Friday 27th February 2026
Free Range Orchestra 17.00 The Platform
Promoter: Free Range
The Free Range Orchestra grew out of the long-running series of adventurous music and combined arts events presented by Free Range in Canterbury. This collective of musicians, dancers and poets share their love of improvisation and experimentation through performances that combine the uncompromisingly anarchic with a celebration of creativity and community.
Lancier (Liam Magill) 18.00 Gulbenkian Theatre
Promoter: Crash of Moons Club
Kent based troubadour Liam, who enjoyed significant success with his band Syd Arthur, has returned with a powerful set of new songs. An exceptionally gifted guitar player, songwriter and performer, his music evokes the sounds of his hometown Canterbury greats but with a steely 21st century vision.
Mop Collective 19.00 Colyer-Fergusson Hall
Promoter: Crash of Moons Club
‘Prog isn’t dead, it just smells funny’ said Frank Zappa - or something like that at least. The Mop Collective is a band of dramatic, rhythmically-intense progressive rock characterised by constantly shifting grooves, interwoven three-guitar textures, angular riffs, and big theatrical choruses delivered with rich female vocals.
Rage Against the Tagine
20.00 Gulbenkian Theatre
Promoter: The Hot Tin
Rage Against the Tagine brings together the freedom of jazz, the rhythmic vitality of Middle
Eastern and North African traditions, and the restless creative energy of London’s contemporary scene. Their music is intricate yet grounded, balancing electric textures, deep grooves and lyrical interplay - a modern fusion of cultures, moods and musical dialects.
Shelf Lives 21.00 Colyer-Fergusson Hall
Promoters: Smugglers/Free Range
Shelf Lives make catchy, energetic tunes that bring the abrasiveness and physicality of punk back to a small, cramped house party setting. It’s music so rowdy you can practically feel the sweat on the ceiling and the sound of crushed cans under your feet. They’ve played acclaimed sets at Glastonbury, Boomtown, Kendall Calling, TGE, SXSW, New Colossus, 2000 Trees, YNOT and headlined the Rising Stage at Green Man festival.
DOX 22.00 Gulbenkian Theatre
Promoter: Free Range
A full-spectrum meltdown—dissonance, data overload, and distorted synths collide with urgent, restless intensity. Blurring the boundaries between jazz, free improvisation and electronic dance music, DOX merge jazz with modular electronics to create fractured ambient landscapes, free improvisation, and glitch-laden beats.
’intense, risk-taking, unpredictable, and restless, attempting to bring modern jazz back to the dance floors. It demands a full surrender’ (Salt Peanuts)