(Almost) everything you need to know about Breakfast In America, Supertramp’s sixth album which is 40 years old this year Album: Breakfast In America; US Release Date: 29 March 1979 (#1); UK Release Date: 31 March 1979 (#3); US Chart Singles: The Logical Song (#6), Breakfast In America (#62), Goodbye Stranger (#15), Take The Long […]
Read More Breakfast In America for Beginners: A Duffers’ Guide to Supertramp’s 1979 LPWhy Dobcross Youth, Delph, Diggle, and Boarshurst Silver bands gave us 120 reasons to enjoy Saddleworth’s biggest night in brass band music At Saddleworth Civic Hall, brass banding nights seldom get any bigger than the annual Mass Brass concert in Uppermill. Apart from any of Saddleworth’s bands hiring The Roly Polys as a support act, […]
Read More Mass Brass 3: Saddleworth’s Brass Banding BonanzaElland Silver Band shine in sensational concert two weeks after Yorkshire Regional Finals Was it really six months ago when Elland Silver Band played their last gig at Boarshurst Band Club? Was the Yorkshire Regional Finals in Huddersfield really a fortnight ago? After preparing for the latter, Elland Silver Band gave us all a fantastic […]
Read More Elland Silver Band: Sunday Brass at the Boarshurst Band Club, 24 March 2019Stagecoach Manchester tests the world’s first autonomous bus at Sharston depot For several years, Greater Manchester has been at the forefront of revolutionary developments in passenger transport. Almost 50 years ago, the Chloride battery bus – an all battery powered single decker bus – led to today’s electric vehicles. Yesterday, as seen on North West […]
Read More Full Size Automated Bus Begins Depot TrialsA splendid traditional style brass band concert with five stunning solo performances In the cosy surroundings of Boarshurst Band Club, Ryan Watkins’ Slaithwaite Band served up a delightful concert with traditional fare and a superb selection of solo performances. One of the five – the band’s youngest soloist – stole the show.
Read More Slaithwaite Band, 17 March 2019: Sunday Brass at the Boarshurst Band ClubWeather works in band’s favour as Binns and Co serve up a superb concert After last year’s concert date fell victim to the Beast From The East, Whitworth Vale and Healey Band finally got round to fulfilling their gig at Boarshurst Band Club. A year after that date, you could say last night’s concert was […]
Read More Whitworth Vale and Healey Band, 10 March 2019: Sunday Brass at the Boarshurst Band ClubWhy Jimmy Langland was crowned Greater Manchester’s Super Supporter in a recent competition If you watched Manchester United’s last minute display against Paris St Germain on Wednesday, you might still be buzzing from Marcus Rashford’s penalty. There’s every chance this gentleman might have taken a modest journey across the English Channel for this spectacle.
Read More 40 Years a Red: Lifelong United Fan Crowned Super SupporterWell thought out programme by Stephen Craig and Co. makes for well received concert There are very few brass bands that could almost claim to return home with a trophy and another brass band from the Fylde peninsula. Give or take another week, Boarshurst Silver Band pulled that off. Seriously though, through happy accident, the […]
Read More Thornton Cleveleys Brass Band, 03 March 2019: Sunday Brass at the Boarshurst Band ClubThis month’s window on the shop windows Tameside One opens; New retail development for Hattersley; Plus all the usual retail movements from Bardsley Brow to Haughton Green. Tameside One opens After two and a half years in the making, Tameside One will open its doors this month. Last week, all the customer facing functions of […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, March 2019: The Ashton Review of Shops
