Category Archives: Live Events

Moor Music Festival – Are You In A Local Band?

News has come through of the chance for local bands to play this year’s Moor Music Festival.  This is what the organisers have to say:

Do you want the chance to play at Moor Music Festival 2010?
Send us a short piece about your band and your myspace link to playmoorfest@live.co.uk
The closing date for submissions is 10th May
Bands must be from towns situated on the Airedale Trainline
Visit us at www.myspace.com/moorfest or search for ‘Moor Music Festival – Skipton Fansite’ on Facebook for more info
Moor Music Festival Team

So, if you’re in a local band, what are you waiting for?  And if you’re not, please spread the word!

Selection Box Show 110 – Kate Walsh interview special

As previewed in my last blog entry, this week’s show featured an interview with the frankly lovely Kate Walsh, recorded a few hours prior to her show at the Brudenell Social Club in That There Fancy Leeds.

The scarf isn't hiding lovebites, y'know.

The scarf isn't hiding lovebites, y'know.

Walsh’s current album Light & Dark – which I reviewed here – is the follow-up to the iTunes # 1 album Tim’s House (although a disgracefully low 75 in the proper charts), released in 2007.  Since that time she’s flirted with a major label who obviously sniffed a star in the making, only for her to decide that this was not the way she wanted to take her work forward, preferring to release on her own label Blueberry Pie.

It’s probably a wise move, as its tempting to think that the pressures from the suits in the corporate boardroom would try to push Kate Walsh into swooning songbird frippery which is not her idiom.  To steal a phrase from my own previous blog entry, the strength of Walsh’s alarmingly candid and beautifully stark songwriting is that she realises that true art lies in reigning in the excesses of the emotional.

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Podcast Special – Selection Box v Speech Debelle

Yon editor seems to have got all a-giddy and presented this as some kind of huge new exciting podcast brew ha ha type behaviour. It seems a bit over excited, considering that I announced that this interview would appear on these pages a few weeks ago, but if someone wants to trump for my corner, who I am to complain? So long as it doesn’t smell.

Speaking of corners, it also seems that young Adam – for he is the aforementioned editor in question – has titled this interview as either some sort of pugilist pagga betwixt myself and my subject. Either that or that we’re indulging in one of those terpsichorean mash-ups, which is not the case either. It’s just two people having a chinwag, one of them (me) duty-bound to be far nosier than the other.

So, here’s the obligatory photo for visual stimulus, and then you can listen to the interview, by jiminy.

The wind was a South Easterly that day

The wind was a South Easterly that day

[podcast]https://www.bcbradio.co.uk/musicblog/wp-content/uploads/SinglesClub_03.mp3[/podcast]

Selection Box 5/10/09: Speech Debelle interview special

I’ve found of late that I have reached the age where I am simultaneously envious and sneering of young people just entering adulthood.  I recognise that this is something of a tragic and predictable state of affairs for someone starting to leave the realms of “young” and hurtling with a winced resignation towards the slapheaded middle age that will be my lot by the time the next Olympics come around.  I swear I blinked when I was 19 and suddenly 13 years had passed me by.

Thankfully the what-the-hell-does-he-think-he-looks-like fuddy-duddisms and the you-know-nothing-you-fools grumpy grotty gripes were less in evidence when I took a trip up to Leeds University last week to meet Speech Debelle before she performed her headline gig at the Mine venue of the aforementioned learning establishment’s Student Union.  There was, I’ll confess, an overriding sense of jealousy, however.  Fresh-faced Freshers with their entire University life ahead of them – a life of late nights, debautched frivolity and loose sexual morals.  Even if I wasn’t happily married I just simply wouldn’t have the energy to keep up any more.  I guess I’ll have the last laugh when they’re all riddled with the clap.

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For your pleasure #2: Joan As Police Woman

Tomorrow night (Sunday) Leeds’ burgeoning live music venue the  Brudenell Social Club will be graced – for the second time within a year – with the presence of Joan Wasser, aka Joan As Police Woman.

I don’t expect this to cause huge ripples among the majority of readers here, but if my words here have any weight whatsoever then I shall see you amongst the crowd there tomorrow, as this is an artist who should not be missed when she swoops into town.

Beginning her musical career as an undergraduate at Boston University – where she was taken on as an early admittance student – Wasser played with various Boston bands whilst holding a place as violinist with the university’s symphony orchestra.

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Expo Leeds – This Weekend!

Hummm, the title of this blog Untitled Noise seems more applicable to this post than any other thus far.

Last night I was was lucky enough to sit through a talk on the history of sonic art delivered by David Rogerson from Sound and Music. It was most enlightening for someone such as myself who mainly works with visuals (apart from working on the radio). Appreciating modern music you see how the avant garde work of the past has worked its way into mainstream punk and modern electro. I won’t write at length about it but if you’re interested take a look at some stuff from the Noise scene, Microtonal Music and artists such as John Oswarld, Harry Patch and People Like Us.

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