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18 Oct

What’s On This Weekend

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsMusic & Gigs, Visual Arts & Exhibitions

This weekend Blackpool has a whole range of events, gigs and exhibitions on offer! Thursday West Coast Rock Cafe celebrates it's 25th birthday with Ska Face and Joey Blower. Hawklords play at Uncle Tom's Cabin from 8pm. Friday The Lucky Jotter preview @ Supercollider down at FYCreatives from 6-8pm. Blackpool Music Academy is holding a fundraiser at Ego Bar from 9pm. Dom Corcoran performs at The Fairhaven in Lytham from 9pm. Saturday The Grundy Art Gallery unveils their latest exhibition, Kelly Richardson's "Legion". A'Priori and The Dead Blonde Stars perform at The Blue Room from 8.30pm. Smokin' Monkey perform at…

17 Oct

Interview: Touch the Pearl

Claire Griffiths2 CommentsMusic & Gigs

Claire Giffiths chats to Kev Schools from Touch the Pearl after the gig last week. Claire: When did Touch the Pearl form? Kev: Touch the Pearl first formed in 1988 writing all our own songs, we got wined & dined by a few record companies but our brand of white soul went against the emerging indie/acid house scene of the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and the like. After a few years of playing & recording we settled for becoming a pub, club & function band - doing it for the love & the fun. We split up in 1999 as…

15 Oct

Review: Punk Trio at The Tavern

Blackpool Social Club8 CommentsMusic & Gigs

Friday evening saw 3 punk bands take to the stage at The Tavern. Local band Dischord kicking off the night by lulling us all into a false sense of security with the title track from their debut album 'The Wakes'. A sleepy, dreamy song about that ‘I don’t want to get out of bed this morning' feeling that later explodes into utter punk madness at the chorus. This set the tone for the rest of their set, thrashing punk melodies with lots of audience interaction. They wrapped up their set with their rousing rally call, 'Vote for No One' had…

15 Oct

Contemporary Dance at the The Grand Theatre

Clancy1 CommentMusic & Gigs, Visual Arts & Exhibitions

This autumn sees some rather special contemporary dance companies visit the Grand Theatre. Celine Wyatt, Engagement and Learning Manager at The Grand Theatre, says "This season, dance is contemporary and fresh. It offers interesting mixes of art forms, so it’s not just about dance, but dance combined with film or live music. The Grand Theatre is bringing new, dynamic work to Blackpool: new work, new ideas and young dancers who are coming with innovative and refreshing ideas." I asked Celine why it is important to bring contemporary dance to Blackpool. "We really want to support our local cultural community…

11 Oct

What’s On This Weekend

Blackpool Social Club1 CommentMusic & Gigs

This weekend brings a wealth of live music performance. Whether you have a penchant for punk or a schwing for swing, if you’re a sucker for soul or a freak for funk there’s a gig this weekend that’s for you. Here's a round up of what's on. I never could get the hang of Thursdays... Misery of Sound presents... The Dark Shadows, Speed Kings, Lesbian Bed Death and DJ Grimly The Tavern, 115 Church Street, Blackpool 8pm to 1am Gig Guide Fest 2012 DVD launch Launch of DVD from this year's Gig Guide Fest. Swing music from Ska Face's James…

28 Sep

Album: Dischord – The Wakes

Blackpool Social Club3 CommentsMusic & Gigs

Caroline Fisher meets Discord, Blackpool’s newest Punk Band to discuss their debut album ‘The Wakes’. With Zowie on bass, her husband Dave playing guitar and Chris taking care of both the vocals and the drums, this is quite unusual set up and as it’s not so easy to juggle both heavy beats with exuberant singing, Craig (of Terror-nation) joins them as their drummer for live performances. Dischord formed in the run up to the closure and demolition of the iconic Tache Rock club. To celebrate its last night, they recorded a ‘Your Father's Moustache’ EP, 100 copies of which were given away…

27 Sep

What’s On This Weekend

Blackpool Social Club1 CommentMusic & Gigs, Visual Arts & Exhibitions

Bands at The Blue Room Saturday night at The Blue Room sees three bands from far and wide coming together for what should be a great night of live entertainment. The North, a four piece from Chesterfield will be playing their brand of 60's influenced Psychedelic Indie, Rock & Roll. Also carrying on the Psychedelic mood will be Translucid, from Stoke-On-Trent. Completeing the line up for the evening are Ballymena Pop/Rock outfit Sethway, this will be the groups final leg of their UK Tour promoting their new single 'The Constant'. The first band will be on at around 8.30pm. Bullets and Daffodils The newly…

25 Sep

One Of These Days Festival Postponed

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsLocal News, Music & Gigs

Organisers of One Of These Days Festival, due to take place on the 8th and 9th of December at Blackpool Winter Gardens, have made a statement on their website explaining that the event has been cancelled due to an unexpected development with the structure of the business which has left them financially unable to deliver the event this year. The full statement reads... It is with sadness that we will not be proceeding with One of These Days as planned on Dec 8/9th 2012. There was an unexpected development with the structure of the business which has left us financially…

24 Sep

Preview: Bullets and Daffodils

Vicky Ellis2 CommentsMusic & Gigs, Visual Arts & Exhibitions

The brief life of Wilfred Owen, the nation's favourite war poet, is a story familiar to school children whose teachers have killed the proverbial birds of poetry and history with a single, well-aimed tutorial. The gruesome imagery of the battlefield which he fiercely set to paper, encouraged by his mentor and friend Siegfried Sassoon, is unforgettable: If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Dulce et Decorem Est, 1918 (more…)

20 Sep

What’s On This Weekend

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsMusic & Gigs, Visual Arts & Exhibitions

Scott Bamber gives you his round up of What's On in Blackpool & The Fylde Coast this weekend! Michael Morpurgo's Farm Boy Farm Boy is the follow up to the much loved novel War Horse by Michael Morpurgo and is brought to the stage at The Grand Theatre for two nights, Sunday 23rd & Monday 24th of September. The story of a lifelong Devon farmer recalling tales of the English countryside, farm life and growing up to his visiting Grandson is brought to life by New Perspectives Theatre Group and co-produced with Scamp Theatre. For more information and tickets see Grand Theatre. Bands at The Blue Room This Saturday night at…