Live events: Talks, gigs and exhibitions

Read more about the talks I have available and see a video of my recent talk for TEDx Brighton.

My salon talks for adults are on science, technology and music, focussing on subjects I have researched in depth and can talk about with originality, expertise and passion. Every talk is packed with curiosities I’ve discovered in the archives.

Live events coming soon

British Science Festival
6 Sep 2012 (Aberdeen)

The Odditorium @Port Eliot
19 Jul 2012 (Cornwall)

Rocket Lolly
15 Apr 2012 (Edinburgh)

Lovebytes Festival
23 Mar 2012 (Sheffield)

Radio City Theatre
16 Mar 2012 (Brighton)

Rocket Lolly (open rehearsal)
13 Mar 2012 (Brighton)

QED - science and skepticism conference
10 Mar 2012 (Manchester)

Previous live events

The Event
19 Feb 2012 (London W1)

The Double R Club
16 Feb 2012 (London)

Brighton Science Festival
13 Feb 2012 (Brighton)

Catalyst Club TV Pilot
22 Jan 2012 (Brighton)

Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People
23 Dec 2011 (London)

Juice for the Baby: London Album Launch
14 Dec 2011 (Bloomsbury, London)

Juice for the Baby: Brighton Album Launch
9 Dec 2011 (Brighton)

Fortean Times UnConvention
12 Nov 2011 (London WC1H)

Ghost Stories
27 Oct 2011 (London)

Spacetacular
20 Oct 2011 (London)

BuildBrighton Launch Party
7 Oct 2011 (Brighton)

ChiTek (MzTek teaparty) at the V&A
23 Sep 2011 (London SW7)

Robot sounds and aether music @ MOOT
14 Sep 2011 (Brighton)

Play! The Brighton Maker Faire After-Show Jamboree
3 Sep 2011 (Hove)

BBC Click (aka Digital Planet)
23 Aug 2011 (London)

Einstein's Garden @ The Green Man Festival
19 Aug 2011 (Wales)

Space (short set at Edinburgh Skeptics' Fringe special)
11 Aug 2011 (Edinburgh)

ArtHertz @ Soho Shorts Festival
24 Jul 2011 (London)

Wired: The Future of Sound
20 Jul 2011 (Covent Garden, London)

Adrift with the Sawchestra (for Shoreditch Festival)
17 Jul 2011 (London)

BEAM Festival (electronics and music)
25 Jun 2011 (Uxbridge UB8)

Speaky Spokey (short set at spoken word night)
22 Jun 2011 (Brighton)

Cabaret Futura
20 Jun 2011 (London W10)

Hack Circus @ Interesting
18 Jun 2011 (London WC1R 4RL)

The Absinthe Ball
17 Jun 2011 (Lewes )

Ghost Radio (For Hendrick's Spring Lecture Series)
10 Jun 2011 (London E8)

Spacedog at Bom-Bane's
24 May 2011 (Brighton BN2)

Televisor
16 May 2011 (Hove)

Ghost Radio (for Exotica spoken word events)
11 May 2011 (Brighton BN1)

Televisor
9 May 2011 (Hove)

White Mischief presents 20000 Leagues Under the Seas
16 Apr 2011 (London N1)

The Governess Proudly Presents
18 Mar 2011 (Brighton BN2)

Spacedog Live (family event)
12 Mar 2011 (Hastings)

Rocket Lolly
9 Mar 2011 (Brighton)

Kinetica Art Fair
4 Feb 2011 (London)

Tusk & Garter Club (short set)
28 Jan 2011 (Brighton BN2)

TEDx Brighton: Reasons to be Cheerful
21 Jan 2011 (Brighton BN2)

Talking Canaries and Voices of the Dead
10 Dec 2010 (London)

Spacedog and Professor Elemental
23 Nov 2010 (Brighton)

The Absinthe Ball
13 Nov 2010 (Lewes)

The Horne Section
2 Nov 2010 (Camden, London)

White Night (aquatic songs for night owls)
30 Oct 2010 (Brighton)

Random Friday
29 Oct 2010 (Bexhill on Sea)

Radio City Theatre
24 Oct 2010 (Brighton)

Fear and Loathing in Newcastle
22 Oct 2010 (Newcastle)

The Machinery (for British Science Festival)
18 Sep 2010 (Birmingham)

Uncanny Valley (with Prof. Elemental)
26 Aug 2010 (Islington, London)

Soho Shorts Festival
23 Jul 2010 (London)

Flights of Fancy?
8 Jul 2010 (Brighton BN2)

Music Night (with Jane Bom-Bane)
13 May 2010 (Brighton BN2)

Uncanny Valley (with Prof. Elemental)
5 May 2010 (Brighton)

Kinetica Art Fair (with ArtHertz)
5 Feb 2010 (London)

Wax Recording Demo
16 Dec 2009 (London E14)

Wax Recording Demo (for Catalyst Club)
10 Dec 2009 (Brighton BN2)

Clog Dancing as Early Noise Music (with Caroline Radcliffe)
4 Dec 2009 (London NW3)

Robin Ince's School for Gifted Children
29 Oct 2009 (Brighton BN1)

Transfer - live electronica at Goldsmiths
16 Oct 2009 (London SE14)

Photo by Gaynor Perry

News: January 2012

Juice for the Baby, Spacedog's debut album, is here! I'm ducking out of the Kinetica Art Faire this year but am huddled indoors, writing, sleuthing (investigating a recording in the archives) and devising a new biologically-inspired musical instrument - all will be revealed soon.

News: December 2011

Juice for the Baby, Spacedog's debut album, launches in mid-December. Join us for the launch gigs at the Marlborough, Brighton, on 9 December and the Horse Hospital, London, on 14 December.

News: November 2011

A busy month writing and editing the forthcoming Spacedog album - stay tuned for news.

News: October 2011

I'm focusing on my writing this month (so am quite the hermit) but I'm squeezing in the occasional live performance here and there.

I'm looking forward to working with Helen Keen in her Spacetacular on 20th. I'm writing a code-based work for the new label Chordpunch and some owlish music for that fine wordsmith Professor Elemental.

Spacedog are booked into the studio at the end of the month to complete work on our album.

News: September 2011

A busy month writing, preparing a get-together of maker musicians for the Brighton Maker Faire After-show party. I've also been electrifying a teapot for the Chi-Tek - an exhibition by MzTek of female tech artists at the V&A. And with my fellow Spacedog Stephen Hisock, I made an appearance on the 10th Anniversary edition of BBC Click.

News: August 2011

The Spacedog song For Laika is now available on iTunes (and the album is on its way). Meanwhile, we've been busy preparing our set for Green Man, including the first outing of our torch song for Tommy Cooper.

I'm procrastinating over a teapot which I'm going to electrify for a MzTek event at the Victoria and Albert Museum in September.

I took a short trip to a very rainy Edinburgh Fringe where I played at an event for Edinburgh Skeptics in the Royal Observatory and made some plans for a Spacedog show next summer.

Apart from that, I've been busy writing. More news on that shortly, I hope...

News: July 2011

I'm interviewed by Leila Johnston in this month's Wired UK magazine and will be appearing with my fellow Spacedogs at a Wired: The Future of Music on 20 July.

I've rounded up a bumper crop of links and soundclips for my BBC Radio 4 doc The Bird Fancyer's Delight, which is broadcast on 5 and 9 July and is also available on Listen Again. Thanks for all your cheery emails about the doc, to ProjectMoonbase for mentioning it in their podcast PMB038 and for the many national papers who gave the documentary such lovely reviews - I'm glad people enjoyed it! On Sunday 10 July, the doc was featured on Graham Seed's Pick of the Week (Radio 4). A good week!

My latest collaboration with Richard Wiseman is a free and fun magic trick for your iPhone. It's called Paranormality and it's been put together for the launch of his book by the same name in the US. Thanks to Phillis on Derrren Brown's blog for giving the app a mention - thousands of people have now downloaded it and are busy bamboozling their friends.

News: June 2011

Playing theremin for Louise Colborne's homage to Loie Fuller (pioneering cybernetic dancer c1900) and composing sounds for Sonus, an homage to the analogue age with Spacedog, ArtHertz, Rushes Soho Shorts Festival and Ridley Scott Associates. Discovering how easy (or difficult) it is to publicise events in 2011 without Twitter - will report back!

Getting ready for BEAM - a brand new festival of electronics and music at Brunel University (24-26 June). I'll be speaking, running a workshop on optical flow and performing live with my fellow Spacedogs. I'll also be playing a short theremin set at the Speaky Spokey, a new arts salon in Brighton (Wed 22 June).

Putting the finishing touches to a sonic-themed BBC Radio 4 documentary, with producer Neil McCarthy, due for transmission on 5 July 2011.

Playing a short set at the the Absinthe Ball, Lewes, 17 June, and highlights of our Televisor set at Richard Strange's legendary Cabaret Futura, 20 June.

Presenting a workshop for Hack Circus at Interesting, in the Conway Hall, London, 18 June, and performing theremin at a family day at the Science Museum, 19 June.

The Bird Fancyer's Delight

Listen to this BBC Radio 4 documentary about teaching birds to sing human music. Read my research notes.

TEDx Talk: Loving the Machine

Watch this talk and read about my salon talks for adults, featuring phonographs, theremins and other delights.

Meet the robots

View Hugo, the Ealing Feeder and other robots I've created for my music group Spacedog.

iPhone apps

Try these magic apps which I've created for the iPhone in partnership with Richard Wiseman.

Infrasonic: haunted music?

Read about my world renowned collaboration, exploring the strange psychological effects of extreme bass sound.

Televisor

View clips and read reviews of this award winning show featuring human and robot performers.

Play the saw in six weeks

A free tutorial on how to play this ethereal, European skiffle instrument.

Rocket Lolly

Find out about this night of rare vintage science clips, some of which are accompanied by live music.