CRUSH!!! CRUSH!!! are Sonic Pleasure, Mark Browne and Ian Smith. The group utilises a vast array of found and home-made sound making devices combined with more traditional instruments. Sonic Pleasure is famed for her unique crafting of sound from bricks and masonry, reducing much of her instrumentation to dust by the end of a concert. Mark Browne plays castrato saxophone, broken glass, percussion, whistles and bones. Ian Smith will play trumpet in an extraordinary manner.

• Jim Dvorak & Harrison Smith
• Joshua Weitzel & Beibei Wang
• Steve Beresford & John Russell

The Mopomoso end of year show! It’s that time of year again and Mopomoso celebrates all things improvised with our annual extravaganza at the Vortex. As in previous years the number of performers gets added to up until the day itself but typically we expect around 50 musicians playing short sets of 5 – 10 minutes or so. A great way to check out the vibrancy of the London free improvisation scene and see old friends and make new ones in an informal and friendly atmosphere.

Mopomoso special as part of The London Jazz Festival THE WORKSHOP INVITES Formed in 2016 to mark the 25th anniversary of the first Mopomoso concerts the Mopomoso workshops have continued each week in London’s West End. Guests are invited to take part in a monthly concert open to the public and for this special show the workshop takes over Mopomoso’s regular afternoon slot at the Vortex to present a diverse and engaging mix of improvised music featuring its members in collaboration with a specially invited group of guests from the wider improvising community.

• Yves Charuest & Dominic Lash
• Matt Hutchinson
• Susanna Ferrar, Ken Ikeda & John Russell

• Stefan Keune & John Russell
• Alison Blunt & Yoko Miura
• Ola Paulson, Anders Lindsjö, John Russell & Anders Uddeskog

Fête Quaqua 2017 Three days of improvised music with 14 world class musicians. The Sunday concert is at 2.00 pm and the Monday and Tuesday concerts both start at 8.00 pm. A three day pass is £20 or £15 concessions and individual concerts are £8 or £6 concessions. Tickets purchases / reservations from The Vortex or from the door on the day. Every year the guitarist John Russell puts together a project involving a group of highly creative and individual musicians to work together, sometimes for the first time.

• James O’Sullivan & Chris Prosser
• Terry Day & Dominic Lash
• Tania Chen & John Russell

• Phil Durrant, Rob Flint, Kev Hopper & Richard Sanderson
• Mark Browne, Ian McGowan & Sonic Pleasure
• John Russell & Roger Turner

• Charlotte Keeffe, Joe Smith Sands & Diego Sampieri
• Marilza Gouvea, Marcio Mattos & Adrian Northover
• Jean-Jacques Duerinckx, John Russell & Matthieu Safatly

• Steve Beresford & Mandhira da Saram
• Lee Boyd Allatson
• Phil Minton & John Russell

• Kay Grant, Marcio Mattos & Lawrence Casserley
• Alan Wilkinson
• Viv Corringham & John Russell