Flamenco - Dancing town, Barnsley 17th August. Mandela Gardens
( Spanish dances, excerpt )
Dancing Town – presented by Kaleidoscope, Barnsley Council’s events arm in association with Love Barnsley Town Centre – is Barnsley town centre’s flagship event.
It is a legacy event of Our Dancing Town, the BBC 2 documentary aired in 2017 that brought together the community to dance in the streets of Barnsley town centre.
Last year’s inaugural event was a huge success, attracting crowds from across the borough.
It will return on Friday 9 August and run until Sunday 18 August. The full event programme is available on Love Barnsley Town Centre on Facebook and the official event page. View our programme of events or follow the hashtag #DancingBarnsley.
In the evenings, a night of Northern Soul will once again be hosted on the Mandela Gardens dance floor alongside an 80s night and 90s chart night.
Those events will be complemented by two performance evenings, where local dance schools will showcase their dancing skills in front of hundreds of people.
The event will culminate on Sunday 18 August with Strictly Sunday and a Salsa Social, where event-goers will be able to learn to dance like their favourite TV dancers and get their Latin on with professional instructors.
Supporting venues include Library @ the Lightbox, which will also host workshops as part of the festival while events will also take place in Barnsley Market’s atrium.
BROKEN - Live In Barnsley - The Underground - 17/06/17.
Recorded using a a Nokia 925 Phone.
Genre
Metal
Band Members
Paul Johnson - Vocals
Fraser James - Bass/Backing Vocals
Neil Morris - Guitar... See more
Home Town
Wakefield
Record Label
Currently Unsigned
About
UK ALTERNATIVE METAL,(Yorkshire based)
LATEST RELEASE “LEAVING IN SILENCE”
DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2012+2013
BLOODSTOCK 2016
Biography
Broken are an Original UK metal band with a different flavour. An interesting sonic blend of new and old style metal with a melodic twist. Broken bring heavy grooves mixed with catchy vocal lines and provide a fresh distinct sound to the UK metal scene.
Gender
Current Location
Wakefield
General manager
Danny Gartside
Influences
Five Finger Death Punch
Lamb Of God
Killswitch Engage
Heart Of A Coward
Slipknot
Parkway Drive
Down
Pantera
Metallica,
Drowning Pool,
Down,
System Of A Down
Limp Bizkit
36 Crazy Fists
Press contact
Danny Gartside
Booking agent
Danny Gartside Contact - BrokenOfficialUK@gmail.com
July The Second Of July 1967 68 uk, glorious technicolor psychedelia
July - The Second Of July (1967-68 uk, glorious technicolor psychedelia)
I sang like a complete prick - a quivery, frightened little jerk, exclaims Tom Newman with a look of despair. It's totally obvious to me why our LP didn't impress anyone. It's fucking terrible compared to what we were capable of. Tom can't understand why copies of his JULY album sell for 250 Pounds. Recorded in a panic-stricken weekend early in '68, July was a rush-job, thrown together by their low-budget label Major Minor, in the vain hope of cashing in on the success of the BEATLES' Sgt. Pepper, issued almost exactly a year earlier.
Tom's old colleague, Jon Field, agrees: It's cringingly embarrassing. I'd prefer to forget about it, to be honest! We weren't given enough time. Poppycock! July is a psychedelic classic, overflowing with inventiveness and imagination. My Clown and Dandelion Seeds, which were coupled on the band's first single, contain all the exotic ingredients of the best in British psychedelia. Newman's dreamy other-worldly melodies drifted alongside some wonderfully eerie keyboards, and fuzz guitar passages that'd make your hair fall out. Aside from a couple of dated pop whimsies, July was a corker - a little tentative and strained at times, true, but a glorious Technicolor explosion of an album nevertheless.
Despite its obvious qualities, little is known about July. It sold a measly number of copies at the time, and the band imploded almost immediately. Tom's place in rock history was later sealed when he set up the Manor recording studios for Richard Branson, first working on Tubular Bells before carving out a solo career. Jon Field, meanwhile, formed JADE WARRIOR with fellow JULY member Tony Duhig. Meanwhile, The Second Of July or The 2nd Of July presents a collection of home demos recorded by Tom back in 1967, which offer a glimpse of how - to his mind - the band's Sgt. Pepper might have sounded.
If you, too, want to create your own psychedelic masterpiece, just follow the same step-by-step career path. It's easy really... First were the TOMCATS . Then they were re-named JULY, replaced its bassist to Alan James and built a repertoire around the new songs Tom was writing in his Ealing flat. The next stage was to attract the attention of a record company. We got involved with Spencer Davis Management, explains Tom, and were spotted by a DJ named Pat Campbell, who pointed us out to the head of Major Minor, Phil Solomon.
We secured an album deal and the whole session was done in one weekend! With producer Tommy Scott and engineer Mike Ross at the helm, the band seized upon every possible instrument, electronic gadget and studio trie k they lay their hands on, within the limited facilities of a Wardour Street studio (which later evolved into Trident) using the same equipment that “Sgt Pepper” was recorded on. Aside from Allen, who stuck to his Bass each member tried their hand on variety of instruments: Tom dabbled with the sitar, John Field played tabla as well as old congas. Tony Dug took occasional breaks from his fierce Lead Guitar passages to play organ and vibes and Chris Jackson also added some Keyboards.
The album’s release in June 1968 was promoted by a single coupling its two most commercial sides. Then the second single followed. But it was all to no avail. Major Minor failed to promote the album and none of the band's release sold more than a hand full of copies. Under the cloud of disappointment JULY called it a day. Meanwhile, interest in JULY has blossomed since psych specialists Bam-Caruso reissued their album in 1987. And now there’s 'The Second Of July. I didn't realise how awfully nervous I was on the LP until I heard these demos, admits Tom. I left the tapes in this trunk of junk in Mike Oldfield’s garage! Not all the tracks were chosen from the final LP. A whole bunch of demos were done over a few months - I tended to record them myself because Pete Cook and I wrote the songs, and then we’d present them to the band”.
Tracks
1. You Missed It All (Tom Newman, Peter Cook) - 0:00
2. My Clown - 1:57
3. Dandelion Seeds - 4:29
4. Stamping Machine (Tom Newman, Peter Cook) - 7:09
5. (A) Bird Lived (Tom Newman, Peter Cook) - 8:51
6. Look At Her (Tom Newman, Peter Cook) - 10:45
7. The Way - 13:03
8. Friendly Man (Tom Newman, Peter Cook) - 15:06
9. I See (Tom Newman, Peter Cook) - 17:08
10. The Girl In The Cafe - 19:32
11. You See Me I See You - 21:29
12. Man Outside (Tom Newman, Peter Cook) - 23:41
13, Move On Sweet Flower - 27:09
14. Hello To Me - 29:19
All the songs are written by Tom Newman, except where noted
July
*Chris Jackson - Drums, Piano, Organ
*Tom Newman - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Sitar
*Allen James - Bass Guitar
*John Field - Vocals, Tabla, Conga Drums
*Tony Duhig - Lead Guitar, Organ, Vibes