Music in the clouds
Copying files. 5 minutes remaining … Oh did I say 55? Well I meant 30. No hang on 1 hour 10 minutes. Just kidding it is definitely going to take 3 hours to transfer your music. Approximately. I’m hunched over, gripping my temples in desperation as Microsoft Windows tortuously nudges a lethargic progress bar across my computer screen on a hopeless crusade towards 100%. It’s a lazy winter Sunday: laundry’s done and legs have been stretched by a swift run. There’s little else to do now but take the bull by the horns and confront an arduous task which I’ve been avoiding for a few...
Read MoreOrb Community Arts at FEVA 2010
This Sunday I had the pleasure of being invited to provide a spot of live event photography for an all day arts and music festival hosted by Orb Community Arts in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. Orb ran the event as part of the FEVA Festival of Entertainment and Visual Arts 2010 and it took place at Henshaw’s Arts & Craft centre. The outdoor event offered a mixture of guest bands, workshops as well as giving members of the Orb community a chance to perform on stage and show the world the skills and talents that Orb, creative arts mental health charity, has helped them to develop....
Read MoreTwo Door Cinema Club (and some swans)
Fresh-faced identical-looking scenesters decorate the tired looking Cockpit couches, strewn about like awkward little muso-hermits clung to the walls of the bar, furtively conversing with mirror images of themselves. All devoted fans of course, clinging onto their tickets as if they were golden tickets to Willy Wonka’s Music Factory. Just one of many acerbic little observations peppered throughout an article I wrote reviewing Two Door Cinema Club’s performance at The Cockpit in Leeds. This review was written for Safeconcerts in my capacity as a freelance writer, contributing...
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