Noise that’s been made on purpose.
I’d asked twitter #harrogate if anyone had heard of the PIPS last night – they were billed to headline a free gig night at the Zoso late bar, Harrogate. Among the ensuing trickle of info I got back was a link -to a review from AMZ1981 which notes that PIPS are a “three piece outfit that are painfully difficult to describe”… Read more →
Tonight’s annual school disco at Grove Road School Harrogate, was the “Best Disco Ever” according the kid who wrote lovely note I found on the floor. If I was still an actual real kid I’d probably have thought the same. I’ts a bit of an institution, a real community event. We’ve been going every year for probably 10 years (we’ve… Read more →
A venue who’s day job is a cage MMA fighting arena was taken over by Nokia UK and La Blogothèque last night to host “Lumia Live”. The second leg of a tour which marries interesting music with utterly original venues. Hard cases and fight baiters were replaced with tour bus and flight cases. A blissfully sun drenched courtyard was the ‘mustn’t be late for the… Read more →
Out of the blue the other day, I received an invite from Nokia. From what I can make out, Lumia Live Sessions, presented by Nokia is part showcase of a couple of interesting looking bands (more on those in a bit), part product showcase (I’m getting a new phone to play with for a while) and part service showcase (Nokia Music –… Read more →
We’re just in from seeing Gang Show at The Royal Hall. The cast included our very own Sophie who joined scores of others from the Cubs, Beavers, Scouts, Rainbows, Brownie and Guide fraternities of Harrogate. The tradition of the Gang Show has been going since 1932 and the Harrogate show has achieved ‘red necker’ status, which means it meets the… Read more →
At the weekend, I was fortunate enough to catch Karl Culley playing headline in a ‘one night only’ sell out show in The Harrogate Theatre. I’ve been a fan of Karl’s for years now – and was really excited about the prospect of hearing him live, playing a bunch of material he’s been beavering away with since he moved to… Read more →
If I had to compile a list of ‘top events I’ve looked forward to in 2013′, this would be fairly high up on the list. Certainly single figures. Two of my fave local acts of all time (it may well be three by the end of the night – I’ve not see Samantha Smith before) are playing a one off, special gig… Read more →
I’m not sure if having an accidental shower in champagne at the start of an evening is a good omen or not, but I took it as one, and my hunch, it turns out, was right. It perhaps wasn’t quite so good for the poor guy who accidentally tipped his drinks tray spilling bottle, champagne flutes and all, on the landing… Read more →
Writing a quick blog now as we’re off out later. Yep, we as an Eirene and I. The first time Eirene will be leaving Annie with someone since she was born nearly 1 month ago. Our night ahead sounds quite spesh – we’re off to an On’t Sofa (the guys who I hung out with and wrote about here) showcase…. Read more →
What Ontsofa.com makes, is fairly easy to summarise; Content for their 8.6million-view-in-just-over-a -year-strong YouTube channel of musicians performing whilst sat on an old Chesterfield sofa. What makes Ontsofa.com, isn’t so easy to summarise. Sometimes in life, you come across some really ‘stand out’ people. Ontsofa.com is the brainchild Jason and Ben, who I first met at around 1 am, on a Saturday… Read more →
A lomography fisheye is a marvellous bit of kit. It’s got a 170 degree super wide angle lens. I’d loaded it with an out of date roll of German film called Paradises 200, stuck a ringflash on the front with 4 different coloured gels over the flash heads. Mashed up colours and shapes. It makes an ‘ordinary’ object, like a… Read more →
We went to a leaving do in Leeds last night. Another never before experienced format of an evening for us; a benefit gig and art auction raffle for a skateboard based charity. Wharfe Chambers – the utterly unique venue we first went to in December for the UK premier of the film Ladyfingers was host. Before I jump into a… Read more →
It’s possible I may not get chance to blog later, as we’re planning on a Leeds outing. Al and I are in the midst of recording tonight’s RIFE radio show, which if you happen to be reading this around the hours of 20:00 – 10:00 GMT, tune in to Harrogate Alternative Radio and give it a blast. I opened the… Read more →
There’s one constant quality of art that’s hard to describe. Originality. There isn’t a readily available frame of reference because no one has done what they are doing before. This can either mean original ‘crap’, original ‘mediocre, or ‘original ‘brilliant’. Last nights gig at Seven Arts in Leeds was unquestionably original, ‘brilliant’. Being hard to describe, makes the job of… Read more →
Just been in a dream where I was at a rave. On the fringe part, near a bar with some benches and people. I took the part of an older dude where the younglings asked me about raves of old. Megadogs and Manchester I told them. And a rave in an indoor equestrian arena where the DJs were in the… Read more →
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