Artist: Hyde Park Brass
Support: In the Morning Lights
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 21.2.20
Where there’s muck, there’s Brass. The north’s finest brass funksters got down and dirty with their unique sound and style. Brudenell was packed with a hometown crowd who have seen these guys go from strength to strength over the last few years, mixing their own ballsy brass tunes with ‘full-blown’ covers of club classics.
Artist: Woody Woodmansey
Interviewer: Dave Simpson
Venue: Trouble at Mill, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, Leeds
Date: 15.2.20
From Mars to Farsley; another rock legend lands at Sunny Bank Mills.
The Spiders from Mars were Bowie’s northern contingent, with the original line-up all hailing from the Yorkshire & Humber region. It therefore seemed fitting for the evening’s gathering to take place in an old mill, where we were treated to stories from the inner sanctum of the Stardust era.
At the end of the night I met the man himself, who signed my gig poster and original copy of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars. An LP that once cost me a quid in a charity shop is now priceless.
Artist: Shaun Ryder
Interviewer: Gavin Puszczalowskyi
Venue: Trouble at Mill, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, Leeds
Date: 7.2.20
Never mind Manchester; Farsley became the scene for 72 hour party people as Shaun Ryder took up a three night residency at Sunny Bank Mills.
Uncertain of his stamina, we opted for the first night (let’s face it, Happy Mondays were never the most reliable band back in the day). Ryder provided an evening of surprisingly detailed and sometimes scathing memoirs with witty takes on his hedonistic history. Apparently each of the three evenings covered different topics with equal wit and wisdom.
A favourite quote came from his view of real life events and their portrayal in the ‘24 Hour Party People’ biopic; refering to the film as ‘Carry On Haçienda’.
There was strictly no ‘meet & greet’ but I managed to leave my ‘Bummed’ LP to be signed and returned before Ryder rode out of town.
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