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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,at the,Sat,Saturday,on,stage,live,playing,town,centre,band,alternative,local,bands,emerging,grassroots,music,independent music scene,unsigned,act,youth culture,public event,cultural regeneration,free festival,urban,entertainment,outdoor,performance,local arts,scene,gig promotion,community,festivals,guitarist,lead guitar,sunglasses,attitude,album
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EME6HD - 6 June 2026, this live music photograph shows Black Desert performing on stage at Warrington Music Festival in Warrington town centre, Cheshire, England. The image captures the young North West alternative or grunge band in a full band set-up with vocalist and guitarist at centre stage, drummer behind, bassist to the right and another guitarist to the left, framed by amplifiers, monitors, lighting rigs and a large screen displaying the band's name. Festival branding for Warrington Music Fest is visible on both sides of the stage, placing the performance within a free public town-centre event designed to draw crowds into the local retail and leisure area. The stage appears to be a temporary outdoor festival installation, with surrounding buildings visible beyond the performance area, helping to root the image in an urban shopping and civic setting rather than a conventional indoor venue. The scene has value as a documentary image of emerging grassroots music culture in the North West, showing how local festivals give developing bands a platform in front of a broader public audience. It is also useful for editorial themes around youth culture, live entertainment, gig promotion, town-centre regeneration, community events, local identity and the role of arts programming in boosting footfall for shops, bars and hospitality businesses. Warrington Music Festival has become part of the town's wider seasonal events offer, using central public space to showcase local and regional acts and to strengthen the area's cultural profile. For picture buyers, the combination of a named band, readable stage screen, instruments, performance energy and clearly branded event context makes this suitable for stories about unsigned bands, North West music scenes, independent live performance, cultural tourism, festival listings, entertainment previews and reviews, and the changing relationship between retail destinations and public events in English town centres.
The Old Marketplace, Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EME6JT - 6 June 2026, this live music photograph shows Black Desert performing on stage at Warrington Music Festival in Warrington town centre, Cheshire, England. The image captures the young North West alternative or grunge band in a full band set-up with vocalist and guitarist at centre stage, drummer behind, bassist to the right and another guitarist to the left, framed by amplifiers, monitors, lighting rigs and a large screen displaying the band's name. Festival branding for Warrington Music Fest is visible on both sides of the stage, placing the performance within a free public town-centre event designed to draw crowds into the local retail and leisure area. The stage appears to be a temporary outdoor festival installation, with surrounding buildings visible beyond the performance area, helping to root the image in an urban shopping and civic setting rather than a conventional indoor venue. The scene has value as a documentary image of emerging grassroots music culture in the North West, showing how local festivals give developing bands a platform in front of a broader public audience. It is also useful for editorial themes around youth culture, live entertainment, gig promotion, town-centre regeneration, community events, local identity and the role of arts programming in boosting footfall for shops, bars and hospitality businesses. Warrington Music Festival has become part of the town's wider seasonal events offer, using central public space to showcase local and regional acts and to strengthen the area's cultural profile. For picture buyers, the combination of a named band, readable stage screen, instruments, performance energy and clearly branded event context makes this suitable for stories about unsigned bands, North West music scenes, independent live performance, cultural tourism, festival listings, entertainment previews and reviews, and the changing relationship between retail destinations and public events in English town centres.
The Old Marketplace, Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E91E9K - Black and white editorial concert photograph of House of All performing live at YES in Manchester on 22 November 2025. The image shows an intense on-stage moment, with the guitarist in the foreground under bright venue lighting and the drummer visible behind, creating a strong documentary feel that suits coverage of contemporary post-punk, alternative rock and the enduring musical legacy of former members of The Fall. The monochrome treatment adds grit and atmosphere, emphasising concentration, movement, shadow and stage presence rather than colour spectacle, making the picture especially useful for music journalism, gig reviews, tour coverage, band publicity, cultural features and editorial use connected to Manchester's live music scene. House of All has drawn attention for bringing together musicians associated with The Fall while forging its own identity, and that connection makes the photograph relevant to wider searches around Mark E Smith legacy, post-punk history, cult British bands, underground music culture and veteran performers continuing to create and tour. The tight club setting and visible backline also help place the event within the intimate, working reality of UK independent venues rather than arena scale performance. Useful themes include northern music culture, small venue energy, live guitar, drums, stage lighting, black and white music photography, alternative gig scene and the continued pull of Manchester as a city of serious music heritage. Because sources conflict on the exact room within YES, the safest metadata approach is to caption the performance at YES Manchester rather than pinning it specifically to the Basement unless independently confirmed. That keeps the listing accurate while still preserving the key commercial and editorial value of the image as a live House of All performance in Manchester during late 2025
House of All performing live at YES in Manchester on 22 November 2025, featuring former members of T
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RFER1P - Vintage dance and concert poster from Abergavenny Town Hall Ballroom in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, advertising a run of events in May and June 1963. The brightly coloured printed bill uses bold red lettering on a yellow ground with green decorative border detail and promotes the venue as The Ballroom of the Stars . Presented by Eddie Tattersall, the poster lists several dates and performers, including the 8th May A Girl of the Month Dance featuring Vince White and the Hunters from Newport, the 15th June Music for Dancing and Romancing with The Hurricanes from Newport, the 22nd June appearance by The Beatles with The Fabulous Fortunes, and the 29th June event Keep Alive with Rock, Twist and Jive featuring Ricky Ford and the Crossfires.
The design is a strong example of early 1960s provincial music promotion, when town halls and ballrooms across Britain and Wales played an important role in live entertainment, youth culture and social dancing. Its mixture of large headline typography, admission details, late transport information and multiple artist bills reflects the practical style of the period, when posters had to grab attention quickly from passing audiences. The central Beatles billing is especially notable, placing the poster within the rapid rise of the group during 1963, while still showing them in the context of a mixed live dance programme rather than a later arena-scale event.
The image has clear value for editorial and historical use covering British pop history, Welsh cultural heritage, live music venues, dance-hall culture, concert memorabilia and printed ephemera. It documents not only an appearance by The Beatles in Abergavenny but also the wider entertainment scene of the time, when local promoters, support acts and regional audiences were central to the spread of beat music and popular dance culture in the UK. The poster survives as an evocative paper artefact of a specific place, date and social atmosphere.
Town Hall, Cross Street, Abergavenny, South Wales, Wales, UK, NP7 5HD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Merseyside,England,UK,pubs,bar,bars,history,historic,heritage,L1,off Hope Street,L1 9BB,the,band,bands,The Dissenters,inside,fixtures,interior,features,feature,plaque,plaques,notice,record,of,Bill Harry,John Lennon,Stuart Sutcliffe,Rod Murray,other,2003,1960
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RJCCB1 - . Ye Cracke, John Lennon of The Beatles, Dissenters watering hole pub, Rice Street, off Hope Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 9BB. Photographed on 19 August 2023. The recorded location is Rice St, off Hope St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 9BB. The name is in Old English: the Y is a thorn and the e on the end of Cracke is silent, thus the name is correctly pronounced The Crack. Despite the name, Ye Cracke is a 19th-century pub. The War Office is a small room in the pub, which is the oldest part of the pub. It has historical connections with The Beatles because it was frequented by John Lennon and his girlfriend Cynthia when they were at art school, as well as the Dissenters, to whom a plaque hangs in the bar. Thomas Cecil Gray and John Halton conceived the techniques described in their 1946 book A Milestone in Anaesthesia while in the pub. Within the history of hostelry, british pubs developed from inns, taverns and alehouses into licensed social institutions that have long served as meeting places, music venues and landmarks
Names, brewery signs, etched glass, tiled interiors and changing fascias can preserve local history even when ownership or use changes. In relation to musician, historical context shows that british popular music has been closely tied to particular cities, independent labels and venues
Manchester and Liverpool in particular developed internationally recognised scenes whose clubs, rehearsal rooms and concert halls became cultural landmarks. For the story of visitor guidance, it is useful to note that temporary and permanent notices are valuable social-history evidence because they capture the rules and assumptions of a particular moment, from parking and access to opening times, safety and public-service instructions. Against the 2026 backdrop for hostelry, pub survival continues to be a live issue as energy, staffing, taxation and changing drinking habits affect the licensed trade
Historic and contemporary.
Rice St, off Hope St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 9BB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RHH6HP - Taken on 15 Aug 2023, this photograph shows Porters Ale House formally the Cross Keys, evening real ale at Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, WA1 2NN. The location is Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, WA1 2NN. The picture is not just a record shot: it contains public house signs, frontage, street activity or drinking culture details useful for hospitality and heritage features. The Warrington pub frontage links real ale, evening hospitality, town-centre leisure and the reuse of older commercial buildings in a changing high street. It could support features on pubs, beer, leisure, nightlife, tourism, heritage streets, local economies, independent hospitality and the pressures facing town-centre venues. For image buyers, the value is in the combination of recognisable subject, readable wording, location evidence and a plain documentary style that can be dropped into news, magazine, web, council, housing, transport, heritage or commercial commentary without looking over-produced. Searchable related phrases include Buttermarket St, Warrington, Porters, Ale House, Porters Ale House, town, centre, Victorian, building, architecture, WA1, Cheshire, plus wider ideas such as local identity, public realm, urban detail, social history, commercial change, everyday Britain, documentary photography and place-based storytelling. The composition gives designers scope for captions, page furniture, social media crops, report covers and article thumbnails, while the detailed captioning makes it more discoverable for searches using both specific place names and broader themes. This makes the image useful for comparison pieces, then-and-now features, local news, regeneration stories and plain-English explainers aimed at a general audience. Further SEO-friendly usage could include local services, town-centre change, heritage branding, British social history
Buttermarket St, Warrington, Cheshire, England, WA1 2NN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RGPNC5 - . The Red Lion Joseph Holt pub, scene of The Fall Mark E Smith photoshoots, 398 Bury New Rd, Prestwich, Manchester, England, UK, M25 1AR. Photographed on 10 August 2023, this summer image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is 398 Bury New Rd, Prestwich, Manchester, England, UK, M25 1AR, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Greater Manchester, Bury, Prestwich, Manchester, M25 1AR, band, group, music, local, photos, photoshoots, pub, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The subject has strong relevance to British pub and beer culture, licensed premises, hospitality, brewing, cask ale, consumer leisure and the continuing role of pubs as social meeting places. It is suitable for coverage of the licensed trade, independent and managed pubs, brewery branding, CAMRA and real-ale culture, hospitality economics, changing drinking habits and the condition of the UK pub sector. Food and drink content broadens the image's relevance to eating out, grocery retail, hospitality, pricing, consumer choice, local food culture and the commercial presentation of meals, ingredients or products. It can illustrate changing tastes, inflation and cost-of-living pressures, food retail competition, traditional businesses and the everyday economics of buying food and drink where those themes are relevant. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison.
398 Bury New Rd, Prestwich, Manchester, England, UK, M25 1AR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R64N9A - . Gary Numan, Splinter Tour UK Leg gig, performing at the Manchester Academy 20131114, Oxford Road, England, UK, M13 9PR. Photographed on 14 November 2013. The recorded location is Manchester Academy 1, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England , UK, M13 9PR. Metal. Everything Comes Down to This. Films. Here in the Black. For the story of concert, it is useful to note that british popular music has been closely tied to particular cities, independent labels and venues
Manchester and Liverpool in particular developed internationally recognised scenes whose clubs, rehearsal rooms and concert halls became cultural landmarks. For present-day concert, 2026 is significant because streaming dominates recorded music , increasing the importance of touring, merchandise and live events to many artists
Historical concert images therefore connect fan culture with the changing economics of the music business. Additional discoverability terms include live music, music venue, performer, band, musician, stage, music history, live entertainment, music heritage, concert photography, 14/11/2013, 14th, poses, posed, pose, set, album, lighting, smoke, and show. The historical setting for performer is that live-music photographs preserve performances that are otherwise transient, recording musicians, venues, stage lighting and audiences at a particular point in a career
Tickets, posters and venue exteriors add another layer of music-industry history. Seen through stage, the earlier context is that british popular music has been closely tied to particular cities, independent labels and venues
Manchester and Liverpool in particular developed internationally recognised scenes whose clubs, rehearsal rooms and concert halls became cultural landmarks. Its wider context brings together live music, music venue and performer. A further layer of meaning comes from music venue, performer and band.
Manchester Academy 1, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England , UK, M13 9PR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R64P1R - . Gary Numan, Splinter Tour UK Leg gig, performing at the Manchester Academy 20131114, Oxford Road, England, UK, M13 9PR. Photographed on 14 November 2013. The recorded location is Manchester Academy 1, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England , UK, M13 9PR. Cars. Are 'Friends' Electric?. My Last Day Set list :-. Within the history of concert photography, concert culture changed with amplification, arena touring, festivals and digital promotion, yet the basic relationship between performer, venue and audience continues to be central
Older gig photographs can gain significance as bands, buildings and local scenes change. Against the 2026 backdrop for concert photography, streaming dominates recorded music , increasing the importance of touring, merchandise and live events to many artists
Historical concert images therefore connect fan culture with the changing economics of the music business. Associated subject terminology includes live music, music venue, musician, stage, music history, live entertainment, popular music, music heritage, 14/11/2013, 14th, poses, posed, pose, album, lighting, smoke, and show. In relation to gig, historical context shows that live-music photographs preserve performances that are otherwise transient, recording musicians, venues, stage lighting and audiences at a particular point in a career
Tickets, posters and venue exteriors add another layer of music-industry history. For the story of band, it is useful to note that british popular music has been closely tied to particular cities, independent labels and venues
Manchester and Liverpool in particular developed internationally recognised scenes whose clubs, rehearsal rooms and concert halls became cultural landmarks. The image also relates directly to live music, music venue and musician. The subject also connects music venue, musician and stage within the same editorial theme.
Manchester Academy 1, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England , UK, M13 9PR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R64P5E - . Gary Numan, Splinter Tour UK Leg gig, performing at the Manchester Academy 20131114, Oxford Road, England, UK, M13 9PR. Photographed on 14 November 2013. The recorded location is Manchester Academy 1, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England , UK, M13 9PR. Love Hurt Bleed. A Prayer for the Unborn. Encore:. Cars. The background to music heritage is that british popular music has been closely tied to particular cities, independent labels and venues
Manchester and Liverpool in particular developed internationally recognised scenes whose clubs, rehearsal rooms and concert halls became cultural landmarks. Current 2026 context around music heritage is that live music remains culturally important but venues face pressure from operating costs, redevelopment and changing audience habits
England's dedicated 15% business-rates relief for eligible live-music venues during 2026/27 reflects concern about their economic sustainability. Closely associated editorial terms include performer, band, musician, stage, music history, fan culture, touring, live entertainment, concert photography, 14/11/2013, 14th, poses, posed, pose, set, album, lighting, smoke, and show. Within the history of concert, live-music photographs preserve performances that are otherwise transient, recording musicians, venues, stage lighting and audiences at a particular point in a career
Tickets, posters and venue exteriors add another layer of music-industry history. In relation to performer, historical context shows that british popular music has been closely tied to particular cities, independent labels and venues
Manchester and Liverpool in particular developed internationally recognised scenes whose clubs, rehearsal rooms and concert halls became cultural landmarks. A further layer of meaning comes from performer, band and musician. The image also relates directly to band, musician and stage.
Manchester Academy 1, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England , UK, M13 9PR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R64P9R - . Gary Numan, Splinter Tour UK Leg gig, performing at the Manchester Academy 20131114, Oxford Road, England, UK, M13 9PR. Photographed on 14 November 2013. The recorded location is Manchester Academy 1, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England , UK, M13 9PR. Lost. When the Sky Bleeds, He Will Come. We're the Unforgiven. Love Hurt Bleed. Looking at popular music, the longer history is that live-music photographs preserve performances that are otherwise transient, recording musicians, venues, stage lighting and audiences at a particular point in a career
Tickets, posters and venue exteriors add another layer of music-industry history. In 2026, popular music remains relevant because streaming dominates recorded music , increasing the importance of touring, merchandise and live events to many artists
Historical concert images therefore connect fan culture with the changing economics of the music business. Associated keywords and synonyms include live music, music venue, performer, band, music history, live entertainment, music heritage, concert photography, 14/11/2013, 14th, poses, posed, pose, set, album, smoke, and show. The background to live music is that live-music photographs preserve performances that are otherwise transient, recording musicians, venues, stage lighting and audiences at a particular point in a career
Tickets, posters and venue exteriors add another layer of music-industry past. Within the history of music venue, british popular music has been closely tied to particular cities, independent labels and venues
Manchester and Liverpool in particular developed internationally recognised scenes whose clubs, rehearsal rooms and concert halls became cultural landmarks. Its wider context brings together live music, music venue and performer. A further layer of meaning comes from music venue, performer and band. The image also relates directly to performer, band and music history.
Manchester Academy 1, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England , UK, M13 9PR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R64PMP - . Gary Numan, Splinter Tour UK Leg gig, performing at the Manchester Academy 20131114, Oxford Road, England, UK, M13 9PR. Photographed on 14 November 2013. The recorded location is Manchester Academy 1, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England , UK, M13 9PR. Films. Here in the Black. The Fall. The Calling. Seen through touring, the earlier context is that british popular music has been closely tied to particular cities, independent labels and venues
Manchester and Liverpool in particular developed internationally recognised scenes whose clubs, rehearsal rooms and concert halls became cultural landmarks. The 2026 relevance of touring comes from the fact that streaming dominates recorded music , increasing the importance of touring, merchandise and live events to many artists
Historical concert images therefore connect fan culture with the changing economics of the music business. Additional subject vocabulary includes live music, music venue, performer, band, musician, stage, music history, live entertainment, music heritage, concert photography, 14/11/2013, 14th, poses, posed, pose, set, album, lighting, smoke, and show. For music heritage, the historical context is that live-music photographs preserve performances that are otherwise transient, recording musicians, venues, stage lighting and audiences at a particular point in a career
Tickets, posters and venue exteriors add another layer of music-industry history. Looking at concert, the longer history is that british popular music has been closely tied to particular cities, independent labels and venues
Manchester and Liverpool in particular developed internationally recognised scenes whose clubs, rehearsal rooms and concert halls became cultural landmarks. The image also relates directly to live music, music venue and performer. The subject also connects music venue, performer and band within the same editorial theme.
Manchester Academy 1, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England , UK, M13 9PR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R39XXG - Lewis Floyd Henry has been out on the streets and stages of the world evolving as a one man band and gaining the reputation of being a great live act. Whilst developing his unique approach to performing, musical ideas have flourished in the form of his own compositions and recordings.
A One Man, Multi Genre, Traveling Sonic Medicine Show
Lewis Floyd Henry takes the rarified tradition of the one man band, street corner, blues music of Lone Cat Fuller to an almost burlesque stratospheric level a one man, multi genre, sonic medicine show. Lewis devised a foot operated miniature toy drum kit set on it's side for his rhythm section with other pedals including loopers you can imagine the reanimated ghost cadavers of Son House, Jimi Hendrix and several bright orange dwarves dancing like voodoo puppets as he pounds out rhythms like an ancient, corroded 808 against a back drop of 60's psyche inspired grooves.
He sounds like Lone Cat Fuller jamming Captain Beefheart in Margate. What makes it so great is the loose one man band synthesis of Piedmont Country Blues, the occasional vocal flavours of Mick Jagger and the vintage ragtime jazz and skiffle leanings. You can even taste a bit of Hendrix, Son House and a slice of Hank III and Beck just to spice everything up a touch.
8 bit absinthe of authenticity
Look no further if you want to escape the relentless polish of 21st Century plastique overproduction and feed your ears something soaked in the 8 bit absinthe of authenticity it will probably kill your speakers, it's raw and gritty-it ain't perfect but that's what makes it so damn good.
One Man versus the World
Fresh from spending years busking the hard streets of London, let iconoclastic bluesman, and genuine, original, one man band Lewis Floyd Henry take you on a rickety old roller coaster ride. If you're looking for something fresh, inventive, and suitably low-fi Lewis is your man.
Brick Lane, London, GB, E1 6QL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R39XXN - Lewis Floyd Henry has been out on the streets and stages of the world evolving as a one man band and gaining the reputation of being a great live act. Whilst developing his unique approach to performing, musical ideas have flourished in the form of his own compositions and recordings.
A One Man, Multi Genre, Traveling Sonic Medicine Show
Lewis Floyd Henry takes the rarified tradition of the one man band, street corner, blues music of Lone Cat Fuller to an almost burlesque stratospheric level a one man, multi genre, sonic medicine show. Lewis devised a foot operated miniature toy drum kit set on it's side for his rhythm section with other pedals including loopers you can imagine the reanimated ghost cadavers of Son House, Jimi Hendrix and several bright orange dwarves dancing like voodoo puppets as he pounds out rhythms like an ancient, corroded 808 against a back drop of 60's psyche inspired grooves.
He sounds like Lone Cat Fuller jamming Captain Beefheart in Margate. What makes it so great is the loose one man band synthesis of Piedmont Country Blues, the occasional vocal flavours of Mick Jagger and the vintage ragtime jazz and skiffle leanings. You can even taste a bit of Hendrix, Son House and a slice of Hank III and Beck just to spice everything up a touch.
8 bit absinthe of authenticity
Look no further if you want to escape the relentless polish of 21st Century plastique overproduction and feed your ears something soaked in the 8 bit absinthe of authenticity it will probably kill your speakers, it's raw and gritty-it ain't perfect but that's what makes it so damn good.
One Man versus the World
Fresh from spending years busking the hard streets of London, let iconoclastic bluesman, and genuine, original, one man band Lewis Floyd Henry take you on a rickety old roller coaster ride. If you're looking for something fresh, inventive, and suitably low-fi Lewis is your man.
Brick Lane, London, GB, E1 6QL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG21Y0 - The 2022 British Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Lenovo British Grand Prix 2022) was a Formula One motor race held on 3 July 2022 at the Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, England.
Carlos Sainz Jr. took both his first pole position and Formula One victory, ahead of Sergio Pérez and Lewis Hamilton. Championship leader, Max Verstappen finished seventh after acquiring car damage early in the race. A multi-car crash occurred on the opening lap, in which Zhou Guanyu's car flipped over the tyre wall marking the circuit boundaries.
Background
The event was held across the weekend of the 13 July. It was the tenth round of the 2022 Formula One World Championship. It was the 73rd time the British Grand Prix has been held and the race took place two weeks after the Canadian Grand Prix and preceded the Austrian Grand Prix.
Championship standings before the race
Following the Canadian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen led the Drivers' Championship by 46 points from teammate Sergio Pérez, with Charles Leclerc third, a further three points behind. Red Bull Racing led the Constructors' Championship, leading Ferrari by 74 points. Mercedes were in third place, trailing Ferrari by 40 points
Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, UK, NN12 8TL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG21Y2 - The 2022 British Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Lenovo British Grand Prix 2022) was a Formula One motor race held on 3 July 2022 at the Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, England.
Carlos Sainz Jr. took both his first pole position and Formula One victory, ahead of Sergio Pérez and Lewis Hamilton. Championship leader, Max Verstappen finished seventh after acquiring car damage early in the race. A multi-car crash occurred on the opening lap, in which Zhou Guanyu's car flipped over the tyre wall marking the circuit boundaries.
Background
The event was held across the weekend of the 13 July. It was the tenth round of the 2022 Formula One World Championship. It was the 73rd time the British Grand Prix has been held and the race took place two weeks after the Canadian Grand Prix and preceded the Austrian Grand Prix.
Championship standings before the race
Following the Canadian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen led the Drivers' Championship by 46 points from teammate Sergio Pérez, with Charles Leclerc third, a further three points behind. Red Bull Racing led the Constructors' Championship, leading Ferrari by 74 points. Mercedes were in third place, trailing Ferrari by 40 points
Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, UK, NN12 8TL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Towcester,Northamptonshire,England,UK,NN12 8T,NN12,spectators,crowd,crowds,stand,royal,intro,to,the,race,racing,British,bands,band,marching,and,national,anthem,presentation,formula,1,one,stands,start,line,track,trackside,2022
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG21Y5 - The 2022 British Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Lenovo British Grand Prix 2022) was a Formula One motor race held on 3 July 2022 at the Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, England.
Carlos Sainz Jr. took both his first pole position and Formula One victory, ahead of Sergio Pérez and Lewis Hamilton. Championship leader, Max Verstappen finished seventh after acquiring car damage early in the race. A multi-car crash occurred on the opening lap, in which Zhou Guanyu's car flipped over the tyre wall marking the circuit boundaries.
Background
The event was held across the weekend of the 13 July. It was the tenth round of the 2022 Formula One World Championship. It was the 73rd time the British Grand Prix has been held and the race took place two weeks after the Canadian Grand Prix and preceded the Austrian Grand Prix.
Championship standings before the race
Following the Canadian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen led the Drivers' Championship by 46 points from teammate Sergio Pérez, with Charles Leclerc third, a further three points behind. Red Bull Racing led the Constructors' Championship, leading Ferrari by 74 points. Mercedes were in third place, trailing Ferrari by 40 points
Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, UK, NN12 8TL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Towcester,Northamptonshire,England,UK,NN12 8T,NN12,spectators,crowd,crowds,stand,royal,intro,to,the,race,racing,British,bands,band,marching,and,national,anthem,presentation,formula,1,one,stands,start,line,track,trackside,2022,July,Grand Prix,grid,GP
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG21Y7 - The 2022 British Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Lenovo British Grand Prix 2022) was a Formula One motor race held on 3 July 2022 at the Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, England.
Carlos Sainz Jr. took both his first pole position and Formula One victory, ahead of Sergio Pérez and Lewis Hamilton. Championship leader, Max Verstappen finished seventh after acquiring car damage early in the race. A multi-car crash occurred on the opening lap, in which Zhou Guanyu's car flipped over the tyre wall marking the circuit boundaries.
Background
The event was held across the weekend of the 13 July. It was the tenth round of the 2022 Formula One World Championship. It was the 73rd time the British Grand Prix has been held and the race took place two weeks after the Canadian Grand Prix and preceded the Austrian Grand Prix.
Championship standings before the race
Following the Canadian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen led the Drivers' Championship by 46 points from teammate Sergio Pérez, with Charles Leclerc third, a further three points behind. Red Bull Racing led the Constructors' Championship, leading Ferrari by 74 points. Mercedes were in third place, trailing Ferrari by 40 points
Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, UK, NN12 8TL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG2200 - The 2022 British Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Lenovo British Grand Prix 2022) was a Formula One motor race held on 3 July 2022 at the Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, England.
Carlos Sainz Jr. took both his first pole position and Formula One victory, ahead of Sergio Pérez and Lewis Hamilton. Championship leader, Max Verstappen finished seventh after acquiring car damage early in the race. A multi-car crash occurred on the opening lap, in which Zhou Guanyu's car flipped over the tyre wall marking the circuit boundaries.
Background
The event was held across the weekend of the 13 July. It was the tenth round of the 2022 Formula One World Championship. It was the 73rd time the British Grand Prix has been held and the race took place two weeks after the Canadian Grand Prix and preceded the Austrian Grand Prix.
Championship standings before the race
Following the Canadian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen led the Drivers' Championship by 46 points from teammate Sergio Pérez, with Charles Leclerc third, a further three points behind. Red Bull Racing led the Constructors' Championship, leading Ferrari by 74 points. Mercedes were in third place, trailing Ferrari by 40 points
Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, UK, NN12 8TL
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Mainz,Germany,city,centre,float,floats,Rhineland-Palatinate,Rhineland,Palatinate,Mainzer,Mainzers,at,the,band,Shrove monday,Rozenmontag,Guggamusic,music,musicians,musician,brass,street,player,players,fancy,dress,costume,costumes,Gugga,party,troupe,troupes,Robert-Bosch-Straße 42,55129 Mainz
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PPXYFG - . Gugga Meenzer Rhoigeister band - Fastnacht carnival 2023, Mainz city centre, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Photographed on 20 February 2023, this winter image records the subject in its real-world setting and provides a contemporary visual reference for the place, activity, object or organisation shown. The recorded location is Mainz city centre, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, adding precise geographical context for editorial, documentary, travel and local-history searches. Key searchable subjects associated with the scene include Mainz, Germany, float, floats, Rhineland-Palatinate, Rhineland, Palatinate, Mainzer, Mainzers, band, Shrove monday, Rozenmontag, providing natural SEO coverage without losing the specific documentary identity of the photograph. The music context makes the image useful for editorial coverage of performers, venues, concerts, popular culture, local music heritage, audiences, nightlife and the creative industries. Such scenes can become important cultural records as bands, venues, festivals and city music districts change, linking contemporary entertainment with wider stories about tourism, identity and regeneration. The frame provides a detailed documentary record of the subject as it appeared at the time of photography, preserving the surrounding context as well as the principal feature. Its value is both descriptive and editorial, allowing the scene to illustrate news, features, local history, travel, social change and retrospective comparison. Visible or contextual elements such as architecture, signage, branding, public realm, transport infrastructure, street furniture and everyday activity help establish a strong sense of place where they form part of the scene. The photograph can also support future before-and-after use if the building, business, service, streetscape, transport operation or public space is later altered, redeveloped, rebranded or closed.
Mainz city centre, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Cheshire,WA1,UK,United Kingdom,town,centre,North West England,North West,England,WA1 1QB,shopping,shops,tourist,tourism,tourists,retail,wall,walls,decoration,local,band,music,musicians,Kris Leonard,River Reeves,Tomas Lowe,and,Jack Dakin,mural,rugby,stadium,ground,Wolves,Halliwell Jones Stadium
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAPXAE - . Made at Golden Square, Old Market place, Warrington, Cheshire,UK, WA1 1QB in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The frame specifically shows Warrington Golden Square shopping centre, Briers, Viola Beach band mural, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1QB. The setting additionally reflects traditional confectionery, physical store, before-and-after reference, holiday resort economy, British seaside culture, commercial streetscape, social history, seaside souvenir, customer footfall, archival record, everyday life, high-street commerce, outdoor retail, and changing land use. The modern context includes continuing discussion of commercial rents, town-centre regeneration and the speed at which branding and store formats change. For current editorial use, visitor spending and coastal regeneration provide additional context, especially through the vulnerability of resort economies to seasonality and changing visitor habits. As a dated visual record of Golden Square, Old Market place, Warrington, Cheshire,UK, WA1 1QB, the frame retains equipment and working practice, making it especially useful if closure or conversion subsequently changes the scene. The surrounding story also includes place identity, documentary photography, changing streetscape, day-trip culture, local history, shopping district, public realm, and town-centre economy. Elements such as shopping, centre, Beach, Viola, and Golden add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The period setting at Golden Square, Old Market place, Warrington, Cheshire,UK, WA1 1QB helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. Image 2JAPXAE also remains a dated record of Golden Square, Old Market place, Warrington, Cheshire,UK, WA1 1QB.
Golden Square, Old Market place, Warrington, Cheshire,UK, WA1 1QB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M3JBA9 - . This authentic period view of 95, The Mall, Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1QE in 2022 preserves the main subject alongside smaller contextual details that can acquire greater historical value as places and uses change. The principal subject is Old 1970s mass-produced paintings , in bad taste, for irony, in the Vintage Viola shop, Warrington Golden Square, England. Other connected aspects include regional identity, customer footfall, changing streetscape, historical comparison, changing land use, specialist retailer, before-and-after reference, local character, high-street commerce, bricks-and-mortar retail, period detail, street-level business, archival record, and small business. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into commercial rents and town-centre regeneration, not least because of how commercial property costs affect small retailers. Future viewers can use this scene from 95, The Mall, Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1QE to compare street furniture and boundaries with whatever follows after redevelopment. The location also brings in commercial frontage, social history, specialist shop, visual archive, contemporary social history, shopfront economy, everyday life, and town-centre trading. The combination of irony, Vintage, paintings, Golden, and Viola anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. For 95, The Mall, Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1QE, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Another useful connection is commercial rents and how commercial property costs affect small retailers within the specific setting of 95, The Mall, Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1QE. The scene captures evidence of earlier appearance as part of 95, The Mall, Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1QE's history.
95, The Mall, Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA1 1QE
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,52,Church St,Manchester,England,UK,M4 1PW,M4,Afflecks,Afflecks Palace,Wham,Wham sisters,duo,Wham! U.K.,George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley,George Michael,and,Andrew Ridgeley,music,band,optimism,optimistic,slogan,1980,1980s,wall,art,painting,album,t-shirt,smash,hit,hits,famous,T Shirt,TShirt
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JYYR7P - Wham! (briefly known in the US as Wham! U.K.) were an English pop duo formed in Bushey in 1981. The duo consisted of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. They became one of the most commercially successful pop acts of the 1980s, selling more than 30 million certified records worldwide from 1982 to 1986.
Influenced by funk and soul music and presenting themselves as disaffected youth, Wham!'s 1983 debut album Fantastic addressed the United Kingdom's unemployment problem and teen angst over adulthood. Their second studio album Make It Big in 1984 was a worldwide pop smash hit, charting at number one in both the UK and the United States. Associated with the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US, the singles from the albumWake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Everything She Wants and Careless Whisperall topped the US Billboard Hot 100. In 1985, Wham! made a highly publicised 10-day visit to China, the first by a Western pop group. The event was seen as a major watershed moment in increasing friendly bilateral relations between China and the West.
In 1986, Wham! broke up. Michael was keen to create music targeted at a more sophisticated adult market rather than the duo's primarily teenage audience. Before going their separate ways, a farewell single The Edge of Heaven, and a greatest-hits album titled The Final would be forthcoming, along with a farewell concert entitled The Final.
52 Church St, Manchester, England, UK, M4 1PW
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,Cheshire,CW5,bar,live,music,gig,pub,celebrate,celebration,celebrating,cheery,happy,decorated,decorations,outside,exterior,pubs,bars,sunny,blue,sky,skies,hotel,heritage,Victorian,blue sky,blue skies,town,town centre,interesting,tourist,tourism,attraction,attractions,band
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JNN53X - . This scene at Pillory St, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5SS in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The main point of reference is Summer bunting at the Railway Hotel, Pillory St, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5SS. Further facets of the scene include historical comparison, period detail, place identity, public realm, creative culture, cultural venue, gallery space, arts heritage, creative industries, social history, contemporary social history, arts destination, local character, and everyday life. For current editorial use, venue costs and cultural tourism provide additional context, especially through how arts spaces contribute to local identity and tourism. The image fixes transport arrangements and footfall within Pillory St, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5SS at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against redevelopment. The photograph additionally reflects changing land use, performance venue, changing streetscape, local cultural identity, community identity, before-and-after reference, visual archive, and regional identity. Details involving bunting, Summer, Hotel, Railway, and Nantwich make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. Around Pillory St, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5SS, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. Another useful connection is venue costs and the financial pressure faced by many galleries and performance venues without losing the local specificity of Pillory St, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5SS. The scene further reflects heritage and the role of cultural venues in sustaining city-centre activity in a form that can be compared with future views of Pillory St, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5SS.
Pillory St, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW5 5SS
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,cash,note,notes,roll,rolls,of,5,10,20,pound,pounds,quid,heap,hard,loose,criminal,proceeds,crime,GBP,currency,currencies,exchange,rate,rates,crisis,fall,elastic,band,bands,laundering,money,wad,inflation,Elizabeth,queen,GB,stacks of cash
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KYMFKP - . This scene at the recorded location in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. At the centre of the view is Rolls of British bank of England notes held together by an elastic bands. The surrounding context encompasses small business, everyday life, period detail, high-street commerce, changing land use, regional identity, changing streetscape, town-centre trading, commercial frontage, place identity, shopfront economy, community identity, local enterprise, and customer footfall. From a 2025-onward perspective, online shopping and footfall are closely linked to this subject, alongside how commercial property costs affect small retailers. For later comparison, the photograph preserves landscape treatment and surrounding development at the recorded location, details that may look very different after redevelopment. A second descriptive layer includes street-level business, historical comparison, public realm, visual archive, social history, specialist retailer, contemporary social history, and independent retail. The recorded references to bands, British, elastic, Rolls, and together preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For the recorded location, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The location additionally provides evidence of online shopping and how commercial property costs affect small retailers in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location. A further contemporary connection is town-centre regeneration and how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses within the real-world context of the recorded location. The view records period character before later change alters the scene.
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Keywords: @HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,EMI,2566,EMI2566,1975,produced,by,copy,single,7,7inch,7 Inch,seven,inch,Queens,Demo,Record,Not,For,sale,from,a,night at the opera,record,Freddy Mercury,band,hit,hits,number,ones,one,famous,rarity,DJ,demo,singles,Roy Thomas Baker
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JP5T1J - . Photographed at the recorded location in 2022, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The image documents EMI 2566, Demo Record Not For sale, Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody, 1975, produced by Roy Thomas Baker. A broader reading of the photograph includes contemporary social history, local history, creative industries, before-and-after reference, music history, archival record, place identity, cultural venue, arts destination, public realm, social history, changing streetscape, historical comparison, and period detail. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into venue costs and heritage, not least because of the financial pressure faced by many galleries and performance venues. The archival value lies partly in recording landscape treatment and surrounding development around the recorded location before later reinterpretation alters the character of the place. The surrounding story also includes live performance, regional arts scene, cultural tourism, local character, documentary photography, regional identity, creative culture, and visual archive. Details involving Thomas, Baker, produced, Bohemian, and Record make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. Viewed retrospectively, 2JP5T1J can help trace changes in the appearance, interpretation or use of EMI 2566, Demo Record Not For sale, Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody, 1975, produced by Roy Thomas, despite the absence of a more detailed address. The scene further reflects venue costs and the financial pressure faced by many galleries and performance venues within the real-world context of the recorded location. Its period value extends to creative industries and how arts spaces contribute to local identity and tourism within the specific setting of the recorded location. The scene captures evidence of earlier appearance for future local research.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2DHJJ85 - File under: Depression,epilepsy,suicide,previous suicide attempt,hanging,kitchen,washing line,hang himself,Touching from a Distance,Tony Wilson, Werner Herzog,1977,film,Stroszek,listening to Iggy Pop's 1977 album The Idiot,Deborah,Honoré,altruistic,altruism,grave marker,drugs,distress
Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 18 May 1980) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer and lyricist of the post-punk band Joy Division and recorded two albums with the group: Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980). Curtis was known for his bass-baritone voice, dance style and songwriting typically filled with imagery of desolation, emptiness and alienation.
Curtis suffered from epilepsy and depression and took his own life on the eve of Joy Division's first North American tour and shortly before the release of Closer. His death led to the band's dissolution and the subsequent formation of New Order.
Despite their short career, Joy Division have exerted a wide-reaching influence. John Bush of AllMusic argues that they became the first band in the post-punk movement by ... emphasizing not anger and energy but mood and expression, pointing ahead to the rise of melancholy alternative music in the '80s.
Prestbury Road, Macclesfield SK10 3BU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DCXB - Antique Roberts Shortwave, Mediumwave, Longwave radio dial has the strength of a real-world scene: ordinary enough to be believable, but specific enough to support precise editorial use. An antique Roberts radio dial evokes the era when shortwave, medium wave and long wave listening brought news, music, shipping forecasts and distant voices into the home through a single portable set. The object suits stories about broadcasting history, analogue design, domestic technology, nostalgia, radio collecting and the shift from tuning knobs to streaming platforms. The location wording gives the subject enough geographic context for local and regional editorial use while avoiding a generic studio feel. It can work both as a straightforward location record and as a wider editorial illustration of the habits, services, buildings, symbols and small commercial details that shape everyday life.
England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGA1AR - The Fall Set List Manchester Cathedral 15-05-2014
The Remainderer
Cowboy George
Auto Chip 20142016
Bury Pts. 1 + 3
White Lightning
Pledge
Sir William Wray
Happi Song
Mister Rode
Amorator!
Facebook Troll
Strychnine
Wolf Kidult Man
Hittite Man
Encore:
Blindness
Encore 2:
Aborted Reformation
Mr. Pharmacist
Manchester evg News Review - https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/gig-review-fall--manchester-7129956
I've seen Mark E Smith at a range of venues, from sweaty club gigs to confusing 100,000 Gorillaz fans at Glastonbury's main stage, but to see Manchester's most dissident music icon at the city's cathedral felt like it would be a surreal experience.
When the man himself strode past paying customers into the main nave of the grand old building, with the assurance of a man who very much owned the place, it was a double-take moment which seemed fitting of the whole event.
The Fall have been an unusually settled outfit in recent years, now on their fourth consecutive studio album with the same line-up.
For a band which has clocked up almost 70 members one of whom was reportedly fired by its iconic frontman and dictator-in-chief for ordering a salad it's been a period of relative calm which could have brought accusations of sterility.
The rousing opener Your Future, Our Clutter' quickly dispels any fears of the serene venue taking away any of The Fall's traditional sting, if anything the acoustics of the cathedral add another layer to Smith's barking, hectoring vocals.
The follow-up number I'm not from Bury' seems appropriate as the Prestwich rock deity holds his hometown crowd in the palm of his hand, especially the ones craning their necks around the cathedral's dramatic pillars as he prowls around the stage like an overlord searching for something that needs correcting.
In nearing 40 years as The Fall's supreme leader Smith has exhibited a fondness for live-mixing' during sets a tweak of an amp here etc
Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGA1GK - The Fall Set List Manchester Cathedral 15-05-2014
The Remainderer
Cowboy George
Auto Chip 20142016
Bury Pts. 1 + 3
White Lightning
Pledge
Sir William Wray
Happi Song
Mister Rode
Amorator!
Facebook Troll
Strychnine
Wolf Kidult Man
Hittite Man
Encore:
Blindness
Encore 2:
Aborted Reformation
Mr. Pharmacist
Manchester evg News Review - https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/gig-review-fall--manchester-7129956
I've seen Mark E Smith at a range of venues, from sweaty club gigs to confusing 100,000 Gorillaz fans at Glastonbury's main stage, but to see Manchester's most dissident music icon at the city's cathedral felt like it would be a surreal experience.
When the man himself strode past paying customers into the main nave of the grand old building, with the assurance of a man who very much owned the place, it was a double-take moment which seemed fitting of the whole event.
The Fall have been an unusually settled outfit in recent years, now on their fourth consecutive studio album with the same line-up.
For a band which has clocked up almost 70 members one of whom was reportedly fired by its iconic frontman and dictator-in-chief for ordering a salad it's been a period of relative calm which could have brought accusations of sterility.
The rousing opener Your Future, Our Clutter' quickly dispels any fears of the serene venue taking away any of The Fall's traditional sting, if anything the acoustics of the cathedral add another layer to Smith's barking, hectoring vocals.
The follow-up number I'm not from Bury' seems appropriate as the Prestwich rock deity holds his hometown crowd in the palm of his hand, especially the ones craning their necks around the cathedral's dramatic pillars as he prowls around the stage like an overlord searching for something that needs correcting.
In nearing 40 years as The Fall's supreme leader Smith has exhibited a fondness for live-mixing' during sets a tweak of an amp here etc
Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGA1GT - The Fall Set List Manchester Cathedral 15-05-2014
The Remainderer
Cowboy George
Auto Chip 20142016
Bury Pts. 1 + 3
White Lightning
Pledge
Sir William Wray
Happi Song
Mister Rode
Amorator!
Facebook Troll
Strychnine
Wolf Kidult Man
Hittite Man
Encore:
Blindness
Encore 2:
Aborted Reformation
Mr. Pharmacist
Manchester evg News Review - https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/gig-review-fall--manchester-7129956
I've seen Mark E Smith at a range of venues, from sweaty club gigs to confusing 100,000 Gorillaz fans at Glastonbury's main stage, but to see Manchester's most dissident music icon at the city's cathedral felt like it would be a surreal experience.
When the man himself strode past paying customers into the main nave of the grand old building, with the assurance of a man who very much owned the place, it was a double-take moment which seemed fitting of the whole event.
The Fall have been an unusually settled outfit in recent years, now on their fourth consecutive studio album with the same line-up.
For a band which has clocked up almost 70 members one of whom was reportedly fired by its iconic frontman and dictator-in-chief for ordering a salad it's been a period of relative calm which could have brought accusations of sterility.
The rousing opener Your Future, Our Clutter' quickly dispels any fears of the serene venue taking away any of The Fall's traditional sting, if anything the acoustics of the cathedral add another layer to Smith's barking, hectoring vocals.
The follow-up number I'm not from Bury' seems appropriate as the Prestwich rock deity holds his hometown crowd in the palm of his hand, especially the ones craning their necks around the cathedral's dramatic pillars as he prowls around the stage like an overlord searching for something that needs correcting.
In nearing 40 years as The Fall's supreme leader Smith has exhibited a fondness for live-mixing' during sets a tweak of an amp here etc
Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AGA1GX - The Fall Set List Manchester Cathedral 15-05-2014
The Remainderer
Cowboy George
Auto Chip 20142016
Bury Pts. 1 + 3
White Lightning
Pledge
Sir William Wray
Happi Song
Mister Rode
Amorator!
Facebook Troll
Strychnine
Wolf Kidult Man
Hittite Man
Encore:
Blindness
Encore 2:
Aborted Reformation
Mr. Pharmacist
Manchester evg News Review - https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/gig-review-fall--manchester-7129956
I've seen Mark E Smith at a range of venues, from sweaty club gigs to confusing 100,000 Gorillaz fans at Glastonbury's main stage, but to see Manchester's most dissident music icon at the city's cathedral felt like it would be a surreal experience.
When the man himself strode past paying customers into the main nave of the grand old building, with the assurance of a man who very much owned the place, it was a double-take moment which seemed fitting of the whole event.
The Fall have been an unusually settled outfit in recent years, now on their fourth consecutive studio album with the same line-up.
For a band which has clocked up almost 70 members one of whom was reportedly fired by its iconic frontman and dictator-in-chief for ordering a salad it's been a period of relative calm which could have brought accusations of sterility.
The rousing opener Your Future, Our Clutter' quickly dispels any fears of the serene venue taking away any of The Fall's traditional sting, if anything the acoustics of the cathedral add another layer to Smith's barking, hectoring vocals.
The follow-up number I'm not from Bury' seems appropriate as the Prestwich rock deity holds his hometown crowd in the palm of his hand, especially the ones craning their necks around the cathedral's dramatic pillars as he prowls around the stage like an overlord searching for something that needs correcting.
In nearing 40 years as The Fall's supreme leader Smith has exhibited a fondness for live-mixing' during sets a tweak of an amp here etc
Victoria St, Manchester , England, UK, M3 1SX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RK9X6Y - Mark E. Smith mural - 8 Clifton Road, Prestwich
This impressive mural of the mercurial frontman of The Fall was painted by graffiti artist Akse P19 as part of the Prestwich Art Festival in 2018.
The mural was painted 9 months after the underground rock icon died aged 60 after a battle with lung and kidney cancer, and features Smith smoking a cigarette in typically nonchalant fashion, alongside the quote Fear is something I try not to absorb', from an interview he gave to the Guardian newspaper in 2011.
Smith who was born in Broughton, Salford in 1957 founded The Fall were founded in Prestwich in 1976, and lived in the area for most of his life.
The Fall were one of the most prolific and acclaimed post-punk bands to emerge in the UK, and retained a large cult following right until Smith's death. He was the only constant member of the group that notoriously had a high turnover of members. Smith once wittily remarked if it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.
The mural is on the side of the fish and chip shop Chips @ No.8 on Clifton Road.
8 Clifton Road, Prestwich, Bury, M25 3HQ, England
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RBF07F - Physical Graffiti is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released as a double album on 24 February 1975 by the group's new record label, Swan Song Records.
The band wrote and recorded eight new songs for the album in early 1974 at Headley Grange, a country house in Hampshire, which gave them ample time to improvise arrangements and experiment with recording. The total playing time covered three sides of an LP, so they decided to expand it into a double by including previously unreleased tracks from the sessions for the earlier albums Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin IV and Houses of the Holy. The album covered a range of styles including hard rock, progressive rock, rock 'n' roll and folk. The album was then mixed over summer 1974 and planned for an end-of year release. It was delayed because of the sleeve, which was designed by Peter Corriston and featured a theme around a tenement block in Manhattan, New York.
Physical Graffiti was commercially and critically successful upon its release and debuted at number one on album charts in both the US and the UK. It was promoted by a successful US tour and a five-night residency at Earl's Court, London, and has since been viewed as one of the group's strongest albums and the artistic peak of their career. The album has been reissued on CD several times, including an expansive 40th anniversary edition in 2015. Physical Graffiti was later certified 16× platinum in the United States
St Marks Place, East Village, New York City, NY, USA
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HDWT47 - . A grounded documentary photograph made at 224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, BT13 2BJ in 2016, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The image documents Shankill Historical Society and band shop, 224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Ireland, BT13 2BJ. Other connected aspects include everyday life, small business, contemporary social history, arts destination, documentary photography, specialist retailer, period detail, creative culture, community identity, historical comparison, regional arts scene, live performance, customer footfall, and performance venue. The modern context includes continuing discussion of town-centre regeneration, store closures and the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy. For current editorial use, audience access and creative industries provide additional context, especially through the role of cultural venues in sustaining city-centre activity. The archival value lies partly in recording local activity and public use around 224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, BT13 2BJ before refurbishment alters the character of the place. A second descriptive layer includes town-centre economy, high-street commerce, changing land use, regional identity, local trading, music history, commercial streetscape, and visual archive. Details involving County, Historical, Northern, Society, and Ireland make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. For 224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, BT13 2BJ, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The location additionally provides evidence of town-centre regeneration and the resilience of independent shops in an online retail economy as part of the longer story of 224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, BT13 2BJ.
224 Shankill Rd, Belfast, County Antrim, BT13 2BJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DC8X - The LP (long play), or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a format for phonograph (gramophone) records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, it has remained the standard format for vinyl albums.
Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DCXE - . An identifiable period record of the recorded location in 2015, retaining practical detail and local context that distinguish documentary photography from a generic illustration. The defining feature is Antique Roberts Shortwave, Mediumwave, Longwave radio dial model R500. Other connected aspects include city branding, capital-city heritage, capital landmark imagery, metropolitan identity, place identity, everyday life, period detail, local character, before-and-after reference, contemporary social history, London cityscape, documentary photography, social history, and historical comparison. Today's relevance is strengthened by public transport, tourism and the continuing question of how iconic streets and landmarks change while retaining strong visual identity. Future viewers can use this scene from the recorded location to compare public access and movement with whatever follows after closure or conversion. The surrounding story also includes changing land use, community identity, urban tourism, Thames city view, historic London streetscape, changing streetscape, regional identity, and visual archive. Details involving model, Shortwave, Antique, radio, and Roberts make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The particular scene at the recorded location gives that point a stronger documentary anchor. Another useful connection is public transport and how familiar London symbols function as global shorthand for Britain in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location. The scene further reflects urban mobility and how familiar London symbols function as global shorthand for Britain within the real-world context of the recorded location. Its period value extends to air quality and how familiar London symbols function as global shorthand for Britain within the specific setting of the recorded location.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DCXK - . Photographed at the recorded location in 2015, this detailed documentary image records the subject within its real surroundings and preserves a specific stage in the life of the location. The location is represented through Antique Roberts Shortwave, Mediumwave, Longwave radio dial. Other connected aspects include regional identity, London cityscape, historical comparison, visual archive, Westminster landmark, archival record, social history, metropolitan identity, local character, iconic London transport, everyday life, changing land use, local history, and urban tourism. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into housing pressure and heritage conservation, not least because of the mix of working city infrastructure with heritage tourism. The archival value lies partly in recording building condition and alterations around the recorded location before refurbishment alters the character of the place. Other useful contextual ideas include before-and-after reference, place identity, capital-city heritage, city branding, contemporary social history, documentary photography, London visitor economy, and historic London streetscape. Details involving Roberts, Mediumwave, Shortwave, radio, and Antique make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The photograph from the recorded location links the broader issue back to a specific real place. Another useful connection is housing pressure and the pressure of visitor economies and housing costs on central neighbourhoods within the real-world context of the recorded location. The scene further reflects housing pressure and how iconic streets and landmarks change while retaining strong visual identity within the specific setting of the recorded location. The scene captures evidence of earlier appearance before later change alters the scene. Image F7DCXK also preserves another period-specific detail for later comparison.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ECW4H4 - . Music at KAsh22, Frodsham,Cheshire, England,UK. Photographed at 22 Church St, Frodsham, Cheshire WA6 6QW, England, UK. The photograph was taken on 13 December 2014. The image metadata records 1 person in the frame. This editorial stock image documents the subject as it appeared at that time, preserving a clear record of the place, its appearance and the everyday details surrounding it. The scene is closely associated with Music, KAsh22, Frodsham, Cheshire, Kash 22, Kash, pub, musician, guitar and guitarist, adding specific subject detail and useful search context without losing the documentary focus on the main subject. The photograph is relevant to religious heritage, places of worship, ecclesiastical architecture, local history, faith communities and the conservation of historic buildings. It can illustrate editorial features about churches and cathedrals, worship, monuments, memorials, stained glass, church interiors, architectural detail, tourism, listed buildings and the role of historic religious sites within towns and cities. Stonework, inscriptions, furnishings, windows, towers, memorials and other surviving details can provide useful evidence for architectural and heritage-focused picture research. As a documentary location image it also records the condition, presentation and setting of the site at a particular point in time. Search themes include religious heritage, churches, cathedrals, worship, monuments, memorials, ecclesiastical architecture, conservation, tourism and local history. Architectural and decorative details can also be useful to researchers studying the fabric, furnishings and changing presentation of historic places of worship. The combination of a named subject, precise location and capture date gives the image particular value to editors who need a real, identifiable place rather than a generic illustrative photograph. The view is firmly rooted in a real location rather than a constructed studio setting.
22 Church St, Frodsham, Cheshire WA6 6QW, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DDJNHA - Bernard John Bernie Marsden (born 7 May 1951) is an English rock guitarist. Having played with Glenn Cornick's Wild Turkey in 1974, he then played with Babe Ruth, from 197576, before becoming an original member of Paice Ashton Lord in 1977 and then joining the hard rock band, Whitesnake, after having the possibility of playing with his boy-time hero Paul McCartney and Wings because while waiting, David Coverdale asked him to form Whitesnake.
In more recent years, Marsden has toured with his bands Company of Snakes, M3 (both formed with fellow former Whitesnake members Micky Moody and Neil Murray), and performed with Elkie Brooks. Over the years he has taken part in a number of sessions and has released a handful of solo albums (And About Time, Too!, Look at Me Now, Green & Blues, Stacks). He has also collaborated with Micky Moody on a number of Marsden-Moody live and studio projects.
On the Sweden Rock Festival on 10 June 2011 Bernie Marsden played with Whitesnake for the first time since 1981, thus becoming the second of only two former Whitesnake band members who have played with Whitesnake in recent years, the other person being Adrian Vandenberg, who also played with them on the Sweden Rock Festival. In the last ten years, Marsden has been involved in very different projects. The most unusual being two engagements at the National Theatre in London for Nickolas Hytner's productions of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Henry the V in collaboration with Simon Webb. Also, he appeared in ZDF television in Germany for their production of Frankie, a six-part TV special.
After this, Marsden has worked alongside Robert Plant, Paul Weller, Ian Paice and Jon Lord for a charity concert in London. Bernie also played Guitar with Ringo Starr and his son Zak Starkey in Monte Carlo. Most recently, he has been playing and writing for guitar virtuoso Joe Bonamassa.
Silverstone Woods Campsite, Northamptonshire, England, UK
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Keywords: John,Foxx,and,The,maths,performing,at,the,Manchester,Academy,Friday,21st,October,2011,England,UK,tour,british,english,synth,synthesizer,synthesiser,whole,band,pano,panorama,gig,on,stage,21-10-2011,21/10/2011music,musical,project,Benge,duo,electric,electronic,Shoreditch,London,Live,M13,9PR,M139PR,Gotonysmith Keyboard keyboards instruments,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HF49 - Panoramic live music photograph of John Foxx and The Maths performing at Manchester stock-photo/gotonysmith-Academy.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>Academy, Manchester, England, on Friday 21 October 2011 during the Interplay tour. The image shows electronic music pioneer John Foxx centre stage at a Roland keyboard and microphone, surrounded by analogue and digital synthesizers, live percussion, keyboards and stage equipment under vivid pink, blue and white concert lights. The wider band line-up for this period included Ben Edwards, better known as Benge, plus Hannah Peel and Serafina Steer, bringing keyboards, violin, bass and vocals into the live version of The Maths. The photograph has strong editorial value for features on British electronic music, post-punk, synth-pop, new wave heritage, analogue synthesizer culture, independent touring, Manchester gigs, university music venues and the revival of classic electronic artists in the 2010s. John Foxx is closely associated with early Ultravox, the influential solo album Metamatic, minimal electronic pop, art-school futurism and the continuing British synth tradition. The setting and lighting give the image a documentary concert feel, with visible keyboards, microphone stands, cables, stage monitors and performers spread across the frame, making it useful for music press, archive, venue history, fan culture, live performance reviews and retrospective pieces on the Interplay era. The Manchester Academy context also links the photograph to the city's long relationship with electronic music, from post-punk experimentation and independent labels to later club, synth and alternative scenes. The Alamy watermark indicates this is already a stock image preview, but the subject remains clear: a live stage panorama of John Foxx and The Maths in Manchester at the start of the 2010s, capturing the mix of veteran electronic songwriting and contemporary analogue performance that defined the project.
Manchester Academy, Oxford Road, Manchester, England, UK M13 9PR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF13BM - . A Question of Etiquette band - AQOE Matty Awbery, Winnington Rec 26-03-2010. Photographed on 26 March 2010. The recorded location is Park Rd, Winnington, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 4EB. In the longer view, live music leaves a material trail through venues, tickets, posters, recording equipment and the buildings associated with bands and labels
These apparently everyday objects become cultural-history evidence as scenes, technologies and venues change or disappear. Current 2026 relevance comes from the fact that the economics of live music remain under scrutiny as independent venues face costs while audiences increasingly discover and consume music digitally
Historic tickets, venue exteriors and recording technology therefore provide a useful contrast with now's streaming-led music economy. In historical terms, popular-music history is often preserved through ephemeral material: concert tickets, venue signage, record-company offices, flyers and amateur recordings
Such objects can connect a specific date and place with wider movements in rock, punk, post-punk and independent music. From a heritage perspective, music scenes are shaped by both performers and infrastructure, including rehearsal rooms, record labels, promoters, venues and audiences
Photographs of these details help document community cultural ecosystems that can be lost quickly through redevelopment or changing entertainment habits. Looking at the subject's development, live music leaves a material trail through venues, tickets, posters, recording equipment and the buildings associated with bands and labels
These apparently everyday objects become cultural-history evidence as scenes, technologies and venues change or disappear. Related search language includes gig, music venue, musician, popular culture, music memorabilia, rock music, fan culture, live performance, Winnington 26-03-2010 live, vocal, Recreation, 20100326 AQOE Matty Awbery, indie, vocals, vocalism, and singer.
Park Rd, Winnington, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK, CW8 4EB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF7D9M - . Exhibit A - Banned! live on stage at Winnington Park, Northwich, Cheshire, England UK 2010-02-26 heavy metal band. Photographed on 26 February 2010. The recorded location is Winnington Park, Winnington, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK. Looking at the subject's development, visitor attractions based on historic houses, industrial sites and specialist collections combine conservation with education
Exhibits can change over time, so photographs also document how institutions presented their collections at a particular date. Looking at the subject's development, live music leaves a material trail through venues, tickets, posters, recording equipment and the buildings associated with bands and labels
These apparently everyday objects become cultural-history evidence as scenes, technologies and venues change or disappear. For the 2026 context, heritage attractions increasingly combine physical collections with digital interpretation and events, but the authenticity of original objects and settings remains central to their appeal. For the 2026 context, the economics of live music remain under scrutiny as independent venues face costs while audiences increasingly discover and consume music digitally
Historic tickets, venue exteriors and recording technology therefore provide a useful contrast with today's streaming-led music economy. The wider historical story is that museums and heritage attractions turn surviving objects and places into interpreted public history
Displays, reconstructed rooms and preserved machinery can place everyday artefacts within broader stories of work, domestic life, conflict, design and technological change. In the present 2026 context, museums and heritage sites continue to balance conservation with accessibility, education, digital interpretation and the cost of maintaining buildings and collections
Older exhibition photographs can therefore record displays that have since been changed or reinterpreted.
Winnington Park, Winnington, Northwich, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: TheCubical,The,Cubical,band,St,Helens,StHelens,Liverpool,North,West,NorthWest,England,UK,united,Kingdom,GB,music,musician,musicians,stage,gig,shot,blues,rnB,Myspace,bands,DR,livegig,live
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 8542434445 - 'The Cubical, a cracking band introduced to me by www.flickr.com/photos/87645524@N04/ Lynne Gavaghan. I Know Lynne through a talk I did at St Helens camera camera club and I am very proud of what she has achieved with her 365 photo project. I have been there myself, I know how hard it is.
This was a cracking gig at MelloMello in Slater St in Liverpool, top respect to them for adding me on the guest list. Some cracking beers on down there and I will be back for the vegan grub.
The band were like a road crash between blues and rock and roll, make sure you catch them if you are local. Track down their Myspace at www.myspace.com/thecubicalthecubical
I will be back at Mello Mello ( catch them on Twitter at @MelloMelloCafe ) for some of those great cakes....',
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 7148349357 - 'Dave Vanian (born David Lett, 12 October 1956, Hemel Hempstead, England) is a rock musician, famous for being the lead singer of the punk rock band The Damned. The band formed in 1976 in London and Vanian is the only ever-present member of the group. They were the first of the British punk bands to release a single, an album, have a record hit the UK charts, and tour the United States.
Lett changed his name to Dave Vanian (pronounced as in 'Transylvanian') when he became a musician, having previously worked as a gravedigger.
He was one of the early influencers of gothic fashion by wearing dark and otherworldly clothing both on-stage and off. In November 1976, the British music magazine, NME, commented that Vanian 'resembles a runaway from The Addams Family'.
This was a cracking gig at The Parr Hall in Warrington 5th May 2012.
Support was from Utopian Love Revival.
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Keywords: BOTW,bandonthewall,band,wall,Manchester,UK,England,music,musician,Steve,stephen,jones,babybird,gig,stage,2012,tour,venue,bar,club,vocalist,vocals,british,live,low,light,available,Stephen Jones,indie,artist,venues,MIS,@hotpixUK,ActiveH,housingtechnology
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6797306643 - 'Babybird are a British indie band formed in 1995. The band is fronted by Stephen Jones, who has also released records as a solo artist, using his own name.
Jones had begun writing songs and recording home demos as part of an experimental theatre group in Sheffield. A collection of these demos, I Was Born a Man, was released in July 1995, under the name Babybird. He recruited a band made up of Huw Chadbourn (keyboards), Robert Gregory (drums), John Pedder (bass) and Luke Scott (guitar), in order to tour and promote his work.
During 1995, two further albums of demo recordings were released under the name Babybird (Bad Shave and Fatherhood) and two in 1996 (The Happiest Man Alive and Dying Happy). Babybird were signed to Echo Records (a division of the Chrysalis Group), and the first authentic single, a full-band recording of 'Goodnight', which had appeared in demo form on Fatherhood, was released in July 1996, becoming a minor hit in the UK Singles Chart. The group's second single, 'You're Gorgeous', reached number 3 in the UK in October 1996, and was one of the biggest selling singles of the year, going on to chart around the world.
Stephen can laugh about it on tour, but 'You're Gorgeous' set a difficult precident to follow. It hurts so much that it rarely gets played nowadays, more a millstone around his and Babybirds neck. Arguably, the commercial sound and success of 'You're Gorgeous', which received massive exposure by comparison, made it hard for many to take Jones seriously as an indie artist. Essentially, what he was best at was no longer what he was best known for, after it.
Stephen Jones has produced two works of fiction, The Bad Book in 2000 and Harry and Ida Swop Teeth (also the title of a Babybird b-side) in 2003. He also collaborated with DED Associates, who have designed many of his CD covers, on a 2000 art book Travel Sickness.
The tracks on the set list to play on the night were as follows:
Black Flowers
The Life
Can't Love You Anymore
Like Them
FSC
www . song
Out of sight
Cornershop
Goodnight
Drugtime
I live her
Back Together
The way You Are
Not Love
Unloveable
Bad Old Man
Encore:
Send me back my dreams
If You'll be mine
Take me back
Extra's
Goodnight
Gorgeous
All men are evil
dead bird sings
Stephen chatted so much he only got about 3/4's the way through it, and through a couple of brandies, without the coke!
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5763278682 - 'Yes you say, I've had a day like that!
This lady does it every day and has to get it just right every time!
Oh and you may need this link too - www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3qQE1rTMbI (still wearing well after 40 years, better turn up those speakers).
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Keywords: band,bands,cheshire,live,stage,gig,concert,rock,rocker,guitar,guitarist,light,lighting,tony,smith,tonysmith,hotpix,tonysmithhotpix,hot,pix,pics,picks,hotpicks,hotpics,spires,spire,rockers,manchester,MIS,@hotpixUK,ActiveH,housingtechnology
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5352022412 - 'Spires take traditional heavy metal into the next dimension! These metal lads from Manchester fuse the technical parts of various metal styles be it black, death or even prog together into an excellent blend that is both intelligent as well as lethally heavy. Centred around the brainchild of vocalist, guitarist and producer Paul Sadler who's now assembled a band of equally talented musicians, Spires awe by their ability to roll from acoustics to power riffing to techno death (or even all three) on songs like 'The Infinite Descent', 'Spiral of Ascension' and 'Martyr'.
This Winnington Rec' Banned! gig was shared with AQOE (A Question Of Etiquette), Kensington Arms from Holland.
Good on Nick Hughes and The Banned Network for keeping these gigs on in these dire ConDem times of recession.
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Keywords: band,bands,banned!,network,live,concert,stage,shot,shots,images,tony,smith,tonysmith,hotpix,hot,pix,uk,northwich,cheshire,groups,sax,tonysmithhotpix,pics,picks,hotpicks,29/10/2010,20101029,gig,gigs,music,musicians,musician,performing,playing,MIS,@hotpixUK,ActiveH,housingtechnology
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5136938409 - 'Crash Site are a Ska/Swing/Jazz band, influenced by Madness.
The band are Adam Williams (trumpet, vocals), Richard Hormbrey (Tenor Saxophone), Christopher Tavener (Guitar/Vox),
Grace Monson (Alto Saxophone), Michael Carter (Bass Guitar) and Jack Mountney (Drums).
It was a good gig for Crash Site on Halloween band night at the Winnington Rec. The set was as follows:
Beer
Take on me
One Week
Grand Attraction
Fashion Zombies (Aquabats cover)
Mr Pinstripe Suit
Sell Out
Good on Nick Hughes and The Banned Network for keeping these gigs on in these dire ConDem times of recession.
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Keywords: band,bands,concert,live,gig,gigs,UK,England,CWAC,cheshire,west,middlewich,northwich,superman,outfit,super,man,blue,costume,stage,music,musicians,musician,performing,playing,hotpix!,MIS,@hotpixUK,ActiveH,housingtechnology
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5147195072 - ''No Signal' are a young mid-Cheshire based band. They are shown here playing at the Winnington Park Halloween special fancy dress gig. Also on the night were 'Crash Site', 'Allerjen' and 'Solitary'.
Good on Nick Hughes and The Banned Network for keeping these gigs on in these dire ConDem times of recession.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5151969435 - 'Solitary are a Lancashire based rock/metal band. They are Richard Sherrington (original member) on vox &
guitars, Roy Miller on drums, Andy Mellor on lead guitar and Mike Park on Bass. They are caught here at the Winnington Halloween gig in some more than usual fancy dress.
Solitary formed in Preston 1994 and signed to UK label Holier Than Thou Records in 1997, they made their first appearance on the HTT compilation \u201cGenetically Fresh\u201d which attracted interest from the JMG Agency who lined up support slots with Kill 2 This, Reign and Deranged from Sweden. May the following year Solitary record \u201cNothing Changes\u201d Solitary then embarked on two UK tours to promote the album, which was released in November 1998.
In 2008 a new album \u201cRequiem\u201d, over a four-year period fraught with personal highs and lows the band created a 'Thrash Metal Monster', which was hailed as a must for the fans of Testament, God Forbid, Slayer or The Haunted. Influenced by the aforementioned bands and the 80\u2019s Bay Area bands.
\u201cRequiem\u201d contains a guest vocal appearance from Chris Astley of 80\u2019s Thrashers Xentrix on the track \u201cHatred\u201d the CD also has cover of Testament\u2019s \u201cInto the Pit\u201d. When writing the album Solitary used inspirational albums such as \u201cSlaughter of the Soul\u201d, \u201c The Gathering\u201d, \u201c A New Darkness Upon Us\u201d and \u201cGone Forever\u201d as reference points to help them create the same feeling as those albums generated when they first heard them whether or not they\u2019ve done that remains to be seen.
The artwork created by bassist Michael Park uses the original cover of a book published in 1736. The band are also shooting a video for \u201cKeep Your Enemies Closer\u201d in early September as well as having tracks on the CD cover mounts on Metal Hammer and Terrorizer in the UK.
If you have chance, catch a gig. See whats coming up at www.solitary.org.uk
Good on Nick Hughes and The Banned Network for keeping these gigs on in these dire ConDem times of recession.
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Keywords: HMV,Institute,HMVInstitute,TonySmith,Tony,Hotpix,Smith,Digbeth,H HMV,HotpixUk,Midlands,UK,England,Tour,www.hotpix.org.uk,talk-talk,talk,album,live,gig,concert,concerts,stage,shot,shots,Richard,Butler,hot,pix,pics,picks,band,bands,music,musicians,musician,tim,butlet,indie,hotpicks,brum,westmidlands,west,low,light,mono,monochrome,B/W,sepia,27102010,20101027,gigs,performing,playing
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5122633893 - 'For the first time in about five years, the Psychedelic Furs are back in the UK for a mini-tour . They are playing the classic second album 'Talk Talk' in it sentirity followed by classic favourites, like Heartbreak Beat. The band had a wide influence on many artists and the album was their commercial breakthrough.
This is a shot of Richard Butler from the 27th October 2010 gig at The HMV Institute in Birmingham, performing 'High wire days'. The five date tour covered:
Frome (Somerset) 24 Oct Cheese &
Grain
Manchester 26 Oct Manchester Ritz
Birmingham 27 Oct Birmingham Institute
London 28 Oct HMV Forum, London
Glasgow 29 Oct Glasgow ABC 02
...then on to the Ethias Arena in Hasselt, Belguim 31st Oct (Sinner\u2019s Day Festival).
Only two other TalkTalk shows were scheduled. StageOne in Fairfield, CT USA on October 14th, and at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, NY on October 15th.
The set at The Temple at the HMV (Digbeth) Institute was as follows:
1. Dumb Waiters
2. Pretty In Pink
3. I Wanna Sleep With You
4. No Tears
5. Mr Jones
6. Into You Like A Train
7. It Goes On
8. So Run Down
9. All Of This And Nothing
10. She Is Mine
...After a short break they continued with
11. Sister Europe
12. Heartbeat
13. Love My way
14. The Ghost in You
15. In My Head
16. Highwire Days
17. Heaven
...Encore
18. India
There were no band introductions, although the current line up is Richard Butler (vox), Tim Butler (bass), Rich Good (guitar), Mars Williams (sax), Amanda Kramer (keyboards), and Paul Garisto (drums).
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Keywords: BJM,Academy,Manchester,music,band,live,gig,gigs,stage,show,indie,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4642808695 - 'On monday I had the pleasure of seeing Anton and the rest of the BJM at the Manchester Academy. I must admit that they had slipped pretty much completely under my radar until the adorable Lisa Jackson put me on track with them and I was instantly hooked. Deadly rivals with the Dandy Warhols, the band are a brilliant enigma. I didn't really know what to expect as some gigs I have heard as live tapes often just feature Anton swearing at the band for 90 minutes. Monday (thankfully) was not like that :-)
The best introduction to the BJM is 'Tepid Peppermint Wonderland - A Retrospective'. well worth a download or \u00a34 from ebay. The BJM and former friends/rivals The Dandy Warhols were the subject of the acclaimed documentary DiG!, which Lisa let me borrow. This is part myth, part fact, but an entertaining 70 minutes of stalking, rivalry and attempted murder &
kidnap. i would also highly recommend this.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre (BJM) is a neo-psychedelic rock band, led by Anton Newcombe. The group was founded by Newcombe, Matt Hollywood, Ricky Rene Maymi, Patrick Straczek and Travis Threlkel in the early 1990s in San Francisco. The current members are Anton Newcombe, Matt Hollywood, Frankie 'Teardrop' Emerson, Ricky Rene Maymi, Collin Hegna, Dan Allaire, Rob Campanella, Will Carruthers and Joel Gion. The name 'Brian Jonestown Massacre' is a mash-up of The Rolling Stones' guitarist Brian Jones and the infamous mass cult suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.
The band have recorded albums that could fit into a variety of musical genres across their history. 1995's Methodrone approximates the UK shoegazing 'Verve' / 'Supergrass' sound of the time, a sound they would return to with the band's 2008 album, My Bloody Underground.
Their music has been extensively used in films and TV, particularly the track 'Going To Hell' ('Dead Mans Curve' , 'Buffy The Vanpire Slayer') and 'You Look Great When I'm Fucked Up' fron C4's Skins.
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Keywords: banned,gig,banned network,network,nick,hughes,DAN,development,teh,Arts,Northwich,Cheshire,West,Chester,Night,Winnington,Rec,Park,Road,Rd,recreation,club,UK,england,metal,rock,music,musician,guitar,guitarist,vocals,vocalist,hotpix,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpixuk,AQOE,crewe,base,concert,bassist,basist,red,stage,light,bass,player,live,gigs,band,bands,musicians,performing,playing,MIS,ActiveH,housingtechnology
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4487172291 - 'Work the bass Tom...
Grind Core from Crewe south Cheshire.
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(2010 week 12)
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Keywords: OC,obsessive,compulsive,live,stage,concert,kelli,kelly,northwich,winnington,rec',cheshire,england,uk,manchester,band,metal,rock,cool,femal,girl,rocker,sexy,four,piece,hotpix,hotpixuk,tonysmith,tony,smith,gig,gigs,music,bands,musicians,musician,performing,playing,MIS,ActiveH,housingtechnology
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4487218159 - '
More Northwich, Cheshire UK gigs in my photostream-
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Keywords: Comsat,angels,comsatangels,Sheffield,Manchester,academy,uni,university,live,band,stage,UK,england,indie,veteran,rock,rockers,post,punk,postpunk,steve,fellows,stephen,365days,music,musician,gig,performer,player,event,signed,group,lighting,anbiant,univ,academy1,academy2,city,night,nighttime,time,light,roll,tour,touring,GB,britain,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,s1500,bands,concert,concerts,musicians,gigs,performing,playing,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4051548558 - 'Stephen (steve) Fellows leading the Comsat Angels at the Manchester Academy 3, during the 'Last weekend' mini tour taking in Glasgow and London Academy too. Support was Faker Junior.
Thats the same shirt you wore at the original Sheffield gig back in April 2009. www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3480530159/
The Comsats were named after the J. G. Ballard short story. Their single 'Eye of the Lens' should be essentiual listening for all photographers.
'Something's coming closer, I can only stare.
The scream of silence fills the air
I was not a victim of the games of all my friends
Now I find myself behind the eye of the lens...'
Yep, we are the watcher, the voyeur, living life through that shutter.......
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Keywords: Earthwood,Heavy,Metal,Rock,Band,Warrington,UK,North,west,Northwest,music,bands,gigs,gig,stage,musician,performer,unsigned,indie,player,this photo rocks,Tatuaje,\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043a\u0430,T\u00e4towierung,tatouage,tatoegering,\u7d0b\u8eab\u82b1\u523a,tatoo,tonysmith,tony,smith,Tatuada,tat2,tatto,tats,tattoo,ink,bodyart,body,art,hot pix,rickhagen,rick,hagan,richard,hagen
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3827403203 - '100% musician, Rick or Ian as lead singer of warrington based British heavy metal band Earthwood.
Rick is now lead vocalist in a brilliant tribute to Billy Idol called Rebel Yell.
More Rock www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3712678726/
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Keywords: Drummer,Lee,Alone,Maine,Road,Manchester,manchestercity,city,music,bands,gigs,gig,stage,musician,performer,unsigned,rock,indie,player,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,oldham,failsworth,band,failsworth band,musicians,musos,rockers,banned!,north,west,moss,side,man,tonysmith,tony,smith,hot pix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3827403523 - 'A great gig at Manchester City's old ground.
More live music and musicians here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4409614624/
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Keywords: Andrew,Andy,Earnshaw,Drummer,Earthwood,Rick,Hagan,Rock,band,Metal,music,musician,bands,gigs,gig,stage,performer,unsigned,indie,player,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,tonysmith,tony,smith,hot pix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3828200538 - 'More rock gigs here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3809817434/
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Keywords: Hotpix,tony,smith,tonysmith,tonysmithhotpix,guitarist,guitars,stage,live,concert,film,grain,black,white,noise,sepia,mono,monochrome,B/W,gig,gigs,music,band,bands,musicians,musician,performing,playing,#tonysmithotpix,MIS,@hotpixUK,ActiveH,housingtechnology
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5164712933 - 'The Rocker - 'Thin Lizzy' - Play this track here.
\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
A track from the late great Phil Lynott. I heard this live finishing up a set at the Manchester Apollo in 1979 I think, December time.
The band often used to finish up with this track in celebration of a guy called Ted Carroll. He had brought the band to London from Dublin in the early 70's and he ran a Saturday record stall called 'Rock On' on Golborne Road, Off Ladbroke Grove market.
Carroll was involved with early Chiswick label artists and the founders of Stiff records (motto 'If it aint Stiff, it aint worth a f**k). Thus was instrumental in producing and pressing a great many of the 70's vinyls in my loft. He never was involved in a Thin Lizzy release however, Decca and Phongram were the bands labels, with the former involved with the band releasing an album of Deep Purple covers.
Thin Lizzy's leader, Lynott was composer or co-composer of almost all their songs. He was one of the few black men to achieve commercial success in hard rock, and was certainly the first black Irishman to do so. As well as being multiracial, the band drew their members not only from both sides of the Irish border but also from both the Catholic and Protestant communities.
For a great introduction to Thin Lizzy, the live album 'Live and Dangerous' is your only option. There is some disagreement over just how much of the album is actually recorded live. Producer Tony Visconti claimed that the only parts that weren't overdubbed were the drums and the audience. However Brian Robertson has refuted this, saying that he had refused Lynott's request to re-record a guitar solo, and that the only overdubs were backing vocals and some guitar parts by Gorham. He added, 'It's just not true. The only reason we said that it was recorded all over was obviously for tax reasons... so everything that Visconti claims is boll**ks.
Listen for yourself and make your own mind up :-)
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The Fender Cyclone was a series of electric guitars made by Fender. Introduced in late 1997, the Cyclone body is similarly styled to the Mustang but with a significantly different specification. The body of the Cyclone is a quarter of an inch thicker than the body of a Mustang and is made of poplar, whereas contemporary Mustang reissues were made of basswood.
The Fender Cyclone was discontinued in 2007.
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Keywords: The Comsat Angels,Sheffield Reunion gig 26/04/2009,music,musician,gig,stage,live,performer,player,event,signed,band,group,lighting,anbiant,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3481430148 - 'April 2009
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Keywords: The Comsat Angels,Sheffield Reunion gig 26/04/2009,music,musician,gig,stage,live,performer,player,event,signed,band,group,lighting,anbiant,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpix!,sandwich,sarnie,bap,roll
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3481430348 - 'These are my 2008-2015 images, view my most recent images at HotpixUK-2019 - www.flickr.com/people/167831053@N02/ including my second 365 one a day project
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Keywords: The Doves,Warrington Parr Hall UK Tour March 12th 2009 2009-03-12 20090312 live on stage,music,musician,gig,stage,live,performer,player,event,signed,band,group,lighting,anbiant,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpix!,#HotpixUK,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3355854219 - 'The Doves, live on stage at the Parr Hall, Warrington cheshire UK 12th March 2009. Prior to Kingdom of Rust release mini tour.
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Keywords: The Doves,Warrington Parr Hall UK Tour March 12th 2009 2009-03-12 20090312 live on stage,Doves,gig,band,group,music,parr,hall,warrington,england,2009,12/03/2009,2009/03/12,03122009,charcoal,kitchen,indie,Manchester,didsbury,kingdom,rust,tour,1st,musician,stage,live,performer,player,event,signed,lighting,anbiant,city,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpix!,#HotpixUK,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3355855347 - 'The Doves, live on stage at the Parr Hall, Warrington cheshire UK 12th March 2009. Some Cities. Prior to Kingdom of Rust release mini tour.
Another shot here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3355854219/in/set-72157617...
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Keywords: The Doves,Warrington Parr Hall UK Tour March 12th 2009 2009-03-12 20090312 live on stage,music,musician,gig,stage,live,performer,player,event,signed,band,group,lighting,anbiant,tonysmith,tony,smith,hotpix!,#HotpixUK,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3356675968 - 'The Doves, live on stage at the Parr Hall, Warrington cheshire UK 12th March 2009. Jimi Goodwin. Prior to Kingdom of Rust release mini tour.
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Keywords: Magazine reunion gig Manchester academy 1,20090214 14-03-2009,magazine,reunion,manchester,academy,14-02-2009,2009-02-14,music,musician,gig,stage,live,performer,player,event,signed,band,group,lighting,anbiant,B/W,black,white,mono,monochrome,Buzzcocks,Luxuria,HD,Devoto,Howard,light,pours,out,me,night,city,punk,rock,legend,legendary,playing,play,tour,shot,by,both,sides,tonysmith,tony,smith,concert,gigs,bands,musicians,performing,hotpix!,#HotpixUK,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3356737726 - 'Howard Devoto or was it Adam Faith?
Another shot here with IF www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3355914373/
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Keywords: Primalscream,Primal,Scream,Manchester,Apollo,ManchesterApollo,2008,12/12/2008,live,tour,gig,band,tdktony,tony,smith,tonysmith,billy,20081212,ardwick,green,music,musician,stage,performer,player,event,signed,group,lighting,anbiant,Primals,PS,gid,show,Livenation,Ticketmaster,venue,theatre,England,UK,GB,this photo rocks,city,hotpix!,#HotpixUK,#TonySmithHotpix,apollo manchester,apolo,appolo,appollo
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3119042500 - 'Primal Scream, live on stage at Manchester Apollo 12/12/2008 2008 Beautiful Future tour.
Primal Scream are the definitive Scottish alternative rock group. They formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie (vocals) and Jim Beattie. The current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes (guitar), Martin Duffy (keyboards), Gary 'Mani' Mounfield (bass), and Darrin Mooney (drums). Barrie Cadogan toured with the band in 2006 as a temporary replacement after the departure of guitarist Robert 'Throb' Young. Young's permanent replacement has not yet been announced.
The band performed throughout 1982-1984, but their career didn't especially take off until Gillespie left his position as drummer of The Jesus and Mary Chain. The band were a key part of the mid-1980s indie pop scene, but eventually moved away from their more jangly sound, taking on more psychedelic and then garage rock influences, before incorporating a dance music element to their sound. Their 1991 album Screamadelica broke the band into the mainstream.
On July 21, 2008, Primal Scream released a new album called Beautiful Future described by new producer Bjorn Yttling as sounding 'much more pop and Krautrock than before.
Critics suggested it sounds a bit like Alan Vega and Suicide. In July 2008, the first single from the album, entitled 'Can't Go Back', was released. The track was produced by Paul Epworth who also produced the album's title track. The tour followed and hence these shots.
Bobby Gillespie www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3118216145/in/set-72157617...
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Keywords: Alison,Goldfrapp,AlisonGoldfrapp,Liverpool,live,tour,2008,Mountford,Hall,university,Students,union,switch,off,flash,noflash,31102008,20081031,www.thewdcc.org.uk,thewdcc.org.uk,wdcc.org.uk,Warrington,society,District,Camera,club,photographic,photography,SLR,DSLR,group,GYCA,Bellhouse,bellhouse Club,music,musician,gig,stage,performer,player,event,signed,band,lighting,anbiant,O2,academy,O2academy,tonysmith,tony,smith,HOT PIX,merseyside,#HotpixUK,#TonySmithHotpix
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3078638898 - 'Goldfrapp live at the Mountford Hall, Liverpool 31/10/2008 Halloween.
Another shot here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3077807669/in/set-72157617...
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3711428284 - 'Manchester based indie band Concrete Penguin, promo shoot in central Manchester.
Another more traditional portrait here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4325899655/in/photostream/
These are my 2008-2015 images, view my most recent images at HotpixUK-2019 - www.flickr.com/people/167831053@N02/ including my second 365 one a day project
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PG69G6 - Yard Of Ale formed originally in 1972 and had ten successful years on the pub and club circuit, winning the TV Times Pub Entertainers of the Year award, doing well on ITV's New Faces and appearing on many television and radio shows including STV's Thingummyjig and BBC Scotland's Scottish Radio Orchestra Roadshow. During this time they also supported, amongst others, Matt McGinn, Hamish Imlach and Billy Connolly and enjoyed an extended run at the Edinburgh Festival with the legendary Tim Hardin.
Thereafter they went their separate ways........Alistair McDougald performing solo on the club cabaret circuit, Colin Mackenzie forming and playing with North Sea Gas folk group and Ian Lawson leading a successful rock band.
In 1992 the group reformed for a project in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Bill Hill in which they performed acoustic music spanning 30 years........Skiffle, Folk, Protest, Calypso, Country and Contemporary.
One of the hits of this year's festival - Danny Kyle, BBC Radio Scotland.
Since then the band have been in great demand for concerts, folk festivals, corporate functions, pub, hotel and club gigs all over Scotland and on tour in Denmark and Ireland.
Peter Gillan joined the band when Ian retired due to work commitments in 1998. Having spent many years as a singer/guitarist playing solo on the folk and country scenes, Peter's experience has added yet another dimension to the band.
Walter Mowat joined Yard Of Ale in 2015. Walter has played in a number of folk and bluegrass bands over the years and also plays violin with the Really Terrible Orchestra.
Ian Lawson and Colin Mackenzie still occasionally feature with the band for larger gigs and as emergency stand-ins.
10 Princes St, Edinburgh EH2 2AN, UK
