Mercury Over Maps 25

Name: Mercury Over Maps 25
Start: 2026-05-05T07:30:00+01:00
Location: The Hill Station Cafe

Schedule

Tue, 05 May, 2026 at 07:30 am

UTC+01:00

Location

The Hill Station Cafe | London, EN

I’m pleased to announce the next edition of Mercury Over Maps at Hill Station Cafe and Venue!
The evening features 3 sets – a trio between Dominic Lash, Colin Webster and Bill Thompson, a duo between Julia Brüssel and Tom Ward, and a solo by Alice Boyd.

Mercury Over Maps 25
Hill Station Cafe
Kitto Rd, London, SE14 5TW
Tuesday, May 5th
Doors 730/Music 8pm
£10/£5 (students) Cash/Card at the Door
Please join us!
More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-25
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Mercury Over Maps #25
DOMINIC LASH,BILL THOMPSON and COLIN WEBSTER
DOMINIC LASH – Double bass
Dominic Lash is a double bassist and guitarist who the Free Jazz Collective has called an “exceptional creative musician”. He concentrates on improvised and experimental music, performing regularly with musicians such as John Butcher, Angharad Davies, N.O. Moore, Mark Sanders, and Alex Ward. He also performed with the late Tony Conrad and Steve Reid, has had solo double bass pieces written for him by composers including Jürg Frey and Éliane Radigue, and has worked with bands and ensembles including Apartment House, Modern Nature, and the Bozzini Quartet.

Gilles Deleuze and Film Criticism (2023)
Robert Pippin and Film (2022)
The Cinema of Disorientation (2020)
Spoonhunt record label (CD / download)
http://dominiclash.blogspot.co.uk/

COLIN WEBSTER – Saxophone

London based saxophonist Colin Webster is quickly establishing himself on the European avant garde scene. Collaborating with some of the key figures in improvised and experimental music, Webster is known for working from extreme sonic palettes – from minimal to maximal, constantly pushing boundaries.
“Webster belongs in a long line of sharp-toned alto players, and while he rarely explores the freakish registers of a Kaoru Abe, he could remind you, at different moments, of people like John Zorn, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Anthony Braxton or even Jackie McLean.
There is this ‘punk’ spirit in his playing as well, an unfettered abundance, but he never sounds like a loose cannon. Webster has become a razor-sharp thinker who keeps the link between thought and execution as short as possible, spraying his barrage of stuttering and sputtering morsels of sound with a fearsome precision, as if there is some formal structure behind his freedom.” – Guy Peters (taken from the liner notes to ‘New Invention’).
https://webstology.wordpress.com/

BILL THOMPSON – No Input Guitar Pedals

Bill Thompson is a sound artist and composer. He performs regularly as a soloist as well as in a number of groups including The Seen, zerøspace, and Airfield (with Ian Spink), and duos with Ian Stonehouse, Phil Durrant, and Yoni Silver. Past collaborations include performances with Keith Rowe, Faust, EXAUDI and others.
Although originally trained as a guitarist, Thompson has worked with live electronics for the better part of 15 years. In recent years he has returned to guitar using one built by Moog combining it with electronics with miscellaneous tabletop devices, found objects, flashing lights, and the occasional vibrator.
He has earned numerous awards and commissions including the PRS for New Music ATOM award, the GAVAA visual arts award, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission, the 2010 Aberdeen Visual Arts Award, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award.
www.billthompson.org
https://burningharpsichordrecords.com

JULIA BRÜSSEL and TOM WARD

Julia Brüssel – Violin and electronics

Julia Brüssel is dedicated to a wide variety of genres and has a passion for dealing with musical diversity, characteristics, flexibilities and roles. Accordingly, her work includes solo performances both unplugged and with live electronics, but also work as a composer and home producer. In the avant garde/experimental (kraut) rock genres she has played with bands like TheDorf, faUSt, RKet, Horse Lords,..and has led several projects like the experimental string ensemble Liasemble, the Jazzband Julia Brüssel Quartet and is also a co-leader of the band song-improv band hilde. In addition to this she founded various projects of other genres and is currently working on a new project with Ghanaian percussionist Abass Dodoo. Julia has played on numerous jazz and avantgarde festivals (e.g. Berlin Solo Impro, Berlin Jazz Festival, Bezau Beatz (…),and has performed at the Moers Festival many times since 2018. She regularly plays and collaborates with international artists and formations in and outside of Europe.

https://www.instagram.com/juliabruessel/

Tom Ward – Bass clarinet/flute

Tom Ward is a improviser, composer and computer programmer. He can currently be heard exploring saxophones, clarinets and flutes, as well as more recently the Music Thing Modular Workshop system… Tom has a number of regular improvising duos and trios, involving such artists as Adam Fairhall, Cath Roberts, Iris Colomb, Douglas Benford, Matthew Grigg, Nuno Trocado, and more. He co-runs BRÅK with Colin Webster & Cath Roberts, an improvised music gig in a south-east London homebrew shop, where he has played with such improvisers as John Edwards, Corey Mwamba, Charlotte Keeffe and many more. He has released albums of groups playing his own compositions (including Madwort Saxophone Quartet and Madwort’s Menagerie), as well as collaborating on collective ensembles including Cotovelo (PortaJazz), Spinningwork, and more. As a side-person, he has toured/performed with Dee Byrne’s Outlines, Beats & Pieces Big Band, Overground Collective, Favourite Animals, Porpoise Corpus and many more. In 2020, he was heavily involved in Noise Orchestra’s Autonomous Noise Unit (ANU) project, building an easy-to-use standalone JackTrip device for realtime online musical collaboration, as well as facilitating live internet broadcasts from multiple locations using JackTrip for London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO) and Sloth Racket. When he’s not doing music he can be found working on OpenSAFELY, an NHS analytics platform.

https://madwort.co.uk/
madwort.bandcamp.com

ALICE BOYD – Laptop and electronics
Alice Boyd is a South London-based musician, sound artist and audio producer whose work explores our relationship with the natural world through song, field recording and immersive listening.
Blending folk-inspired harmonies with ambient electronics and environmental sound, she creates work that reveals the hidden textures of everyday places – from endangered birdsong and underwater life to urban spaces and sounds lost to time.
Her work spans music, spatial audio installations and broadcast, with features on BBC Radio 3, 4 and 6 Music, and presentations at venues including the Barbican Conservatory, Kings Place, Kew’s Wakehurst and the Eden Project, where she was artist-in-residence.
She is the creator of the BBC Radio 4 documentary Shifting Soundscapes and produces Found Sounds for Ffern’s podcast As the Season Turns, with other recent collaborations including the RSPB, EarthPercent, Knepp Rewilding and TOAST. In 2025-26, she supported Yann Tiersen on his European tour, with a performance combining voice, synths, live looping and field recordings.
https://www.aliceboyd.info/
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