Biogs

Paul Wigens  (drums, percussion, electronics) has played with the groups Blurt, Grand Drive (Sony/BMG), The Blue Aeroplanes and Cousteau. Tours and session work includes: Natacha Atlas, Viv Albertine (The Slits), Damo Suzuki (Can), Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley), Get The Blessing, Strangelove, Witness, Red Sky July and many more. As musician and composer with Cardiff-based physical theatre company Earthfall, he worked on the shows Forever and Ever, Fabulous Wounds, Rococco Blood and Bakkus and the BAFTA-winning short film Too Old to Dream. He was musician, composer and musical director for Big Hands (5/5 stars – The Guardian) and Something’s Wrong With Abel, as part of writer and performer Gerald Tyler’s Year of the Bear theatre company. “…edgily tight beats…” (Wire magazine)

Pete Judge (trumpet/electronics) also plays with BBC Jazz Award winners Get The Blessing, and multi-instrumental acoustic trio Three Cane Whale. Tours and session work includes: Super Furry Animals, Noel Gallagher, Jim Moray, John Parish, and Marc Gauvin. He can be heard on film soundtracks including Nic Roeg’s Sound On Film, Austin Chick’s XX/XY, and Aardman Animations’ The Pirates!, and makes a very brief appearance in Joe Wright’s recent Anna Karenina. He has performed with Kneehigh Theatre Company in three shows, and composed scores for Travelling Light Theatre Company and Tobacco Factory Theatre. He has also composed music for film & live ensemble projects for Shetland Arts Trust, Portland Royal Manor Theatre, Gloucester Royal Hospital, Bristol’s Brunel 200 (the Triangulation project), and Aberystwyth Silver Band. “The excellent Pete Judge sounds somewhere between the late Don Cherry and the UK’s Harry Beckett” (John Fordham, The Guardian) “Pete Judge is truly magical. The epitome of cool, finely timed musical restraint” (Venue)