“Isla feeds on Steve Reich mathematics, Radiohead dread, African desert grooves and ECM northern melancholy to travel into a new, chiming cavernous sound-world that is both exotic and hypnotic.” MOJO****

“Genuinely innovative.. There isn’t a band that sounds remotely like them.” Observer Music Monthly ****

Duncan Bellamy, drums and electronics

Jack Wyllie, saxophones and electronics

Milo Fitzpatrick, bass and electronics

Keir Vine hang and keyboards

One of the UK’s most inimitable bands Portico Quartet have announced a short run of dates this November. The dates which follow-on from a show-stealing turn at the North Sea Jazz Festival are the bands first after the recording of the new album and will provide the first opportunity for UK audiences to hear the band’s new material.

Electronica meets future-jazz in Portico Quartet’s melodic, rhythmic music that mixes the inspiration of Steve Reich with a very contemporary kind of jazz improv. One that draws on electronica, ambient dance and rock music in an intense blend all their own. It’s the mix of ethereal sax, pulsing electronics, otherworldly loops, stripped back drum grooves and earthy bass that gives their music it’s unique sound. Their darkly atmospheric music has pushed them to the forefront of the contemporary music scene and their inimitable sound that has been compared to Radiohead, E.S.T and The Cinematic Orchestra amongst others.

David Keye is a nottingham based, independent musician/composer making creative, sensitive, melodic and mood altering music.

David Keye was born in the city of Dublin and promptly exported to the musical metropolis known as Nottingham in the UK. There he studied classical piano, some flute, percussion and vocals soon after becoming a multi instrumentalist playing just about any musical instrument he could get his eager hands on. He has been writing, recording and producing music of all colours and flavours for the past 25 years, has played hundreds of gigs in the UK alone and has performed and recorded with many established musicians that include Injured Birds (Denizen Recordings), Chris Mcdonald (Leo & the Seraphim, Foncheros, Emmett Brown), 1st Blood (1st Blood Records), Natalie Alexis Duncan (Universal Music) and David Blazye (DB Records, Top Cat Music).

Photography By Scruffy Dave

Dealmaker & Left Lion Presents an evening of Spoken Word and Poetical Dissent. Featuring Chester P Hackenbush

Good day, Nottingham. Allow us first to apologize for this interruption. We, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine – the security of the familiar, the tranquillity of repetition. We enjoy them 
as much as anyone. 


But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone’s death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, we thought we could mark this November the fourth by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a 
little chat. 




There are of course those who do not want us to speak. We suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation; words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? 

Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression; where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. 

How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.



We know why you did it. We know you were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War, terror, disease; there were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. 
Fear got the best of you.



They promised you order, they promised you peace, and all they demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Tonight we seek to end that silence. So if you see what we see, if you feel as we feel, and if you would seek as we seek, then we ask you to stand beside us at the Nottingham Contemporary and together we shall give you a fourth of November that shall never, ever be forgot. 

Our accomplices include: 


23:00 Chester P Hackenbush
22:30 Johnny Crump Performs The Order To Come
22:15 Deb Stevenson – Mouthy Poets
22:00 The Lambhorse Caberet
21:40 Joe Coghlan and Jonezy
21:20 Al Needham
21:10 Michael of Elmet
21:00 Scruffy Dave
20:50 Aly and Milk
20:40 Toking John
Intro Motormouth w/ James Walker

The night will also feature the premier screening and performance of Vaudevillian masterpiece ‘The Order To Come’ – A film by johnny Crump & Shaun Pubis aka DJ Rubbish

Cafe.Bar.Live@Cafe.Bar.Contemporary
Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham NG1 2GB
0115 948 9750