Tom Herbert, John Parricelli, Liam Noble, Mark Lockheart, Laura Jurd, Rowland Sutherland, Seb Rochford

By the time you hear this music at tonight’s concert I would have been on earth for 21,371 days. This also means that I’ve been on earth for 3,053 weeks, 702 months, 512.000 hours, 30 million minutes and not far shy of 2 billion seconds. It doesn’t really bear thinking about, apart from the fact that the music you’re going to hear tonight is a culmination of many experiences over the 2 billion seconds that I’ve been on this planet.

Days On Earth is perhaps Mark Lockheart’s most ambitious and personal work to date. Composed over the last three years and recorded recently at Mark Knopfler’s famous studios the work features a jazz sextet and 30 piece orchestra.

Tonight a star studded ensemble perform a special reworking of the six movement piece, plus brand new music especially composed for the event. Many of his eclectic tastes and influences are here, from cutting edge improvising, rich orchestral textures with nods to Bacharach and Stravinsky, and 70’s funk.