Barbican announces Matthew Herbert Big Band date

Matthew Herbert’s Brexit Big Band
Reisezehrung
Monday 23 October 2017 / Barbican Hall / 19:30
Tickets £15 – 30 plus booking fee

Producer, composer, sonic explorer and world traveller, Matthew Herbert brings his big band back to centre stage with a response to Brexit. His latest project – a typically ambitious collaborative journey and an extended farewell party – arrives at the Barbican in October, featuring singers, a choir and guest musicians from the UK and Europe. The project will evolve and continue till 2019 and will feature an ever-expanding cast. Matthew Herbert says: “In an increasingly fractured and divided political climate where tolerance and creativity are under threat, it feels like an important time to assert the desire for our bit of the musical community in Britain to reach out in solidarity with some of our closest, but soon to be less accessible, friends and neighbours.”

On sale to Barbican Members on Thursday 25 May
On general sale on Friday 26 May
Produced by the Barbican in association with Serious
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SUPPORT ANNOUNCED

Bing & Ruth
+ Tom Rogerson
Friday 26 May 2017 / LSO St Luke’s / 20:00
Tickets £15 plus booking fee
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Supporting Bing & Ruth is improvising pianist and keyboardist Tom Rogerson, founder of experimental electronic-rock band Three Trapped Tigers. Tom releases his debut solo album Failing Shore – a collaboration with Brian Eno – this summer.

Ezra Furman: That’s When It Hit Me
An evening of vicious songs, bold experiments and bizarre epiphanies
+ Broen
Part of Bella Union 20
Thursday 13 July 2017 / Barbican Hall / 19:30
Tickets £15 – 20 plus booking fee
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With a reputation as one of Norway’s finest live acts, five-piece Broen are now set to open for Ezra Furman at the Barbican. The band will bring to the stage out of the ordinary interpretations of R n’ B, rap, jazz, improvisation, psychedelia, dub and electronica.

Mercury Rev with Royal Northern Sinfonia
+ Lowly
Part of Bella Union 20
Friday 14 July 2017 / Barbican Hall / 19:30
Tickets £30 – 40 plus booking fee
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Danish quintet Lowly, purveyors of experimental dream pop, are the evening’s support. The band’s debut album, Heba, was released on Bella Union earlier this year and is a uniquely sensual, rhythmic and mesmerising brand of modern pop: restlessly inventive, exquisitely melodic, and defying easy categorisation.

Toots and the Maytals
+ Captain Accident
Friday 28 July 2017 / Barbican Hall / 19:30
Tickets £25 – 45 plus booking fee
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Support comes from Cardiff-based Captain Accident, whose energetic blend of rock, reggae and soul has earned him the respect of many, and has seen him become a regular on the festival circuit.

ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner

Start time changed from 19.30 to 20:00

Saturday 9 September 2017 / LSO St Luke’s / 20:00
Tickets £20 plus booking fee

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