Keyboardist and band leader Dave Morecroft, who celebrated his 30th at the weekend with a birthday party in the Vortex, leads WorldService Project on a festival and club date tour of Ireland in the autumn.

Serve, the prog jazz punksters’ latest album was released in the spring. The dates are Workman’s Club, Dublin (5 October), Belfast (6 Oct), Galway Jazz Festival, Galway city (7 Oct), Billy Byrne’s, Kilkenny city (25 Oct) and Cork Jazz Festival, Cork city (27 Oct). ‘Plagued with Righteousness’ from Serve (RareNoise), above.