Artist: Wolfgang Flür
Support: Peter Duggal
Venue: Old Woollen, Farsley, Leeds
Date: 9.4.22
An apt industrial setting for the ex-Kraftwerk percussionist to perform contemporary techno with a nod to his past.
I briefly met the ‘Man Machine’ himself after the gig and came away with a signed Magazine tour poster.
Artist: Mike Joyce
Interviewer: Dave Simpson
Venue: The Constitutional, Farsley
Date: 9.11.19
On a Saturday night in Farsley (a small suburb on the edge of Leeds) the one and only drummer from The Smiths sat casually chatting away – like a normal bloke who just happened to be in one of the world’s most renowned indie bands.
Despite Morrissey & Marr’s bittersweet memoirs and the infamous pay dipute, Mike Joyce seemed full of fond memories of his time with The Smiths and beyond. At one point, whilst telling a tale, he beat out the drum intro from ‘The Queen is Dead’ on the arm of his chair. It was a surreally special moment.
I couldn’t resist being a ‘fanboy’, so as Joyce went for a fag break at the end of the gig, I got him to sign my gig poster and original copy of “Hatful of Hollow”.
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