Heavy metal with heavy metal instruments? Why not? Piece: Welcome to the Jungle; Composer: Axl Rose; Arranger: Paul Murtha. Who needs electric guitars for an heavy metal group? Stalybridge has had a heavy metal group since 1809 – the oldest brass band in the world, no less in Stalybridge Old Band. For our second door, […]
Read More Brass Banding Goes Pop: EM60’s 2020 Advent Calendar: 2. Welcome To The JungleLionel Richie’s classic ’80s tune, played by a Macclesfield band Before we start, the fire doors are the way you came in, beside the trombone section, and the back door which leads to where the Christmas tree was last year… Piece: All Night Long (All Night); Composer: Lionel Richie; Arranger: Leigh Baker. For this year’s […]
Read More Brass Banding Goes Pop: EM60’s 2020 Advent Calendar: 1. All Night Long (All Night)East of the M60’s 2020 Advent Calendar explores the poppier side of brass band music One of the greatest things about brass band music is its ability to inspire audiences of any age and taste. Whether classical works or popular music, a great brass band arrangement can equal or surpass the original work. That’s in […]
Read More Introducing Brass Banding Goes Pop: EM60’s 2020 Advent CalendarSignificant changes to two key routes and early introduction of School Holiday Timetable On Sunday, Stagecoach Greater Manchester’s latest timetable updates will see the retiming of many of its trunk routes to School Holiday schedules, and changes to two trunk routes in the Tameside and Glossop area. To a point, these routes will see their […]
Read More Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes Extra (29 November 2020)What do you get if you cross an extremely talented musician with a pretty good blogger and dancer (!) on a Friday afternoon? Make no mistake: this sub-headline isn’t a dad joke, though a fast-paced mixture of dad jokes, dad dancing and mad music is behind one of Future Directions CIC’s most notable projects. Known […]
Read More A Mission to Entertain: Future Directions’ Fun Time FridayBauer purchase sees loss of Rochdale, Oldham and Tameside local station If you like listening to local radio stations on a bog-standard analogue radio receiver, Bauer’s latest acquisition should fill you with dread. After 21 years of serving Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside, Revolution 96.2 will be consigned to radio heaven. Alongside Piccadilly Radio’s immediate successors, […]
Read More Revolution 96.2 to Become Greatest Hits RadioDo you remember when background music on buses was a thing? In the last 40 years, bus operators across the UK have tried to find creative ways of making local bus routes pay. Route branding with dedicated liveries is one answer, positioning everyday bus routes as product lines in their own right. Another answer is […]
Read More Bus Boarding Beats: A Brief Look at Sounds In MotionMore lockdown fun for all the family – especially bus enthusiasts At this very moment, England is in its second lockdown. Non-essential retail premises have closed, which has meant only chemists, supermarkets and variety stores can continue trading. Whereas supermarkets are able to sell ‘non-essential’ merchandise, managers have reserved the right to cordon off non-essential […]
Read More Escape To The Pantry: Word Search Puzzles for Greater Manchester Bus GeeksThis month’s bare essentials only window on the shop windows A lot has happened in the last month to our bars and retail premises. Thanks to the second wave of COVID-19 cases, we are now in the midst of a second lockdown. It is anticipated that England’s circuit-breaking lockdown would last until the 02 December. […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, November 2020: The Ashton Review of ShopsAn Ashton Review of Shops Extra report In what has been yet another cheerless week thanks to That Pandemic, there was a rumour on Twitter that 2020 would have been saved by the return of an iconic store chain. Local and national newspapers picked up on it, in the vain hope its return would reenergise […]
Read More The Wonder of… B&M? Which Store Chains Have The Old Woolies Magic?
