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Improvised music from Adam Fairhall (accordion/harmonium), David Birchall (guitar/banjo) and Michael Perrett (bass clarinet). Fond of drones etc.

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Next Wednesday (28th) at @thehorsehospital

Zheng Hao & Caius Williams
Minimum Wage Immanence Unit
Conal Blake & Theodora Laird

Tickets on gel.now (in bio)

ZHENG HAO
Born in Wuhan; based in London. Mostly uses electronics or electro-acoustic instruments for solo and group improvisation, while other times also makes unpleasant computer dance music. Enjoys gritty and gnarly textures as well as delicate, amorphous qualities in different sound and space.

CAIUS WILLIAMS
is a musician from London who plays the double bass, guitar, and bass guitar. He works in collaboration with others, alongside various solo projects, and often works with improvisation and explorations of resonance and perception.

He is in the collaborative groups ‘Crosspiece’ (with Theodora Laird), ‘Argia’ (with Tara Cunningham & Theo Guttenplan).
He also works as guitarist/bassist for feeo, alongside lots of other varied work as a supporting musician, both in studio and touring internationally. Some recent collaborators include Steve Noble, Tom Challenger, Charles Bullen, Jack Dove, Zheng Hao, Maggie Nicols, Mark Wastell, Rory Salter, Regan Bowering, Sachiko M, Mark Sanders, and others

MINIMUM WAGE IMMANENCE UNIT
comprises Adam Fairhall on accordion/harmonium, David Birchall on guitar/banjo and Michael Perrett on bass clarinet.

They improvise music that draws as much on English folk song as it does the timbral integrations of European spectralism and the free drone excursions of Pelt.

Writing in The Wire, Daniel Spicer described their debut CD as “sounding as if Terry Riley had gently commandeered the Bitches Brew sessions before nodding off in the corner”.

CONAL BLAKE
is a musician from Glasgow. He currently plays solo, improvises with various friends and is in the projects Inweys and Junk Modelling. He uses electronics and percussion. He also runs the Feedback Moves label.

THEODORA LAIRD
is a vocalist and multidisciplinary artist. Releases under her solo project ‘feeo’ have received critical acclaim. Theodora’s practice has involved in tandem with an interest in situating narratives within freely improvised music, specifically through frequent involvement in the GRAIN residency. by @mwiu_band

We're really excited to be back out doing a couple of gigs with Minimum Wage Immanence Unit this Autumn!

First up is next Wednesday 28th October for @grain_residency @thehorsehospital in London

Then we're in Glasgow @theoldhairdressers on Saturday 21st November

Thanks so much to @fullof.noises in Barrow for the film! The full film of our set from when we visited them in 2024 will be up on their site in the near future.

@adam.fairhall.7 @michaelnperrett by @mwiu_band

Next up: 28th October at @thehorsehospital

Zheng Hao & Caius Williams
Minimum Wage Immanence Unit
Conal Blake & Theodora Laird

All info, tickets, bios, etc. at gel.now (link in bio)
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Ahoy Bristolians! Tomorrow we will be in your bosom. Welcome us? by @mwiu_band

Pleased to announce @earlywater88 and her band will join us in July - with @mwiu_band on support!

“Supernatural, spellbinding reframing of Gaelic folk with modular synth, field recordings, and deliciously creaky instrumentation by some of Scotland’s finest, including a duet with Cindy Sharp aka Cinder, whose work with 4AD staples The Cocteau Twins & This Mortal Coil is surely a nearby trig point, as are Aaliyah Enyo, Lankum, Brìghde Chambeuil, Lucy Duncombe, even Jon Hassell.

On ‘Minor Gestures’ Glasgow’s Susanna Stark tactfully and daringly tends to her Gaelic heritage with an extended folk session in mystical locations around the Govan stones, river Clyde & underground streamlets. Accompanied by players from the city’s renowned experimental music milieu - Laurie Pitt (drums), Caroline Hussey (accordion), and Philip Cardwell (trumpet) - plus legendary figure Cindy Sharp (Cocteau Twins, TMC, Cindytalk), Stark cuts a striking figure in the mix. It’s a decisive departure from the adult contemporary pop of her previous, which was more comparable to Laura Groves or Elaine Howley, and perhaps better aligned with the latter’s cues from Mary Black, with Gaelic vocals floating above and around the band and her bed of harmonium drone, meshed with textured location recordings and modular tones, navigating chthonic and above ground currents of olde world musick with fresh imagination.

Bound to be received with open arms and ears by folk fantasists and anyone who can join dots between folk, jazz, to 4th and other world dimensions, the LP plays out a transfixing dream sequence masterfully heightened by the deftest grasp of illusory mise-en-scene” - Boomkat by @mwiu_band

One of our number is involved in this gig next month. A stone-cold knockout, surely? @almostloveheart @tombedvisionsrecords by @mwiu_band

Excited to support @eric_chenaux @thepeerhat on the Manchester leg of his UK tour on Monday 9th. To celebrate, here's a picture I took of Habitat 67 during my sojourn in Montreal in 2019. by @mwiu_band

We're playing @supernormalfestival 2025! Lineup looks pretty damn super if you ask me. by @mwiu_band

We're excited to be part of this @tombedvisionsrecords gig on Saturday! Doors 19:30 xxx by @mwiu_band

It’s here! The recording of the ambitious, highly tech and highly brilliant night in our cellar in which we hosted @mwiu_band playing a set followed by a reading by @danieljamesspicer from his book Peter Brötzmann, about the avant-garde, intense sax player which was then followed by a short performance by Manchesters own @tombedvisionsrecords which was then followed by a great Q+A between Daniel and David. Lots of things in a row. All great.
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Head to the events page on our website to listen to the whole evening. Huge thanks to David for editing and recording it all so we didn’t have to, plus @mwiu_band for proposing the event and organising it, and @danieljamesspicer for having the desire to visit Stockport!
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Signed copies of Daniel Spicers book now on our website too. by @mwiu_band

A reminder that this fun event is coming up #improvisedmusic #bookchat #brötzmann by @mwiu_band

Updated listing for January
17/1 Katya Shirshkova / Anna Peaker
23/1 Bohman Brothers
24/1 Ivor Kallin & Mick Beck/ JABAW
25/1 Minimum Wage Immanence Unit / Callie Sounds by @mwiu_band