Wednesday 7 October
Ensemble Bash 7.30pm
Red Snapper 9pm
Thursday 8 October
The John Metcalfe Band 7.30pm
Jon Hopkins (with visuals by Myogenic) 9pm
Friday 9 October
The Duke Quartet 7.30pm
The Durutti Column 9pm
Saturday 10 October
Plaid 7.30pm
The Bays/Simon Hale/John Metcalfe/ The Heritage Orchestra 9pm
All concerts in Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
Beyond The Loop; flyer
Beyond The Loop; advertisement in Time Out
Beyond The Loop
October 7-10
"British mould-breakers blurring the edges of electronic and contemporary music"
Featuring: The Durutti Column | The Bays | Simon Hale | The Heritage Orchestra | The Duke Quartet | Plaid | Red Snapper | Ensemble Bash | Jon Hopkins feat. Davide Rossi | The John Metcalfe Band
Tickets from £6.50
King's Place
Beyond The Loop 2009 [Kings Place Hall One, 7-10 October 2009]
10 October @ 9pm - The Bays / Simon Hale / John Metcalfe / The Heritage Orchestra
9 October @ 7.30pm - The Duke Quartet
9 October @ 9pm - The Durutti Column [with John Metcalfe and Tim Kellett]
8 October @ 9pm - The John Metcalfe Band
15-17 July Manchester International Festival [with The Durutti Column performing 'A Paean To Wilson']
24 March - Kings Place Hall One [The John Metcalfe Band supporting the Bays]
Music Beyond the Mainstream Tour featuring The Bays, The Heritage Orchestra, Simon Hale and John Metcalfe + The John Metcalfe Band
November
11 - Royal Northern College of Music
12 - Gateshead Sage
14 - Basingstoke Anvil
15 - Warwick Arts Centre
17 - Liverpool Venue TBC
18 - Northampton Royal Derngate
19 - Leicester De Montfort Hall
20 - Bristol Colston Hall
21 - Brighton Dome
22 - London Royal Festival Hall
Beyond The Loop 2008 curated by John Metcalfe
Wednesday 1 October 2008 (17:15) Hall Two, King's Place
Review in The Guardian: "Hall Two is very different - a potentially more versatile and, it would seem, more popular - space, packed by a trendy crowd for a concert given by the Duke Quartet. Arvo Part's Summa, deftly and gracefully done, was followed by Steve Reich's Different Trains, a work for quartet and tape, in which the melodic contours of recorded speech form the basis of an exhilarating yet vaguely sinister portrait of travel and speed. Every lurch in tempo and volume registered thrillingly, and the response was enthusiastic".
Wednesday 24 September 2008 - 100 Club, Oxford St, London [A Darker Sunset album launch, plus DJ extraordinaire Dr. Alick Sethi of Electric Cafe and Retox Clinic fame]
Friday 1 August 2008 - The Big Chill, Castle Stage
20 July 2008 - Larmer Tree Festival, Main Stage [CANCELLED]
6 June 2008 - Integra festival (19:30) at Birmingham's Custard Factory [John Metcalfe, Simon Hale, The Bays and members or Norway's Bit20 ensemble] ["a 3-year project led by the Birmingham Conservatoire in the UK and part financed by Culture 2000."]
Thursday 10 April The Big Chill House [Big Chill warm-up]
9 February 2008 Ginglik, Shepherd's Bush
5 January 2008, Fresh Festival, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
4 January 2008, Fresh Festival, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool [John Metcalfe, The Bays, Chris Bowden and the Heritage Orchestra) ["The Bays will lay down an improvised Drum and Bass line inspiring the composers Bowden and Metcalfe to write parts, live, for The Heritage Orchestra. Using a network of laptops and touch screens conductor Jules Buckley will then direct the Orchestra to play this improvised new work. You can keep track of it all as it is broadcast live on a big screen". More info.]
24-26 August 2007 Shambala Festival, Northamptonshire
18 August 2007 Loop Festival, Brighton
5 August 2007 (4pm) Sanctuary Tent, The Big Chill
3 August 2007 (8pm) The Big Chill [with Pete Lawrence's 'Chilled By Nature' project]
Spring Tour [John Metcalfe, Digitonal and The Bays plus DJ AJ of Big Chill]
8 April 2007 Audio, Brighton [All-dayer which came closest to evoking the spirit of the Bay's Bestival tent, including several floors of live and DJ based music running throughout the day. Among the many live acts confirmed for these two special shows are Tom Middleton's live project AMBA, Max Richter, Jon Hopkins and Digitonal. DJs included Mixmaster Morris, Plaid, AJ, Nick Luscombe, Ben Eshmade and Big Chill founder Pete Lawrence. As the hosts and organisers the Bays also played live, as well as providing turntable sets from their own deck maestros Jimpster and Palmskin.]
6 April 2007 The Sage , Gateshead
5 April 2007 Phoenix, Exeter
4 April 2007 Trinity, Bristol
3 April 2007 Junction, Cambridge
1 April 2007 KOKO, London [CANCELLED]
31 March 2007 The Zodiac, Oxford [CANCELLED]
Thursday 25 January 2007 - Big Chill House (Andy, Ali and John + Tuung and Andy Daa at the decks)
8 September 2006 - Blue Pavilion, Bestival, Isle of Wight
Saturday 5 August 2006 (4pm) - Sanctuary Tent at The Big Chill
6 September 2006 ? ICA (promoted by The Arctic Circle, run by Ben Eshmade of Chiller Cabinet fame) [Guardian Review: "The event starts brilliantly with viola player/composer John Metcalfe. His band is a string trio (viola, violin and double bass) plus Bays drummer Andy Gangadeen, with additional synthesised support from a laptop. They play a smartly written, sharply defined repertoire (as demonstrated by Metcalfe's album Scorching Bay), but Gangadeen's supercharged style reveals an extra dimension in Metcalfe's material; the drums sit right on top of the beat, synchronising precisely with the urgent attack of the strings."]
16 September 2004 Bridgewater Hall, Manchester [supporting The Durutti Column]