Matthew Barley – Light Stories

Metronome Nottingham

Thursday 22 May 2025

7:00 pm : Doors

Seated

16+

Tickets

General admission: £15.00 + booking fee
Student members: £5.00 + booking fee

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Stage times
Doors open: 7.00pm
Performance starts: 7.30pm
Performance ends: 9.00pm
Post-concert talk starts: 9.15pm
Post-concert talk ends: 10.00pm

“The world’s most adventurous cellist” – The Times

Matthew Barley performs his own compositions, plus music featuring  Anna Meredith, John Metcalfe and Bach. A deeply personal and epic journey, ‘Light Stories’ weaves together music, projected imagery, and electronics to narrate Matthew’s personal story, exploring the transformative power of music to heal, console, and uplift.

Innovative video designers Yeast Culture create projected images as a vivid counterpoint to the music (with on-screen dancer Mavin Khoo, Akram Khan), creating a magical and theatrical experience that evokes the darkness of trauma and its transformation into clarity, understanding and joy.

A Youngish Perspective gave Light stories a 5* review.

Read Matthew Barley’s interview in The Telegraph rom September 2024, Cellist Matthew Barley: ‘I had a psychotic episode – music saved my life’.

Podcasts

Spiritual Mixtape Matthew Barley on Music, Healing and Mental Health: 87. Light Stories: Matthew Bar – Spiritual Mixtape – Apple Podcasts

Arts Entrepeneurship Podcast: #290: Matthew Barley (Cellist) (pt. 1 of 2) – Arts Entrepreneurship Podcast: Making Art Work.

Accessibility

Seated gigs offer disabled access within the first three rows inside the venue.
Standing gigs offer accessibility for disabled patrons in our mezzanine. We will always do our best to accommodate individual requirements, and other viewing options may be available at standing gigs following a risk assessment of the event.

Please click here for full accessibility information.

If you have any particular requirements or queries, please email us ahead of the event at [email protected].

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Matthew Barley – Light Stories

Stage times
Doors open: 7.00pm
Performance starts: 7.30pm
Performance ends: 9.00pm
Post-concert talk starts: 9.15pm
Post-concert talk ends: 10.00pm

“The world’s most adventurous cellist” – The Times

Matthew Barley performs his own compositions, plus music featuring  Anna Meredith, John Metcalfe and Bach. A deeply personal and epic journey, ‘Light Stories’ weaves together music, projected imagery, and electronics to narrate Matthew’s personal story, exploring the transformative power of music to heal, console, and uplift.

Innovative video designers Yeast Culture create projected images as a vivid counterpoint to the music (with on-screen dancer Mavin Khoo, Akram Khan), creating a magical and theatrical experience that evokes the darkness of trauma and its transformation into clarity, understanding and joy.

A Youngish Perspective gave Light stories a 5* review.

Read Matthew Barley’s interview in The Telegraph rom September 2024, Cellist Matthew Barley: ‘I had a psychotic episode – music saved my life’.

Podcasts

Spiritual Mixtape Matthew Barley on Music, Healing and Mental Health: 87. Light Stories: Matthew Bar – Spiritual Mixtape – Apple Podcasts

Arts Entrepeneurship Podcast: #290: Matthew Barley (Cellist) (pt. 1 of 2) – Arts Entrepreneurship Podcast: Making Art Work.

Accessibility

Seated gigs offer disabled access within the first three rows inside the venue.
Standing gigs offer accessibility for disabled patrons in our mezzanine. We will always do our best to accommodate individual requirements, and other viewing options may be available at standing gigs following a risk assessment of the event.

Please click here for full accessibility information.

If you have any particular requirements or queries, please email us ahead of the event at [email protected].

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