The flyer for Celebrating Sanctuary Birmingham’s Spring Series is out. We have lost of exciting gigs including Afro Mio, Kadialy Kouyate, Jasmine Moon Ensemble, Mostafa Abassi-Zadeh, Trikhon Vietnamese Theatre, Damba and Redeemed. Events are taken place at Ort Cafe with Afro Mio at The MAC and Redeemed at The Drum. I will post a bit […]
Check out the latest review of Love Forgiven by Anto Morro in Folk London magazine. I feel that it is a real stroke of genius to use a Ginsberg poem, which adds literary weight and credibility to the work. Anto Morro… Folk London
Trevor Hodgett has done a little feature on me for this months R2 magazine. There’s nothing like confounding your fans. Birmingham-based Northern Irishman Sid Peacock has a substantial reputation on the British jazz scene as the leader of avant-garde big band, Surge. So how does he explain the fact that he has now released a […]
Our good friend Delhi-based poet Sudeep Sen has been invited to address the Nobel Laureate Week being held in Saint Lucia. Ruth and I met Sudeep when recording Love Forgiven at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig and he gave us permission to put music to his haiku The Kiss and include it on our […]
Click here to see the very nice article in the Irish News by Trevor Hodgett about Peacock Angell duet Love Forgiven CD.
Russ Escritt passed away in 2012. One of the best guys I had met since being in Birmingham. Will think of him often.
We had a good gig in London last week. The band played a stormer and it felt good to be out again. Really hope we can get down to play a better venue in London soon though. The Barbican had a nice vibe but lots of background noise and difficult acoustics. There is a lot […]
Hi there, if you’re coming to our gig at Barbican LJF today then check out this excerpt from the score of Hallucinogenic Garden. See you there….
NEW WEBSITE EVOLVING “a youthful vitality not heard since Django Bates and Loose Tubes raised Ronnie Scott’s rafters a generation ago. ” ***** Jack Massarik – London Evening Standard, Jazz CD of the week. “Surge is decidedly one of the most unusual and individualistic ensembles working in the area … if not the entire UK.” […]
I have installed the posts from my old blog for visitors to look at and also to make it easier to access the pics that were there. Just letting you know as the posts now skip from 2012 to 2009!!!!