Iklectik Artlab has been one of the great London venues of my time performing over the last decade. Eduard & Isa, who created it and ran it, are amazing people. It's so sad to say goodbye, for now, for this location. We all hope the project continues elsewhere.

Iklectik has not only been a place where I have curated dozens of events, but also a place I have performed a lot, and learnt a lot. It’s one of the places where I started to move deeper into the experimental music world, through sound poetry first, and now improvised talking performances. My collaboration there with Jaap Blonk and Phil Minton is one of many memories.

Benedict Taylor and I tried to offer a sendoff to Iklectik in proper style on January 12th 2024, a night for Resonant FM, and one of the final seven days of events that was put on to say farewell. As ever before, Benedict and I planned nothing, and tried to really react to what was around us, what came out, and what had been said / surrounding us on that night.

The reaction was quite something. I think an audience of musicians and composers is different to my usual audience, but also the febrile feeling of the circumstance. Some really nice return from this below.