September Gigs The Trades Club

September Gigs The Trades Club

Saturday September 1st 9.30pm
Cookie Cutter + Nimrod	Free entry to everyone on the festival volunteers list
Eclectic drum n bass / electronica from Cookie Cutter and folk blues from Nimrod to celebrate the success of The World on Your Doorstep festival earlier this summer. There will be an announcement about the future of the festival.

Sunday September 2nd 8.30pm
	£9.00
Zion Train are a Dub phenomenon. Their work from the past 15 years still sounds fresh to today's discerning ears. Their recorded output is prolific with an album a year and innumerable production credits, remixes and song writing collaborations. Their live experience is legendary with audiences around the globe being whipped into a frenzy by pounding bass and heavy rhythms and their zest and positive energy still abounds. With support from DJ's Dadytone & Geo.

Thursday September 6th 9pm
Quiz & Curry Night	£4.00
Start the Autumn Season with Dave Boardman’s quiz and Pete Lazenby’s curries. It's largely enjoyable and not particularly taxing on the brain cells. Trivia and excellent music rounds every month. Raising money for our local Labour chums.

Friday September 7th 9pm
Depthcutz	£7.50
Crisp breaks, heavy bass and strong melody are trademarks of BREAK's productions, making him a firm favourite with many of the drum'n'bass scenes top DJs. Currently one of the most exciting producers of the genre, he has released around 100 tracks in the past 4 years with everyone from Goldie to Zinc signing his tunes for their labels. He has releases on Quarantine, Subtitles, Bingo, Soul:R, DNAudio, Commercial Suicide and Metalheadz to name just a handful. He also recently set up his own label 'Symmetry' and completed a tour of Australia and New Zealand with Fierce this summer. His appearance here should not be missed! It has been over two years since KULAK last graced the decks at a Depthcutz event, meaning his return is long overdue. As well as retaining his residency at Locus in Bristol and playing gigs abroad he has been signed up to the Anger Management roster and now has residencies at Dylan's 'Therapy Sessions', 'Autopsy' and 'Rise' in Brighton. Expect tech, dark breaks and heavy basslines, all mixed seamlessly. Also making the trip from the South-East is MATTER - founder of the 'Rise' event and a burgeoning producer in his own right. www.myspace.com/dnaudio www.myspace.com/djkulak www.myspace.com/akridsounds

Saturday September 8th 9.30pm
Wilko Johnson + Widgykeff	£12.00
Canvey Island’s most famous son has been making some of the most influential music in this country since the ‘70’s. With his innovative and accomplished guitar style, he has been a mentor to a host of Punk and new wave guitarists and continues to inspire musicians today. Wilko is lean, mean and totally wired as evidenced by his exciting live shows which showcase songs from throughout his illustrious career and into the infinite future. His latest album ‘Back in The Night’ (Jungle Records) is a “best of” collection featuring many of the songs that made him famous. The perfect onstage foil for Wilko is Norman Watt-Roy, who shot to fame playing bass in Ian Dury & The Blockheads and has contributed his considerable talents to recordings by artists as diverse as The Clash and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The power trio is completed by Monti another ex-Blockhead who has played drums with many cutting edge bands including the Cocteau Twins, the Jesus and Mary Chain and Curve.

Sunday September 9th 8pm
Radical Film Club: What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party	£2.00
Formed in 1967, the Newsreel film collective was dedicated to chronicling and analyzing current events. In their time, they produced more than three dozen films throughout the US and abroad. By working directly with the Black Panthers, Newsreel was able to explore realities often ignored by traditional media outlets, while producing documents that the Panthers and other activists could use in organizing their own communities. The results speak for themselves and stand as true testimonials to the spirit of community self-defense and political savvy the Panthers are celebrated - and were targeted - for.

Thursday September 13th 8.30pm
FreeGaza.org: Breaking the Siege	£5.00 / £4.00 Concessions
The Sex Patels: Through an invigorating mix of sitar, tabla and soulful vocals, classic punk tunes are sieved into a fine concoction of must dance numbers that audiences in the four corners of the earth have found irresistible. Taking the practice of fusion one step beyond. Maggie Boyle and Gary Boyle: Maggie’s voice brings the term angelic back down to earth, where it belongs, on the stage at the Trades with Gary’s jazz fusion guitar side by side blending the story in the song and the song in the story of our lives. Montycasino: Such a marvellous combination of their influences (The Fall, Gang of Four, Pere Ubu etc) you’d be forgiven for thinking they are original. Rob Holden: A Blues/Folk musician who’s Artistry appears to transcend him to the point that it is not just the audience that is put under the spell that is spun when he performs. Pete Chapman: A rational irrationalist lyricist that has a lump hammer and a cat’s feather to coax out the contradictions of modernity and raise an odd smile. These artists are donating their labours to raise money to get humanitarian aid to Gaza on the Break the Siege ship. The World Food Program warns that Gaza faces imminent failure of flour, rice, food, oil, and other essential supplies, unless Israel opens the borders. Just as importantly, the Break the Siege trip to Gaza demands access for humanitarian workers, international observers, independent journalists, and friends and relatives of Palestinians. We need to support those people under siege from the Colonial Israeli Occupying forces by coming to the gig and, maybe getting involved with the campaigns to help liberate the people of Palestine. See Rafahtoday.org. Please come. What a night we are to have. www.halifaxfriendsofpalestine.org

Friday September 14th 9.30pm
Peacock Project Fundraising Cabaret with the Pocket Messiahs	£5.00
A cabaret evening celebrating the talent of Hebden Bridge, including comedy, music and poetry in support of the Peacock Project which supports people with Hepatitis B and C. This is an almost completely reformed Pocket Messiahs.

Saturday September 15th 9.30pm
Playing out with Minx: habibti/habibi/beloved	£5.00
A night of ‘loving it’ North African & Eastern grooves . . . dance for peace & harmony with your brothers & sisters to bhangra, funk, fusion, hip-hop and soul beats. Prize for the smoothest grooves.

Thursday September 20th 8.30pm
Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick with Neil C Young	£12.00
These guys first played together in 1966 and this remarkable pairing played an important part in the tremendous shake up given to British folk music at that time. In 1969 Dave joined Fairport Convention and his contribution to folk and folk/rock music is legendary. Martin has performed with Steeleye Span, The Albion Band, The Watersons, which also included his wife Norma Waterson, and Brass Monkey. His most recent group activities have been a family affair, in Waterson Carthy he shares equal billing with wife Norma and fiddle playing daughter Eliza. In the early 90s Dave and Martin were members of the folk supergroup Band of Hope along with Roy Bailey, Stefan Hannigan, John Kirkpatrick and Chris Parkinson until 1993 when Dave moved to Australia and for the next three years lived in the Blue Mountains. Here they are together again. Support comes from guitarist Neil C Young with an exciting collection of tunes with strong ideas and great playing.

Friday September 21st 9pm
Pepperjam + Owt	£6.00
They've had a break from playing live to record their first studio album, but Pepperjam are back with a new line up & an even fuller original rootsy soul sound overlaid withsome sweetly dark & sometimes rampant cello playing & three part vocal harmonies from the heart. With support from Bradford's fantastic folky reg-hop two piece Owt & tunes from DJ Mr Potato Head it’s set to be an very interesting & tasty three course musical feast for your ears.

Saturday September 22nd 9.30pm
Imani Hekima + Olu Ekata Band	£4.00
Imani provides neo soul in the Erykah Badu mould, with clear influences from those who marry musical integrity with articulate social commentary. He has evolved from his early days as keyboard player and main songwriter in Bradford ska/reggae band Spectre, with whom he supported Lee Scratch Perry, Junior Delgado, Augustus Pablo and Aswad. They split in the 1990s, and Imani taught music and picked up a degree in music. At the turn of the millennium, he began gigging again as a solo artist, briefly re-formed the band of his childhood with his brothers, this time under the name Real Eyez, who, during their 18 month stint (2005-2006), played the Bradford Mela and support slot to noted UK jazz trombonist Dennis Rollins. Imani was a major crowd pleaser at this year’s World on Your Doorstep Festival and we’re pleased to welcome him back to Hebden Bridge. For the record, Imani means ‘faith’ and Hekima denotes ‘wisdom’ in the Kiswahili language. With support from Olu Ekata, a Keighley based singer-songwriter with her 3-piece backing band.

Sunday September 23rd 8.30pm
Open Mic Jam Session	£2.00
Come along and join in.

Thursday September 27th
Private Party	Invitation Only

Friday September 28th 9.30pm
Mental Elf Collective presents Digitalis	£7.50
The Mental Elf collective are back with Digitalis and Djs Doom & Teknohippy.

Saturday September 29th 9.30 p.m.
with Artizani, Ivor Dembina & Les Vegas	£8.50 / £6 Concessions
Slip on your dancing shoes and laugh your socks off as Cabaret Heaven returns with the first of a season of glorious nights of comedy, dance bands, surprises and DJs. Artizani is a spectaculatr rope-walking physical comic who's toured Europe with a fabulous show teetering hilariously like Buster Keaton on the edge of tragedy. We like our stand-ups on the thought-provoking side and Ivor Dembina raises as many eye-brows as laughs with a sideways Jewish perspective that has kept him at the forefront of comedy for 25 years. Political, gentle and very funny! Then swinging tunes for dirty dancing from Les Vegas and the International Playboys of Rhythm with some classic cabaret tunes. As if that wasn't enough we'll have pre-show bingo, Peggy and Bernard and the burning decks of Daz and Dave.

Sunday September 30th
Private Party	Invitation Only

Note: Quoted prices are subject to a discount of upto 33% on production of a current membership card.
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