Shove It! The Story Of Xero Slingsby

Just One More Shove!

The ‘Shove It’ documentary is the story of Xero Slingsby.

Matthew Coe, aka Xero Slingsby was an extraordinary jazz musician.  He’s been compared to John Coltrane and Jimi Hendrix – but his style was always very much his own.  His is a story abut ideas, performance, invented instruments, 47 arrests for busking yet busking to make a living.  It’s an inspiring story of creativity in the face of limited means, circumstances, overly officious laws and, ultimately, cancer.

Matthew died in 1988, just as the band were making a name for themselves in the jazz scene in the UK and Europe. But his and the band’s influence remains today…..and it’s time to tell his story.

2023 will be the 40th anniversary of Matthew forming Xero Slingsby and the Works, and while the folk memory of Mathew and the band still exists, while there are still people who were there to tell their stories, to describe the sound of the Pandamoniphone, to share experiences of meeting, hearing, seeing and being inspired by the band, and those who still love and want to share the music and spirit of Xero Slingsby and the Works - if not now, when?

Our funding target of £5k is tantalisingly within reach….it just needs a push to get it over the line help us Shove it!  

Support the crowdfunder here. Deadline 10 April!!