Soft Machine

Gigs · Leek

Soft Machine

Friday 20 November 2026 · Doors 19:30

Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek

About this event

Soft Machine is on Friday 20 November 2026 at Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek, with doors at 19:30. Tickets start at £24.20, including the booking fee.

Soft Machine is one of the greatest UK avant/jazz-rock bands of all time. Their work, from their earliest performances as a psychedelic band who were contemporaries of Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, all the way to being one of Europe's best known 'fusion' groups, has influenced several generations of bands, and continues to be name-checked by today's hip experimentalists. Whilst the line-up of Soft Machine may have changed many times since the late 1960’s, the band’s spirit of musical adventure, and the ease with which it freely avoids being pigeon holed and can move from powerful progressive jazz fusion to atmospheric psychedelia effortlessly. This is a seated gig.

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