RENEW May-June 2025
The RENEW series at Club Inégales follows a call to emerging artists to bring us radical new work, offering them showcases in our intimate, welcoming environment.
Directors Peter Wiegold and Martin Butler, who have the defined the cross-genre/cross-culture work of the club in over 100 gigs since 2011, much welcome these fresh voices, their bold new work, and you can expect to hear and see collaborative, boundary-blurring performances.
EFG London Jazz Festival
18/19 November 2025
The Third Orchestra is joined by the amazing Christophe Fellay, percussion/electronics.
With a wonderful crossover band: Lucy Zhao pi’pa - Bakr Khleifi oud - Stevie Wishart hurdy gurdy - Matt Bourne piano - Kalia Lyraki voice/nay - Pete Wareham sax - Mark van de Wiel clarinet - Shri Sriram bass - Ant Romero percussion.
Joined by two talented young players from Tomorrow's Warriors, Shanise Hall trumpet and Anton Brown cor anglais. There will be just about enough room for everybody!
22 May
Herbie Hopkins
We could call her Alex (ext.)
A vivid, multidisciplinary performance by songwriter and improviser Herbie Hopkins. Centered on the imagined figure of a daughter named Alex, the piece draws on a wide array of visual inspirations—from Renaissance paintings and religious hymns to horror film posters and feminist photography. Through song, improvisation, and live movement by dancers Edna Sanchez and Jesse Bagget-Lahav, the performance transforms this eclectic imagery into an intimate and expressive narrative. Blurring boundaries between sound and vision, memory and invention, We Could Call Her Alex is a poetic exploration of identity, imagination, and the emotional power of storytelling.
SIMON SANDERS AND TIM BECKHAM
Y BRODYR PERYGLUS
y brodyr peryglus are a duo of sonic manipulators with a long history. The brothers in peril are Tim Beckham (electronic guitar) and Simon Sanders (percussive electrickery). They will be performing their “Water Music” compositions. Bound together by molecules of hydrogen and oxygen, “Water Music” explores the depths of the ocean, ice giants on the move, ebb and flow as a constraint, and rhythms and cycles that propel our perception. Expect an experience that is both subtle and extreme. Immersed in a tapestry of moving waters, the instrumentation is both familiar and strange, conjuring moisture out of the very air.
Namvula
Chasing Shadows
A delicate and evocative exploration of memory, and the people and moments that form the tapestries of our present. Weaving together composed songs and improvisation, it explores themes of joy, tenderness, grief, nostalgia and transience.
Namvula performs with acclaimed musicians Liran Donin (bass), Giuliano Modarelli (guitar), Chris Williams (sax & flutes), and Mamadou Sarr (percussion). The piece is a work in development, funded by Sound and Music : In Motion with the support of Arts Council England, Jerwood Foundation and the Garrick Club Charitable Trust.
Now, more than ever, in this fractured world, Chasing Shadows is born of a desire to offer a widening of heart-space and a little more human inter-connectedness.
5 June
Kirsty Ferguson-Lewis
Echo
A mini contemporary opera for solo voice and electronics that reimagines Echo’s disempowerment in Ovid’s “Echo and Narcissus, Metamorphoses”. Echo, once a nymph with a talent for speech, is punished by Juno for spinning captivating tales as she tries to protect her community of nymphs from misplaced blame for Jupiter’s infidelities. She is then only able to mimic the last few words of others’ speech, losing the uniqueness of her voice, embodied, creative and personal. Although short, this poem is rich in symbolism, “Echo” aims to reimagine/reaffirm the power of the feminine voice in the context of this mythic tale.
LYDIA KENNY
BEAT: A VERBATIM SONG CYCLE ON WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE
What if you didn't need a beating heart to be alive…. is one of the questions composer-saxophonist Lydia Kenny and librettist-singer Olivia Bell pose in a brand new verbatim song cycle. Through a blend of electro-acoustic music and a libretto taken from first-hand interviews and a range of documentary material, from medieval potion recipes to Ted Talks, newspaper cuttings and NHS leaflets, Beat unpicks our understanding of what it means to be human, and how we connect with each other as we face the end.
19 June
Jui-Ying Huang, Morad Kashef, Ben Harlan
The Spiritual Journey: A Soundscape of Hybrid Cultural Improvisation
This spontaneous trio blends diverse roots into one shared musical breath.
Ben Harlan, a British clarinettist with ZRI and The Burning Bush, Netflix composer, improvisation prize winner, Quaker, and friend to dogs and chickens, adds a playful soul.
Morad Kashef, from Tabriz, Iran, a composer and Azerbaijani tar player, now pursuing his PhD at Trinity Laban, evokes profound resonance of the strings.
Jui-Ying Huang, a Taiwanese composer-performer with disciplined wildness, draws on Asian traditions and the Lalingedan (Taiwanese Paiwan nose flute).
Together, they shape an immediate, border-crossing soundscape—where rhythm, ritual, and human connection are felt in every breath.
Matt Brombley
The Unlevel Playing Field
Matt Brombley (electronics) will be joined by Shri Sriram (bass) and Neil Valentine (viola) to share an improvised musical exploration of masculinity. The work builds on the two pieces — ‘Grounded, Untethered’ and ‘Soft Masc’ — which came from the trio’s previous collaboration in July 2024 questions the character and qualities of masculinity that reach across boundaries of experience, identity and culture.
Matt is an electronic musician and producer from Southampton. He is also a lecturer in Music Production and Digital Music at Solent University and Strategic Inclusion Lead for the South Coast Music Partnership (Music Hub).