Bradford Music Chap

Peace Concert to celebrate 40th anniversary of Peace Studies A...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:25:45 -0400

Peace Concert to celebrate 40th anniversary of Peace Studies

A splendid tuneful occasion, with performers from Bradford University Peace Studies (staff and students), Bradford University Music Society BUMS, BUSOM, and beyond.

With special guests Fiona Macaulay, Richard Ormrod, Daniel Rosner, Mike Chater, Andrew Dey, Martin Bond, Joanne Crowther, Liz Sooklall, and much much more.

Introduction: Professor Paul Rogers

Wed 24th April 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Delius Arts and Cultural Centre
29 Great Horton Road
Bradford BD7 1AA

[Optional ‘pot luck supper’ from 6.30 pm
and cash bar (tea and coffee as well as alcohol)

Admission Free
Donations invited (suggested donation ~ £5)

Please come and support us, and bring your friends]

On spring Bank Holiday Weekend 24 – 26 May Bradford Threadfest...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:42:00 -0400

On spring Bank Holiday Weekend 24 – 26 May Bradford Threadfest returns for a second year of independent live music celebration. After a successful and vibrant debut, Threadfest 2013 sees even more venues, collectives, musicians, bands and promoters join forces to offer a free taste of the city’s DIY and grassroots musical activity.

See www.bradfordthreadfest.com for confirmed events and acts. Much more to come.

Bradford has a rich history of self-organised cultural activity, reflected in venues like the 1 in 12 Club, the heyday of the people-led Bradford Festival and Mela, and many community-focused arts and music initiatives. Likewise it has more than its fair share of unique spaces that regularly host local and international acts attracted to the alternative character of the city. Threadfest aims to pull this activity together into a weekend that connects and showcases the various scenes and communities.

The thread between these events takes the form of a Bradford Music Map that helps audiences new and old navigate the city. There is no specified path or correct order of things, no headliners and support acts, just music that you hopefully haven’t come across all at once. Come along and help join the dots.

With Live Music and Events from: Hawk Eyes, Shopping, The Hobbes Fanclub, mini-mekons, Yo El Rey, Koala, Monster Killed by Laser, Ruby Tombs, Kogumaza, Dean McPhee, Blacklisters, The Horse Loom, Jer Reid and Stevie Jones, Mick Flower and Neil Campbell, Rivals, Mother Earth, Oriental Arts, No Hands, NGOD, Cut Yourself in Half, M@BU, Birchall/Cheetham Duo, Serious Sam Barrett, DIY or Die, Blood Sport, Bare Plume, Voltage Studios, Idiot Box, What The Folk?, Cafe Despard, Cameron Deas, Rockers and Rollers, Illusory Centre, Alchemy/Schmalchemy and more.

At venues including: The New Bradford Playhouse, Delius Arts and Cultural Centre, The 1 in 12 Club, The Sparrow, Malik House, The Beehive Inn, The Black Swan, and more.

Bradford Threadfest is a joint effort by a collective of individuals, groups and organisations with support from University of Bradford and Bradford City Council.

Bosphorus Reflections: Revealing the Conditions Conducive to DIY Culture

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:37:00 -0500

In January 2013 I was invited through Gasworks (a London-based art organisation) to take part in a five-week artist residency at PiST/// in Istanbul. PiST/// is a two-person, not-for-profit, independent art organisation run by artists Didem Osbek and Osman Bozkurt. We had met previously when the artist collective I am part of, Black Dogs, participated in No Soul For Sale at Tate Modern in 2010. We were both dubious of the logic underpinning the event: a showcase of non-institutional and independent art activity that, oddly (to us at least), took place in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern as part of its 10^th anniversary celebrations. PiST/// appreciated Black Dogs’ critical contribution that involved totalling up the entire (non refunded) costs of all the artist groups that took part and making this known to the public via the question ‘How Much did Tate Modern NOT spend on its birthday party?’

An element of my proposal for the residency was to continue the practice-led research I have been conducting - as an artist, musician, writer and through my role as Fellow in Music at Bradford University - into self-organised, DIY, non-institutional and underground cultural production. My interests are in the social, political and economic resonances of activity that defies easy categorisation as either ‘work’ or ‘leisure’, and the alternative (non/post capitalist) worlds that such activity suggests. I planned to do some digging around the art and music scene to find sites in which self-organised culture was emerging in Istanbul. In my experience: where there is alternative music and artist-led activity, alternative politics and radical social imaginaries are never far away.

I had visited Istanbul twice before. In 2009 for the art biennial, with my girlfriend and partner (in art crime) Yvonne Carmichael, and then in 2012: to play with my band That Fucking Tank. In both cases I came away wanting to know more, feeling like we had only experienced the commercial, slick surface of a city that must have more to offer in terms of independent, non market-led, non-institutional activity.

On this trip I began my search for the murky underground through a number of venues, cafes and art spaces that I had either visited previously or that were recommended by friends involved in the independent music and art scene. Many of these were very pleasant and populated by excellent people that I subsequently got to know better. At Peyote I saw some interesting local bands (Mondual, Ah! Kosmos, Grup Ses Beats) and great DJs. In Kutu Café I met a group of friends that play in bands (Ricochet and Kim Ki O) and run a magazine called Bant that covers independent and leftfield art, music and film. At the Istanbul Biennial press launch I was pleased to see an audience member challenge the sincerity of the politicised rhetoric used by the curator and organisers. The question came from an artist-activist, Niyazi Selçuk, who had performed a number of actions highlighting the corrupt nature of the sponsorship relations that sustain Istanbul’s market-led art scene. Bahar Yigitbas is in the early stages of setting up an alternative school with environmental sustainability as one of its core values. Later in my trip I met a young artist collective called Kaba Hat who had recently rented a dilapidated space in an area of Istanbul earmarked for gentrification and in which they plan to hold an exhibition reflecting on this context.

As well as via these dispersed but interlinked individuals, groups and spaces, I experienced the grassroots culture of Istanbul just by walking through the streets. These are peppered with musicians, food vendors and street performers at almost all hours of the day and give the impression of a city brimming with non-institutional, people-led art, music and culture.

As I began to ask more questions of my hosts and new acquaintances, however, a slightly less comprehensive picture of DIY activity in Istanbul began to form. Where are the social centres? Where are the non-profit, non-slick music venues? Where are the artist-led spaces, the community squats and the co-operatively run businesses? Where do the punks and weirdos hang out? Where are the volunteer-run spaces that are defined and managed by their users? Although these sorts of places are relatively few and far between (and mostly off-the-map) in the UK, they can be found with a bit of persistence. We have, for example, the 1 in 12 Club in Bradford, Wharf Chambers and Cornerstone in Leeds, Suma in Halifax, The Audacious Art Experiment and S1 Artspace in Sheffield to name a close-by few. In mainland Europe such places are more commonplace, from the network of tiny-but-numerous artist-run studios and galleries of the Netherlands that appear in every disused tower block and industrial area, to huge formerly-squatted alternative cultural centres like Metelkova in Ljubljana. But, despite my best efforts to uncover them, I found the Istanbul equivalents to be evasive.

So, a lot of the conversations I had with local practitioners and musicians turned to why -in a city of 14 million people that spans two continents - independent, collectively-run, self-organised spaces of the sort dotted across the UK and Europe are non-existent or unknown to even the interested underground art and music community. The responses I received varied from the self-depreciating and personal - ‘Turkish people are too lazy and self–interested to organise collectively and make things happen; its not in our culture’; to the pragmatic and structural - ‘Rent is too high to allow anything that isn’t for-profit to survive, the city is corrupt and there is a Turkish mafia that demand paying too’; to the political - ‘There is a genuine threat of censorship and even imprisonment for stepping out of line and challenging the neoliberal agendas of the government.’

Furthermore, I began to pick up on how these hostile and marketised conditions shaped and standardised the cultural activity I was experiencing. I became more aware of the over-produced and professional, reserved character of many of the bands I saw. A symptom, I began to hypothesise, of a lack of basements and low-cost rehearsal spaces in which bands have the freedom to play as wild and as long as they like, such as those we have in Leeds (and one of the contributing factors to John Peel’s now famous observations that LS6 postcode has more bands per square meter than anywhere else in the country). Likewise, the majority of the art that I saw, even in the independent spaces, was object-based and gallery and collector-friendly, rather than performative, dematerialised, socially-engaged or interventionist. Istanbul’s overcrowded, 24-hour, super-paced, rapidly-gentrified nature occludes the cracks, gaps, pauses and void spaces that are plentiful in postindustrial cities in The North of England, and from which the most interesting and socially-transformative art and culture emerges.

Although my experience in Istanbul was incredible, and I haven’t outlined here the many positive and wonderful things about the city and my experiences there, I returned with a renewed appreciation of what we have in Bradford. Spaces like the 1 in 12 Club and The Polish Club in which we can host experimental gigs and free club nights; empty shop units, mills and warehouses that can be used by artists and collectives as impromptu galleries and studios without the fear of them being turned into hotels next week; a tradition of worker’s resistance, class-composition, self-management and grassroots organisation from which we can draw inspiration and tactics to explore the space (concrete, social and imaginary) between that dictated by the state and the market. In short, a culture where free time, free space and free thought is available to those willing to seek, grab a hold and make best use of it. Such spaces in which to self-organise and experiment, to do our thing without being at the mercy of either private or public forces are, as my Istanbul experience illustrated, not universal. As such, they deserve our full appreciation, utilisation and, in an environment where the drive for profit threatens to enclose all of life, defence when and where necessary. Bradford might seem on the surface a little empty and still at times, but underneath it’s got as much going on as places forty times its size.

www.andyabbott.co.uk

Gerrard Bell-Fife

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:15:00 -0400

7 Songs, self-released CDR

Available from his gigs or contact via http://gerrardbell-fife.bandcamp.com/

Bradford Uni’s Social and International Studies school has long been a magnet for inspiring and creative types that end up making a vital contribution to the fabric of the city. Carrying on this tradition in fine form is Nottingham’s Gerrard Bell-Fife who we are fortunate to have found his way here.

Gerrard is a singer songwriter who plays a rich-sounding nylon-stringed acoustic guitar that perfectly compliments his strong-yet-understated baritone voice. Gerrard’s vocals are beyond striking and what you miss out on with this recording is the astonishing impact of the disparity between his youthful, unassuming stage manner and the maturity of what emerges from his mouth. Where does it come from?

Here, though, the music has to stand alone without qualification, and it manages to do so admirably. Fans of 90s and 00’s lo-fi Americana folk like Smog, Black Heart Procession, The National, Will Oldham and company will find themselves in dark heaven with these seven songs. There’re echoes of Joy Division and Billy Corgan’s more tender moments too. Songs of heartbreak and tales of trying to find your way through the world in difficult and confusing times are delivered with a poetic lyricism that manages to be touching and familiar without falling into cliché or sentimentality.

The tunes themselves are instantly memorable - (anti-) anthems, even - and the record has a coherence that makes each song feel like a chapter in a book, making it compulsive listening. Take some time out of your day to enter Gerrard’s (devil) world via this home-recording and be sure you catch him at one of his many appearances in low-key venues of Bradford. Chances are in years to come you’ll be boasting that you cottoned on to him when you did.

That Fucking Tank, Les Cercle des Mallissimalistes, The Family Elan

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:54:50 -0400

Wednesday June 27th, 2012

This Obscene Baby Auction presents

That Fucking Tank
Classic/noise rock mash-up duo from Bradford/Leeds play tracks from latest album TFT on Gringo Records.
http://thatfuckingtank.co.uk/

Le Cercle des Mallissimalistes
French creepy PIL-ish post punk quartet featuring Api Uiz members.
http://vimeo.com/30185174

The Family Elan
Bradfordian stomping globally-influenced acid folk rock trio.
http://thefamilyelan.com/

At the 1 in 12 Club, Albion St, Bradford. For members and their guests. £5 guests/£4 members. Doors at 8pm. Finishes in time for last train back to Leeds.

www.obscenebabyauction.co.uk

Bradford Threadfest - Free Cross-City Live Music Event. 24 - 27 May, 2012.

Mon, 21 May 2012 08:11:00 -0400

A free event, Threadfest sees a number of individuals, bands, promoters, organisations and venues work together to collectively offer a taste of the hard-to-find live music and culture on offer in Bradford to the unfamiliar.

Acts and bands confirmed include:

Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts
Stop Motion Trio
Bradford Singers
Bradford Scratch Orchestra
Blue Arsed Flies
Matoke
Wilful Missing
Spirit Of John
Black Dogs
Stalking Horse
Young Liar
The Horn The Hunt
Richard Dawson
Dean McPhee
Costa and Nero
Gum Takes Tooth
Black Moth
Trio VD
Gerrard Bell-Fife
The Family Elan
Mr Beaumont
Dariush and Jade
Boss Caine
the Horse Loom
Petals
Ithaca trio
Nucleus Roots
Garfunkle and Simon
Stephanie Hladowski
Snuff Rock
Free Spirit Graham
Do Miss America

With events organised by

Music at University of Bradford
Artfarmers
This Obscene Baby Auction
No Hands
BUMS (Bradford University Music Society)
HowDo presents
Topic Folk Club

and across venues including

1 in 12 Club
Balanga Bar
University of Bradford
The Castle
Delius Arts and Cultural Centre
Delius Lived Next Door
Hand Made in Bradford
Kala Sangam Arts Centre
The Mill
Bradford Irish Club
Polish Parish Club
Spice Lounge
Balanga Bar
Treehouse Cafe

www.bradfordthreadfest.com

No Hands - Friday April 27th

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:09:17 -0400

« BARBEROS »
Drum-heavy genre mashing party noise from Liverpudlian Stig Noise and a.p.p.a.t.t associates.
http://www.barberos.blogspot.co.uk/

« DO MISS AMERICA »
Bright new things making Bradford-Americana blues
http://www.facebook.com/domissamerica

As part of No Hands indie disco – 2 floors of music, Djs, cheap booze, snacks, visuals and lots of free fun.
At The Polish Club, Edmund Street (Nr Bradford College), Bradford.
8pm Doors. 2am close. Bands finished in time for last trains back to Leeds.
Free Entry with £3 donations for bands.

Immersion and Duration Event

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:07:14 -0400

March: Immersion and Duration

Friday March 23rd, 2012.

University of Bradford and TLMC presents, ‘Immersion and Duration’ – a musical event exploring differing approaches to time and (head) space with live performances from…

The Michael Flower Band

Mick Flower of Vibracathedral Orchestra/Flower Corsano Duo/Lizgizzard and friends making primitive psychedelic drone utilising guitar and Japanese banjo as seen with Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sunburned Hand of a Man and the like.

http://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/the-michael-flower-band

Inca Eyeball

Rare live outing from duo of Phil Todd of the Sonic Youth-loved Ashtray Navigations and Joincey of Green Monkey/Stuckometer sub 20-second improvised song assault utilising lyric scraps and a table of musical toys.

http://incaeyeball.mbdistro.com/

PLUS DJ’s playing repetitive and long-playing grooves and entrancing visuals.

Preceded by Seth Cooke’s ‘Twelve Tapes’; a 12-hour live sound art installation at Gallery II, University of Bradford from 8am - 8pm.

At the Polish Parish Club, Edmund St, Bradford. Starts at 9pm goes on until late. £5/£4 concessions or free with entry to Word Life (7.30pm start downstairs at Polish Club). No advance booking necessary.

New issue of Bradford's Free Cultural Magazine 'HowDo'

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:13:17 -0500

New issue of Bradford's Free Cultural Magazine 'HowDo'

It’s not strictly Bradford but I read that this...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:25:38 -0500

It’s not strictly Bradford but I read that this guy’s playing at the Puzzle Hall Inn in Sowerby Bridge on Friday 17th Feb. His live show is fantastic and the pub’s dead nice so I’d recommend it if it’s true!

Runners @ University of Bradford.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:29:07 -0500

Runners @ University of Bradford.

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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:15:08 -0500

Thursday February 9th 2012 This Obscene Baby Auction...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:14:57 -0500

Thursday February 9th 2012

This Obscene Baby Auction presents…

Sunflare (Portugal)
Blow-out psych-rock in a High Wire vein from Lobster members.
http://cubicpyramid.blogspot.com/

Gigantes
Kling Klang men do two piece Goblin-esque epic synthscapes. Formerly Beast.
http://gigantes.bandcamp.com/

Azores
Maxed-out danceable afrobeat with sweet guitar solos from former Cissy men of Leeds.
http://www.myspace.com/cissysound

At The 1 in 12 Club, Albion St, Bradford for members and their guests. £5 guests/£4 members. Starts at 8pm.

The 1 in 12 Club, Albion St, Bradford, BD1 2LY

Rockers and Rollers at The Beehive Inn, Bradford

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:12:22 -0500

Friday, February 3, 2012
9:00pm until 3:00am

Rockers and Rollers return with an almighty bang on Friday 3rd February at our old haunt in the beehive cellar bar!

Hailing from Leeds for your listening, viewing and moshing pleasure are two fine musical outfits:

BLACK MOTH
Hard hitting garage punk from Leeds. Recently signed to the New Heavy Sounds label and have been working with evil genius “Mr Jim” Sclavunos (of Grinderman, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and previously Sonic Youth, The Cramps and others) on their debut album, to be released in 2012!

www.facebook.com/ themothpit
www.blackmothband.co.uk

and:

YUGOSLAVIAN BOYS

“This is a no bullshit “kick your fucking arse and leave you crying” band thats been banging out high octave pure party beats since time began “

www.facebook.com/yugoslavianboys

Plus plenty of music, rocking, drinking, dancing, partying and falling over accompanied by Rockers and Rollers DJs playing RockNRoll/Punk/Garage/Grunge/BloodyWellOwtWeWant til 3am!

Come down or forever regret it.

9PM - 3AM
£3 Door Tax

Thursday 16th February 2012.University of Bradford and TLMC presents, ‘Folk Narratives’ – a musical...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:54:20 -0500

Thursday 16th February 2012.
University of Bradford and TLMC presents, ‘Folk Narratives’ – a musical event exploring musical approaches to storytelling and preserving local history, occurring across three Bradford libraries with …

Vialka. French baritone guitar, drums and vocal duo playing a special acoustic set including traditional French folk songs.

http://vialka.com/

The Housekeeping Society. West Yorkshire based progressive folk pop conceptualists.

http://www.thehousekeepingsociety.com/

Stephanie Hladowski. Traditional folk songs sang unaccompanied from Bradford.

http://www.myspace.com/stephaniehladowski

Kirstie Penman. Traditional folk songs sang unaccompanied from Glasgow.

Captain Hotknives. Anti-folk with a light take on the darker side of life in Bradford.

http://www.myspace.com/captainhotknives

Garfunkle and Simon. Anti-folk from Bradford on themes of love, football and libraries.

Performances start at The Treehouse Cafe at 6pm (food will be available). From there you will be led to the next two venues: J.B Priestly Library at 7.30pm and
1 in 12 Club Library (for members and their guests) at 9.30pm. Entry is £3 per venue or £6 for all three (£5 concessions). Space is limited so please book ahead by sending an email to music@bradford.ac.uk

www.bradford.ac.uk/music for details.

Friday 27th January 2012.University of Bradford and TLMC...

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:44:00 -0500

Friday 27th January 2012.

University of Bradford and TLMC presents, ‘Fun and Games’ - a night of innovative, playful and leftfield approaches to technology and games with live music and performances from …

Runners
Vintage Synth-wielding Krautrockers from Leeds (Dummy Records).
http://longdistancerunners.wordpress.com/

Circuit Ben
Intriguing sounds wrangled from Circuit Bent toys and instruments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF_LjCaxZZA

Hagman
Leeds experimental noise improvisation using cheap bat detectors and more.

Button Mash Collective
providing music-themed live gaming.
http://www.facebook.com/ButtonMash

+ More including Free Software produced techno and 8 Bit sounds, Youtube DJing and the usual fun and frolics of No Hands DJs embracing the gaming/techno theme.

Part of No Hands club night at the Polish Parish Club, Edmund St, Bradford. Starts at 8pm goes on until late. Free Entry downstairs with £4 suggested donation for bands upstairs.

New Years Eve Eve in Bradford

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:02:00 -0500

Friday 30th December from 8pm

A New Years eve EVE night of Bradfordian Riffs;

» THAT FUCKING TANK «
thatfuckingtank.co.uk
Instrumental noise-rock duo back from euro tour armed with new album ‘TFT’.

» DOLPHINS «
http://dolphins-music.bandcamp.com/
Big noise melodic riffing in a helmet/am-rep vein.

» CUT YOURSELF IN HALF «
Led Zep inspired riffers a la Soundgarden, FOTL, PABH.

» MOTHER/DESTROYER «
Ex-Jon jones riff-mongers.

4 BANDS
DJs / VISUALS
SNACKS
DANCING
CHEAP BAR
FREE ZINE!

£2 suggested donation entry for bands upstairs, get down early!

at The Polish Club, Edmund St, Bradford.

http://www.facebook.com/events/148655698570115/

Raise Your Banners Festival 25-27 November, Bradford

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:42:50 -0500

Raise Your Banners Festival 25-27 November, Bradford:

Raise Your Banners 2011 is proud to present its festival of political song in Bradford once more. It is sixteen years since Sheffield Socialist Choir organised the first Raise Your Banners in celebration of the great Wobblie union organiser and songster Joe Hill. Raise your Banners unites political choirs with soloists and bands to celebrate committed and campaigning music that constantly renews the vision of equality for all the world’s peoples. Raise Your Banners is music to celebrate ordinary people joining together to struggle for something they want, whether it is local childcare or opposition to the ravages of global capitalism. We seek the best artists who will celebrate popular struggles in their music and song, and aim for all to have a rollicking good time.

In the words of the festival patron, Roy Bailey:

Raise Your Banners is the only festival that takes as its theme the expression and development of political song. In a world increasingly dominated by the growing threat of environmental, economic and political catastrophe, these songs reveal a constituency of people who are seeking to confront these threats and for whom political song is a powerful means of giving encouragement and hope to millions of people.

To share the experience of this festival confirms for us all that we are not alone and that there are many who share our ideals and aspirations. Political songs are entertaining and inspiring. You don’t have to be solemn to be serious!

FRIDAY JANUARY 25TH This Month’s No Hands will feature...

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:35:14 -0500

FRIDAY JANUARY 25TH

This Month’s No Hands will feature lush pop tones, epic guitar noises, stomping riffs, electronic blippery, DJs, a cheap bar, a FREE Zine and guaranteed fun!

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Peter J Taylor Guitar Orchestra
Glenn Branca/Sonic Youth style composed and conducted improv for drums and multiple guitars by ex-Action Beat man from Milton Keynes. Played all over the world but debut appearance in Bradford.
http://peterjamestaylor.com/

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The Hobbes Fanclub
Debut performance by recognisable Bradford faces doing already internationally acclaimed C86 style indie pop. Ex Ruby Tombs, current No Hands-ers.
http://www.myspace.com/thehobbesfanclub

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Deas and Denton
Sheffield-based experimental guitar duo. Drones, textures, noise a la Throbbing Gristle, Basic Channel, La Monte Young.
http://soundcloud.com/camdeas/deas-denton-inferno-side-b

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Sounding
More experimental noise emerging from Sheffield this time of an electronic bent with projections. Ben Moon of Forest Creature solo doings.
http://soundcloud.com/sounding-1

At The Polish Club, Edmund Street (Nr Bradford College), Bradford.

8pm Doors. 2am close. Bands finished in time for last trains back to Leeds.

Free Entry with Donations for bands.

Friday, November 4 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm Treehouse Cafe, 2...

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:31:00 -0400

Friday, November 4 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm

Treehouse Cafe, 2 Ashgrove, Bradford

Serious Sam Barrett

A few fine things have been justly said about the music of Serious Sam Barrett….

“Barrett has become a master of his craft”-BLUES MATTERS MAGAZINE..

“Serious Sam Barrett plays traditional songs and his own compositions from the Leeds delta on a big 12-string guitar and resonator. Close To Home, his debut album is bright and brash and very good”. ROCK N’ REEL MAGAZINE (R2)

“Deliciously home-grown, this is a rewarding collection of songs that could well renew your faith in underground folk scenes. This stripped down and raw album is riddled with the gritty reality of this artist’s Northern life and makes no apologies” ACOUSTIC MAGAZINE

http://serioussambarrett.bandcamp.com/

Gerrard Bell-Fife

New Bradford based talent. Think young Tom Waits……

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgerrardbell-fife.bandcamp.com%2F&h=cAQG8lM0o

Food, cake and coffees served at the cafe. BYOB. £3 on the door.