Read Issue 37 here Art and Soul magazine is an independent Peterborough magazine encouraging the arts, literature, music and theatre within the Peterborough area and beyond.
Quick update as we're looking to fill a couple of slots this week plus helping out our friends at Art and Soul
Thursday 18th Feb - Art and Soul need another band for their weekly 'solstice show' at .... you guessed it, The solstice in Peterborough. doors are at 8pm and its an 18+ venue. If you are available then please contact Mel at Art and Soul at dimension6000@aol.com directly - just tell her we sent you!
And if Thursday is no good then we still need one more band to join Rev 78 and The Limits here at The Met here on Friday 19th Feb - I would have thought that being half term then the younger bands on our database would be up for a show - especially as its open to 14+. doors at 8.30pm. If you are available and want the slot please get back to us asap
And we need another band here on Friday 5th March to play alongside The Beautiful Sleazy & The Dharma
AND - 2nd plug for this show Thursday 25th March - touring show KYOTO DRIVE - 2 slots open - Album Release tour in March! Debut album "This Is All We Ever Wanted" will be released Feb 23rd 2010 Via Engineer Records(UK) & Pacific Ridge Records Band have played support to Funeral for a Friend, Kids In Glass Houses, Go Audio, Attack! Attack!, Fightstar, Flood of Red, Twin Atlantic & more as well as getting a slot on the Birmingham Slam Dunk/Vans Off The Wall Night! £5 adv ticket
AND Sunday/Monday 4th/5th April We've been asked to help out an agent with a show from the following artiste MANNA - Fantastic new act from Finland; think PJ Harvey meets the Yeah Yeah Yeahs! She's a big deal over there, featuring on magazine covers, etc. New single due in March, going through Cargo in the UK; www.myspace.com/mannamariam
As you can see if you go to her myspace page she is quite popular in Finland and the record company here in the UK have the right people in place to make things happen here. I need 2 good local bands who have followings that will come and support the artiste and the show,
The 2 dates I've been asked to try and get a bill together is Easter Sunday 4th April or Easter Monday 5th April - appreciate they're not the best days of the week but everybody is off work on both days and if your following is student based then they'll be home for Easter. - update - I have 1 band provisionally penciled in to help support on this show so still looking for a 2nd band
Tickets will be around the £5 mark
AND FINALLY!!, I've had 8 bands so far asking me if there's an opening slot available on the Example show at The Cresset on the 26th May (or even the show at Cambridge on the 3rd June). Now,lets be honest about things - YES, we would all like to support a 'big' band when they come to our town BUT, every 'big' band was a small band once and we need your help on these shows when we're trying to build up an artiste. - IF,you help out on these shows then if we get the chance to bring the artiste back and IF we do get chance to add a local band to the bill we'll put forward the bands to the headline bands agent that have helped out before.
Final Call for Bands and Artists to apply to perform at the 2010 Riverside Festival
Organisers of the popular not-for-profit Stamford Riverside Festival are making a final call for Bands and Artists to apply to perform at Riverside Festival 2010 you only have till the 28th February to get your applications in to the festival organisers.
Permission has been granted by Stamford Town Council for the festival to use the site on the Meadows in the centre of Stamford over two days this year Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th July, and the festival organisers are now working hard to finalise arrangements with all the relevant statutory agencies to get the other necessary permissions needed in order for the event to take place on these dates.
In the meantime the plans call for lot’s of new activities, stages and entertainment to be featured at the festival this year and the overall aim is to provide great entertainment for the whole community with something for everyone from toddlers to pensioners and organisers are pressing ahead with arrangements for the two day spectacular.
Festival Director Cathy Sandbach said ‘We want to stage our best ever programme of music, arts and entertainment to mark our 10th Anniversary celebrations. To help us to do this we are particularly keen to hear from performers who would like to appear on the following stages :
Riverside Stage (Saturday) - wide variety of rock, progressive, pop, alternative pop, blues, funk, etc.
New for 2010 - Riverside Stage (Sunday) - world music, classical, choral, blues, jazz, swing and progressive music etc.
Marquee Stage (Saturday only) - indie, emo, metal, rock, thrash, nu and old skool punk music etc.
Acoustic Stage (Sunday only) - for acts with acoustic, folk, jazz, world and blues influences.etc.
New for 2010 - Singer Songwriters Stage (Saturday only) - this stage will be dedicated to soloists and duets who have written and produced their own music.
New for 2010 - Community Stage - we want to provide our local groups, schools and colleges with an opportunity to perform at the festival. We are very keen to hear from local dance and drama groups, as well as choirs and other performers particularly from local amateur dramatic societies, schools and colleges. In fact any community based organisations who want to perform to a larger audience.’ In addition we will once again be running our very popular Buskers Stage on Saturday and Sunday this is a much more informal affair and performers can just turn up at the festival and apply to book a 20 minutes slot to perform.
With more than 17,500 people attending last years festival on one day alone and footfall across the day of more than 46,000 people the festival provides an opportunity to perform in front of a large audience that is not to be missed. Applying to perform at this years Festival Artists wishing to apply for a slot to perform at Riverside Festival 2010 should send an e-mail to info@riversidefestival.co.uk with details of :
Band/Artist name
Contact Name, E-Mail & Telephone Number
Website details where we can hear/see a sample of your performances
A short biography about your act
What type of musical genre/s you perform
or
What type of performance you can provide i.e. dance, drama, children’s entertainment etc
If you are unable to apply by e-mail please send the same information but with a demo CD/DVD to :
The Riverside Association of Music & Arts Rutland House Minerva Business Park Lynch Wood Peterborough PE2 6PZ For the attention of : Cathy Sandbach
After the closing date the volunteer stage committees will consider all the applications before deciding on their final shortlist.
Other entertainers Organisers are also keen to here from local groups and artists who may be interested in providing music, arts and crafts workshops, children’s entertainers, street theatre performers in fact anyone who feels they can help add to the colour and entertainment at the event.
Supreme Death / Black Metal art - that is the moniker BELPHEGOR have been sailing under since 1993 now! They are back with their eigth studio album - "Walpurgis rites - Hexenwahn", a brutal yet technically filigree opus with an overall Sabbathian witch and black magick / occult theme! The now legendary demo "Bloodbath in paradise" marked BELPHEGOR`s entry to the musical world of all things dark and extreme. Their trademark blasting highspeed attacks could also be found on their debut album "The last supper" in 1995, full of anti-religious and anti-life hymns. The follow-upin 1997, "Blutsabbath" gained them an even bigger fanbase and a notorious reputation. "Necrodeamon Terrorsathan", a blackened masterpiece, was released in 2000. In 2002 it was time for their 10th anniversary: the live album "Infernal live orgasm" was released on the band`s own label, Phallelujah Productions. With 2003`s effort "Lucifer incestus", BELPHEGOR had definitely left the so-called underground for good: especially the catchy title track remains a fan favourite to this very day, and the crisp and clear production got the Austrians to a whole new level! "Goatreich - Fleshcult" was accompanied by a huge European headliner tour, the "X-Mass Festivals" in 2005. "Pestapokalypse VI" was BELPHEGOR`s first record for Nuclear Blast in 2006, and Helmuth and co. outdid themselves with a multilingual approach to lyrics to hymns such as 'Bluhtsturm Erotika'. Their combination of perverse eroticism, Satanism, midtempo riff madness and unrelenting highspeed Death/Black attacks turned them into a supremely unique act! This found its continuation in "Bondage goat zombie", released 2008. Now BELPHEGOR serve us "Walpurgis rites - Hexenwahn". To quote vocalist/guitarist Helmuth: "With these nine compositions/ arrangements we continue to piss on the damn mainstream. It`s BELPHEGOR to the highest, the hymns are extremely varied, more intense and epic than ever, there are new elements and structures added." Not to forget the blasphemous lyrical concept: "The witch/ devil concept is amazing to work with and we used a lot of original chants/ incantations from archaic scripts..." Delve into this masterpiece which celebrates the darkest pleasures in life!
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