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See you in 2023….

We had a fantastic night at the last LUME of 2022. A lovely busy gig to finish off our year! Watch this space for more…


Cath Roberts and Bill Thompson


Matt Fisher and Dee Byrne


Olie Brice ‘From The Mouths of Lions’ string project


Organisers’ end-of-year selfie

LUME @ Hundred Years Gallery 9.12.22

Last gig of the season and we have the following delights for your ears as the year draws to a close…

Matt Fisher & Dee Byrne
Plumbing the depths with percussion and alto saxophone/electronics.
mattfisherdrums.com | deebyrnemusic.com

Olie Brice String Project
First outing of new compositions penned for strings.
oliebrice.com

Bill Thompson & Cath Roberts
A voyage into live electronics.
billthompson.org | cathrobots.co.uk

LUME @ Hundred Years Gallery 11.11.22

November’s EFG London Jazz Festival special offers the following treats…

Adam Fairhall & Dee Byrne
Accordion, toy piano and alto saxophone collision.
adamfairhall.co.uk | deebyrnemusic.com

Tom Ward solo
Flute, saxophone and clarinet odyssey.
madwort.co.uk

Dominic Lash & Cath Roberts
Baritone saxophone and double bass summit.
dominiclash.blogspot.com |cathrobots.co.uk

Advance tickets available from the Luminous website or you can pay £10 cash on the door!

LUME @ Hundred Years Gallery 21.10.22

LUME is back at Hundred Years Gallery for three dates this Autumn, starting with a special evening featuring guest host the longtime friend of LUME Colin Webster! Three excellent sets await…

Tom Rivière & Dee Byrne
Double bass and alto saxophone dialogues.
deebyrnemusic.com | tomriviere.com

Charlotte Keeffe solo
Trumpet and flugelhorn solo quest.
charlottekeeffe.com

Colin Webster & Andrew Lisle
Established duo come together to continue the conversation.
webstology.wordpress.com | andrewlisle.com

LUME @ Hundred Years Gallery 15.7.22

For the last gig in this season we welcome this excellent selection of artists…

Rebecca Nash & Dee Byrne
Keyboard and alto saxophone duo explorations.
rebeccanashmusic.com | deebyrnemusic.com

Andrew Lisle solo
Improvised sonic landscapes on drum kit.
www.andrewlisle.com

Dirk Serries/Tullis Rennie/Cath Roberts
Interrogating the acoustic spaces of guitar, trombone and baritone saxophone.
newwaveofjazz.com| tullisrennie.com | cathrobots.co.uk

Join us at HYG: doors 19:30, music at 20:00, and it’s £10 on the door.

LUME @ Hundred Years Gallery 17.6.22

Our second gig of 2022 has arrived! Featuring:

Lara Jones & Dee Byrne
Sonic investigations combining saxophones and live electronics.
larajonesmusic.com | deebyrnemusic.com

Suren Seneviratne solo
Tabletop electronic experiments.
surenseneviratne.com

Gina Southgate & Cath Roberts
Freeform collision of baritone saxophone, objects and bric-a-brac.
artistginasouthgate.com| cathrobots.co.uk

Doors 19:30, music starting 20:00, £10 on the door. Join us!

LUME @ Hundred Years Gallery 20.5.22

LUME is back in 2022: we’re kicking off another season at Hundred Years Gallery with these improvised encounters…

Caroline Kraabel & Khabat Abas
First meeting of this alto saxophone and cello duo.
masskraabel.comkhabatabas.com

Dee Byrne solo
Sonic explorations with saxophone and effects pedals.
deebyrnemusic.com

Alex Bonney & Cath Roberts
Trumpet and baritone saxophone dialogues with electronics.
alexbonney.co.uk | cathrobots.co.uk

Join us back at the gallery! Doors 19:30, music starting 20:00, £10 on the door.

Check out the June and July lineups over on the gig listings page.

LUME @ Hundred Years Gallery 10.12.21

We’ve come to our final gig this season and have a very special evening in store: the album release set for ‘Hold Music’ (Luminous label) by cr-ow-tr-io: Cath Roberts (baritone saxophone), Otto Willberg (double bass) and Tullis Rennie (trombone). First meeting duo set from Elliot Galvin (keyboards) and Dee Byrne (alto saxophone/effects), plus a solo set from Hannah Marshall (cello).

Doors 19:30, music starts at 20:00. £5 or more – pay what you can. Tickets are on sale now – limited capacity of 20. buy tickets

Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson Street, London, E2 8JD. Nearest station: Hoxton (Overground).

Dee Byrne
Dee Byrne is a London-based saxophonist, composer and improviser with an interest in pushing the boundaries of jazz. Dee collaborates with artists from the UK and Europe who occupy the area of contemporary jazz, avant-garde and free improvisation. deebyrnemusic.com

Elliot Galvin
Pianist Elliot Galvin is one of the rising stars of UK jazz. A superbly gifted composer and pianist, whose maverick imagination and magpie like ability to blend a disparate world of influences into his own unique musical vision has seen him compared to Django Bates although in truth he sounds like no one except himself. elliotgalvin.com

Hannah Marshall
One of the leading improvising string players in the UK, Hannah Marshall has been active on the free improv scene across Europe for many years. As well as experimenting with approaches to the cello through improvisation, she is a sound designer and co-creates theatre, dance and performance projects. hannahmarshall.net

Tullis Rennie
Tullis Rennie is a composer, improvising trombonist, electronic musician and field recordist. His work has been presented at concerts and festivals across 20 countries, alongside UK national broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM. He is co-founder of Walls On Walls with visual artist Laurie Nouchka, and a member of the Insectotròpics audio-visual collective, based in Barcelona. He curates the multi.modal label with Claudia Molitor. tullisrennie.com

Cath Roberts
Cath Roberts’ work explores free improvisation, composition and the music at their meeting point. Her band Sloth Racket has toured widely and released several albums, and she collaborates with many other artists as an improviser, primarily on baritone saxophone. cathrobots.co.uk

Otto Willberg
Otto Willberg plays and improvises on electric and double basses, and has aspirations of playing other low end instruments too. Like many musicians he often plays in various groups, which all sound different. Otto also maintains the website bootlegspatialrecall.net, a collection of public space reverbs and sporadically releases music via the Heavy Petting label.  ottowillberg.com

LUME @ Hundred Years Gallery 16.11.21

Our autumn series continues on 16th November with another musical feast: a trio set from the Swiss/UK trio of Oli Kuster (modular synthesiser), Cyrill Ferrari (guitar/effects) and Dee Byrne (alto saxophone/effects), celebrating the release of their album ‘Motherboard Pinball’ (Efpi Records). First meeting duo set of Ruth Goller (bass) and Cath Roberts (baritone saxophone), plus a solo set from Will Glaser (drums).

Doors 19:30, music starts at 20:00. £5 or more – pay what you can. Tickets are on sale now – limited capacity of 20. buy tickets

Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson Street, London, E2 8JD. Nearest station: Hoxton (Overground).

Dee Byrne
Dee Byrne is a London-based saxophonist, composer and improviser with an interest in pushing the boundaries of jazz. Dee collaborates with artists from the UK and Europe who occupy the area of contemporary jazz, avant-garde and free improvisation. deebyrnemusic.com

Cyrill Ferrari
Inspired by scientific methods, mathematics and physics, Cyrill Ferrari constantly explores new musical frameworks by questioningthe standard role of the guitar with a focus on sound and amplication. Using different pickups and few effects, he amplifies the guitar as a whole object and explores new sounds hidden within the instrument. He is mainly active as co-leader of the projects OORT CLOUD, Leib and Alarcón/Ferrari, and as a sideman with various projects. cyrillferrari.com

Ruth Goller
Hailed by the Guardian for her “thunderous bass-guitar hooks”, Ruth Goller is a bassist, vocalist, composer, environmentalist and now solo artist. Goller helped lay the foundation for the UK’s jazz renaissance, from her years on stage with Acoustic Ladyland and Melt Yourself Down, to more recently Let Spin and Vula Viel, whilst performing and recording with the likes of Shabaka Hutchings, Mercury-Award nominee Kit Downes, Sam Amidon, Bojan Z, Marc Ribot, Rokia Traoré, and Paul McCartney. ruthgoller.com

Will Glaser
London based drummer Will Glaser is a highly in demand sideman to a vast array of the British Jazz scene. His influences draw eclectically from across jazz history, improvised music and anywhere else, from Baby Dodds to Milford Graves, Max Roach to Paul Motian, Roy Haynes to Joey Baron or Ed Blackwell to John Bonham. Will can be heard playing anything from traditional Jazz, in straight ahead settings to improvised music or avant rock. willglaserdrums.com

Oli Kuster
Bern-based pianist, keyboardist and composer Oli Kuster has realised various projects in the field of tension between jazz and electro. With his band Menschmaschine Kuster provided jazz interpretations of Kraftwerk songs in 2011. His work with synthesisers is also reflected in the pop project AEIOU. He has also composed music for film and released three albums as bandleader for the Oli Kuster Kombo. olikuster.ch

Cath Roberts
Cath Roberts’ work explores free improvisation, composition and the music at their meeting point. Her band Sloth Racket has toured widely and released several albums, and she collaborates with many other artists as an improviser, primarily on baritone saxophone. cathrobots.co.uk

LUME @ Hundred Years Gallery 21.10.21

We’re excited to be kicking off our autumn season on 21st October with two duo sets: Colin Webster (saxophone) with John Macedo (electronics), and the first meeting of Chris Williams and Dee Byrne (both saxophone and effects). Plus a solo set from Cath Roberts (electronics).

Places are limited so email info@hundredyearsgallery.com to reserve a seat. Doors 7.30pm, music starts at 8pm. Tickets are £5.

Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson Street, London, E2 8JD. Nearest station: Hoxton (Overground).

Dee Byrne
Dee Byrne is a London-based saxophonist, composer and improviser with an interest in pushing the boundaries of jazz. Dee collaborates with artists from the UK and Europe who occupy the area of contemporary jazz, avant-garde and free improvisation. deebyrnemusic.com

John Macedo
John Macedo has incorporated everything from acoustic instruments and environmental sound to analogue and computer synthesis into his work. His approach explores connections and relationships, revealing the hidden potential in sounds, environments and technologies-often in intimate, immersive and intuitive ways. johnmacedo.co.uk

Cath Roberts
Cath Roberts’ work explores free improvisation, composition and the music at their meeting point. Her band Sloth Racket has toured widely and released several albums, and she collaborates with many other artists as an improviser, primarily on baritone saxophone. cathrobots.co.uk

Colin Webster
London based saxophonist Colin Webster is quickly establishing himself on the European avant garde scene. Collaborating with some of the key figures in improvised and experimental music, Webster is known for working from extreme sonic palettes  – from minimal to maximal, constantly pushing boundaries. webstology.wordpress.com

Chris Williams
Alto player Chris Williams is perhaps best known as a member of Mercury-nominated powerhouse Led Bib. An in-demand musician on the UK scene and beyond, he plays in many other groups including Madwort Saxophone Quartet, Metamorphic and Let Spin.