Thursday March 4th 8pm |
£12 / £15 | |
| Glenn Tilbrook + Molly Jones | ||
| Alongside Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook formed one of the great songwriting partnerships of the New Wave era with Squeeze. Their pop classics included “Up the Junction”, “Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)” and “Another Nail In My Heart”, all featuring Glenn on guitar and lead vocals. In the last decade Glenn has built a successful solo career, and the songs just keep coming. His most recent CD “Pandemonium Ensues” provides catchy melodies and great singing that were the hallmark of his old band (with cameos from Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis). His solo shows include old and new songs plus a few covers, and Glenn is renowned for his forays into the audience, even on occasion leading them on a tour of the neighbouring streets. |
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Friday March 5th 9.30pm |
£10 / £12 | |
| Cabbage Featuring Merv Pepler (Eat Static DJ Set) + Cabbage Residents Purusha & Si Splatt |
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| Cabbage is a collective putting on parties focusing on the psychedelic side of trance, techno and downbeat. Kangaroo Moon has called them the “best trance night in the world”. Eat Static features Merv Pepler, former Ozric Tentacles percussionist, playing up-tempo, spacey trance-techno, with some Eastern elements. With Cabbage resident chill-out DJ Si Splatt and Purusha (aka Chris Cabbage). |
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Saturday March 6th 8pm |
£5 / £7.50 | |
| Resonation + China Shop Bull + Captain HotKnives | ||
| Resonation is a bluesy wah-wah drenched funky roots rocking reggae band, comprising Dubya Dub Ear Brookes (rhythm guitar and vocals), Lobstaaa Daniels (lead guitar and vocals), Snakey McCarten (piano, keys, melodica, alto sax and clarinet) One Take Twice Arthurs (bass and vocals), Drummy Lee (drums and percussion) and Judah Lewis (percussion and vibes). The NME described them as a “stunning new reggae band with a lyrical consciousness that is all their own”, and Cosmik Debris as “the future of reggae … an essential live experience”. They are at the Trades to launch their debut album, praised by Blues and Soul Magazine for its “organic vibe, inspired songwriting and impeccable production”. Support is from Leeds-based China Shop Bull, with their unique blend of ska, rave, rap and rock'n'roll, plus late night DJs Big Blind Dom (Trouble at t’ Mill) and DaddyTone (Chapter 4). |
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Thursday March 11th 9pm |
£10 / £12 | |
| Steve Tilston’s Trades Roots with Andy Sheppardwith support from Gary Boyle We are sorry to hear John Parricelli can’t appear as he has had some unfortunate family news |
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| Established for over twenty years as a successful composer and performer, sax maestro Andy Sheppard is one of the few British musicians to have made a significant impact on the international jazz scene, playing and writing for settings from solo to big band, with lyrical works incorporating rhythms from Asia, Africa and South America. Guitarist Gary Boyle's guitar is a weightless marvel, so sharp, clean and delicate is his picking." Mike Butler, Manchester CityLife. A change in genre for Trades Roots fans, but a top-drawer treat.. A change in genre for Trades Roots fans, but a top drawer treat. |
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Friday March 12th 9pm |
£4 / £6 | |
| Team Modeliste + St Pierre + ABC Club + Wot Gorilla? | ||
| Hailing from Sowerby Bridge and armed with a collection of razor sharp alt-pop gems, Team Modeliste are an explosive powerful noise trio, winning audiences over wherever they go with their charged up ditch-funk vibes. With radio coverage on the Huw Stephens and Tom Robinson shows, a series of supports with the likes of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Peter, Bjorn and John, and with festival slots confirmed for 2010, Team Modeliste are coming right at you, and they kick like an angry mule. With local indie bands St Pierre, ABC Club, “a collision between The Smiths and The Strokes”, and Wot Gorilla? |
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Saturday March 13th 9pm |
£4 / £6 | |
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| It's strictly cowboy all the way - a hoedown showdown for the 21st century with the storming Last Chance Saloon Band. With barn dances to everything from Johnny Cash to YMCA to Hank Williams to the Proclaimers, you'll be laughing with strangers around the dancefloor. The band comes with some top players who've cut their teeth with Skavalution, Caravanserai, Tetchi, Owter Zeds and even Cabaret Heaven. There will be prairie decorations, a boxful of stetsons and reductions if you come dressed wild west. Yee-hah! |
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Thursday March 18th 9pm (Doors 8.15pm) |
£7 Members and Concessions / £10 Others | |
| HX7 Jazz Club at the Trades with Jenni Molloy's Bach Reloaded Hosted by Dave Nelson (piano). |
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| Double bassist Jenni Molloy’s innovative and original compositions have been inspired by some of Bach’s Cello Suites, solo Violin Sonatas, and Inventions for the Piano, with Rostropovich, Ornette Coleman and The Bad Plus providing some of the influence behind the project. Joining Jenni are Stuart MacDonald on saxophones and Chris Sykes on drums and percussion. “Molloy … has taken elements of Bach compositions and given them new melodic storylines using jazz, tango, township-jive and understated funk” – John Fordham, The Guardian. http://www.hx7jazz.com |
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Friday March 19th 8.30pm |
£6 / £9 | |
| The Mental Elf Collective with Tarantism plus DJ Badger |
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| Spring is here again and we are celebrating with one of our favourite bands, Tarantism. They have been hibernating in the studio for the last few months, and this is the first date of a tour to promote their new double album “Music is Music”. One of the most exciting bands on the festival circuit, Tarantism will play two sets, starting with their original live sound of high energy celtic ska dub, later morphing into the infectious beat of the Tarantism Sound System. With the inimitable DJ Badger moulding his way around the band with a relaxing start, groovy middle and a bouncy end. Plus tea, cakes'n'stuff at the hippies’ “all for donations café”. See you there. |
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Saturday 20th 3-6pm |
£1 for Non-Members | |
| Spring Clothes Swap Party | ||
| Celebrate the end of winter and put a spring in your step. Bring a bag of sadrags that no longer love you and swap them for gladrags that will adore you. While-u-wait alterations so your new clothes fit perfectly. Refreshments available. £1 voluntary donation to the Women’s Centre in Halifax. |
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Saturday March 20th 9pm |
£7 / £9 | |
| Cabaret Heaven with Simon Munnery + Goronwy Thom | ||
| We are well pleased to have managed to get Simon Munnery to appear on our stage. He achieved fame as the creator of Alan Parker, Urban Warrior and has since had TV and radio series to his name. The Observer described him as “one of the most original and talented comics in the country”, and he has a lovely intimate, quirky and warm style. What a treat! He's joined by Goronwy Thom, a hilarious and multi-skilled fool of a performer who has gigged from the Moscow State circus to Glastonbury where the website said “I laughed / cried for half an hour. So funny”. More acts to be announced, with Peggy and Bernard and DJs. |
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| Chumbawamba + Belinda O'Hooley and Heidi Tidow |
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| Chumbawamba take to the stage once more to celebrate the release of their new album ABCDEFG. The theme of the album is music – that volatile stuff which both the band and their audience have shared for as long as they can remember. Armed with acoustic guitars, accordion and trumpet, five-part harmonies and a bucketful of attitude, the band is touring to promote this gem. The new songs cover such diverse topics as the wearing of iPods in public places, censorship of music under repressive regimes, the power of the voice and Simon Cowell’s come-uppance. They are joined by O’Hooley & Tidow: dapper-suited gentlewomen with a wryly observant, melancholic and sometimes uncomfortable take on life. The pair will be playing songs from their new album, Silent June, with stark and beautiful piano playing that some will recognise from O’Hooley’s time as pianist with the Unthanks. Supporting Folk Against Facism.  |
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| Chris Helme | ||
| Chris is currently writing and recording for his 2nd solo record, due out later this spring on Little Num Num Music, the label he co-founded in 2009. The album sees Chris drawing on lots of early influences, Says Helme: “I’ve been digging out my old blues records again, Big Bill Broonzy, Brownie McGhee, Bukka White and also Billie Holliday and Ray Charles. It sparked a feeling in me and I began to remember what hooked me into playing and singing in the beginning. I’ve always had a tendency to lean towards blues and Jazz and my voice is developing as I get older, so it seems natural to explore that avenue of influence.” However, the new record promises to have some modern, less obvious, twists and will see Helme collaborating with some of the many musicians he has met whilst touring over the last year. Chris’ first solo album: ‘Ashes’ was released in May 2008. Since then he has been on the road (and rail) gigging almost continuously ever since. Playing over 200 shows in the year following the release has allowed him to reconnect with the legion of fans he had from his Seahorses days and also gain a new generation of admirers of his ‘emotional, stripped down set of late night love songs’ (IsThisMusic.com). A break from touring at the start of 2009 gave Chris and his then band ‘The Yards’ the chance to put the finishing touches to their swansong record ‘Imperial Measures’. With Helme’s distinctive vocals and song writing running throughout the album’s 12 tracks, the record not only proved the perfect follow up to The Yard’s eponymous 2005 debut, but also to Chris’s more recent solo work; many of the album’s tunes have formed the staple of his live shows over the last 18 months. The Yard’s have since called it a day and this has allowed Chris to concentrate fully on his new record and given him the time to keep up his hectic solo tour schedule.Whilst putting the finishing touches to his forthcoming album, Chris is still out gigging while he can and it is onstage alone where he really shines, his singing and song writing possessing a honed craft and emotional depth which these days are a rare thing indeed. With late night DJs. |
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Saturday March 27th 9pm |
£10 / £12 | |
| Hazel O'Connor and the Bluja Project | SOLD OUT | |
| Ever innovative - Hazel's back for 2010 with a stunning new all-female line-up featuring Clare Hirst (Belle Stars, Communards, Bowie) on saxophone and Sarah Fisher (Eurhythmics, Sax In The City) on keyboards. Hazel is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of Breaking Glass, her ageless songs from which - Eighth Day, Will You and Big Brother - seem even more relevent in our present times. Relive the songs along with recent favourites Driftwood and Rebecca. Be seduced by her moving stories and Bluja’s take on classic songs, including My Funny Valentine, God Bless the Child and a haunting version of Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars. Hazel will be appearing on BBC Breakfast Television on Wednesday March 10. |
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Note: Quoted prices are subject to a discount of upto 33% on production of a current membership card.
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