Birmingham-based composer Andrew Woodhead is about to perform the most ambitious piece you’ll hear this year. The album Pendulums – Music for Bellringers, Improvisers & Electronics was released in June, and the launch […]
Andrew Woodhead – ‘Pendulums’

Andrew Woodhead – Pendulums(Leker LEKCD001, LEKLP001. Album review by Adrian Pallant) Subtitled Music for bellringers, improvisers & electronics, Andrew Woodhead’s Pendulums delivers, without doubt, one of the more unexpected and intriguing releases […]
Fizzle at Centrala, Digbeth Birmingham (23 May, 20 June & 18 July, 2pm)

Alto saxophonist Lee Griffiths, originally from Northamptonshire, studied at Birmingham Conservatoire and is one of the organisers behind the Fizzle series of improvised and experimental music. He and Olivia Murphy will be […]
Andrew Woodhead (Ideas of Noise Festival, Birmingham, Coventry, Stourbridge, 30 January-9 February)

The 2020 edition of the Ideas of Noise festival finds it expanded into an eight-day extravaganza embracing different genres of left-field music, art and performance taking place across Birmingham and the West […]
Fizzle and TDE Promotions, Birmingham, autumn season

Up in Birmingham, Tony Dudley-Evans (TDE Promotions) and Andrew Woodhead (Fizzle) have a new programme of experimental music for their autumn season. Peter Bacon asked them about it: Tony introduced the season […]