Tom Skinner
Now’s your chance to see the drummer, composer and central figure in London’s underground music scene alongside guests Hinako Omori, Adrian Utley and Yaffra.
Skinner is known, among others, as an original member of award winning band Sons Of Kemet alongside band-leader and frequent collaborator Shabaka Hutchings. He is also one third of The Smile, alongside Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood.
2022 saw Skinner release the first album under his name, Voices of Bishara, with his quintet on the acclaimed Chicago-imprint International Anthem in partnership with Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings & Nonesuch, an album with deeply emotional music that contains masses of movement and exceptional harmonic depth and texture.
Throughout his career, he has performed and recorded with notable musicians such as Meshell Ndegeocello, David Byrne, Grace Jones, Jarvis Cocker, Kano, Matthew Herbert, Mulatu Astatke, Floating Points, Beth Orton, Alabaster DePlume and Zero 7.
At this concert, he performs his new album Kaleidoscopic Visions with his band Caius Williams, Chelsea Carmichael, Kareem Dayes and Robert Stillman, plus special guests Adrian Utley (Portishead), Hinako Omori and Yaffra.
Opening is Japanese singer and composer Hinako Omori, whose music offers immersive sonic architectures and environments in which to process and access emotional states. She uses binaural recording or multi-channel installation across ambient synthesizer and vocal music, classical arrangement and composition to create a ‘deeply enchanting patchwork’ (Electronic Sound Magazine).
Need to know
For your visit
This event is held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall Southbank Centre
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is open from 90 minutes before events start until they finish. It’s closed at all other times.
Plan your visit
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is home to both our second-largest auditorium and the Purcell Room.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
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Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.