With Just A Hint Of Mayhem

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Live At Leeds In The City – Saturday 16th November 2024 November 25, 2024

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Just over a week ago I had the opportunity to cover Live At Leeds In The City 2024 for those cool, weird and wonderful folks at Soundsphere and The Modern Record click on each to read the review which was written by me with some rather excellent additional pieces from Rock Photographer Extraordinaire, John Hayhurst. Simon Pattinson, working with York Mix, joined us for the ride, and what a ride it was this year! We witnessed close to twenty bands between us. My personal favourites were Neckbreakers and Avalanche Party. Were you there? Who were your favourite acts of the day? There are some ace photographs in both of the above links all by John Hayhurst apart from an Avalanche Party pic by Lucy Joy Pembroke. (All her four fabulous Avalanche Party pics are in the collection below!)

Avalanche Party by Lucy Joy Pembroke
Avalanche Party by Lucy Joy Pembroke
Joe and Glen of Avalanche Party by Lucy Joy Pemberton
Tom from the Blinders guest with Avalanche Party by Lucy Joy Pemberton
Hungry by John Hayhurst
Gravy by John Hayhurst
Casisdead by John Hayhurst
Marika Hackman by John Hayhurst
Ruby Duff by John Hayhurst
English Teacher by John Hayhurst

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“No Caffeine” – Marika Hackman October 30, 2023

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Talented English Singer and multi-instrumentalist Marika Hackman released a new single last month, “No Caffeine”, which is a taster for her fourth album ‘Big Sigh’ which is due out on 12th January 2024 on Chrysalis Records. The single bags up anger, hope, confusion, and love in an intricate musical path in which Hackman deals with anxiety and panic attacks. The opening verse sets the scene perfectly and will be very close to home for anyone who has experienced anxiety or panic attacks. It certainly brought the experience back to me. The new album will be a contender for the album of the year 2024 if the rest of the tracks are as good as “No Caffeine”. The video has a real edge to it and enhances what is already a wonderful song. She also released another new song a couple of weeks ago, “Hanging”, an incredibly dark, haunting, and beautiful ballad that seems to be about loss and suffocating relationships. It has shades of Kate Bush as it heads towards its climax.

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Leeds Festival Day 2 Saturday 26th August 2017 August 29, 2017

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Click here to read my review of day 2 of the 2017 Leeds Festival on the Hype Media site. I would like to thank those very nice peeps at the Hype Media for giving me the opportunity to be there! Words by me and pictures by rock photographer extraordinaire John Hayhurst of snapagig. I also couldn’t resist adding a couple of Rubberbandits videos below as well. But if you are easily offended do not watch them, you have been warned!