If you’re feeling that music has become stale and your ear lobes need livening up then this Sunday (April 19th) in Southampton you have two opportunities for a refresh.

Bang The Bore Poster

‘Bang The Bore‘ at the Hobbit is an evening of experimental music while ‘LogJam3‘ at The Hamptons will provide solo musicians an opportunity to improvise.

Seth Cooke hosts ‘Bang The Bore’ and his ethos is based on Brian Eno’s mind expanding thought: “what more could music be.”

“People have a fixed idea about music,”Seth explained, “and there’s methods of working with music that need exposure.”

He has gathered five acts from the Southampton area who approach music with a fresh and experimental attitude. Headlining is Bristol based ‘Teambric’ who is signed to Portishead’s label ‘Invada’.

Across the city The Hamptons will experience the third Log Jam; a night where music is given a twist of the creative juices.

Log Jam Poster

Organiser Barney Lanman is aiming to get Southampton’s musicians, artists and thinkers to break free of their inhibitions and the shackles of having to perform to a paying audience:

“People can come to Log Jam and draw, play music, listen, look, drink, talk without any of it seeming inappropriate.”

Both events have free entry and bring a sense of creative freedom to the area.

Article published in the Southern Daily Echo April 17th 2009