7th January 2026
7pm
£4 / £3 members
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Safehouse Lewes – Open Session
Sunday 18th January 2026
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3
John Butcher solo
Wednesday January 28th 2026
7.30pm
£9 / £6 members + concs
@ The Coach House, Kemptown, Brighton
“English saxophonist John Butcher may be among the world’s most influential musicians, operating at the cutting-edge of improvisatory practice since the ‘80s. Whenever an acoustic musician starts to sound like a bank of oscillators, a tropical forest, a brook or an insect factory, Butcher’s influence is likely nearby.” – New York City Jazz Record.
John Butcher is well known as a saxophonist who attempts to engage with the uniqueness of time and place. His music ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked pieces and explorations with feedback and unusual acoustics. Since the early 80s he has collaborated with hundreds of musicians – including Derek Bailey, Rhodri Davies, Andy Moor (EX), Phil Minton, Christian Marclay, Eddie Prevost, John Stevens’ SME, Mark Sanders and Okkyung Lee.
Support from Adrian Southby, John Hurn and Iain Paxon.
+ Wildcard Quartet
Safehouse Brighton – Open Session
4th February 2026
7pm
£4 / £3 members
Safehouse Lewes – Open Session
Sunday 15th February 2026
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3
Safehouse Worthing – Open Session
Wednesday 25th February 2026
Doors open: 7pm
Session: 7:30 – 10pm
@ Anne Street Social Cafe, 3 Ann St, Worthing BN11 1NX
£5
Safehouse Worthing returns this week! Based in Anne Street cafe, just a short walk from Worthing Pier, it’s an open session organised by Safehouse regular Alan Jackson. Small randomly picked groupings play through the evening, with occasional forays into conduction improvisation and overlapping larger group formations.
Slightly higher entry fee than Brighton’s, but on the plus side it’s bring your own drinks!
Sylvia & I // Incus, Malleus and Stapes
Thursday February 26th 2026
7.30pm
£9 / £6 members + concs
@ The Coach House, Kemptown, Brighton
Sylvia & I
Sylvia & I is the duo collaboration of Sylvia Hallett and Chris Dowding, from London and Norwich respectively.
Dreamy soundscapes made from overlapping loops evolving out of a meeting place between folk and jazz backgrounds.
Violins, trumpets, bowed saw, bicycle wheel, pedals, electronics and more….
Sylvia Hallett is a multi-instrumentalist and composer moving between violin, bowed bicycle wheel, saw, hurdy-gurdy, electronics and found objects. David Toop, The Heliocentrics and Clive Bell among many others.
http://sylviahallett.co.uk/index.htm
Chris Dowding is a trumpeter and workshop leader based in Norwich. He performs regularly around the UK with Natural Causes and Rude 2.0 (with the trombonist Annie Whitehead), and leads the Moonrise Trio.
Incus, Malleus and Stapes
Improv trio utilising some aleatoric methods:
Alan Jackson— plays the “Electric Bullroarer” – part homemade electronics, part modular synthesizer, it is a kit of parts for exploring feedback and resonance. It uses pressure, tilt, motion, microphones and string to control its sound, usually shaping some kind of feedback process.
Marc Muir likes to use his mouth to explore the more disconcerting facets of his mind.
Simon Mclennan uses guitar and electronics to explore harmony and resonance.
+ Wildcard Quartet
Safehouse Brighton – Open Session
4th March 2026
7pm
£4 / £3 members
Safehouse Lewes – Open Session
Sunday 15th March 2026
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3
Safehouse Worthing – Open Session
Wednesday 25th March 2026
Doors open: 7pm
Session: 7:30 – 10pm
@ Anne Street Social Cafe, 3 Ann St, Worthing BN11 1NX
£5
Safehouse Worthing returns this week! Based in Anne Street cafe, just a short walk from Worthing Pier, it’s an open session organised by Safehouse regular Alan Jackson. Small randomly picked groupings play through the evening, with occasional forays into conduction improvisation and overlapping larger group formations.
Slightly higher entry fee than Brighton’s, but on the plus side it’s bring your own drinks!
Safehouse Brighton – Open Session
1st April 2026
7pm
£4 / £3 members
Jair-Rohm Parker Wells – Resonance: Improvisation, Innovation, and the Legacy of Eberhard Weber
Thursday April 23rd 2026
7.00pm
£9 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill
Resonance is an immersive solo bass performance that explores the legacy of Eberhard Weber through improvisation, innovation, and the use of modern looping and processing technologies. The program bridges the worlds of jazz, experimental, and electro-acoustic music, drawing listeners into evolving soundscapes that balance structure and spontaneity.
Over the course of the performance, audiences experience a dialogue between tradition and innovation—a re-imagining of Weber’s influence alongside Jair-Rohm’s own improvisational voice, honed over five decades of creative music-making. This is music that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.
Jair-Rohm Parker Wells is a bassist, composer, and sound artist with over fifty years of international experience. A pioneer of electro-acoustic and improvisational bass, he has collaborated with artists such as Reeves Gabrels (David Bowie, The Cure), Jonathan Kane (Swans), Eugene Chadbourne, and Elliott Sharp. He is a founding member of the trios Ripplewood, Dead Solstice, FlowSonic, and Gabrels, Kane, Parker Wells, and has released numerous recordings across genres from free improvisation to contemporary composition.
His solo work integrates looping, extended techniques, and electronics to push the boundaries of the bass as a solo instrument.
“A meditative journey that feels both timeless and urgent.” – Gina Renzi, The Rotunda
“Jair-Rohm creates entire worlds with his instrument.” – Mark Forman, audience member
“All of the pieces performed fit the bill for satisfying the audience, and as evidenced by the people who stayed after the show to converse with him—they all wanted more!” – Elizabeth Millar, All About Jazz
“ Jair-Rohm Parker Wells has been one of my bass heroes ever since I saw him play Zappanale #19 in 2008. His range is awesome…” – Ben Watson, The Wire
Matt Clark
Solo electric guitar
Matt Clark is an improvising guitarist and composer based in Brighton.
His work sidesteps traditional notions of harmony and melody, instead exploring the random and unexpected within improvisation around twelve tones, and the sonic possibilities of unorthodox techniques.
Long standing projects Simian Carbuncle (with Adrian Southby) and MC3 (with Charlotte Keeffe and James Edmunds) have proved fertile breeding grounds for experimentation, whilst recent collaborations with Annie Kerr and Toma Sapir as Larker, and a duo with Gus Garside (Arc, with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill, and the Ron Caines/Martin Archer Axis project) have led to ideas for frameworks, leading to more structured improvisations.
He regularly performs in Brighton and London with a number of collaborators and ensembles, and is a regular participant and member of Brighton’s Safehouse collective and London’s Mopomoso Improvised Music series. His music has been played on both local and national radio stations, including Resonance FM and BBC Radio 3
Wildcard Quartet
DJ Fiery Biscuits
Safehouse Lewes – Open Session
Sunday 26th April 2026
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3
Safehouse Worthing – Open Session
Wednesday 29th April 2026
Doors open: 7pm
Session: 7:30 – 10pm
@ Anne Street Social Cafe, 3 Ann St, Worthing BN11 1NX
£5
Safehouse Worthing returns this week! Based in Anne Street cafe, just a short walk from Worthing Pier, it’s an open session organised by Safehouse regular Alan Jackson. Small randomly picked groupings play through the evening, with occasional forays into conduction improvisation and overlapping larger group formations.
Slightly higher entry fee than Brighton’s, but on the plus side it’s bring your own drinks!
Safehouse Brighton – Open Session
6th May 2026
7pm
£4 / £3 members
Safehouse Lewes – Open Session
Sunday 17th May 2026
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3
Ergod trio – Richard Scott / Tapiwa Svosve / Luigi Marino // Cath Roberts + Olie Brice
Wednesday May 27th 2026
7.30pm
£9 / £6 members + concs
@ The Coach House, 22 Walpole Road
Brighton, BN2 0EA
Richard Scott and Tapiwa Svosve have been playing as a duo since they met in 2014 and have collaborated with a wide variety of musicians, individually and together, including Hannah Marshall, Angharad Davies, Phil Durrant, Mark Sanders, Rachel Musson, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Silvan Schmid and Samuel Rodgers.
Luigi Marino is a Bristol-based musician whose work explores emergent phenomena involving people, objects, and whatever lies in between their shifting definitions. An active improviser, he performs on electronic media and percussion, focusing on the zarb, the computer as an instrument mediating human decision-making, and custom cymbals played with bows and extended through DIY portable circuits.
Cath Roberts & Olie Brice
Cath and Olie released their first album ‘Conduits’ in 2022, and have a new one out this year – hopefully in time for this gig!