abel selaocoe
abel selaocoe
📅 Date: 14 October 2025
🕰️ Time: doors open 7pm
📍 Location: New Century (M4 4AH)
55% funded
Genre-defying South African cellist Abel Selaocoe presents a rare solo show, performing his own compositions and arrangements live at noisenight224.
timings
7pm: doors open
8pm: recommended latest arrival
8:30pm: abel selaocoe's set starts
10pm: estimated finish time
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abel selaocoe
South African cellist Abel Selaocoe is redefining the parameters of the cello. He moves seamlessly across genres and styles and combines virtuosic performance with improvisation, singing, and body percussion.
For this performance, Abel will present a rare solo show: a sonically immersive exploration of the musical works which inspire and drive him, using extended techniques and loops to build a layered soundworld of cello and vocals.
Abel is devoted to composing works and curating programmes that highlight the links between Western and non-Western musical traditions, broadening the horizons of classical music to reach a more diverse audience.
Since Abel’s first show with through the noise at only the third ever noisenight, he has regularly performed as part of his trio Chesaba and his quartet The Bantu Ensemble, as well as alongside a 15-piece chamber orchestra. This performance sees Abel return to the solo format for the first time since his debut show with through the noise back in 2021.
new century
New Century Hall is one of Manchester’s hidden gems, yet a cornerstone in its musical heritage. In the 60s Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Lee Lewis rocked the stage as part of the army of US exports finding fame in the UK. Home grown talent such as The Hollies, The Kinks, Herman’s Hermits and Procol Harum all crafted their acts playing here before going on to worldwide fame.
In the 80s the hall was a venue for the legendary all-night Acid House parties of the MADchester era. The likes of 808 state and A Guy Called Gerald swapped guitars for electronic instruments and channeled the spirit of Chicago House music into Manchester’s emerging underground scene. The hall has been recently restored with its vintage wood wall panelling, sprung dance floor and psychedelic illuminated ceiling fully intact.
To buy tickets for this event please visit our events page: Abel Selaocoe: Live in Manchester tickets from Skiddle .
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