Flogging Molly Tour

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24 Apr 2015

Flogging Molly’s music is influenced by various artists, such as The Dubliners, The Pogues, Horslips, Johnny Cash, and The Clash. The album Within a Mile of Home is dedicated to Joe Strummer and Johnny Cash.

Their music ranges from boisterous Celtic punk, like the pirate-themed Salty Dog, Cruel Mistress, and Seven Deadly Sins, or the defiant What’s Left of the Flag, Drunken Lullabies, and Rebels of the Sacred Heart to more somber songs like Far Away Boys, The Son Never Shines (On Closed Doors), Life in a Tenement Square and Float. Lyrics typically touch on subjects such as Ireland and its history, poverty, drinking, politics, love and death and include several references to the Roman Catholic Church.

Flogging Molly website: http://www.floggingmolly.com

Tickets: http://www.seetickets.com/tour/flogging-molly

SMP PRESENTS: ReVerbed, Hands Off Gretel, Adore/repel, Conflare & Nathan Walsh

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Sinister Music Promotions present

ReVerbed Aggressive UK Pop Punk Rock from Doncaster
https://www.facebook.com/ReVerbed

<a href="http://reverbed.bandcamp.com/album/this-machine">This Machine by ReVerbed</a>

Hands Off Gretel Alternative Rock from South Yorkshire
https://www.facebook.com/handsoffgretel

Adore/repel Post-rock, Post-hardcore, Instrumental, Shoe Gaze, Emo, Indie, Punk, Rock from Dewsbury
https://www.facebook.com/adorerepel

Conflare Pop Rock from Castleford, West Yorkshire
https://www.facebook.com/conflaremusic

Nathan Walsh Rock from Pontefract, West Yorkshire
https://www.facebook.com/nathan.walsh.714

Tickets Available: sinistermusicpromotions.bigcartel.com

Sister Act

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24 Apr 2015

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This divine musical comedy is based on on the smash-hit film Sister Act.

Disco diva Deloris Van Cartier has dreams of hitting the big time. But when she walks in on a ‘hit’ of a different kind, the cops hide her in the last place anyone would think to look – a convent! At first, Deloris – disguised as ‘Sister Mary Clarence’ – has trouble adjusting to life under the strict rule of Mother Superior. But when she transforms the convent’s choir into the most glorious new musical act in town, Deloris forms a lasting bond with her new-found friends… and the gang that’s chasing her finds itself up against an unstoppable team of soulful sisters!

Sister Act features an original score by 8-time Oscar® and 10-time Grammy Award® winner Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Enchanted).

Don’t miss this spectacular and hilarious tribute to the universal power of friendship!

Directed & Choreographed by Anthony Williams
Musical Direction by Jonathon Chalker

Burnley Mechanics Theatre
Manchester Road
Burnley BB11 1BH

Tickets on-sale from 27th April:

£12.00 Sat 14th & Mon.
£15.00 Tues-Sat 21st.

Tickets from: burnleymechanics.ticketsolve.com

Membranes album launch

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23 Apr 2015

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The launch event will be a celebration of northern underground music and will have many special guests – so far Evil Blizzard has been announced. There will also be an after show party that the ticket will get you into.

Further updates from the Event Facebook Page

The tickets are £10 from here.

There is also a special limited offer to 50 £15 tickets which get you a ticket for the gig plus a copy of the Membranes new album from here.

You can also get tickets from this wegottickets link.

Or you can get tickets online from this see tickets link.

Spock’s Beard

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22 Apr 2015

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Spock’s Beard are a progressive rock band formed in 1992 in Los Angeles by brothers Neal and Alan Morse. The band currently consists of longstanding members Alan Morse, Dave Meros, and Ryo Okumoto, along with newer members drummer Jimmy Keegan and vocalist Ted Leonard; both of whom had performed in a live capacity with the band previously (Keegan from D’Virgilio’s switch to frontman and Leonard in the immediate aftermath of D’Virgilio’s departure).

The band plays a brand of progressive rock with pop music leanings (drawing much influence from Yes and Genesis).

Spock’s Beard Website

Club Academy Manchester
3 October 6.30pm
Tickets £22.50 ADV
Tickets: www.manchesteracademy.net

WHITE RABBIT PRESENTS: Eternal Tapestry, Woven Skull & Sophie Cooper

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22 Apr 2015

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Eternal Tapestry

Psych-rocking space travellers Eternal Tapestry hail from Portland, Oregon, USA and were founded around a joint worship of the music of Neu!

The initial trio released a number of LPs, CDs, EPs, and even cassettes, including Vibrations, New Dawn, Mystic Induction, and Altar of Grass (all in 2007), and Declining Star and Sea of Silk (in 2008).

In 2009, the band added saxophone and synth; they released The Invisible Landscape, Palace of the Night Skies, The Hidden Revealed (cassette only), and the live CD-R Spring Tour.

Eternal Tapestry signed to Chicago’s Thrill Jockey in 2010 to record their first album as a quintet, Beyond the 4th Door; it was released in early 2011, and was followed in July of that year by Night Gallery, a collaborative long-player with Sun Araw.

Dawn in Two Dimensions was released in June of 2012, while World Out of Time followed in November. Never slowing down in their release schedule, the band spent the next two years offering up limited-edition releases in the form of small run cassettes, such as a split with California dream-tropicalia duo Mondo Lava, as well as tour-only CD-Rs or the extremely limited Guru Overload, a vinyl-only release.

Amid all these lower profile releases, the band spent a fair amount of time camped out in a remote cabin in the small town of Zigzag, Oregon tracking tunes for their massive 2015 double album Wild Strawberries. The album saw release early this year, again on Thrill Jockey.

Eternal Tapestry will also be joined by Tom Relleen on bass from The Oscillation.

Eternal Tapestry on Facebook

Woven Skull

Woven Skull is the vessel with which the sound of larks, lakes and the high breeze off tree tops travels from its source to the comfortable confines of rigid amplification, battered drum skins and rusty chimes into repetitive dark melodies.

Since 2008, the core trio that make up Woven Skull have been gathering together in the Northwest of Ireland in a place called Leitrim which is known for its tales of ghosts, ‘tree folk’, under water creatures and the constant battle calls of the ancient Tuatha De Danann that can be heard on Letirim’s Iron Mountain. These are the surroundings and forces that influence the sound that Woven Skull create: a contrast of minimal drones, repetition and psychedelic distorted riffs all layered in constant unconscious rhythms.

<a href="http://wovenskull.bandcamp.com/album/lair-of-the-glowing-bantling-3">Lair of the Glowing Bantling by Woven Skull</a>

Sophie Cooper

For more on Sophie please see our feature – ARTIST FEATURE: The magic of drone – Todmorden artist Sophie Cooper

DJ’s Dave Ives (White Rabbit) & Ned Netherwood (Was Ist Das) + White Rabbit Oil Wheel Lightshow.

Bands will be finished by 11pm (DJ’s will continue) for people traveling from outside of Todmorden with train and bus links 5 minutes walk from the venue.

Tickets – £5 advance, £6 on the door.
Ticket link – http://www.wegottickets.com/event/316675
Limited tickets and capacity of 70

FESTIVAL: Strummercamp 2015

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21 Apr 2015

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This year’s 10th anniversary Strummercamp Festival returns to Manchester Rugby Club, Cheadle Hulme, in Cheshire over spring bank holiday weekend from Friday 22nd until Sunday 24th May 2015.

Line-up

The first acts confirmed were The Men They Couldn’t Hang, Goldblade, TV Smith, Ruts DC, Louise Distras, The Urban Voodoo Machine, Electric River, The Wakes, XSLF, Super Fast Girlie Show, Comrade X, Bryan McPherson, Def Digby, Babylon Dub Punks, Cheapskates, The Roughneck Riot, 2 Sick Monkeys, The Yalla Yallas, Run Out The Guns, Dubtallica, Brassneck, and an exclusive performance of the short play ‘Westway To The World’.

Latest additions King Kurt, Mid-Age Rampage, Bug, The Uplifters, Dick Venom & the Terrortones, The Activators, Urban Empire, The Cornelius Crane, Lewy Bodies, Band Of The Underhand, Verbal Warning, The Hamsters, The Godfather, The Lone Groover, Just Dave, Minnie, Laura Taylor, Seamo McKenna, Andrew Cream, Tragical History Tour, Zealous Doxy, The X Ray Cats, Jonny Gillpaper Wings, Foxes Faux, Arms and Hearts, Mark Ayling, Pewter City Punks, Depresstival, Miranda Arieh, Joe Solo, Backyard Burners, Uniforms, Rising Strike, Revenge of the Psychotronic Man, Officer Down, 4130’s, Foxpunch, Chewed Up, Eastfield, Matildas Scoundrels, Casual Nausea, Repossessed, Jenkem, A Fish Called Bastard , Bullets With Blue Eyes, Faintest Idea, John Player Specials, Punx inna Jungle, Stand Out Riot, Wadeye, Beretta Suicide, and Jake and the Jellyfish.

Festival goers can also expect comedy, all day bar/food, toilets and disabled toilet facilities, and more.

Tickets and further information: http://strummercampfestival.co.uk/

FESTIVAL: Bearded Theory

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21 Apr 2015

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The confirmed line-up for Bearded Theory to date is:

The Pallet

Friday

The Mission
Alabama 3
GUN
HUGH CORNWELL
SONIC BOOM 6
DIZRAELI & THE SMALL GODS
The Wakes

Saturday

New Model Army
AFRO CELT SOUND SYSTEM
BRITISH SEA POWER
THE MAHONES
PRONGHORN
SKINNY LISTER
Neck
THREE MINUTE HEIST

Sunday

James
BUZZCOCKS
MISTY IN ROOTS
THE BEAT
MAD PROFESSOR + THE ROBOTIKS
ITCH
BACK TO THE PLANET
NEW TOWN KINGS

MAGICAL SOUNDS

Friday

LAB4
Jah Scoop / Geezer
Zion Train
Clumsy
Halcyon
Andy Faze
Chigs and Techip
Data 3
DRUM MACHINE

Saturday

Eat Static
Green Nuns of the Revolution DJ set
Cosmosis
Ed Tangent
Zetan Spore
Kristian
The Pressure Technique
Charlie H
DRUM MACHINE

Sunday

Banco De Gaia
Merv Pepler DJ set
Transglobal Underground
Black Star Liner DJ Set
Dr Trippy
Templehead
Grousebeater Soundsystem
Rev Phil Dread
Ushti Baba

THE WOODLAND

Friday

JAYA THE CAT
The Talks
Pigbag
THE EMERALD ARMARDA
BILLY VINCENT
Babajack
Tree House Fire
Captain Hotknives
Blind Fever Band
Star Botherers

Saturday

Cara Dillon
Bill Smarme
Kilnaboy
The Jack Ratts
Louise Distras
The Leylines
JEMMA JOHNSON
Enzo
Mark Harrison

Sunday

Neville Staple
Paprika Corps
JB Conspiracy
EASTFIELD
Mistys Big Adventure
Please Y Self Skiffle Band
SUPERFAST GIRLY SHOW
Keiths Big Uke Jam
Mr Motivator

SOMETHING ELSE BIG TOP STAGE

Friday

Radical Dance Faction
John Player Specials
Gaz Brookfield
Muff Said
Sweetchunks Band
Ash Victim
Ukulele Dave
Saturday
Inner Terrestrials
Tarantism
Who Killed the Bear
Defekters
Pure Evil
Demob
Muddy Summers & Gails Whores
Efa Supertramp

Sunday

AOS3
Stuart Turner & the Flat Earth Society
Abdoujaparov
Skewwhiff
Quercus Burlesque
Penny Orchids
Ghosts of Men
Ned Dylan
Tez & the Suicidal Fish

THURSDAY LINE UP

Saturday

3 DAFT MONKEYS
Mark Chadwick
HOBO JONES & THE JUNKYARD DOGS
BAR-STEWARD SONS OF VAL DOONICAN
ZOMBIE MET GIRL

Tickets and Further information: http://www.beardedtheory.co.uk/

Hot Chip October Tour & New Remix 12″

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20 Apr 2015

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Hot Chip have announced a new run of headline dates in the UK for October including Manchester and Leeds. Tickets for all dates go on pre-sale at 10am Wednesday 22nd April and on general sale at 10am Friday 24th April. Alongside the live dates announcement, the band have also today released a brand new, limited edition white label 12” featuring remixes of Need You Now from Percussions (Kieran Hebden) and Huarache Lights from Joe Goddard. Pre-order it now via Dom Mart – it’s released 4th May.

Tues 13 Oct – Bristol, O2 Academy (w/ Georgia)
Wed 14 Oct – Portsmouth, Pyramid Centre (w/ Georgia)
Fri 16 Oct – Glasgow, Barrowland (w/ Georgia)
Sat 17 Oct – Manchester, Albert Hall (w/ Georgia)
Sun 18 Oct – Leeds, Beckett University (w/ Georgia)
Tue 20 Oct – Nottingham, Rock City (w/ Georgia)
Wed 21 Oct – Cambridge, Corn Exchange (w/ Georgia)
Thu 22 Oct – London, O2 Brixton Academy (w/ Lonelady)

Tickets: http://live.hotchip.co.uk

Folk & Roots Festivals 2015

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19 Apr 2015

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This is a list of upcoming folk and roots festivals located mainly in Yorkshire but also includes other festivals that are easy to get to from our area. Please check individual websites for performers and tickets. Please contact us if you’ve got any that you’d like added to this list.

Filey Folk Festival – 1st May for three days – Filey, Yorkshire
Over 150 acts. Live music and street performances, six venues. Broad range in styles of folk, blues, country and acoustic performers and bands
Website: www.fileyfolkfestival.co.uk

HareFest – 1st May for 3 days – Harefiled Hall, Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire
Real ale and music festival. Acoustic music, open mike sessions.
Full Price: £35
Contact for info: 01423 711429
Website: harefieldhall.com/harefest-2015/

Scandimoot – 1st May for 4 days – Clapham Village, nr Austwick, Yorkshire
A long weekend of traditional Scandinavian music and dance, in the Yorkshire Dales. Learn tunes and dances from Scandinavian teachers. The music and dance in 2015 will be Norwegian.
Contact for info: info@scandimoot.org.uk
Website: scandimoot.org.uk

Wath Festival – 1st May for 4 days – Wath upon Dearne, Yorkshire
Since 1972 Wath Festival has been all about great music, community spirit and having a good time.
Contact for info: wathfestival@gmail.com
Website: www.wathfestival.org.uk/

Holmfirth Festival of Folk – 8th May for 3 days – Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
Every year the town puts on an amazing line up of musicians. There are a variety of paying and free concerts across the weekend. The line up will include old festival favourites and lots of new or local talent. Mainly free, but but some ticketed events.
Contact for info: enquiries@holmfirthfestivaloffolk.co.uk
Website: www.holmfirthfestivaloffolk.co.uk

Doncaster Folk Festival – 15th May for 3 days – Doncaster, Yorkshire
Concerts, Ceilidh, Dance Displays, Sessions and Singarounds at four venues around the town.
Full Price: £35 Also available: Day, concert, and ceilidh tickets too – £6 – £30
Contact for info: doncasterfolkfestival@virginmedia.com
Website: www.doncasterfolkfestival.org.uk/

Hebden Bridge Folk and Roots – 15th May for 3 days – Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire
A folk and roots festival covering a wide variety of roots music, from folk and blues to ska and americana. Ceilidh, workshops, sessions, street performers, spoken word. Lots of variety.
Full Price: £50. Also available: Weekend tickets £20. Also individual event tickets
Contact for info: hebdenroots@gmail.com
Website: www.hebdenfolkroots.org/

Shepley Spring Festival – 15th May for 3 days – Shepley, Yorkshire
From Friday ’til late Sunday. Concert marquee, Dance tent, Showground stage and more. On site camping, market and food stalls, crafts, children’s festival and youth programme. Family friendly festival based in Shepley, a small village on the Pennine fringe, in West Yorkshire between Huddersfield and Barnsley
Full Price: £75. Also available: Day tickets from £25
Contact for info: info@shepleyspringfestival.com
Website: shepleyspringfestival.com

Festival on the Moor – 22nd May for 4 days – Botton, Yorkshire
Full Price: £45. Also available: Day and half-day tickets too.
Contact for info: moorfolk@googlemail.com
Website: www.festivalonthemoor.co.uk/folkweekend/

Bedale Acoustic Music Festival – 29th May for 3 days – Bedale, Yorkshire
A three-day family-friendly acoustic music festival taking place in the North Yorkshire market town of Bedale.
Full Price: £60
Contact for info: info@bamfest.co.uk
Website: www.bamfest.co.uk

Beverley Folk Festival – 19th Jun for 3 days – Beverley Racecourse, Yorkshire
Large variety of acts, around 88 of them. Twice nominated for the Family friendly Festival award, this year an even bigger programme of events for children.
Full Price: £89
Contact for info: 01377 217569
Website: www.beverleyfestival.com

Cleckheaton Folk Festival – 3rd Jul for 3 days – Cleckheaton, Yorkshire
Established festival in Yorkshire, popular with many people. Craft fair, sessions, and award winning headline acts. Lots of big names.
Full Price: £60
Contact for info: info@cleckheatonfolkfestival.org
Website: www.cleckheatonfolkfestival.org/

Worral Festival – 3rd Jul 2015 – Worral, Yorkshire
Annual music and ale festival held in the picturesque village of Worrall on the outskirts of Sheffield. This year’s festival will have American flavour featuring a talent competition, Americana music, American style food and ales as well as the usual mix of top quality local music and acts.
Day tickets £5 and £7
Contact for info: worrallfestival@gmail.com
Website: www.worrallfestival.com

Moonbeams Folk Festival – 10th July for two days – Wold Top Brewery, Hunmanby, Yorkshire
Perched on top of the beautiful Yorkshire Wolds, Set in the grounds of the Wold Top Brewery.. Moonbeams Festival is one of the country’s best kept secrets!
Full Price: £65
Contact for info: leila@moonbeamsevents.co.uk
Website: www.moonbeamsevents.co.uk/moonbeams-folk-festival-line/

Whitby Sea Festival – 10th July 2015 – Whitby, North Yorkshire
Promotes local musicians alongside those with international acclaim. Programme has included the cream of the folk, roots, sea music and the shanty world.
Contact for info: moorfolk@googlemail.com
Website: www.whitbyseafest.co.uk/

Dalesfest – 17th July for 3 days – Silsden, Yorkshire
The UKs longest running festival of bluegrass and Americana music.
Full Price: £25
Contact for info: bbevhw5@aol.com
Website: www.dalesfest.co.uk

Underneath The Stars Festival – 24th July for 3 days – Cannon Hall Open Farm, nr Barnsley, Yorkshire
Underneath the Stars Festival is a fresh new summer festival of arts and food. It is a collaboration between Barnsley folk singer-songwriter Kate Rusby’s family production team, and one of the finest Yorkshire visitor attractions and quality food producer Cannon Hall Open Farm.
Full Price: £105
Website: www.underthestarsfest.co.uk/

Saltburn Folk Festival – 14th Aug for 3 days – Saltburn, Yorkshire
Seaside festival, includes singer/songwriter competition. Folk music, dance and song.
Full Price: £65
Contact for info: saltburnfolkfestival@talktalk.net
Website: www.saltburnfolkfestival.com

Whitby Folk Week – 22nd Aug for 7 days – Whitby, Yorkshire
Seven days of dancing in the streets, music and singing in the pubs, concerts and dances until late into the night, and a whole lot more. Seven days of meeting old friends and making new ones. With over 600 events, this long-standing celebration of the traditional music, dance and song of the British Isles has taken on the trappings of a tradition in its own right.
Full Price: £178. Also available: Day and weekend tickets
Contact for info: folk@whitbyfolk.co.uk
Website: www.whitbyfolk.co.uk/

Otley Folk Festival – 18th Sep for 3 days – Otley, Yorkshire
Full Price: £55
Contact for info: OtleyFF@hotmail.com
Website: www.otleyfolkfestival.com/

Ramsbottom Festival – 18th Sep for 3 days – Ramsbottom, Lancashire
A boutique festival in the bohemian enclave of Ramsbottom (that’s what it says!) Varied program with several different genres, and some folk music.
Full Price: £50
Contact for info: info@ramsbottomfestival.com
Website: www.ramsbottomfestival.com

Ingleton Folk Weekend – 2nd Oct 2015 – Ingleton, Yorkshire
Contact for info: ingletonfolk@gmail.com
Website: www.ingletonfolk.co.uk/

Musicport Festival – 16th Oct for 3 days – Whitby, Yorkshire
A world music event, many different styles. Check the line up to see if it appeals to your tastes. Musicport was established in 2000 to promote live music and music education in Whitby and the surrounding area.
Contact for info: info@musicportfestival.com
Website: www.musicportfestival.com/