A casual affair, Sizzle has developed a reputation as a relaxed and friendly mix-up of the avant garde with diverse genres and artistic disciplines from early music to indie rock to performance art. Ensemble Offspring members shed their concert blacks and invite an array of their diversely talented friends to join them in an afternoon full of music making with a difference.

In 2014 highlights include Hatched Academy composer and acclaimed jazz saxophonist, Jeremy Rose and his ‘Pike/Rose/Harrison’ Trio, a special showing of Elle Knox’s humorous restaging of 80’s game show gestures as seen through the hands of EO percussionists Bree and Claire, a wobbly orchestra of musical saws, and a wild bass clarinet solo by Jason before all of the artists join forces for a venomous game of John Zorn’s Cobra.

Bring your family, friends and flatmates and roll up your sleeves for a sizzling smorgasbord of sensory seduction, served up with all the chilled comforts and cheap drinks of your local bowlo.

“It was the first time since moving home that I’ve had the same feeling I used to get all the time in New York, that I was experiencing a vital cultural event that draws all sorts in.”

Sizzle audience member

“…with a packed Bowlo and some pretty cool music, three small boys (and their mother and aunt) had a great time.”

classikON newsletter – 1 July 2014