"Monday Night Confessions" is a weekly show presenting original jazz/improvised music. Run out of Church Street Studios in Camperdown, Sydney, we acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.

15th December 2025 - Mind On Fire // Chris Abrahams

Mind On Fire with Phillippa Murphy-Haste

Sam Gill - saxophones
Brad Gill - vibraphone
Phillippa Murphy-Haste - clarinets

Mind On Fire is a Sydney-based project formed by brothers Brad and Sam Gill. Since forming in 2017, they have developed a unique approach to blending improvisation and experimental composition, amassing a substantial body of work for duo and expanded formations with esteemed collaborating performers.

In recent years, their most frequent collaborator has been 2023 Freedman Jazz Fellow, clarinettist Phillippa Murphy-Haste. Together, the trio will revisit Brad's expansive suite 'Harmatia', and premiere Sam's new trio version of 'Counterprotest', an extended work originally written for solo saxophone and now in its third expanded configuration.

Since forming in 2017, Mind On Fire have released three albums and an EP of original compositions and improvisations, including their most recent release “Still, Vol. 2” (Radial Sounds, 2022). They also recorded a performance for Phoenix Central Park’s video series that was released in 2020.

https://samgillmusic.bandcamp.com/album/still-vol-1-duo-trio-music

Chris Abrahams & Monica Brooks

Chris Abrahams - piano
Monica Brooks - piano

Info to come...

Doors 7:30pm

Show 8:00pm

Tickets: $15 Student / $25 General Admission

BYO drinks