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16287 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 169 of them this year alone and, so far, 41 this month (Mar 18).

From This Moment On ...

March

Thu 28: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 28: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm.
Thu 28: Richard Herdman Quartet @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 28: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Guests: Josh Bentham (alto sax); Alan Marshall (tenor sax); Neil Brodie (trumpet); Adrian Beadnell (bass); Graham Thompson (keys); Steve Hunter (drums).

Fri 29: FILM: Soul @ The Forum Cinema, Hexham. 12:30pm. Jazz-themed film animation.
Fri 29: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 29: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free. POSTPONED!
Fri 29: Thundercat @ Newcastle City Hall.
Fri 29: John Logan @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sat 30: Papa G’s Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 30: Pete Tanton’s Cuba Libre @ Whitley Bay Library, York Road, Whitley Bay. 8:00pm.

Sun 31: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 31: Ruth Lambert Trio @ Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields NE30 1HJ. 3:00pm. Free. Lambert, Alan Law & Paul Grainger.
Sun 31: Sid Jacobs & Tom Remon @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. USA/London jazz guitar duo.
Sun 31: Bellavana @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

April
Mon 01: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 01: Ray Stubbs R&B All Stars @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.

Tue 02: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Dean Stockdale, Paul Grainger, Abbie Finn.

Wed 03: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 03: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 03: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

GINA SOUTHGATE & SPEEQ @ NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE. OCTOBER 24

Newcastle Arts Centre hosted a preview evening of Gina Southgate's paintings produced as Artist in Residence at the recent On the Outside Festival staged at Gateshead Old Town Hall. The white wall gallery showed to great effect the numerous works created during the long-weekend residency.
Each painting evokes the immediacy of Southgate's response to events and demonstrates a command of her chosen medium. Her palette is invariably vibrant, the style distinctive.
The exhibition continues until 14th November.
Well worth a visit.
A following attraction was a free-jazz gig featuring SPEEQ in the recently refurbished performance space adjacent to the Arts Centre's Black Swan Bar.
SPEEQ are: Alan Wilkinson (saxophones), Hasse Poulsen (guitar), Luc Ex (bass) & Mark Sanders (drums).
The quartet, on a first ever short tour of England, played a one hour set. Sanders and Wilkinson are well known to Tyneside audiences; the former is, perhaps, the UK's premier free-jazz percussionist, the latter a hardblowing veteran of the music.
Their musical associates on this date were punkster Luc Ex playing a four string acoustic bass guitar (slung low, of course) and Danish guitarist Hasse Poulsen playing a Guild (!) acoustic six string guitar aided by a pedal board, electronic interventions and the occasional use of cymbal and drum stick to add grit and texture.
Ex propelled the quartet with repeated motifs, Poulsen surprised with a bizarre combination of a ''conventional'' improv approach, lascerating fusion scaling and Hot Club to swing chording! Wilkinson scorched, Sanders, with great invention, clattered and banged.
Thanks to Mike Tilley and colleagues for being such welcoming hosts.
Jazz North East's next On the Outside free-jazz offering is a co-promotion with Schmazz on Tuesday 27th October. The Cluny (Schmazz HQ) is the place to be to hear Bevan, Morris, Lash & Buck in a double bill with the Australian piano - led Alister Spence Trio.
Russell.

2 comments :

SR said...

I wish I knew about this, ahhh! Hope to spot this intriguing painter around The Sage this JF w/end. PS, I don't seem to get your mailshots and I know you've posted several times since I subscribed. I'll try again. Nice site for those 'closer to home' ;-)

Lance said...

The walls of The Sage are decked with Gina's superb paintings this weekend.
Not quite sure what you mean about not getting mail shots.
Email me.

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