache of nine fascinating songs recorded over the four years since Snapshot of a Beginner. The Neon Gate reveals classic touchstones (the uneasy interplay of physics and philosophy, perambulatory meditations, self-interrogating soliloquies, apertures of surreality, video games), but also evidence of divergent impulses toward nonlinear abstraction and longform improvisational composition (resulting in their most discursive, deconstructed, and deliquescent songs to date) and narrative and lyric formality (including adaptations of thorny poems by Alexander Pushkin and W. B. Yeats), imparting the sense that Nap Eyes have transmuted, as has their understanding of what a song is, what it can do, where it might go. (Including color inner sleeve with lyrics.)

Masters of subtlety. – NPR

Snapshot of a Beginner feels as much a modest masterpiece as \[The Go-Betweens’\] Spring Hill Fair or \[Belle and Sebastian’s\] Tigermilk. What sets them apart is the fear and trembling. – Uncut

One of the most fascinating songwriters we have today. – Newsweek

Nap Eyes

Cardinals

"Framed by tradition but totally distinct" Clash Magazine

"This one is utterly unique" Far Out Magazine

“Amazing and really different” Paul Weller

“Songs that feel like centuries old fairy tales.” Shindig! Magazine

Amelia Coburn is darkness and light.

Her acclaimed debut album ‘Between The Moon And the Milkman’, produced by Bill Ryder-Jones, showcases her as a truly singular voice in the world of music.

Unbound by one mood or modern trends she pairs daring but instantly memorable melodies with unusual chord movements and exquisite arrangements. Populated by the people and places she has encountered on her global travels and in the darker corners of literature and art Amelia views her songs as a soundtrack to her stream-of-consciousness, “opening up new paths, new clearings and new valleys with every listen”.

Her distinctive, crystal-cut vocal delivery and expressive stage persona has captivated audiences far and wide. Whether headlining sell-out solo tours or sharing the stage with esteemed acts as diverse as Saint Saviour, The Trials of Cato, or the late Steve Harley, her “beguiling stage presence” continues to earn her fans from across the musical spectrum.

Having graced stages both as a solo artist and, more recently and increasingly, with a full band at prestigious events such as Cambridge Folk Festival, Focus Wales, Reeperbahn Showcase and Wilderness Festival, as well as various other festivals across Europe (France, Belgium, Germany and Finland), Coburn's magnetic performances never fail to earn her new fans. A finalist in the BBC Young Folk Awards and most recently awarded Tees Valley Artist of the year, she continues to impress and grow at a grassroots and industry level.

With her album charting in the UK and recent national airplay from BBC Radio 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6Music, as well as support from BBC Scotland and Ireland's BBC Ulster and RTÉ1, Coburn can count the likes of pundits Mark Radcliffe and Tom Robinson as fans, as well as musicians Paul Weller, Paul Heaton and David Gedge of The Wedding Present.

Amelia returns to touring in 2025 opening for Jim Moray on his UK tour and for four dates with indie-folk legends The Levellers as well as a headline tour in May / June where she will give glimpses of new material that may make up her second album.

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