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Friday, November 30th, 2012
Manchester based blues band with a fantastic energy fueled live preformance.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Mark Radcliffe and Foes
From deepest, darkest Cheshire, land of perpetual twilight, emerge rambling radio roustabout Mark Radcliffe and Foes. As opposed to friends.
With a selection of songs to burn coffins to, these misanthropic minstrels; these downbeat Dee bank dirgesmiths; these glum-pop pall-bearers of bar-room bathos bring tales of loss, regret, ruin, heartbreak and dead dogs. Mark’s previous band The Family Mahone specialised in drinking songs. Now feel the full force of the hangover as the Foes set the morning after the night before to music.
Joining Mark, thanks to a care-in-the-community placement programme, are former Mahones Christopher Lee, the dark prince of double bass and mandolin; and Rusty Mabbutt, still striving to achieve two pin-falls and a submission over the piano accordion. Noted Northwich bowler-hatted bare-knuckle knave Mark Woolley is also on hand to lend lilting low whistle and to hit a box with barely concealed menace.
So, encounter the Foes and an evening of abject misery is guaranteed.
Samaritans 24 hour helpline: 08457 90 90 90
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
Latin MANIA!
Salsa classes and Latin dance night
Telfords has hosted a salsa club in Chester for over 15 years and we’re now launching Latin MANIA!
Learn Cuban salsa lessons every Wednesday with Banderas (Havana, Cuba), Lee Baker and Rachel Forshaw. Lessons are provided for all levels of ability, from complete beginners to experienced dancers. You don’t need a partner – you’ll change partners all the time in a friendly, fun group.
8.00 pm: Separate classes for Beginners and Improver level
8.45 pm: Intermediate level partnerwork and Improver (and above) rueda (Cuban group dance, performed in a circle or ‘wheel’)
- Beginner classes introduce you to salsa music, teach the basic footwork steps and let you take your first steps dancing with a partner.
- Improver classes build up your repertoire of fundamental partner work sequences.
- Intermediate classes build up more advanced partner work and solo patterns, and help develop body movement and musicality.
9.30 pm till 12.30: Dance into the night with a mix that includes salsa, timba, bachata, regaetton, merengue, latin pop and more.
Classes are just £4 for one class or £6 for two classes. Entry to social dancing after 9.30 is free.
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
Nine Below Zero are one of Britain’s most respected R&B bands, famous for their no-frills, punchy and direct approach. Frontman Dennis Greaves, with his rasping vocals and stinging guitar work, is joined by fellow-founder Mark Feltham on harmonica, and a driving rhythm section of Gerry McAvoy (bass) and Brendan O’Neill (drums). Their gigs are energetic affairs: non-stop, thrill-a-minute parties.
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Sunday, November 25th, 2012
Chester’s longest running open mic is this week hosted by Chris Ingram, local musical hero and Tequila smasher. Bring along your instruments and take to the stage for fun and laughter.
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Saturday, November 24th, 2012
Music promoter and DJ collective Funkdub is marking eight years of bringing live events to the North West by securing The Skints to headline its eighth birthday spectacular at Telfords Warehouse on Saturday 24th November.
The Skints have had one hell of a year. And the ride’s about to get wilder.
The East London reggae/punk/ska/dub outfit are well used to playing huge gigs. They have hundreds of performances under their belts, both as headliners and supporting the likes Bedouin Soundclash, Gym Class Heroes, The Slackers and Gogol Bordello.
Likewise, they are no strangers to national airplay. Right from their inception in 2007, Radio One DJs like Colin Murray were championing their natty dancehall sound and providing The Skints with major exposure.
And adulation from thousands of fans on the festival scene is nothing new either. The Skints have smashed the stage at every festival that you could care to mention, and continue to lead the way in the UK’s ska revival.
But the last extraordinary twelve months has seen euphoric highs and shattering lows in the lives of The Skints. All of which makes them stronger, hungrier and champing at the bit to unleash their incredible live show for the Funkdub Live eighth birthday event.
December 2011 saw The Skints’ renowned cover of Katy B’s On A Mission. Already a club banger that has been credited with dragging dubstep into the mainstream, The Skints rearranged the song into a captivating slice of dub reggae. The intimate video garnered 10,000 views in its first day, and it’s currently nudging a quarter of a million. It has also won the vocal backing of Katy B herself, alongside the heavyweight dubstep producers of the original track, Skream and Benga.
Off the back of that success, The Skints released the acclaimed single Ratatat, again getting major radio airplay and backing from the likes of Radio One’s Huw Stephens. Impressive download figures meant that was only kept of the iTunes reggae singles top spot from an old dead Rasta called Bob.
It was only a matter of time before the media came knocking, and Marcia and Josh were invited in to talk to Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 6 Music. Later in the year, the ardent fans of the BBC Radio One Punk Show were treated to an interview with Marcia.
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Friday, November 23rd, 2012
Emily & Jo picked up their paintbrushes and proceeded to create a series of earnestly peculiar lyrics and sunny folk-pop melodies, splattered with adorable harmonies and contagious catchiness. With a healthy dose of welsh heart from guitarist ‘The Lovebites’, the Braves are sure to get your toes tapping. Expect to be charmed by flute solos, feverish guitar riffs, hypnotic hands and a ukulele named Fiona.
http://www.drumwithourhands.com/Drum_with_our_Hands/Baby_Brave.html
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
Influences range far and wide from shoe-gaze and orchestral post-rock bands like Slowdive, Spiritualized and Godspeed! You Black Emperor, to new wave groups such as Talking Heads and Echo and the Bunnymen. Recent appreciation for bands such as Deerhunter, Factory Floor and The Phantom Band have allowed the group to unlock a new direction.
Chemistry Lane combine the dreaminess of experimental indie with a layered instrumental depth of sound that results in powerful, almost hypnotic melodies and warm spine tingling atmospheres.
A review of Chemistry Lane’s debut EP Launch (Christopher Bunting).
“The group appear as a collection of shadows onstage behind an enormous projection screen – set up to display various film and imagery – separating band from audience. It’s a brave move, not one that many artists would even consider, and it serves to amp up the pre-gig anticipation amongst the crowd. Credit to the band for a willingness to experiment in a live setting but it’s this spirit that pervades their music also.”
“Set closer ‘Pitch Black’ ensures the night ends on a high. With its hypnotic synth-bass line holding everything together, coiling snake-like around the room, looping over and over until things fall apart, it’s a hulking beast of a track and a definite highlight.”
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Esper Scout are an alt. rock/progressive four-piece from Leeds, driven by an enthusiasm for melody, harmony, rhythms and guitar and bass textures and pedal effects as well as dynamic drums and rhythms.
“…The influence of bands like the Mars Volta is clear in their music but the vocal delivery makes them closer to Manchester favourites Oceansize. Comparisons to Warpaint also seem valid as the set goes all shoegazey at times with good dual vocals and clever breakdowns…”
Leeds Music Scene live review by Rebecca Atkinson
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“Deliciously atmospheric” – Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales
“Music so lovely I just happily paid 3 quid for it” – Dan Salter, Echoes And Dust
“Musicianship in droves” – Kane Fulton, Skrbblr Magazine
“Some of the most exciting music I’ve heard in an age” – Dan Read, The Core Management
Hailing from industrial Deeside in North Wales, SILVER/BACK/CLUB formed towards the end of 2011. The four fellows (David Thomas – Guitar & Lead Vocals, Adam Hughes – Bass, Tom Williams – Drums, and Gareth Jones – Synths & Vocals) have written for and gigged with various local bands for a number of years, gaining experience and honing their craft.
Moving into 2012, it became apparent that this incarnation had something special. April saw the release of a debut self-titled EP, with all three tracks receiving airplay on BBC Radio Wales. In a short space of time, the band is building up a healthy reputation with critics, promoters and gig-goers alike.
Drawing upon many influences, S/B/C have been compared to indie heavyweights such as Editors, The Horrors, Bombay Bicycle Club and fellow Welshies Los Campesinos! Combining shimmering delays, haunting vocals, stabbing staccato guitar and distorted grooves, S/B/C strive for one thing, and that is to write good pop songs: distinguished tunes, teaming with hooks and melody.
After only their second gig, S/B/C were scouted by Victoria Warehouse (the new home of the Manchester Warehouse Project) to have their track “Pale Face” chosen as the opener for a forthcoming compilation CD, aiming to promote upcoming unsigned artists – an accolade which the band are very excited about.
A physical release of their EP is now imminent, alongside a full UK tour.
www.facebook.com/silverbackclub
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
Latin MANIA!
Salsa classes and Latin dance night
Telfords has hosted a salsa club in Chester for over 15 years and we’re now launching Latin MANIA!
Learn Cuban salsa lessons every Wednesday with Banderas (Havana, Cuba), Lee Baker and Rachel Forshaw. Lessons are provided for all levels of ability, from complete beginners to experienced dancers. You don’t need a partner – you’ll change partners all the time in a friendly, fun group.
8.00 pm: Separate classes for Beginners and Improver level
8.45 pm: Intermediate level partnerwork and Improver (and above) rueda (Cuban group dance, performed in a circle or ‘wheel’)
- Beginner classes introduce you to salsa music, teach the basic footwork steps and let you take your first steps dancing with a partner.
- Improver classes build up your repertoire of fundamental partner work sequences.
- Intermediate classes build up more advanced partner work and solo patterns, and help develop body movement and musicality.
9.30 pm till 12.30: Dance into the night with a mix that includes salsa, timba, bachata, regaetton, merengue, latin pop and more.
Classes are just £4 for one class or £6 for two classes. Entry to social dancing after 9.30 is free.
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
Mike Peters is known primarily as frontman of the internationally acclaimed Welsh band The Alarm. Mike is also an inspirational solo acoustic performer and (as a two times cancer survivor), founder of what is now regarded as the world’s leading rock and roll cancer charity ‘Love Hope Strength Foundation’. Read more… »
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Sunday, November 18th, 2012
2012′ s most regular host is back again to light up the Telford’s stage. Come and join in the fun and showcase your best songs, poems or interpretative dance moves. £1 tequila all night to help give you that Dutch courage.
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Saturday, November 17th, 2012
Members of the group have performed at numerous European festivals including The Cork Jazz Festival , Leeds/Reading Carling Festival and Wakestock.
This experience was brought together and, as a result, the band are at their best live, with a powerful horn section, intricate hammond organ, the solid groove of the rhythm section complimented by smooth soulful vocals. The live set features some of the best moments in Acid Jazz and Soul whilst taking on some of the indie masters of the modern era and giving them a classic funky twist.
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Friday, November 16th, 2012
Telford’s cult favourites Lord Scotland bring their funky chugging blues, gypsy punk, and folky polka – these guys hit all the genres and are guaranteed to get everyone dancing.
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Thursday, November 15th, 2012
The definitive line up of Nigel Clark, Andy Miller and Mathew Priest is back………
The first time round, Dodgy were only together for seven years but in that time they sold over a million records worldwide, released three albums and 12 Top 40 singles, including 3 Top 10s and the Top 5 hit Good Enough, still a staple of the Radio 2 playlist; sold out the Brixton Academy for three nights in a row and were awarded an unprecedented 90-minute Saturday evening slot on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival in 1997 just before Radiohead. Not bad, considering that they also partied harder than an Ewok.
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
Latin MANIA!
Salsa classes and Latin dance night
Telfords has hosted a salsa club in Chester for over 15 years and we’re now launching Latin MANIA!
Learn Cuban salsa lessons every Wednesday with Banderas (Havana, Cuba), Lee Baker and Rachel Forshaw. Lessons are provided for all levels of ability, from complete beginners to experienced dancers. You don’t need a partner – you’ll change partners all the time in a friendly, fun group.
8.00 pm: Separate classes for Beginners and Improver level
8.45 pm: Intermediate level partnerwork and Improver (and above) rueda (Cuban group dance, performed in a circle or ‘wheel’)
- Beginner classes introduce you to salsa music, teach the basic footwork steps and let you take your first steps dancing with a partner.
- Improver classes build up your repertoire of fundamental partner work sequences.
- Intermediate classes build up more advanced partner work and solo patterns, and help develop body movement and musicality.
9.30 pm till 12.30: Dance into the night with a mix that includes salsa, timba, bachata, regaetton, merengue, latin pop and more.
Classes are just £4 for one class or £6 for two classes. Entry to social dancing after 9.30 is free.
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Sunday, November 11th, 2012
Open mic antics with Telford’s legend Mark bringing us his unique folk/blues stylings. Always a popular session, best to get in early if you fancy a set.
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Saturday, November 10th, 2012
Local skiffle indie group The Loose Kites promise to get your big toes wagging with their energetic live performance and witty banter.
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Friday, November 9th, 2012
They’re awash with the depth and danger of maritime nightmares. They’re the place where coruscating noise meets haunting pop melody and brutal lyrical honesty. They’re Sonic Youth, Pavement, The Strokes and Echo And The Bunnymen eating each other on a raft adrift in the Arctic Ocean. They’re Death At Sea, the best band to emerge from a vapid Liverpool scene in decades. And they’ve come to give rock the kiss of life. They’vegot all the characters. Sam Peterson, the art-?rock guitarist with the tortured past. Ruaidhri Owens, the technical home- studio whizz kid, capable of making an entire album on knackered equipment held together with old school ties. Carl Davies, the hyperactive drummer spooling endless tales of shark documentaries andMerseyside scene gossip. Neale Davies, Carl’s bassist brother; the silent, swarthyenigmatic one. And Ralph Kinsella, the taciturn art-?school poeton a mission to admonish his sailings and discoverhis true naturethroug his lyrics. “It comes from a constant state of melancholy,” Ralph admits. “Sometimes it’s about me being an asshole and writingabout it, admit and cope with that.”
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Thursday, November 8th, 2012
‘A Night of Song and Laughter’
Fragment Arts Collective presents this fabulously entertaining Cabaret show. Guests will enjoy a unique theatrical experience including a spot of ventriloquism, live singing, comedy and guest performances from Chester Ukulele Players.
Featuring special guests:
Dangerous Dave
A ventriloquist act that charms and mesmerises his audience, must be seen to be believed!
The Garden of Eden: Featuring… Adam and Eve
A top-notch comedy act that will tempt the senses and awaken the serpent, Ssshh……Just don’t eat the apple.
Fusion Vocal group
A Chester based vocal group, who will be performing a choral repertoire of contemporary classics, not to be missed.
Plus, a host of other show stopping performances from our energetic and entertaining cast!!
Fragment Arts Collective is a locally based multi-disciplinary arts group specialising in Comedy, Theatre, music and installation pieces. Hot on the heels of our last Cabaret, we have decided to indulge ourselves in another night of fun and are inviting all of you to along for the journey. We promise you won’t be disappointed.
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
Latin MANIA!
Salsa classes and Latin dance night
Telfords has hosted a salsa club in Chester for over 15 years and we’re now launching Latin MANIA!
Learn Cuban salsa lessons every Wednesday with Banderas (Havana, Cuba), Lee Baker and Rachel Forshaw. Lessons are provided for all levels of ability, from complete beginners to experienced dancers. You don’t need a partner – you’ll change partners all the time in a friendly, fun group.
8.00 pm: Separate classes for Beginners and Improver level
8.45 pm: Intermediate level partnerwork and Improver (and above) rueda (Cuban group dance, performed in a circle or ‘wheel’)
- Beginner classes introduce you to salsa music, teach the basic footwork steps and let you take your first steps dancing with a partner.
- Improver classes build up your repertoire of fundamental partner work sequences.
- Intermediate classes build up more advanced partner work and solo patterns, and help develop body movement and musicality.
9.30 pm till 12.30: Dance into the night with a mix that includes salsa, timba, bachata, regaetton, merengue, latin pop and more.
Classes are just £4 for one class or £6 for two classes. Entry to social dancing after 9.30 is free.
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
CRACKLING VINYL present KATELL KEINEG / ALUN TAN LAN
Tuesday 6th November 2012, Telford’s Warehouse, Chester
On Tuesday 11th November, Crackling Vinyl is proud to present another night of brilliant live music and superlative vinyl excellence at Telford’s Warehouse in Chester.
I was introduced to Katell Keineg’s music by Anthony Brockway (via the excellent Babylon Wales blog – http://babylonwales.blogspot.co.uk ). I have been somewhat besotted ever since. Katell’s voice is true, unadorned and as rich as her fascinating musical heritage (see below). She’s sung everywhere from the East Village’s influential coffee houses to the high fallutin’ music halls.
Here is Katell singing at Bristol’s Colston Hall with 10,000 Maniac’s Natalie Merchant (and what an introduction from Natalie).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYQMPgxr2Ug
Tickets for Katell Keineg and Alun Tan Lan are £6 in advance from the venue itself (01244 390090) / £6+ booking fee from SeeTickets.com, or £7 on the door.
More information on this event’s artists follows:
KATELL KEINEG
Hear ‘Platfform 0’: http://soundcloud.com/radio-free-song-club/katell-keineg-platfform-0
‘St Martin’ video: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5786604/katell_keineg_st_martin/
Katell Keineg was born in Brittany and was brought up both there and in Wales. In the mid-nineties, she went to live in New York and was quickly embraced by the buzzing café scene around St Mark’s Place’s Sin-é. In 1993, she released a seven-inch single on Bob Mould’s SOL Records label. That same year, Keineg sang on Iggy Pop’s “American Caesar” and following his passing of her single on to Elektra, they signed her and released her first album “O Seasons, O Castles” in 1994.
1997 saw the release of Keineg’s second album “Jet”. Recorded in Bearsville,“Jet” received rave reviews and led to much touring in the U.S. and Europe. It was even named one of the “Best Overlooked Pop Masterpieces Of The Decade” by Esquire.
In 2002, free from merger-addled Elektra, she released an E.P. entitled “What’s The Only Thing Worse Than The End Of Time?” on Brooklyn based indie, Field Recording Co. The recording included a live performance of “River Man” from a tribute to Nick Drake held at St Ann’s Church in Brooklyn. In their review of the night, The New York Times declared her “…a young songwriter due for her own cult, who travelled the fine edge between rapture and loss so essential to Mr Drake’s art.”
Following a second E.P. (Shaking The Disease), Keineg released “High July”, her third album, on French label Megaphone Music in late 2004, to further enthusiastic reviews.
Keineg was the subject of a 6-page profile in The New York Times Sunday Magazine in July 2006 which led to sold out gigs in the U.S. over the next couple of years. She released “Y Gwyneb Iau/ Trouble”, a 4-song E.P. in January 2009 and played at Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble in Woodstock later that same year.
2010 saw the release of “At The Mermaid Parade” by Honest Jon’s Records. It was named “Album of The Week” by the Sunday Times and she subsequently toured and played festivals such as Green Man.
A download-only single in Welsh called “Platfform 0” came out in May 2012.
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ALUN TAN LAN
‘Traeth’ live TV appearance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfC79yqQSQg
Llanrwst’s Alun ‘Tan Lan’ Evans is a troubadour in every sense of the word. His music has taken him from Welsh psychedelia (Serein), to a stint in Limerick playing in a band called Veneer who supported The Cranberries; from years as the hired guitar-hand of choice for Gruff Rhys, Euros Childs and Cerys Matthews to having one of his acclaimed psych surf band Y Niwl’s tracks used as the theme tune for Football Focus. In between he also made time to write the winning entry for the 2010 Can I Gymru competition and play session guitar on albums by Eitha Tal Ffranco and Gwyneth Glyn.
One constant throughout the otherwise ever-changing landscape of his musical career, is his wonderful solo recordings. Alun writes melodic and evocative folk songs that aren’t in thrall to the past or tradition. His solo albums Aderyn Papur (2004) & Y Distawrwydd (2005) ring with truth, yearning and the tasteful craft of his peerless guitar playing.
Alun releases a double album of solo recordings in time for Christmas 2012. It’s an album that has been sitting on a shelf at home while he toured the world with Y Niwl and Gruff Rhys. Ours aren’t the only ears that are excited and eager at this prospect.
This will be the first time that Alun Tan Lan has performed his beautiful solo songs at Telford’s Warehouse, Chester.
Chester’s excellent 2nd hand vinyl emporium, Grey ‘n’ Pink Records join us in the top room. Cash back available over the bar.
Previous live guests at Crackling Vinyl have included: Gulp, Cate Le Bon, Euros Childs, The Wellgreen, Laura J. Martin, Y Niwl, Colorama, Richard James, Toy Horses, T.G. Elias, Georgia Ruth, Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog, Mowbird, Sex Hands, Chris T-T, She Makes War, Sam Airey, Houdini Dax, Trwbador, The Gentle Good, Golden Fable, Pulco, Harry Keyworth, Greta Isaac, Atlas Twins, Sophie Ballamy.
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Sunday, November 4th, 2012
Acoustic and Electric duo, rip roaring styles from all over the shop! Deceptively intriguing rhythmic sensations abound…
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2012
UK vocalist and guitarist Jon Amor, formerly of award-winning British band The Hoax, has joined forces with long-time collaborators Dave Doherty, Chris Doherty and Simon Small to form Jon Amor Blues Group. Drawing inspiration from the Blues greats of the past like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, as well as more contemporary acts like Black Keys and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, the group’s sound is powerful, raw and uncompromising.
Already the energy and power of the band’s sound is causing a stir throughout the UK and Europe. The band will be touring extensively in 2012.
“Like a more refined Jon Spencer Blues Explosion meets a more expansive Black Keys”
Guitarist Magazine ****
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Friday, November 2nd, 2012
Wilson Minds, Liverpool’s prodigal son, mixes the sound of dark edgy alternative rock with some of the biggest songs and one of the greatest voices you will ever hear. Album to be released soon, produced by Brit award winning producer of the Verve. Get on board early! www.wilsonminds.com
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Thursday, November 1st, 2012
Telford’s is happy to present yet another Doodleplanet event, albeit a pumpkin themed one! An exciting interactive art and music event that just keeps getting better and better. Compulsive scribbler David Setter transforms the walls of Telford’s into giant canvases with the emphasis on freehand doodling all to the sublime sounds of DJ Matty Setter – expect Latin Beats, Freestyle Funk and Saucy Soul tracks. Everyone is welcome to come on down and scribble to your hearts content…
Interactive Art
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