It’s been a busy week or two for Honey Be comrade Matt Marr. A warm-up gig at Connie’s Solid Air birthday adventure (featuring a wonderfully funked up David Holmes meets Billy Cobham three-track Sonic Arkestra trip) was followed by a gig at The Luminaire in London, supporting Andy Burrows’ new band I Am Arrows. Both ...
Ever since that hideous day in the summer of 2009, when The Gander and Metropole were finally closed for good, we’ve kept our mouths reasonably shut regarding the goings on which preceded the closure. Why? Partly because we didn’t want to appear to be simply bad-mouthing individuals at a particularly sensitive time, as to a ...
Starting this weekend we’re taking a week off, jetting off to the Isle of Skye for some winter sun, or snow, or rain. Whilst the thought of ‘no work’ for a week is extremely appealing, we’d like to keep the cogs turning regarding the booking schedule at Champions. So, we’d like as many bands as ...
Having sat through forty acts at last weekend’s Dorset Music Award Heats, and been given some of the responsibility of choosing who progressed to the next round, we shall be watching very closely as the competition unfolds and develops over the coming months. Losing twenty out of the forty wasn’t an easy task. Watching well ...