6th August 2025
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 17th August 2025
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

3rd September 2025
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Wednesday September 10th 2025
7.00pm
£9 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Jessica Ackerley is a Canadian guitarist, improviser and composer based in Honolulu and New York City and has been described as “one of the most exciting guitarists to have emerged from the US free music scene in recent years” by Wire Magazine. Since 2017, Ackerley has released 19 albums to much critical acclaim with features in Wire Magazine, Pitchfork, BBC Radio, and Bandcamp.

Eli Wallace is a pianist, improviser, and composer who resides in Brooklyn, NY, leading his own projects, and collaborating with other like-minded artists. His work as a pianist displays a proclivity to free improvisation, incorporating elaborate piano preparations that John Lewis (The Guardian) says is “…pushing the boundaries of the prepared piano.”

Mark Sanders has worked with a host of renowned musicians including Derek Bailey, Henry Grimes, Mathew Shipp, Evan Parker, Roswell Rudd, in duo and quartets with Wadada Leo Smith and trios with Charles Gayle with Sirone and William Parker.

“ubiquitous, diverse and constantly creative, drummer Mark Sanders always outdoes himself, whether playing with restraint or erupting like a dynamo.” Bruce L Gallenter, Downtown Music Gallery. NY

Rachel Musson is a saxophonist, improviser and composer living in London, UK. She is involved with a variety of improvisation projects, and works regularly with Mark Sanders, Pat Thomas, Hannah Marshall, Julie Kjaer, Corey Mwamba, Olie Brice, Alex Ward, Alex Hawkins amongst others.

“A free-improviser sensitive to melody-like narrative and dramatic pacing” – John Fordham, The Guardian

Plus support from:

Annie Kerr (violin) and Andrew Greaves (synth)

Debut gig from a new duo formed by two longstanding Safehouse members.

+ Wildcard Quartet

+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

Sunday 21st September 2025
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

1st October 2025
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 19th October 2025
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Wednesday October 22nd 2025
7.00pm
£9 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Charlotte Keeffe – Sound Brush / trumpet, flugelhorn and compositions
Ashley John Long – double bass
Ben Handysides – drums
Moss Freed – guitar

With her Right Here, Right Now Quartet Charlotte Keeffe enables raw musical ingredients and individual expressions to come together and flow. She is captivated by trumpeters like Jaimie Branch, Peter Evans, Tomasz Stańko, Nate Wooley and Lester Bowie, and inspired by abstract painters – referring to her horns as ‘Sound Brushes’.

“The radical spirit of offhand precarity which radiates throughout this session frequently bubbles over into an effervescent sense of the imperative to explore. In a word? Fearless.” – PRESTO MUSIC

“A messy emporium of raw, raucous realness. Alive.  Keeffe and her quartet nailed it.” – Sammy Stein, FREE JAZZ BLOG

“Charlotte Keeffe is rapidly developing a reputation as one of UK’s finest improvisers” – Tony Dudley-Evans

Charlotte vividly describes the quartet as “a breeding ground for squelchy, sploshy, splashy sound-brush playing …Overtly over-blowing, splitting, splattering, squirming, squeaking and squealing out ALIVE! Howling and hooting, chomping and chaffing… Dusty, distorted, flimsy, fragile, manic, ghostly, guttural sound strokes rip through whirlwinds and whirlpools of wholesome gooey-sound-dough! A turbulent tease, staggering, swaying, abruptly plunging into intentional vagueness… A messy emporium of raw, raucous realness. Alive. Right Here, Right Now. It is as it is…”

Larker

Matt Clark is an improvising guitarist and composer from Brighton, drawing on free jazz, avant-garde, experimental and electronic music. He is currently working with MC3, a London-based improvising trio with Charlotte Keeffe and James Edmunds – the trio engages in musical conversations and sonic exploration; interweaving dialogues between three distinctive voices: guitar, trumpet and drums; and with Simian Carbuncle, a guitar duo exploring the sonic possibilities of unorthodox techniques, with regular collaborator Ade Southby.

Annie Kerr draws on a wide range of influences to create improvised soundworlds using violin, piano and text in performance, session work and studio collaborations with dancers, artists, actors and filmmakers. She plays in regular and ad hoc combos with musicians in Brighton and London.

+ Wildcard Quartet

+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

5th November 2025
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 16th November 2025
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Wednesday November 19th 2025
7.30pm
£9 / £6 members + concs
@ TheFolklore Rooms, The Quadrant, 12 North St, Brighton

Ken Vandermark + Paal Nilssen-Love

The high impact duo of Paal Nilssen-Love (drums) and Ken Vandermark (reeds) has been working together at an accelerated rate since 2002, and they have put out seven albums of exceptional and wide ranging improvised music since then. Though they have both worked in many critically acclaimed groups- from the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, Lean Left (with Terrie Hessels and Andy Moor of The Ex) to Double Tandem (with Dutch saxophonist, Ab Baars)- they have continued to return to their duo for more than a dozen years because it remains crucial to their creative output.

“one of the most powerful improvisational duos around” – Derek Stone, freejazzblog.

Neil Metcalfe + Barry Edwards + Colin Somervell

Formed in 2024 and having performed and recorded regularly since then, this trio combines lyricism and textural improvisation in a chamber-like setting. Flautist Neil Metcalfe is an esteemed veteran of the improv scene since the 1970s while Barry Edwards (electric guitar) and Colin Somervell (double bass) have been collaborating together since the early 2000s.

+ Wildcard Quartet
+ DJ Mystery Lesson

3rd December 2025
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 14th December 2025
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Thursday December 18th 2025
7pm
£9 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

+ support TBA soon
+ Wildcard Quartet
+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

7th January 2026
7pm
£4 / £3 members

Sunday 18th January 2026
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

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