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ISSUE FOUR | JANUARY 2015

6_THE LIVE ROOM INTERVIEW 13_the SHIPLEY ALTERNATIVE MARKET 16_THE GLEN TRAMWAY 20_ARTIST PROFILE: jenny zigzag 22_POP-UP THEATRE

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BY mike farren

Since moving to saltaire from wales in 2012, hilary booth and ron dukelow have quietly gone about building a musical institution down at the caroline street social club.

MIKE FARREN CAUGHT UP WITH THEM TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE LIVE ROOM As an area with culture at its centre, Saltaire has perhaps been let down at times by a lack of music. While Saltaire Live has a long history of bringing folk and related music to the Victoria Hall, until recently other musical events have tended to be one-offs, or tied into the Saltaire Festival.

The Live Room at Caroline Street Social Club has now become such a part of the fabric of Saltaire that it’s hard to recall it started as recently as 2012. However, when I meet Hilary Booth and Ron Dukelow, the couple behind the Live Room, they quickly make clear their wealth of experience in music promotion, and the enthusiasm and willingness to take risks that lay behind it.

“It was Hilary’s fault we got involved,” says Ron, tongue firmly in cheek. Hilary takes it in her stride: “I started an arts association in Wales and live music was one of our activities.

I woke up one morning and heard about lottery funding and I thought ‘Wouldn’t it be good if…”

The matter-of-factness seems characteristic of the way the duo have taken on challenges that have interested them, even if they had no previous experience, as was the case with arts

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associations, or with Ron’s more recent success in mastering the sound desk at concerts.

The exchange also illustrates the contrast in character. Ron is effervescently enthusiastic with the easy patter of his East End roots, while Hilary’s more measured approach carries the same enthusiasm, just on a slower burn.

The two teamed up in Wales, where Ron was working as a builder and Hilary as a teacher.

“We lived in a tiny village called Llanddewi Brefi in the middle of nowhere,” explains Ron. However, it was after they moved three miles to Tregaron that things really took off.

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ROOM’S HILARY BOOTH AND RON DUKELOW They put together a regular music programme – similar to the Live Room – at the Talbot pub.

Although Hilary describes Tregaron as ‘a bit like the Wild West,’ they operated Cambria Arts and Live At The Talbot for a decade, from 1997. Ron traces his love of music back to the early 70s London pub rock era. “I used to visit a lot of those pubs – the Half Moon, the Golden Lion… I lived five minutes away from the Bridge House in Canning Town, where bands like U2 started off. Dire Straits used to play regularly. I always enjoyed live music in small venues, so getting it going in the Talbot was me creating my own version of

the Bridge House.”

The impetus to move to Yorkshire came from Hilary. “I was born in Bingley and my mum was living here and wasn’t very well, so I thought it would be a good idea to move closer.”

Fortune initially favoured them. Ron contacted Bradford’s New Beehive pub just as its music programme was restarting. He too moved north, and a job managing Bradford Counselling Services arrived at the same time.

Unfortunately, from a musical viewpoint, the day job proved more demanding than anticipated, meaning that the Live

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“We set the agenda and the artistic direction and do what we want to do!”

Room at the Beehive didn’t last very long.

Again, it was a suggestion from Hilary (now teaching English as a second language), plus some serendipity, that brought the Live Room to Saltaire.

Ron describes how the Caroline Street Social Club had seen its original clientele dwindle, meaning the committee was trying to rekindle the business and looking round for people to use it. “I happened to see a tiny article and thought ‘Why don’t we go along?’” When they saw the music room, it was perfect, especially given the location in Saltaire, which they felt would give access to a receptive audience.

Apart from the qualities of the venue – and the audience – a thing they value is the freedom the Live Room gives them. With the arts association, Ron points out, there was always a committee to answer to, but with the Live Room, “We set the agenda and the artistic direction and do what we want to do!”

Still, their apprenticeship continues to stand them in good stead. “Those years in Wales gave us a broad knowledge of the music and introduced us to agents we can get good people through.” For a venture like the Live Room, this is crucial. “Quality control is the main thing. With any venture like live music promotion, you’ve got to know your subject and you’ve got to keep your quality threshold up, even if it’s something we might not sit and listen to ourselves.”

Hilary always asks herself, “Are the Saltaire people going to like it? Are they going to come along?” It’s interesting to hear their

observations about the different crowds: “In Wales they were a bit more of a hippy crowd.

You put some dance music on and everybody will be dancing, whereas here they’re more reserved, but a lot more knowledgeable.”

It says much for the reputation they’ve built, that even such a knowledgeable audience will trust their judgement. Ron cites one of his gigs of the year – the recent appearance by Police Dog Hogan. “We had a huge crowd, but the vast majority wouldn’t have known them. They’re a relatively new band.” He goes on to explain, “People are attracted to Saltaire, it’s an easy place to sell in terms of a venue for the type of person who enjoys the more literary, quality end of music. You’re creating an audience for a broad range of music, because they know it’s the Live Room.”

Using the Caroline Street Club has brought mutual benefits, with a great home base for the Live Room, and exposure for the venue that has increased the number and variety of musical events on offer. For the Live Room, success has seen them investigate possible expansion of their activities. “We were talking to Otley Court House and we’ve been to Bingley Arts Centre as well, but we want to keep Caroline Street as our main home,” Ron states. He points to the extensive catchment area and the hunger for music, as on the evening when Police Dog Hogan played.

“Capercaillie were at Victoria Hall, through Saltaire Live, and we were both pretty much sold out. Two big gigs within yards of each other.”

It’s a fine distinction for those not immersed in roots, but the pair are clear about what they

AMERICAN ROOTS TRIO, THE STRAY BIRDS, PERFORM AT A LIVE ROOM EVENT PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LIVE ROOM

do, and how they differ from the music offered

by SaltaireLive. Ron again: “Simon [from SaltaireLive] does his big Celtic thing. We decided on a different style, broader folk and Americana. What SaltaireLive and Caroline Street do is different and complementary. It’s all quality music.”

Small differences in the couple’s preferences emerge when I ask about favourites. Hilary mentions Claudia Aurora, a fado singer, as one of the best concerts they’ve put on. “I love the instrumentation. She was so dramatic and her presence, her voice and the combination of the instruments – it was one of those gigs you won’t forget!”

This world music leaning also shows up in the acts Hilary would put on in her dreams.

Mariza, another fado singer is one they almost secured at the start of her career. Another she would love to put on is her big hero, Malian musician Salif Keita. However, she seems resigned to hoping that he might appear at the Bradford Odeon, once its development has been carried out.

I intended to ask them how they keep up to date with new acts, but there’s clearly no need – the music is their passion rather than their

business. Even if it weren’t, as Hilary explains, “Music comes to us. We get sent CDs, we get sent clippings, agents approach us.” Ron comments, “It’s a full-time job without the money!” When I describe it as John Peel syndrome, they don’t disagree.

However, when I ask what they’re looking forward to in the new season, there’s no doubt that the passion and enthusiasm remain undimmed. They talk about Cahalen Morrison and Eli West (23 January 2015) and both are keen to see Pharis and Jason Romero (6 February 2015): “I’m listening to their CD,” says Hilary. “Really gorgeous!” They are unfazed at having an unprecedented five gigs next March.

With a 2015 programme filling up rapidly, and an ever-lengthening wish list of artists to book, it seems certain that the Live Room will be at the heart of Saltaire’s musical life for a long time to come!

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By TRICIA FARREN

The Kirkgate Community Centre in Shipley is steadily gaining a reputation as a place that offers something for just about everybody in the community. An established fixture at the Centre is the Shipley Alternative, which describes itself as “a popular indy market aimed at bringing something a bit different to Shipley.” It certainly does and the market offers an eclectic mix of arts and crafts, clothing, jewellery, music, books, homemade cakes, locally produced food and fair trade goods.

The market runs six times a year and varies in size and quality. Unsurprisingly the preChristmas Alternative raises the bar, attracting some well-established makers and producers, alongside the more faithful regulars.

The market is already buzzing when we arrive, late morning, at the 6 December event. The central hall hosts a very popular pop-up café, where you can sample one of the luscious

cakes or try the festive-themed menu – vegan and veggie always available. The food is a great attraction with everything freshly made, tasty and well-priced. One of the board members, staffing a Kirkgate Centre stall, tells me that – subject to funds being raised – there are plans to create a more permanent café, open to centre users all year round.

What I particularly like about this market is that it doesn’t overwhelm. There isn’t a lot of repetition in the kind of goods on offer, so it’s easier to select what you want.

It was great to see that a number of stallholders are promoting the Bradford District with good quality ceramics, prints and other items, alongside locally made and sourced produce. Having a particularly sweet tooth the lovely selection of chocolates and other cakes and cookies left me with a hole in my purse. That’s not to say that there wasn’t the opportunity to look beyond Shipley and try a little continental produce, courtesy of a Saltaire-based Portuguese husband and wife team.

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an iconic relic of innocence and family fun REVISITING THE HALCYON DAYS of ONE OF THE AREA’S BEST-LOVED TREASURES, THE SHIPLEY GLEN TRAMWAY

By EDDIE LAWLER

The clergyman might have been pleased to find a Temperance Hotel up there (the predecessor of today’s Old Glen House) but must surely have been dismayed by what followed. A showman called Sam Wilson turned the area into an extensive pleasure-ground in the later 19th century.

Horse-drawn trams, followed in 1898 by electric ones, brought passengers from Shipley and the whole of Bradford to the top of Saltaire on fine weekends. These picnicking pilgrims then proceeded in their finery down Victoria Road, crossing the river into a world of fun (and fresh air), transported thence by Sam’s new funicular railway. The plateau became a playground, with larger rides in season, vendors of ice-cream and other wares, fortune-tellers – and the descendants of that clergyman who daubed the rocks with ‘Jesus Saves’ and surely preached doom and gloom to the unconverted masses in their Sunday best.

It was Voltaire who defined the Holy Roman Empire as neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Similarly, Shipley Glen is no glen in the strict sense of its Gaelic derivation, i.e. a valley in a mountainous area. Nor is it in Shipley, it’s across the Aire from Shipley, the river dividing the ancient wapentakes of Skyrack and Claro. But Shipley Glen, in the township of Baildon, is a real place and it exists not only on today’s internet, but in the heads and hearts of anybody born locally in the 20th century.

In my Bradford-born head and heart it is an icon of The shipley glen tramway innocence and family fun.

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Apart from the sandstone rocks, which still provide fun for kids of all ages, Sam’s entertainments are gone. His is opened to the public.

Toboggan Ride, a wooden The name was invented in the slide, was closed after an 1840s by a minister at the Bethel accident on Whit Sunday 1900.

Chapel in Shipley, who breathed But other aspects were to last much the foul air of the new industrial age and longer. The Old Glen House had a railway suggested that Shipley workers might get round a pond and the owner kept peacocks, some fresher air for body and soul up at which some can remember to this day. The Bracken Hall Green, as it then was known, Japanese Gardens, with a short slow ride on a breezy plateau above ancient woodland, a punt and other features, existed well into traversed by ancient paths, tracks and drove- the second half of the 20th century. And roads, with contours little changed since the fairground with its tea rooms made it our Iron and Bronze Age ancestors. Shipley into the 21st. This was part of the weekend Glen can be seen as the first (unofficial) culture of Bradford and Shipley life, and local park, as urban authorities gradually it lives in the memory of millions. Go and put some order into environmental chaos. see it now if your heart can stand it. The owner of the land raised the showman’s

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“This was part of the weekend culture of Bradford and Shipley life, it lives in the memory of millions.” rent to an uneconomic level in 2006, asserting via the T&A that this was not for building purposes. Several years later that’s precisely what’s happening with the meek approval of Bradford Council, which leaves everything to an excuse called “the market”.

Shame on this sequestering of communal wealth, compounded by the closure of Bracken Hall Countryside Centre thanks to something called “austerity”.

Sam Wilson’s link to the world of fun remains however - the cable tramway, a little miracle a quarter of a mile long which, despite financial, bureaucratic and

vandalistic adversity, continues to delight all ages as they head up through the bluebells and wild garlic in spring, or calling on Santa late in the year. This unique remnant of our local culture runs not just on electricity, but also on dedication, dare one call it love? But of course, love cannot be measured, so it cannot show up in accounts. Neither can fun.

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How would you describe your art?

Mmm… maybe non-conformist! That’s in both subject matter and the way I use materials.

Currently I work mostly in lino printing and screen printing but I like to experiment with materials, images and processes. It’s too easy to get caught up in worrying about the correct way to do things, what others will think of my work and whether it fits in somewhere.

I reckon I produce my most successful work when I get absorbed in the creative process and forget about the approval of others.

What inspires and influences the work you do?

Marks and traces of the past are a big influence on me: things that give a glimpse of the past and remind me of the fragility and impermanence of life.

What is your relationship with Saltaire?

I lived in Leeds for 12 years. Saltaire was a place I would occasionally visit for a day out but didn’t know very well. In a quest to have a home where I would have space for a studio I considered Saltaire, but couldn’t find a place with enough space at a price I could afford.

Then I discovered Shipley! I’ve been living here for just over a year now and I love the fact that from my kitchen window I have a fabulous view down to Salts Mill and the moors beyond. It reminds me constantly of our industrial heritage and of the living, working place that it still is today. I love walking along the canal side and up into Shipley Glen, Hirst Wood and the old burial grounds. And there are so many creative things going on in both Shipley and Saltaire within just a few minutes of home. I get the best of both worlds!

Where do your ideas come from?

From everyday life and the passage of time.

Bits of old metalwork, marks carved into curbs, a derelict house. Bemused people ask what I’m photographing and point out the ‘picturesque’ things behind me. I collect things: weathered bones, old handmade nails from a discarded floorboard, a happy meal pirate with a broken leg. I have a box of hedgehog bones. I found them (without the box) at the bottom of my garden years ago.

They are so beautiful and amazing, each one like a miniature sculpture. I love the exotic and the bizarre and the places where those things intersect with everyday life.

What’s the best thing about being an artist?.

Pursuing a piece through the point where I feel it’s not working at all to a place where I’ve created something new and exciting. Or maybe the best thing is being able to do weird things like collect hedgehog bones.

What have you got going on at the moment?

I’m working on the logistics of running lino printing workshops for small groups in my studio: a full day, including a light lunch, taking people through the process of designing, cutting the image into the lino and printing, exploring the materials and processes as we go. This is a new venture for me and quite exciting. I’ve also been doing some nonconventional ‘portraits’ and plan to do more of this based around favourite objects, old family photos, children’s drawings, letters, old documents, even bus tickets if they are significant! And I’m also working on developing more opportunities to exhibit, both solo and with other artists. There’s no point in doing it if no-one sees it!

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Jenny displays some of her latest prints, which she creates using a range of found objects and ideas

jenny zigzag BIOGRAPHY On leaving school I intended to study textile design but it never happened.

One of my teachers wrote ‘Never lose sight of yourself or your ability to create.

It gets harder as you get older’. She was right. Once I’d lost confidence and taken a different career it was hard to swap paths.

Thus, for too long forensic science dominated my life. Over the years and at different times I dabbled in jewellery making, collage, ceramics... but it was always as a minor part of my life, squeezed into some free time. No longer!

Now I’m following my heart, poorer but happier.

I started printmaking about three years ago, through a class at Leeds College of Art and got hooked very rapidly.

Initially I just stockpiled the results.

Selling and promoting myself doesn’t come naturally and I hoped the faeries would come to do the rest. Weirdly they never appeared, so I’ve taken the role on myself. I still find it very exciting when someone wants my work on their wall.

Over the last year or so I’ve exhibited locally at places like The Veggie Café in Ilkley, The Kirkgate Print show and the Creative Collaborators Exhibition in Bradford. I’ve also had stalls at a number of local events, including the ArtBound art fair in Huddersfield and Joshua Tetley’s 236th birthday party. Most of my prints have a story behind them, so it’s quite nice to have the opportunity to talk to about my work, scary as it is to do so! jennyzigzag.blogspot.co.uk

FINDING SPACE FOR THEATRE CHRIS BROOK RECOUNTS A SERIES OF UNLIKELY POP-UP THEATRE PERFORMANCES FROM BENJAMIN BRITTEN TO THEATRE DU SOLEIL

By CHRIS BROOK

After my ‘flashback’ piece in October’s inaugural Saltaire Review which recounted the site-specific theatre of IOU’s Slack And High Water at Salts Mill in 1987, somebody mentioned to me an event at Robin Mills, a converted wool mill on Leeds Road in Idle. They recalled a vast production of Hamlet in which the organisers had spent sixteen weeks building a venue over two floors, including a bar and restaurant, and even employing the Huddersfield Dry Stone Walling Society to build the three-foot high walls separating the different areas.

It had attracted a substantial audience and apparently had taken place sometime in the 1980’s…

A Google session elicited crisp zero results; even though based in London back then, I couldn’t quite believe I’d not heard anything about it – either there or on trips back to Bradford.

So I asked around. Someone I know in Heptonstall did remember it and was still regretting not seeing it. But it wasn’t Hamlet.

I should have been looking for a production of Les Atrides by Ariane Mnouchkine’s radical French company Théâtre du Soleil, performed for three weeks at the unused Robin Mills in 1992. This comprised of four Greek tragedies: Aeschylus’ trilogy The Oresteia and Euripides’ Iphigenie a Aulis, performed entirely in French and integrating several forms of Asian dance and drama. People came from across the globe, some trekking across the fields

THE THEATRE DU SOLEIL STAGE GOES UP INSIDE A FORMER FRENCH MUNITIONS FACTORY

“A Google session elicited crisp zero results; even though based in London back then, I couldn’t quite believe I’d not heard anything about it” between Leeds and Bradford to see theatre they would never forget.

The cost was huge, but at this time Britain was president of the EU for six months and John Major decided to have a European Art Festival to celebrate - with a designated kitty of around £8m.

weavers’ shed circa 1991. And to discover that Bradford Cathedral was used in collaboration with the Aldeburgh Festival to stage the Japanese Noh play Sumidagawa together with Curlew River by Benjamin Britten (based on the Noh play). Classy.

Things get lost; communal memory fades… but as Bradford begins once more to be Mnouchkine works on a grand scale. In vividly producing and channelling another 1971 the French government had given her cycle of challenging non-mainstream art, a munitions factory – La Cartoucherie – to theatre and music - thanks to the pivotal convert into the company’s theatre space, Fuse Arts Space, Golden Cabinet events roughly the size of two football pitches. and fresh programmes of hybrid work at Theatre in the Mill – it’s as good a time As the producer Thelma Holt (Open as ever to share and document the Space & National Theatre) city’s past profile as producer, pitched a Bradford–based instigator and reflector of bid against those of arts social change and creative organisations in Glasgow celebration through the last SALTS MILL HOSTS A and London, an intense few decades…

PERFORMANCE OF Tony Arianne insisted her Harrison’s The Trackers Find company would not perform out more at of Oxyrhynchus in circumstances that did w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / not mirror in size and scale La BradfordCounterCulture - a new Cartoucherie, the venue she had accumulating archive of stories, just outside Paris. She inspected the various photos, pictures and sundry perspectives; sites proposed and accepted the Robin Mills coalescing as a ripe chronology of site as being the closest to what she had at Bradford’s alternative pasts, 1965 – home.

2005. Were you there? Anywhere? All contributions welcome.

I hope there is someone reading this who experienced it all. Finding out about And if anyone knows the ‘tramshed venue’ Robin Mills led me to remember another where the Royal Shakespeare Company performance at Salt’s Mill - of Tony presented Electra featuring Fiona Shaw Harrison’s The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus after moving all the trams out of the which played out of the converted building, drop me a line…

1991

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4Square + Maz O’Connor Sunday 5th October

Dave McGraw & Mandy Fer Sunday 12th October

CAHALEN MORRISON & ELI WEST Friday 23rd January

FALSE LIGHTS feat Sam Carter and Jim Moray The Paperboys

Sunday 26th October

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THE SIMON COWELL OF SALTAIRE RETURNS TO HOST ANOTHER HELPING OF CABARET SALTAIRE

By JOHNNO JOHNSTON

January sees the welcome return of Cabaret Saltaire, now celebrating its fourth year at the increasingly popular village venue, The Caroline Club on Caroline Street. The concert room provides the perfect atmosphere for this event, with its original ‘70s wallpaper, glitter ball and club chairman’s control centre (generally used for the bingo caller these days).

The evening is hosted by the flat-capped, red tuxedo-clad Squinty McGinty (alter ego of local actor Steve Huison, of Full Monty and Corrie fame). In his inimitable terse and deadpan approach he ‘drags’ together a wide and eclectic variety of stage acts, ranging from the questionably dubious to the downright brilliant. Claiming to be the ‘Simon Cowell of Saltaire’ he boasts his connections within the entertainment industry of a time long gone, the result of which ends up gracing the stage here in Saltaire.

January 16th’s event epitomises this, with a broad lineup which includes dancers, a

singing soap-star (Charlie Hardwick from Emmerdale), a vegetable theatre, Billy Button (comic singer), a Perry Como tribute singer, and a good knees up to top the night off with local favourites The Cajun Aces.

Inevitably there will be a raffle with a fresh joint of pork as the star prize.

Cabaret Saltaire is the performance face of locally-based Shoestring Forum Theatre Co, which Huison is part of, and proceeds from the show go towards funding mental health drama projects within the area, so all-in-all for a reasonable price of £10 (or £8.50 if you’ve had the nous to join the club for an annual fee of £7!) you’ll be guaranteed a night of humour, music, dancing and nostalgia, and knowing that it’s going towards creating a better mental health for others. The only thing missing is a lad coming round in the interval with a basket of cold battered fish and dodgy prawns, though knowing Squinty’s connections it might not be beyond the realms of possibility.

Tickets are available from the Caroline Club and the Saltaire Bookshop. Find Cabaret Saltaire on Facebook, Twitter or email shoestringtheatre@hotmail.com.

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POETRY EVENING @saltaire bookshop

By Amanda Szekely

A cramped but convivial poetry evening took place at Saltaire Bookshop on Thursday 11 December, in aid of the Ebola appeal. The Bookshop has become a hub of literary events and local groups the Otley Poets and the Beehive Poets gave readings, while owners David and Vanessa provided wine and eats plus the opportunity to browse new and second hand books.

From its title, The Garden, you might expect the Otley Poets’ latest collection to be tame but all human life is here, from the comic to the erotic. A call-out by email resulted in an anonymous selection of 62 poems, with submissions drawn from as far afield as Canada and the US. Established professionals such as Antony Dunn, Kate Fox and Char March sit alongside local poets who are making headway via national competitions and anthologies.

These confident performers kept up a lively pace. In Moving In, Jo Peters observed how ‘the creatures took over’ her new house and garden. Mark Connors visited his first love’s old house in From Out of Nowhere and in Above Yellowstone he examines his relationship with his stepson as he stands, ‘above that hydrothermal drama queen up to your knees in snow, your hair flecked with flakes the size of popcorn.’

In Anne Swannell’s Raison d’etre a couple’s opposing gardening methods reveal a man and woman: ‘who have nipped each other in the bud since the day they got married.’

John Ling lightened us up with his poemriddle, Get the Custard Rheady, the audience shouting, ‘Rhubarb!’ as we guessed the name of the plant that: ‘rhuins your palate and gives you the rhuns’.

The Beehive Poets, who meet regularly at the New Beehive pub in Bradford, read from their pamphlets and collections. Steve Pass, whose children’s book has been positively reviewed

by Ann Pilling, mourned a demolished pub in The Peel, and John Sugden’s I’m Certain observed ‘a house clinging to the precipice edge’ of flood water. Kevin Byrnes’s As, with its spare imagery of sea and stone, was followed by Bruce Barnes, raising a smile with Memento Mori, on his first OAP bus pass: ‘My gurning now ‘the property of Metro’’.

After the male voices it was refreshing to hear Chris Arbor’s The Celtic Woman, on her encounter with the bones of an ancient who had carried triplets to full term. In Dining at 550 she recalled ‘the steaming tarmac’ of childhood summers spent at her American grandmother’s brownstone in Brooklyn.

We went out into the cold warmer for having spent an inspiring evening of words in a good cause.

LIVE MUSIC GIG REVIEWS

CAPERCAILLIE @ SALTAIRE LIVE

By BOB MARK

The good people at Saltaire Live did it again: November’s gig with Capercaillie was a sellout, and rightly so. What was not to like?

Leaving aside the band for now, let me give you a bit of background, at least for the uninitiated. Headed up by the irrepressible, indeed some might say incorrigible, Simon Armitage, Saltaire Live bring the cream of Celtic and folk music, and more, to the heart of Saltaire. As MC, Simon’s enthusiasm floods off the stage into the audience, and when he can restrain himself no longer he joins the other punters with burning feet to dance in front of the stage. Plainly a promoter not just in it for the brass.

The venue? Victoria Hall - definitely a jewel in Saltaire’s crown. The staff, from both Saltaire Live and the hall itself, were friendly and helpful, including the caretakers who do exactly that and always have in my experience.

Old Sir Titus would approve, I hope, of his nearly 150 year-old Victorian institution continuing to be used for the enterprising, energetic, entertainment, edification, enlightenment and enhancement of the local population (Did I miss my way as a music hall presenter? Probably not...).

I’m sure the old boy, at least in public, would not have approved of the excellent bar facilities. Even your humble correspondent, not a great beer drinker, was tempted and most satisfied by the Saltaire Brewery ales on sale. The wines available seemed to be going down well. The queue for drinks might have looked long but was whittled down in marvellously short order by the tremendously efficient bar staff.

And what of the music? Capercaillie hail from Argyll in western Scotland. Formed 30 years ago by singer Karen Matheson and Donald Shaw on keyboard and accordion, the band have been in the UK top 40 on

more than one occasion. Several members have graced the stage at Victoria Hall before and appear regularly on the Beeb’s Transatlantic Sessions.

We were treated to music from both sides of the Irish Sea, dance tunes and ballads, the latter with lyrics either in English or in Gaelic, the latter impenetrable and mysterious but lovely to hear.

The band were underpinned by lush double bass and driven by strident fiddling. More rhythm came from an eclectic mix of percussion and guitar or bouzouki. Over the top, or leading on one haunting slow air, were flute, low whistles or Uillean pipes.

These musicians, from the top of the Celtic music world, were tighter than several tight things all tightened up together very, very tightly. But the atmosphere they created was relaxed and friendly with the feel of a session down the pub or a ceilidh in a village hall, rather than a performance on a stage for an audience in their hundreds.

Ms Matheson’s singing was simply beautiful, no other word will do and the rest of the band were right up there with her. It was wonderful. The audience was just rapt, and their applause was appropriately rapturous.

Hopefully Capercaillie will visit us again soon.

In the meantime Saltaire Live are soon bringing more big names to Victoria Hall, including Bella Hardy, Mike McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Doyle, and the incomparable Eddie Reader. They also put on shows at Otley Courthouse. You can join the mailing list at www.saltairelive. co.uk/saltairelive and also subscribe to Viccy Hall’s mailing list too. That’s at www. victoriahallsaltaire.co.uk

By joe grint

ROGER DAVIES @ IRREGULAR ROOTS

By JOE GRINT

For their first gig of 2015 Irregular Roots will be featuring hugely popular Brighousebased songwriter Roger Davies.

Roger emerged onto the folk and acoustic scene a number of years ago and almost immediately began to make his mark as a writer of witty and touching songs and a performer who charmed audiences wherever he went.

With four studio albums already available and another, Local Radio, due to be released in March, Roger is a prolific writer but each of his songs has a unique appeal due to a combination of memorable melodies and frequent inspired turns of lyrical phrase.

Although his compositions range over a wide range of subjects, Roger’s speciality is exploring the humour and pathos of everyday life in West Yorkshire and illuminating the lives of the region’s characters across the years. He must surely be the only person to have written a song about the inventor of cats’ eyes!

The concert at the Kirkgate Centre is sure to further add to Roger’s reputation 33 and win him new friends.

ROBBIE MCINTOSH @the live room

By BOB MARK

“Quirky... quaint... retro... quintessentially Saltaire.” No, not your humble correspondent’s dress sense (well, possibly that as well) but descriptions of the Live Room that I have heard said in admiration and appreciation. The Live Room describe themselves as presenting ‘the very best live folk, roots and acoustic music’ and in my experience this is difficult to argue with.

But it’s the club itself that always tickles my fancy, before the music starts. The big square-cut concert room has high ceilings and a compact stage and is decorated, I swear, with the same red-and-gold patterned wallpaper that adorned the walls of one of my university garrets in the seventies.

Thankfully the acoustics are much better. I always planned to acquire a silver ball for my student hovel but never managed to purloin one. Thankfully the years of waiting have paid off: there it is above me in the middle of the ceiling at my favourite Saltaire venue, twinkling happily. I get the impression the acts all appreciate the room as well, and if anyone decides the music is not to their

taste they can always slip next door into the main bar and play bingo. What’s not to like?

First up, and introduced as a local artist, was Angelo Palladino. He sounded more like he came from the East End of London to me and www.angelopalladino.com confirms he hails from Whitechapel. His biography makes a fascinating personal and musical read by the way. Have a look.

I’d never had the privilege of hearing Mr Palladino before, in fact I’d never heard of him. His stage charisma, before he started playing, immediately suggested that this might be very much my loss. The first few bars confirmed my suspicions. Idiosyncratic and perfectly formed electric guitar and a Woodbine-smoky voice delivered selfpenned numbers and a couple of covers.

Most certainly blues, mostly blues, but with such a lot in there as well, defying my attempts to define it. And all delivered not just with virtuosity but passion. This solo act didn’t seem to need anyone or anything else, but apparently Mr Palladino is putting a new band together. That I have to see. I think this little corner of West Yorkshire

is very lucky to have this refugee from the south along with his personal and musical legacy. Are there more like him down there? I really must rethink my chauvinist Yorkshire prejudices again. As his website says: ‘Perhaps the blues came up the River Thames before it reached the Mississippi’.

Angelo, it were reet grand lad. Tha’s welcome.

After a hard support act to follow the Robbie McIntosh band crowded onto the small stage for more blues, and more. Mr McIntosh, on guitar and vocal, led his band of very merry men so that they seemed to be having as good a time as the audience.

Rather than hogging the limelight with his great vocals and virtuoso guitar he would wave on impromptu solos from his keyboard player, bassist, drummer or harmonica (and jew’s harp) player. Tight and well rehearsed, plus jamming. Always my favourite. The band gave us lots of blues and a smattering of other genres including a lovely version of Sam Cooke’s Wonderful World. A band of middle-aged blokes singing sweetly and tenderly about teenage lurve in school.

Awwww, nice. I’ve forgotten, what is a slide rule for?

By joe grint

NOPE/THIRD THUMB/CHRIS SHARKEY

@ PLEASURE GROUNDS

By GUS BOUSFIELD

Having taken a well earned Christmas break, Pleasure Grounds is celebrating its first birthday in January. The eclectic confection of alternative live music resumes its monthly run at Caroline Social Club on Thursday 15th January featuring Krautrockin’ supergroup Nope with their double-drummer and twinnecked guitar powered sound. The band contains members of heroic favourites such as Hookworms, Cowtown and That F***ing Tank, so prepare to be pummelled with building and dynamic psychedelic repetitions.

I’ve not seen a band feature harmonica playing as much as this one for some time but I could hear why. On a small stage on a freezing cold night in the Aire valley, Larry Adler met Little Walter. Weren’t we the lucky ones?

Packing in a spectrum of inspirations from Nisennenmondai to Lightning Bolt, Third Thumb are preparing their Barlick brand of math-quirkbeat. Expect impressive chops and multi- instrument switching from the second act of the evening.

The Live Room is another Saltaire gem. I’ll be back, and hope to see you there.

Finally, guitarist Chris Sharkey, (Trio VD/ Shiver / Acoustic Ladyland) whose sound has been the bedrock of some of the groundbreaking acts of recent years, will be performing a solo set of pulsing and intricate lines under his Survival Skills moniker. Make sure you get in early because it will be well worthwhile.

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BINGLEY ARTS CENTRE The Home of Bingley Little Theatre

Live Events This JANUARY

Bingley Little Theatre Presents...

Inspector Drake’s Last Case Mon 19th - Sat 24th , 7.30pm, £8 (£6 conc.)

BINGLEY BLUES BASH

feat. Mick Ralphs Blues Band, john verity band & the road

Fri 30th, 7.30pm, £15

Main Street, Bingley, BD16 2LZ Box Office Open 11am - 3.30pm Weekdays Tel: 01274 567983

www.bingleyartscentre.co.uk

THE KIDS HAVE TAKEN OVER

SELL unwanted (Good as NEW) TOYS OR STUFF you have MADE YOURSELF Ages 16 and under ONLY get a stall. NO GROWN UPS Go to kirkgatecentre.org.uk for info.

KIDS' ALTERNATIVE THE SHIPLEY

INDY MARKET & CAFÉ • KIRKGATE CENTRE 1PM – 4PM • SATURDAY 28TH FEBRUARY 2015

Join our team!

Cafe Coordinator

We are looking for someone with the enthusiasm, energy and and experience to develop our café from being an occasional pop-up into a regular feature of the centre.

If you are enthusiastic about cooking fabulous fresh food and working with great volunteers, get in touch!

The café will form the centrepiece of our new project aiming to meet the needs and preferences of older residents in Shipley, as well as providing new opportunities for volunteers.

The post is for 28 hours a week including some weekend work. The salary is £20,849 (pro rata). The deadline for applications is noon on 6th February.

For more information visit our website at www.kirkgatecentre.org.uk or call us on 01274 580186

WHAT’S ON?

find out what’s happening in the area this month

THURSDAY 1ST JAN FUNNY HAT AND WIG WALK 12pm, BINGLEY MARKET PLACE Meet Jeff Brodrick and Gillian Dale at 12:00 midday at Bingley Market Place for a family walk around St Ives Estate looking for wood carvings. Hats and wigs optional. www.bradford.gov.uk/countryside

SUNDAY 4TH JAN Film: Diva 7.30pm, The Kirkgate Centre Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed.

This film is free of charge. You are asked to bring the value of a ticket as food donations for Bradford Metropolitan Foodbank. www.kirkgatecentre.org.uk

The halle 3pm, St Georges Hall The top selling concert of our season is always the Halle’s New Year Celebration Viennese Concert. Join conductor Stephen Bell and soprano Rebecca Bottone and welcome in the New Year! bradford-theatres.co.uk

Wednesday 7th Jan January Book Club 7pm, Saltaire Bookshop A friendly book club based in the Saltaire Bookshop. This month

we’re talking about Andrey Kurkov’s Death and the Penguin.

necked guitar powered supergroup Nope. facebook.com/PleshaGrowwndz

Friday 9th Jan

Friday 16th Jan

I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue 7.30pm, St Georges Hall BBC Radio’s multi award-winning antidote to panel games returns to the stage in 2015 with its sell out touring show. bradford-theatres.co.uk

Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club 8pm, The Studio, Bradford Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club bring you the first of a series of comedy evenings. Each show includes four top professional comedians from all over the world to make you LOL!

Sunday 11th Jan Winter Bandstand Indoor Events 2pm - 4pm, Caroline Street Social Club

Afternoon Record Club 1pm, The Kirkgate Centre Come and enjoy music, and bring along some to share. The Afternoon Record Club is a great way to meet people and share memories and music over a cup of tea. Cost is £2 including refreshments. www.kirkgatecentre.org.uk

Saturday 17th Jan Front Room Disco 8pm, The Kirkgate Centre Front Room Disco brings you an eclectic alternative mix of music.

Covering indie, alternative, ska, reggae, punk, disco and 80s pop. www.kirkgatecentre.org.uk

Lego Fun Day 1.30pm - 4pm, Kirkgate centre

The Saltaire Bandstand heads indoors to the Caroline Street Social club, this month featuring the North Wind Tribal Belly Dance group.

THURSDAY 15TH JAN PLEASURE GROUNDS FIRST BIRTHDAY 7.45PM, CAROLINE STREET SOCIAL CLUB The eclectic confection of alternative live music resumes its monthly run at Caroline Social Club, featuring Krautrockin’ double-drummer AND twin-

The main hall of the Kirkgate Centre is filled with Lego, Kinex, Meccano for children (and parents), creating all kinds of amazing things. www.kirkgatecentre.org.uk

Sunday 18th Jan Saltaire Cricket Club Table Top Sale 10am, Victoria Hall

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A wide variety of stalls selling a host of treasures! From collectible antiques, toy cars and books to clothing and more. All proceeds go towards helping the club. victoriahallsaltaire.co.uk

23rd january

Monday 19th Jan Bingley Little Theatre - Inspector Drake’s Last Case 7.30pm Bingley Arts Centre A slapstick whodunnit written by David Tristram and performed by Bingley Little Theatre. This event runs daily until Saturday 24th January.

Friday 23rd Jan Cahalen Morrison & Eli West 8pm, Caroline Street Social Club Cahalen Morrison & Eli West are, simply put, two of the most innovative and subtle roots musicians playing today. Their music draws from old folk sources, but it sounds vibrantly alive.

Sunday 25th Jan Airedale Symphony Orchestra Concert 3pm, Victoria Hall Performance including Coppelia Delibes, Pineapple Poll - Sullivan arr. Mackerras, Clog Dance ‘La fille mal Gardee’ - Herold, Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 - Prokofiev and Swan Lake Act 2 (complete) Tchaikovsky. victoriahallsaltaire.co.uk

AIRE VALLEY WALK 11Am, SALTAIRE STATION Meet Jeff Brodrick at 11am at Saltaire Station for an easy flat walk along the river and canal looking for the elusive Kingfisher.

Approx 5.6km. www.bradford.gov.uk/countryside

PICK OF THE MONTH CAHALEN MORRISON & ELI WEST @ THE LIVE ROOM Cahalen Morrison & Eli West are, simply put, two of the most innovative and subtle roots musicians playing today. Their music draws from old folk sources, but it sounds vibrantly alive. Cahalen Morrison writes songs that sound like a Cormac McCarthy novel: simple, beautifully crafted, and seemingly formed from raw natural elements. Eli West brings jagged, angular arrangements based in bluegrass and old-time, but refracted through a 21st century lens.

Friday 30th Jan False Lights 8pm, Caroline Street Social Club An exciting new duo made up of finger-style guitar genius and singer-songwriter Sam Carter and folk revolutionary Jim Moray.

Bingley Blues Bash 7.30pm, Bingley Arts Centre An evening of high-octane blues music featuring Mick Ralphs Blues Band, the John Verity Band and The Road.

Saturday 31st Jan Saltaire Vintage Home & Fashion Fair 9.30am - 4pm, Victoria Hall Rose & Brown are back with their well established fair. Nearly 50 stalls of genuine vintage fashion, such as dresses and gowns, accessories, vinyl, toys, and more, all from the 1920s to the 1980s. victoriahallsaltaire.co.uk

The Record Club 8pm, Kirkgate Centre It’s Electric January at the record club with bleeps and beats the order of the day. www.recordclub.org.uk

Sunday 1st Feb Rick Wakeman Unplugged 7.30pm, St Georges Hall Rick Wakeman has led a rich and varied life. In his one-man solo show, he recounts hilarious and unlikely anecdotes from a career which has included musical collaborations with David Bowie, Cat Stevens and Elton John, as well as worldwide tours with his own bands, punctuated by displays of dazzling virtuosity on the piano. bradford-theatres.co.uk

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Weekly events

YOUR GUIDE TO ongoing events in and around saltaire MONDAYS General Knowledge Quiz

The Ring O’ Bells

8PM

General knowledge pub quiz with prizes

URC Bell Ringers

United Reformed Church

7PM

Bell ringing club practice session

Rainbow Morris Dancers

Shipley Resource Centre

7pm

North West tradition morris dancing club

ZUMBA

Victoria Hall

7pm

Latin-inspired dance fitness party

Ballroom Dancing

Victoria Hall

8PM

Dancing class for beginners and improvers

Line Dancing

Caroline Street Social Club 7.30pm Line Dancing classes, anyone welcome

SALTAIRE STRIDERS

Caroline Street Car Park

7pm

Club training and beginners sessions

Bradford Chorale

Saltaire Methodist Church

7PM

Leading choral society practice session

Taekwondo

Victoria Hall

4.30pm Self-defence class for all abilities

Ki-Rin Karate

Victoria Hall

6pm

SLIMMING WORLD CLUB

Caroline Street Social Club 9AM

General Knowledge Quiz

VM Lounge, Victoria Mills 8.30pm General knowledge quiz with prizes

TUESDAYS

Karate classes for all ages and abilities Weight-loss support group

WEDNESDAYS ROLL BACK THE CARPET

Victoria Hall

8.15PM Appalachian clog dancing group

BuddhaLand

Kirkgate Centre

7.30PM Drop-in meditation session

YOGA

Kirkgate Centre

6.10pm Class based on Ashtanga Vinyasa flow yoga.

Shipley Acting Workshop

Kirkgate Centre

7pm

Workshops exploring acting techniques

Owlet Dance

Kirkgate Centre

1pm

A tea dance for the over 50s

General Knowledge Quiz

The Rosse, Saltaire

9PM

Pub quiz with open the box raffle

SALTAIRE STRIDERS

Outside Nuffield Health

7PM

Club training session for distance runners

Diddi Dance

Kirkgate Centre

9.30aM Dancing and coordination games for children

All For One Community Choir

Victoria Hall

7.30PM No auditions, just come and sing.

tHURSDAYS

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Wood and I’m now a trustee at the Kirkgate Centre. I have no plans to leave anytime soon.

Is there a particular job you are most proud of ?

A few years ago I designed the refurbishments and extensions to Hirst Wood Nursery School and Children’s Centre in Saltaire. It was really rewarding to pick up my children from that setting, and know that I’d had a hand in designing it.

Do you have a dream project?

I go to The Record Club at the Kirkgate Centre in Shipley, and earlier this year I was delighted to be appointed to design The Record Cafe on North Parade in Bradford.

That’s quite close to a perfect brief: records, ale and ham!

DAVID CRAIG

QUICK-FIRE QUESTIONs

Who are you and what do you do?

I’m a designer living in Saltaire, and I’ve just moved into an office in Bradford. I design buildings, furniture, interiors and products.

What sort of projects have you been involved with recently?

Recently I’ve been working with a number of Bradford businesses, such as Bradford Brewery, the Record Café, The Beerhouse and Working Title Cinema. I’m also working with Saltaire-based Alpher Instruments, Pink Ginger florists, and Bradford Counselling Services.

Who are your biggest influences?

As a child, Lego and drawing were my favourite pastimes, and these have led me on. I was taught by Barber and Osgerby at design college in Oxford and London. They designed the Olympic torch, and being taught by internationally-renowned designers was inspirational.

What’s the most pleasing/rewarding part of a project?

Walking into one of my buildings for the first time is always really pleasing. I’ve designed wards at the BRI, and knowing indirectly that my designs have helped people is rewarding Any interesting plans for the future?

What’s your relationship with Saltaire?

I moved from Oxford to Saltaire eight years ago and really enjoy the mixture of fantastic architecture, great access to the countryside and a station on my doorstep. I’ve since started a family, been chair of governors at Hirst

I’m looking to establish a creative co-working space in Bradford in 2015, a place to meet people and make things. I’m hoping it will be operational before autumn 2015.

For more information visit www.dctwo.co.uk

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