Led by bassist and composer Alison Rayner, multi award-winning quintet ARQ are widely celebrated from 10 years of extensive UK and European touring across a complete range of jazz clubs, concert halls and international festivals and critically acclaimed for their three album releases August (2014) , A Magic Life (2016) and Short Stories (2019). All have garnered extensive press acclaim and international radio play, with Rayner also winning a coveted Ivor Novello Composer Award for ‘There is a Crack in Everything’from Short Stories.
This year, ARQ celebrates 10 years of contributing to the cultural jazz landscape with their fourth album of collaborative, newly composed and original music Semaphore, recorded live in summer 2024. Following a series of successful regional UK dates this Autumn including a sell-out at London’s Ronnie Scott’s, the band look forward to 2025 Spring touring and the album launch at Soho Pizza Express in March.
Richly nuanced compositions, rhythmic interplay and folk-infused melodies, ARQ play ‘songs without words’ carrying a strong sense of narrative and cinematic quality. The group are lauded for their vibrant, communicative performances and the newly-recorded material on Semaphore is as engaging, imaginative and groovy as ever.
PRESS
“Bright, open jazz music that rejoices in human experience without sentimentalising it” ★★★★ BBC Music Magazine
“Memories brought to life” ★★★★ The Observer
“Tells its tales through strong melodies, sinewy rhythms and luminous solos, by turns tender and exuberant” ★★★★ All About Jazz
“ARQ have come up with another impeccable album” ★★★★½ thejazzmann.com
“Vibrant and melodic originals from this closely integrated outfit” Jazz Journal – review of 2024 Scarborough Jazz Festival
“Rayner’s a traveller, on land and in the mind, and her distinctive, quirky but always groovy compositions somehow lend themselves to live-performance enhancement without the band’s concentrated energy ever dissipating” Nigel Jarrett – Abergavenny Jazz Festival
AT THE GLOBE Unreserved seating. Names of ticket holders will be on the door. We do not send out physical tickets.
CREATING A GLOBE ACCOUNT
When you buy tickets you will be invited to create an online account. You don’t have to do this but, if you do, you will find it quicker and simpler to buy tickets in future. Also, you can access all your ticket information and livestream files from your account dashboard, which is very convenient.
AGE RESTRICTIONS Children and young people under 16 years old may attend events accompanied by an adult (age over 18). They are not allowed to enter the premises after 9pm and they must leave the premises by midnight. Under 16s are not allowed to purchase soft drinks, but they may consume soft drinks bought for them by their accompanying adult. 16 and 17 year olds are allowed to attend events unaccompanied by an adult and they may purchase soft drinks. They must leave the premises by midnight.
Mar 16 – ARQ
Sunday 16 March, 8pm (Doors 7pm)
Tickets: £12.00 advance, £14 door, £7 for 25 & under
All tickets are sold subject to our Terms and Conditions of sale.
Description
Led by bassist and composer Alison Rayner, multi award-winning quintet ARQ are widely celebrated from 10 years of extensive UK and European touring across a complete range of jazz clubs, concert halls and international festivals and critically acclaimed for their three album releases August (2014) , A Magic Life (2016) and Short Stories (2019). All have garnered extensive press acclaim and international radio play, with Rayner also winning a coveted Ivor Novello Composer Award for ‘There is a Crack in Everything’from Short Stories.
This year, ARQ celebrates 10 years of contributing to the cultural jazz landscape with their fourth album of collaborative, newly composed and original music Semaphore, recorded live in summer 2024. Following a series of successful regional UK dates this Autumn including a sell-out at London’s Ronnie Scott’s, the band look forward to 2025 Spring touring and the album launch at Soho Pizza Express in March.
Richly nuanced compositions, rhythmic interplay and folk-infused melodies, ARQ play ‘songs without words’ carrying a strong sense of narrative and cinematic quality. The group are lauded for their vibrant, communicative performances and the newly-recorded material on Semaphore is as engaging, imaginative and groovy as ever.
ARQ are:
Alison Rayner: bass | Buster Birch: drums | Deirdre Cartwright: guitar | Diane McLoughlin: saxophone | Steve Lodder: piano
PRESS
“Bright, open jazz music that rejoices in human experience without sentimentalising it” ★★★★ BBC Music Magazine
“Memories brought to life” ★★★★ The Observer
“Tells its tales through strong melodies, sinewy rhythms and luminous solos, by turns tender and exuberant” ★★★★ All About Jazz
“ARQ have come up with another impeccable album” ★★★★½ thejazzmann.com
“Vibrant and melodic originals from this closely integrated outfit” Jazz Journal – review of 2024 Scarborough Jazz Festival
“Rayner’s a traveller, on land and in the mind, and her distinctive, quirky but always groovy compositions somehow lend themselves to live-performance enhancement without the band’s concentrated energy ever dissipating” Nigel Jarrett – Abergavenny Jazz Festival
AT THE GLOBE
Unreserved seating. Names of ticket holders will be on the door. We do not send out physical tickets.
CREATING A GLOBE ACCOUNT
When you buy tickets you will be invited to create an online account. You don’t have to do this but, if you do, you will find it quicker and simpler to buy tickets in future. Also, you can access all your ticket information and livestream files from your account dashboard, which is very convenient.
TICKETING CONTACT
If you need to contact us about ticketing please email events@theglobenewcastle.bar or send a message to our Facebook page.
AGE RESTRICTIONS
Children and young people under 16 years old may attend events accompanied by an adult (age over 18). They are not allowed to enter the premises after 9pm and they must leave the premises by midnight. Under 16s are not allowed to purchase soft drinks, but they may consume soft drinks bought for them by their accompanying adult.
16 and 17 year olds are allowed to attend events unaccompanied by an adult and they may purchase soft drinks. They must leave the premises by midnight.
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