Insufficient Funs

About this event

Some boys also just want to have fun and these ones certainly do, with Sam Comerford playing the monstrous and rare bass saxophone with his now trademark infectious energy alongside Matthew Jacobson’s playful drumming and ear for a catchy, quirky tune.

This show at Kirkos' new home in Dublin 7 will act as a pre recording studio gig to loosen up material to be recorded in the proceeding days at Dublin's Hellfire Studio for their debut album. The night will start with a solo set from Kirkos member Yseult Cooper Stockdale on cello.

Insufficient Funs

The duo – two of the preeminent figures in Ireland’s creative/improvised music scene – have been cavorting around Europe since early 2016. The music has been described as “Ed Blackwell and Don Cherry meets Autechre” (composer/performer Matthew Noone), “like a slow-burning Nirvana” (All About Jazz) and “moving seamlessly between gnarly grooves and loose, open textured freedom, using simple ‘compositions’ as starting points for adventures at the outer reaches of music” (Cormac Larkin, Irish Times).

Performance highlights so far include 12 Points Festival in Saint Sebastian, Jazzy Colors Festival in Paris and Another Love Story Festival in Meath, Ireland. They also released their debut eponymous EP to strong reviews from publications at home and abroad, being hailed as “delightfully unhinged from expectation” and “intricate and thoughtful and very accessible” by influential Irish bloggers Nialler9 and Remy Connolly respectively.

The past few years have seen saw the Dublin/Brussels based joy-seekers romp around Ireland, represent at Jazz Connective event 'Go Northward' in Helsinki and this summer they will record their first full-length album, to be released in April 2026 on Diatribe Records.

EXPECT REVELRY

Matthew Jacobson - drums / compositions
Sam Comerford - bass saxophone

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