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November 2006
gig reviews

Oren Marshall - Charming Transport Band
John Law Trio
Andy Sheppard - 200 Saxophones - the opening of Gillett Square
Convergence Quartet
Robert Mitchell and Omar Puente
Ian Shaw
Mike Westbrook Village Band Project
Christine Tobin
Billy Jenkins
Huw Warren and Peter Herbert, Led Bib
Anker, Craig, Cleaver & Curios
Nikki Yeoh
Dog Soup
Sex Mob
Taeko Kunishima

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November 2006 gig reviews by Chris Parker

Huw Warren and Peter Herbert

Led Bib

Monday 13

A double bill (Monday, 13) drew a very healthy crowd. The duo formed by Huw Warren and Peter Herbert is now able to draw on just enough of the mysterious musical telepathy that develops between regular partners to enable the pair to play without discernible pre-agreed 'landmarks'.

So their seamless, hour-long set had a freshness and spontaneity about it that infused the whole occasion with drama and made the odd eruption into tender melody ('And the Kitchen Sink' the perfect example) all the more effective for its very suddenness and unpredictability.

The mainstream press frequently tries to tell us that what is loosely termed 'free' music is too 'difficult' for audiences, especially young ones. The rapt and clearly appreciative silence that greeted this set proved this view to be unnecessarily pessimistic.

The large audience proved not a whit less receptive to Herbert and Warren than to the apparently more 'accessible' power funk of Led Bib, who turned in their customary no-holds-barred, full-on performance, aided at its climax by trumpeter Chris Batchelor.

 

 

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