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Fusebox, Hyde Park Book Club, 27-29 Headingley Lane, Leeds (2026)

10/12/2025

13th of December come down for the Noonan trio:
Sean Noonan - Drums
Mick Bardon- Bass
Matt Bourne- Piano
Tickets £5 (free to lcon students with ID) music 7:30 PM

26/10/2025

DECEMBER 13th The Noonan Trio
7:30PM 🎟️ £5 OTD

The Noonan Trio: Inherit a Memory Tour
Matthew Bourne – Piano
Michael Bardon – Double Bass
Sean Noonan – Drums, Vocals, Compositions

About
Maverick science meets its match with The Noonan Trio’s first album, Inherit a Memory. The combo explores the outer boundaries of musical radicalism, speculatively blending jazz rock, improvisation, and rhythmic storytelling. The Noonan Trio features Sean Noonan on drums and vocals, Matthew Bourne, awarded “Jazz Innovation” at the BBC Radio Jazz Awards and hailed as “the future sound of jazz” and an “unpredictable pianist,”, and double bassist Michael Bardon (Zappanation Rock Opera), forming a trio with undeniable chemistry throughout the album.

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.
Modern Drummer Magazine highlights Noonan’s independent spirit: “Independence might be the ruling concept of this drummer-leader’s career. It defines a common relationship not only among his hands, feet, and voice, but between his art and almost everything else in drumming.”
Noonan’s rhythmic storytelling evolved through collaborations with artists such as Marc Ribot, Marni Nixon (legendary Hollywood songstress), 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. These cross-genre compositions explore the ensemble as an extension of a drummer’s limbs, orchestrating rhythmic language derived from the drum kit.

23/06/2025

TONIGHT!
The Anemone Quartet + Maisie Parlane Quartet

16/06/2025

The Anemone Quartet + Maisie Parlane Quintet; Fusebox 23.06.25; Hyde Park Book Club (Snug), 730pm, £5 otd/ free for LCon students

The Anemone Quartet is a new quartet formed by double bassist Olie Brice and pianist Laura Cole, alongside drummer Johnny Hunter and clarinettist/saxophonist/vocalist Faye MacCalman. The impetus behind the quartet is a collaborative combination of compositions/compositional approaches -with each player invited to bring pieces/ideas for the quartet to explore- as well as free playing, poetry and spoken word.

With support from the Maisie Parlane Quintet:

Maisie Parlane - trumpet

Tom Houghton - guitar

Jade Smith - bass

Sid Revell - drums

Mehar-Jot Singh - tabla

Photo credits:

Olie Brice - by Alex Bonney

Laura Cole - by Victoria Smith

Johnny Hunter - by Dan Wiebe

Faye MacCalman - by Victoria Wai

15/05/2025

26.05.25
A very special collaboration between legendary free improv vocalist Maggie Nicols and drummer Dan Johnson.
A mainstay of the European improvisational community since joining John Stevens’ legendary Spontaneous Music Ensemble in the late 1960s, Maggie Nicols has performed internationally for several decades and worked with a great many improvisers from all over the world including: Irene Schweizer, Joelle Leandre, Rie Nakajima, Steve Noble, Julie Tippetts & Han Bennink. As co-founder of the Feminist Improvising Group with Lindsay Cooper, she has also worked to significantly further women in improvised music, dancing and other creative arts.
Dan Johnson is a Bristol based percussionist, performance artist and educator who pushes the boundaries of how drumming is perceived through his solo and ensemble work. Known for intense, intimate and often durational solo performances, his past and present collaborators include: Valentina Magaletti, Moor Mother, Ximena Alarcon, EP/64 & Robert Ridley-Shackleton. Additionally, Dan is a certified Deep Listening facilitator with Pauline Oliveros’ Centre for Deep Listening and leads the creative education and performance project Ecstatic Drum Beats
Also joining the lineup is Chris Sharkey’s ‘Sharkey’s
Kitchen’
‘Sharkey’s Kitchen’ is based on the idea of playing new music each session with a revolving group of players - the whole thing is worked out in front of the audience (and with their help) making it a kind of open rehearsal / gig / jam session / collaboration.
With:
Scarlett Baxter- drums
Chris Sharkey- electric guitar
Nika Ticciati- bass guitar/ synth
With support from Leeds Conservatoire student Iris Casling, on solo double bass.
Iris Joan Casling is a Double Bassist, improviser and hag based in Leeds. Her work embodies somatic ritualisation through free-improvisation coloured by contemporary classical and jazz influences.
Tickets here (£15/£7 conc./ Free for LCon students.)

29/03/2025

APRIL 11th at Hyde Park Book Club Snug:
Matthew Bourne / Ed Jones / Mark Wastell + Conrad Clenton and Billy Goulding duo

Matthew Bourne (piano), Ed Jones (saxophones) and Mark Wastell (percussion) combine forces for this first time encounter. All three have an impressive track record, winning numerous awards and accolades, performances in territories across the globe and extensive discographies. Their varied activities include projects with a diverse list of associates including Derek Bailey, Keith Tippett, Maggie Nicols, Keeley Forsyth, David Sylvian, John Zorn, Yuriko Takagi, Arild Andersen, Stewart Lee, Mike Westbrook and John Stevens.

+ Conrad Clenton and Billy Goulding duo

Currently studying at Leeds Conservatoire, Conrad Clenton and Billy Goulding’s drum and sax duo explores the limitless boundaries of freely improvised spiritual music. With a use of a wide range of horns paired with spontaneous and colourful drumming, the duo creates a deeply moving and entrancing performance.

Don't miss this incredible line up of two brilliant groups of improvisers!
11/04/25
doors 7:30 PM
£5 (free to Leeds conservatoire students with ID)

28/02/2025

Fusebox 10.03.25 JollyBassJones + Two Threes
come down to Hyde Park Book Club snug on the 10th to see two great ensembles ranging from jazz, folk, to classical!
JollyBassJonesn(cello, violin, piano) first started working together on Gemma Bass's Missing Pieces | part 2 (us) in 2024 and have performed that work across the country, culminating in a release by the same name on efpi records. With interests across classical, jazz, folk and experimental music, the trio work collaboratively and intuitively, avoiding and deconstructing preconceptions of what a piano trio should be. Between them, these three busy musicians have worked with Manchester Camerata, Beats and Pieces Big Band, Opera North, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Bonjour Claude, Efpi All Stars Orchestra, Emma Johnson's Gravy Boat and many more besides.

supporting is "Two Threes" a double trio consisting of lcon students and alumni : Alex Milling, Harry Souter, Iris Casling, Hinrik Thorisson, Esther Easthop and Nancy Carter
7:30 Doors £5 entry (free to lcon students with ID)

20/01/2025

Fusebox is back! and we are excited to share some incredible gigs this year.

04.02.25 Starting off this year, we have THE EXU, James Mainwaring (saxophones), Dave Kane (double bass) Emil Karlsen (drums)
Named after a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting and inspired by the artists multi-faceted stylistic approach - known for its raw, expressive, and dynamic qualities, blending street art with neo-expressionism to create bold, thought-provoking work. The Exu make layered, intense, creative & beautiful, thought provoking, genre fluid improvised music.

The trio brazenly draw their musical influences from the worlds of free jazz, grunge, death metal, hip hop, bebop, & experimental music. Kane says ‘we are the sum of our record collections, the films we have seen, the books we have read. It all goes into the mix to make our music.’

support by Milling / Thorisson : Guitar and drum noise

come down to Hyde Park Book Club
£5 (or free with lcon ID card)
doors 7:30PM

19/05/2024

ONE WEEK TODAY: PHIL MINTON 26.05.24
+ Glen Leach / Oliver Clifford + Sol Christopher / Harvey Parkin-Christie / Emil Karlsen.
we are excited and honoured to have avant garde legend Phil Minton headline a co-promotion (Sun 26th), which we are proudly hosting at Wharf Chambers.
‘A sound poet, a one-man vocal apocalypse’. -The Wire

Tickets are only £7 and available to book in advance through the link in bio, get them now!

Video: Symptom Bauhaus Music Program: Phil Minton & Roger Turner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix2_8YYchlo&t=514s

08/04/2024

Reminder!
16.04.24 JOHNNY HUNTER QUARTET + APES AGAINST ACCEPTED TRUTH Johnny Hunter is a northern UK-based drummer and composer who comes from a background of both the Avant-Garde and mainstream Jazz. His own chordless quartet taking influence from the likes of John Zorn and Chris Speed, have been recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio 3, and have performed across the country in notable venues such as London’s Ronnie Scott’s, the Manchester Jazz Festival, Birmingham Jazzlines at Symphony Hall, Liverpool International Jazz Festival, among many others.

+ Apes Against Accepted Truth : New trio from leeds's experimental music scene ._ .sukiyaki big apish fresh weirdo guitar music.
Come on down! £5 OTD (free for Leeds Conservatoire students) 19:30 Doors

24/03/2024

FUSEBOX 16.04.24 JOHNNY HUNTER QUARTET + APES AGAINST ACCEPTED TRUTH

Johnny Hunter is a northern UK-based drummer and composer who comes from a background of both the Avant-Garde and mainstream Jazz. His own “chordless” quartet, set up to explore the freedom and limitations of having no chordal instrument, taking influence from the likes of John Zorn and Chris Speed, have been recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio 3, and have performed across the country in notable venues such as London’s Ronnie Scott’s, the Manchester Jazz Festival, Birmingham Jazzlines at Symphony Hall, Liverpool International Jazz Festival, among many others.
Come on down!

£5 OTD (free for Leeds Conservatoire students)
19:30 Doors

10/03/2024

11/03/24 LARA JONES + ANNA ROSS / ALEX MILLING
Introducing our brilliant support for tomorrows gig !

Built on a mutual interest in sound manipulation and extended improvisation inspired by Nightports, Chris Sharkey and Stian Westerhus. Anna and Alex produce sound manipulations by a mix of analogue and digital tools creating a bed of texture created by the sounds of the double bass. This electro acoustic duo will be opening for the great doors at 7:30 PM come on down.

£5 OTD (free to Lcon students with ID)e.r

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