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
This weekend, I am pleased to announce another six fantastic acts that have joined the line-up of the Barnsley leg of We Shall Overcome. Over the weekend of 2nd/3rd/4th October, all over the country, live music events have been organised with the purpose offering solidarity and help to those affected by austerity policies. At each … Continue reading
Bruja (pronounced Broo-ha) are one of my favourite local bands. For many reasons. They’re definitely a blogger’s kind of band too. They’re a pleasure to both write about and watch on the live circuit. They do everything in the right way. They have a social media presence that suggests both they work hard and have … Continue reading
For the last five years, and since their first compilation release, Of National Importance Records (ONI) has continuously released some of the best music to come out of Barnsley in the last thirty years. It’s name, in itself, is the definition of home grown quality music during a time when certain figureheads on the scene … Continue reading
Already on to their second album, Bruja are turning out new material at a fair rate of knots. Midnight Tales continues in a similar vein to their first offering Odium with its thick fuzz guitars and atmospheric vocals. Opener ‘Old Mother’ has a confident Queens Of The Stone Age stomp about it and ‘Feline’ is … Continue reading
It’s July 26th and that means the second of two festivals for me this weekend. It’s the third Coalfields Festival, since its rebrand from M-Fest. Word on the local music scene was that stage managers, bands and punters were worried that the clash with Tramlines festival in Sheffield would make for a quiet event. Worry … Continue reading
After taking a short break from organising gigs over June and July, Alternative Barnsley is back with another stellar line-up at the end of August. Teaming up with Of National Importance Records, we are holding the launch event for The Exhibition’s new EP, ‘Carry To The End’. The Exhibition will play Barnsley Rock n Blues … Continue reading
The annual Coalfield’s festival is getting closer by the day, and despite competition from festivals in Sheffield, Wombwell and Cannon Hall, Coalfields has a hell of a lot to offer this years. This year the festival takes place on Saturday 26th July, at Darton Cricket Fields and is spread over five stage, with each one … Continue reading
The final eleven acts were announced for the Live in Barnsley festival today. The Barnsley acts confirmed to play were SKINBOAT, EPICINIUM, AKA PIPELINE, WILDE SAMMON, DAVE HALE, MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN and THB. Also confirmed are WILDSIDE RIOT from Birmingham, SOULFIRE SAINTS from Sheffield, MARK KEELEY from Dublin and from Leeds, STEPH & MATT … Continue reading
