Supporting Alasdair Roberts on May 7th

Acclaimed Scottish singer songwriter Alasdair Roberts plays the Northcote Social Club on Friday May 7th. Support from Laura Jean and Francis Plagne.
Tickets here.

Morris/Plagne/Turner/Veltheim at MIJF

As part of the huge 'Overground' performance at the Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday the 2nd of May, I will be taking part in a one-off quartet with Evelyn Morris (Pikelet, True Radical Miracle), Mick Turner (Dirty Three) and Eki Veltheim (Twitch, Australian Art Orchestra). Come to see Peter Brötzmann, Cor Fuhler and the Deadnotes and see us while you're there.
Tickets can be bought here.

Official blurb:

Overground at MIJF 2010

Sunday May 2nd, 2010 at the Melbourne Town Hall

Melbourne International Jazz Festival and City of Melbourne present Overground, a history-making multi-stage concert featuring a spectacular line-up of some of the most celebrated creative jazz, rock and improvising artists in the world, including world premiere collaborations especially put together for this Festival exclusive event.

Overground celebrates the rich diversity of the underground music culture in Melbourne in a day long event set in the many lost spaces of Melbourne Town Hall. It will be an event where new sounds can be made and heard as the outer limits of jazz and improvisation are explored, incorporating rock, avant garde, grindcore, big band, expanded cinema, contemporary classical and much more.

Highlights include legendary European free-jazz improvisers Peter Brotzmann and Han Bennink; Brian Chase of famed band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with saxophonist Seth Misterka; Oren Ambarchi; Mick Turner; Kim Salmon; Anthony Pateras on the Melbourne Town Hall's Grand Organ; revered pianist Paul Grabowsky with avant luminary Sean Baxter; leading musicians Scott Tinkler, Erkki Veltheim, Simon Barker, Carl Dewhurst and Vanessa Tomlinson; Brisbane-based expanded cinema soundscape artist Joel Stern with stalwart filmmaker Dirk De Bruyn; new music trio Golden Fur; the Embers Big Band, neo-dada upstarts Bum Creek with Snawklor and much more!

What: Overground MIJF 2010
Where: Melbourne Town Hall
When: Sunday May 2nd, 2pm to 8pm

Tokyo 12/02/2010

Thanks to Anthony Guerra, I'm playing in Tokyo on the 12th of February, details above. Come along if you're around.

Edinburgh Castle Residency

Francis Plagne band residency at the Edinburgh Castle, Thursdays in December. Probably a different band line up every week. Other acts will be:

Das Butcher
Jared Davis
Seagull
Lehmann B Smith

All shows are free in the front bar.

CRAFT VICTORIA 17th SEPTEMBER

Nathan Gray has a new exhibition entitled 'ASDR' opening on Thursday the 17th of September at Craft Victoria. I will perform a very short set at the opening, a semi-improvisation based on permutations of a fixed set of elements, one of the chief concepts of the works that Nathan will be exhibiting.

TROPICALIA OCTOBER 24th

Sophie Brous, Bum Creek, The French (Nathan Gray, Bianca Hester, Julie Burleigh) and Francis Plagne Band, among others, will be paying tribute to Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses at ACMI on the 24th of October:

"A celebration of the reverberant Brazilian cultural movement Tropicália, and of one of its most important protagonists, Rogerio Duarte. The centrepiece of this program is a survey exhibition at The Narrows of Duarte's work. At ACMI an afternoon film and music program features local bands reinterpreting the landmark album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses and a specially commissioned interview with Rogerio Duarte. This will be followed by free screenings of a documentary on the movement and a Brazilian feature film from the period."

Tickets etc here.