The Spin presents: Soft Machine @ Tap Social, Botley, Oxford - Wednesday 13th November, Doors 7.30pm
Doors: 7.30pm
Performance from 8.30pm
Soft Machine, from their earliest performances as a psychedelic band – who were contemporaries of, and shared stages with the Jimi Hendrix Experience – all the way to being one of Europe's best known ‘fusion’ groups, has influenced several generations of bands, and continues to be name-checked by today's hippest experimentalists.
Whilst the line-up of Soft Machine may have changed many times since the heady days of the late 1960’s, the band’s spirit of musical adventure, and the ease with which it freely avoids being pigeon holed and can move from powerful progressive jazz fusion to atmospheric psychedelia to free improvised jazz-rock continues to make it both unique and totally contemporary.
The band features 1970s band member (and No. 1 Spin guest!) John Etheridge on guitar, Theo Travis on saxes, flutes and keys, Fred T Baker on bass and Asaf Sirkis on drums. The band’s latest album ‘Other Doors’ has received rave reviews worldwide.
This is an extremely rare appearance of Soft Machine in Oxford. This is absolutely not to be missed….so please BOOK NOW!!!
‘This isn’t a nostalgia or revival band but a very vital unit, contemporary and alert, consistently humane, still capable of surprise and delight’ – The Wire (Brian Morton)
‘The band, of course, has a broad palette — from Metheny-like jazz-rock to anything-goes improvisation; from pastoral passages with Etheridge on acoustic to an ambient flutescape from Travis. Compact and to the point, nothing overstays its welcome.’ - The Times
‘No band of this vintage have any right to still sound so fearless and ferocious. Don’t miss them! - PROG Magazine
For more on the band, please see www.softmachine.org
A note about the venue:
- The bar at Tap Social is card payment only.
- We seat people as much as possible on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. This means that those who buy tickets first are allocated the better seats (as opposed to that allocation being for those that show up first on the night)…so, BOOK NOW (and also save money on ticket prices with our early bird deal)!!
- We are ready to support people who have additional accessibility needs, please let us know in advance via the contact form in order for our team of volunteers to design the assigned seating plan to accommodate you.
Location:
Tap Social
Curtis Industrial Estate
27, N Hinksey Ln,
Oxford
OX2 0LX
https://www.tapsocialmovement.com
Returns Policy:
If you have purchased tickets for the show but can no longer attend, contact us via the form on the website or email info@spinjazz.com, we will happily refund you if the show is sold out and we are able to re-sell the ticket
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