Music

In spite of their dodgy rhyming epithet, Porpoise Corpus are yet another exciting new Brit jazz band happy to punch above their youthful weight. Thanks to the excessive musical abilities of their leader, pianist/bassist/ composer Dave O’Brien, they won the Peter Whittingham Award. Now they’re using the £4,000 prize money to take over the (mostly shut down) POTP for two nights to showcase new, off-kilter jazz-inspired music. With PC’s music lurching between Jarrettish piano interludes and funky schlock-horror jazz-rock, it’s the perfect amorphous soundtrack for these spots accompanied by intense stop-motion visuals from Dandelion And Burdock. Opening night support comes from the artsy, angsty post-rock of guitarist Nick Gill’s The Monroe Transfer, plus intriguing audio/video artists The Brains and Hunch Band. Known for their subversive mainstream works – using samples of kitchen utensils to recreate ‘The Omen’ theme for ITV’s ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ for example – sound designers Chris Branch and Tom Haines are the very definition of this emergent boundary-blurring music/art movement. Saturday will feature a reduced Heritage Orchestra, appearing as a 12-piece brass-led ‘band’, who’ll play their superb filmic funk. There’s also the second PC set and their own drummer Guy Wood’s frenetic beat-laden solo project Hubcap. 3D glasses are optional.