This years’s Barnsley Music Awards will take place on Friday 4th December at the Barnsley Rock & Blues Venues (last year’s winner of favourite live music venue). Voting for the awards opened on 2nd November. You can cast your vote by visiting http://goo.gl/forms/ZN7ywRC80T. To celebrate, I’ve been taking a look at my own musical highlights … Continue reading
This year’s Barnsley Music Awards will take place on Friday 4th December at the Barnsley Rock & Blues Venues (last year’s winner of favourite live music venue). Voting for the awards opened on 2nd November. You can cast your vote by visiting http://goo.gl/forms/ZN7ywRC80T. To celebrate the occasion, I thought that I would take the opportunity … Continue reading
This time last year, the Live In Barnsley festival team were taking public votes for the inaugural Barnsley Music Awards; and only yesterday the 2015 Awards were announced to take place at The Barnsley Rock & Blues Venues on Friday 4th December, and while public voting doesn’t start until Monday 2nd November, I thought it … Continue reading
Carefully helping me manoeuvre my way through the narrow passage backstage, Alan Parker, one of the Thespian’s handymen casts his eyes over various props, tools, large wooden sheets of painted scenery and drily observes, ‘it’s a bit of a pig oyle in here. Another theatre group are using the building for their play and we’re … Continue reading
Alabama bluesgrass group, The Pine Hill Haints, will visit Barnsley this September 11th for a special concert at the Barnsley Rock & Blues Venue. The Pine Hill Haints play what they describe as ‘Alabama Ghost Music’ and it incorporates lashings of gospel, rockabilly, blues, rock and roll, celtic folk music and bluegrass, and is played … Continue reading
Over the weekend of 2nd – 4th October, all over the country, gigs, concerts and festivals have been (and are still being) organised with the purpose of showing solidarity in the face of a central government cuts. The series of events are called We Shall Overcome. At each event, we organisers and volunteers show solidarity … Continue reading
Mark Jackson is one of my favourtie local performers. His fun and mucky mix of comedy, punk poetry and pub rock, has had him called Barnsley’s John Cooper Clarke, and in the past I’ve drawn similarities between his band, Mark Jackson’s Criminal Waste of Talent with Ian Dury and Dr. Feelgood. He’s performed under various … Continue reading
UNDERNEATH THE STARS FESTIVAL @ CANNON HALL FARM, CAWTHORNE. FRI 24 – SUN 26 JULY 2015 The first Underneath The Stars Festival, a partnership between Cannon Hall Farm and Kate Rusby’s family owned record label, Pure Records, took place last summer, on an already busy South Yorkshire festival weekend (Tramlines and Coalfields were on the … Continue reading
This week’s mixtape explores the musical history of Barnsley’s punk scene. Much of what is here I have sourced from the people in the bands. It’s not a definitive history by any means, but it is a start and I’d love to expand on it, so feel free to email me stories, music and photos … Continue reading
Comprising of vocalist Andy Wardle, guitarists Tom Wilkinson and Daniel Carter, bassist Terry Wright and Luke Cooper on drums; new Barnsley Post-Hardcore five-piece Words Become Waves have landed on the scene this week with an almighty bang. With a debut single, recorded at DC Studios and an accompanying video filmed by the brilliant Liam Gilroy … Continue reading
