Songs for Sunday #6 (but not)

Songs for Sunday #6

Normally on a Sunday morning I like to go on about some songs that I have enjoyed listening to during a pleasant Sunday chill out sesh.  But not today, I got too excited about mentioning some other stuff...There is a kind of Sheffield theme to this post...

So first...

Here's a magick new video from Sheffield/Salford/Liverpool's The Chanteuse & The Crippled Claw.  You might recognise the Rutland Arms in the video...a loverly local pub in Sheffield town centre, or you might recognise Candie Payne (Liverpool's finest) OR you might recognise Mister Longarms...aka Adrian, who concocted this marvellous video & song OR you might even recognise an extra special guest appearance from Salford's Maxine Peak (amazing lady).
Check out the video for the Chanteuse & The Crippled Claw's first single - 'Are You One' 



If you like this tune then you should definitely come to the first live show - in Sheffield on the 4th December...Or in Manchester on the 5th (More details here @ Arms Controller .)

Secondly...I happened upon an amazing photography project whilst on the computer yesterday.

(The following info is straight from Luke Avery's website...Sheffield 365 Project which you should have a look at)

"The Sheffield 365 Project came about as the idea of Sheffield based photographer Luke Avery. After spending 7 years in Sheffield, Luke realised that there were still large quantities of the city he had no idea about, both geographically and also in terms of its inhabitants.

Luke set himself the challenge of shooting a portrait of a random member of Sheffield every day for a year, both as a way of getting to know the city better and also to document those who live there at the start of a new decade. This website is the result."

   

   

This project is awesome, I found that I could not stop until I had looked at every single photo.  Perhaps it is more pertinent to those who live in Sheffield, but regardless of the Sheffield setting every photo in this epic collection is splendid,

Here is one beautiful song to finish off the post with (you can have a listen to it whilst perusing the Sheffield 365 Project...dooooo it :)



Happy Sunday!

LLx

Songs for Sunday #5

Songs for Sunday #5

Tune.



This is pretty bloody epic by Lego Standards.



And for my final choice today some kind of remix of Two Door Cinema Club...Lovely and cheerful don't ye think :) definitely a full on summer tune, spot on for the middle of November.  Why not.

LL x

Belgium 2010 - Cold but Brilliant...

The ferry from Hull to Zeebrugge, Belgium is a splendid invention.
You can get an overnight crossing including a delicious (all you can eat style) dinner followed (the next morning) by an even more delicious full English Breakfast. Yum.  Strongly recommend doing it.  Top notch...

Well off we were going - to Belgium for the annual SHS band trip.  
This one time...at band camp - is fitting.

Travelling with 50 (ish) utterly wild and uncontrollable teenage girls  

Lego Lucy = Scared! :)

Much fun was had by all on the crossing over, after a hearty meal we played some bingo and drank some (medicinal) Gin & Tonic.

A near win...

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I'm on a boat!

On board entertainment, provided by Lego Lucy 

& Friends.

The Blazin Squad

Upon arrival in Belgium - A nice group walk by the sea-front.  It was very cold indeed.  

By the Sea

Drink of the week goes to Kriek - It is delicious.  You must drink this when in Belgium, Cherry beer.  Amazing.

Getting Stuck in to the Kriek

Enjoying a sit down in a bar in Brussels. 

Black Tea and chocolate cigs.

Exploring

The absolute find of the week was a sweet shop in Brugge called the Candy Shop.  Lego Lucy's Heaven would probably look similar.  I have visited many sweet shops.  I am an expert sweet eater and this particular shop was just extraordinary.  It was absolutely necessary to purchase a massive sack of sweets so that I could sample everything on offer.  At this point I was perfectly happy to spend the best part of 10 Euros on sweets.  (Can When in Rome apply here?  Yeh.)

GO HERE!

Best Ever Pick & Mix 

 So Brugge was the place to be for sweetshop experts (such as myself.) 

LL's Heaven

Anyway...Brugge really is a lovely place and only a 20 minute bus journey from the ferry port at Zeebrugge.  There are some great little bars and obviously - the best sweet shop in the world. 

Hangin out in Brugge

A strange signpost

So after a week in Belgium (and a day in Lille, France) It was time to get the overnight ferry back to Hull.  

On the ferry...I think they are imagining what it would be like to have their own Lego Lucy's

Bye bye!

Awesome week in Belgium.  Must go back.  Soon.  I need to! To get another pick & mix.

Sheffield Doc/Fest 2010!

Sheffield just got hit by The UK's leading documentary film event. 
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2010 was amazing.


Sheffield was bursting with delegates as well as a few hundred keen volunteers, red-bulled up to the eyeballs :)

Joan Rivers was at the festival for the UK première of Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.  She also hung around to do extended Q&A sessions and masterclasses...I heard she was utterly brilliant.  A legendary woman indeed.

  

To top it all off on Sunday afternoon Rolf Harris and his missus were in Sheffield for a work in progress showing of Arena; Rolf Harris Paints his Dream.  A documentary all about Rolf/his career/his splendid wife/his bizarre looking cat/his appearance at Glastonbury this year...Awesome.

 

YES. Hero.

Look at this - BBC news report on Rolf's Sheffield appearance!

Rolf doing the interview for the BBC here...

Doc/fest was a real eye-opener.  To list all the great docs that were shown during the festival would be very hard, a Lego-brain can only handle so much ...but if you check out the website there are lots of  details about the films that were shown during the 5 day festival...
 
To finish with, check this out
A project that sounds bloody marvellous to me...

Doc/Fest is back in June 2011 -Yeah!

Songs for Sunday #4

An eclectic set of songs today... a bit of Sheffield electropop in a sandwich of Indie/Rock awesomeness.
Check it out!



An old classic from the Human League, this song is so rad.  Synth-riff-tastic
And this is a mighty fine performance on TOTP - Brilliant!  (Take special note of the girl's sweet dance-moves :)


This last track is from Broken Social Scene's latest album - 'Forgiveness Rock Record'