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Jackson Mathod
Your latest Global Collection performance is here!
Make your way to St James this Friday the 6th of February, as Mathod takes to the stage from 8pm for an evening of incredible music.
Jackson Mathod is a multi-instrumentalist and singer. Drawing on influences from the likes of Miles Davis, Roy Hargrove and Christian Scott to name a few.
In times where everything can feel too heavy, Jackson’s music delivers a very simple and universal message : have fun, move, and enjoy the amazing musicianship on display.
His album ‘COME ON NOW’ released in 2022 was the defining step in Jackson’s journey that saw him getting accolades from across the board with BBC6, BBC 1Xtra, Jazz FM, Jamie Cullum, Gilles Peterson showing strong support. Constant editorial support since day 1 with State Of Jazz, All New Jazz, Jazz Funk & many more consistently featuring Jackson’s music.
Jackson studied Jazz at Guildhall School of Music and Drama back in 2009. However, never feeling fully embedded in the Jazz world, he quickly went onto the session musician circuit, playing for high profile artists such as Stormzy and Jordan Rakei.
He then went on to collaborate with various musicians and producers, creating a vast catalogue of music for someone his age.
Seating will be cabaret style, balcony tickets available. Pick up your tickets before they’re all gone!
Apothis: Celebrating 4 years of ‘Eclipse’
Has it really been that long? On the 11th of February, it will have been four years since the release of Apothis’ debut album ‘ECLIPSE’! Four years of shows, pits and breakdowns.
“We couldn’t have done it without you, thank you for sticking with us every step of the way”.
To celebrate, the band will be taking to the stage from 8pm this Saturday the 7th of February, in the very venue where they had their live debut, The Fermain Tavern!
Apothis will be supported by Bloody Sabbath and Certain Life.
Hit the ticket link and get yourself early bird tickets at a discounted price! Tickets also available on the door. See you in the pit!
Swallow Sings Opera: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle By Béla Bartok, Performed by the London Singers’ Collective.
St. James is excited to present its new series of Opera, in partnership with The London Singers Collective and proudly sponsored by The Swallow Charitable Trust!
The series will give us the opportunity to delve deep into each opera, with an evening of conversation followed by a full opera presented as a chamber music performance (no props, no costumes, approx. 1 hour). In 2026 we explore the work of Béla Bartók and Handel followed by Teleman and Pergolesi in 2027.
The evening includes a talk by Jessica Duchen in the first half, followed by the chamber music performance of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle by Julian Debreuil (bass-baritone), Catherine Backhouse (mezzo-soprano) and William Vann(Piano), all members of the London Singers’ Collective.
Duke Bluebeard’s Castle is a one-act Symbolist opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, with a libretto by Béla Balázs. It tells the story of Bluebeard and his new wife, Judith, who enters his dark castle and is terrified to discover the secrets hidden behind seven locked doors. The opera, considered a masterpiece, is a psychological drama about hidden secrets and inner darkness, and was first performed in Budapest in 1918.
The Swallow Sings Opera Series is kindly sponsored by The Swallow Charitable Trust.
The performance will take place from 7:30pm this Saturday the 7th of February. Doors 6:30pm. Get your tickets before they’re all gone!
Royal Ballet & Opera: Woolf Works Screening
Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor’s experimental ballet triptych, inspired by the genre-defying works and writings of Virginia Woolf, set to an original score by Max Richter.
A Ballet Triptych screened at the Princess Royal Centre for the Performing Arts, next Monday the 9th of February from 7:30pm!
I now, I then (from Mrs Dalloway)
Mrs Dalloway, Woolf’s 1925 stream of consciousness novel, is set over the course of one day and alternates between two stories: a society hostess preparing for an important party and a shell-shocked war veteran on his way to a psychiatric assessment.
Though they never meet, both Clarissa, the protected insider and Septimus, the social outcast, are haunted by the past. Opening with an excerpt from Woolf’s recorded essay, On Craftsmanship, I now I then is a journey into the writing of Mrs Dalloway, interweaving narrative fragments from the novel with aspects of Woolf’s autobiography including the experience of drawing on her own mental illness as subject matter.
Becomings (from Orlando)
“On or about December 1910 human nature changed” – Virginia Woolf
Written in an epoch of recalibration in every sphere including the roles and rights of women, modes of representation in art and literature, and rapid advances in cosmology, Woolf’s iconoclastic 1928 novel Orlando centres around a fantastical figure who journeys through three hundred years without growing old, and changes sex along the way.
Relationships prove transient, even with himself, while relativity and plasticity define her experience of time and space. Becomings presents Orlando’s dizzying wide-angle vision of a vast, ever-altering universe in which life is energy passing through a multiplicity of forms – a brief, gorgeous flaring of insect wings, gestating, emerging, extinguishing and moving on.
Tuesday (from The Waves)
Grand and elegiac, The Waves (1931) is Woolf’s most experimental novel, conceived in response to her own childlessness and the contrasting fierce maternity of her sister Vanessa. In the novel, the voices of six people growing from childhood to old age are punctuated by symbols of natural decay and renewal, the most important of which is the ever-returning sea.
Responding to Woolf’s unique fascination with underwater imagery in all her writing, Tuesday merges themes of The Waves with a portrayal of the writer’s suicide by drowning. As Woolf counts her steps towards the river Ouse and her final journey, so too the world of her novel moves towards abstraction and silence.
Secure your seat in the theatre today HERE.
Guernsey Folk Club
Well… We are already into the second month of 2026 and it’s time for the Guernsey Folk Club’s time for our second Folk Music evening of the year!
The club would love you to join them at Les Rocquettes Hotel, Johnson Suite on Wednesday 11th February from 7:30pm, for their regular variety of folk music. All performers and supporters are welcome!
Scruffy Boudloe – Wax Carving Jewellery Workshop
Join Scruffy Boudloe for a fun and informal workshop next Wednesday the 11th of February from 6:30 – 9:30pm!.
You will carve a ring or pendant in wax which will then be sent to a casting company – transforming your masterpiece into solid 925 silver. Set your creativity free!
All materials you will need will be supplied and the price also includes casting in silver and polishing of your masterpiece by an amazing London casting house.
Due to some of the tools being fairly sharp, workshops are open to over 18s only.
Each workshop will be limited to 8 people, so grab your tickets HERE before they’re all gone!
