All-Set! Presents: Perms and Combs, or a Zipper to Nowhere

Part of the residency All-Set! Presents

Friday, May 30, 2025, 11:00PM – 1:00AM

Southern Cross

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Victoria Cheong, Isla Craig, and Mike Smith perform improvisations and compositions. How do you break a brain that is broken? Listen as a legendary kinship presents itself in music.

All-Set! Presents features music based around the trio of Mike Smith (electronics), Pete Johnston (bass) and Jake Oelrichs (drums). The music made in this monthly residency is largely improvised in a subtly-propulsive way that mixes jazz, minimalism and progressive rock. A rotating cast of guests drawn from the roster of Smith and Johnston’s recording imprint All-Set! Editions rounds out the core band each month, and every now and then new compositions appear in the mix. Musicworks says: “The music on All-Set! is unified by a stylish deliberate quality: every note placed just so, but with ample breathing room” (Nick Storring).

The last Friday of every month 7 pm - 9 pm in the Southern Cross Lounge.

Basic category: electronics, jazz, improvised