 When a gig is sold out days in advance, you'd be forgiven the assumption that the headlining act would storm the show, and the local support acts would just be filling the time. Tonight, you'd be wrong. Penguin, fresh from winning a place at Reading and Leeds festivals, are more than just an appetizer for the main event and provide an early crowd with a performance of skill and intensity worthy of a much bigger audience.
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 Now into its third year, Bingley Music Live is fast becoming one of the country’s hottest new festivals. Attracting a capacity crowd of 15,000 in 2009, the line-up consisted of well-established acts like Editors, Calvin Harris, Doves and Ocean Colour Scene, to add to the festival’s previous bills including The Futureheads, The King Blues, Scouting For Girls and The Charlatans, amongst others.
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 An evening in the Picture House gives ideas of vintage romanticisms, red velvet curtains, gold trimmings, comfy seats and a sulky ambience. Unfortunately the Abbeydale Picture House has been left to ruin over the last few decades. In recent times a group of Sheffielder’s have clubbed together bought the Picture House and have sort in raising money to restore this magnificent building, step in local music promoters Soundclash and we have a music fuelled night to assist them in their plight.
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 When I have been to The Boardwalk in the past, it has only been to see metal bands. The floor is clear of tables and the room is full of young teenagers with long hair giving it everything they’ve got. This night is totally different; tables and chairs are set up for people to enjoy a more relaxed evening, with headline act Leddra Chapman on a UK tour, The Boardwalk transforms itself into a much calmer atmosphere than I have ever seen before.
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 It’s a cliché to say the children are our future as it’s not always the case. Debilitating illness and life limiting conditions affect children as much as adults. Francis House Hospice in Manchester provides free essential respite and terminal care for children and their families.
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 Weston Party is a live music event being put on in Weston Park in Sheffield. It is being held on August bank holiday Monday -30/8/10. We decided to try on put on our own gig as sort of a post tramlines blues ‘pick me up’ for the Sheffield music scene. The event is being staged on the bandstand in Weston Park and features live music from some of Sheffield’s finest up and coming original acts.
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 Standard Fare seem to have been everywhere recently, gigging up and down the country, overseas, on the radio, in magazines, you name it they’ve probably been there. Counterfeit found Emma and Dan playing a short acoustic set in Penelopes, a venue that is hidden away but has quirky depth to it, a bit like Standard Fare.
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