Later this month drummer David Lyttle embarks on a major tour of Ireland with a big string of back-to-back gigs. The drummer, best known for his band Interlude and his collaborations with Soweto Kinch and who has just returned from gigging in the US, has had a busy 2013 so far a year that has seen him perform notably at the inaugural Brilliant Corners festival in the spring, in trio mode with Jason Rebello at the city of Derry jazz and big band festival, and both co-writing and taking part in the first performance of the traditional music and jazz-inspired Barinthus Suite at the summertime Sligo Jazz Festival. Lyttle, 29, from county Down, will be touring with London-based alto saxophonist/flautist Tom Harrison and London-based county Clare bassist Neil O'Loghlen. The tour begins in Belfast at the SD Bells coffee house in an early-afternoon show on 22 September followed by a gig at Armagh’s Southern Regional College on 23 September. The tour continues down south at the Crane Lane theatre in Cork city on 24 Sept, then it’s the Phil Grimes pub, Waterford (25 Sept), then travelling way out west to the Galway Jazz Club (27 Sept), Clock Tavern, Westport (28 Sept), Mullarkeys, Clifden, Connemara (29 Sept), Hargadons Sligo (1 Oct), and then north to Millennium Court, Portadown (2 Oct), North West Regional College Derry (3 Oct, lunchtime), Sandino’s Derry (3 Oct, evening), and finishing on the coast at Crusoe’s in Castlerock on 4 October.