Come and have a go if ya think yer avant-garde enough

As an artist I am using evolving technology not only as a medium in itself but also as subject.
Streaming, layering and reinterpreting multiple live art forms simultaneously. Finding where science meets spirituality and walking the fine line that exists between both camps; without indulging the dogma of pseudoscience or being blinkered by scientific myopia.
I dedicate the use of technology and it's bastardisation to improvise live images that relate to and directly influence the situation, i.e. music, dance, theatre etc. an element of chaos is intrinsic to all my work.
Growing up in the inner cities of Birmingham gives my work an urban outlook. With a science background I have a rational perspective and having being brought up by hippies i have an ability to live in the moment.
I am able to pick something up and run with it, in terms of new ideas/technology/performance, I have innate multitasking skills, and am able to use geeky technology to express non-geeky ideas.


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radio host on SOUP TO NUTS on NTS - every Tuesday 11-1 
founder of HEAVY TEXTURE
cofounder of ATHE
station manager of MELODIC DISTRACTION
radio host of KALEIDOSOUND on NETIL RADIO
radio host of CLUB DREAD and WAKE UP! WITH on MELODIC DISTRACTION

2022
16 01 22 - Peste, Manchester
28 01 22 - Corsica Studios, London
10 02 22 - Radiophrenia Festival, Scotland
19 02 22 - w/ The Cyclist, Liverpool
19 02 22 - w/ SCALPING, Birkenhead
26 02 22 - w/ Laksa, Liverpool
04 03 22 - w/ Anz, 24 Kitchen St
05 03 22 - Humble Abode, Liverpool
11 03 22 - w/ Jensen Interceptor, Meraki
12 03 22 - w/ Daniel Avery, 24 Kitchen St
18 03 22 - No Bounds Festival Launch
25 03 22 - Hereafter, Liverpool
08 04 22 - w/ Arpanet, IWF
09 04 22 - Royal Albert Hall (Live Set), London
11 04 22 - Loose Lips on Threads, London
14 04 22 - NAM, Manchester
15 04 22 - w/ KINK, Meraki, Liverpool
22 04 22 - b2b 96 Back, DBA, Manchester
23 04 22 - Between Stations, Love Inn, Bristol
29 04 22 - w/ AJA, QUARRY
30 04 22 - 303 at IWF, Liverpool
01 05 22 - HMT at Queens Yard Summer Party
08 05 22 - Laila Sakini & Joanne Robertson at TWH
13 05 22 - Soup, Manchester
14 05 22 - Secretsundaze, Oval Space, London
20 05 22 - b2b w/ 96 Back, Carpet Shop, London
28 05 22 - b2b w/ 96 Back, Happa & Jabes, MCR
29 05 22 - Think Tank, Leeds
01 06 22 - Mad World TV, Corsica Studios, London 
02 06 22 - w/ Demdike Stare, IWF, Liverpool
03 06 22 - Baltic Weekender Festival
04 06 22 - EHFM, Sneaky Pete's 
11 06 22 - Gottwood Radio
12 06 22 - Gottwood Festival
30 06 22 - Common, Manchester
01 07 22 - w/ Vladimir Ivkovic at The White Hotel
02 07 22 - On Kilter Festival

<<< summer holiday >>>

02 09 22 - Watching Trees Festival
04 09 22 - Audio Farm Festival
08 09 22 - Goodfootin' Festival
22 09 22 - NAM, Manchester
14 10 22 - No Bounds Festival
21 10 22 - w/ Romeo Poirier, Stockroom, Liverpool
28 10 22 - The Standard, London
28 10 22 - w/ K Means + DJ Storm, Venue MOT LDN
30 10 22 - Young Echo Halloween, Bristol 
20 11 22 - Live set at The White Hotel
24 11 22 - LYL radio
03 12 22 - NTS Residents party Manchester 
21 12 22 - Solstice Choral at Peste
30 12 22 - BBC 6 Music Guest Show
31 12 22 -Red City , Liverpool

"...the strangely disturbed world of the Rude Mechanicals ...a great deal like nothing you ever heard before... "
-Tom Robinson BBC 6 Radio. 

"Sure, super vocalist Miss Roberts can do "Troutmask" style phrasing & much more, while squawks, squonks, intricate bass & guitar interplay abound to Zappaesque effect. After a while its artrock roots shine through - more than a little early Roxy, elements of Robert Wyatt, Father Murphy, the Pop Group, Rip Rig & Panic, XTC, & Henry Cow, or even oddball forbears like Kevin Coyne or the Bonzo Dog Band." -Den in Mudkiss Fanzine April 2010

Have you any idea how unusual it is for me to enjoy an unsolicited CD these days? And to want to hear it again? And then, as I type these words, another one appears: the Zappa/Beefheart theatrics of the free-moving RUDE MECHANICALS... because they love Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Here And Now, Lindsay Cooper, Make Up and Skill 7 Stamina 12 ... and you know how unusual THAT IS??? -Village Voice, Everett True, Hugs and Kisses No: 76
Gigs: https://bnds.us/c45fgd

Composer, performer & occasional multimedia artist. Formerly Newcastle, Gothenburg, Birmingham & Hague.

Selection of works available here, full portfolio available on my website below.

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